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necessary to discharge the lien of record the court need not require any bond.

§ 2. COMPENSATION.] The compensation of such special administrator shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars, to be determined by the county court, and shall be paid out of the assets of such deceased person, provided, however, that should there be no assets, then the costs shall be paid by petitioner.

§ 3. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 8, 1917.

STATE BOARD OF REGENTS

CHAPTER 218.

[H. B. No. 362-Blanchard.]

BOARD OF REGENTS DISBURSEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS. An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 1816 of the Compiled Laws of North Dakota for 1913; Prescribing the Manner of Payment of Appropriations for the State Educational Institutions for Maintenance and Other Purposes; and Defining the Powers and Duties of the Board of Regents so far as they may Pertain to the Disbursements of Appropriations.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. AMENDMENT AND RE-ENACTMENT.] Section 1816 is hereby amended to read as follows, and re-enacted:

§ 1816. MANNER OF PAYMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS. DUTIES AND POWERS OF STATE BOARD OF REGENTS.]

§ 2. A proper officer, to be designated by the State Board of Regents for each educational institution, shall prepare two separate monthly statements showing: First, the pay roll, and second, the purchases and expenditures of every kind of the preceding month, which shall be signed by such officer, approved by the chief executive officer of the institution, and filed with the State Board of Regents on a date fixed by the said Board. Attached thereto shall be the affidavit prescribed by Section 274 of the Compiled Laws of 1913. If any invoice or statement, or any part thereof is found objectionable, the board shall endorse its disapproval thereon, with its reasons therefor, and return it to the management of the institution, and when the matter complained of is corrected, said statement and invoice shall be returned to the board.

§3. The monthly statements so made and verified shall be forwarded to the State Board of Regents, together with the original. invoices of the purchases and a complete itemized statement of

every expense of said institution, including the certified pay roll, for the examination and audit and approval of the State Board of Regents. When the said accounts are audited, the proper institutional officer shall prepare an abstract in quadruplicate each month, or at other times, for each educational institution, showing the name and amount due each claimant and the fund out of which such payment shall be made. One copy of such abstract shall be kept on file in the office of the State Board of Regents, one copy of such abstract shall be filed with the State Auditor, one shall be retained by the institutional officer and a fourth filed with the local treasurer. Upon receipt of such certified abstract the state auditor shall issue a check through the State Board of Regents, for the total amount, to the institution treasurer, to be paid out of such treasury in a manner to conform to the rules of business prescribed by the Board of Regents.

§ 4. All specific appropriations for the educational institutions, other than those for maintenance, shall be paid by the state auditor as he may be directed by the state Board of Regents, according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

5. All appropriations for the maintenance or fixed annual or biennial appropriations of the state educational institutions becoming effective on July 1st, 1917, or thereafter, shall be paid in equal monthly installments by the State Auditor on the Abstract of the State Board of Regents, or its secretary, through the board to the institutional treasurers. If the appropriation be for the biennial period, 1-24 of the total appropriation shall be paid each month; if the appropriation be for an annual period, the monthly payment shall be 1-12 of the total annual apropriation, provided, however, that the state auditor may on the order of the State Board of Regents pay more than the monthly allowances with the permission of the governor and the state treasurer, whose approval must appear on the abstract calling for such an increased monthly payment, provided, further, that in no period of 12 consecutive months shall the total payments exceed the total appropriation for maintenance for one year.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the state auditor to make, through the State Board of Regents to the Treasurers of the educational institutions under its control, regular quarterly payments of accrued interest and income from the state school fund on the first of January, April, July and October of each year.

§ 7. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 10, 1917.

STATE EXAMINER

CHAPTER 219.

[S. B. No. 157-Martin.]

STATE EXAMINER-DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES.

An Act Regulating the Number of Deputies and other Employees in the office of the State Examiner, and the manner of dividing the State into Districts for the Purpose of Facilitating the Work in the State Examining Depart

ment.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. APPOINTment of DepuTIES.] The state examiner may, subject to the approval of the state banking board, appoint and at pleasure remove, not more than thirteen deputy examiners, one reconcilement clerk, one stenographer and such other employees as may in the judgment of the state banking board, be necessary for the proper discharge of the business of his department. Each deputy examiner shall give bond to the state in the sum of $10,000 to be approved and filed in the same manner as the bond of the state examiner. The state examiner shall select and designate one of said deputy examiners to be the office deputy and to act during the absence or disability of the state examiner, and in such cases the deputy examiner so authorized shall have charge of the office and administer its affairs. Eight of the said deputy examiners so appointed shall have had at least three years active experience in bank work within this state and shall furnish such evidence of qualification as expert accountants and general fitness for the duties as may be demanded by the banking board.

§ 2. DISTRICTS. HOW DIVIDED.] For the purpose of the better administration of his department the state examiner shall, immediately after the taking effect of this act, proceed to divide the state into eight districts which shall have as nearly as may be, banks and other financial institutions of an equal number, and arranged with reference to convenience and economy in travel and shall at once designate the district in which each of his eight examiners shall make examinations, and such deputy examiners shall confine their work, as nearly as may be, to the examination of corporations located within their respective districts, except that any such deputy examiner may be temporarily transferred to other districts, or more than one deputy examiner may be assigned temporarily to any district when the proper performance of the work therein would indicate the necessity for so doing. No deputy examiner shall have any interest directly or indirectly in any corporation within the jurisdiction of the banking depart

ment, nor in any corporation engaged wholly or in part in the writing or issuing of bonds of or for any such corporation or of the officers or employees of any such corporation.

§ 3. SALARIES.] The salary of the office deputy shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of each other deputy two thousand dollars per annum and in addition thereto he shall be paid his actual and necessary traveling expenses when engaged in the discharge of his duties; the salary of the reconcilement clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum; salary of the stenographer shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum and the salaries of other clerks or assistants herein provided for, shall be fixed by the State Banking Board.

§ 4. REPEAL.] All acts or parts of Acts in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved March 10, 1917.

CHAPTER 220.

[H. B. No. 335-Fredrickson.]

FEES OF STATE EXAMINER.

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 3134 of the Compiled Laws of the State of North Dakota of 1913.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. That Section 3134 be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 3134. FEES. PAYMENT.] For making such installation and examination such firm, association, co-partnership or corporation shall pay the examiner a fee of ten dollars per day for each day, or fraction thereof, that the examiner is absent from the capitol for the purpose of making such examination, plus his actual traveling and hotel expenses, together with the actual cost of such books and blanks as may be necessary for the installation of a complete system of uniform accounting; and in case any such firm, association, co-partnership or corporation shall wrongfully refuse or neglect to pay such fees then the railroad commission may in its discretion cancel the license to do business of such firm, association, co-partnership or corporation.

All such fees shall be paid into the state treasury and used for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act. Such expenses shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid.

Approved March 12, 1917.

SUNDAY

CHAPTER 221.

[S. B. No. 294-Lindstrom.]

OPERATION OF BATH HOUSES.

An Act to Permit the Operation of Bath Houses, Bathing Beaches and Pleasure Boats by Chautauquas, Summer Resorts, Firms, Corporations and Private Persons on Sundays and Repealing the Provisions of all Acts in Conflict Therewith.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. It shall be lawful for chautauqua associations, summer resorts, firms, corporations, and private persons to operate bath houses, bathing beaches, or pleasure boats of all kinds on Sundays.

§ 2.] All acts, or sections of acts, in so far as they are in conflict or inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Approved March 8, 1917.

CHAPTER 222.

[S. B. No. 81-Lindstrom.]

SABBATH BREAKING.

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections 9236, 9240 and 9242 of the Compiled Laws of the State of North Dakota for the year 1913, Relating to Sabbath Breaking.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. AMENDMENT.] That Section 9236 of the Compiled Laws of the State of North Dakota for the year 1913 is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 9236. All manner of servile labor on the first day of the week is prohibited, excepting works of necessity and charity, provided however that the operation of steam railroads, street railways, telegraph and telephone systems, electric light, gas, heat and power systems, livery and feed barns, hacks, taxi cabs and busses, automobile garages and supply stations, bakeries, boot-black stands, pop-corn stands and newspaper plants shall be deemed and are construed to be works of necessity.

§ 2. AMENDMENT.] That Section 9240 of the Compiled Laws of the State of North Dakota for the year 1913, is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 9240. All manner of public selling or offering or exposing

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