school districts as may be embraced within the limits of said Granite County, and formerly in said Missoula County. Such moneys shall be received and held by the Treasurer of the County of Granite to the ⚫ credit and for the use of the same school districts as they formerly existed in said Counties of Deer Lodge and Missoula.

SECTION 10. The following named persons are hereby appointed to fill the office set opposite their respective names: George B. Cain, County Commissioner.

George W. Morse, County Commissioner.
Ernest C. Freyschlag, County Commissioner.
John H. Cole, Sheriff.

Arthur A. Fairbairn, Treasurer.

George J. Reek, Clerk and Recorder.

William E. Allbright, Assessor.

Wingfied L. Brown, County Attorney.

Josiah Shull, Clerk District Court.

Mrs. Abbie W. Wilkinson, Supt. County Schools.
William Ray, Coroner.

R. M. Ferguson, Public Administrator.

George Wilson, County Surveyor.

All of said officers shall have the same power and duties and shall be entitled to the same fees, emoluments and salaries as are conferred upon like officers in other counties of this State, and shall in like manner give bonds, and shall enter upon the discharge of their respective duties upon giving bonds as required by law upon the first day of April, 1893, and shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified. The bonds given by the respective officers shall be filed with and be approved by the State Auditor.

SECTION 11. That all the township and precinct school officers within the limits of Granite County shall hold their office and exercise their duties for the term for which they were elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SECTION 12. The Board of County Commissioners of said County of Granite is authorized and empowered and it is hereby made its duty to let to the lowest responsible bidder a contract for transcribing and indexing all records of property lying and being within the limits of said County of Granite, in proper books to be furnished by said Board of Commissioners, which said transcript, and index when complete, shall be carefully compared with the original records of Deer Lodge and Missoula Counties by the County Clerks thereof, respectively, who shall certify to their correctness under their official seals, and thereafter said copy of said record so transcribed and certified to

shall be deemed and received in evidence in all Courts of law in this State, and shall in all respects be entitled to like faith and credit as the original records. The County Clerk of said County of Deer Lodge shall receive as compensation for so comparing and certifying the said transcript of record the sum of five dollars per day, and the County Clerk of the said County of Missoula shall receive as compensation for so comparing and certifying the said transcript of record the sum of five dollars per day, which said amount shall be paid by the County of Granite by warrant drawn on the contingent fund of said County in the manner provided by law for the issuing of county warrants.

SECTION 13. The boundaries of Deer Lodge County and of Missoula County are hereby altered so as to conform with the boundaries of Granite County, as established by this Act.

SECTION 14.

This Act shall take effect from and after the date

of its passage and approval.

APPROVED Mch. 2, 1893.

An Act, Providing for the Transcribing of County Records of Segregated Counties.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: SECTION 1. Any County or Counties of the State of Montana, that shall heretofore have been or may hereafter be formed from portions of another County, shall be entitled to have the county records affecting or relating to any and all property situate in the county segregated, transcribed from the books of the original county and made a part of the records of the county segregated.

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of any County heretofore formed or that may be hereafter formed from part of another County, to have so much of the records of the original county as relates to the property situate within the segregated county transcribed as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 3. Said County Commissioners shall have full power and authority to contract for transcribing the records relating to all property situate within the boundaries of the segregated county, and for that purpose the person or persons engaged in the work of transcribing such records, shall have access to all records of the county, or counties, from which segregated.

SECTION 4. Payment for transcribing such records shall be made. by the county contracting therefor, by a warrant or warrants payable out of the General Fund of such County.

SECTION 5. When the transcript of such records herein provided for shall be completed and approved by the County Commissioners of such county, they shall be delivered to the County Clerk and Recorder of the County from which such records were taken, and it shall be the duty of such County Clerk and Recorder to compare the records so transcribed with the original records as the same appear on the record books of the said original County. The County Clerk and Recorder to whom the said transcript shall be delivered for comparison shall certify under oath that the said transcribed records are full, complete and exact copies of the original records, and the said County Clerk and Recorder shall be entitled to Six ($6.) Dollars, per day for his time actually spent in comparing the said records, to be paid out of the general fund of the County requiring such comparison and certifi

cate.

SECTION 6. All records so transcribed, when certified to as being full, complete and correct, shall be delivered to the County Clerk and Recorder of the segregated County, and shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of such segregated County, and shall thereupon become and be a part of the records of such County.

SECTION 7. A certified copy of the records so transcribed and filed in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of any segregated county, may be introduced in evidence and shall have the same force and effect as certified copies of original records.

SECTION 8. All Acts, and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED Mch. 2, 1893.

RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS.

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 1.

Whereas, We believe there is a general desire upon the part of the legal voters of the State of Montana that United States Senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people; and,

Whereas, The election of United Senators by the Legislative Assemblies, under the present provisions, retards and delays the business of their sessions very seriously;

Therefore, be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring:

That we are in favor of such amendments to the Constitution and laws of the United States as will provide for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people; and that we urge our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure such amendments.

Further, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby instructed to furnish a copy of this Memorial to each of our Senators and Representative in Congress.

APPROVED Feby. 13, 1893.

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 2.

To the House of Representatives Praying for the Passage of a Law for the Free Coinage of Silver.

To the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the United States:

Your memorialists, the Third Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, believing that gold and silver are the constitutional money metals, and for nearly a century maintained by just and wise laws upon a ratio with each other, and believing that all legislation tending

to debase silver as an equal on such ratio with gold has been destructive of the prosperity of our Nation and of the whole people; and believing that the creditor class of our people have received too much consideration at the hands of Congress in demonetizing silver and destroying a large proportion of the currency of our country, thereby doubling the value of gold, and increasing its purchasing power without increasing its power to pay obligations already contracted; and believing that much of the stringency in the money market and many of the financial and business failures in these prosperous times of peace are due to this unwarranted contraction of the currency to a single standard or gold basis.

And believing, further, that much of the distress of our poorer classes is directly traceable to the demonetization of silver and a contraction of the currency of our country, while the population and commercial interests are expanding rapidly, and requiring an increase of circulating medium rather than a contraction.

And believing further that the business interests of our country demand a greater volume of gold and silver as a circulating medium or currency.

And having unbounded faith in the power and ability of the United States to maintain gold and silver upon the ratio hereafter suggested with each other regardless of the action of other Nations.

We humbly pray for the passage of Senate Bill 51 which passed the Senate July 1st, 1892, providing for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen of silver to one of gold, upon the same terms and conditions as gold is or may be coined.

And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
APPROVED Feby. 13, 1893.

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS, No. 3.

Praying for the Passage of Senate Bill 2373, for an Act to Amend Sections 2474 and 2475 of the Revised Statutes of the United

States.

To the Honorable:

The Senate of the United States:

Your Memorialists, The Third Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, would most respectfully state the following facts:—

First. One of the largest and most promising mining districts in the State of Montana lies very near to the northeastern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park (but without the limits of the same). This district is rich in silver, lead and gold, and is known as the