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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NEBRASKA.) 



$70,000 of bonds for additional buildings to the 

 State University, the interest of the bonds to be 

 paid by the revenue from lands of the university 

 grant. A women's hall and gymnasium is to 

 be built with part of the money. For completing 

 and equipping the normal-school building $20,000 

 of bonds are to be sold. Appropriations were 

 made as follow: $32,900 for building the main 

 wing of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at 

 Boulder; $12,500 for finishing the State Orphans' 

 Home; $1,500 for machinery and other improve- 

 ments at the Reform School; $152,000 for comple- 

 ting the equipment of the new State-House; 

 $2,000 for farmers' institutes. 



Other acts were: 



Changing the conditions under which foreign 

 corporations may transact business in the State. 



Requiring that all bonding propositions sub- 

 mitted to the people be on separate ballots. 



Making the school tax 2 mills (formerly 3 to 

 5), and providing that the tax for a special fund 

 may not exceed 5 mills, instead of 10 as formerly; 

 the* decision to be with the school board, not with 

 the electors as heretofore. 



Empowering school trustees to issue bonds with- 

 out submitting the propositions to the voters. 



Allowing only taxpayers to petition for a 

 change of county-seats. 



Providing a penalty for voting at primaries of 

 two political parties. 



Prohibiting railroads from making tunnel 

 charges, except for travel to or from points out- 

 side of the State. 



Requiring a physician's or coroner's certificate 

 for burial. 



Requiring candidates for examination in dentis- 

 try to have practised or studied under supervi- 

 sion five, instead of three, years, or to be grad- 

 uates of a reputable dental college. 



Providing that a ton of mineral coal be 26 

 bushels instead of 28 as formerly, and each bushel 

 76 pounds instead of 80. 



Permitting fruit inspectors to disinfect or de- 

 stroy suspected material. 



Providing bounties of $5 on a grown wolf, a 

 wolf pup or coyote, and $7 on a mountain-lion. 

 The State bounty fund to be raised by a three- 

 mill tax on live stock. 



Providing that live stock brought into the 

 State for grazing must be taxed. 



Providing that proposed public improvements 

 may not be made if two-thirds the property own- 

 ers file objections; sewers may be made on peti- 

 tion of one-third the frontage of property affected. 



Defining kidnaping, detention of a child under 

 eighteen (formerly fifteen) against his or his 

 parent's will, with intent to conceal from the 

 parent. 



Providing that veteran soldiers and sailors need 

 not pay for peddling licenses. 



Amending the game-laws: "It is unlawful to 

 kill at any time moose, bison, caribou, buffalo, 

 quail, Chinese pheasant, mountain-sheep, ante- 

 lope, female elk, beaver, meadow-lark, bluebird, 

 thrush, oriole, woodpecker, mocking-bird, gold- 

 finch, snoAybird, cedar-bird, stork, or any of the 

 other singing birds; and to dump any sawdust 

 or debris coming from sawmills .into any stream. 

 Every non-resident who is not a taxpayer in the 

 State is required to procure a hunter's license. 

 The license for large game is $25 and for small 

 or feathered game $15. One license does not 

 entitle the holder to hunt both kinds of game." 



It was proposed to place the $30,000 alleged 

 to have been paid as bribes and delivered to the 

 Legislature in 1899 into the school fund, but it 

 was finally ordered paid into the general fund. 



Making a tax levy of 2| mills. 



Bills were passed forming two new counties 

 Powell from a part of Deer Lodge, and Rosebud 

 from Dawson. Afterward the name of Deer Lodge 

 was changed to Daly, and Powell to Deer Lodge. 

 The Governor vetoed an apportionment bill, be- 

 cause it had been drawn without the necessary 

 reference to these changes. In April the change 

 ol name of Deer Lodge County was declared un- 

 constitutional by the Supreme Court. 



A bill that caused a bitter struggle was one 

 permitting actions to be taken from the district 

 courts and appealed to the Supreme Court on the 

 ground of interest or prejudice on the part of the 

 lower court; and the Supreme Court or a judge 

 thereof might stay all proceedings until the mat- 

 ter of the alleged interest or prejudice should 

 be determined. The bill was alleged to be in the 

 interest of a particular company, to enable it to 

 remove its actions from the district court. It 

 was passed, but was vetoed. 



NEBRASKA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union March 1, 1867; area, 77,510 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 122,993 in 1870; 

 452,402 in 1880; 1,058,910 in 1890; and 1,068,539 

 in 1900. Capital, Lincoln. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Charles H. Dietrich, 

 elected United States Senator in March, and suc- 

 ceeded in May by Lieut.-Gov. Ezra P. Savage; 

 Lieutenant-Go vernor (succeeding Ezra P. Savage), 

 C. F. Steele; Secretary of State, George W. Marsh; 

 Treasurer, William Stuefer; Attorney-General, 

 F. N. Prout; Auditor, Charles Weston; Adjutant- 

 General, J. N. Kilian, succeeded by William Hay- 

 ward, who in turn was succeeded by L. W. Colby; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. K. 

 Fowler; Commissioner of Public Lands, G. D. 

 Follmer all Republicans; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, J. J. Sullivan, Democrat; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, S. H. Sedgwick, Republican, and 

 S. A. Holcomb, Fusion; Clerk, Lee Herdman. 



The State officers are elected in even-numbered 

 years, the term beginning in January of odd- 

 numbered years. The Legislature holds biennial 

 sessions, beginning in January of odd-numbered 

 years. 



Finances. The Treasurer's report for six 

 months ending May 31 showed a total balance 

 on hand Dec. 1, 1900, of $607,878.22; receipts, 

 $1,884,781.30; disbursements, $1,626,434.42; bal- 

 ance on hand May 31, $866,225.10. The report 

 of receipts and disbursements showed the condi- 

 tion of the general, permanent, and temporary 

 school funds and the sinking-fund to be as fol- 

 low: General fund balance Dec. 1, $49,594.46; 

 receipts, $630,879.97; disbursements, $599,486.69; 

 balance May 31, $80,987.74. Permanent school 

 fund balance Dec. 1, $105,968.68; receipts, $673,- 

 982.71; disbursements, $522,166.09; balance May 

 31, $257,785.30. Temporary school fund balance. 

 Dec. 1, $297,047.90; receipts, $385,374.24; disburse- 

 ments, $307,822.83; balance May 31, $374,599.31". 

 Sinking-fund balance Dec. 1, $56,165.23; receipts, 

 $11,617.58; disbursements, $67,782.81. 



The last Legislature transferred the sinking- 

 fund to the general fund. 



The cash in the treasury June 30 was $591,- 

 634.66. In June the Treasurer's receipts were 

 $352,725.35, while the disbursements were $627,- 

 315.79. 



The semiannual report of the Treasurer, made 

 in December, showed the receipts of the treasury 

 from all sources from June 1 to Nov. 30, 1901, 

 to have been $1,483,434.30; disbursements, $1,796,- 

 184.98; cash in depository banks, $535,295.22; 



