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JOHN W. STEVENSON.
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passengers and baggage, and to fix a maximum rate of charges by railways, shall be deemed and taken to mean all corporations, companies, individuals now owning or operating, or which may hereafter own or operate, any railroad in whole or in part in this state, and to all associations, firms or companies, whether incorporated or otherwise, doing business as common carriers on any line of railway in Nebraska, street railways excepted.

An act in the interest of an intelligent husbandry requires that the owner of any honey bees, brood comb, or honey known to be infected with the disease known as "foul brood," or infectious or contagious disease,shall cause them to be inspected and destroyed. A failure to comply shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and punished by fine or imprisonment.

Another prohibits the selling, giving or furnishing tobacco in any of its forms to minors, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each violation of the enactment.


NEVADA.

An act for the adoption of children under the provisions and conditions of the act provides for the rights of adopted children thereunder, and invests them with all the rights of lawful children of the persons so adopting them, including the right of support, protection, and of inheritance, and the right of taking the family name of the person or persons adopting them after such adoption.

The mode of adoption is by judicial proceedings. The provisions of the act do not apply to any Mongolian.

An act to promote habits of temperance, and to prohibit the practice of treating, declares it unlawful for any person or persons to treat, or entertain gratuitously any person or persons, with any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider, or any beverage whatever, or with any other article whatever, whereby, any spirituous or malt liquor or liquors, wine, cider, or any other beverage shall be obtained gratuitously in any public bar-room, saloon, beer-hall, grocery, or in any other public place of resort or amusement in the state.