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Authorizing the formation of county mutual-insur- 

 &nce companies. 



Providing for struck juries. 



In regard to the selling and smoking of opium. 



Relative to dealing in passage tickets. 



Establishing a School of Mines at Rapid City. 



To provide lor the appointment of sheep-inspectors. 



To provide for ascertaining the acreage of timber 

 in the Territory. 



To promote the planting of forest-trees upon the 

 prairies of the Territory. 



To provide a 'standard of weights and measures for 

 the Territory. 



Acts creating Adams, Elaine, Marshall, Eddy, "Wi- 

 nona ? Gar-field. Stanton, and Ward counties. 



A joint resolution and metnorial to Congress in fa- 

 vor of dividing the Territory and admitting the south- 

 ern portion as a State. 



An act was also passed providing for the- 

 taking of a census of the Territory in June. 

 Another act provided for a Constitutional Con- 

 vention for that part of the Territory south of 

 the 46th parallel of latitude, to meet at Sioux 

 Falls, on Sept. 8. The convention is made to 

 consist of one hundred and eleven delegates, 

 to be elected on June 30. Other acts establish a 

 Railroad Commission, to regulate the receiving 

 and transportation of freight on railroads in the 

 Territory, and provide for the collection and 

 compilation of statistics by the assessors and 

 other officials. A bill to remove the Territo- 

 rial capital from Bismarck to Pierre, supported 

 generally by the South Dakota members, and 

 opposed by those from North Dakota, was 

 vetoed by the Governor. He also vetoed a 

 bill establishing woman suffrage in the Ter- 

 ritory. 



The following appropriations, among others, 

 were made : for the Public Hospital for the In- 

 sane, $97,470 ; Jamestown Hospital for the In- 

 sane, $58,000; Vermilion University, $35,950; 

 North Dakota University, Grand Forks, $38,- 

 400 : Sioux Falls Penitentiary, $67,200 ; Nor- 

 mal School, Madison, $14,000 ; School of Mines, 

 $7,500 ; Agricultural College, Brookings, $25,- 

 500; North Dakota Penitentiary, Bismarck, 

 to be used as a reform- school, $33,424, besides 

 $14,900 for improvements from proceeds of 

 bonds. The bill provides that the tax-levy 

 shall not exceed three mills on the dollar, and 

 " that no appropriation, provided for in this act 

 for furniture, labor, steam-heating apparatus, 

 or otherwise, shall in any way be construed as 

 an indorsement by the Territory of the act of 

 the Capitol Commission, or be construed in any 

 manner as a ratification or indorsement of the 

 acts of said commision in locating the capital 

 of the Territory at Bismarck." 



The Constitution. The delegates chosen pur- 

 suant to the act providing for a Constitutional 

 Convention for South Dakota, assembled at 

 Sioux Falls, Sept. 8, and .remained in session 

 until the 25th, when, having completed a Con- 

 stitution, and provided for its submission to 

 the people, they adjourned. 



The following are its principal provisions : 



The number of members of the House of Represent- 

 atives shall not be less than seventy-five nor more 

 than one hundred and thirty-five. The number of 



members of the Senate shall not bo less than twenty- 

 five nor more than forty-five. 



The sessions of the Legislature shall be biennial. 



The Legislature first chosen is to consist of thirty- 

 three Senators and ninety-nine Representatives. 



No person who has been convicted of an infamous 

 crime, or is a defaulter for public moneys, and with 

 minor exceptions no person holding a lucrative office 

 under the State, the United States, or any foreign 

 government, can be elected to the Legislature. The 

 terms of the oifice of the members of the Legislature 

 shall be two years ; they shall receive five dollars for 

 each day's attendance during the session of the Legis- 

 lature, and ten cents for every mile of necessary travel. 

 Each regular session of the Legislature shall not ex- 

 ceed sixty, days except in cases of impeachment. The 

 Legislature snail meet at the seat of government, on 

 the first Tuesday after the first Monday of January, 

 in the year next ensuing the election of members 

 thereof. 



No member of the Legislature shall, during the terra 

 for _which he was elected, be appointed or elected to anv 

 civil ofiice in the State which shall have been createa, 

 or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, 

 during the term for which he was elected, nor shall 

 any member receive any civil appointment from the 

 Governor, the Governor and Senate, or from the Legis- 

 lature, during the term for which he shall have been 

 elected, and all such appointments and all votes given 

 for any such members for any such office or appoint- 

 ment shall be void ; nor shall a member of the Legis- 

 lature, during the time for which he shall have been 

 elected, or within one year thereafter, be interested, 

 directly or indirectly, in any contract with the State 

 or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed 

 during the term for which he shall have been elected. 



No law shall embrace more than one subject, which 

 shall be expressed in its title. 



The Legislature is prohibited from enacting any 

 private or special laws in the following cases : 



1. Granting divorces. 



2. Changing the names of persons or places, or con- 

 stituting one person the heir-at-law of another. 



3. Locating or changing county-seats. 



4. Regulating county and township affairs. 



5. Incorporating cities, towns, and villages, or 

 changing or amending the charter of any town, city, 

 or village, or laying out, opening, vacating, or altering 

 town plats, streets, wards, alleys, and public grounds. 



6. Providing for sale or mortgage of real estate be- 

 longing to minors or others under disability. 



7. Authorizing persons to keep ferries across streams 

 wholly within the State. 



8. Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures. 



9. Granting to an individual, association, or corpora- 

 tion any special or exclusive privilege, lajmunity, or 

 franchise whatever. 



10. Providing for the management of common 

 schools. 



11. Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percent- 

 ages, or allowances of public officers during the term 

 for which said officers are elected or appointed. 



But the Legislature may repeal any existing special 

 law relating to the foregoing subdivisions. In all 

 other cases where a general law can be applicable, no 

 special law shall be enacted. 



The Legislature shall have no power to release or 



The Legislature shall not authorize any game of 

 chance, lottery, or gift enterprise, under any pretense, 

 or for any purpose whatever. 



The Legislature shall not delegate to any special 

 commission, private corporation or association, any 

 power to make, supervise, or interfere with any mu- 

 nicipal improvement, money, property, effects, wheth- 

 er held in trust or otherwise, or levy taxes, or to select 

 a capital site, or to perform any municipal functions 

 whatever. 



