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offer for sale any adulterated vinegar, and requires manufacturers to mark upon each barrel or package the standard strength of the contents.

A new fish and game law provides for county wardens. Some changes were made in the closed seasons, and after much controversy in each house the following important section was added to the bill: "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time, to ship or cause to be shipped, carried, or transported out of the State, any of the animals, birds, or fish, or any part thereof mentioned in this act."

An assignment law was made. One provision is, that in all assignments for the benefit of creditors, debts due for wages or personal services of servants or employees of the assignee for services or labor rendered within one year previous to the assignment are preferred claims.

A branch of the State Normal School is to be established in Beaver or in Iron County. The publicschool laws were amended in unimportant particulars.

The newspaper libel law was amended and re-enacted.

The expenses of the session amounted to $24,955. The tax levy for general State purposes was fixed at 4 mills, a reduction of half a mill; the State school tax at 3 mills, the county tax for general purposes at 5 mills, and the county school tax may not exceed 4 mills. The amount to be raised for the years 1897 and 1898 is about $950,000.

The sum of $15,000 was appropriated for the State semicentennial celebration, $8,000 for an exhibit at the Omaha Exposition, and $2,000 for one at Nashville.

The appropriation to the State University for a period ending in June, 1899, was fixed at $73,000; that to the Agricultural College at $22.500; to the School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, $45,000; and $3,500 was granted to the State Industrial School for purchase of land.

Other acts were: Setting aside certain lands about Fish lake as a State park.

Permitting the use of automatic machines in elections.

For the building of a miners' hospital at Park City.

Providing that real estate sold under deeds of trust may be redeemed within six months.

Providing for the weighing of coal at the mine before it leaves the mine car, where miners are paid by the ton.

Making it the duty of employers to provide seats for women and girls employed in stores and shops.

For the protection of evergreen trees.

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VAN WYCK, ROBERT A., first mayor of the greater city of New York, born in New York city in 1850. His father was William Van Wyck, a lawyer, politician, and member of Tammany Hall, who was at one time president of the Board of Aldermen. President Andrew Jackson and President Martin Van Buren were confidential friends of William Van Wyck. The progenitor of the family in America was Cornelius Barents Van Wyck, who emigrated to the New Netherlands in 1650 from the town of Wyck, in Holland, and married, in 1660, in Flatbush, Ann, daughter of the Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, the first Dutch Reform minister in Kings County. All the American Van

Providing that no spectator at any indoor place of amusement shall wear any headware tending to obstruct the view of any other person. Violation of the act is punishable by a fine of not less than $1 and not more than $10.

Raising the marriageable age of males from fourteen to sixteen, and that of females from twelve to fourteen.

Providing for the compulsory education of deafmute and blind children.

Prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor within ten miles of an Indian reservation, except in incorporated cities and towns.

Providing for a complete revision of the record of marks and brands by the State Auditor.

Providing that a suit in law or equity may be brought, prosecuted, and appealed by a person too poor to pay the costs, upon his oath that such is the case. Several memorials were adopted, among them the following:

Asking Congress for cession to the State of all public lands in it except mineral lands.

Asking for the opening of Indian reservations. In relation to placing a statue of Brigham Young in Washington, and appropriating $250 for the use of the Utah Senators in forwarding the project.

For the relief of citizens who suffered from Indian depredations before becoming citizens. Asking for a Federal grant of the Industrial Home property for educational and other purposes. For a reserve of the head waters of Beaver river.

Permitting the cutting of timber on public lands for local purposes.

Asking compensations for veterans of the Black Hawk war.

A bill providing for an income tax was defeated in the House. Another bill that failed proposed to make silver coins of the United States of whatever denomination full legal tender in payment of all dues and settlement of all transactions, whether public or private.

The Senate refused to confirm several nominations sent in by the Governor, because the men appointed were supporters of the national Republican ticket in 1896 and not in favor of free coinage of silver. The Legislature adopted a resolution to submit to the people an amendment to the Constitution depriving the Governor of the power to appoint to office any person whose name has been rejected by the Senate for that office; but, having that power under present laws, the Governor appointed his nominees after the adjournment of the Legislature.

Several amendments to the Constitution were proposed.

Wycks are descended from this couple. Robert A. Van Wyck is a descendant in the seventh generation from the founder. The family has produced many men who have been conspicuous in the professions and in the public service as judges, State legislators, congressmen, and Senators. In every one of the country's wars there have been Van Wyeks among its defenders. The mother of Robert A. Van Wyck was a Southern woman, and several years of his early life were spent in Virginia. He attended the public schools, but left them to go into business. He became a messenger boy, and afterward a clerk. For five years he worked as a clerk, and then went back to school and prepared

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