SOUTH DAKOTA. 



781 





Providing a general law for the incorporation of 

 Cities. All cities of 10,COO inhabitants or over shall 

 be cities of the first class ; cities having between 2,000 

 and 10,000 people shall be cities of the second class 

 all others shall be cities of the third class. 



Regulating business of insurance companies. 



To provide for the incorporation of town-site com- 

 panies. 



Kegulating the business of commercial agencies, 

 credit companies, and guarantee associations. 



Authorizing organized counties to issue warrants 

 to pay deficiencies due tor building court-houses and 

 jails. 



Eequiring instruction in the public schools as to 

 the nature and effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics 

 upon the human system. 



Abolishing the State Board of Education and con- 

 ferring the powers thereof upon the Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction. 



To prohibit the killing, trapping, or ensnaring of 

 quail for three years. 



Requiring the commissioners of each county to 

 offer a bounty of $3 tor each wolf killed ia the 

 county. 



Repealing the law of 1887 prohibiting the clestiuc- 

 tion of beaver. 



Creating a State inspector of oils. 



To encourage the construction of artesian wells. 



Creating the office of State engineer of irrigation. 



Regulating marriage, and requiring a license to be 

 obtained from the clerk of the county court prior to 

 any marriage. 



Creating a State Meteorological Bureau. 



Creating a State inspector of mines. 



Providing for a State Board of Pharmaceutical 

 Examiners. 



Declaring that any person, whether citizen or alien, 

 may take, hold, and dispose of property, real or per- 

 sonal, within the State. 



Prohibiting the sale, giving, or furnishing of 

 tobacco ia any form to children under sixteen years 

 of age. _ 



Offering a bounty of one cent a pound for raw, 

 granulated, or refined sugar, and two cents a gallon 

 tor sirup or molasses, manufactured in the State from 

 beets grown in the State. 



Offering a bounty for the planting and cultivation 

 of forest trees. 



Education. The State University for the 

 past school year shows a total enrollment of 485 

 students and an average attendance of 316. The 

 enrollment for the year at the Spearfish Normal 

 School was 132, and at the Madison Normal 

 School about 140. The average attendance at 

 the School of Mines for the year was 16. This 

 institution does not attract the expected number 

 of students, and in view of the large expense of 

 its maintenance, can not be called successful. 

 At the Agricultural College the average attend- 

 ance was 140. Nearly all the expenses of this 

 institution can be defrayed from the appropria- 

 tions of Congress in aid of such colleges. 



Charities. On Nov. 30, 1889, the State Hos- 

 pital for the Insane contained 235 patients. 

 There were admitted during the year ensuing 

 104 patients, and discharged 82. leaving 257 re- 

 maining on. Nov. 3C, 1890. At the School for 

 Deaf Mutes at Sioux Falls there were 35 pupils 

 on Nov. 30. 



The Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs was opened 

 on Nov. 27, and before the close of the year 40 

 disabled veterans had been admitted. A sub- 

 stantial building has been erected at a cost of 

 $52,323.63. 



The blind children of the State are supported 

 in the Iowa State School for the Blind, at a per 



capita cost of about $300 a year, inoludimr tui- 

 tion, clothing, and supplies/ Th, ,,! '"^ 

 these children for the year was f l.or.i <,;; 



Penitentiary.-The Penitentiary at Sioux 

 Falls contained 96 prisoners on Dec/I, of wS 

 9o were men and 22 were United St,,i,. s pl- 

 otters. I he parole of prisoners as provided .v 

 the Legislature this year h*s reduced th.- num- 

 ber of inmates. The total expenditures for the 

 year were $34,429.36, of which the sum of $33.- 

 010.68 was paid out of the State treasury The 

 convicts were employed to a.lvantai;.- upon th,- 

 farm and in the stone quarry on the Peniten- 

 tiary grounds. 



The report of the Reform School at Plank in ton 

 shows that there were 43 pupils at the Win- 

 ning of this year, that 28 were admitted from 

 Jan. 1 to Nov. 30, and that 9 were discharged, 

 leaving 62 in the school. 



Crops. The State Commissioner of Immigra- 

 tion makes the following estimates of agricult ural 

 products for 1890: Wheat, 17,066,600 busheU 

 corn, 17,492,242 bushels ; oats, 17,202,590 bushels 

 rye, 291,880 bushels; barley, 2,314,970 bushels: 

 buckwheat, 19,764 bushels; flax, 2,757275 bush- 

 els ; potatoes, 1,479,535 bushels. 



Prohibition. The prohibitory law passed bv 

 the Legislature this year to enforce Article XXI V 

 of the State Constitution provides that "any 

 person, association, or corporation who shall with- 

 in the State, directly or indirectly, manufacture 

 any spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented, or other 

 intoxicating liquor, or shall import any of the 

 same for sale or barter "as a beverage, or shall 

 keep for sale or sell or offer for sale or barter or 

 trade, any of such intoxicating liquors as a bever- 

 age, shall for the first offense be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be fined in any sum not less than $100, nor 

 more than $500, and be imprisoned in the county 

 jail not less than sixty days nor more than six 

 months and a trial and conviction in any court 

 shall constitute the first offense; and for the 

 second and every successive offense shall be 

 deemed guilty of a felony and be punished by 

 imprisonment in State prison for a period of one 

 year, provided that registered pharmacists under 

 the laws of the State may sell intoxicating liquors 

 for medical, mechanical, sacramental and sci- 

 entific purposes as herein provided." Druggists' 

 permits shall be granted by the county 'court, 

 but only on petition signed by the applicant 

 and by twenty-five reputable freeholders and 

 twenty-five reputable women (who shall certify 

 to the good character of the applicant and his 

 fitness for the business) and on compliance by 

 the applicant with numerous other provisions of 

 the statute. Numerous restrictions are placed 

 upon the sale of liquor by permit holders. Com- 

 mon nuisances are defined and authority is giv- 

 en to prosecuting officers for their suppression. 

 A penalty is imposed for causing the intoxica- 

 tion of another person. The giving away of in- 

 toxicating liquors, or any shifts or device to evade 

 the provisions of the act, shall be deemed an un- 

 lawfuful selling within the meaning of the act. 

 The appearance in public of any person in an 

 intoxicated condition is punishable. Whenever 

 any relative of any person shall notify a druggist 

 that such person uses intoxicating liquor as a 

 beverage, and shall forbid the sale thereof to 



