Condemnation of lands is authorized and empowered by and through its board of county commissioners whenever said board shall judge it to be clearly for the general welfare and benefit of the people of the county, and so far as shall be in harmony with the constitution of this state and the provisions of this act, to condemn and appropriate as hereinafter in this act provided and to dispose of for public use such lands, properties, rights and interests as are hereinafter in this act mentioned, whenever the government of the United States for public use. or of this state is intending or proposing the construction, operation or maintenance of any public work situated or to be situated wholly or partly within such county, or the expenditure of money or labor for the construction, operation or maintenance of any such work, and such condemnation or appropriation will enable the county to aid, promote, facilitate or prepare for any such construction, operation, maintenance or expenditure by either or both such governments, or to fulfill or dispose of any condition upon which such construction, operation, maintenance or expenditure is by law or from any cause contingent, and no property shall be exempt from such condemnation, appropriation or disposition by reason of the same having been or being dedicated, appropriated or otherwise reduced or held to public use. Board of county com levy annual tax. SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners is hereby missioners to authorized and empowered in aid of the powers granted or prescribed in the foregoing section to levy, annually, a tax as large as may be necessary, but not exceeding the rate of one mill on the dollar, upon all the taxable property in the county, such tax to be assessed, levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as taxes for general county purposes, but the proceeds of said taxes, when collected, shall constitute and be a special fund, applicable solely to the cost of such condemnation, appropriation or disposition, as is mentioned in the foregoing section, and the expenses incident thereto. Eminent domain extended to counties. SEC. 3. The right of eminent domain for the purposes intended in this act is hereby extended to all counties in this state and every such county for any purpose of condemnation, appropriation or disposition such as is men contracted. tioned in the first section of this act is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn and appropriate all necessary lands and all rights, properties and interests in or appurtenant to land under the same procedure as is or shall be provided by the laws of this state for the case of any similar condemnation or appropriation by other corporations. SEC. 4. Any county purpose mentioned in this act shall Indebtedness be deemed and held to be a general county purpose and any indebtedness contracted or to be contracted therefor shall be deemed and held to be an indebtedness for general county purposes, and all the provisions of law of this state relative to indebtedness for general county purposes or the contracting of such indebtedness or the bonds for funding the same shall be deemed applicable to any indebtedness contracted or to be contracted or any bonds issued by any county under this act, but the accounts of the county with respect to the receipts and disbursements of all moneys received or disbursed by the county under the provisions of this act shall, for each condemnation, appropriation and disposition, be so kept as to clearly and fully exhibit such accounts separate and apart from the other accounts of the county. a SEC. 5. Any condemnation, appropriation or disposition Condemnity intended in this act shall be deemed and held to be for purpose. county purpose and public use within the meaning of this act when it is directly or indirectly, approximately or remotely for the general benefit or welfare of the county or of the inhabitants thereof, or when it is otherwise within the meaning of the phrase "for a county purpose" as occurring in the constitution of this state. SEC. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. Inasmuch as there is no adequate provision of law now existing for such condemnation, appropriation or disposition by counties of this state as is intended in this act, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its approval by the governor. Passed the senate February 6, 1895. CHAPTER III. [S. B. No. 99.] LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. AN ACT declaring the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln a legal holiday. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: Passed the senate January 30, 1895. Fish hatcheries. Hatcheries, where located. CHAPTER IV. [H. B. No. 6.] FISH HATCHERIES. AN ACT to establish and maintain state fish hatcheries, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. The governor, state treasurer and fish commissioner are hereby created a board of fish commissioners ex officio. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the fish commission created by the provisions of section one (1) of this act to procure a suitable site or suitable sites for one or more state fish hatcheries, to provide for the creation of such state fish hatchery or hatcheries, and to supervise the management and control of the same. SEC. 3. The site for the first state fish hatchery shall be upon the banks of the Columbia river or one of its tributaries, and shall be selected and obtained as soon as pos sible. Subsequent hatcheries shall be established, one each on one of the tributaries of Puget Sound, one on one of the tributaries of Gray's Harbor, and one on one of the tributaries of Willapa Bay, when, in the judgment of the fish commission, it be deemed advisable. ers to have hatcheries. SEC. 4. The state fish commissioner shall have charge Commissionand control of the state fish hatchery or hatcheries, and the charge of management of the same, under the supervision of the fish commission, and shall have power to employ such assistance and purchase such supplies as may be necessary to maintain and operate such state fish hatchery or hatcheries. SEC. 5. Said board of commissioners shall receive no Traveling expenses of comcompensation for their services as such board, but shall missioners. be allowed necessary actual traveling expenses. All accounts for expenditures incurred or made pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be audited and approved by said commission before presentation to the state auditor: Provided, That no traveling expenses be allowed unless vouchers show that railroad and other expenses were actually paid. SEC. 6. For carrying out the provisions of this act, and Appropriation. maintenance of the hatcheries, there is hereby appropriated the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), to be paid out of any moneys in the fish hatchery fund in the state treasury. SEC. 7. An act to establish a state fish hatchery, and making an appropriation therefor, approved March 7, 1891, is hereby repealed. SEC. 8. An emergency exists on account of the nearness of the season for the running of salmon in the Columbia river and its tributaries, and immediate action being therefore necessary to prevent the exhaustion of the supply of salmon in said stream, it is therefore enacted that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor. Passed the house January 30, 1895. Branches taught. Complaint, how made. CHAPTER V. [H. B. No. 90.] AMENDING THE ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SEC. 2. That section 90 of an act entitled "An act to establish a general uniform system of common schools in the State of Washington, declaring an emergency," approved March 27, 1890, be amended to read as follows: Sec. 90. Upon complaint in writing being made to any county superintendent by any district clerk, or by any head of family, that the board of directors of the district of which said clerk shall hold his office, or said head of family shall reside, have failed to make provision for the teaching of hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drink, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, and the systematic teaching of kindness to not only our |