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Show THE LEGISLATURE. Women Xot to be Appointed on Territorial Boards. TO CLASSIFY COUNTIES. Drug Stores Located Withia Three Hundred Hun-dred Feet of Houses of "Worship, if Established Es-tablished Before March 10, 1892, May be Granted a Liquor License-Other Measure. I Yesterday was tbe fifty-seventh day of the session, and the usual business was transacted in both branches. The judiciary committee unanimously unani-mously recommended that tbe bill for an act providing for the appointment ol women upon certain territorial boards, be not passed. The committee on agriculture recommended rec-ommended a substitute lor the bill for an act creating a territorial board of horticulture. Booth, of Provo, ' 'roduced a bill to i classify counties i. . for other purposes. pur-poses. Under this bill i.i! counties in this lc,,uu' naviug a . : uiauon ot over 50,000 and an &i valuation of property of over $. .,i.00.f X), on which territorial taxes v c , ; tne ,ear previous to the ps;- f this act shall be a county Yckj rst class rioae having a popul ,t . n ol over 20-000 20-000 and less than .'.u'O ml an assessed as-sessed valuation of ;. "e.ny of over $10,000,000 and less than 'i.j ,000,000 on which territorial taxes wPie paid at the year before this act shall be applicable, appli-cable, be counties of tlie second class. All other counties shall be counties of the third class. Counties of the first class shall not be allowed to pay salaries of more tnan 40 per cent, of the county revenue exclusive .of fees collected. Counties of the second clas3 shall not be allowed w pa saianes more tnan oO percent, of the county revenue, exclusive of lees collected. Counties of the third claes Bhall not be allowed to pay salaries salar-ies more than GO per cent, "of the county revenues, exclusive of fees collected. A bill to amend section 1, chap. 52. of the Eession laws of 189-', entitled "An act to amend sections 2.15S and ... .v,,., wia. n,ui mt? coiupueu taws or IfeS'J, relating to the revocation of liquor licenses," bv adding "provided that bona tide drupjists Jwho have invested in-vested in the business, exclusive of all intoxicating liyuor. aud real sta'e a capital of uotriess th j.n $2,000, aud wiio ( were so estauiienea ana locatea previous pre-vious to March 10, 1892, may be granted a license on the same terms, condit:ons as other drugeists, not located within Eaid limited "distance." The bill as amended was passed by a unanimous vote. IX THE llOUSJt a great deal of time was used up and very little business done. In the afternoon after-noon the fee bill was passed, with republicans re-publicans named as court commissioners. commission-ers. The bill to give bounties on sugar beets was taKen up and when the democrats dem-ocrats showed fight, was dropped like a hot potato. The revenue bill was also taken up. Several new bilie were introduced, in-troduced, among them being one to allow al-low counties to provide work for tbe needy. A resolution was introduced and passed to allow the committee on ways and meane to compel the atten-1 atten-1 dance of persons wanted. |