appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claims of the following named members of the state board of charities and reforms for traveling expenses incurred by them during the year of 1900, to-wit: Walter M. Jordon W. M. van Orsdel .$25.50 Section 2. That the state auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants in favor of the persons named and for the amounts set down opposite their names, as shown in section one of this Act, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. Section 3. That this Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12th. 1901. HOUSE BILL NO. 173. An Act To Pay Employees Of The Senate and House, As Provided In Section 209, Part III, Title I, Chapter II, Article IV, And As Provided For In Section 2230, Part III, Title I, Chapter II, Article V, Of The Political Code Of The State Of Montana. Be It Enacted By The Legislative Assembly Of The State Of Montana: Section 1. That the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay, in accordance with section 209, Part III, Title I, Chapter II, Article IV, and as provided for in Section 223, Part III, Title I, Chapter II, Article V, of the Political Code of the State of Montana, as follows, to-wit: C. A. Whipple, Secretary of the Senate......$ 50.00 Total .$100.00 Section 2. The State Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said C. A. Whipple and Roger E. Skelly for the sum of fifty dollars respectively, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. Section 3. This Act shall be effective from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12th. 1901. HOUSE BILL NO. 190. An act entitled an act appropriating money to pay the mileage traveled by the members of the House Special Committee to investigate the Insane Asylum at Warm Springs. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Section 1. That the sum of Ninety-Nine dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the fo lowing named persons the mileage earned by them as members of the House Special Committee in going to and returning from the inves tigation of the Insane Asylum at Warm Springs, to-wit: Section 2. That the Auditor be and hereby is authorized to draw his warrants for said amounts and in the favor of the persons named and the Treasurer is authorized to pay the same. Section 3. That this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12th. 1901. HOUSE BILL NO. 55. AN ACT providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the State of Montana of an amendment to Section 4 of Article XVI, of the Constitution, relating to County Commissioners. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Section 1. There shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State of Montana at the next general election to be held in said State. the following amendment to Section 4, of Article XVI of the Constitution, relating to County Commissioners. That Section 4 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Montana, be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 4. In each county there shall be elected three County Commissioners, whose term of office shall be six years; provided, that the term of office of those elected on November 6th, 1900, shall expire on the first Monday in January, 1907; provided further, that at the general election to be held in November, 1902, (in counties where commissioners are to be elected that year), three commissioners shall be elected whose terms shall expire on the first Monday in January, 1907; provided further, that at the general election to be held in November, 1906, one commissioner shall be elected for a term of two years, one commissioner shall be elected for a term of four years, and one commissioner shall be elected for a term of six years, whose term of office shall commence on the said first Monday of January, 1907; and provided further, that at each general election thereafter commencing with the general election to be held in November, 1908, one commissioner shall be elected for a term of six years. A vacancy in the Board of County Commissioners shall be filled by appointment by the Judge of the Judicial District in which the vacancy occurs." Section 2. The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and canvassed by such officials and in such manner as is provided by law for the counting and canvassing of the votes for Member of Congress, and if a majority of all votes cast at said election for and against said amendment shall be in favor of the amendment, the Governor of the State shall immediately so declare by public proclamation, and said amendment shall be in full force and effect as a part of the Constitution from and after the date of said proclamation. Section 3. The official ballots to be used at the next general election to be held in this State shall have printed thereon the following words in such manner as to allow every elector an opportunity to indicate thereon by proper marks, his preference to-wit: "For the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Commissioners," and "Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Commissioners." Approved Feby 26th. 1901. 87-450 SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 1. To the Honorable The Senate and House of Representatives of the Whereas: Certain laws have been proposed in the past looking to the leasing of the public ranges; and Whereas, Agitation of the subject still claims the attention of the people in the west, therefore be it, Resolved: That we, your memorialists, the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, earnestly protest against the enactment of any measure providing for the leasing of public ranges, believing it to be a menace to the public welfare, and we pray and petition the Congress of the United States to protect the rights of the people to enter and use the public domain for legitimate purposes to the exclusion of none, and it is further-Resolved: That the Secretary of State of Montana be and he is hereby ordered to furnish a copy of this memorial to each of our Senators and Representative elect in Congress. Approved Feby 25th. 1901. SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 2. The Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled: We, your Memorialists, the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, respectfully represent: 1. That on October 15, 1892, by proclamation of the President of the United States, a portion of the then Crow Indian Reservation was thrown open to settlement. 2. That there was excepted and reserved in the said proclamation certain considerable and choice tracts from which any member of said tribe of Crow Indians was permitted to select a one-quarter section of land, to be then allotted by the Government to the said Indian in severality. 3. That a considerable number of segregated and isolated tracts of said lands so excepted by proclamation of the President still remain unselected by and unallotted to any Indians. 4. That said segregated and isolated remaining unselected and unallotted tracts are surrounded by improved ranches and farms artificially irrigated and in a high state of productive cultivation, and are themselves choice agricultural lands greatly desired by settlers, who would irrigate, cultivate and improve same if permitted so to do, settling upon them under the provision of the United States homestead laws. Wherefore, Your Memorialists earnestly pray and urge your honora ble Bodies for the necessary action and legislation to procure this anomalous condition of said tracts, and speedily open the same up for the settlement of our citizens. Approved Feby 26th. 1901. HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. I. To the Honorable the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States in Congress assembled: Whereas, there now reside in the northwest corner of the Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve of the State of Montana, at least twelve bona fide settlers, holding 160 acres of land each, and that said settlers located upon said land prior to the time that the land comprising said reserve was set apart as a forest reserve, and, Whereas, Great injury, and loss of time and money in improving said land will accrue to said settlers unless they receive proper relief, and, Whereas, Said land so settled upon by said persons as aforesaid is more valuable for agriculture and fruit raising than for any other purpose and that said land is of no value save and except for agriculture and fruit raising, therefore be it, Resolved, That we, your memorialists, of the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana do earnestly pray and petition the congress of the United States that you do cause to be surveyed and set apart from said Lewis and Clarke forest reserve and open for settlement a portion of said reserve which, when so surveyed and set apart, will constitute fractional township 25 north of range 19 west of Montana meridian. Resolved, That our senators and representatives at Washington, D. C., are hereby instructed to use all proper means to accomplish the desired legislation, and be it further, Resolved, That the secretary of state of Montana be, and is hereby instructed to send a copy of this joint memorial to our senators and representatives at Washington, D. C. Approved March 5th. 1901. |