. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. should be made to secure a part of this emigration. An appropriation forthis purpose of $25,000, available for maintenance of the board of immigrationin 1915, and $35,000 available for maintenance in 1916, was enacted and it re-dounds to the credit of Mr. Hanna that he persuaded the Legislature to take upthis work for the first time. The organization of this board has, however, beenprevented by the circulation of petitions under the referendum law. One form ofthe petitions is directed against the law in its entirety, another agai
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. should be made to secure a part of this emigration. An appropriation forthis purpose of $25,000, available for maintenance of the board of immigrationin 1915, and $35,000 available for maintenance in 1916, was enacted and it re-dounds to the credit of Mr. Hanna that he persuaded the Legislature to take upthis work for the first time. The organization of this board has, however, beenprevented by the circulation of petitions under the referendum law. One form ofthe petitions is directed against the law in its entirety, another against the appro-priation section. Neither petition secured the requisite number of signatures tosuspend the law, but both combined did, and an action followed to compel theorganization of the board on the ground that the petitions can not be combined,and therefore the law is in full force and effect. DOURINE By reason of the spread of a disease known as dourine among horses, manyof the farmers and stockmen of the state suffered great losses. It was necessary o o. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 431 in order to stamp out the disease to kill horses afflicted with it. The FederalGovernment agreed to pay one-half the appraised value of all horses killed byorder of the Federal or state veterinaries, if the government of the state promisedto recommend to the State Legislature to appropriate a sufficient sum to pay theother half. Governor Hanna agreed to this arrangement with the Federal Gov-ernment, and upon his recommendation the Legislature appropriated enough topay half of the amount of the claims presented for horses killed. All claims havebeen fully satisfied. The epidemic was checked and apparently stamped out. LAWS An inheritance tax was enacted during his administration, which, it wasexpected, would yield an amount annually equal to one-half of the loss of feesfrom oil inspection. The law providing for uniform text books in public schools of the state willsave a large sum annually to t
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