NEBRASKA. 



623 



To 

 nies to do business in the State. 



To authorize incorporation of detective associations, 

 and to regulate their management. 



Creating the county of Elaine. 



Creating Logan County. 



Creating Dawes County from Sioux County. 



Defining the boundaries of Sheridan County. 



To provide for the protection of land or other prop- 

 ertv from high water in certain cases. 



To provide for the burial of honorably discharged 

 soldiers and sailors. 



To provide for the election of county attorneys. 



To provide for the election of registers of deeds. 



To provide for the discontinuance of township or- 

 ganization in any county, etc. 



Dividing the State into ten judicial districts. 



To prevent the marriage of divorced persons during 

 the time allowed for proceedings to reverse the decree 

 of divorce, etc. 



To establish an asylum home for the feeble-minded 

 near Beatrice. 



To establish, locate, and maintain a hospital for the 

 insane near Norfolk. 



To provide for canceling insurance policies. 



A mechanics' lien law. 



To regulate railroad corporations in their transpor- 

 tation of passengers and (baggage, and to fix a maxi- 

 mum rate of charge. 



Constituting the Attorney-General, Secretary of 

 State, and Auditor of Public Accounts a Board of 

 Kailroad Commissioners, and defining their duties as 

 such. 



Providing for two new buildings and a workshop 

 at the State Eeform School for Juvenile Offenders at 

 Kearney. 



To provide for criminal liability and punishment 

 of owners of personal property, who remove the same, 

 or fail to list the same to avoid taxation. 



To prohibit the obstructing of roads and bridges. 



To prevent the digging of ditches or trenches 

 within less than fifteen feet of the center of public 

 highways. 



Kelating to the study of physiology and hygiene in 

 the public schools. 



To provide for the erection of a building for the in- 

 dustrial and scientific departments of the State Uni- 

 versity. 



To provide for the sale and leasing of the saline 

 lands, and the development of the saline interests of 

 the State. 



A civil-rights act. 



Prohibiting selling, giving, or furnishing tobacco 

 to minors. 



To provide for the prosecution of offenses on infor- 

 mation, and to dispense with grand juries, except by 

 order of the district judges. 



To appropriate money for the erection of new build- 

 ings for the Home for the Friendless. 



Expenses. The operating expenses of the 

 State government to March 31, 1887, were es- 

 timated, at the beginning of 1885, at "$1,166,- 

 403.60, viz. : Legislative, $75,000 ; Governor, 

 $10,700; Secretary of State, $17,575; Adju- 

 tant-General, $11,200; Auditor, $18,500; 

 Treasurer, $12.750 ; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, $15,800 ; Attorney-General, $6,- 

 300 ; Land Commissioner, $19,800 ; Board of 

 Public Lands and Buildings, $23,400; Board 

 of Educational Lands and Funds, $25,833.34 ; 

 Supreme Court, $32,310 ; State Library, $5,- 

 200; District Courts, $118,924.66; University, 

 $140,000; Normal School, $31,250 ; Blind In- 

 stitute, $20,050; Deaf and Dumb Institute, 

 $83,200 ; Insane Hospital, $149,000 ; Peniten- 

 tiary, $102,710.60; Eeform School, $80,050. 



surety compa- Popnlation. The growth of the State has 

 been very great in the past five years. The 

 following table gives the population by coun- 

 ties, according to the State census of 1885 and 

 the United States census of 1880 : 



* Attached to districts as for judicial purposes. 



