SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after AN ACT to amend "An Act regulating Fees of Officers, Jurors and Witnesses,' approved February 9, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana : That under the head of fees of the clerk of the district court, said act be amended to read as follows: SECTION 1. For index entries, the same fees as county recorders. For copies of record, same fees as county recorder. For each entry in index, fifteen cents. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this, the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1869. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled " An Act to define the duties of Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction." Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: SECTION 1. That section six of the act herein mentioned be repealed, and the following be substituted in the place thereof: "The superintendent shall keep his office where there is a post office, and he shall give notice of his place of residence by publication, for at least three successive weeks, in the same newspaper published in the territory as may be most convenient to him; and he shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, which shall be paid quarterly out of the territorial treasury, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1869. AN ACT repealing part of Section six of "An Act relative to the discovery of Gold and Silver Quartz Lodes or Ledges, and the manner of their location," approved December 25, 1868. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana : SECTION 1. That so much of section six of said act as relates to, and requires the discoverers, or some pre-emptor, to deposit in the recorder's office, a specimen of the quartz ore or mineral taken from said lead, lode or ledge, which said specimen shall be properly labeled by the recorder and preserved in his office, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. its passage. This act to take effect and be in force from and after Approved January 14, 1869. AN ACT amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act relating to Counties and County Officers," approved February 9, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana : SECTION 1. In addition to the authority delegated to them in article 1, section 14, the county commissioners of each county are hereby authorized to set aside a sum of not less than one nor more than twenty-five per cent. of the county fund annually, which shall be known as the contingent fund, to defray incidental expenses of the county. SEC. 2. If a surplus of the fund set aside in section two of this act remain, it shall be paid out on registered warrants as other county funds, at the expiration of each quarterly settlement. SEC. 3. Strike out section 11 of article 1, and insert, in lieu thereof, "Said board of county commissioners shall meet at the first county seat of their respective counties on the first Monday of May, August, November and February of each year, and may sit not exceeding four days at each term." SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after AN ACT amondatory of an Act entitled "An Act relating to Counties and County Officers," approved February 9, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: SECTION 1. In addition to the authority delegated to them in article first, section fourteen, the county commissioners of each county are hereby authorized to set aside a sum of not less than one nor more than twenty-five per cent. of the county fund annually, which shall be known as the contingent fund, to defray incidental expenses of the county. SEC. 2. If a surplus of the fund set aside in section two of this act remain, it shall be paid out on registered warrants as other county funds at the expiration of each quarterly settlement. SEC. 3. Strike out section eleven of article first, and insert, in lieu thereof," Said board of county commissioners shall meet at the county seat of their respective counties, on the first Monday of May, August, November and February of each year, and may sit not exceeding four days at each term. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 11, 1869. AN ACT to authorize the Territorial Auditor to issue a duplicate Territorial Warrant in lieu of Territorial Warrant No. three of two hundred and forty-eight, for three hundred and ninety dollars, to E. W. Haskell. Be it enacted by the legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: SECTION 1. That the territorial auditor is hereby empowered and authorized to issue a territorial warrant for three hundred and ninety dollars, No. three of two hundred and forty-eight, to E. W. Haskell, in lieu of the original warrant of that number and amount issued to Ph. McGovern, and duly transferred by him to said E. W. Haskell, and now owned by said 'E. W. Haskell, and by him lost. SEC. 2. That the territorial treasurer is hereby authorized to make on his books the original as lost, and duplicate issued in lieu thereof. SEC. 3. That said duplicate warrant, when issued, shall take the place of the original warrant, in the order of registration and. payment. SEC. 4. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 14, 1868. AN ACT relating to Fires, and the protection of Timber and Grasses. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana : SECTION 1. That any person who shall carelessly set fire to any timber or grasses, except for useful or necessary purposes, or who shall at any time make any camp fires, or shall light any fire for any purpose without taking sufficient steps to secure the same from spreading from the immediate locality where the same may be used, or shall fail in any instance to put out or extinguish said fire or fires before leaving or abandoning the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars, in the discretion of the court, and shall be liable for all costs and damages accruing from said act. SEC. 2. Any person who shall wantonly or designedly set fire to any timber or grasses, for other than necessary purposes, or who shall, from a malicious intent, fail to extinguish every vestige of fire after making the same for even a necessary purpose, before leaving or abandoning the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail or territorial prison for the term of not less than three months, nor more than six months, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed conflicting with this are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide increased Compensation to the Officers in this Territory," approved December 6, A. D. 1867. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: SECTION 1. That section four of said act, be so amended that it shall read as follows: "That the salary of the district judges of this territory, in addition to that now allowed by the United States government, be one thousand dollars annually, payable quarterly." SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage, and approval by the governor. Approved January 15, 1869. |
