THE

SESSION LAWS OF 1879,

AND

MEMORIALS,

PASSED AT THE EIGHTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, CONVENED AT THE STATE CAPITAL ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1879.

TOPEKA, KANSAS:

GEO. W. MARTIN, KANSAS PUBLISHING HOUSE.
1879.

AUTHENTICATION.

I, JAMES SMITH, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the printed Acts and Resolutions contained in this volume are true and correct copies of the enrolled laws and joint resolutions and memorials which were passed at the regular session of the State Legislature for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, with the exception of the clerical errors appearing inclosed in brackets; and I further certify that all laws and joint resolutions contained in this volume, not having taken effect by publication in some newspaper, as per certificate thereunto annexed, will take effect and be in force from and after the 20th day of May, A. D. 1879, (except when otherwise provided by law.)

[SEAL.]

Given under my hand and official seal, this 15th day of
May, A. D. 1879.

JAMES SMITH, Secretary of State.

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INDEX TO CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER.

ACTS LEGALIZED.

PAGE.

1 An Act to legalize the official acts of the County Commissioners of Davis county,

Kansas.......

2 An Act to legalize the acts of the Board of County Commissioners of Wilson

county, Kansas............

3 An Act to legalize the acts of Asahil Penfield, a Justice of the Peace of Wil-

mington township, in Wabaunsee county, Kansas...........................

4 An Act to legalize the act of the township officers of Elk township, in the county

of Cloud and State of Kansas, in issuing certain bonds for the purpose

of building a bridge across the Republican river, and to provide for the

registration of said bonds..........

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2

2

3

5 An Act to legalize the official acts of H. H. Reed, a Justice of the Peace of

Center Township, Smith county, Kansas......
4

6 An Act legalizing the official acts of D. J. Reber, a Notary Public in and for

Butler county, Kansas; of Geo. S. Green, a Notary Public in and for

Riley county, Kansas; of F. A. Reed, a Notary Public in and for Potta-

watomie county, Kansas; and J. M. Sheafer, a Notary Public in and for

Shawnee county, Kansas.......
...... 5

7 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the city of McPherson, Kansas, and sub-

sequent acts of its City Council.......

ANDERSON COUNTY.

8 An Act relating to a special election held in Anderson county, September 14,

1871, empowering the County Commissioners of said county to subscribe

to the capital stock of a certain railway company..

APPROPRIATIONS.

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9 An Act making an appropriation for the Legislative Department...............

10 An Act making appropriations to the Legislative Department........

11 An Act making appropriation for deficiency in the contingent fund for the Ex-

ecutive office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879..........

12 An Act making an appropriation for the purpose of paying the fees of the Regis-

ters and Receivers of the United States Land Offices for the final location

of lands granted to the State of Kansas by the United States as indem-

nity school lands...........

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6

7

8

9

13 An Act making an appropriation to Henry King for the payment of postage

stamps.....

10

14 An Act making an appropriation for expenditures made in the selection of in-

demnity school lands...........

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15 An Act making appropriations to furnish the Topeka Insane Asylum, and to
provide for the current expenses thereof during the fractional portion of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879................

16 An Act making appropriations for the current expenses of the State Insane Asy-
lum at Topeka for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1880, and June 30,
1881

12

13

17 An Act making appropriations for the erection of additional buildings for the
Insane Asylum at Osawatomie, and for the completion of said Asylum, 15
18 An Act making appropriations for the current expenses of the State Asylum for
the Insane, at Osawatomie, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1880, and
1881

............

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19 An Act making an appropriation to pay the several counties of the State the ex-
penses incurred in the maintenance of destitute insane persons.............. 17
20 An Act making appropriation for the State Fish Commission for the years end-
ing June 30, 1880, and June 30, 1881...........

19

21 An Act making an appropriation for the Kansas Orphan Asylum, located at
Leavenworth, Kansas........
20

22 An Act to provide for the payment of the agent of the State of Kansas for prose-
cuting claims against the United States........

23 An Act making an appropriation for the Home for Friendless Women, in the
city of Leavenworth.....

21

24 An Act making appropriations for conveying prisoners to the Penitentiary for
the deficiency from the fiscal years ending June 30, 1878, and June 30,
1879, and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1880, and June 30, 1881... 23
25 An Act making an appropriation to rebuild the State Normal School building at
Emporia, and providing for a donation thereto by the city of Emporia
and the county of Lyon........

.........

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26 An Act making an appropriation for the Kansas State Horticultural Society for
the fiscal years ending June 30, A. D. 1880, and June 30, A. D. 1881.... 26
27 An Act making appropriations for the erection of a building to be used as a dor-
mitory laundry and hospital, for furnishing the same, and for improve-
ments for the Institution for the Blind, and to defray the current expenses
of said institution for the fiscal years 1880 and 1881.....
27
28 An Act making an appropriation to support the Institution for the Education of
Deaf and Dumb, and to provide for the current expenses thereof during
the fiscal years ending June 30, 1880, and June 30, 1881.................
29 An Act making appropriations for paying for the services, transportation and
subsistence of the State Militia, and other expenses incurred in sup-
pressing the railroad strike, in April, 1878..........

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30

30 An Act making an appropriation to aid the Neutral Land Defense Committee in
testing the title of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railway Com-
pany, or their successor or assigner, to the Cherokee Neutral Lands...... 31
31 An Act making appropriations to pay per diem and mileage of Trustees of the
Charitable and Reformatory Institutions of the State, Regents of the
Agricultural College, Regents of the State University, and Regents of
the Emporia Normal School, for deficiencies from the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1879, and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1880, and June
30, 1881, and for per diem and mileage of Directors of the Penitentiary
for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1881............

31

32 An Act making appropriations to the State University for the fiscal years ending
June 30, 1880 and 1881......

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