Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-03-01
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NJlDIHALnN0GES\
Upto Wednesday, Feb. 20, forty
bills and joint resolutions had been passed
by the South Dakota legislature and ap-
proved by the governor. They are as fol-
lows, being divided into lists and classes:
Senate Bills
Appropriation for per diem and mileage
of members and employees of both houses.
Providing for continuance of cases in
court where attorneys or litigants are
members of the legislature.
Fixing specified time for appearance on
summons amending section 6O54, chap.
ter 139. Laws of 1887.
Providing for the selection of official
papers by county commissioners regard.
less Of the politics Of the paper.
An appropriation for the expense of add
vertisng sales and lease of public lands.
Providing for the collection of delinquent
personal tax by sheritfs instead of treas-
lurers.
An appropriation of money to reimburse
counties and persons who assisted in re-.
turning troops from San Francisco to this
state.
10 legalize all notarial acknowledge
ments taken in the state prior to Jan. Il
1901.
Providing for the settlement of personal
property estates of $500 and less in value
without the expense OF administration.
Appropriatng money to pay Judgment
held by Brown IL Saenger against the
state.
To prevent the killing of antelope in the
state for period of ten years.
Ballot reform; to prevent the name OF
any one person appearing on the ballot
more than one time.
Appropriating $4,000 for legislative
printing.
Appropriating money for printing and.
other expenses.
Granting to counties the whole of the
liquor license fee, taking same from the
state.
Setting aside 5000 acres of state land
for the benefit of the blind asylum at Gary.
Providing for the issuance of refunding
bonds by cities to take up outstanding ln-
debtedness.
Senate Joint Resolutions
Memorializing congress for the contin.
uance of the Sisseton Indian Agency.
MemOrializing congress to make Fort
Meade perm ,nent regimental military
post.
Memorializing congress for national aid
to the state school of mines.
Providing an investigating committee
to look into the charge made by Gov. Lee
against the heads of state institutions un-
der republican control.
Authorizing the custodian 6 the state
house 10 present to Gov. Lee his official
chair.
Granting greater powers to the members
of the investigating committee appointed
under the provisions of resolution No. l.
HOuSe hills
Fixing terms of court of Third judicial
circuit
Fixing dates of terms of court in Seventh
judicial circuit.
Fixing the salaries OF the governor and
supreme and circuit court judges; govern
or and supreme judges increased to $1,000
per year and circuit judges to $500 per
year.
Creating law department at the state
university.
Fixing the same penalty for receiving
stolen property as is prescribed for taking
the same class of property.
Appropriating $243 per diem and mile
age of presidential electors.
Appropriating $500 deficiency in fund
for transportation of prisoners to the peni-
Tertiary.
Providing that justices of peace and
other officers must file bonds in all coun.
ties interested when a town lies in more
than one county.
Fixing tax of 25 cents per head per
month on cattle of non-residents which
Craze in this state, in addition to all other
taxes.
' Fixing the order in which demands upon
an estate are to he presented. Making
them first, funeral expenses; second, ex-
penses of the last sickness; third, expense
Il Iofo d,,,i,, ,iotro IoI,t
ants; fifth, preferred debts; sixth, all
other claims.
Creating a state historical society.
Creating state board of agriculture of
five members, to be appointed by the gov
ernor, and appropriating 5000 per year
for two years when proof is presented that
no liquor was sold or gambling allowed OH
the fair grounds.
Appropriating money for deficiency in
salaries Of E. T. Conklin and John Il.
Brennan as railroad commissioners.
Providing for investments of sinking
funds of cities.
Fixing 45 pounds as the legal weight of
hushel of speltz.
agents in road districts on whom to serve
notice of road work on the part of nom
resident owners.
Providing for the investment of the per.
mancnt school fund in state, county and
municipal bonds, under the provisions of
the constitutional amendment adopted last
year.
Fixing time of holding court in Lyman
County.
Ceding to the United States government
jurisdiction over crimes committed on In
dian reservations.
Providing for payment of village and
town assessors by the county.
Authorizing counties to issue refundinR
bonds to take up the old indebtedness.
House Joint Resolutions
Memoralizing congress to establish an