CHAPTER XCVIII. An Act making Certain Appropriations. SECTION 1. Appropriation to pay expenses of transporting coin from New York to St. 2. Payment of Interest on Territorial Bonds, $1220. 1. Payment of expenses of Legislature, and mileage in contested election case, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: porting col to St SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, ($1125,) or so much thereof as may be Expenses of trans necessary, is hereby appropriated for the payment of Express Paul charges which may be incurred in the transportation of Coin to St Paul, in case of the negotiation of the loan to the State by Act of March 13, 185. SEC. 2. The sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty. dollars, ($1220,) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the principal and interest due on Territorial bonds, issued by Act of May 23, 1857. SEC. 3. That the sum of forty-six thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, out of any money remaining in the Treasury, for the payment of the per diem, postage, and stationery, of the members and officers of the present adjourned Session of the Legislature, to be computed from the second day of June, 1858, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same upon presentation to him of the Certificate properly signed and attested by the officers of the Senate or House of Representatives. That the sum of ninety-six dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, for mileage and pe diem of Patrick Fitzsimmons, as witness in the contested election of Kingsley and Dunham, for which the Clerk's Certificate has been issned. SEC. 4. This Act shall effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS COWAN, President pro tem. of the Senate. APPROVED June twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. WILLIAM HOLCOMBE, Governor, ad interim. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original on file in this office. FRANCIS BAASEN, Secretary of State. Interest on territorial bonds Expenses of Leg islature APPENDIX. ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1858, BUT REPEALED BY SUBSEQUENT ACTS. See Chapters 32 and 75.] An Act to authorize the business of Banking. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and required to appoint, every two years, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Bank Comptroller, who shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified; Provided, That the first appointment under this Act shall expire on the first Monday in January, A. D. 1860. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly. Within ten days from the time of notice of his appointment, the Bank Comptroller shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State, and shall give to the State Minnesota a bond in the penalty of fifty thousand dollars, with not less than five sureties, to be approved by the Governor and Secretary of State, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and he shall not directly or indirectly be interested in any bank or banking association, or as an individual banker. SEC. 2. The Bank Comptroller shall keep his office at the seat of government of this State, and carry into effect the provisions of this Act in the manner hereinafter specified. SEC. 3. In case the office of Bank Comptroller shall become vacant or in case the Comptroller from any cause shall be incapable of discharging the duties of said office, the Governor of this State, shall appoint a suitable person to perform the duties of Bank Comptroller, and the so appointed shall be invested with all the powers, receive the same salary, and shall perform all the duties of such Comptroller until such vacancy is filled, or such disability be removed, and he shall give bonds in the same manner as is required of the Comptroller in the first Section of this Act. SEC. 4. All the expenses incurred in and about the conducting the business of the said department, including the salary of the said Comptroller, shall be defrayed and paid by the banking associations and bankers in whose behalf they are incurred. The expenses incurred and |