other buildings in the neighborhood from fire, shall be deemed guilty of establishing, or keeping and maintaining a public nuisance, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not to exceed one hundred dollars. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 24th, 1874. AN ACT to provide for the redemption of the funded debt of Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: Section 1. The county commissioners of the county of Lewis and Clarke are here authorized to issue bonds and sell the same to the highest bidder of Lewis and for cash, in accordance with the provisions of this Commissioners Clarke county may issue and act. sell bonds. directions as to bond. Sec. 2. The bonds authorized to be issued in section one of this act shall bear interest at a rate of ten per cent per annum, and shall be of the deProvisions and nomination of one hundred, five hundred, and one thousand dollars, each, in the discretion of the board of county commissioners, 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 county commissioners of the county of Lewis and Clarke shall cause to be advertised in one or more newspapers of said county, for so long a Commissioners time as may be necessary, a notice stating at what tice of sale of time any sale of bonds in accordance with the provisions of this act will take place. to advertise no bonds. redeemable Sec. 4. The bonds authorized to be issued by this act shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the When bonds county, at any time after three years, and payable and payable. within seven years from the date of their issue. sales how dis Sec. 5. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the "Sinking Fund," and shall be applied to the payment of the interest on the bonds Proceeds of of said county as the same may become due and posed of. payable, and to the redemption of the bonds of said county now outstanding, which may become due and payable, and for the redemption of which a sufficient sum has not accumulated under and by virtue of the provisions of "An Act relating to counties and county officers," approved January 12th, 1872. Sec. 6. All other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 13th, 1874. Acts repealed. AN ACT to provide for the support and maintenance of the Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Terri- Section 1. That the county commissioners of Lewis and Clarke county be and they are hereby authorized to levy a special tax, not to exceed one commissioners mill on each dollar annually, upon all property Clarke county within the town of Helena, liable to taxation, both levy tax to supreal and personal, for the support and maintenance fire departof the Helena fire department. of Lewis and authorized to port Helena ment. ing tax. County treasur Sec. 2. That the tax provided in the preceding Mode of levy section shall be levied in the same manner and at the same time as are the general taxes of said er to collect county of Lewis and Clarke; and it is hereby made the duty of the county treasurer of said county to collect said tax in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are collected in said county. tax. Tax known as "Fire Tax," same to whom paid. Treasurer of ment to give bond. Sec. 3. That this tax shall be known as the "Fire Tax," and shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the Helena fire department. Sec. 4. That the treasurer of the Helena fire department, before said tax shall be paid to him as fire depart herein before provided, shall file in the office of the county clerk of said county a bond, executed to the board of county commissioners of said county, with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the board, and in such penal sum as they may direct, conditional that he will faithfully and honestly disburse and pay out said sum of money so paid to him by the county treasurer as aforesaid; and the said Same officer to treasurer of the Helena fire department is hereby county com- required to make a fair, correct and complete report of the expenditures of all moneys, received by him from the county treasurer, to the county commissioners of said county, at their annual meeting or at such other times as they may direct. make report to missioners. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY.-The foregoing act having been presented to the governor of the territory for his approval, was, on the 17th day of January, 1874, returned to the council, in which it originated, without his approval and with his objections thereto; the objections were entered at large upon the journal of the council. The vote by which the bill was passed was then reconsidered, and on the question "Shall this bill pass, the objections of the governor to the contrary notwithstanding?" it was passed by a two-thirds vote of the council. The act was then immediately sent to the house of representatives, together with the objections of the governor; the vote by which the act was passed by the house was then reconsidered, and upon the question, "Shall this bill pass, the objections of the governor to the contrary notwithstanding?" it was also passed by a two-thirds vote of the house. AN ACT in relation to a fire tax in the town of Helena, Lewis and Clarke county. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: Fire tax levied ena for year Section 1. That for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, a special tax, known as in town of Helthe "Fire Tax," shall be levied by the board of 1874. county commissioners of Lewis and Clarke county, at the next regular session thereof, in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled, " An Act to provide for the support and maintenance of the Helena fire department," which shall be collected in the same manner as provided in said act, and thereafter the said tax shall be levied in the manner provided in said act. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 13, 1874. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act authorizing the county commissioners of Missoula county to levy a special tax, for the purpose of building, buying, and repairing bridges." Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana: Section 1. That an act entitled "An Act authorizing the county commissioners of Missoula county to levy a special tax, for the purpose of building, buying, and repairing bridges," approved December 30, 1871, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 1. That the county commissioners of Missoula county be and they are hereby authorized to Act amended. levy a special tax, not to exceed five (5) mills on of Missoula the dollar, for the term of eight (8) years, upon Commissioners County author special tax to bridges, &c. ized to levy all property in said county liable to taxation, for buy and build the purpose of building, buying, and repairing bridges in said county, and for such other purposes as are hereinafter mentioned: Provided, that not more than four thousand one hundred dollars of the said 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. Commissioners buy toll roads, Sec. 2. That the said commissioners be and they authorized to are hereby authorized to purchase any or all toll bridges, &c. roads or toll bridges in said county: Provided, that said board of commissioners shall deem such purchase conducive to the interest of the people of said county; And provided, further, that no contract for the purchase of any grade, road, bridge, or franOpinion of dis- chise shall be made, nor shall any purchase of them as to title to be or any of them be made, until after an examination trict attorney obtained. payment. of the title of the person proposing to sell the same, the district attorney of the second judicial district shall report to said board of county commissioners that such title of the proposed seller, in his opinion, is valid. said Sec. 3. That the moneys so collected shall be known as the "Bridge and Road Purchase Fund," and the said board of commissioners be and they Provisions for are hereby autherized to draw warrants upon fund, for the purposes set forth in sections one and two of this act, and that said warrants shall draw inLimitations as terest at the rate of ten per cent per annum: Provided, rants for such that the said board of commissioners shall not issue to issue of war purposes. Repealing clause. warrants to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year. Sec. 4. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |