Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1905-07-08
Laws now in Effect.


passed by the legislature last winter
went into effect OH the first Of July, and
some of them are of great importance.
Heretofore any man who desired to
get married could appear in person be-
fore the clerk of courts Of county and
procure marriage license, the presence
of the brdeto.be not being necessary.
Under new law which has just gone in
to effect both parties interested must
appear in person before the clerk of
courts and make application for a mar
riage license.
A new law relating to certain kinds Of
notes also went into effect today. The
law provides that every person who
takes any obligation in writing for any
lightning rod, or any of its attachments,
or for any patent right. for payment of
premium or assessment for mutual hail
insurance shall, before such writing is
signed by the maker, stamp or sign in
red ink across the face ofsuch obligation
in plain, legible writing or print, the
words: Given for lightning rod or
Given for patent right or Given for
premium or assessment for mutual hail
Insurance, as the case may be. Such
obligation, 80 stamped shall not be me-
gotiabe. A heavy penalty is fixed for
the violation of the law. Upon convc-
tion those who violate the law will be
subjected to fine of not less than $3.50
CT more than 81 900, and Imprisonment
for period of not more than one year.
In addition, those guilty of violating the
law will be subject to a civil action by
the person injured for all damages sus.
tanned.
Another of the new laws requires that
all owners of automobiles in the state
shall register their machines and procure
licenses for running them within the
limits of the state. The speed of the
machines is also regulated.
Dealers in gasoline, by the terms of q
new law, will be compelled to deliver the
liquid to purchasers only in barrels
casks, packages or cans painted red and
bearing the word Gasoline" plainly
stenciled thereon.
Another OF the new laws provides
that every physician or other auth,
orizing person in the state attending the
birth of child must report within ter
days after the event to the bureau oi
vital statistics, Pierre. Parents also are
required to give their babies names
within sixty days after birth, and these
names also must be sent to the state
bureau of statistics.
One of the new laws makes it unlaw.
ful to bury a corpse of any person
dying within the state, or to remove
the same from the state, without first
obtaining burial or transportation per.
NIT from the nearest justice of the peace
of the county in which the death occur.
red.
Boards Of county commissioners, by
the terms of another law, can at any
regular session establish and cause to be
constructed any ditch or drain and pro
vide for its maintenance, or of one pre-
viously constructed. The boards can
act only upon written petition signed
by one or more owners likely to be af.
fected by proposed drainage.
Other new laws that went into effect
today are Inheritance tax, which Will
affect estates; dealers in old metal may
be fined for purchasing old or broken
pieces Of brass or other metal from per
sons under Is years of age; law govern
ing trust companies regulating fidelity
and other life insurance companies
changing salaries of county commission
srs in some counties changing terms of
state circuit court in the Second, Fourth
and Eighth circuits defining duties of
owners, relating to adulterated liquor +;
providing that in certain cases prisoners
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary may be
paroled.