LAWS OF MONTANA. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act relative to elections, approved January 17, 1865." Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Mon tana: SECTION 1. That in addition to the duties already assigned them, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county to cause to be provided for the several election precincts in each county, poll books, after the forms hereinafter prescribed. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of said board to deliver to the sheriff of the county two copies of said blanks, to be furnished to the judges of each precinct at the same time the notices are served on said judges, as provided in section five (5) of the act, which this act is amendatory. SEC. 3. The judge having the key, shall keep it in his own possession and deliver it again to the board at the next opening of the polls, and the person having the care of the box, shall carefully keep it without opening it, or suffer it to be opened, or the seal thereof to be broken or removed, and shall publicly in that condition deliver it to the board of judges at the next opening of the polls, when the seal shall be broken, the box opered, the poll books taken out, and the box again locked. That the judges having the custody of the key, box, and poll books, who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requirements of this section, shall be guility of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars, or more than ten thousand dollars, together with imprisonment not less than three months or more than one year, or by such fine and imprisonment as a court of competent jurisdiction may see fit to impose. SEC. 4. Such poll books and oaths shall be in the following form: TERRITORY OF MONTANA, SS. We, and do solemnly swear that we will perform the duty of judges of the election according to law, and to the best of our ability, and that we will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same, so help me God. We, and, do solemnly swear that we will faithfully perform the duties of clerks of the election, according to law and to the best of our ability, and that we will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same, so help us God. At an election held at, in precinct No. county of -, in the territory of Montana, the following named persons received the number of votes annexed to their respective names, for the following offices; to wit:Certified to by us, Judges. Clerks. SECTION 5. It is hereby made the duty of the sheriff, at the time he delivers the poll books, as provided in section two (2) of this act, to administer the oath, as prescribed by section three (3) of this act, to at least one of the judges of the election, and such judge may administer the oath to the other judges and clerks of such elections. In case such judges fail to serve at such election, either of the other judges may administer such oath. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This to 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, and not having been returned by him to the house of the legislative assembly in which it originated, within the time prescribed by the Organic Act of the territory, has become a law without his approval.] AN ACT concerning Licenses. Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the territory of Mon tana: SECTION 1. There shall be levied and collected by the tax collector, a license tax, as follows: First, from each billiard table kept for public use, ten dollars per quarter; second, from the manager or lessee of every theater, five dollars per day, or thirty dollars per month; and for each exhibition of opera or concert singers, minstrels, sleight-of-hand performers, legerdemain, and all other shows or exhibitions, the same as required for theatrical performances; third, all dance houses, or hurdy-gurdy houses, shall pay a license of ten dollars per day, or one hundred dollars per month; fourth, for each and every insurance company, agent, or agency transacting business in this territory, the sum of one hundred dollars per year, to be paid by the principal agent of the territory; fifth, each pawn-broker, twenty-five dollars per quarter; sixth, for each keeper of an intelligence office, ten dollars per quarter; seventh, from each assayer, fifteen dollars per quarter: Provided, They shall work for a compensation. Each professional man, before practicing as such, all lawyers, dentists, physicians, surgeons, and all other professions, shall pay a license of sixteen dollars per annum. SEC. 2. All keepers of livery and feed stables shall pay a license of fifteen dollars per quarter; all keepers of hay yards, corrals for feeding stock, or selling hay, shall pay a license of eight dollars per quarter; and all herders, who keep or herd stock for hire, shall pay a license of ten dollars per quarter; ranchmen, whose receipts for herding stock exceed twenty dollars per month, shall pay the same license as herders; all keepers of liveries, who keep buggies, carriages, sleighs, and other vehicles, shall pay a license of two dollars and fifty cents for each and every vehicle per quarter, in addition to the fifteen dollars above provided. SEC. 3. Every person keeping a bakery or confectionery, shall pay a license as follows: Those doing business amounting to two thousand dollars per month in the aggregate, shall pay a license of fifteen dollars per quarter; those doing business amounting to one thousand dollars, and not exceeding two thousand dollars per month, shall pay ten dollars per quarter; and all doing such business in an amount less than one thousand dollars per month, shall pay a license of six dollars per quarter; and all barbers shall pay a license of five dollars per quarter for each chair used. |