is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Section 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Section 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 1st, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 17.

"An Act to further protect underground miners."

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

Section 1. It is the duty of any person, company or corporation, who shall have sunk on any mine a vertical or incline to a greater depth than one hundred feet, and who shall have the top of such shaft or hoisting opening covered or enclosed by a shaft or building which is not fire-proof, and who shall have drifted on or along the vein or veins thereof, a distance of two hundred feet or more, after cross cutting to the same, and shall have commenced to stope, to provide and maintain to the hoisting shaft or the opening through which men are let into or out of the mine and the ore is extracted, a separate escapement shaft, raise, or opening, or an underground opening or communication between every such mine and some other contiguous mine, provided, that in case such contiguous mine belongs to a different person, company, or corporation, the right to use the outlet through such contiguous mine, in all cases when necessary, or in cases of accident must be secured and kept in force. Where such an escapement shaft or opening shall not be in existence at the time that stoping is commenced, work upon such an escapement shaft or opening must be commenced as soon as stoping begins and be diligently prosecuted until the same is completed, and said escapement shaft, raise or opening shall be continued to and connected with the lowest workings in the mine. The exit, escapement shaft, raise, or opening provided for in the foregoing paragraphs must be of sufficient size as to afford an easy passage way, and if it be a raise, or shaft, must be provided with good and substantial ladders from the deepest workings to the surface. Whenever the exit or outlet herein provided for is not in a direct or continuous course, sign

boards plainly marked showing the direction to be taken must be placed at each departure from the continuous course.

Section 2. This Act shall apply only to quartz mines in which nine or more men are employed underground, and shall not apply to mines not actually extracting ores, by stoping, nor to mines in which the shaft or hoisting opening, or hauling way is not covered by a shaft house, and has no building structure within thirty (30) feet of the shaft or opening, nor to mines in which the hoisting shaft or opening shall be covered by or enclosed in a fire-proof shaft or building.

Section 3. The penalty for violating any of the provisions of the preceding Section is the same as provided in Section 705 of the Penal Code.

Section 4. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 1st, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 22.

An Act Regulating the hours of labor of Hoisting Engineers and fixing the penalties for violation thereof.

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

Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any engineer or other person to run or operate for more than Eight hours in twenty-four hours, any first motion or direct acting hoisting engine, in use in any mine, or to run or to operate for more than said length of time any geared or indirect hoisting engine at any mine in which fifteen or more men are employed underground.

This Act shall only apply to such plant or plants as are in operation sixteen or more hours in twenty-four hours.

Section 2. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any mine owner, jessee, company or corporation, operating or conducting any mine, to hire or employ any engineer or other person to run or operate for more than eight hours in twenty-four hours, any first motion or direct acting hoisting engine in use at any mine. Or to hire or employ any engineer or other person to run or operate any geared or indirect acting hoisting en

gine, at any mine employing fifteen or more men underground. This Act shall only apply to such plants as are specified in section one of this act Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any engineer or person, who temporarily operates any of the engines mentioned, for more than eight hours in one day, when from sickness or other unforseen cause the person regularly employed is unable to operate the same.

Section 3. Any person, company or corporation, violating the provisions of this Act, shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars; and each and every day that any person, company or corporation violates the same shall constitute a separate and distinct violation and shall be punishable as such.

Section 4. Sections 3370, 3371, and 3372, of Article II, of Chapter XX, of Part III, Title VI of the Political Code, and all acts and parts of acts, in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. Approved February 19th, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 53.

An Act to prevent the sale of liquors on credit.

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

Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to sell any wine, rum, brandy, gin, whiskey, beer, ale or any other spiritous, vinous, mixed liquors, fermented liquors, or malt liquors at retail, to any person or persons on time or credit; Provided, that the word retail as herein employed shall be construed to mean by the glass or drink.

Section 2. Any person or persons selling any liquors as mentioned in the preceding Section, on credit, to the purchaser shall have no remedy at law or otherwise for the recovery of the purchase price thereof, and all such contracts of sale of liquors as aforesaid shall be null and void.

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

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

Approved March 1, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 267.

An Act to authorize the issuance of certificates of stock to bearer by corporations organized in whole or in part for mining purposes with capital stock non-assessable and full paid, to define the rights of the holders and bearers of such certificates and to authorize such corporations to do such acts as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the rights and powers granted them by this Act.

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

Section 1. Any corporation new existing or hereafter created or organized under or by virtue of the laws of the State of Montana and having a capital stock non-assessable and fully paid within the meaning of the laws of this State, and whose object or purpose, in whole or in part, is to carry on the business of mining within this State, shall have the power to and may, by a vote of its stockholders, holding at least three-fourths of its capital stock, authorize or provide for the transfer and issue of certificates of stock which shall entitle the holder or bearer to the ownership of the same upon delivery and without transfer by endorsement or on the books of such corporation, subject, however, to the by-laws of the corporation and the provisions of this Act, but no such transfer or issue shall be made except upon surrender and cancellation of the certificate or certificates so to be transferred; and all bearer certificates so issued shall be delivered to and receipted for on the books of the Company, by the stockholder or his authorized agent at whose request such transfers shall be made; and thereafter, so far as the corporation is concerned, the bearer of any such bearer certificate shall for all purposes except that of holding office, be deemed a stockholder of the Company, owning and holding the number of shares of its capital stock represented by such bearer certificate, and the stock or shares of stock thereby represented shall be listed to bearer on the list of stockholders and other books of the Company.

Section 2. Any corporation which shall have issued bearer certificates may establish agencies in other States and in foreign countries whereat holders or bearers of bearer certificates may, under such regulations as the corporation shall prescribe, register and deposit their bearer certificates of stock for voting purposes. Such corporation shall have the right to appoint and prescribe the duties of, fix the compensation and remove at pleasure its agent or agents at such agencies, and also to establish rules.

and regulations for registering and depositing bearer certificates of stock, and may at any time close up or terminate any such agency.

agency. Whenever at any meeting of the stockholders of such corporation for election or other purposes any such agent shall certify to the corporation in such manner as it inay prescribe, that there is registered and deposited with him, to be held by him until after the meeting for which such registration and deposit shall have been made, a bearer certificate or certificates describing each by its face number, number of shares represented and date of issue, and stating when and by whom deposited, the person who shall have made such deposit, may, in writing attested by such agent, appoint some suitabie person to represent him at such meeting as his proxy and there vote the shares of stock represented by his said bearer certificate or certificates so deposited; and thereupon the person to whom such proxy shall have been given may vote the shares of stock represented by such bearer certificate or certificates in all matters and things upon which votes are cast or had at such meeting.

Section 3. It shall not be necessary for the corporation or its officers or trustees or directors to give any personal notice or notice by mail to holders or bearers of such bearer certificates of any meeting of stockholders for the purpose, of electing trustees or directors, or for any other purpose, or of any action taken or proposed to be taken by such corporation or its stockholders or its trustees or its directors at any meeting, but such notice may, in every case, be given to such holders or bearers of bearer certificates by publication in a newspaper as now provided by law and shall be valid and binding. Every holder of a bearer certificate shall be held to have waived any notice of any stockholders meeting for any purpose, or of any action or proposed action of the corporation or its stockholders or trustees or directors except notice by publication in some newspaper when it is required by law.

Section 4. Except as herein provided stock or shares of stock represented by a bearer certificate can only be voted or represented by actual production of such bearer certificate at the time of voting or representation and by the bearer thereof. In all cases the actual production of a bearer certificate shall, so far as the corporation is concerned be conclusive evidence of the bearer's right to vote or represent the shares it represents.

Section 5. Dividends to holders of bearer certificates shall only be paid to the bearers thereof upon production of such certificates, except where such certificates of stock have attached to them dividend coupons