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SOUTH DAKOTA. 



SPAIN. 



000 being made for this purpose. Authority 

 was given for the levy of an annual State tax 

 sufficient to pay interest on the $100,000 of 

 State bonds issued in 1890, and to create a sink- 

 ing fund for their retirement in 1900. Provi- 

 sion was made for refunding $62,000 5- and 6-per- 

 ccnt. State bonds becoming due in 1893 into the 

 same amount of 3|-per-cent. bonds. The bonds 

 to be retired were originally issued in aid of the 

 Agricultural College, the Territorial University, 

 and the Deaf-Mute School. An additional hos- 

 pital for the insane was located at Redfield, in 

 Spink County, but no money was appropriated 

 for the construction of buildings. 



Three amendments to the State Constitution 

 were proposed for submission to the people at 

 the next general election. The first makes 

 county superintendents of schools eligible for 

 more than four years, the second allows women 

 to vote for any school officer at any election at 

 which such officer is to be elected, and the third 

 amends section 4 of Article VI so as to read as 

 follows: "The Legislature shall by general law 

 limit and define the value and size of a home- 

 stead of each head of a family which shall be 

 exempt from attachment or mesne process, and 

 from levy and sale on execution, and from any 

 other final process issued from any court, except 

 upon the foreclosure of a mortgage or vendor's 

 lien or liens for labor done or things furnished 

 in the construction or repair of any building, 

 erection, or other improvement thereon, and shall 

 also provide for such exemption of a reasonable 

 amount of personal property." 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Providing for inspection of private banks by the 

 public examiner. 



Authorizing county commissioners to offer a boun- 

 ty for the destruction of pocket gophers. 



Providing for the formation of co-operative build- 

 ing and loan associations, and regulating their busi- 

 ness. 



Abolishing dower and courtesy. 



Amending the Australian ballot law. 



Providing^ for a recount of ballots where a tie vote 

 appears on the first count. 



To prevent destruction of buffalo, elk, deer, ante- 

 lope, and mountain sheep. 



To prohibit the killing or capture of quail for five 

 years. 



To prevent oppressive garnishment and the trans- 

 ferring of claims for the purpose of depriving debtors 

 of their exemption rights. 



To provide for surveys of the geology, natural his- 

 torv, and physical features of the State." 



I'D prohibit the dockage of grain. 



Providing for a uniform insurance policy. 



Providing for the organization of township mutual 

 insurance companies. 



To provide for the sinking of artesian wells, nnd 

 for the levying of a tax to pay the expenses thereof. 



Establishing a State board of pharmacy, and regu- 

 lating the practice of pharmacy in the State. 



Establishing a State board of medical examiners, 

 and regulating the practice of medicine in the State. 



Dividing the State into 3 districts, and providing 

 for the election of a railroad commissioner in each 

 district. 



To provide for the construction of systems of sewer- 

 age in cities. 



Providing for the employment of a State agent to 

 prosecute claims of the State against the United 

 States. 



To regulate the shipment of cattle. 



Amending the antitrust law. 



Establishing a uniform system of weights and 

 measures. 



Education. The number of children of 

 school age in the State, as determined this year, 

 was 96,774, an increase of nearly 6,000 over the 

 figures for 1892. There was distributed to the 

 counties from the State school fund income, for 

 public-school purposes, a sum equal to $1 for 

 each census child. 



On Oct. 15 the State suffered a loss of about 

 $100,000 by the burning of the main building at 

 the State University at Vermillion. There was 

 no insurance, and no money in the State treas- 

 ury was available for rebuilding. The work of 

 the institution was not interrupted, but will be 

 conducted under great disadvantages for some 

 time, as the next Legislature, which alone can 

 authorize rebuilding, will not meet till 1895. 



Indian Reservation. On Dec. 31, 1892, an 

 agreement, was signed by the Yankton Sioux 

 tribe of Indians and commissioners appointed 

 under act of Congress by which the Indians 

 agreed to cede to the United States a consider- 

 able portion of their reservation, comprising 

 430,405 acres of land between the Choteau and 

 Missouri rivers. Of this tract, 167,325 acres 

 have been already allotted and patented to the 

 Indians under the act of 1887. The allotments 

 made but not approved under the act of 1891 

 include about 95,000 acres more, so that the 

 residue actually ceded includes about 168,000 

 acres. The Indians are to receive about $3.60 

 per acre for this tract. A bill to ratify the 

 agreement was pending in Congress at the close 

 of the year. 



Political. The only State officers to be 

 chosen at the November election this year were 

 3 justices of the Supreme Court. At a conven- 

 tion held at Huron the Independent party 

 nominated the first ticket in the field, its candi- 

 dates being J. B. Fairbank, C. B. Kennedy, and 

 H. H. Porter. On Sept. 7 the Democrats, in 

 State convention at Scotland, nominated Chaun- 

 cey L. Woods, W. II . Stoddard, and Henry C. 

 Hinckley: and on Sept. 20 the Republicans, 

 at Huron, renominated Justices Bennett, Corson, 

 and Kellam. Platforms, referring chiefly to 

 national questions, were adopted at these con- 

 ventions. At the election in November the 

 Republican ticket was successful. The vote 

 was as follows : Corson, 21,048 ; Kellam, 20.702 ; 

 Bennett, 20,903; Pairbank, 12,603; Kennedy, 

 12,608 ; Porter, 12,903 ; Woods, 7,683 ; Stoddard, 

 6,701 ; Hinckley, 7,188. 



SPAIN, a constitutional monarchy in south- 

 eastern Europe. The Cortes is composed of a 

 Senate and a Congress or Chamber of Deputies. 

 The Senate consists of 57 members in their own 

 right, including royal princes, grandees, and 

 high functionaries, 123 life members appointed 

 by the King, and 180 members elected by corpo- 

 rations and heavy taxpayers for ten years, one 

 half of them being renewed every five years. 

 The Congress has 430 members, 1 to every 50,- 

 000 people, elected for five years by electoral 

 colleges. The crown is hereditary in the male 

 and female lines of the house of Bourbon-Anjou. 

 The king is Alfonso XIII, an infant, born May 

 17, 1886, whose mother, Maria Christina, an Aus- 

 trian archduchess, was constituted Queen Regent 

 during his minority. 



