GENERAL LAWS. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 2 of the General Stat- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That section 1 of chapter 2 of the lows: for agricultural SECTION 1. Whenever twenty or more per- Appropriation sons residents of any county in this state shall society. organize themselves into a society for the improvement of agriculture within said county, and shall have adopted a constitution and bylaws agreeable to the rules and regulations furnished by the state board of agriculture, and shall have appointed the usual and proper officers, and when the said society shall have raised and paid into the treasury, by voluntary subscription or by fees imposed upon its members, any sum of money, in each year not less than fifty dollars, and whenever the president of such society shall certify to the county clerk the amount thus paid, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to draw a warrant in favor of the said president for a sum equal to three cents on each inhabitant of said county upon a basis Act repealed. of the last vote for member of congress, allowing five inhabitants for each vote thus cast, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county to pay the same. Provided, that if any existing county agricultural society fails or has failed for two or more years, to hold an annual fair of at least three days duration then any agricultural society in the county formed for a similar purpose and governed by the rules of this chapter and who shall hold an annual fair of not less than three days duration may apply for and shall receive from the county treasurer the amount above provided to be paid, to which amount they shall be entitled for so long a period as they may comply with the conditions of this act. SEC. 2. That section one of chapter two of Rev. Stats. 3. the general statutes of 1873 [being section 1 of chapter 2 of the revised statutes of 1866] and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved March 3d, A. D. 1881. CHAPTER 2. AN ACT to amend section 8 of an act entitled "An act to Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That section 8 of an act entitled, "An act to protect cultivated lands from trespass by stock," approved March 8, 1871, be amended to read as follows: Cultivated lands. SEC. 8. Cultivated lands within the meaning Cultiv of this act shall include all forest trees, fruit trees and hedge rows planted on said lands, also all lands surrounded by a plowed strip not less than one rod in width, which strip shall be plowed at least once a year. Gen. Stats. 85. SEC. 2. Section 8 of said act, as now exist- Act repealed. ing, is hereby repealed. Approved February 28, A. D. 1881. CHAPTER 3. AN ACT to allow horses, cattle, sheep and hogs to run at Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. at large on island. That from and after the passage Animals to run of this act, it shall be lawful for all horses, McKisick's cattle, sheep and hogs, owned by residents of the state of Nebraska, to run at large at all times of the year, in that part of Nemaha county, known as McKisick's Island, in the Missouri, and which constitutes "Island Precinct," in said Nemaha county. non-residents. SEC. 2. Nothing in this act shall be so con- Effect of act on strued as to interfere with the general herd law of this state, so far as the same concerns the horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs owned by non-residents of the said island. Approved February 28th, A. D. 1881. CHAPTER 4. Number of senators and representatives. AN ACT to district the state into senatorial and represen- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That the senate shall consist of thirty-three members, and the house of representatives shall consist of one hundred members. SEC. 2. That the state of Nebraska shall be formed into senatorial and representative districts, and senators and representatives shall be apportioned as follows: SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. District No. 1 shall consist of the county of Richardson, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 2 shall consist of the county of Nemaha, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 3 shall consist of the counties of Pawnee and Johnson, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 4 shall consist of the county of Otoe, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 5 shall consist of the county of Cass, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 6 shall consist of the county of Douglas, and be entitled to two senators. District No. 7 shall consist of the counties of Douglas and Sarpy, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 8 shall consist of the counties of Washington and Burt, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 9 shall consist of the county of Dodge, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 10 shall consist of the counties of Stanton, Cuming, Madison and Wayne, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 11 shall consist of the counties of Dakota, Dixon, Cedar and Knox, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 12 shall consist of the counties of Antelope, Holt, Wheeler, Pierce and Valley, and the unorganized territory west of Holt and Wheeler and east of the thirty-first senatorial district, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 13 shall consist of the counties of Platte and Colfax, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 14 shall consist of the counties of Butler and Polk, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 15 shall consist of the county of Saunders, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 16 shall consist of the county of Lancaster, and be entitled to two senators. District No. 17 shall consist of the county of Seward, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 18 shall consist of the county of York, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 19 shall consist of the county of Fillmore, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 20 shall consist of the county of Saline, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 21 shall consist of the county of Gage, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 22 shall consist of the counties of Jefferson and Thayer, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 23 shall consist of the counties |