(S. B. 179.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE FILING OF DUPLICATE CONTRACTS PERTAINING Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of leases made in itor. SECTION I. All contracts or leases executed in behalf Contracts and of the State for rents, printing, supplies or for any other duplicate. property, shall be made in duplicate, one of which shall be filed in the office of the Auditor of State, and all bills for Filed with audexpenses incurred under any contract or lease, by any and every department of State, shall be presented to the Auditor, who shall carefully compare the same with such contract or Duty of auditor. lease, and if found correct, he shall audit and allow the same. Bills presented for supplies or labor performed, for any department of State, and not covered by any contract or lease, shall be audited and allowed at the current price of such labor or supplies at the time such services were rendered or supplies furnished. All bills for expenses of every kind or nature whatsoever, incurred by or on account of the State, or any department thereof, shall be presented to the State Auditor, and, if found correct, shall, by said Auditor, be audited and allowed; Provided, That no bills for supplies or furniture for the General Assembly shall be audited or allowed, unless such bills have been contracted by the Secretary of State. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State Duty of secreto certify to the payment of any portion of the contingent tary of state. expenses of the State government, properly incurred according to law, after the same has been presented to the Auditor of State and by him allowed. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. In the opinion of this General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and Emergency be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1885. (S. B. 210.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF A PERSON RECEIVING DEPOS- Any banker, bank officer or employe. Receiving ency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. If any banker or any president, director, manager, cashier or other officer, or any agent, clerk or employé of any banker, bank or banking institution, doing business in this State, shall receive or assent to the reception of any deposit of money, or other valuable thing, by such banker or in such bank or banking institution, or if any such banker, officer or agent shall create or assent to the creation of any debts or indebtedness by such banker, bank or banking institution, in consideration or by reason of which indebtedness any money or other valuble property after knowl- erty shall be received by such banker or into such bank or banking institution, after he shall have had knowledge of the fact that such banker, bank or banking institution is insolvent, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and on conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than ten years. And upon the trial of any person charged with an offense under this section, evidence of the failure of any such banker, bank or banking institution, at any time within thirty days after the reception of such deposit or the creation of such indebtedness, shall be received as prima facie evidence of knowledge on the part of the person charged that such banker, bank or banking institution was insolvent at the time of the reception of such deposit or the creation of such indebtedness. Penalty. Approved April 7, 1885. (S. B. 211.) AN ACT IN RELATION TO BANKS, BANKERS AND BANKING. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of to loan its money twenty-five per SECTION I. No corporation organized under the laws No corporation of this State and doing a banking business in this State, in excess of shall loan its money or the money deposited with it to any cent, of capital individual, corporation, firm or company, directly or indi-stock. rectly, or permit any individual, corporation, firm or company to become indebted to it in a sum exceeding twentyfive per cent. of its capital stock actually paid in, or permit a line of loans to any greater amount to any individual, corporation, firm or company, nor shall any such corporation loan to any officer or director of the same, or receive or hold the name of any officer or director of the same as principal or surety, or endorser upon paper for an amount greater than ninety per cent. of the capital stock of such corporation actually paid in and owned by such director or officer, unless such borrower deposit with such corporation collateral security or execute a deed of trust or mortgage upon real or personal property, which at the time is assessed or assessable for taxable purposes at a valuation ten per cent. in excess of such loan. ger, cashier, etc. SEC. 2. No president, director, manager, cashier or No president, other officer, agent or employé of any bank or banking director, manainstitution, organized and doing business under any law of this State, shall receive or assent to the reception of deposits, or create or assent to the creation of any indebtedness by such bank or banking institution, after he shall have had knowledge of the fact that it is insolvent or in failing cir- After knowledge cumstances. Every person violating the provisions of this section shall be individually responsible for such deposits so Liability. received and such indebtedness so contracted. SEC. 3. In all suits brought for the recovery of any deposits received or debts contracted in violation of the of insolvency. ants. provisions of section two of this act, all officers, agents or who may be managers, or the executors or administrators of such as joined as defendmay be deceased of such bank or banking institution, may be joined as defendants, or proceeded against severally, and the fact that such bank or banking institution was insolvent or in failing circumstances at the time of the reception of such deposit, or the contracting of such indebtedness, shall be prima facie evidence of knowledge of such fact and of assent to such reception or contracting on the part of such officer, agent or manager so charged therewith. Approved April 7, 1885. BASTARDY. (H. B. 234.) AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER VIII. OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF THE Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. Section one, of chapter VIII., of the General Statutes of the State of Colorado, entitled "Bastardy," is hereby repealed, and the following shall stand in lieu thereof as section one: SECTION I. When any single woman who shall be delivered of a child, which by law would be deemed and held a bastard, or being pregnant with child, which, if born Complaint, how alive would be a bastard, shall desire to make a complaint made. Justice st all issue warrants. against the father of such child, she may make such complaint before any justice of the peace of the county where she may be so delivered; or in case the child is unborn, then to any justice of the peace in the county where she may reside; and thereupon such justice shall issue a warrant for the person accused, to be served by the sheriff or any constable, and shall cause him to be brought before such justice forthwith, and upon his appearance the justice, or the complainant's counsel, if she shall be attended by counsel, shall proceed to question the female and such witnesses as she may produce in her behalf, in presence of the party sel shall examine accused, touching the charge against him, and the justice or Justice or counthe counsel for the accused shall examine such witnesses as witnesses. may be produced in his behalf; the examination of the complainant and the accused shall be taken down in writing, and if the justice shall think the complaint well founded he shall bind the accused in a bond, with sufficient surety, in a penalty of not less than five hundred ($500) dollars, to be Penalty. and appear at the next term of the district court of the county to answer the complaint, and in default of such surety may commit the accused; Provided, That the repeal of said acts and parts of acts, or of any of them, shall not be construed to affect any right, either as to remedy or otherwise, nor to abate any suit or action or proceeding, existing, instituted or pending under the laws so hereby repealed. Approved April 10, 1885. CAPITOL BUILDING. (S. B. 2.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ERECTION OF A STATE CAPITOL BUILDING AT Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. That for the purpose of organizing to build a state capitol building for the State of Colorado, at the City of Denver, in said State, there is hereby established a board of capitol managers, to direct and supervise the construction of the same. The said board shall con- Board to consist sist of seven members. The Governor of the State shall bers. be a member and the chairman of said board, and the of seven mem |