The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-10
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of North Dnkotn's Law
Mill

regulate the matter of marriage in the
state. The bill provides for the ap-
pointment of commission Of three
physicians in each county for the ex-
animation of all applicants for mar
rage licenses. No license to marry
can be granted under the bill unless
the applicants present a certificate
from the board Of examiners that they
are free from certain diseases and ail-
ments, including dipsomania, hcred-
itary insanity and tuberculosis. The
examiners are to be appointed by the
county Judge and are to meet in each
month, ut least, for the examination of
applicants for entrance into the matri-
mOnial state. A fee of $3.50 is re-
quired for the medical examination.
Seventeen bills We're approved by the
governor and became laws. These are:
Regulating the granting Of alimony
in divorce cases; requiring insurance
companies to pay the full legal rate
for the publication of statements; pro-
viding for judgment OF dissolution in
certain actions against corporations;
defining the duties of the commission
er of agriculture and labor: relating to
the redemption of property sold ut tax
sales; reducing the interest rate; de-
filming the validity of unrecorded i'll
struments; fixing costs in appeal from
justice court; reducing the terms Of
county boards of health to one year;
governing the appointment of guarii-
ans; authorizing the commissioner of
school lands to charge fees for leases
and contracts; providing for an annual
prevention of prairie fires; fixing the
of I'm fhN i,,Ii <,;o
district. and apprepriating $500 for
geological survey of certain parts Of
the state.
The house did little beyond report
ing pending measures. No final action
was taken on any bills beyond the III
definite postponement of several meas
ures that were covered in bills already
passed. The house bill to permit the
creation of sewer districts was amend
ed in the senate in such IL manner as
to come within the requirements laid
down i'll Il recent decision of the Unit
ed States supreme court. and passed
both houses as amended. The Earl
bill for the establishment of state
fair at Valley City was recommended
Ito pass in the house. amended to re-
peat the appropriation Of $4,000 for
the state fair ut Mandan. and the bill
liz passed will transfer the appropria-
tion to the Valley City fair. To-day
will be the last day on which bills can
|be introduced in the house. under q
resolution introduced and passed Sat
urday.
a number of new measures were
presented, as follows:
Allshouse, for the forwarding of du-
plicate tax lists to the state auditor
before July L; Miner. governing the re-
newal of chattel mortgages; Hare. re-
ferring applications for admission to
the state insane asylum to ascertain
whether the applicants have money or
property sufficient to pay for attend
ance and maintenance; Daugherty,
providing for refunding of money to
purchasers of land illegally sold for
taxes. but not to apply to any sale be-
fore 1897; Stevens, governing tcsti-
mony in criminal cases; Thomson, pro-
viding for the establishment of public
scales on petition of fifteen taxpayers
of any county; Lee. providing for
granting of water rights of way for
irrigation; Wolbcrt. prohibiting county
officials from accepting railroad passes
or franks.
Bills introduced in the senate:
Cox. providing that none but legal
voters shall be employees OF the legis-
lative assembly. shutting out feminine
clerks; Noble, fixing terms of court in
the Second judicial district: Laidlaw.
new boiler inspection law. requiring
inspection of boilers and licensing Of
engineers; Creel. changing the name
of the state deaf and dumb asylum to
state school for the deaf: the ways and
means committee. regulating the issu-
ance of tax deeds under the Wood de-
linquent tax bill.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 2S.-Thc first
move toward change in the prohibit
ton law was made yesterday in the
shape of Il concurrent resolution by
Representative Lesh for an amend
ment to the constitution providing for
a system of local option and high IL
cense. The license under the proposed
amendment is $1,5OO. Another resolu-
ton introduced was by the committee
on ways and means in the house au-
thOrizing the governor. treasurer and
auditor to anticipate the collection Of
taxes If it becomes necessary to pro-
tecr the credit of the state and of the
institutions by the issuance of funding
warrants to the aggregate of 100000.
Collections of taxes are frequently de-
ferred until they become delinquent
and the consequent delay renders the
payment of current expenses difficult.
The resolution merely anticipates these
payments.
The house in committee of the whole
had a spirited fight over the proposed
increase of the tax for wolf bounties.
The last legislature passed law levy
ing tax of one-tenth of a mill and
providing for the payment of So on
wolves. The tax was totally made
quate and the first of the present year
finds the state with certificates on
hand and registered for the payment
of nearly $4,000, and the collections
of the tax have amounted to less thax
$4,000. The original wolf bounty bill
provided for an increase of the tax to
one-half mill. Representatives of the
Red river valley country vigorously
opposed the measure, claiming that it
was one of purely local benefit to the
western counties and that the yall,y
counties paid the greater part of the
tax. Representatives Of the western