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votes for dis

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to senior county.

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ELECTIONS BIENNIAL.

AN ACT to amend section 31 of an act to provide for biennial elections in the territory of Montana.

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

SECTION 1. Where two or more counties are united in a council or representative district, or for the election of any other officer, the canvassing boards of the counties interested shall canvass the vote of said joint officer or officers the same as for other county officers.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county or counties last established to make certified abstracts of the canvass, and immediately forward a copy of said abstract or abstracts by mail, as registered package, to clerk of senior county, and the clerk and probate judge, or any other county officer, including the clerk, shall at once canvass said votes, and the clerk of the senior county shall at once issue certificates of election to the person or persons having the highest number of votes entitled thereto.

SEC. 3. And for the purpose of this act the county Which deem- first created shall be deemed the senior county, and when all the counties were created by the same act, the first named therein shall be deemed the senior county.

county.

Sections

SEC. 4. That section 31 and so much of section 32 of an act to provide for biennial elections, approved repealed. February 11, 1876, as refers to mileage to be paid to the clerk of the board of county commissioners for attending at another county to canvass votes, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved February 3d, 1877..

FIRES-PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

AN ACT to provide against accidents in case of fire. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana:

SECTION 1. That all buildings hereafter erected to accommodate public assemblies, including churches, schools, concert halls, court houses, theatres, ballrooms, and other buildings which are now or hereafter intended to be used as places of public assemblies of any kind or character, in the territory of Montana, shall be constructed with a view of securing an escape in the event of a fire or alarm of fire, and all such buildings hereafter erected shall have the openings for ingress or egress furnished with doors which, in all cases, shall be so hung on hinges as that they shall open outwardly from the rooms in and from the main building itself.

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lic buildings heretofore constructed to be altered.

SEC. 2. All such buildings now erected that are not Doors of pubconstructed as provided in section 1, shall, within one year after the passage of this act, be so altered as to comply with its provisions.

SEC. 3. All persons constructing, owning, controlling, or in custody of any building, which shall be hereafter erected, and which is mentioned in section 1 of this act, and not constructed in accordance with the provisions thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred; and such building or buildings shall be closed by the court until the doors thereof shall be made to conform to the provisions of this act.

Penalty for 1 of this act.

violating sec.

Penalty for

SEC. 4. That all persons owning, controlling, or in custody of any building in this territory, described in section 1 of this act, who shall fail to comply with the failure to provisions of section 2 of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not

comply with sec. 2 of this act.

more than fifty dollars, and such building shall be closed
by the court until the doors thereof shall be made to
conform to the provisions of this act.
Approved February 16th, 1877.

Keeper of gaming house not to allow minors to gamble therein.

Penalty for

allowing mi

nors to gam

ble in gaming

or other house.

GAMBLING HOUSES.

AN ACT to prohibit persons keeping gaming houses from permitting minors to gamble therein.

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

SECTION 1. Any person or persons keeping a gaming house or other house within the territory of Montana, are hereby prohibited from permitting any minor, or person under the age of twenty-one years, from playing at any game of cards or chance within such house, for money, or any valuable thing.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons keeping a gaming house or other house within the territory of Montana, who shall hereafter permit any person under the age of twenty-one years to play at faro, or any other game of chance, with cards or dice, or other implement of gaming, within such house, for money, or any other valuable thing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of twentyfive dollars for the first offense, and fifty dollars for every additional offense.

SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 16th, 1877.

GAME.

AN ACT to amend section 4 of an act entitled "An Act to protect fur-bearing animals and fish in the territory of Montana."

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

Killing of ful during certain

months

SECTION 1. That sections 4 and 8 of said act be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. That any person or persons who shall wilfully shoot, or otherwise kill, or cause to be killed, any game unlawgrouse, prairie-chicken, pheasant, fool-hen, partridge, or quail, between the first day of March and the first day of each year. of August of each year, or shall hunt, or chase with dogs, any elk, deer, antelope, or mountain sheep, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, for each offense committed; and all persons are hereby prohibited, at all times, from killing any of the birds described in this section for speculative purposes, or for market or for sale, and any person or persons who shall hereafter kill any of the character of birds in this section hereinbefore mentioned, for speculative purposes, for market, or for sale, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in Penalty. any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

Unlawful to

kill game birds for mar

ket or sale.

of fishing.

SEC. 3. That a fishing-tackle, consisting of a rod or Lawful way pole, line, and hook, or spear, shall be the only lawful way that fish can be taken in any of the streams of this territory. It shall, however, be lawful to use a seine in the Missouri and Jefferson rivers, and in the Beaverhead up to Beaverhead rock, and in North Boulder creek twenty-five miles above its mouth.

Rivers where

in fish may

be taken with

seine.

SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with Repealing

the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force

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Governor

may contract

for keeping

the indigent

insane.

INDIGENT INSANE.

Resolved by the House of Representatives and Council of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana:

That the governor be and is hereby authorized, by publication for three weeks in a newspaper published at the capital of the territory, inviting proposals for the care and maintenance of the indigent insane of Montana territory, and to let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder; but the governor shall have the right to reject any and all bids, and make a private contract, provided such contract can be made at less price than any bids made under publication for proposals, and that such indigent insane shall be maintained under such contract so long as in the judgment of the governor the interests of the territory will be subserved thereby; and that upon the receipt of any account for such maintenance the governor shall certify to the same, if it be correct, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the territorial auditor to draw his warrant upon the territorial treasurer for an amount of money sufficient to pay therefor: Provided, That the Limit of term governor shall not contract, under this resolution, for a period extending beyond the completion of the asylum for the insane; and, provided further, that whenever, in the judgment of the governor, it is desirable to send such insane person to friends out of the territory, he may do so at the expense of the territory; and whenever, in his be sent to judgment, the interests of such insane persons, and of the territory, will be promoted by changing the said contract to some other institution or person, at a rate not exceeding that mentioned in said communication, he may do so, and the expenses shall be paid by warrants drawn on the territorial treasurer, to be sold by the auditor, to raise the money herein authorized to be expended: Provided, Costs for further, That the costs necessarily attending the adjudication of insanity, and transportation of any insane persons to the place provided for their care and maintenance, shall be paid by the county where such insane person resides at the time he may be adjudged to be insane: Pro

of contract.

Insane may

friends out of territory.

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insane out of

territory.

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