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1888 or 1889 of a special tax of $200,000, if the 

 Governor shall deem it necessary, to meet the 

 appropriation for new buildings at the State 

 University, and authorizing the prison officials 

 in their discretion to purchase machinery for 

 the State Prison, and begin the business of 

 manufacturing therein by the State on its own 

 account. Special appropriations were made of 

 . $65,000 for buildings at the School for Depend- 

 ent Children, and of $175,000 for the construc- 

 tion of Science Hall and other buildings at the 

 State University. The State also agreed to 

 pay three dollars a week to the Veteran's 

 Home, established by the Grand Army, for the 

 support of each inmate thereof. A constitu- 

 tional amendment, passed at the session of 1885, 

 giving to the Legislature power to prescribe the 

 qualifications and duties of the State Superin- 

 tendent of Schools and other school officers, 

 and to fix the superintendent's salary, was 

 again adopted; and a new amendment, mak- 

 ing the oldest member of the Supreme Court 

 in point of service ex-officio chief -justice, was 

 proposed for the first time. Other acts of the 

 session were as follow : 



Abolishing the State Board of Immigration. 



Providing that all factories and public buildings 

 shall be erected with fire-escapes and outward-swing- 

 ing doors. 



Appropriating money for the erection of monuments 

 on the Gettysburg battlefield. 



To incorporate the city of Onalaska, the city of 

 Juneau, the city of Eichland Center, the city of Mari- 

 nettc, the city of Ashland, the city of Reedsburg, and 

 eight others. 



To punish the taking and carrying away by trespass 

 of things annexed to the realty. 

 _ To provide for the formation of mutual or co-opera- 

 tive associations for carrying on any trade or engag- 

 ing in any business. 



Punishing the issue of bank checks by persons 

 having no money on deposit. 



Requiring dealers and consumers of imitation butter 

 toposta noticeof such saleor use in their establishments. 



To provide for the partition of personal property 

 owned by tenants in common. 



Raising the age of consent in females from ten to 

 fourteen years. 



For the confinement of habitual drunkards in an 

 inebriate or insane asylum. 



To punish the abduction of unmarried women for 

 purposes of prostitution. 



To prevent the holding of elections in saloons or 

 rooms adjoining saloons. 



To punish false pretenses in obtaining the registra- 

 tion or cattle and other animals, and to punish giving 

 false pedigrees. 



To prevent deception in the sale of cheese. 



Punishing the sale of land which the seller knows 

 to be encumbered, without informing the purchaser 

 in regard thereto. 



Authorizing railway companies to appoint police 

 officers to protect their property. 



Making the conversion of property by a bailee pun- 

 ishable as larceny. 



Punishing by fine or imprisonment any conspiracy 

 to I' boycott " or otherwise injure a person in his repu- 

 tation or business. 



Authorizing the board of supervisors of each county 

 to levy a tax, not exceeding one fifth of a mill, for the 

 relief of indigent soldiers, sailorSj and marines, and 

 their wives and children, and providing a county com- 

 mission for the distribution of the fund raised by this 

 tax. 



Authorizing and regulating the organization of loca'i 

 fire insurance companies. 



Requiring owners of land to destroy all Canada 

 thistles, daisies, and other noxious weeds growing on 

 their land, before sucJi time as they shall bear seed, 

 and creating an officer in each town and city to en- 

 force this act. 



To provide for the construction of levees to protect 

 bottom lands from overflow. 



Authorizing town officers to suppress or license the 

 keeping of billiard and pool tables and bowling-alleys. 



To prevent employers from blacklisting employes. 



Enacting a new game law and a new fish law. 



To provide for the burial of honorably discharged 

 soldiers. 



To prevent the killing of birds for millinery pur- 

 poses. 



Authorizing the use of one twentieth of its portion 

 of the school fund income by each school district for 

 the purchase of a school library. 



To punish interference with persons employed at 

 lawful labor, and with the use or operation of ma- 

 chinery. 



Extending the lien law to architects, civil engineers, 

 and surveyors. 



To appropriate a fund for the prevention and sup- 

 pression of Asiatic cholera and other dangerous dis- 

 eases. 



To provide for the appointment of four game war- 

 dens. 



Authorizing the Governor to prosecute and settle 

 the claims of the State against the United States. 



Providing that temporary aid may be granted to 

 veterans or their wives and children, without remov- 

 ing them to an almshouse. 



To punish the counterfeiting of election tickets. 



Making the keeping of a house of ill-fame or the 

 leasing of property for immoral purposes punishable 

 by a maximum fine of $1,000 or maximum imprison- 

 ment of one year. 



Requiring railroad companies to carry live-stock in 

 mixed car-loads, provided the different kinds be sepa- 

 rated by partitions. 



Authorizing the city of Milwaukee to issue bonds 

 aggregating a million dollars or more for parks, via- 

 ducts, intercepting sewers, public bathing-places, and 

 other purposes. 



Finances. The report of the Treasurer for the 

 year ending September 30 shows cash on hand 

 at the beginning, $485,689.85 ; general receipts, 

 $1,021,963.86 ; educational fund receipts, $783,- 

 158.90; total, $2,290,812.61. The disburse- 

 ments for the same time were $755,777.82 

 from the educational fund, and $1,415,423.97 

 from other funds; total, $2,171,201.79, leaving 

 a surplus of $119,610.82 on September 30. 

 The largest item of receipts, $763,994.56, is de- 

 rived from a tax on railroad companies. The 

 only tax levied upon individual property is a 

 small rate for educational purposes. The total 

 debt of the State, $2,252,000, bearing interest 

 at 7 per cent., is all held by the State trust 

 funds. The amount of these trust funds on 

 September 30 was $4,738,465.99, distributed 

 as follows: School-fund, $2,893,986.26; Uni- 

 versity fund, $194,438.47; Agricultural Col- 

 lege fund, $228,382; Normal School fund, 

 $1,416,903.26; drainage fund, $4,756. 



Charities. The number of inmates of the sev- 

 eral State asylums on December 31, was as fol- 

 lows: State hospital, 504; Northern hospital, 

 643; Milwaukee hospital, 338; total, 1,485. 

 There were in county asylums at the same 

 date 1,220 more, making a total of 2,705 cared 



