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LIST OF BILLS Tliat T r e n t Through Both Branches o f tlio Legislature. There were 292 hills introduced dining the session. 09 in the sen ate ami 223 in the house. 43 sen- afe hills nut of the 09 introduced, ‘passed bo'h houses, and but 41 hou^o bilN outside of the speicial and general appropriations bills, passed, making 84 bills besides the approprinton bills that parsed belli houses. Quite a number of these have not received the gov ernor's signature, hut most of them have, and nre now law<: Repealing Ihe estray law. Locating the state university at Missoula. Locating the pchool of mines at Butte. Local ingih* agriciTturnl college at, Bozeman Creating the county of Teton. Extending the term of existence bf corporations to forty rears. C r e a t i n g t h e s l a t e b o a r d o f e d u 6 t \ l i o n . Regulating toll road«, toll bridges, and toll ferryboats. Empowering school districts to issue bonds not, to exceed $251,000. Creating state board of charities and ret or m. Relating to certain contracts for the conditional sale, lease or hire of railroad and street railway equipment. - Providing for the appointment of a private secretary to the gov ernor at a salery of $2,400. Providing for transcribing the records of segregated counties. Requiring railroad companies when they fence their right of way to leave certain openings. Authorizing corporations to change their corporate names. Regulating thesale and redemp tion of transportation tickets b}' common carriers. Locating a state reform school at Miles City. Amending the law relating to towns and village sites and plats. Amending the Jaw relating to municipal corporations, known as the mavor’s bill. To enable counties and incor porated cities to issue bonds to abate injurious and unhealthy •moke. Placing tiie property of the Iiis- torical Micii tv under the control of the stale. T r a n - ! » n i > i l z : t h e i n L c e l l a n c o n s d i v i s i o n o| t h e i » f a t e l i b r a i v t o t h e h i s t o r i c a l s o c i e t y . Autiioi i/iiii^tlie j-tate board of education to-elect 1 mds from the school binds of the stale lbr the uses of the shite educational in atitutions. Authorizing three or more per •ons te form a corporation to act as trustee, agent, assignee, receiv er administrator, executor and for other purposes. Providing a home for the care and education of orphans, found lings and destitute children, to be located at Twin bridges. Providing for the care, keeping, custody and control of the con victsofthe state. Defining trespass on mining property. For the incorporation of acci dent insurance companies. For the consolidation, sale and lease of railroads. Changing the boundaries of Ravalli county. Defining conditions upon which Miretv companies may go on bonds. deeding jurisdiction to the United States over lands needed for federal buildings. Amending the registration law of the state. Making appropriations to pay bounties on stock destroying ani mals. Prohibiting the importation of armed Pinkertons into the state. Regulating the hours of labor of stationary engineers. Creatine: the comity of Valb-y. Increasing ihe per diem of leg isU'ors nfi'T 189-4 to $8. k Locating state prisons at Deer Lodge and Billings. Creating the county of Ravalli. Legalizing funding bonds of counties already issued. Locating a state normal school at Dillon. Creating the county of Flathead. Legalizing official acts of nota ries public. For the protec'ion of game, fish and fur bearing animals. Punishing executors, guardians and administrators for not making reports. Establishing a bureau of labor, agriculture, etc. To pay county, district and township officers by the month. To punish bribery of members of the legislature and other state officers. Appropriating $50,000 lor the World's lair exhibit. Creating lian for services of stock ani mals, etc. Allow in g o n ly ta x p a y e r s t o v o te on q u e s tio n s o f raising m o n e y . For the appointment of boards of ap praisers by district judges. Making school trustees liable for un authorized expenditures. To protect state property. Requiring separate outhouses at school houses. Fixing the state levy at two-and-a half mills. Allowing railroads to amend certifi cates of incorporation. Establishing deaf and dumb asylum at Boulder. ll-appoi tioning the state into legisla tive districts. Fur the sale of timber lands belonging to the state. For the investment of money received from sale of state lands. Allowing two-thirds of stockholdersin non-assessable companies to make them assessable. Allowing assessors in first-class coun ties to have clerks for twelve instead of six months. Providing for a great seal of the state of Montana. Regulating foreign insurance com panies doing business in the state. Making bequests to charitable insti tutions legal if made more than thirty days before death. Creating the county of Granite. To prevent the driving of animals ofT their customary ranges. Requiring road brands onstockdriven into or through the state. Defining the conditions on which for eign corporations may do business in the state. Regulating the storage of high explo sives. Allowing payment of taxes semi-an nually. Giving consent to the purchase of ground by the government for buildings. Regulacing collection of poll tax by assessors. COUNTIES AND STATE INSIT UTIONB. Five new counties were formed by the Third legislative assembly. Flathead, and Ravalli counties were formed from portions of Missoula comity. Gr»nito county was formed from portions of Deer Lodge and Missoula counties, while Valley and Teton counties were formed in the northern pbr tion of the s'uio. Several other bills for new counties failed. Next to ihe county division schemes, the location of slate in atitutions aroused the greatest iu terest in the legislature. The state university was located at Missoula: the school of mines at Butte; the agricultural college at Bozeman; the state reform school at Miles Oity; the orphan asylum at Twin Bridges; the penitentiary at Billings and Deer Lodge; the normal school at Dillon, and the deaf and dumb asylum at Boulder. CONCERNING SCHOOLS. School trustees are made liable for any unauthorized expenditure and are required to give bonds. Separate outhouses for the «exes are required on the school prop erty, School districts are em powered to issue bonds not to ex ceed $251,000. FOR THE BENEFIT OF COUNTIES. In the benfit of counties, one bill that wag passed legalizes fund ing bonds issued by the counties of the state. Another bill legalizes Ihe official acts of notaries public. Still another bill in the interests of counties provides for the pay ment of county, district and town ship officers by Jthe month. An other bill permits only taxpayers to vote on questions of bonding or raising money. It is also provid ed that boards of appraisers shall hereafter be appointed by dis trict judges In first class coun ties it is novr permitted assessors to have clerks for 12 months in stead of six months. Another bill is in regard to collection of poll taxes. It provides that the asses sor must demand payment of poll taxes ©f every person liable, and in case of refusal must seize and sell any peisonal property of such person. Another bill provides for the collectirn of taxes twice a year instead of annually. Taxes are to be paid on Decern her 1 and June 1. The taxes may all be paid at one time if preferred. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Subscribe for T hh M ontanian . j W TIME TABLE OF GREAT FALL8 AND CANADA RAILROAD. GOING north : Leave Great Falls, 11.00 p. m. “ Vaughn, 11.40' “ “ Steel!, 12 20 a. m. Collins, 2.00 “ Pondera, 3.40 “ “ Conrad, 5.00 “ Arr. Shelby Junction, 0 00 “ GOING SOUTH. • Deave Shelby Junction, 2.50 p. m. “ Conrad, 3.40 “ “ Pondera, 5.20 « M Collins, 6.50 » “ Steel], 8.15 « “ Vaughn, 8.50 “ Arr. at Great Falls, 9.30 N E W B U T C H E R TRUCHOT and CRAWFORD. props . MAIN STREET, - OHOTEAU. Commission Merchants, .Ä-zisriD Dealers in ALL KINDS of Farm PRODUCE. G n g g G n O O O G GO G o pö 0 p 0 0 0 p
