some of the states at the time pleuro pneumonia was prevalent among neat cattle. The plan of procedure contemplated provides for the selection of a district in which there is a large number of swine and where the disease usually exists, to which district the regulations formulated by the department are to be made applicable through legislative action. By these regulations and by quarantining the district it is hoped to stamp out the disease therein and thus demonstrate the practicability of doing so everywhere.

The subject is one of such large importance to the people that I thus bring it to your notice and commend it to the attentive consideration of the General Assembly, submitting herewith a draft of the bill referred to.

F. M. DRAKE.

TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 3, 1897

From the Journal of the House of Representatives, p. 962

To the Honorable the House of Representatives:

I have the honor to inform the House of Representatives that I have approved, signed and deposited with the Secretary of State the following bills passed during the present session of the General Assembly:

House file No. 4, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State; approved March 13.

House file No. 5, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the General Assembly; approved March 18.

House file No. 8, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the submission of constitutional amendments; approved February 26.

House file No. 15, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to roads, bridges and fences and the destruction of thistles; approved April 28.

House file No. 17 (sub.), an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to agricultural and horticul tural societies, stock breeders' associations and State Dairy Association; approved April 30.

House file No. 91, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to drainage and levees; approved April

30.

House file No. 21, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to internal improvements; approved April 17.

House file No. 22, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to taking private property for works of internal improvement; approved March 18.

House file No. 25, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the regulation of carriers by railway; approved April 17.

House file No. 90, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes relative to express companies; approved April 10.

House file No. 28, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the settlement and support of the poor; approved April 10.

House file No. 29, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the care of the insane; approved April 28.

House file No. 30, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to domestic animals; approved March

13.

House file No. 31, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to fences; approved April 17.

House file No. 32, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to lost goods; approved March 20.

House file No. 34, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to fire companies; approved April 10. House file No. 35, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; approved March 18.

House file No. 37, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the geological survey; approved

March 19.

House file No. 39, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the inspection of passenger boats; approved February 26.

House file No. 41, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State veterinary surgeon; approved February 26.

House file No. 43, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State board of health; approved March 30.

House file No. 45, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the practice of pharmacy; approved April 17.

House file No. 49, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the superintendent of public instruction; approved February 11.

House file No. 51, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State University; approved March

16.

House file No. 52, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; approved March 30.

House file No. 53, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Normal School; approved February 26.

House file No. 93, an act to amend an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Normal School, approved February 26; approved April 10, 1897.

House file No. 54, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Orphans' Home and home for Destitute Children; approved March 19.

House file No. 55, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Institution for Feeble Minded Children; approved March 16.

House file No. 56, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Industrial School; approved March 13.

House file No. 57, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the College for the Blind; approved March 26.

House file No. 58, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the Industrial Home for the Blind; approved March 13.

House file No. 94, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the uniformity, purchase and loaning of text books; approved March 30.

House file No. 63, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the school fund; approved March 18.

House file No. 65, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State Historical Society; approved April 10.

House file No. 67, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to weights, measures and inspection; approved March 16.

House file No. 68, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to money of account and interest; approved March 13.

House file No. 70, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to tender; approved February 26.

House file No. 72, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to private seals; approved March 13.

House file No. 73, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to assignments for creditors; approved March 26.

House file No. 74, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to mechanics' liens; approved April 10. House file No. 75, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to limited partnership; approved March

16.

House file No. 76, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to warehousemen, carriers, hotel keepers, livery stable keepers, and herders; approved March 16.

House file No. 83, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to justices of the peace and their courts; approved March 18.

House file No. 87, an act to revise, amend and codify the