CHAPTER 85. FURNISHING LAWS TO MEMBERS. JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the Secretary to Furnish Certain Codes for the Members of the Legislative Assembly. RESOLVED, by the Council, the House of Representatives Concurring. That the Secretary of the Territory be, and is hereby requested to furnish to each Member of the Legislative Assembly, a copy of the Compiled Laws, and also a copy each of all Session Laws published since 1887, which the Secretary may have. Approved January 28, 1889. CHAPTER 86. FURNISHING LAWS TO MEMBERS. AN ACT to Amend Joint Resolution Approved January 28, 1889, Authorizing the Secretary to Furnish Laws to the Members of the Eighteenth Legislative Assembly. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: § 1. AMENDMENT. That the joint resolution approved January 28, 1889, authorizing the Secretary of the Territory to furnish laws to the members of the eighteenth legislative assembly be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the figures "1887" wherever they occur in said bill and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "1877." 82. EFFECT WHEN.] This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 87. TO PROVIDE NEWSPAPERS FOR MEMBERS. AN ACT to Provide Newspapers for the Members of the 18th Legislative Assembly and Making an Appropriation Therefor. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: & 1. CHIEF CLERKS AUTHORIZED. .] The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Chief Clerk of the Council, are hereby authorized to procure for each member of the House and Council, so desiring, six copies of newspapers daily, or their equivalent in weeklies, as each member may choose, to be furnished them regularly during the Eighteenth Session of the Legislative Assembly. § 2. AUDITOR'S DUTIES.] The Territorial Auditor is hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine any and all claims of publishers for newspapers furnished to members under the provisions of section one of this act, as certified to him by the Chief Clerk of the Council and the Chief Clerk of the House, and he is further empowered and authorized to draw his warrant or warrants upon the Territorial Treasurer for such amount or amounts as he may deem to be due upon such accounts, and the Territorial Treasurer is hereby directed to pay such warrants out of the general funds of the Territory. Provided, that in auditing the claims for newspapers furnished under the provisions of this act, the Auditor of the Territory shall not allow a greater claim than the regular published price of said newspapers for the legislative session to private individuals. § 3. EFFECT WHEN.] This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. COUNCIL CHAMBER, BISMARCK, D. T. February 16th, 1889. I hereby certify that the within act together with the objections of his Excellency Governor Louis K. Church, was returned to the Council, the House in which originated on the fourteenth day of February, 1889. That the objections of the Governor were read at length and entered upon the journal, that thereupon the said bill was laid over for consideration, until February 15th, 1889, and upon that day the matter coming up for consideration the question was put, "Shall this bill pass, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding." The roll was called and the bill did pass, more than two-thirds of the members present and voting, voting in the affirmative. Attest: R. E. WALLACE, Chief Clerk. SMITH STIMMEL President of the Council. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, I hereby certify that the within act together with the objections of his Excellency, Governor Louis K. Church, was received from the Council on the 16th day of February, 1889, that the objections of the Governor were read at length and the question stated: "Shall this bill pass, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding." The roll was called and the act did pass, more than two-thirds of the members present and voting, voting in the affirmative. Attest: JNO. G. HAMILTON, Chief Clerk. H. H. KEITH, Speaker of the House. AN ACT Providing for a Lien Upon Grain for Threshing the Same. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: § 1. LIEN.] Every person or persons owning and operating a threshing machine shall have a lien from the date of threshing upon. all grain threshed by him with such machine for the value of the services so rendered in doing such threshing. § 2. PRIORITY.] Said lien shall have priority over all other liens and incumbrances upon said grain created subsequent to the passage and approval of this act, if filed within ten days from the day upon which said threshing was completed. 208,435. §3. PROVED ACCOUNT FILED WITH REGISTER.] Any person entitled to a lien under this act shall make an account in writing stating the kind of grain and the number of bushels threshed, the price agreed upon for such work, which shall not be in excess of the price usually charged for such services, the name of the person for whom said threshing was done and a description of the land upon which said grain was grown and after making oath to the correctness of the account shall file the same in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the person owning such grain resides, except when said person resides in an unorganized county, and in such case said statement shall be filed in the county to which said unorganized county is attached for judicial purposes. § 4. NOTICE. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds to file and enter said statements in the manner required by law for the filing and entry of chattel mortgages and he shall be entitled to a fee of ten cents therefor; and the filing of said statement operates as notice to all purchasers and incumbrancers of said property subsequent to the date of said filing. § 5. FORECLOSURE. The said lien may [be] foreclosed by a sale of the property embraced in said lien upon the notice and in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of chattel mortgages. § 6. MISDEMEANOR.] Any person selling, secreting or disposing of property covered by said lien without the written consent of the owner of said lien is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. § 7. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of. acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. $ 8. EFFECT WHEN.] This act shall take effect from and after its passage. NOTE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TERRITORY. The foregoing act having been presented to the Governor for his approval, and not baving been returned to the House of Representatives, the House of the Legislative Assembly in which it originated, within the time prescribed by the Organic Act, has become a law without his approval. M. L. MCCORMACK, Secretary of the Territory. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. CHAPTER 89 INVESTIGATION YANKTON HOSPITAL. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota. § 1. JOINT COMMITTEE.] That a joint committee consisting of two members of the Council and three members of the House be appointed by the President of the Council and Speaker of the House respectively, to investigate the condition of the Territorial Hospital for the Insane at Yankton, Dakota. It shall be the duty of said committee to make a thorough investigation of the buildings of said institution and of the character and nature of the work done on the recent extensions of said building and of all defects therein, and of the responsibility for the same. The said joint committee shall also make a thorough investigation of the management and conduct of the affairs of said hospital. $ 2. POWERS.] Said committee shall have power to employ at a reasonable compensation such expert and professional services including clerical and stenographic services as may be necessary; and shall [have] power to send for persons and papers and take all necessary testimony. The officers of said hospital shall afford the said committee full access to said hospital and all the records thereof, and furnish them all needed facilities in their power for such examination. $3. REPORT.] Said committee shall make a full report of all their proceedings including all testimony taken and expenses incurred to the Legislative Assembly on or before the first day of March, 1889. The expenses of said committee shall be paid by the Territorial Treasurer upon a warrant drawn upon him by the Territorial Auditor who shall issue the same upon a certificate signed by the President of the Council and the Speaker of the House of Representatives certifying to the correctness of the expenses incurred under this act. 84. EFFECT WHEN.] This act shall take effect immediately. to I hereby certify that on the 26th day of January, A. D. 1889, this act was returned the Council, the House in which originated, without the approval of his Excellency, Governor Louis K. Church, and with his objections to this bill in writing. That said objections were entered at length on the Journal of the Council. That the Council considered the bill and the question put by the President. "Shall the bill pass, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding," and the bill did pass, more than two-thirds of the Council voting in the affirmative. Attest: R. E WALLACE, Chief Clerk. SMITH STIMMEL, President of the Council. I hereby certify that the within bill was received from the Council together with the message of the Governor vetoing the same on January 26, A. D. 1889, and that the House considered the bill and duly passed the same, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding, more than two-thirds of the members of the House voting in the affirmative. Attest: JNO. G. HAMILTON, Chief Clerk. H. H. KEITH, Speaker of the House. CHAPTER 90. INVESTIGATION OF JAMESTOWN INSANE HOSPITAL. JOINT RESOLUTION For the Investigation of the Management and Condition of the North Dakota Hospital for the Insane at Jamestown. Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Council Concurring: § 1. JOINT COMMITTEE. That a joint committee of five, consisting of three members of the House and two members of the Council be appointed by the presiding officers of the respective bodies for the purpose of investigating into the condition [of] affairs and management of the North Dakota hospital for the insane at Jamestown, including the method pursued in the treatment of the inmates of said hospital. § 2. SESSIONS.] Said committee shall hold its sessions in the |