The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-29

plan, shorter seasons for game. small
er bag limits and prohibition on the
use Of dogs in hunting prairie chick
ems, creation of a new board of con-
troll to displace the present board, a
state fire insurance rate auditing or
supervising bureau, changing the
classes of public printing, creation of
a board of criminal anthropology and
establishment of the indeterminate
term plan OF sentencing criminals,
placing the tax commission members
on the board Of equalization, the Gre
alton of a state board os levy, repeal
of the immigration law, are just a
few Of the measures sponsored.
The bills follow:
H. B. No. 8S, Geiger-Amends Chap
ter 172 fthe session laws of 1915 by
providing that the charters of all
mutual insurance companies now or
ganized or hereafter organized shall
be permanent.
Fl. B. No. SO. O'connor of Pembina-
Providing that the inspectors fee for
the distribution of ballots and posting
of notices of election shall be 81 and
5 cents a mile. ...
H. B. No. 80, MISUNDERSTANDING the
present board of control and providing
for board made up of the attorney
general. secretary of state and one ap-
pointee named by the governor, to
serve six years. The appointive mem
Der would receive a salary Of $4,000 a
year, and shall be chairman of the
board
H. b. No. 81, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
every person who handles meat in a
butcher shop, meat market or place
where meat is sold, to procure GER
tificate Of health. Such certificate
would have to be obtained from ply
stefan, and would have to be renewed
each six months.
H. B. No. SO, Carignan-Fixing bail
of persons charged with larceny or
horses or cattle at $4,000.
H. B, No. 81. Kelly-Giving the
board of railroad commissioners juris-
diction over track scales used by COM
mon carriers and requiring the install
lation of such scales at all points in
the state from which shipments of
grain in any one year within five years
preceding Jan. /. 1917. amounted to
100000 bushels or more. Providing for
weighmaster.
II. B. No. 95. Lange-Giving cities
the power to compel owners of prop
erty to build curbinS. on the same
basis that sidewalks are now con-
structed.
H. B. No. sc. Notwithstanding
that farm mortgage loans by the state
board of school and university lands
may be for 15-year period instead OF
IL years, as now provided; permitting
payment Of whole sum any time AFTER
three years; or permitting payment OF
ten per cent Of principal annually atter
fifth year.
III. B. No. 81, Carr-Defning and
Furnishing vagrancy, prescribing rules
of procedure in the prosecution or
vagrancy, and fixing punishment TOT
yagrancy, and declaring an emergency.
H. B. No. 9S. Maxweli-Legalizing
conveyance Of a family homestead In
any ease in which the same has been
decided by both husband and Wife IN
separate instruments which purport to
convey the land to the Same person,
or his grantees, and validating such
deeds.
H, B. No. 90, Arnold--Providing for
the organization of cooperative as
sociations or enterprises, and nmitins
the use of the word. cooperative TO
companies organized thereunder.
H. B. No. 100. Harris and Bowman
Compelling cities TO exclude from their
limits property that may come under
the description Of farm lands
n IL. No. 1O1. MISUNDERSTANDING
a commission to be designated, as the
Killdeer mountain park commission
for the purpose of investigation as TO
the advisability and cost OF purcnas-
ing by the state or federal govern
ment. of the Killdeer mountains, Dunn
county. for the purpose of establishing
there a park and game and FISH pre-
serve. The commission would De nam
ed, by the governor, and consist Oh
three members. .,.,,
RI. B. No. 102, Lazier and Miller
Establishing state game commission
er, at $500 salary annually ne ~
taixa over the present duties of the
game board, 1t is made the speclnc
dutv of sheriffs, deputies and otner
notice officers, to perform the duties
nf deputy game wardens, and report
all violations to the state warden
Also establishes state fish commls-
sioner Office at Same. salary. one uep-
Ilty Ash commissioner is autnorlzeo'
1t prohibits the use OF dogs IN nun; /.
ing prairie chickens. Open season Is
fixed at from Oct. to Nov. l TOT
nrairie chickens, etc. The duck season
Is fxed at from Oct. l to Dec. l. Inc
bag limit is fixed at ftve.
H, b. No. 1913. Ward--Authorizlng
the governor, attorney general anu
the state engineer to compile, coolIy'
index and publish in pamphlet iOrnl
For distribution, the road laws OF the
state, and making O $500 approptla-
fion therefor Emergency.
TT n No. 1O4, Fraser-Provid1ng lot
+ba certification of questions or law
10 the supreme court In civil anu
cr;rinaI cases where the determina-
tion OF such questions may deterlnile
the issues in cause az action;
I RI No los, Notwithstanding .
&ha legal reserve of banking lnstIu-
tjons al 20 per cent of the demand de-
s1osifs and 10 per cent of the time de-
posits. The present law nxes me
serve at 20 per cent OF tne 'o'aA 1epo
us 2 No. 1o6, Hendrickson-Provid-
ing that parallel railroads must con-
struct connecting YVES. and,ng sec
zion >7S41 of the code of civil procedure,
snecifying what orders or the o lsarIce
cnurt are renewable by the suprennls
court. requiring the h sup tSirtv days Of
fhe time of the submission OF arsu-
Ments and also speeding up the meth
al OF obtaining submission or Ques-
tl9ns q No. los. stair-Providing for
: the permanent location of the State faif
IN n f B. No. 1os. Harris Providing that
i raesiye from r. 10 to Is cents daily FOR
work they do for carrying on the in-'
stitution. ...., "a NFoo..
Observation-Disclosures the commissions
IF Insurance to examine hre ratlng pu-
reaus; forbidding discriminating rates
and requiring written variation 70 pe
alod; requiring that rlsks pc ~ Lns ~ s,.p
nnitted to the commissioner OF lnsuE-
ance. also providing for review py com
missioner of insurance or rates nAeu
nv bureau, and proceedings unoer ap-
4 nsai from order of commissioner and
penalty for violation thereoL. GAenip1-
{nrr county mutual companies,
II. b. No. ILL.,. Magnuson ana Cnris-
Observation-Disclosures the commissioner
of Insurance to IKE rates to be charged
hv WfidelIty and insurance companies
providing for the appeal tneretrom, anO