Montana, as Amended by Chapter LXIV of the Laws of 1903, be Amended so as to read as follows: Section 1054. Every person who wilfully or maliciously commits any trespass by either: 1. Cutting down, destroying or injuring any kind Cutting of wood or timber standing or growing upon the lands timber. of another; or 2. Carrying away any kind of timber or wood lying Carrying on such lands; or away timber. freehold. 3. Maliciously injuring or severing from the free- Severing from hold of another anything attached thereto or the produce thereof; or soil or stone. 4. Digging, taking or carrying away from any lot Taking earth, situated within the limits of any incorporated city without the license of the owner or legal occupant thereof, any earth, soil, or stone; or Taking earth, or stone from platted land in city. 5. Digging, taking or carrying away from any land in any cities of the state, laid down on the map or plan soil of said cities otherwise recognized or established as a street or alley, avenue or park, without the license of the proper authorities, any earth, soil or stone; or 6. Putting up, fastening, printing or painting upon any property belonging to the state, or to any city, county, town or village, or dedicated to the public or upon any property of any person without license of the owner any notice, advertisement or designation thereof, or any name of any commodity, whether for sale or otherwise, or any picture, sign or device intended to call attention thereto; or Printing or painting advertisements belonging to on property state, city, county, etc. 7. Hunts without permission, upon the enclosed Hunting. premises of another; or dence, etc. 8. Destroying, defacing or injuring any door, win- Defacing residow or other portion of any vacant residence or other buildings, or maliciously opening any closed door or window of such buildings, or entering therein or on without the consent of the owner, agent or tenant of such premises or by authority of law, is guilty of misdemeanor. Misdemeanor. Repealing clause. When act takes effect. Section 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section, 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect, from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved Feb'y 9, 1905. Unlawful to give surety bond of corporation not having complied with laws of state. Bonds with organization not having complied with ty, void. CHAPTER 11. An Act Making it Unlawful for any person to require the Giving of Surety Bonds in corporations not authorized to transact business in the State of Montana. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, association or corporation, foreign or domestic, to require any person in his or its employ to make or execute, or to procure to be made or executed, any bond or undertaking for the faithful discharge of his duties, or upon any other consideration, with any corporation not organized under the laws of the State of Montana as surety thereon, unless said corporation shall first have complied with the laws of the State of Montana authorizing it to transact business therein. Section 2. All bonds and undertakings entered into by any citizen or resident of the state of Montana, with any such law, as sure- organization as surety, touching or affecting any services to be rendered or acts to be performed in the State of Montana, in whole or in part, unless such corporation shall first have complied with the laws of the State of Montana, shall be void. Failure to comply with law a misdemeanor. Section 3. Any person, association or corporation which shall exact or require of any person, or make it a condition of employment or the retention of employment, that he make or execute any bond or undertaking with any such corporation, having so failed to comply with the laws of the State of Montana entitling it to transact business therein, as surety thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars and not more than One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars. Section 4. Penalty. clause. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are Repealing hereby repealed. Section 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and When act after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved Feb❜y 9, 1905. takes effect. CHAPTER 12. An Act to Authorize and Empower Cities and Towns to Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Incorporated empowered to cities or towns establish pub lic bathing place. Section 1. That all cities or towns incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana, in addition to other powers conferred upon them, are hereby empowered and authorized to establish and maintain a Public Bathing Place within said city or town, and to defray the cost and expense of maintaining said Public Bathing Place, said city or town is hereby authorized and empowered to contract an indebtedness, upon behalf of said city or town, upon the credit thereof, by borrowing money or issuing bonds; provided that no money money and may be borrowed, and no bonds may be issued for said purpose, until the proposition has been submitted to the vote of the taxpayers affected thereby of the city or town, and a majority vote be cast therefor. May borrow issue bonds. To pass by laws and ordi Section 2. Power is hereby granted to the city or nances for es- town council of all cities and towns incorporated under tablishment and main tenance of place. the laws of the State of Montana, to make and pass all public bathing by-laws, ordinances, resolutions and orders necessary for the establishment, maintenance and regulation of a public bathing place within said city or town, including the power to establish by ordinance a reasonable and uniform charge for the privilege of using said bathing place. Repealing clause. When act takes effect. 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 by the Gov ernor. Approved Feb'y 10, 1905. Name of Lewis and CHAPTER 13. An Act to Correct the Spelling of the Name, "Lewis Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Section 1. That the Name of Lewis and Clarke County be, and Clarke County the same is hereby corrected in its spelling to read "Lewis and Clark County." corrected in spelling. Not to affect actions pending, etc. Repealing clause. When act takes effect. Section 2. That nothing contained in the foregoing Section shall affect any action or proceeding heretofore begun in said county, and no records, blanks or other printed matter now on hand in said County, containing the said name as now spelled, shall be affected by this Act. Section 3. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.. Section 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from an after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved Feb'y 10th, 1905. CHAPTER 14. An Act to Amend Section 2000 of the Political Code of Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Section 1. That Section 2000 of the Political Code of the State of Montana be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2000 Political Code, amended. created. Section 2000. A Library Fund is hereby created, and Library Fund the board of school trustees must expend the Library Fund, together with such moneys as may be added thereto by donation, in the purchase of books for a school library, including books for supplementary work, provided, that in school districts other than cities, maintaining a free public library and having a population of two thousand or more such Library Fund may, in the discretion of the board of trustees, be used for the payment of the Current Expenses for Maintenance of the expenses. Schools. Section 2. Fund may be used to pay current All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are Repealing hereby repealed. Section 3. clause. takes effect. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and When act after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved Feb'y 14th, 1905. CHAPTER 15. "An act Authorizing an Officer of a Corporation to take Oath for and on behalf of his Corporation where the Corporation is Authorized to Act as Trustee, Guardian, Executor, Administrator, or in any Fiduciary Capacity, and an Oath of Office is Required." |