HOUSE BILL NO. 166.

An Act providing for the submission to the Electors of the State of Montana for their Approval or Rejection an amendment to Section 5., Article VIII, of the Constitution of the State of Montana, relative to Justices of the Supreme Court.

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

Section 1. There shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State of Montana at the next general election to be held within the State, the following amendment to Section 5., Article VIII, of the Constitution of the State of Montana, relating to the Supreme Court.

Section 2. Section 5 of Article VIII shall be amended as follows:

"The Supreme Court shall consist of three Justices, a majority of whom shall be necessary to form a quorum or pronounce a decision, but one or more of said Justices may adjourn the Court from day to day, or to a day certain and the Legislative Assembly shall have the power to increase the number of said Justices to not less nor more than five. In case any Justice or Justices of the Supreme Court shall be in any way disqualified to sit in a cause brought before such Court, the remaining Justice or Justices shall have power to call on one or more of the District Judges of this State as in the particular case may be necessary to constitute the full number of Justices of which the said Court shall then be composed, to sit with them on the hearing of said cause. In all cases where a District Judge is invited to sit and does sit as by this Section provided, the decision and opinion of such District Judge shall have the same force and effect in any cause heard before the Court as if regularly participated in by a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Section 3. The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and canvassed by such persons and in such manner as provided by law for the counting and canvassing of the vote for members of Congress, and, if a majority of all the votes cast at said election for and against said amendment shall be in favor of the amendment, the Governor of the State shall immediately so declare by public proclamation, and said amendment shall be in full force and effect as part of the Constitution from and after the date of said proclamation.

Section 4. The official ballot used at the general election held in November, 1898, shall have printed thereon the following words:

"For the amendment to the Constitution relating to the Supreme Court," and the words "Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to the Supreme Court."

Approved March 3, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 4.

An Act to provide for the use of the International Typographical Union Label on all State Printing.

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

Section 1. All printing for which the State of Montana is chargeable, including reports of State Officers, State Boards, Pamphlets, Blanks, Letter-heads, Envelopes, and printed matter of every kind and description, save and except certificates of appointment and election to office, shall have the label of the branch of the International Typographical Union of the city in which they are printed.

Section 2. Any officer of the State who shall accept any printed matter, save and except certificates named in Section 1, for which the State is chargeable, which does not bear a label indicating that it was printed in an office under the jurisdiction of the International Typographical Union, shall be subject to a fine of Fifty Dollars for each and every offense.

Section 3. This law shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 3, 1897.

SENATE BILL NO. 1.

An Act to provide for the erection, completion, furnishing and equipment of buildings for the University of Montana.

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

Section 1. The State Board of Land Commissioners of the State of Montana is hereby authorized to issue bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), the minimum denomination of which

shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) and the maximum denomination shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) each; said bonds to be known as the State University Bonds, which shall bear date of July first 1897 to become due thirty (30) years after date and payable after twenty (20) years after date thereof; said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not more than six (6) per cent per annum payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July of each year at the office of the State Treasurer of the State of Montana; said bonds shall run from the State Board of Land Commissioners of the State of Montana to bearer, and shall be signed by the State Board of Land Commissioners and countersigned by the Secretary of State, who shall attach his seal thereto.

Section 2. The bonds provided for in the first section of this Act shall be issued and sold as soon as possible after the passage of this Act. Section 3. All funds realized from the sales of licenses to cut trees, leasing of said lands, or from the profits arising from the permanent fund to be created, as provided for by section 14 of an Act of Congress, approved February 22, 1889, entitled "An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington to form constitutions and. State Governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the Original States and to make donations of public lands to such States" (said land being forty six thousand and eighty (46080) acres, granted to the Territory of Montana by the Act of February 18, 1881 and vested in the State of Montana by the Act of February 22, 1889) for the establishment and maintenance of a University; are hereby pledged as security for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds authorized by this Act, and all revenue or profits derived from the said lands or said permanent fund to be created, or any of them, whether on account of lease, sales of licenses to cut trees, or otherwise, are hereby set apart and shall constitute a fund for the payment as hereinafter provided of the principal and interest of the said bonds, which bonds shall be a first lien on said University Bond Fund.

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to keep all moneys derived from the University lands hereinbefore mentioned in a separate fund, to be known and designated as the University Bond Fund and out of the moneys of such fund, he shall pay after approval by the State Board of Examiners:

First: The cost and expenses of issuing of the bonds herein provided for

Second: The interest on the bonds herein authorized when due and, Third: When bonds shall become payable, he shall call in and pay them as rapidly as the moneys in such fund will permit after providing for the interest. That in the event there shall not be sufficient funds in the University Bond Fund to pay the interest when due, the State Board of Examiners shall, by an order entered upon their minutes cause warrants to be issued on the University Bond Fund for the amount of the interest due, and the warrants so issued shall draw interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum, and said warrants shall be paid by the Treasurer as soon as sufficient funds accumulate in said fund to pay the same, and by reason of the delivery of the said warrants to the holders of the said bonds in satisfaction of the accrued interest, there shall be no default in the payment of the interest.

Section 5. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to give notice, by advertising for not less than two (2) weeks daily in one newspaper, published in the city of Helena, Montana, and in one newspaper published in the city of New York that he will on April fifth, 1897 sell one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) of the bonds herein authorized and will receive bids therefor and said bonds shall on said day be by him sold to the highest bidder: Provided, that the State Board of Education shall open all bids and shall have the right to reject any or all bids. If no bids are then received and accepted said bonds may then be sold afterwards at private sale, provided however, that none of the said bonds shall at any time be sold at less than par.

Section 6. The moneys derived from the sale of the said bonds shall be used to erect, furnish and equip buildings for the use and benefit of the University of Montana at the City of Missoula in said State, and shall by the State Treasurer be paid out on the warrants of the building commission of said University as hereafter provided.

Section 7. There is hereby created a building commission to be composed of five persons to be appointed by the Governor of the State, no more than two of whom shall be of the same political party and all residents of the City of Missoula, who shall serve without compensation, whose duty it shall be to contract for the erection and furnishing of suitable buildings for the use and benefit of the University of Montana, the said commission shall have charge and supervision over the construction. of said buildings and all things pertaining thereto; and shall have authority from time to time to draw their warrants on the Treasurer of the State

of Montana for such sum or sums as may be due any contractor or employee engaged in and about the erection of the said buildings which warrants shall be paid by the said State Treasurer out of any funds in his hands arising from the sale of bonds provided for in this act. Said Building Commission is hereby authorized to employ an architect and such other assistants as it may deem necessary in preparing the plans, specifications and superintending the construction of said building and the expense thereof shall be paid out of the funds as hereinbefore provided for the erection of said buildings, provided that all architects, superintendents and contractors shall be citizens of the State of Montana. Said Commission shall make report from time to time, to the stated meetings of the State Board of Education, of the progress of said work and the expenditures therefor.

Section 8. The State of Montana shall in no wise be held liable for the payment of the bonds herein authorized or interest thereon. Approved March 4th, 1897.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1.

An Act to create a Board of Text Book Commissioners for the purpose of establishing a uniform series of text-books for the public schools of Montana and to regulate the supply of the same, defining the duties and powers of said Board, and to appropriate for their expenses a sum of money therein named.

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

Section 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Attorney General, the President of the University, the President of the Agricultural College and three public school teachers actively engaged in public school work of the State, which said teachers shall be appointed by the Governor shall constitute a State Board of Text-book Commissioners, and who shall perform the duties hereinafter provided, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be chairman of such Board.

Section 2. The State Board of Text-book Commissioners shall meet at the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the City of Helena, Montana, on the first Monday of May, 1897, for the purpose of selecting and adopting a uniform series of text-books for use in all public