MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 263, An act declaring all section lines in Norton county, Kansas, public highways.

Also, passed House bill No. 347, An act relating to road tax in Atchison county, and providing for its disbursement.

Also, passed House bill No. 383, An act to amend section 3 of chapter 302, Session Laws of 1901, entitled "An act making a separate road district of the city of Wa Keeney, in Trego county, Kansas, a city of the third class, and prescribing duties of street commissioner therein," and repealing said original section.

Also, passed House bill No. 41, An act for the relief of the members of the board of county commissioners of Russell county, Kansas, and authorizing the payment of a maximum compensation of three hundred dollars to each of said members for the year 1902 and for the year 1903.

Also, passed House bill No. 220, An act legalizing a certain survey in Kiowa county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 365, An act providing for a public administrator in Wyandotte county, specifying the cases in which he shall have authority to act as administrator of the estates of deceased persons, and defining his powers, duties and liabilities as such.

Also, passed House bill No. 369, An act to authorize the township board of Douglass township, Butler county, Kansas, to expend not to exceed two hundred dollars of the general funds of said township for the erection or purchase of a township building.

Also, passed House bill No. 64, An act relating to the clerk hire of the county treasurer in Franklin county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 245, An act fixing the salaries and compensation of the county treasurer, county attorney and county superintendent of Morris county, Kansas, and for their postage, etc.

Also, passed House bill No. 327, An act relating to fees and salaries of clerk of the district court, sheriff and probate judge of Kiowa county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 300, An act providing for clerk hire of the county treasurer and county clerk of Meade county, Kansas, and repealing section 2 of chapter 141 of the Session Laws of 1899, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, in so far only as is necessary to give effect to this act.

Also, passed House bill No. 361, An act fixing the salary of the clerk of the district court, probate judge and sheriff of Norton county.

Also, passed House bill No. 32, An act fixing the fees and salaries of the clerk of the district court, sheriff and probate judge of Atchison county, in the state of Kansas, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Also, passed House bill No. 124, An act to amend section 2 of chapter 182 of the Session Laws of 1891, relating to the investment of the funds of Spring township, Butler county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 17, An act authorizing the city of Ottawa, Kan., to issue bonds to fund its existing floating indebted

ness.

Also, passed House bill No. 330, An act authorizing the city of Alma to issue bonds and to compromise and refund all its outstanding bonding indebtedness and to fund its floating indebtedness.

Also, passed House bill No. 739, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Russell county, Kansas, to levy a tax each year of not more than five mills on the dollar of assessed valuation, upon all property in said county, for the purposes of building and equipping a heating plant for the new court-house of said county, and for erecting a jail and jailer's residence, and for furnishing and lighting the new court-house.

Also, passed House bill No. 358, An act authorizing the city of Phillipsburg, Kan., to fund its floating indebtedness by issuing funding bonds.

Also, passed House bill No. 243, An act relating to the fees and salary of the sheriff of Gove county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 102, An act authorizing and empowering the city of Olathe to issue the bonds of the city to take up the floating indebtedness of the city and providing for the conditions of such issue.

Also, passed House bill No. 478, An act to repeal an act entitled "An act declaring sectional lines in Rooks, Phillips and Pawnee counties, state of Kansas, public highways," being chapter 111 of the Laws of Kansas, 1874.

Also, passed House bill No. 100, An act authorizing school district No. 16, Johnson county, Kansas, to issue bonds to refund its floating indebtedness, and prescribing the conditions of such issue.

Also, passed House bill No. 382, An act to authorize the county commissioners of Ness county, Kansas, to establish and maintain a county high school at the county-seat of said county.

Also, passed House bill No. 213, An act relating to the establishment of a county high school in Trego county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 229, An act regulating the salary of the clerk of the district court of Ellis county, state of Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 522, An act to authorize and empower the board of county commissioners and the county treasurer of Johnson county to transfer the moneys now in the special fund known as the C. F. Sumner road fund to the general fund of said county.

Also, passed House bill No. 443, An act to confer the rights of majority upon Wallace Cole Mallette, a minor.

Also, passed House bill No. 450, An act to legalize certain roads and highways in Ellis county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 416, An act regulating the meetings of the board of county commissioners of Butler county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 490, An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Chase county, Kansas, to appropriate money to build a bridge across the Cottonwood river in said county.

Also, passed House bill No. 344, An act to make the schools of the city of Russell, in Russell county, Kansas, graded schools, and to set date of the annual meeting for same, and also for all the school districts in Russell county, Kansas, for the year 1903 and thereafter, and to subject the said schools of said city and the district wherein they are situated to all the provisions of article 7 of chapter 122 of the Session Laws of 1876, except where otherwise provided by this act.

Also, passed House bill No. 451, 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.

Also, passed House bill No. 177, An act fixing the fees and salaries of the clerks of the district courts in the counties of Linn, Anderson, and Woodson, in the state of Kansas.

Also, passed substitute for House bill No. 91, An act authorizing the erection of a court-house in Manhattan, in Riley county, Kansas, to acquire a site therefor, and to provide for the payment for the

same.

Also, passed House bill No. 534, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Rooks county, Kansas, to construct and maintain an iron bridge across Douglass creek and appropriate money for the payment of the same.

Also, passed House bill No. 554, An act to amend section 8 of chapter 139 of the Session Laws of 1901, 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.

Also, passed House bill No. 526, 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.

Also, passed House bill No. 513, An act relating to allowing the county commissioners of Cherokee county, Kansas, to levy a tax of two mills on each dollar's valuation for the purpose of building, repairing and painting bridges and approaches in Cherokee county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 501, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Labette county, Kansas, to build a bridge across the Neosho river.

Also, passed House bill No. 433, An act to legalize the ordinances of the city of Goodland, Kan., now a city of the second class, and define the metes and bounds of said city of Goodland.

Also, passed House bill No. 528, An act fixing the fees and sal

ary of the clerk of the district court in the county of Bourbon, in the state of Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 422, An act to increase the salary of the clerk of the city court of Leavenworth, Leavenworth county, Kansas, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. Also, passed House bill No. 491, An act relating to certain school district in Gray county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 493, An act detaching certain territory from school districts Nos. 31 and 33, in Gray county, Kansas, and creating school district No. 5 of Gray county, Kansas, out of detached territory.

Also, passed House bill No. 496, An act authorizing the city of Marion, Marion county, Kansas, to levy a tax for general purposes not exceeding twenty-five mills on a dollar.

Also, passed House bill No. 562, An act authorizing the county commissioners of Chase county, Kansas, to construct a bridge across the Cottonwood river in said county.

Also, passed House bill No. 557, An act locating the corner of lot 1, in block 15, of the town site of Onaga, Pottawatomie county, Kansas.

The bills are transmitted herewith.

W. P. MASON, Chief Clerk.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed House bill No. 589, An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Doniphan county, Kansas, to erect a county building for a court house and county-office building, at Troy, Kan., and to equip and furnish said building, and to levy taxes to pay the expenses of erection, equipping and furnishing said building, and to appropriate money from the general fund of said county to pay therefor.

Also, passed House bill No. 626, An act fixing the metes and bounds of the city of Goodland, in Sherman county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 588, An act authorizing school district No. 1 of Ellsworth county, state of Kansas, to hold its annual school meeting and to elect its school officers on the first Wednesday of May of each year, and providing for the place of meeting.

Also, passed House bill No. 621, An act to establish a county high school at Dodge City, Ford county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 560, An act granting a right of way for a public highway across lot 1 and east half of lot 2, in section 26, township 11, range 15, in Shawnee county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 435, An act relating to the fees and salary of the probate judge of Graham county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 204, An act amendatory of and sup

plemental to chapter 167 of the Session Laws of 1901.

Also, passed House bill No. 462, An act to vacate Blackwelder's

addition to the city of St. John, Stafford county, Kansas, and retaining the same inside the said city and corporate limits thereof.

Also, passed House bill No. 488, An act to disorganize school district No. 113 and attach the same to school district No. 55, in Phillips county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 506, An act relating to the fees and salaries of certain officers of Rooks county, Kansas, and defining the duties of the board of county commissioners in connection therewith.

Also, passed House bill No. 289, An act making an appropriation for the former judge and stenographer of the court of common pleas of Cherokee and Crawford counties.

Also, passed House bill No. 561, An act in relation to fees and salary of the county clerk of Wyandotte county, in the state of Kansas, and to repeal section 4 of chapter 141 of the Session Laws of 1899, and all acts and parts of acts so far as they conflict herewith.

Also, passed House bill No. 564, An act fixing the fees and salary of the clerk of the district court of Neosho county, Kansas.

Also, passed House bill No. 625, An act in relation to county clerk and treasurer of Lane county, Kansas, defining the duties of the board of county commissioners in connection therewith.

The bills are transmitted herewith.

W. P. MASON, Chief Clerk.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Senate bill No. 2, An act relating to change of the names of persons therein named.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 48, An act to repeal chapter 182 of the Session Laws of 1901, relating to Sumner and Montgomery counties.

Also, passed 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.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 230, An act for the relief of Milton Woodyard, his heirs and assigns, in the matter of the purchase of certain school-lands.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 350, An act concerning the election of a county printer in Gray county, Kansas, prescribing his duties and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts so far as they are in conflict with this act.

Also, passed Senate bill No. 370, An act providing for the disorganization of school districts Nos. 2, 13, 16, 22, 52, and 57, in Hodgeman county, Kansas, for the creation of union district No. 1 of Hodgeman county, Kansas, from the territory thereof and from the territory of detached portions of school districts Nos. 20 and 29, in said Hodgeman county, Kansas, and defining the boundaries thereof, and for the disposition of the property of said disorganized school districts.

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