district court, who being present, both shall, in order to prevent fraud, minutely examine each skin presented and should such examination disclose that the scalp and ears, with the skin from the entire head of such animal or animals, and the upper jaw attached thereto, has not been severed, punched, patched, or in any manner marked, the county clerk shall there, in the presence of the other official named above, mark each skin by severing just behind the ears, the entire skin of the head and face, including upper jaw attached thereto, embracing both ears, and then re-deliver the skin or skins to the person presenting the same, and shall, at the same time, make out and deliver to said person a certificate showing the number and kind of skins so marked by such severing, and the name of the person presenting, the fact of the filing of the affidavit herein provided for, and the examination made as required, and said certificate shall be duly signed by him in his official capacity and attested by the officer officiating with him; Provided, that when any doubt shall exist as to the kind of skin or skins presented, whether wolf or coyote, certificate shall be issued for the lesser bounty; and said county clerk shall keep a record in a bound book, of all skins so marked and severed, showing the date, number and kinds, the names of the persons presenting the same and the name of the witnesses, which book shall be of official record; and the county clerk shall also retain the pieces of the skin or skins, severed by him, preserving, tagging and sealing the same on a wire kept for that purpose, to be preserved by him for public inspection, for a period of thirty days after such marking or severing, or until the same shall have been examined and inspected as hereinafter provided for; said pieces of skin or skins and the tag thereon to check and correspond with the description of same entered in said bound book as an official record; and at the expiration of said thirty days, the county clerk shall, in the presence of the other officer acting with him in the examination of the skin or skins, and of the chairman or chairman pro tem of the Boar dof County Commissioners hereinafter mentioned, destroy with fire such pieces of skin so severed by him and sealed on such wire for public inspection. And it shall be the duty of the chairman or chairman pro tem of the Board of County Commissioners to inspect, at least once in thirty days, the scalps or pieces of skins so retained by the county clerk and preserved and sealed on a wire as hereinabove described, and shall see that such scalps or pieces of skin check with the record of same kept by the county clerk, and that such scalps or pieces are destroyed in his presence; and in case any errors, fraud or irregularities of any sort are discovered in said record or in the pieces of skin or scalps so retained by the said clerk, the chairman, or chairinan pro tem of the Board of County Commissioners, shall at once make report of same to the county attorney of the county in which such inspection is held. All services rendered by officials under this Act shall be without fee and charge. Section 4. That Sec. 3076 of Article VIII., Chapter V., Title VII., Part III., of the Political Code be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3076. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of each county in this State, at the time of the levy of the annual tax, to levy a special tax of five mills on the dollar upon the assessed valuation of all cattle, horses, mules, asses and sheep in their respective counties, which tax shall be collected as other taxes upon like property, and when so collected shall be paid into the State Bounty Fund aforesaid, which said fund shall be preserved inviolate for the payment of bounties hereinabove provided for. And any county commissioner who shall refuse or interfere to prevent the levy of the tax aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 5. That Sec. 3079 of Article VIII., Chapter V., Title VII., Part III., of the Political Code be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3079. Any person or persons who shall patch up any skin or scalp, or who shall present any punched or patched skin or scalp, or who shall bring in any skin or skins from other States or Territory, with intent to obtain the bounty on same fraudulently, or any officer who shall sign any certificate herein provided for without first counting the skins and examining same to determine the kind of skins, and to see that the skin from the scalp or head is properly severed and preserved as hereinbefore provided, or shall evade any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and that two-thirds of the fine, if the same is collected, or can be collected, be given to the informer, and the balance be covered into the State Bounty Fund. Section 6. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 7. This Act shall take effect and be in full force sixty days from and after its passage and approval. Approved Feb'y 27th 1899. SENATE BILL NO. 41. An Act to Amend Sections 3161 and 3162, of Chapter IX, Title VII of Part III of the Political code, relating to the recording of trade marks. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Sectoin 1. That Sections 3161 and 3162, Chapter IX, Title VII, Part III, of the Political Code, be amended to read as follows: Sectoin 3161 Any person may record any trade mark or name, by filing with the Secretary of State his claim to the same, and a copy or description of such trade mark or name, with his affidavit attached thereto, certified to by any officer authorized to take acknowledgements of conveyances, setting forth that he, or the firm or corporation of which he is a member, is the exclusive owner, or agent of the owner of such trade mark or name. Section 3162. The Secretary of State must keep for public examination a record of all trade marks or names filed in his office, with the date when filed and the name of the claimant, and must not record any two like trade marks or names. He must at the time of filing and recording a trade mark or name, collect from the claimant a fee of three dollars. Section 2. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Section 3. HOUSE BILL NO. 37. An Act entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to Prevent the sale of Liquors on Credit:" Approved March 1, 1897. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Section I. That the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, entitled "An Act to prevent the sale of liquors on credit," consisting of four sections, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, and approved March 1st, 1897, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved Feb. 16th 1899. HOUSE BILL NO. 121. An Act to enable the State of Montana to purchase 300 Maps for State and School purposes. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana. Section I. Messers. Hibbard and Van Hook of Helena, Montana be and they are hereby authorized to compile and draft, and cause to be lithographed, at their own expense, a map of the State of Montana, which shall represent all government surveys, so far as they are extended and have been or shall be officially returned to the surveyor general's office of this State on or before April first, 1899, the location of all reservations, railroads, county boundaries, cities, towns, and places of public interest; said map shall further show all changes of county lines that may be made by the Sixth Legislative Assembly, also the rivers, creeks, streams, mountains, mountain ranges and valleys of the State. Section 2. Said map when completed and approved as hereinafter provided shall be known as the Hibbard and Van Hook official map of Montana, and be published at their own expense. Section 3. Said map when completed shall be submitted to the Covernor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the United States Surveyor General for Montana, and if approved by the majority of them, they shall endorse thereon a certificate of the fact of such approval, which may be published with such maps. Section 4. Said maps shall not be less than fifty inches long by thirty three inches wide in size, and shall be of a scale of not less than twelve miles to the inch, and shall be printed or lithographed upon a good quality of paper commonly used for such purposes. Section 5. Upon the publication and approval of said map, on or before the first day of July 1899, the Auditor of the State shall purchase from said Hibbard and Van Hook three hundred copies thereof mounted on cloth, and with rollers, at the price of two dollars per copy, for the use of the State to be distributed as hereinafter provided, and shall draw a warrant on the State Treasurer, on the delivery of said maps to his office, in payment of the same. Section 6. Said maps shall be distributed by the State Auditor as follows: One each to the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Superintendent Public Instruction and to every State officer whether elective or appointive. Three copies shall be distributed to the State Historical Society, four copies to each State school in Montana, and two copies to the Montana Law Library. One copy shall be delivered to the County Clerk of each county for the use of the County Commissioners of the county, and the remainder of said maps shall be delivered by the Auditor to the County Superintendents of Schools for the use of the common schools of the State in a fair and equitable manner having regard to the number of schools in each county. Section 7. The State shall in no way or manner become liable for the expense of making or publishing said maps. Section 8. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. .Approved March 2nd 1899 HOUSE BILL NO. 70. An Act Authorizing and Regulating the Incorporation of Sole Corporations and Denfining their Powers. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana : Section I. Whenever the rules, regulating or discipline, of any religious denomination, society, or church, permit or require the estate, property, temporalities, and business thereof, to be held in the name |