Report. Special reports. Rules approved by Governor. Repealing clause. spective duties and with the consent or on demand of said board discharge them from service. He shall see that all officers and employees of the institution faithfully discharge their duties and shall be directly responsible to the board for the economy, efficiency and success of the internal management of said institution. On or before the first day of December of each year, the visiting and examining board, also the Commandant, shall make out and transmit to the Governor and to the commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings a full and detailed report of all their respective transactions for the year immediately preceding, ending on the 30th day of November, showing the number of inmates admitted and discharged since their last report, the number then remaining in the institution, the average annual attendance, the receipts, disbursements and expenditures of moneys or other funds, the valuation of property on hand, the amount of each appropriation or fund under their control and the balances thereof remaining unexpended in the Treasury of the state. Provided, further, That the Governor may call for and require special reports when in his judgment the public interest shall demand the same. Provided, Further, That all laws, rules and regulations as enacted and passed by the visiting and examining board for the control and government of the officers, employees and inmates of the institu tion shall be approved by the Governor. SEC. 3. That sections 3432 and 3433 of the Consolidated Statutes of Nebraska of 1891 as heretofore existing be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. That Whereas, an emergency exists, Emergency. therefore this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, A. D. 1893. [House Roll No. 153.] CHAPTER 34. AN ACT appropriating and setting aside certain lands in Wyuka cemetary as a burial place for deceased Union soldiers of the War of the Rebellion. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of of burial space in Wyuka deceased SECTION 1. That a piece or parcel of land not Appropriation exceeding in extent one acre not otherwise used or cemetery for appropriated, in such place and in such form as Union soldiers. shall be selected and agreed upon between the trustees of Wyuka cemetery and a committee to be selected by the Grand Army of the Republic of Lincoln, Nebraska, is hereby appropriated and dedicated, to the use and for the purpose of a soldiers' burial ground, said grounds to be selected in the manner above described, out of the south half of the east half (2) of the southeast quarter (4) of section nineteen (19), township No. ten (10), range seven (7), east of the sixth P. M., otherwise known as Wyuka cemetery; and said plot of ground shall be used for the burial of all such honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and army nurses, as they or their friends shall desire to bury therein, together with such members of their immediate families, as said committee from the Grand Army of the Republic shall direct. Control. Emergency. SEC. 2. Said soldiers' burial ground shall be under the joint control of the board of trustees of Wyuka cemetery and such committee as shall be designated by the Grand Army of the Republic of Lincoln, Nebraska, and shall be at all times subject to all rules and regulations of Wyuka cemetery. SEC. 3. Whereas, an emergency exists, this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, A. D. 1893. CHAPTER 35. [Senate File No. 55.] Donating certain state publications to state library and State Historical society. AN ACT to assist the state library and "The Nebraska State Historical society" to augment their collections. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. To enable the State library and the Nebraska Historical society to augment their respective collections by effecting exchanges with other societies and institutions, the State of Nebraska hereby donates to the state library two hundred (200) bound copies of each of the several publications of the State, its officers, societies and institutions, except the reports of the supreme court; and to the Nebraska State Historical society fifty (50) volumes of the same publications as the same shall be issued. SECTION 2. It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state, or other officer having custody of any of the said publications, to deliver the nam ber of copies of the same above specified, on the issuance of said publications to the state librarian and the secretary of the Nebraska State Historical society respectively. Approved April 7, 1893. CHAPTER 36. [House Roll No. 452.] AN ACT To provide for the parole of prisoners, to place the power therefor in the Governor of the State, and defining the duties of the Governor and of officers in connection therewith. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Parole of SECTION 1. That the governor shall have power prisoners from in the case of any prisoner, who is now, or hereafter Penitentiary. may be, imprisoned in the state penitentiary under a sentence other than murder in the first or second degree, who may have served the minimum term provided by law for the crime for which he was convicted, (and who has not previously been convicted of felony and served a term in any penal institution within the United States of America), and in the case of any prisoner who is now or hereafter may be imprisoned under a sentence for murder in the first or second degree, and who has now, or hereafter shall have served twenty-five full years, to allow any such prisoner to go upon parole, outside of the enclosure of said penitentiary, to remain while on parole, within the state under the control and in the legal custody of the governor, and subject at any time to be taken back within Return of the enclosure of said institution; and full power to paroled prisoners, retake and re-imprison any convict so upon parole is hereby conferred upon the governor, whose written order shall be a sufficient warrant, for all officers named therein, to authorize such officers to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner; and it is hereby made the duty of all officers to execute said order the same as any ordinary criminal process. Approved April 10, A. D. 1893. [House Roll No. 80.] CHAPTER 37. Professors in state univer sity. Duties. AN ACT to enlarge and define the duties of car'ain members of the Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That on and after the publication of this act the Professor of Botany at the State University shall be ex-officio the Acting State Botanist; the Professor of Geology shall be ex-officio the acting State Geologist; the Professor of Chemistry shall be ex-officio the acting State Chemist; and the Professor of Entomology shall be ex-officio the Acting State Entomologist. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of these members of the Faculty to give special attention to the interests of this state in their respective departments; to furnish all information requested by any official of this state; and to properly arrange and exhibit the collections in their departments, or some portions of these collections, with special reference to |