The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-03-19
Municipal AMairs.

Town ~redSu 10 receive > per ceHN
Of moneys for handling same.
Five-eighths of resident freeholders
necessary to increase incorporated
town assessments.
Third class cities may abolish mu.
nicipal court.
Defining municipal street improve.
ments.
City may provide court house site.
Municipality may levy tax for must.
cal concerts.
municipalities may keep sinking
funds invested.
Municipalities may operate electric
light plants.
municipalities may buy and sell
electric current.
Penal Affairs.
Capital punishment abolished.
Horse traders and gypsies made va.
grants.
Newspaper liable only for actual
damage in libel action.
Ptnalty for grand larceny reduced
to five years in pe%nitentiary Or one
year IN county jail.
Shirt factory labor abolished.
Wife desertion made felony.
Defines third degree forgery.
Anti-cigaret law for minors.
Revolving Irvine plant fund to gen
eral fund.
Miscellaneous.
General stores may handle common
poisons.
Estates of INDECENT persons liable
for their support.
Five-year limit for payment Of land
purchased in probate.
Estates may be settled by depositing
in escrow claims of absent creditors.
Executor must elect between COM
p%ensation provided by will and by law.
Remedial Acts.
District No. 3, Union county. legal
lied.
Bonds of District No. 5. Union coun-
ty. legalized.
Plano school district legalized.
Balance OF judicial and election tax
returned to Gregory county.
Islands formed in streams to belong
to state.
Rapid City hall fireman bonds legal
lied.
Decimal G log rule adopted for land
department.
Howard sewer bond legalized.
School district IS, Union county.
legalized.
Hamlin county court house bonds
legalized.
Two hundred and thirty-nine Ne
braska accretion lands pass to South
Dakota.
School Lands.
Holder Of legal title to receive
school land patent.
Second lessee must pay 95 per cent
OF value Of improvements on school
lands.
Counties receive 5 per cent of school
fund for handling same.
Fire marshal, food and drug com.
missioner. state veterinarian attend
state fair at state expense.
Three years residence liz state con.
dition precedent for admission in sol
diers' home.
inheritance tax code.
County auditors salaries.
General assessment lid law.
Speedy hearing must be had for ad-
mission to Custer tuberculosis sana-
forum.
Salary superintendent department
history raised to $4,000.
Warehouse Bills.
Private persons may require rail
roads to put in track scales by paying
for same.
Warehouse receipts may be redeem.
ed at terminal elevator.
Structures along track must be sui.
fcient distance apart to prevent fire
hazard.
Warehousemen must give minimum
$4,000 penal bond.
Late Enactments.
Congress memoralized to develop
ravigable streams.
Uniform blue sky bill.
Procure for organizing building and
loan associations.
Non-partisan judicial election.
Food and drug commissioner inspect
restaurants, etc.
Farmers elevator and creamery
companies made to form mutual com.
panies.
Quarterly report of insane need not
be published hereafter.
Fixes salaries Of city officers in diff.
ferent classes.
Procedure for removal from office
for malfeasance.
Party receiving state money issue
triplicate receipt.
Veblen school district legalized.
Grain and cattle scales supervised
by railroad commission. Railroad com.
missioners investigate on own initia.
tive.
Township to drag roads.
Automobile license fee fixed at So to