UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NORTH DAKOTA.) 



the timber on more than 300 acres, or the privilege 

 of cutting the timber on more, unless that cor- 

 poration shall operate mills in the State, at which 

 the timber shall be manufactured. Large com- 

 panies have been buying or leasing great tracts 

 for this purpose. 



A new election law provides for a State Board 

 of Elections, composed of 3 men, of whom not 

 more than 2 shall be of the same political party. 

 The county boards, likewise, shall be composed 

 of 3 persons, only 2 of whom can be of the same 

 party. Of the 4 judges of election, not more than 

 2 can be of the same political party, and these 2 

 must be selected from lists of 5 furnished by the 

 county chairman of their party. The clause in 

 the present election law taking away the right 

 of a writ of mandamus is stricken out. 



Permanent registration is provided for those en- 

 titled to vote under the Constitution. 



The board of corporation commissioners was 

 made a board of State tax commissioners with 

 general supervision .over assessors and power to 

 revise assessments. New regulations were made 

 as to tax sales and redemption. 



The Department of Agriculture was placed un- 

 der an amended law. Only practical farmers are 

 to be eligible. The commissioner is to be elected 

 for four years and receive a salary of $2,000. The 

 Governor is to appoint 1 member from each con- 

 gressional district. 



The pension law was amended; there are 4 

 classes of pensions, carrying $30 to $72; veterans 

 totally blind since the war are to receive $120 a 

 year; widows .must have been married before 

 April 1, 1865, in order to be eligible for pensions. 



Other enactments were: 



Repealing the law prohibiting the formation of 

 a corporation with a capital of more than $1,000,- 

 000. 



Requiring corporations transacting business in 

 the State to have an agent there. 



Providing for State banks of circulation. 



Requiring railroad companies to provide sepa- 

 rate and equal accommodations for white and 

 black passengers, except that branch and narrow- 

 gage lines and mixed trains may be exempted by 

 the Railroad Commissioners. 



Providing for a State board of embalming. 



Making Labor Day a legal holiday. 



Fixing the penalty for gambling in a hotel at 

 not less than $500 and imprisonment not less 

 than six months formerly $10 and thirty days. 



Amending the insurance laws. 



Revising the antitrust law. 



Directing that executions of capital offenders 

 be private. 



Making twenty years' imprisonment the maxi- 

 mum penalty for kidnaping. 



Providing for defense of officers or persons prose- 

 cuted in Federal courts for acts committed in 

 performance of State duties. 



Incorporating a State hospital for the danger- 

 ous insane. 



Authorizing the Corporation Commission to pre- 

 scribe rates for street-railways. 



Requiring railroad companies leaving freight 

 unshipped for more than live days, unless by 

 agreement, to forfeit to the owner $500 for each 

 day, and damages. 



Requiring public warehouse proprietors to give 

 bonds of not less than $25,000. 



Requiring street-railway companies to use ves- 

 tibule fronts on cars from Nov. 15 to April 1. 



Requiring any municipality that has collected 

 a tax or license on property outside the corporate 

 limits to refund the same. This act had unex- 

 pected results. Several city charters gave the 



privilege of imposing license for the sale of whisky 

 immediately outside the city limits. Under this 

 act suits were entered to compel the return of 

 money so collected. 



Extending the time for registering land grants 

 three years. 



Increasing the number of Superior Court judges 

 to 16, and redividing the judicial districts. 



Authorizing the Governor to appoint 3 ex- 

 aminers to visit State institutions, without notice, 

 and report to him. 



Providing that the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 and the State Geologist form a highway commis- 

 sion, select a secretary from the Department of 

 Agriculture, make rules for employment of prison- 

 ers on the roads, and have general supervision of 

 roads, bridges, and ferries. 



The increase in appropriations for pensions was 

 $100,000; for public schools, $100,000; for the 

 judiciary, $10,000; and for the Corporation Com- 

 mission and other objects, $35,000. The amounts 

 to the State institutions were : School for Deaf and 

 Dumb, $43,500; Institution for Deaf, Dumb, and 

 Blind, $65,050; University of North Carolina, $37,- 

 500; Normal and Industrial College, $40,000; 

 North Carolina College of Agriculture and Me- 

 chanic Arts, $30,260.81 ; Agriculture and Mechanic 

 College (colored), $10,000; hospital, Raleigh, $77,- 

 750; hospital, Morganton, $165,000; hospital, 

 Goldsboro, $75,000; Soldiers' Home, $13,000; dan- 

 gerous insane, $8,000; colored normal schools, 

 $19,500. 



A committee of the Legislature appointed to in- 

 vestigate the accounts in the Treasury Depart- 

 ment found a shortage of $16,550.52 in the State 

 Prison account, due to a defaulting clerk. Most 

 of the amount having been taken during the 

 incumbency of the former Treasurer, W. H. Worth, 

 the present Treasurer made demand upon him for 

 it; he in turn asked it from the surety company 

 in which the defaulting clerk was bonded; but 

 the company refused on the ground that the 

 Treasurer's books were each year examined by a 

 legislative committee and pronounced correct, and 

 but for that the company would never have re- 

 bonded Major Martin year after year. Mr. Worth 

 then turned over all his property to his bondsmen 

 to insure them against loss in case the company 

 should be successful in resisting the claim, not 

 even reserving property that could not have been 

 taken under the law. The clerk was sentenced to 

 ten years'" hard labor in the Penitentiary. 



Historical. Exercises were held in Raleigh, in 

 November, to inaugurate a movement for erecting 

 a statue in the city of Sir Walter Raleigh. 



Preparations are in progress for a celebration 

 next summer of the landing of the Sir Walter 

 Raleigh colony on Roanoke island. 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, 

 admitted to the Union Nov. 3, 1889; area, 70,795 

 square miles. The population was 182,719 in 1890 

 and 319,146 in 1900. Capital, Bismarck. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Frank White; Lieu* 

 tenant-Governor, David Bartlett; Secretary of 

 State, E. F. Porter; Treasurer, D. H. McMillan; 

 Auditor, A. N. Carlbloom; Attorney-General, O. 

 D. Comstock; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Joseph M. Devine; Adjutant-General, E. S. 

 Miller; Commissioner of Insurance, Ferdinand 

 Leutz; Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, 

 Rollin J. Turner; Railroad Commission, C. J. 

 Lord, J. F. Shea, J. J. Youngblood; Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands, D. J. Laxdahl; Oil In- 

 spector, P. B. Wickham, succeeded in April by 

 L. W. Schruth; Superintendent of Public Health, 

 H. H. Healey; Commissioner of Forestry, W. W. 



