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or custody of public funds, with any bank or banking institution in which is deposited any money belonging to the state, county, or any public institution.

3. To prescribe the general methods and details of accounting for the receipt and disbursement of all the moneys belonging to the state or counties and to require of all officers and adherents to such general method and detail as are required by law or prescribed by him.

4. To visit each and every office of the officers and institution named in this act at least twice in every year, and at such times to examine the books, accounts and vouchers in said offices, to verify statements of receipts, expenditures and indebtedness, and to examine and pass upon the character and amounts of any commissions, percentages, or charges for services, exacted by any officer, and of all claims allowed by Board of County Commissioners.

5. To visit twice each year or oftener, without previous notice, each of the banks, banking corporations and savings banks, building and loan associations, investment and loan companies incorporated under the laws of this State, or doing business under any law of the State concerning corporations, and to examine into their affairs and ascertain their financial condition; to inspect and verify the value and the amount of their sureties and assets, and to enquire into any violations of laws governing such banks, institutions and building and loan associations.

6. The State Examiner after the examination of the affairs of any State officer, board or institution or board of county commissioners must make report to the Governor and to the Attorney General, the result of such examination within thirty days thereafter and if any violation of law or non-performance of duty is found on the part of any such officer or board, they must be proceeded against by the Attorney General or County Attorney as provided by law.

7. The State Examiner, or his assistant, after the examination of the affairs of any county officer must make report of such examination to the County Commissioners and to the County Attorney of such county, within thirty days after such examination, and if any violation of law or nonperformance of duty is found on the part of any county officer or board, such officer or board must be proceeded against by the County Attorney of the County as provided by law.

8. The State Examiner must make an annual report to the Governor within thirty days after the end of each fiscal year.

Section 492. All officers of the State and counties and all officers and employes of all banking and other institutions mentioned in this Act, must afford all reasonable facilities for the investigations provided for in this Act, and all such officers, managers, and employes must make returns and exhibits to the State Examiner under oath, in such form and in such manner as he may prescribe, not conflicting with the present form of county records; every officer or person violating the provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both.

Section 493. The State Examiner, or his assistant, has power to examine any books, papers, accounts and documents in the office or possession of any county or state officer, or banking or other institution referred to in this act, and to send for persons or papers and to examine under oath any and all persons concerning the same.

Section 494. If any County Clerk or County Treasurer shall fail to make and transmit to the State Examiner's office any copy of any quarterly report required by the State Examiner of county officers or any annual financial statement of the county, within ten days after the same should have been filed as required by law, and said officer so required to furnish such report or copy, shall forfeit to the county one hundred dollars ($100.00) to be deducted from his salary by the board of county commissioners of such county on notice of such failure from the State Examiner.

Section 495. The salary of the State Examiner for all services rendered in any capacity whatever is twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per year, and in addition thereto shall receive such office and traveling expenses as are allowed by law.

Section 496. The State Examiner shall be allowed one assistant ex、 aminer in his office at a salary not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per year. Section 497. That for the purpose of the just distribution of the expenses incurred in pursuance of this title, there is created a fund that shall be known as the "State Examiner's Fund." That the County Treasurer of the counties of the State shall pay to the State Treasurer for such fund on or before the first day of January of each year, for their respective counties, the following sum, to-wit:

Counties of the first, second, third and fourth class, $250.00 each;
Counties of the fifth class, $175.00 each;

Counties of the sixth class, $150.00 each;
Counties of the seventh class, $75.00 each;
Counties of the eighth class, $50.00 each;

These amounts to be paid for the years 1897 and 1898 upon the basis of the classification of all the counties for the year 1896, as reported in the reports of the State Board of Equalization for that year, and any counties hereafter created are to be deemed counties of the seventh class until an assessment of such county has been made and the class thereof determined, and for the maintenance of this fund after the year 1898, if there is no subsequent legislation hereon, each county shall pay on its classification as made according to law for each year thereafter, and that each bank, banking corporation, savings bank, investment or loan company, incorporated under the laws of this State shall pay into the treasury on or before the first day of January of each year the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars, each building and loan association shall pay a fee of one-twentieth of one per cent on its assets as shown by its last annual statement, provided that no examination fee shall be less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for a domestic association, nor more than two hundred dollars for a foreign corporation, and a balance on the expenses incurred in pursuance of this title shall be paid by the State from any money in the "General Fund" not otherwise appropriated.

Section 498. Any banks, banking corporations savings banks, building and loan associations, investment or loan company incorporated under the laws of this State that shall fail or neglect to pay into the State Treasury within ten days from and after the first day of January of each year, the sum mentioned in the section next preceding shall forfeit to the State ten ($10.00) dollars; for every day it shall so fail and neglect, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the said State by the County Attorney of the county in which the business of such banking association or corporation shall be located, and when so recovered, the amount shall be paid into the treasury of such county for the use of the common schools therein. Section 499. The State Examiner, and his assistant each must execute an official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars, before entering upon. the duties of his office, said bond to be approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State.

-Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this are hereby repealed and particularly sections 490 to 506 inclusive, the same being all of Article XI, of Chapter 3, Title 1, Part 3 of Political Code.

Approved March 4, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 74.

An Act amending Sections 580, 581, and 582, Part 2, Title 1, Chapter 3, Article 15 of the Political Code of the State of Montana, relating to Inspector of Mines.

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

Section 1. That Section 580 of the Political Code of the State of Montana be amended so as to read as follows, viz:

Section 580. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate must appoint an Inspector of Mines, who shall be at least thirty years of age, a resident of Montana at least one year, who shall be theoretically and practically acquainted with Mines and Mining in all its branches, and he shall hold his office for four years unless sooner removed by the Governor. No person shall hold the position of Inspector of Mines while an employee or officer of any mining company or corporation. The Inspector of Mines must devote his entire time to the duties of his office, and his salary is two thousand, four hundred dollars.

Section 2. That Section 581 of said Code be amended so as to read as follows, viz:

Section 581. The Governor by and with the consent of the Senate must appoint a Deputy Inspector of Mines who shall possess like qualifications to those required of the Inspector of Mines, who shall hold his office for four years unless sooner removed by the Governor. No person shall hold the office of Deputy Inspector of Mines while an employee or officer of any mining company or corporation.

The Deputy Inspector of Mines must devote his entire time to the duties of his office under the supervision and direction of the Inspector of Mines, and his annual salary is one thousand, six hundred and fifty dollars.

Section 3. That Section 582 of said Code be amended so as to read as follows, viz:

Section 582. It is the duty of the Inspector of Mines by himself or his deputy to visit every mine in the State once every six months and inspect its workings, timbering, ventilation, means of ingress and egress and the means adopted and in use for the preservation of the lives and safety of the Miners employed therein; for this purpose the Mining Inspector and his Deputy shall at all times have access to any mine and all parts thereof.

All mines owners, lessees, operators or superintendents must render such assistance as may be necessary to enable the Inspector or his Deputy to make the examination.

Section 4. This Act shall be in effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 4, 1897.

SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 11.

An Act to repeal Section 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776 and 777, being all of Article 22, Chapter 3, Title 1, Part 3, of the Political Code of Montana, and to substitute therefor sections 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, and 766 relating to the establishment of a bureau of agriculture, labor and industry, and specifying the powers, duties and salary of the Commissioner thereof.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:
Section 1. Section 760 shall read as follows:

Section 760. A bureau of agriculture, labor and industry is hereby established for this state whose executive officers shall be a commissioner, appointed by the Governor, and a chief clerk who shall be appointed by the commissioner. The term of office of the Commissioner shall be four years, and he may be removed by the Governor for incompetence, neglect or malfeasance in office. The commissioner shall execute a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved by the Governor, and to be filed with the State Auditor for the faithful performance of his duties.

Section 2. Section 761 shall read as follows:

Section 761. The commissioner shall collect, assort and arrange, systematize and present in an annual report to the Governor on or before the first day of December in each year, statistical details relating to all departments of labor and industry in the State of Montana, especially in relation to the agricultural, commercial, mining, manufacturing, educational and social interests and sanitary condition of the laboring classes and to the prosperity of all the productive industries of the State.

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