10. The term of residence must be computed, by including the day on which the persons residence commences and by excluding the day of election.

11. Any person living upon an Indian or Military reservation shall not be deemed to be a resident of Montana, within the meaning of this Chapter, unless such person has acquired a residence in some county in Montana prior to taking up his residence upon such Indian or Military reservation; provided that if such person shall not be in the employ of the Government while residing upon such Indian or Military reservation, such person shall not be considered a resident of the State of Montana.

Section 1212. When a naturalized citizen applies for registration his certificate of naturalization or a certified copy thereof must be produced and stamped, or written in ink by the registry agent with such registry agent's name and the year and day and county where presented, but if it satisfactorily appears to the registry agent, by the affidavit of the applicant (and the affidavit of one or more credible electors as to the credibility of such application when deemed necessary), that his certificate of naturalization or a certified copy thereof is lost or destroyed or beyond the reach of the application for the time being said registry agent must register the riame of said applicant, unless he is by law otherwise disqualified; but in case of failure to produce the certificate of naturalization or a certified copy thereof except as provided in section 1209 of this Chapter the registry agent must propound to him the following questions.

1. In what year did you come to the United States?

2. In what state or Territory, county, court, and year were you finally admitted to citizenship?

3. Where did you last see your certificate of naturalization, or a certified copy thereof?

The said affidavit must be retained by the register agent and returned with the register to the County Clerk. No person shall be required to exhibit his naturalization papers or make said affidavit a second time, where he has been a continuous resident of the same district and where his name is upon the official register in the possession of the registry agent.

Section 1213. On the day next succeeding that on which the registraiton of electors, prior to any election mentioned in this Chapter, shall have been closed, the registry agent must with all reasonable expedition, and within four days, prepare and cause to be written or printed, a full and complete and true list of all the names then remaining, or the official register for each election precinct, alphabetically arranged, commencing

with the surname of each, and then must write or print such reasonable number of copies of each registration district list as they may deem necessary showing on one sheet, but under separate headings in such list the registered voters in each precinct in the district; at least five copies of which said list he must cause to be posted up in as many public an conspicuous places within each and every district to which they apply. Each registry agent must, as soon as such lists are printed or written, subscribe and make oath to one copy thereof, as being a true correct and complete list of all electors registered in his registration district from the commencement to the close of the registration in said district, and must within two days after the publication or writing of such list, deliver personally or by registered letter such verified copy to the County Clerk of that county, to be by him posted in a conspicuous place in his office until election day, and thereafter filed away, as other records of the county, and the remainder of such lists must be distributed among the electors of the respective precincts.

Section 1214. The registry agents must give notice in said lists that they will receive objections to the right to vote of any person so registered until six o'clock P. M. on the Saturday previous to the day of the election; and also requesting all persons whose names may be erroneously entered in said lists or erroneously cancelled upon the "Official Register" to appear at the proper registry office and have such error corrected. Such objections to the right to vote of any person registered must be made only by a qualified elector, in writing duly verified setting forth the grounds of objection or disqualification. The registry agent before whom any such affidavits are made must carefully preserve the same and deliver them, with the "Check List" and other papers required by this Chapter, to be delivered to the judges of election, as is in this Chapter provided and he must write distinctly opposite to the name of any person to whose qualifications as an elector objections may be thus made, the words to be challenged" or words to that effect. It is the duty of the judges of election, if on election day such person who has been objected to applies to vote, to test, under oath his qualifications and if he is found to be disqualified, from any cause under the law, or if he refuses to take an oath as to his qualifications he must not be permitted to vote. Any elector whose name has been erroneously cancelled upon such official register shall be re-registered upon making affidavit supported by the affidavit of a freeholder and qualified elector of the district that he has been a continuous

resident of the district since his last previous registration and he is fully qualified to be registered.

Section 1215. During the time intervening between the closing of any registration of electors and the day of the next ensuing election, each registry agent must carefully copy from the official register into suitable books, one for each election precinct within his district, the names of the electors registered for such election precinct, alphabetically arranged (the surname first) entering opposite each name the number it bears on the official register together with words requiring challenges and all other entries therein found opposite the name. The registry agent must also prepare in suitable books to be known as "check lists" one for each election precinct a list of the names of all electors found on the official register for such election precinct alphabetically arranged (the surname first) with the number each name bears in the official register placed at the left of the name and with a blank column at the right for the use of the judges at election headed with the words "Voted at the general election 18-.

Section 1216. The copy of the official register together with the "check lists" for each election precinct must be carefully prepared and duly certified to by the registry agent and delivered together with the affidavits mentioned in the preceding sections of this chapter to one of the judges of election, in each election precinct not later than the day next preceding that on which such election is to be held, and such copy of the official, register, "check list," affidavits and any surrendered certificate of registration must be preserved and transmitted by the judges of election to the county clerk of the county, as part of the election returns of said precinct. If any registry agent refuses or fails to furnish to the judges of election of any precinct, the lists of electors, provided for in section 1215 the judges of election are authorized to take a copy of the printed or writen lists of electors, provided for in this chapter, and conduct the election in said precinct, in accordance with the provisions of this title and their returns must show the reason for using such lists instead of the regular lists, herein provided at such election.

Section 5. Section 1234 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section -. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election mentioned in this Act unless his name shall, on the day of election, appear in the copy of the official register or check lists, furnished by the registry agents to the judges of election, at the precinct at which he offers to vote, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter; and the fact that his

name so appears in the check lists and in the copy of the official register, in the possession of the judges of election, shall be prima facie evidence of his right to vote; Provided, that when the judges shall have good reason to believe, or when they shall be informed by a qualified elector that the person offering to vote is not the person who was so registered in that name, the vote of such person shall not be received until he shall have proved his identity as the person who was registered in that name. Approved March 9, 1897.

SENATE BILL NO. 74.

An Act authorizing the issuance of bonds to provide for the payment of outstanding warrants and for the erection and completion of a building for the school of mines at the City of Butte and providing for the payment of interest thereon, and repealing of sections 1584, 1600 and 1601 of the Political Code of Montana.

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

Section 1. The Board of School of Mines Commissioners and the State Board of Land Commissioners of the State of Montana are hereby authorized to issue and dispose of bonds for the purpose of erecting a building to be known as the "School of Mines Building" to be located in the City of Butte, Montana, under the following conditions and restrictions, to-wit:

First. The aggregate amount of bonds authorized by this Act shall not exceed the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000.)

Second. The denomination of each bond shall be one hundred dollars, or any multiple thereof, but the maximum amount of any bond shall not exceed the sum of One Thousand Dollars.

Third. The term of said bonds shall not exceed thirty years from their date, and they shall be payable at any time after fifteen years from their date at the option of the issuers.

Fourth. The bonds may bear any rate of interest not in excess of six per centum per annum, and the interest may be payable semi-annually. Fifth. The principal and interest shall be payable at such place and in such manner as is designated in the bond.

Sixth. The Board of School of Mines Commissioners and the State

Board of Land Commissioners shall prescribe the form of the bond, the bonds shall bear upon their face the words "School of Mines Building Bond of the State of Montana" and they shall be signed by the members of the Board of School of Mines Commissoners and the State Board of Land Commissioners and shall be countersigned by the Secretary and the Treasurer of the State and the seal of the State, shall be affixed to each bond, and the bonds shall be registered in the office of the State Treasurer.

Seventh. The coupons representing the interest on the bonds shall be signed by the State Treasurer, or an engraved or lithographic facsimile of the signature of the Treasurer may be affixed thereto provided it is so authorized in the bond.

Section 2. The bonds provided for in this act shall be disposed of by the Board of School of Mines Commissioners and the State Board of Land Commissioners in such a manner as they shall deem it for the best interests of the State, provided, that no bond shall be disposed of for less than its par value.

Section 3. To provide for the payment of the interest and principal of the bonds authorized by this act, there is hereby created a special fund to be known as "The School of Mines Building Interest and Sinking Fund," into which shall be paid all sums of money realized from sales of lands, licenses to cut trees, leasing of lands, profits of any and all other sources by reason of the grants of lands by Congress to the State of Montana for the establishment and maintenance of a school of mines, as provided by sections 12 and 17 of an act of the United States Congress entitled "An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two states, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington to form constitutions and State Governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States," approved February 22nd, 1889, and from said "School of Mines Building Interest and Sinking Fund" there shall, as the same become due and payable, be paid the inferest on said bonds; and it is further provided, that it is the duty of the "State Board of Land Commissioners" whenever there are any funds in the said "School of Mines Building Interest and Sinking Fund" over and above the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars in excess of the amount required to pay the yearly interest on said bonds, to invest such excess funds in the manner set forth and provided in section 4 of this act, and the amount so invested shall constitute a "permanent fund" to pay the