Show m mi warner of utah on labor and silver TORRENS TITLE REGISTRY house says district shall att ai connay seals other bills introduced promptly at 2 thursday the third regular session of the stale ben ate of utah was opened prayer was offered by dr iliff the first business taken up was the reading of a petition from E ial commissioner of schools lewis citing section 1 of the territorial school law which provides that the commis lioner shall receive an animal salary of 1500 and his necessary expenses when traveling on official business to an amount not exceeding per annum and submitting that the last ter rit orial legislature appropriated the sum of 1000 per annum for the salary of the commissioner and cheum ot per annum for traveling expenses stating further that when he assumed the office there was no furniture arid bo was como elied to purchase some all of which baa been turned oyer to the state superintendent for six months mr lewis bays ho has been compelled to usia his individual money for incidentals traveling expenses on account of the limited appropriation with this statement of explanation he sake the stale legislature to appropriate enough money to satisfy the balance as follows lol lows to balance of salary for one and one third 3 ears at per year 66 to balance of unpaid traveling necessarily incur red 60 to balance of unpaid incidental expenses necessarily incurred 73 30 total 46 allison of weber in behalf of bis in Ban pete presented a petition signed by a large number of citizens of ephraim in which they abet forth that they had libed in such town now containing a population of 2500 since 1853 that they settled upon a section of school land ignorant of the fact that it was such being at that time they therefore asked tor legislation that will give them title to their lands laid on the table pending appointment of standing committees house resolution to appoint commett tee to select state seal concurred in committee on stationery etc reported somo bought warner utah county introduced a bill for an act to regulate labor making eiehl hours a legal days work in the state and every thereof it being however that nothing should be done to prevent any person from contracting to work las many hours per day as he or she might apon that the employment of women or children under fourteen years of age in mines should be illegal that exchange of blacklists by corpora eions shall be deemed a misdemeanor laid on the table until regular corn are appointed alcieon introduced S B 3 to provide a uniform system of registry of land titles in the state ot utah it ia a copy existing law of illinois known as the S B 4 for an act incorporating the utah state school lor the daab and dumb and providing for its government the institution ia by the provisions ol 01 the bill separated from the university of utah and made a body corporate by the name of the utah state school for the deaf and dumb the school shall receive and sally educate the asat who are of sound mind and boda and under 30 jeara of age said education to include agriculture and the mechanical trades and arts residents of utah sie to be taught free of chaize fram other states may he educated at such coat as the governing board may prescribe the school shall occupy the present burldine buil dine for the remainder of the fiscal year but bedora september 1 shall be moved to the sita to ba pro aided vided by law the first measure introduced by one of the democratic senators coma from warner it was senate joint resolution no 1 and is as follows the country has been oppressed by unjust and unwise legisla tio i in congress by which ailder has been de and aa a consequence of flush legislation the people generally are buffering prices of property produce and labor reduced business paralyzed and confidence destroyed therefore be it resolved by the governor and leg isla tive assembly of the state of utah hat the congress of the united be memorialized immediately to silver and provide for ita free and unlimited coinage at a ratio of 16 to I 1 with gold without waiting for the con cum nee or action of any other nation and thui hasten a return of prosperity and business confidence to the people and our memoria lists will ever pray filed for reference to the proper committee communications were received from george W willis and robert toung blood asking for positions respectively as engrossing clerk and page they ware laid on the table report of on rules re and adopted housa concurrent resolution no 1 providing for the famishing of legislative documents in by the seneta it was ordered that copies of the senate minutes be printed every day minutes of the second day read and approved adjourned to 2 p m friday boras after introduction and first reading of bill called for house bill no 2 by mr cartis pro for a widows dower waa read first time in f all second time by title and referred to the judiciary commit tee H B no 3 entitled an act concerning notaries not aries public by mr was read first time in fall second timo by title and referred to judiciary committee mr cashing introduced by request H B no 3 to pm ate david mcdonaad McDo of first battery utah national guard for injuries sustained while in the discharge of bis duty referred to committee on claims and public accounts on second reading by condon by request making 16 yeara the age of consent and fixing the penalty for violation of this law the bill makes the carnal knowledge of a female under 16 years a felony punishable by at bard labor for the first from three to fifteen yeara and fifteen to thirty years for each subsequent infraction of the law when the offending male is under 18 yeara of age ane penalty is fixed absolutely at five years for the first offense and net to exceed ten years for each subsequent orenee by regulating the fees secretary state and certain county officers the bill as passed in commit ceo of the whole ultimately provided that until otherwise decided by law the secretary of state county and district court clerks county re cordera sheriffs coal ers of weight sand measures and county surveyors are required to collect fees tor services rendered by them at the rates provided for like service in chapters 2 and 3 of 15 of the compiled laws of utah 1888 the moneys ao col lecter to ba paid into the proper treasury ayea bill providing for fixing of the ot the state district courts and drawing of jurors and designating county seats as places of holding court was passed Ferguson Lareon and eborne wera appointed a special committee on eni grollment roll ment and engrossment to act until the regular might be received A senate communication announced the adoption of two concurrent resolutions that originated in the house adjournment taken after the announcement no by the speaker of these standing committees rules taylor of bait lake curtis of weber bolitho of bevier monson of cache and lemmon of utah elections lewis of salt lake nya of salt lake condan of weber fergnson of carbon bernheisel of cache egan of davia and mansfield of wayne judiciary critchlow of bait laka nya of salt lake ferguson of salt lake lewis of salt lake ferguson ol 01 carbon of rich murdock of maughan of cache and howard of emery |