CHAPTER XCIII.

SWINE.

AN ACT to prevent swine from running at large.

Section 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any owner or owners of swine to permit the same to run at large.

Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in the sum of ten dollars for the first offence, and in an additional sum of twenty dollars for each subsequent offence, and shall be liable in damages to any party injured thereby, to be recovered in any court having competent jurisdiction: Provided, That the visions of this act shall not apply to Missoula County.

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Sec. 3. That all fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury for the use and benefit of the common school of said county.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force sixty days after its passage.

Approved December 27, 1871.

CHAPTER XCIV.

COUNTY WARRANTS.

(See ante chap. 27.)

AN ACT concerning county warrants and for other purposes. Section 1. No county warrants issued after the passage of this act shall bear interest.

Sec. 2. One-fourth of all taxes hereafter collected for county purposes may be paid in county warrants, and no more than onefourth of the county tax shall be paid in county warrants, whether they are in the person's name so paying or not.

Sec. 3. All county bonds hereafter issued in pursuance of law, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed twelve per cent. per

annum.

Sec. 4. The county clerk of each county shall, in issuing warrants for any county indebtedness, issue to each creditor of said county the amount of his claim in one or more warrants, as said creditor may elect : Provided, That no county warrant shall be issued for a sum less than one dollar, unless the whole amount of any individual claim may be less than that sum.

Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts in any wise conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 11, 1872.

SPECIAL LAWS, MEMORIALS,

AND

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to locate the seat of government in and for the territory of Montana," passed January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

Section 1. That the seat of government in and for the territory of Montana be, and the same is, hereby located at the town of "Deer Lodge City," in Deer Lodge County, Montana Territory.

Sec. 2. That the question of locating the seat of government in and for Montana Territory shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the territory at the annual election to be holden on the first Monday in August, A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

Sec. 3. If a majority of all the votes cast shall designate the town of Deer Lodge City as the seat of government, it shall, by proclamation of the governor, be so declared, or if a majority so voting shall designate Virginia City, Madison County, Montana Territory, the governor, by his proclamation, shall so declare it, and the place having a majority of the votes cast shall be the seat of government of the territory.

Sec. 4. The ballots shall be headed, "For the Seat of Government of Montana Territory," and the elector shall write, or cause to be written or printed, under said caption, the name of the place he desires to vote for.

Sec. 5. That all acts and parts of acts in any way conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 12, 1872.

AN ACT to provide for the redemption of the funded debt of Lewis and Clark County.

Section 1. The county commissioners of the county of Lewis and Clark are hereby authorized to issue bonds to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars in accordance with the provisions of this

act.

Sec. 2. The bonds authorized to be issued by the preceding section shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed fifteen per cent. per annum, and shall be of the denomination of one hundred, five hundred, and one thousand dollars each, in the discretion of the board, and shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and the county treasurer, and shall be sealed and countersigned by the county clerk.

Sec. 3. The provisions of an act approved November 22, 1867, entitled "An act to authorize the county commissioners of the several counties of the territory of Montana to fund the debt of their respective counties," so far as they do not conflict with the provisions of this act, shall be applicable to the bonds authorized to be issued in section one of this act.

Sec. 4. The county commissioners of the county of Lewis and Clark shall cause to be advertised in one newspaper of said county, for so long a time as may be necessary, a notice to the effect that they will sell to the highest bidder the said fifteen thousand dollars of bonds, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes of this act.

Sec. 5. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be applied to the redemption and payment of the bonds of said county now outstanding and unpaid, and which will become due in the months of February and May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and and seventy-two.

Sec. 6. All bonds which may hereafter be issued, as well as the bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this act, by the county commissioners of the county of Lewis and Clark, shall be issued strictly in (conformance) with the provisions of section six of an act entitled "An act to authorize the county commissioners of the several counties of the territory of Montana to fund the debt of their respective counties."

Sec. 7. All bonds hereafter issued by the board of county commissioners of said county, in pursuance of any law, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed fifteen per cent. per annum, said rate to be fixed by said board.

Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 11, 1872.

AN ACT authorizing the county commissioners of Missoula County to levy a special tax for the purpose of building, buying, and repairing bridges.

Section 1. That the county commissioners of Missoula County be, and they are hereby, authorized to levy a special tax, not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar, for the term of three years, upon all property in said connty liable to taxation, for the purpose of building, buying, and repairing bridges in said county, and for such other purpose as is hereafter mentioned: Provided, That not more than three thousand five hundred dollars of the tax collected under the provisions of this act shall be expended for the purpose of building a bridge across the Hell Gate River, at or near Missoula Mills, in said county.

Sec. 2. That the said commissioners be, and they are hereby, authorized to purchase any or all toll roads or toll bridges in said. county: Provided, That said board of commissioners shall deem such purchases conducive to the interest of the people of said county.

Sec. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 30, 1871.

AN ACT for the relief of Missoula County.

Section 1. That in the next settlement by the treasurer of Missoula County with the treasurer of the territory, the treasurer of the territory shall credit said Missoula County (with the) sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars, the same as if on such settlement or settlements such county treasurer had actually paid the same; and the said county treasurer shall transfer that sum of money from the territorial to the county fund thereof, and shall be liable for the same thereafter, the same as if it was collected as county fund.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 12, 1872.

AN ACT to provide for the pay of the members, officers, and employees of the legislative assembly of the territory of Montana.

Section 1. The per diem of members, officers, and employees of the legislative assembly, in addition to the compensation now

provided by the Government of the United States, is hereby fixed as follows to each member of the assembly, the sum of six dollars per day; to each chief clerk, the sum of six dollars per day; to each assistant clerk, the sum of six dollars per day; to each enrolling clerk, the sum of five dollars per day; to each engrossing clerk, the sum of five dollars per day; to each additional assistant clerk, when necessary to employ such, the sum of six dollars per day; to clerk of a committee, when necessary to employ such, the sum of five dollars per day; to each sergeant-at-arms, the sum of five dollars per day; to each fireman, the sum of five dollars per day; to each door-keeper, the sum of five dollars per day; to each page, the sum of three dollars per day; to each chaplain, the sum of two and one-half dollars per day: Provided, That for each dollar which the United States may hereafter add to the sum which it now or may hereafter provide for any of the members, officers, or employees named herein, the sum of one dollar shall be deducted from the sum herein provided to be paid to such member, officer, or employee, out of the territorial treasury.

Sec. 2. The sums appropriated in the first section of this act shall be due and payable to the members, officers, and employees therein named at the end of each week of the several sessions of the legislative assembly, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated; and the territorial auditor shall issue his warrant on the territorial treasurer, in accordance herewith.

Sec. 3. That all acts and part of acts, providing any additional or extra compensation to any appointee of the United States government, to be paid out of the treasury of this territory, be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. That an act entitled "An act to provide increased compensation to officers in this territory," approved January 24, 1865, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 8, 1872.

AN ACT to provide for the compensation of Newton Dickenson for services rendered the territory of Montana.

Section 1. There shall be, and is hereby appropriated out of the territorial treasury, the sum of one thousand dollars to Newton Dickenson, for money expended in the pursuit, recapture, and recommitment to jail of territorial prisoners, Sam Hughes, Chas. Littlefield, and James Thompson, who escaped from jail at Deer Lodge City, February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and