tax for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining a cemetery. Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class. Senate bill No. 40, An act to authorize the establishment. and maintenance of a high school in Stohrville township, in Harper county, Kansas, and to authorize the issuance of bonds for the erection or purchase of a school building, and to authorize the levy of taxes for the support and maintenance of said school. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 41, An act concerning the venue of certain actions, and to amend sections 50 and 55 of chapter 80, Laws of 1868, of "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," approved February 25, 1868, and to repeal section 63 of chapter 23, General Statutes of the state of Kansas, 1868. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 42, An act to amend section 3 of chapter 25 of the Session Laws of 1895, as amended by chapter 194 of the Session Laws of 1901, and to repeal chapter 194 of the Session Laws of 1901. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 43, An act to repeal chapter 137, Laws of Kansas, 1901, entitled "An act concerning the election of a county printer in Barber county, Kansas, prescribing his duties and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act." Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 44, An act to require foreign life-insurance companies to invest a portion of their gross receipts in Kansas securities. Referred to Committee on Insurance. Senate bill No. 45, An act to vacate Frutcher's addition to the town of Bluff City, in Harper county, Kansas. Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class. Senate bill No. 46, An act for the protection of trademarks. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 47, An act to provide for the payment of certain union military scrip issued under the provisions of an act of the Legislature of 1867, and signed by Samuel J. Crawford, governor of Kansas, R. A. Barker, secretary of state, and Martin Anderson, treasurer of state. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. Senate bill No. 48, An act to repeal chapter 182 of the Session Laws of 1901. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 49, An act to establish a county high school at Hill City, Graham county, Kansas. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 50, An act to regulate the practice of dentistry, prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing chapter 123 of the Session Laws of 1885, chapter 152 of the Session Laws of 1887, and chapter 110 of the Session Laws of 1891. Referred to Committee on Public Health. Senate bill No. 51, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Barton county, Kansas, to build and construct a county jail and sheriff's residence at the city of Great Bend, in said county, and to provide for the payment of the cost thereof. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 52, An act amending section 5 of chapter 60 of the Session Laws of 1871. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 53, An act to provide for keeping certain statistical records by the register of deeds of Rice county, Kansas, and fixing the compensation therefor. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 54, An act in relation to the course of study in high schools in cities of the second class. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 55, An act to vacate all that part of Clarke's third addition to the city of McPherson lying west of the Missouri Pacific railroad and to restore said land to McPherson township, McPherson county, Kansas. Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second Class. Senate bill No. 56, An act to enable Peters township, in Kingman county, Kansas, to erect a township hall, furnishing and locating the same, and conferring power on town ship board to issue bonds to pay for same, and provide for an election upon petition to vote upon said proposition. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 57, An act to create a department of applied zoology in the State Agricultural College Experiment Station, and to provide for the destruction of prairie-dogs and gophers, and appropriating money therefor. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Senate bill No. 58, An act to provide for the examination of the office of county treasurer, establishing the office of state examiner and deputies, fixing their compensation, and repealing sections 1695, 1696, 1699 and 1700 of the General Statutes of 1901. Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries. Senate bill No. 59, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Finney county, Kansas, to issue bonds for the purpose of funding the outstanding warrants existing against said county prior to January 15, 1903. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 60, An act in relation to the wages of clerks, mechanics, laborers, and servants, and to provide for the collection thereof. Referred to Committee on Labor. Senate bill No. 61, An act creating a court of conciliation, defining the jurisdiction and powers thereof, and providing for proceedings and procedure therein. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 62, An act to define and regulate the practice of optometry and for the creation of a board of examiners in optometry. Referred to Committee on Public Health. Senate bill No. 63, An act to provide for suits against the state of Kansas. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 64, An act to encourage the cultivation and production of sugar-beets and making appropriation therefor. Referred to Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 65, An act to amend section 6251 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to annual meetings in certain school districts. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 66, An act for the relief of W. J. Roth, and granting him a pension on account of permanent disabilities received while working on the capitol. Referred to Ways and Means Committee. Senate bill No. 67, An act for the relief of G. L. Matthews. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 68, An act relating to suffrage, being an act to give women the right to vote for presidential elect ors. Referred to Committee on Elections. Senate bill No. 69, An act relating to bonds of certain county officers, and amending sections 1656, 1678, 1740 and 1791 of the General Statutes of 1901. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 70, An act providing for the issue of annual reports by the State Horticultural Society, fixing the number of copies, the number of pages, and style of binding. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Senate bill No. 71, An act relating to accredited lands, islands and lands formed by the recession of the waters of navigable streams, defining the ownership, and providing for the sale thereof. Referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 72, An act amendatory of and supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, government and compensation of the militia of the state of Kansas, to prescribe the duties of certain officers thereof, to provide for the public defense, to create certain penalties, and repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith." Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Senate bill No. 73, An act making appropriation to the Florence Crittenden mission, of Topeka, for current expenses and for the erection and equipment of a hospital. Referred to Committee on Public Health. Senate bill No. 74, an act to amend section 20, chapter 52, of the General Statutes of 1897, the same being section 13 of chapter 36 of the General Statutes of 1868, relating to the conduct of elections where the votes of challenged and sworn persons are rejected by the election judges. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate bill No. 75, An act regulating the practice in divorce cases, and providing for the appointment of an attor ney to appear in behalf of the absent defendant and for the compensation of such attorney. Referred to Committee on Elections. Senate bill No. 76, An act providing for the protection of birds; providing at what seasons birds may be shot; providing for the number of birds that may be shot in one day; to prohibit the sale and shipment of birds; prescribing a punishment for the violation of this act, and to repeal chapter 167 of the Laws of 1872, chapter 45 of the General Statutes of 1889, chapter 97 of the Laws of 1893, chapter 135 of the Laws of 1897, chapter 223 of the Laws of 1901, chapter 164 of the General Statutes of 1897, and chapter 45 of the General Statutes of 1901, and all acts in conflict herewith. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Senate bill No. 77, An act to authorize and empower the board of education of the city of Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and state of Kansas, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of buying site and erecting, furnishing and equipping a high-school building thereon, and to levy and collect taxes for payment thereof and for the support and maintenance of said school. Referred to Committee on Cities of the First Class. Senate bill No. 78, An act to provide for the safety of workmen on buildings and prescribing penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act. Referred to Committee on Labor. Senate bill No. 79, An act to provide for the levy and collection of a county fund for the support of the common schools of the several counties of the state of Kansas and to direct the mode of its distribution among the school districts. Referred to Committee on Education. Senate bill No. 80, An act to amend section 1, chapter |