Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-09
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of North Dakota's Law
Mil.

Proceedings of North Dakota's Law
Mill.
Bismarck, N. d., Feb. 27.-The SEN
ate Saturday passed the Creel bill to
regulate the matter of marriage in the
state. The bill provides for the ap-
physicians in each county for the ex-
animation of all applicants for mar
riage licenses. No license to marry
the applicants present a certificate
from the board of examiners that they
are free from certain diseases and all
itary insanity and tuberculosis. The
examiners are to be appointed by the
county judge and are to meet in each
month, Mt least, for the examination Of
applicants for entrance into the matrl-
monial state. A fee of $3.50 is re-
quired for the medical examination.
Seventeen bills were 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-
certain actions against corporations;
defining the duties of the commission
err of agriculture and labor; relating to
sales; reducing the interest rate; de-
filming the validity of unrecorded in
struments; fixing costs in appeal from
county boards of health to one year;
hn int, Of npHi
ans; authorizing the commissioner of
and contracts; providing for an annual
prevention of prairie fires; fixing the
terms of court in the Second judicial
district, and appropriating 5000 for a
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 in
definite postponement of several meas
ures that We're covered in bills already
passed. The house bill to permit the
creation of sewer districts was amend
ed in the senate in such 4 manner as
to come within the requirements laid
down in a recent decision of the Unit
ed States supreme court. and passed
both houses as amended. The Earl
bill for the establishment of Il state
fair at Valley City was recommended
to pass in the house. amended to re-
peat the appropriation of $500 for
the state fair at Mandan. and the bill
| If passed will transfer the appropria-
ton to the Valley City fair. To-day
will be the last day on which bills can
be introduced in the house. under a
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 testi-
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; Wolbert prohibiting county
officials from accepting railroad passes
Dr. franks.
! Bills introduced in the senate:
Cox, providing that none but legal
voters shall be employees OF the legis-
latiye 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 ssu-
once of tax deeds under the Wood de-
inquent tax bill.
Bismarck. n D., Feb 2S.-The first
move toward a change in the prohibit
| ton law was made yesterday in the
| shape OF 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
. dluellu1ueuL Is S1.OUU. AllOlEet EcSOlu-
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-
1tecl 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-
feired 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 a tax of one-tenth of Il 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 than
4 $4,000. The original wolf bounty bill
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