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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (Omo.) 



place any policy upon property in this State ex- 

 cept after the risk has been approved by an agent 

 who is a resident of this State, who shall receive 

 the commission on the premium and make a rec- 

 ord of the transaction, to the end that the State 

 shall collect its taxes thereon. 



The church property entitled to exemption from 

 taxation was defined as including all real prop- 

 erty not exceeding an acre, upon which there is 

 church edifice or a building used for residence of 

 bishop, priest, or rector. 



Counties were authorized to issue bonds to buy 

 seed grain for needy farmers, the value of the 

 seed to be a lien upon the crop. 



A State board of pardons was created, to con- 

 sist of the Governor, Attorney-General, Chief Jus- 

 tice of Supreme Court, and 2 electors. 



A State board for holding farmers' institutes 

 was created, with an annual appropriation of 

 $1,500. 



A stringent pure-food law was passed. 



The tax in cities for public libraries was in- 

 creased to 4 mills, at the option of voters. 



A board of trustees was created for an insti- 

 tute for the feeble-minded at Graf ton, with au- 

 thority to select a site and erect a building. 



A new game-law makes the open season for 

 prairie-chickens begin Sept. 1 instead of Aug. 20. 

 The killing of antelope is prohibited for ten years, 

 and the sale of game of any kind is forbidden. 



A board of barbers' examiners is created ; every 

 practising barber must be examined and pay a 

 license fee. 



Insanity was removed from the list of causes 

 for divorce. The remarriage of divorced persons 

 within three months from the time the divorce is 

 granted is prohibited. It is provided that any 

 one speaking disparagingly of the character of a 

 woman shall be liable to a fine and imprisonment 

 in the county jail. 



The law for a bounty of $3 on wolves was re- 

 pealed, but another was made requiring the com- 

 missioners of each county to offer a bounty of $2 

 on wolves and coyotes; they may offer $5 to $20 

 on buffalo and timber wolves. 



It is made a misdemeanor to expose dressed 

 beef for sale without having the hide on display 

 for ten days. 



Among the appropriations were $88,600 for the 

 Penitentiary; $32,000 for maintenance of the Cap- 

 itol for two years; $5,000 for the Mayville Nor- 

 mal School; $15,000 for Valley City Normal 

 School; $14,000 for the State Industrial School 

 at Ellendale; $17,500 for the Deaf School; $20,300 

 for the Soldiers' Home for two years; $18,000 for 

 the Agricultural College; $133,100 for the State 

 Asylum at Jamestown. 



A special tax of 1 mill was laid upon property 

 for the support of the schools until a fund is 

 realized from the land sales. 



Other enactments were: 



Abolishing the office of Commissioner of Irri- 

 gation and Forestry. 



Repealing the law appropriating $500 annually 

 to promote immigration. 



Permitting the sale of real estate by executors 

 or administrators of estates when deemed for the 

 interests of the estate. 



Making the penalty for kidnaping five to twen- 

 ty years' imprisonment. 



Requiring bonds from contractors on public 

 buildings or works, to protect laborers and those 

 furnishing materials. 



Repealing bounties on starch, on spinning fiber, 

 and on twine. 



Requiring the minimum of capital of State 

 banks to be $10,000 in cities of 1.000 inhabitants. 



Providing for a levy of a sinking-fund of one- 

 thirtieth of bonded indebtedness of the State each 

 year after 1901. 



Providing that the Agricultural College shall 

 cooperate with the United States in completing 

 a survey of the State. 



Directing the State Board of Equalization to 

 assess at actual value franchise and property of 

 express, freight, car, telegraph, and telephone 

 companies, and apportioning mileage value to 

 each organized county. 



Taxing stock ranged in the State by non-resi- 

 dent owners. 



Making it a misdemeanor to deface the United 

 States flag or use it for advertising. 



Providing for coal-mine inspection. 



The constitutional amendment proposed by the 

 Legislature of 1899 and referred to this, author- 

 izing school funds to be invested in municipal 

 bonds, was not repassed. Four amendments were 

 proposed and referred to the next Legislature, as 

 follow: For empowering the Legislature to pro- 

 vide for taxing grain in storage ; for removing the 

 Institution for the Feeble-Minded from James- 

 town to Grafton; for changing the name of the 

 Deaf and Dumb Asylum to School for the Deaf 

 and Dumb; regarding sale of public lands. 



Decisions on Laws. Several laws of the State 

 were tested in the courts this year. In May the 

 United States Supreme Court sustained the State 

 law relating to assessments for improvements by 

 municipalities. The question of changes in coun- 

 ty boundaries came before the Supreme Court, 

 which held that they were in no wise changed by 

 the act passed by the Legislature in 1895, previ- 

 ously held unconstitutional by the court, or by 

 the curative act passed in 1899. The Attorney- 

 General holds that the law imposing a tax of 50 

 cents a head on stock grazed through the State 

 in transit is unconstitutional. 



OHIO, a Central Western State, admitted to 

 the Union in 1803; area (according to the geo- 

 logical survey), 41,060 square miles, of which 300 

 are w^ater surface. The population, according to 

 each decennial census since its admission, was 

 230,760 in 1810; 581,295 in 1820; 937,903 in 1830; 

 1,519,467 in 1840; 1,980,329 in 1850; 2,339,511 in 

 1860; 2,665,260 in 1870; 3,198,062 in 1880; 3,672,- 

 316 in 1890; and 4,157,545 in 1900. It ranks 

 fourth among the States in point of population. 

 Capital, Columbus. 



Government. The State officers during 1901 

 were: Governor, George K. Nash; Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor, John A. Caldwell; Secretary of State, 

 Lewis C. Laylin; Auditor of State, Walter D. 

 Guilbert; Treasurer of State, Isaac B. Cameron; 

 Attorney-General, John M. Sheets; Judges of the 

 Supreme Court, Thad A. Minshall, Marshall J. 

 Williams, Jacob F. Burket, William T. Spear, 

 William Z. Davis, John A. Shauck; Clerk of the 

 Supreme Court, Josiah B. Allen; Commissioner 

 of Common Schools, Lewis D. Bonebrake; Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner, Joseph E. Blackburn; 

 Board of Public Works, Washington G. Johnston, 

 Frank A. Huffman, Charles A. Goddard all Re- 

 publicans. 



The term of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Treasurer of State, and Attorney-General is two 

 years, beginning in January of the even-numbered 

 years ; of the Secretary of State two years, begin- 

 ning in January of the odd-numbered years; of 

 the Dairy and Food Commissioner two years, 

 beginning in February of the odd-numbered years ; 

 of members of the Board of Public Works and 

 Clerk of the Supreme Court three years, beginning 

 in February; of the Commissioner of Common 

 Schools three years, beginning in July; of the 



