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the service of process when resistance is offered or 

 anticipated. 



Providing for the establishment of a soldiers' 

 home. 



A bill for the protection of game and fish. 



A bill to protect telegraph and telephone compa- 

 nies and secure secrecy of dispatches. 



Providing for contracting the labor of convicts in 

 the Penitentiary, the labor to be performed within 

 the grounds of the Penitentiary. 



Authorizing the commissioners, upon petition of 

 one fourth of the qualified electors or the county, to 

 fix the bounty for the destruction of the coyote, wild 

 cat, fox, lynx, bear, squirrel, rabbit, gopher, muskrat, 

 panther, "cougar, with, a provision that the bounty 

 for rabbits, gophers, and squirrels shall not exceed 5 

 cents each. 



Providing a penalty for persons convicted of mak- 

 ing, selling, or disposing of any key used to open any 

 switch lock, car lock, etc., without consent of the 

 company owning the same. 



Making it a felony for any one to obstruct a railroad 

 track so as to endanger the lives of passengers. 



For the improvement of the Capitol building. 



Requiring persons owning mining claims to make 

 affidavit that the required amount of yearly assess- 

 ment work had been done. 



Providing for imprisonment not to exceed six 

 months or a fine of not more than $300 or both for 

 any person who deals, plays, or conducts " French 

 monte," " E. O. or roulette," " the thimble game," or 

 " percentage stud poker," '' craps," " strap game," 

 " thimblerig game." " patent safe game," " black and 

 red game," commonly known as " the ten-dice game," 

 " two-card box at faro," or any other percentage 

 game, and further that the lay-out by which the 

 game is played shall be seized by the officer mak- 

 ing the arrest and sold at auction for the benefit of 

 the school fund. If it can not be sold, it shall be 

 destroyed. 



Providing for the incorporation of institutions of 

 learning. 



Making it unlawful for employers to enter into agree- 

 ments with their employees or persons about to enter 

 their employment not to become or continue as mem- 

 bers of labor organizations. 



Providing for the prevention of the spread of fruit- 

 tree pests, and for their extirpation. 



Joint memorials to Congress were introduced 

 praying 



That those who served for thirty days as volun- 

 teers in suppressing the Nez Perce" war of 1877 each 

 be permitted to make a homestead entry of 160 acres 

 on the 500,000 acres of Nez Perce" reservation land, 

 soon to be thrown open to settlement, and to prove 

 up on the same without showing proof of residence. 



Asking for an appropriation of $10,000 for the sup- 

 port of a State soldiers' home ; asking Congress to 

 appropriate a sum sufficient to make a survey and 

 secure an estimate as to the cost of dredging Spokane 

 river, an outlet of Coeur d'Alene lake, so as to lower 

 the -water in that lake about five feet, preventing its 

 backing up the St. Marie's and Coeur d'Alene rivers, 

 inlets of the lake, and submerging adjacent lands. 



Asking Congress to pass a law providing for the 

 free and unlimited coinage of silver as it existed prior 

 to the demonetization act of 1873, and that the rela- 

 tive standard value thereof be fixed as nearly as 

 possible on the basis of 412J grains to the dollar. 



Education. The amount of the school fund 

 subject to distribution for 1893 was $40,000. 

 The school population was 31,219, an increase of 

 5,478 during the past two years. The attitude 

 of the Mormon population toward the system of 

 popular education has undergone a marked 

 change, and Mormon children are now attend- 

 ing the public schools. 



The University of the State of Idaho was 



opened in October, 1892; by January, 1893, 117 

 students had been enrolled. Only the west wing 

 of the proposed university building has been 

 erected, at an outlay of $34.749. It is estimated 

 that the cost of the additional building will be 

 $75,000. It is in the city of Moscow. Three 

 agricultural experiment stations 1 at Nampa, 1 

 at Grangeville, and 1 at Idaho Falls are under 

 the general direction of the board of regents of 

 the university, where also agriculture is taught. 

 Finances. The Committee on State Affairs 

 and Federal Relations submitted to the Legisla- 

 ture the following statement of the condition of 

 the State's finances : 



LIABILITIES. 



Outstanding registered 10-per-cent. warrants, 



Jan. 1, 1S!>3 $137,22504 



Warrants drawn in January, 1893. and payable 



from the 1892 appropriation 20.000 00 



Unexpected balance World's Fair appropriation. 8,072 00 



Possible outstanding unregistered warrants 5,000 00 



Expenses second session Legislature 89,000 00 



Civil deficiency, 18Dl-'92 12,500 00 



Militia deficiency, including expenses Cceur 



d'Alene trouble 24,000 00 



Total debt, exclusive of bonds, Jan. 15, 1893. $245,797 C4 



ASSETS. 



Due from eighteen counties for 1892 taxes . 

 Probable poll taxes 



$259,000 00 

 12,000 00 



Total $271,000 00 



Deduct 8 per cent, estimated delinquent 20,72000 



Balance $250,280 00 



Total indebtedness 245,79704 



Surplus, 1 892 $4,482 96 



It also estimated the ordinary expenses for 

 1893 and 1894 at $328,750, artd ail .vised that this 

 amount be all required to be raised by direct 

 taxation during these two years. An increase 

 of 10 per cent, in the assessed valuation of the 

 State was expected, making the valuation for 

 1893 $34,276,000. 



In his message to the Legislature the out- 

 going Governor stated the bonded indebtedness 

 of the State on Jan. 1, 1893, to be as follows: 

 " The bonded indebtedness of the State actually 

 outstanding on Nov. 15, 1890. was as follows : 

 old bonds, act of 1877. $46.715.00; Capitol-build- 

 ing bonds, act of 1885, $80,000 ; insane-asylum 

 bonds, act of 1885, $20,000; wagon-road bonds, 

 act of 1889, $11,000; total, $157.715.06. All 

 these bonds draw interest at the rate of 6 per 

 cent. During the two years just past the old 

 bonds of 1877 and the $5.000 of the issue of in- 

 sane-asylum bonds became due and payable, and 

 have been refunded, together with accrued in- 

 terest with bonds, also drawing interest at 6 

 per cent., due in 1901, and payable in 1911, in 

 pursuance of an act of the Legislature approved 

 March 14, 1891. The same act also authorized 

 the issuance of $78.000 in bonds for the redemp- 

 tion of outstanding warrants, but there being 

 cash in the general fund applicable to this pur- 

 pose, a portion of the warrants was paid and" 

 canceled. The total amount of new bonds 

 issued for refunding the old bonds and warrants 

 and interest was $102,000. The insane-asylum 

 bonds and interest were refunded by the issuance 

 of $6,000 new bonds. Of the wagon-road bonds 

 authorized by the act of 1889, there has been a 

 further issuance of $37,000, and the entire bond- 



