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years, an annual bounty of $3 an acre for ten years 

 thereafter, but such grove must have at least 400 liv- 

 ing trees to the acre. Also offering an annual bounty 

 of $4 for each 160 rods of hedge of such trees main- 

 tained by any person along the highway or the bound- 

 ary-line of his land. 



Regulating marriages and requiring a license there- 

 for from the judge of the County Court before any 

 marriage can be legally solemnized. 



Creating a State Board of Medical Examiners, and 

 requiring all persons practicing medicine to obtain a 

 license therefrom. 



Raisin^ the limit of municipal taxation to 20 mills 

 on each dollar. 



To prohibit the sale, gift, lending, or showing to 

 any minor child of any book, pamphlet, or other 

 printed paper devoted to the publication or princi- 

 pally made up of criminal news, police reports, or ac- 

 counts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of 

 deeds of bloodshed, lust, or crime, and to prohibit the 

 public exhibition of the same. 



To exclude minors from trials of a scandalous or ob- 

 scene nature. 



Creating a State Inspector of Oils. 



Creating a State Board of Pharmacy and requiring 

 all pharmacists to obtain a license therefrom. 



Fixing the meeting of Presidential Electors on the 

 second Monday of January next after their election. 



Authorizing' the issue of 6-per-cent. funding war- 

 rants, not over $80,000 in amount, to pay outstanding 

 warrants of the State. 



Authorizing counties to issue bonds up to constitu- 

 tional debt limit, to raise money for procuring seed 

 grains for needy farmers resident therein. 



Giving to persons who advance seed grain on credit 

 to needy farmers a lien on the crop therefor, and 

 providing that if .the price of such seed grain be not 

 paid before a fixed time after the sowing, it shall be 

 levied as a tax against the property of the debtor. 



Authorizing counties to offer a bounty of not over 

 $3 nor less than $1 for every wolf killed within their 

 limits. 



Making 7 per cent, the legal rate of interest, and 

 prohibiting contracts for a higher rate than 12 per 

 cent. 



Regulating the duties and liabilities of public ware- 

 house-men and fixing their maximum rates. 



Punishing any person who sells or gives to any 

 minor under 16 years any cigar or cigarette or tobacco 

 in any form, except on the written order of parent or 

 guard'ian. 



Declaring that the fiscal year for the State shall end 

 on Oct. 31. 



Repealing the Territorial act of 1887 prohibiting the 

 destruction of beaver. 



Imposing a license tax upon express companies. 



Education. The new school law has proved 

 satisfactory in its operation during the year. 

 It appears that 82 per cent, of the whole number 

 of children of school age in the State are enrolled 

 as pupils in the various public schools. 



The University of North Dakota, at Grand 

 Forks, is prosperous. The number of students 

 in attendance during the year ending June 30 

 was 151. By an act of the last Legislature there 

 was added to the course of instruction a military 

 department and a school of mines. 



The State normal school at Mayville was 

 opened in December. No appropriation was 

 made by the State, and it has been opened and 

 supported, buildings secured, teachers employed, 

 and supplies furnished, solely through the liber- 

 ality of the citizens of Mayville and vicinity. 



No appropriation was made for the normal 

 school at Valley City, but through the liberal 

 donations of citizens the school has been opened. 

 The pupils number 27. 



The act establishing an agricultural college 

 and experiment station at Fargo contained no 

 appropriation, but by an act of Congress, ap- 

 proved March 2, 1887, there is an annual appro- 

 priation for each State of $15,000 for the sup- 

 port of an experiment station, and by an act 

 approved Aug. 30, 1890, there is appropriated 

 for agricultural colleges, for the year ending 

 June 30, 1890, the sum of $15,000, and an annual 

 increase of the amount of such appropriation 

 thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of 

 $1,000 over the preceding year, and the annual 

 amount to be paid thereafter to each State and 

 Territory shall be $25,000. 



Charities. The average number of patients 

 at the State Insane Hospital during the year 

 was 197, an increase of 13 over 1889. 



A School for the Deaf and Dumb at Devil's 

 Lake was established by the Legislature this 

 year and $5,000 appropriated for its support. A 

 commodious building was offered by the city for 

 the use of the school for two years, in which it 

 was opened on Sept. 10 with 17" pupils. 



Prisons. At the close of the year there were 

 50 convicts in the State Penitentiary, a slight 

 increase for the year. The annual per capita 

 cost for maintenance has been reduced from 

 $556.75 during the last year of territorial rule to 

 $312.72 during the present year. There is no 

 adequate provision for employing the convicts. 



Militia. The State militia consists of seven 

 companies of infantry, two troops of cavalry, 

 and one battery of artillery, all under one regi- 

 mental organization, and comprising 28 officers 

 and 350 enlisted men. Of the enlisted men 1 *8 

 are entitled to discharge by reason of expiration 

 of service. By reason of the act of this year 

 suspending to a great extent until 1893 the laws 

 relating to the militia, and owing to a lack of 

 appropriation except for armory rent, there has. 

 been little increase in numbers or efficiency dur- 

 ing the year. 



Prohibition. As required by Article XX of 

 the State Constitution, a stringent prohibitory 

 law was passed by the Legislature this year, 

 which went into effect on July 1. It provides 

 that "any person, association, or corporation 

 who shall within the State, directly or indirect- 

 ly, manufacture any spirituous, malt, vinous, 

 fermented, or other intoxicating liquor, or shall 

 import any of the same for sale, or gift, as a 

 beverage, or shall keep for sale, sell, or offer for 

 sale, or gift, barter, or trade, any of such intoxi- 

 cating liquors as a beverage, shall for the first 

 offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction shall be fined in any sum not less than 

 $200 nor more than $1,000, and be imprisoned 

 in the county jail not less than 90 days nor more 

 than one year, and for the second and every sub- 

 sequent offense shall be deemed guilty of a fel- 

 ony and be punished by imprisonment in the 

 State Prison for a period not exceeding two 

 years and not less than one year, provided that 

 registered pharmacists under the laws of this 

 State may sell intoxicating liquors fdr medicinal, 

 mechanical, scientific, and wine for sacramental 

 purposes, as hereinafter provided." Druggist 

 permits to sell liquor shall be granted only by 

 the county court upon petition signed by 25 rep- 

 utable freeholders and 25 reputable women. 



A short time before this law went into effect, 



