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 All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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. 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 class shall have the power and authority to name and appoint the assistants and deputy provided for in this Act, and to revoke their said appointments. Section 5. That the county commissioners of all counties shall have the power and authority to fix and determine the compensation allowed assistant and deputy county attorneys in their respective counties, not to exceed, however, the maximum sums allowed by this Act. Section 6. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 4th 1901 SENATE BILL NO. 21. An Act to create the County of Rosebud, To define its Boundaries, and to provide for its Organization. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Section 1. That all that portion of the State of Montana embraced within the following boundaries shall be known as, and shall be Rosebud County, to-wit: Beginning at a point where the township line, running between ranges XLIV. and XLV. East, in the County of Custer, State of Montana; when surveyed and extended South, will intersect the northern boundary line of the State of Wyoming; thence North, along said township line, observing the jogs or offsets in said line, to its intersection, when surveyed, and extended, North, with the County line running East and West along, between Custer County and the County of Dawson, in said State of Montana; thence West along said County line to the middle of the main channel of the Musselshell River and the East boundary line of Fergus County; thence up the middle of said main channel of said river and along the meanderings thereof in a Southerly direction, to a point where the same is intersected by the County line running between the Counties of Yellowstone and Custer; thence in a South-easterly direction along said County line to the junction of the Yellowstone and Bighorn Rivers; thence up the middle of the main channel of the said Bighorn River and along the meanderings thereof in a Southeasterly direction to the intersection with the aforesaid Northern boundary of the State of Wyoming; thence East, along the boundary line to the point of beginning. The Town of Forsyth, situated within the boundaries above described, shall be the County Seat of said County of Rosebud until the permanent County Seat shall be designated in the mode and manner provided by law. Section 2. That the indebtedness of said Custer County, as the same shall exist on the first day of March, 1901, shall be apportioned between the said Counties of Custer and Rosebud by first deducting from said indebtedness the amount of all moneys on hand and all moneys belonging to said Custer County, and also deducting the value of all real and personal property within and belonging to Custer County on the said first day of March, 1901, and the remainder of said indebtedness shall be apportioned between the said Counties of Custer and Rosebud respectively, in proportion to the amount of taxable property in each of said Counties, said amount of taxable property to be ascertained. and said apportionment and valuation of County property to be made by a Commission consisting of the Boards of County Commissioners of said Custer and Rosebud Counties and Charles H. Loud, Judge of the Seventh Judicial District, which said Commission shall meet at the Court House in Miles City, on the 15th day of March, 1901, and shall take, as the standard for such apportionment of indebtedness the assessment for the year 1900 as determined by the Board of Equalization of said County of Custer. Section 3. That it shall be the duty of said Board of County Commissioners of Rosebud County, in the event it should be found, upon the adjustment of such indebtedness, that the said County of Rosebud should assume and pay any amount of same, to cause to be made and delivered to the said County Commissioners of said Custer County. warrants on the County Fund in the sum of One Thousand Dollars each, and fractions thereof, if such there be, for the amount found to be due, which said warrants, upon presentation, shall be endorsed by the Treasurer of said Rosebud County, "Not paid for want of funds," and shall thereafter draw interest as other County warrants. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for said Board of County Commissioners of Rosebud County to issue any warrant or warrants in any amount or sum, or to incur any indebtedness, or enter into any contract, on incur any liability for or on behalf of said Rosebud County, until they have fully complied with the provisions of Sections 2 and 3 of this Act. Section 5. That the Board of County Commissioners and the Treasurer of said Custer County shall, at their regular meeting during the month of March, 1901, ascertain the amount of money in the schoo! fund belonging to (whether apportioned or not) the several school districts embraced within the limits of the said County of Rosebud which have been carved out of the County of Custer, and the County Treasurer of said Custer County shall, during the month of March, 1901, and upon receipt of the warrants specified in Section 3 of this Act, transfer and pay over to the Treasurer of said County of Rosebud, such moneys as may be on hand at the said March meeting of said Board of County Commissioners of said County of Custer, and as by them and the said Treasurer thereof, found to belong to the school districts of the said. County of Rosebud. Said funds so transferred shall be held by the Treasurer of the said County of Rosebud, where they were originally designated and bonded. Section 6. The following named persons are hereby appointed to the following offices, the name of the appointee being placed opposite the office to which he is appointed: FREEMAN PHILBRICK, Commissioner. W. W. McDONALD, Commissioner. HUNTER TERRETT, Commissioner. CHARLES W. BAILEY, Clerk and Recorder. CHARLES DAVIS, Sheriff. T. W. LONGLEY, Treasurer. JAMES B. GRIERSON, Clerk of the District Court. FRED L. GIBSON, County Attorney. WILLIAM CHOISSER, Assessor. GERTRUDE M. HIGGINS, Superintendent of Common Schools. J. F. KENNEDY, Coroner. CHARLES B. TABER, County Surveyor. Said officers shall have the powers, duties and privileges as are by law conferred upon like officers in other Counties of the State of Montana, and they shall be entitled to receive the same emoluments, salaries and fees, as are conferred by law upon like officers of other Counties in the same class in the State, and shall in like manner give bonds and enter upon the discharge of their respective duties upon giving a bond within ten days after the passage and approval of this Act, and they shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified. and be subject to all repealing laws applicable to other similar offices generally. The bond above provided for shall be approved in the same manner as the bond of other County officers, and filed and recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the County of Rosebud, Pro vided, However, that such salaries shall not commence until such officers shall enter upon the discharge of their duties and shall have qualified according to law. Section 7. The County Commissioners of said Rosebud County shall have authority to contract for the transcribing of such parts of the public records of said Custer County as they may deem useful and necessary to the said County of Rosebud and the inhabitants thereof, or they may appoint and depute some capable and discreet person to transcribe the same, and for such purpose shall have access to the records of said Custer County. Said transcripts, when completed shall be carefully compared with the originals by the County Clerk of said Custer County, who shall be entitled to receive a compensation of five dollars per diem while actually engaged in the performance of such duties; and when found to be correct, shall by him be so certified under his name and seal, and thereafter the records so transcribed and certified to shall be received and admitted in evidence in all Courts of the State, and shall be in all other respects entitled to like faith and credit as said original records. Section 8. The County Commissioners of said County of Rosebud, for the purpose of funding and paying any indebtedness which may be incurred by reason of assuming any of the indebtedness of Custer County, are hereby given, in addition to the powers already conferred on them by law, the authority to issue on the credit of their respective County, Coupon bonds, to the amount sufficient to enable them to redeem any or all legal outstanding warrants or orders, equal in amount to said indebtedness so incurred, which said bond shall be sold at no less than par and in the mode and manner provided by law for the issue and sale of County bonds. Section 9. That the Treasurer of Custer and Rosebud Counties shall, at the time of the adjustment of the indebtedness as provided in Section 2. of this Act, make out and transmit to the County Commissioners of said Rosebud County, lists of all delinquent taxes, and the amounts of all uncollected taxes within the limits of Rosebud County, as above established, shown by the records of their respective offices. Provided; That no delinquent taxes due the County of Custer shall be considered in the adjustment of the debt as hereinbefore provided, but it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of Custer County to collect such delinquent taxes and to turn over to the Treasurer of Rosebud County its pro rata share of said taxes as he may be able to collect within thirty |