and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act. By Senator Noftzger: Senate bill No. 139, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 307 of the Session Laws of 1901. By Senator Carpenter: Senate bill No. 140, An act in relation to express companies, requiring free delivery of parcels and packages where free delivery is now made within certain limits in cities of the first and second class, and providing a penalty for violation of section 1 hereof. By Senator Branine, Senate bill No. 141, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 170 of the Laws of 1877, amending an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools." SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS. Senate bill No. 1, An act relating to county high schools. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 2, An act relating to change of the names of persons therein named. Referred to Judiciary Committee. Senate bill No. 3, An act supplemental to and amendatory of "An act in relation to the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition, to be held in St. Louis in 1903, and to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of materials showing the products and resources of the state of Kansas at such exposition," approved March 2, 1901; and extending the time of said commission and the drawing of the unexpended balance heretofore appropriated; authorizing the president and secretary of said commission to administer oaths in certain cases, and making an additional appropriation for said exposition. Referred to Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 4, An act requiring safeguards for the protection of all persons employed or laboring in manufacturing establishments, and providing civil remedies for all persons so engaged, or their personal representatives, in cases where any such person may be killed or injured while employed or laboring in any manufacturing establishment which is not properly provided with the safeguards required by this act. Referred to Committee on Labor. --5 Sen. Senate bill No. 5, An act to provide for a public administrator to have charge of certain estates of soldiers and sailors who die while members of any state or national soldiers' home within the state of Kansas. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 6, An act to empower the mayor and city council of the city of Thayer 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. Senate bill No. 7, An act making the secretary of mine industries inspector of weights, measures and scales at coal-mines and defining his powers and duties. Referred to Committee on Mines and Mining. Senate bill No. 8, An act to provide for instruction in industrial training in the schools of this state, permitting and fixing levies therefor, providing for state aid thereto, and making appropriation for such aid. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 9, An act to provide for raising funds. to support and maintain free public libraries in cities of the first and second class. Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class. Senate bill No. 10, An act to establish at Pittsburg, Kan., an auxiliary normal and manual-training school and and making an appropriation therefor. Referred to Committee on Educational Institutions. Senate bill No. 11, An act relating to the mining of coal. Referred to Committee on Mines and Mining. Senate bill No. 12, An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 3 of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in mines,'" being chapter 257 of the Session Laws of 1901. Referred to Committee on Mines and Mining. Senate bill No. 13, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 407 of the Laws of 1901, entitled "An act relating to trust companies, defining their powers and duties, providing for their management, control, and supervision, and providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act." Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking. Senate bill No. 14, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 47 of the Session Laws of 1897, relating to banks and banking, providing for the organization, management, control, regulation and supervision of banks, and providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, and repealing chapter 43 of the Laws of 1891. Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking. Senate bill No. 15, An act to amend section 150 of chapter 37 of the General Statutes of 1868, entitled "An act respecting executors and administrators and the settlement of the estates of deceased persons." Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 16, An act to provide for the transportation of discharged convicts from the place of confinement to the county in which they were convicted and making an appropriation to cover the expense. Referred to Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 17, An act making certified copies of the United States government patents certified to by the proper officer of the United States, at Washington, D. C., as true copies of the original patents issued, competent as evidence and conclusive proof of title as therein shown. Referred to Committee on Federal Relations. Senate bill No. 18, An act to provide for a board of public utilities in cities of the first and second classes and defining its duties and powers. Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class. Senate bill No. 19, An act in relation to the admission of attorneys at law and providing for the examination of those persons desiring to be admitted to practice law, and repealing sections 1 and 2 of chapter 11 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1868. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 20, An act making appropriation for miscellaneous purposes. Referred to Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 21, An act relating to the government and regulation of orphan and friendless children in the Kansas State Protective Home, at Leavenworth. Referred to Committee on Charitable Institutions. Senate bill No. 22, An act for the relief of Fant A. Snell, of Boling, Kan. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 23, An act for the relief of James Coursey, of Leavenworth, Kan. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 24, An act for the relief of Fred A. Rolfs, of Leavenworth, Kan. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 25, An act defining what shall constitute public stock-yards, defining the duties of the person or persons operating the same, and regulating all charges. thereof, and removing restrictions in the trade of dead animals, and providing penalties for the violation of the act. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Senate bill No. 26, An act to amend section 639 of the code of civil procedure of the state of Kansas, being paragraph 5132 of the General Statutes of the state of Kansas, 1901, relating to divorce, and repealing said original section. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 27, An act to amend section 651a of the code of civil procedure of the state of Kansas, being paragraph 5147 of the General Statutes of Kansas, 1901, relating to the competency of witnesses in actions for divorce and alimony, and to repeal said original section. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 28, An act relating to the practice of medicine, surgery, osteopathy, and to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of chapter 254 of the Session Laws of 1901, entitled "An act to create a board of medical registration and examination, and to regulate the practice of medicine, surgery and osteopathy in the state of Kansas, prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing chapter 68 of the Session Laws of 1870." Referred to Committee on Public Health. Senate bill No. 29, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 167 of the Laws of 1872, and to repeal said section 1 of chapter 167 of the Laws of 1872 and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 30, An act vacating certain blocks, streets and alleys in the city of Kendall, Hamilton county, Kansas. Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class. Senate bill No. 31, An act to amend section 2 of chapter No. 234 of the Laws of 1887, and to repeal said section 2, chapter 234, of the Laws of 1887, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 32, An act vacating certain lots, blocks, streets, avenues and alleys in the city of Syracuse, Hamilton county, Kansas. Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class. Senate bill No. 33, An act making appropriation for the State Soldiers' Home and Mother Bickerdyke Home for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905, and placing restrictions upon certain officers of said home. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 34, An act to authorize school district No. 5 of Harper county to make an additional levy for school purposes. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 35, An act to amend sections 2 and 24 of chapter 109 of the Session Laws of 1893. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 36, An act to prevent the pooling of rates by insurance companies and providing penalties. therefor. Referred to Committee on Insurance. Senate bill No. 37, An act to amend chapter 93 of the Laws of 1874, entitled "An act to define the liability of railroad companies in certain cases," approved February 26, 1874, and to repeal said original act. Referred to Committee on Railroads. Senate bill No. 38, An act to authorize the establishment and maintenance of high schools. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 39, An act authorizing certain townships and the city of Harper, in Harper county, Kansas, to levy |