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hundred (200) dollars nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than two nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 12. Any person or persons who shall swear falsely as a witness or procure the same to be done False Swearing by another for the purpose of obtaining or procuring from any Justice of the Peace of this State a certificate or order as in this act mentioned, shall be deemed guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury as the case may be and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years.

Repealing Clause

SEC. 13. That an Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment of bounties for the killing of certain stock destroying animals, approved Feb. 28th, 1889, and all Acts and part of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

APPROVED March 7th, 1891.

CODE COMMISSION.

Amendment to

Code Commis

An Act to Amend An Act of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, entitled: "An Act to Provide for the Appointment of a Commission to Codify the Criminal and Civil Law and Precedure, and to Revise, Complete and Arrange the Statute Laws of Montana, Approved March 14, 1889.

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

SECTION I. Section 3 of an act of the Legislasion Law of 1889. tive Assembly of the Territory of Montana, entitled:

"An act to provide for the appointment of a Commission to codify the criminal and civil law and precedure, and to revise, complete and arrange the statute laws of Montana," approved March 14, 1889, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Commission to File copy of each

SEC. 3. When the Commission shall have prepared and completed any one of the above mentioned codes, a copy of the same shall be filed in Code. the office of the Secretary of State and the same shall be submitted for action thereon to the Legislative Assembly of the State.

SEC. 2. Section 5 of this act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 5. Upon the completion and filing of any one of said codes as herein before provided, in the office of the Secretary of State, it shall be lawful for and it is the duty of the State Auditor to draw his warrant for the pro rata salaries of the Commission under the provisions of this act, to be paid by the State Treasurer out of any funds not otherwise appropriated. At any time after the filing of said codes in the office of the Secretary of State, the Code Commissioners may at any time withdraw them from said office for the purpose of alteration or revision.

SEC. 3.

Section 6 of said act is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. There are hereby added to said act as a part thereof, immediately after Section 5 thereof, six sections, numbered respectively 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and II, which last mentioned sections shall read as follows:

SEC. 5. The Code Commission must codify and include in their codification of the laws, in the proper volumes and under appropriate titles, chapters or articles, all of the laws of a general nature that may be enacted by the Second Legislative Assembly at its first regular session.

Pro rata Salary

To include in

Codes Acts of 2d sembly,

Legislative As

To index Codes

SEC. 6. The Code Commissioners must make for each of the four codes a complete working index to the contents thereof, alphabetically arranged and of sufficient particularity to refer to each section contained in said volumes and to the subject thereof, which index must be printed and bound in its appropriate volume, and must make a general index of like completeness and particularity, which must be printed and bound in one of said volumes.

SEC. 7. The political code must contain, in Political Code. addition to the other matter required, the Declaration of Independence, the act for the admission of Montana as a State, the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Montana; and the index to said code must contain a reference to each of the sections, subjects and articles of each of said instruments.

completed July 1st, 1891.

by

SEC. 8. Each of said codes and indices must be All Codes to be so far completed as to be in a condition to print by the first day of July, 1891, and as soon thereafter as possible the State Auditor must have five hundred copies of each of said codes printed in the same sized type and size of body type page as may be adopted by the Commissioners of Printing for the Revised Stattutes, and bound with paper covers, the Code Commissioners being required to read and correct the proof sheets of said volumes, the said volumes must be delivered to the State Auditor, corrected, printed 500 copies before and bound, on or before the fifteenth day of September, 1891.

Auditor to print

September 15th, 1891.

To distribute.

SEC. 9. Upon receipt of the printed codes, the Auditor must deliver one printed copy of each volume of said codes to each member of the Legislative Assembly, which printed volumes when so delivered, must have the effect of bills printed for the use of members of the Legislative Assembly, he shall also deliver one copy of each volume to each

Judge, or Magistrate, each State officer, each County Attorney, each Board of County Commissioners, and five copies of each volume to the Clerks of the District Courts of Montana, for examination by members of the bar, and to each member of the Code Commission, four copies of each volume, and fifty copies to the State Library for distribution by State Librarian.

SEC. IO. On or before the fist Monday in January, 1892, the Code Commissioners shall file four copies of their final report with the Secretary of State, which said report shall contain at length, all amendments that in their opinion may be necessary to harmonize and complete the Codes as printed, and each amendment so suggested must refer specifically to the section, title, chapter or article of the printed Code changed thereby. The Auditor must cause such final report to be printed for the use of the members of the Legislative Assembly.

SEC. II.

The Code Commissioners are entitled

Report of Code Commission.

Compensation of Commis

to receive for their services under this act, in addi-
tion to the compensation provided for in the act of
March 14th, 1889, a salary each of $1,500, payable sioners.
out of any funds in the State Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for which said salaries the
Auditor must draw his warrant upon the filing by
the Commissioners of their final report.
APPROVED March 6th, 1891.

JEFFERSON RIVER DAM.

An Act entitled, "An Act to allow the raising of the waters of the Jefferson River for irigating and other purposes."

son River.

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

SEC. I. That any person or persons, company Dams in Jeffer- or corporation, residents of this State may construct and maintain a dam across Jefferson River for the purpose of raising waters thereof for irrigating and mechanical purposes.

Damages.

When Act takes Effect.

SEC. 2. Should any person sustain damage by reason of such dam, the party or parties causing the damages shall be liable therefor to the party or parties damaged.

SEC. 3.

This act to be in force from and

after passage.

APPROVED March 6, 1891.

COAL MINING.-REGULATION OF.

mines to fully report condition of mines worked.

An Act entitled, "An Act regulating the mining of coal in the State of Montana and for the protection of employes in coal mines."

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

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SECTION 1. That the owner, operator, lessee or superintendent of any coal mine in the State shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of such mine, which shall exhibit all the openings or Owners of Coal excavations, the shafts, slopes or tunnels, the entries, rooms and break-throughs, and shall show the direction of the air currents therein, accurately delineate the surface section lines of the coal lands controlled by the owner of the said mines, and show the exact relation to and proximity of the workings of said mine to said surface lines; said map or plan

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