The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-03-01
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
AT End of Sixth Week 35 Bills
Signed by Governor.

Sunday Closing Bill Is Being Con-
sidered--Canutt's Oily Proceed
inss to Be investigated.
At the end of the sixth week of the
tenth Washington legislature last Satur.
day 30 bills have been passed by both
houses and signed by the governor, Of
which II originated in the senate and %
IN the house.
Among the more important bills al
ready signed by the governor are the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition bills.
Graves criminal insane bill, bill increas-
ing state highway fund tax lew to half
mill, the 16 hour railway trainmen' :
employment bill and the city depository
bill.
Senate Bills Signed.
Senate bills approved by the governor:
Senate bill 8, appropriating $4,000
Tor Legislative expenses.
5. b. II, amending the code on public
instruction, providing five directors for
districts which employ 40 teachers, and
limiting expenditures for improvements
except where authorized by a vote Of the
people.
s. b. 81, deciding Tacoma certain tide
lands for park purposes.
). b. 81, appOrtiOning the cost of
building hog tight division fences.
5, B. 63, providing for the incarcera-
tiOn Of the criminalIy insane.
s. B. IA, decreasing the state high
way fund tax levy to one-half mill.
). b. IS, deciding to Olympia certain
tide lands for park PURPOSES.
5. Bs SO, 90, 100 and 101, the Alaska
Yukon Pacific bills, providing for the
sale Of shore lands Of Lakes Union and
Washington, in Seattle, appropriating
S6O0,OOO for the state university for
buildings and 100000 for the Alaska
exposition.
). b. 12S, apprOpriating $3.50 for de
ticiency in the expenses Of the state land
commissioners Office.
House Bills Signed.
House bills approved by the governor
House bill /, appropriating $4,000
for the purchase of iute for the state
penitentiary.
II. b. 4, for the punishment of parents
of delinquent children.
ID. b. 6, requiring owners OF irriga
ton bitches to destroy noxious weeds.
Il. b. 3l-Limiting the hours of rail-
way trainmen to sixteen, with eight
hour intervals for rest.
II B. 3S-Providing for the immediate
collection OF taxes on personal property
about to be removed from the state.
ID. b. 43-PrOviding for the invest
ment Of the permanent funds Of the state
educational and other institutions.
Il. b. 62-Making it unlawful to en-
tice from home any female under the age
of eighteen years.
H. B. 68-For the relief of Charles E.
Shepard.
II. B. 71-For the abolition Of the
state special funds.
H. b. 76-PrOvIding that municipal
funds shall draw interest at the rate of
2 per cent on daily balances.
FL. b. 79-FOr the relief of former
Sheriff Newton Thomas of Okanogan
county.
H. B. 1O3-For the relief OF former
Sheriff A. A. Lytle of Douglas county.
H. B. 1O5-Giving owners of teams
and donkey engines liens on timber
products moved by them.
Fl. B. 116, authorizing county com
missiOners to own and operate stone
quarries and gravel beds
II. B. 11S, refunding overpaid liquor
license money to the town of Kent.
III. B. 129, relieving banks from liza
bilitY in the case Of forgery, after 80
days.
H. B. 1872, appropriating $4,000 for
legislative printing.
H. B. 157, appropriatiug $50 900 for
the Improvement of the capitol building
and grounds.
H. B. 159, appropriating $4,000 for
maintenance of the state capitol until
the end of the present fiscal year, and
paying for preparing legislative halls for
1907 session.
H. B. 160, appropriating $4,000 to
pay for publishing notices of cOnstitu-
tional amendments submitted at the last
election.
H. B. 225, for the relief OF the Smith
Premier Typewriter company, $115.
H. B. 227. deficiency appropriation
for the payment for marking examina-
ton papers in teachers examinations,
1886
H. B. 233, creating the state law
library and making the librarian ap-
pointive by the supreme court.
New Sunday Closing Laws.
Inc new sunday CLOSING law, as IaVOr-
ably reported by the senate judiciary
committee, and which went on the calen-
day Tuesday, is as follows:
Section l. That section 25 of an act
entitled "An act defining certain crimes
and declaring their punishment and
amending the code of 1881 and certain
other statutes in relation to the same
subject, approved March 2, 1884," be
amended to read as follows:
Section %. Any person who shall
keep open any play house or theater, race
ground, cockpit or play at any game of
chance for gain, or engage in any noisy
amusement or keep open any drinking
or billiard saloon, or sell or dispose of
any Intoxicating liquors as beverage
between the hours OF one O'Clock a. m.
and II O'Clock noon, on the first
day of the week, commonly call
ed Sunday, shall. upon conviction
thereof, be punished by fine not less
than 800 nor more than $500. All
fines collected for violation OF this sec
tion shall be paid into the common
school fund.
From Midnight to Noon.
Section 2. That section 26 be amend
ed to read as follows:
Gaatinn O6 Tt ahall he unla wful for