shall provide all the stationery, books and supplies and all bills and claims therefor and for the expenses of such election shall be presented to and allowed by the board of County Commissioners when audited by the County Auditor as other claims, and said board shall thereupon cause the same to be certified and delivered by the County Clerk to the proper board of school trustees, who shall cause the same to be paid out of the school funds of the district as other school expenses are paid. All registry agents shall receive the sum of four dollars per day each for the time which they shall be engaged in work of registration; judges of election in districts of the first class shall receive not to exceed five dollars per day each for all services connected with the election. Judges of election in other districts shall receive no compensation. The compensation hereby provided shall be paid in the same manner as other claims.

Section 1787. Every school trustee in a district of the first class, provided said district shall have a population not less than twenty thousand, shall give an official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars to his or her district for the faithful discharge of his or duties, and he or she shall be • entitled to receive out of the school funds of the district the sum of four dollars for each meeting of the Board of Trustees, which he or she shall attend, in giving the necessary attention to school business, not exceeding, however, four meetings in any one month, and he or she shall receive no compensation for his attendance at any meeting unless he or she attends throughout its entire session. The compensation here provided shall be audited and allowed by the board of trustees and entered upon their rec

ords..

Section 1788. This Act shall be in force immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. And all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 6th, 1897.

SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 81.

An Act to amend Section 1911 and 1912, of Article 13, Chapter 6, Title 3, of the Political Code, relating to the examination and certificates of teachers.

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

Section 1. That Section 1911 of Article 13, Chapter 6, Title 3, Part 3 of the Political Code be amended as follows:

"Section 1911." County Certificates shall be of four grades. The professional grade for a term of not less than four years, and the first grade certificate for a term of not less than three years, and the professional and first grade certificate shall be good and valid for as long as the holder thereof continues teaching and gives the county superintendent satisfactory evidence of progress and efficiency, the second grade certificate shall be valid for a term of two years, and the third grade certificate shall be valid for a term of one year, according to the ratio of correct answers of the applicant and other evidences of qualification appearing from the examination. No certificate shall be granted unless the applicant shall be found proficient in and qualified to teach the following branches of a common English education: penmanship, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, mental arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and hygiene, U. S. History, and theory and practice of teaching. In addition to the above, applicants for a second grade certificate shall pass a satisfactory examination in civics of the United States and Montana, and physical geography; applicants for a first grade certificate shall pass an examination in civics of the United States and Montana, physical geography, American literature and elementary algebra; applicants for a professional grade certificate shall pass an examination in civics of the United States and Montana, physical geography, American literature, elementary algebra, physics and plane geometry. No person shall be employed as a teacher in high school or as the principal teacher of a school of more than two departments, who is not the holder of a professional County certificate or the holder of a life or State diploma, issued by the State Board of Education of the State of Montana, or who is not a graduate of some reputable University, College or Normal School. The percentages required to pass any branch shall, by a standing rule be prescribed by the superintendent of Public Instruction. In addition to these regular grades of certificates, the County Superintendent may grant a temporary certificate to teach until the next regular examination, to any person applying at any other time than at a regular examination, who can show satisfactory reasons for failing to attend such examination, subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Such temporary certificate shall not be granted more than once to the same person, Provided; that where a temporary certificate has been duly issued to any teacher, and that it is impossible, by reason of sickness or other unavoidable accident, for such teacher to attend the next regular examination, such teacher, upon due

and sufficient proof certified to the County Superintendent, who shall certify the facts to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who may authorize the County Superintendent to issue a second permit or The written may require the teacher to take a private examination.

answers of all candidates, for county certificates after being duly examined by the county superintendent, shall be kept by him during his term of office, and any candidate thinking an injustice has been done to him or her, by paying a fee of two dollars into the institute fund of the County and by notifying both County and State Superintendent of the same, shall have his or her paper re-examined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The County Superintendent shall upon receipt of such notice from said complaining candidate, transfer said paper to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall re-examine the same, and if the answers warrant it shall instruct the County Superintendent to issue to such complaining candidate a county certificate of proper grade and the county superintendent shall carry out such instructions.

Section 2. That Section 1912 of said Article 13, be amended to read as follows:

"Section 1912." No regular or temporary certificate to teach shall be issued to any person under the age of eighteen years, and no professional or first grade certificate shall be issued to any person who has not taught successfully twelve months; and a third grade certificate shall not be issued more than twice to the same person. Third and second grade certificates shall be valid only in the County where issued. A professional or first grade certificate shall be valid in any county in the State upon indorsement as hereinafter provided, and shall be renewed by the county superintendent upon the proper fee being paid to the institute fund as provided for in case of examination: Provided, that no professional or first grade certificate shall be renewed unless the applicant has taught at least ten months during the life of said certificate. Said professional or first grade certificate shall be renewed by the County Superintendent by his endorsement thereon, upon the payment of the same fee as is required by law for examinations; Provided further, that whenever application is made by a holder of any unexpired first grade, second grade, or third grade Montana certificate for examination for any higher grade certificates, and it shall be made to appear to the County Superintendent that such applicant has been engaged in teaching in any of the Public Schools of the State for a period of one year or more, the said applicant shall be entitled to be credited with the percentages on his or her last examination

for said first, second or third grade certificate as the case may be, and shall not be required to be examined in any studies except the additional ones prescribed for such certificate, and such other studies that the applicant may not have secured the required percentage upon in previous examinations. Provided, further, that to excuse any candidate from taking the examination upon any branch of any grade he or she must have secured upon such branch at his or her last previous examination at least eighty per cent. No person shall be employed or permitted to teach in any of the public schools of the State who is not a holder of a lawful certificate of qualification to teach. Any contract made in violation of this Section. shall be void; Provided, that the special certificate in penmanship, drawing, modern language and music shall be granted upon a request of a majority of the members of any district Board of Trustees. Such special certificate to be valid for three years, and shall entitle the holder to teach only such special branch or branches stated in said certificate, Provided, further, that if the attendance upon the aforesaid examination of teachers at the County seat shall work a great hardship to one or more teachers in the County, the county superintendent, upon application to the State Superintendent, may provide for such teacher or teachers to take the examination at some convenient place, and the county superintendent may appoint some suitable person to conduct such examination, under the rules and regulations prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Section 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 4th, 1897.

SENATE BILL NO. 13.

An Act to revise the laws in reference to the State Militia of the State of Montana, and to repeal certain laws named in this Act.

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

Section 1. The Militia of the State of Montana consists of all ablebodied male citizens of the State between the ages of eighteen and fortyfive years, inclusive, except such persons as are or may be exempted by the laws of the State or of the United States.

Section 2. The following persons are exempt from Military duty and enrollment:

1. Civil and Military officers of the United States.

2. Civil officers of the State of Montana.

3. Idiots, paupers, habitual drunkards and persons convicted of in

famous crimes.

Section 3. The County Assessor of each County in the State, must, at the same time in each year when he prepares a roll containing the taxable inhabitants of his County, enroll all the citizens thereof subject to military duty, which roll must be sworn to by him and delivered to the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners at the same time he delivers. the assessment roll.

Section 4. Any Asssessor who neglects or refuses to perform any of the duties required of him by this Chapter is subject to the same liabilities as are provided by law for a neglect or refusal to perform any of the duties required of him in the assessment of taxes.

Section 5. The Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of each County, must, within thirty days after the delivery of such Military roll to him by the assessor transmit a duplicate thereof to the Governor, and the Governor must inform each Legislative Assembly of the State of the number of the enrolled Militia thereof.

Section 6. The Governor is the Commander-in-Chief of the Militia forces of the State except when these forces are in the actual service of the United States, and has power to call out any part or the whole of said forces to aid in the execution of the laws, to suppress insurrection, or to repel invasion.

Section 7. The Board of County Commissioners in each county in the State is hereby authorized, whenever they deem proper, to erect or provide in cities or towns where one or more companies of the National Guard are stationed in such County an armory; safe, suitable, and of sufficient size for the drill of such company or companies.

Section 8. The members of the enrolled Militia may voluntarily organize and uniform as herein provided.

Section 9. The regularly enlisted, organized, and uniformed active Militia of Montana shall be styled the National Guard of Montana and shall be subject at all times to the orders of their officers, and shall be composed of able-bodied citizens of Montana above the age of eighteen years. Section 10. The Governor of Montana shall be Commander-in-Chief