SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

Senate bill No. 300, An act fixing the fees and salary of the sheriff of Shawnee county, in the state of Kansas, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Senate bill No. 301, An act relating to clerk hire in the office of the county clerk of Shawnee county, Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries.

Senate bill No. 302, An act amending section 3404 of the General Statutes of Kansas for 1901, in relation to insurance, and repealing said section 3404.

Referred to Committee on Insurance.

Senate bill No. 303, An act to vacate Cartwright's addition to Haddam City, formerly Knowles, Washington county, Kansas, and all streets, alleys, and blocks, as hereinafter set forth.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.

Senate bill No. 304, An act relating to empowering cities of the first, second and third classes to obtain light, heat, power, etc., and amending section 8 of chapter 82 of the Laws of Kansas of 1897, and section 9 of chapter 82 of the Laws of Kansas of 1897, as amended by section 1 of chapter 107 of the Laws of 1901, and repealing said original section 8 and section 9 as so amended.

Senate bill No. 305, A bill providing for the building of roads in Scott township and the city of Fort Scott, in Bourbon county, Kansas, and providing revenue for paying for the same.

Senate bill No. 306, An act relating to sidewalks in cities of the first class containing not more than 20,000 inhabitants and providing for the building and repairing of same. Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class. Senate bill No. 307, An act relating to the office of state architect and fixing the duties and compensation thereof.

Referred to Committee on Public Buildings.

Senate bill No. 308, An act to establish a juvenile court and regulate the treatment and control of delinquent children.

Senate bill No. 309, An act to provide for the parole of prisoners.

Senate bill No. 310, An act to amend section 1704 of the General Statutes of 1901, in relation to the deposit of county funds in certain counties.

Senate bill No. 311, An act defining the offense of slander in certain cases and providing punishment therefor.

Senate bill No. 312, An act to repeal sections 2337, 2338, 2339, 2340 and 2341 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to licenses.

Senate bill No. 313, An act to amend section 7100 of the General Statutes of 1901.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 314, An act authorizing Campbell College, of Holton, Kan., to adopt rules regulating the attendance at chapel and other public exercises and to provide for the requirements of studies to be pursued by students. of said college.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 315, An act fixing the fees and salaries and clerk hire of the county clerk, county treasurer, probate judge, clerk of the district court, register of deeds, sheriff, county and deputy county attorney and county commissioners of Reno county and providing for the payment of the same, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.

Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries.

Senate bill No. 316, An act making appropriation for the support of the State Normal School and for certain land, buildings and improvements herein named.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 317, An act to amend section 20 of chapter 110 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1897, relating to the contesting of wills, and to repeal said section 20.

Senate bill No. 318, An act regulating the meetings of the board of county commissioners of Saline county, Kansas, and providing for compensation of the members of said board.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 319, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Sedgwick county, Kansas, and the mayor and the city council of the city of Wichita, in

Sedgwick county, to make a joint appropriation for the building of a soldiers' monument in said Sedgwick county. Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class.

Senate bill No. 320, An act legalizing the Kansas State Poultry Association, to define certain duties of said association, to make an annual appropriation therefor, and fixing a penalty for the misappropriation of any of the money hereby granted.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 321, An act to amend section 8 of chapter 139 of the Session Laws of 1901, it being an act entitled "An act to provide for a commissioner of the poor in Douglas county, Kansas," and to repeal section 8 of chapter 139 of the Session Laws of 1901.

Senate bill No. 322, An act providing for the election of township officers, and repealing sections 7758 and 7769 of the General Statutes of 1901 and all laws in conflict herewith.

Senate bill No. 323, An act providing for the election of county commissioners, and amendatory of section 2, chapter 129, of the Session Laws of 1901, and repealing original section 2 of said chapter and all laws in conflict herewith. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 324, An act creating the Society of Mining Industries, with power to elect a secretary, who shall be ex officio state mine inspector, being an act to repeal chapter 256 of the Session Laws of 1901 and all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 325, An act to provide for the erection of a soldiers' and sailors' monument and making an appropriation for the same.

Referred to Committee on Military Affairs.

Senate bill No. 326, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Labette county, Kansas, to build a bridge across the Neosho river.

Senate bill No. 327, An act to amend section 12 of chapter 101, Session Laws of 1901, being paragraph 7455 of the General Statutes of 1901.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 328, An act to authorize school district No. 42, in Wyandotte county, Kansas, to make a levy of taxes, not to exceed fifty mills, for the various school purposes.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 329, An act to prohibit railroad companies doing business in the state of Kansas from charging freight rates on any greater amount of coal than is by such railroad companies delivered to the consignee thereof by any such railroad company, and providing for the weighing of such coal at the points of destination or the points nearest thereto having railroad track scales, and providing penalty for the violations of the provisions of this act.

Referred to Committee on Railroads.

Senate bill No. 330, An act for the establishment of an industrial home for the blind of Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 331, An act authorizing counties to purchase real estate sold for taxes in certain counties and to prevent such counties thereafter to sell and dispose of the real estate so purchased.

Senate bill No. 332, An act for the relief of Phillip Morse.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING.

House bill No. 195, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Sedgwick county, Kansas, to make an appropriation for additional clerk hire in the county clerk's office from June 1 to December 31, 1902.

House bill No. 184, An act relating to the fees and salaries of certain officers of Hodgeman county, Kansas, and defining the duties of the board of county commissioners in connection therewith.

House bill No. 83, An act to authorize and empower the township board of Walton township, Harvey county, Kansas, to build and erect (or buy a building already erected) a township building and pay for the same.

House bill No. 182, An act to authorize and empower the board of county commissioners of Ness county, Kansas,

to levy a special tax to create a sinking-fund for the erection of a court-house in said county and to invest the funds arising from the collection of said tax.

House bill No. 176, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Sedgwick county, Kansas, to fund its outstanding indebtedness accrued and accruing and still unpaid.

House bill No. 273, An act authorizing the county commissioners of Linn county, Kansas, to construct and maintain a bridge across Big Sugar creek and appropriate money for the payment of the same.

House bill No. 160, An act to enable Peters township, in Kingman county, Kansas, to erect a township hall, furnish and locating same, and conferring power on township board to issue bonds to pay for same, and provide for an election upon petition to vote upon said proposition.

House bill No. 149, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Linn county, Kansas, to construct and maintain a bridge across the middle fork of Big Sugar creek and appropriate money for the payment of the

same.

House bill No. 29, An act to provide for the sale of the present Atchison county asylum site and the purchase of another and the levying of taxes to erect buildings thereon. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 99, An act to empower the mayor and city council of the city of Thayer, Kan., to transfer eight hundred dollars of the money now in the city treasury belonging to the improvement fund to the general fund.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class. House bill No. 23, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Linn county, Kansas, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Marais des Cygnes river and appropriate money for the payment of the same.

House bill No. 12, An act regulating the meetings of the board of county commissioners of Saline county, Kansas, and providing for compensation of the members of said board.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 1, An act authorizing the erection, equip