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pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. It empowers 

 the Governor to appoint a State Veterinarian, 

 who shall have authority to order a quarantine 

 of infected premises and slaughter of diseased 

 animals, and provides for appraisement of their 

 value and payment of the same. It also em- 

 powers the Governor, when the necessity ex- 

 ists, to prohibit the importation of live-stock 

 believed to be infected, unless they can furnish 

 a certificate of health. A heavy tine for non- 

 compliance is imposed. It also makes the 

 failure to report any case of pleuro-pneumonia, 

 by any person having infected cattle upon his 

 premises, a misdemeanor. The State Veteri- 

 narian is allowed $8 per day for each day actu- 

 ally employed, and $2,000 to use in disinfect- 

 ing premises, etc., and $8,000 is appropriated 

 to pay for slaughtered animals. 



The traffic in deadly weapons is regulated by 

 another act which prescribes the conditions of 

 their sale and prevents minors from becoming 

 purchasers. It is made a misdemeanor for any 

 one to have, sell, or give away any slung-shot, 

 metallic knuckles, or similar deadly weapons. 

 Also to sell, loan, or give to any minor a pistol, 

 bowie-knife, dirk, or similar deadly weapon. 

 A fine of from $25 to $200 is provided as a 

 penalty for carrying a concealed weapon of 

 the kind specified, or a razor, or for nourish- 

 ing any deadly weapon in a boisterous or 

 threatening manner. 



The law relating to marriages was so amend- 

 ed as to make those legal which were cele- 

 brated according to the form adopted by the 

 Quakers. 



The law of insurance was so amended as to 

 add "tornadoes" to the list of causes of dam- 

 age against which fire-insurance companies 

 may insure. 



The most important change in the revenue 

 law was made by the passage of an act which 

 provides for a return to the former system of 

 annual assessments for real estate. 



The manufacture of " bogus butter " is for- 

 bidden by the following section of another act : 



That whoever manufactures out of any oleaginous 

 substances, or any compound of the same other than 

 that produced from unadulterated milk or cream from 

 the same, any article designed to take the place of 

 butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated 

 milk or cream of the same, or shall sell or offer for sale, 

 or give to any person the same as an article of food, 

 shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than $25 

 nor more than $200. 



An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy 

 was passed and went into operation on July 

 1st. It makes it unlawful for any person other 

 than a registered pharmacist to retail, com- 

 pound, or dispense drugs, medicines, or poisons, 

 or to conduct a store for that purpose, unless 

 such person is in the employ of a registered 

 pharmacist, or shall put one in charge. The 

 qualifications required for registration are that 

 the person shall either be a graduate in phar- 

 macy or medicine, or shall at the time the act 

 takes effect be engaged in the drug business 

 on his own account, or shall be a licentiate in 



pharmacy. The Governor is to appoint a 

 board, composed of five competent pharmacists. 

 This board is to examine all applications for 

 registration, to grant certificates and enforce 

 the law. Penalties are provided for refusal 

 to comply with the act. Also, for the adultera- 

 tion of drugs and the sale of adulterated medi- 

 cines, and for the sale of poisons by any but 

 registered pharmacists. 



The method of raising the revenue for State 

 purposes was again agitated, but without any 

 immediate result. At nearly every session, of 

 late years, measures looking to a more thor- 

 ough revision of the revenue system have been 

 proposed. But the question has been a diffi- 

 cult one to deal with in the hope of giving 

 entire satisfaction to the people. The Legis- 

 lature has, therefore, generally adopted some 

 temporary acts, and left the main question for 

 future consideration. At the session of 1877, 

 an important bill was prepared, and further 

 considered in the session of 1879, but it failed 

 to pass the House near the close of that ses- 

 sion. During this session two measures of im- 

 portance on the subject were presented in the 

 House. The first proposed a radical change by 

 putting upon corporations railroad, express, 

 telegraph, and insurance the burden of pro- 

 viding revenue for State purposes. The second 

 measure was presented under the form of the 

 following resolutions, which were referred to 

 the committee on revenue : 



The Constitution provides that " the General As- 

 sembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful, 

 by levying a tar by valuation so that every person 

 and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the 

 value of his or her or its property," and, 



Whereas, Under the operations of the present rev- 

 enue law of the State, no such proportion is observed ; 

 and, 



Whereas, Said revenue law is cumbersome, unrea- 

 sonably expensive, and unjustly discriminative in op- 

 eration ; and, 



Whereas, The equitable apportionment of the bur- 

 dens of taxation demands the radical revision of the 

 revenue laws of this State ; and, 



Whereas, The time and circumstances of assembling 

 of the General Assembly are inadequate and incon- 

 venient to the proper consideration of this matter ; 

 therefore, 



Resolved (the Senate concurring herein), That a 

 commission of seven on revenue reform be created, 

 three of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives, two by the President of 

 the Senate, and two by the Governor, and that said 

 commission organize immediately upon its appoint- 

 ment by electing one of its number chairman and an- 

 other secretary. 



Resolved, further, That it shall be the duty of said 

 commission to thoroughly and exhaustively inquire 

 and examine into the revenue systems of the different 

 States and of other nations, and to collate and digest 

 the same ; to particularly examine the systems of taxa- 

 tion of the various forms of personal property, tangi- 

 ble and intangible, and the property of railway and 

 other corporations, and to report ite finding to the next 

 General Assembly, together with a simple, econom- 

 ical, and practical measure, which shall embody the 

 aforesaid requirements of the Constitution and of jus- 

 tice. 



Resolved, further, That for the purpose aforesaid, 

 such commission be authorized to continue its inves- 

 tigations to such time as it shall see fit and proper. 



