person firm, or company, with the name of the grain or fruit from which the contents are made. No foreign substance. SEC. 4. All vinegar shall be made wholly from the fruit or grain from which it purports to be or is represented to be made, and shall contain no foreign substance or artificial coloring, and shall contain not less than four per cent by weight of absolute acetic acid. No mineral SEC. 5. No person, firm, or company shall manuadulteration. facture for sale or offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell, any vinegar containing any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric, or other mineral acid, or other ingredients injurious to health. Duty of county SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the county attorney attorney. of each of the counties of this state, when complaint shall be made to him, that adulterated vinegars are being sold in his county, to immediately inquire into the facts, and he or any deputy, assistant, or expert by him appointed shall have access to all places of business, factories, or buildings where vinegar is made for sale, or kept for sale, and shall have power to open any barrel, cask, or other package, believed to contain vinegar manufactured or for sale, or kept for sale, in violation of the provisions of this act, and may inspect the same and take samples for analysis. And if the investigation seems to sustain the charge, he shall forthwith file information and prosecute the offenders as in criminal cases. Penalties. SEC. 7. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred days, or both, for each offense, and pay the costs of prosecution, and shall further be adjudged to pay all necessary costs and expenses incurred in inspection and analyzing such vinegar. CHAPTER 5. (Senate File No. 255.) [Introduced by Mr. Ransom.] AN ACT to amend sections 4, 11 and 13 of chapter 3 of the Compiled Statutes of 1895, and to repeal said sections as now existing. Beit Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : chap. 3, Comp. SECTION 1. Sections 4, 11 and 13 of chapter 3 of Amending the Compiled Statutes of 1895 be and they hereby are Stats., 1895. amended so as to read as follows: returns on constitutional Section 4. Public notice that the proposed amend-Canvassing ment or amendments are to be voted upon shall be given as provided in the Constitution. The judges amendments. and clerks of election shall make return to the county clerk of their respective counties of the following facts: First, the number of electors voting at such general election at which such amendments were voted upon; Second, the number of electors who voted for said amendment or amendments; Third, the number of electors who voted against said amendment or amendments; Fourth, the number of electors voting at such election who voted for senators; Fifth, the number of electors voting at such election who voted for representatives; Sixth, the number of electors voting at such election who voted for both senators and representatives. The several county clerks in the different counties shall make return to the board of state canvassers provided for in section 53 of chapter 26 of the Compiled Statutes of 1895, in the same manner and within the same time that they are required to make return of votes cast for officers mentioned in said last named section and all such returns shall be directed to the secretary of state and transmitted to him in a separate envelope from the one containing the abstract and return of votes cast for the officers named in said section. The returns from the election officers shall be canvassed by the county canvassing board which canvasses the other election returns in the county. The said canvassing board of the county shall foot up from the returns made by the judges and clerks of election, the number of electors voting at the election, the number of electors voting at said election for the amendment or amendments, the number of electors who voted against the amendment or amendments, the number of electors voting at said election who voted for senators, the number of electors voting at said election who voted for representatives, the number of electors voting at such election who voted for both senators and representatives, and shall enter their findings in the book wherein the canvass of other election returns is made and from the findings so made the clerk shall make the returns to the state board of canvassers as hereinbefore provided. Arrangement Section 11. The various propositions or proposed of bal ots. amendments shall be printed on the ballots provided for by law in such manner as will enable the voter to express by a cross mark (X) in a sufficient margin at the right of such proposition or proposed amendment the answer he wishes to give. Duty of county clerk. Section 13. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of each county to see that the poll books and tally sheets furnished each voting precinct are suitably printed and ruled so as to enable the election officers to make returns of the votes cast on the various propositions or amendments submitted, and also so as to enable the election officers to make full and complete returns of the facts hereinbefore required of them to be made to the county clerk. SEC. 2. Sections 4, 11 and 13 of chapter 3 of the Compiled Statutes of 1895 be and they are hereby Repealing clause. repealed. CHAPTER 6. (Senate File No. 193.) [Introduced by Mr. Beal.] AN ACT to protect stock from pitfalls and providing a penalty for the violation of his act. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: Pitfalls and old SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for the wells required to be filled. owner or holder of any real estate in the state of Nebraska to leave uncovered any well or other pitfall into which any stock may fall or receive injury, but all old wells not in use and every other pitfall shall be filled with dirt from the bottom to the level of the surface. Provided, That if any person shall make complaint to the road overseer of the road district in which any well or pitfall upon the land of any non-resident in his district is open, it shall be the duty of such road overseer to im mediately cause to be filled, or if such land is not a common, securely covered, such well or pitfall and file a bill for the same with the County Clerk which, when approved by the County Commissioners, shall be filed with the Treasurer of the County and the same is hereby made a lien upon such real estate and the Co. Treasurer shall collect it the same as other tax is collected upon such real estate. SEC. 2. The road overseer shall receive two ($2.00) Road overseer, duty nd comdollars per day for the time actually engaged in en- pensation. closing or filling dangerous wells and pitfalls and a reasonable compensation for all material furnished. He shall file his claim with the County Clerk who shall present it to the County Board at their next meeting following. The board shall pass upon it and upon their recommend the clerk shall draw a warrant upon the County treasurer for the amount allowed. Said warrant to be drawn against the general fund. SEC. 3. Twenty days notice in writing shall be Notice to be given to residents. Non-residents shall be notified by given owner. publication in the legal county newspaper. The notice shall run for three consecutive weeks. SEC. 4. Any resident free holder leaving any well Penalty. or pitfall uninclosed or unfilled into which stock may fall shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars nor less than fifty dollars and liable to the owner of said stock for all damages. The same to be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction. CHAPTER 7. (House Roll No. 625.) [Introduced by Mr. Paul F. Clark for Alderman.] AN ACT to prevent spread of Hog Cholera and other kindred diseases, and to prevent traffic in animals dying from infectious or other diseases, and to prohibit the moval or removal of swine and other animals dying of cholera and other infectious diseases over and along the public highway of said state, and to prohibit the giving away without consideration or receiving free such carcasses and to prohibit rendering establishments and soap factories from purchasing or receiving free of charge such carcasses, and to provide a penalty for the same, and to amend Section 61 of Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 4 of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for 1895. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. If the owner of any swine or other do- Hog choleramestic animal dying from hog cholera or other infec. carcasses of detious or contagious disease or if any other person not to be sold. ceased animals assuming ownership or control shall dispose of or give away the carcasses of such swine or other domestic animal or if any person shall buy, purchase or receive without charge such carcass or other domestic animals dying from cholera or other disease for manufacturing or rendering into lard or oil purposes or for any other purpose or purposes, any such person so offending shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than ($25.00) twenty-five dollars nor more than ($100.00) one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety days. Hauling on public highways proh.bited. SEC. 2. If any person shall by any conveyance of whatever kind remove or move along any or over any road or public highway the carcass or carcasses of any swine or swines or any other domestic animal that have died from cholera or other contagious or infectious disease, every such person upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ($25.00) twenty-five dollars nor more than ($100.00) one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 90 days. forbidden to use. Manufacturers SEC. 3. If any person or persons engaged in the manufacturing business, manufacturing of soap business or the rendering of lard or oil business shall buy, purchase, or receive free of charge the carcass or carcasses of swine or other domestic animals for any purpose dying or having died of cholera or other contagious or infectious diseases or if any such person or persons receive, have in stock or possession such carcass or carcasses. Every such person or persons so offending shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than ($200.00) two hundred dollars or shall be imprisoned for not more than (6) six months in the discretion of the court. Owner must SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every person ownquarantine. ing or keeping swine upon his premises in which an outbreak of any contagious or infectious disease may occur, to immediately quarantine said premises by posting and keeping so posted during the continuance of said sickness or plague at least three placards not less than 24 inches in length and 15 inches in width bearing the name of the supposed disease, one of which placards shall be posted at the entrance to said premises and the other two in the most conspicuous places thereon. That it shall be unlawful for any person to remove or to allow to be removed from said premises any dead or diseased animals but that all dead animals shall within twenty-four hours be |