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sand people and upwards shall collect the fees prescribed by law for justices of the peace, and shall monthly pay the same into the county treasury of the county wherein they hold such office, and such fees shall be credited to the contingent fund of the county.

SECTION 3.

No justice of the peace shall practice law, draw contracts, conveyances, or other legal instruments or documents, nor shall they take any claim or bill for collection, nor act as a collection agent in any sense whatever, nor shall they perform any legal duties other than those prescribed by law as their official duties in the conduct of cases and proceedings in their courts. Any justice of the peace violating any of the provisions in this section shall be deemed guilty of a malfeasance in office, and shall forthwith be removed from his office 01 justice of the peace, and shall thereafter be disqualified from holding such office.

SECTION 5.

All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6.

This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved March 22nd, 1901

SENATE BILL NO. 42.

An Act to provide for the regular inspection of Bonds of County and Township Officials.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

Section 1. That at the regular quarterly meetings of all boards of county commissioners in this State, in March and September, of each year, every board of county commissioners shall carefully examine all official bonds of all county and township officials of its county, then in force and effect, and investigate the qualifications and financial condition and liability of all sureties thereon and their sufficiency; and, if it appear to the satisfaction of any such board of county commissioners, or a majority of the members thereof, that any surety upon any such bond within and for its county has, since the

approval and acceptance of such bond, died or withdrawn therefrom or removed from the state or disposed of all of his property in this state or become insane, insolvent, financially embarrassed or not good and responsible for the amount of his liability thereon, such board of county commissioners shall immediately cause the clerk of said board, for it, to notify in writing the judge of the district court of that district of its action and conclusion and all facts in connection therewith and the reasons thereof; and said judge shall forthwith take cognizance thereof and investigate such matter and take steps, by order to show cause, or other order, citation, step or action, as may be necessary to make such bond good and sufficient, according to the requirements of law in the premises, and ample security for the amount thereof.

Section 2. Any county commissioner failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of section 1 of this Act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Section 3. This Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 25th 1901

SENATE BILL NO. 59.

An Act to amend Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of An Act of the Sixth Legislative Assembly, entitled An Act to protect the owners of horses, and to cause the inspection of the same.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

SECTION 1.

That Section 1 of an Act of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, entitled an Act to protect the owners of horses, and to cause the inspection of the same, be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 1. From and after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of any and all persons removing or taking from this state in any manner whatsoever, any horse, mule, mare, colt, foal or filly, immediately before the shipment or removal of the same, and at the place from which the shipment is to be made, to cause the same to be inspected by a stock inspector, or the sheriff of the county, from which such stock is to be removed, as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2.

That Section 2 of said Act be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. On receiving notice from any person that he desires to remove or take from this state to be sold or used outside of this state any of the class of animals mentioned in Section 1, it shall be the duty of any stock inspector, or the sheriff of the county from which such animals are to be taken, to inspect the same, by carefully noting the brands upon such animals, and otherwise describing such of said animals as may have no brands, and to keep a record of all such inspections in a hook to be provided for that purpose by the county commissioners of each county. Such descriptions shall contain:

1. The brands of all animals branded, and a description of animals not branded.

2. The number of animals inspected for removal.

3. The name of the owner or person removing the same.

4. The date of such inspection, with destination to which such animals are to be taken. If in the opinion of the officer making the inspection the person proposing to remove such stock is rightfully in the possession of the same he shall grant such person a certificate of inspection in duplicate, containing the matters herein provided, with the further statement that permission is granted to such person to remove such animals from this state. The person so receiving said certificates must deposit with the agent of the railroad company at the point from which the shipment is made the duplicate certificate referred to, which said duplicate must be filed by the agent, and must be all times during business hours accessible to the public. The agent must at the time of the receipt of the duplicate indorse upon the original certificate the date of the receipt of the duplicate.

If, however, the officers making such inspection, shall be of the opinion that such stock, or any portion thereof, is stolen, or otherwise wrongfully in the possession of the person proposing to remove the same, he shall withhold such certificate and permit to remove, until satisfactory assurance is given him of the rightful possession of such property by the person proposing to remove the same.

Such certificate of inspection shall be by the holder thereof exhibited to any person demanding to see the same.

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SECTION 3.

That Section 3 of said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. Any railroad company or agent shipping or permitting to be shipped from any station, siding or stock yards, without first receiving the Duplicate certificate herein provided for, and indorsing on the original the date of its receipt, any of the animals mentioned in Section 1 of this Act, and any person removing or attempting to remove any of said animals without first securing a certificate of inspection, or any person in any other way violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars and costs, and in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine and costs are discharged, at the rate now provided by law. The fine herein provided for if collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general fund of the county where said conviction is had.

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That Section 4 of said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. For the service of inspection herein provided for the officer making such inspection shall receive three dollars per day while engaged in making such inspection, and shall receive in addition thereto his necessary actual expenses, to be paid by the person for whom the inspection is made.

SECTION 5.

That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6.

That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage and approval.

Approved March 11th, 1901.

HOUSE BILL NO. 79.

An Act to provide for assistants for the office of Attorney General and fix the salaries thereof.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

Section 1. The Attorney General is hereby authorized to appoint two assistants, one shall be known as First Assistant Attorney General, and receive as salary the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars per annum, and a Second Assistant, who shall receive the sum of Eighteen Hundred ($1800.00) Dollars per annum.

Section 2. Each of said appointees shall be persons licensed to practice law in the State of Montana, at the time of said appointment, and shall hold office during the pleasure of the Attorney General making said appointments.

Section 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval. Approved March 9th, 1901.

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An Act Entitled "An Act relative to Number of Assistant and Deputy County Attorneys in Counties of the First and Second Class, and Allowing County Commissioners to Fix the Compensation Thereof."

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

Section 1. That the whole number of assistants and deputies allowed the county attorney in counties of the first and second class must not exceed two assistant county attorneys and one deputy county attorney.

Section 2. That the maximum annual compensation allowed to the assistant county attorneys named in section 1 of this Act is eighteen hundred ($1800.00) dollars per annum each, and the maximum annual compensation of the deputy named in section 1 of this Act shall be fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars per annum.

Section 3. That all assistants and deputies named and appointed under the provisions of this Act shall be learned in the law and admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana before they shall have been appointed assistant or deputy county attorney.

Section 4. That county attorneys of counties of the first and second

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