YELLOWSTONE COUNTY TO INCLUDE CERTAIN TERRITORY. An Act to Attach Certain Portions of the Right of Way of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the Rocky Fork and Cooke Ctty Railway Company to Yellowstone County for Pnrposes of Taxation and for Judicial Purposes. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: Adding certain portions of terriYellowstone County. SECTION I. All of that portion of the right of way, depot and station grounds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, from the mouth of the Big Horn River to the first crossing of the Yellowstone River near Billings, and all that portion of the right of way, depot and station grounds of the Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railway Company from where the same enters the south boundary tory to of the Crow Indian Reservation to the crossing of the Yellowstone River, be and the same is hereby annexed and attached to Yellowstone County for purposes of taxation and for judicial and other purposes, and all of said right of way, depot and station grounds, and all property situated thereon, which by the laws of Montana is subject to taxation, shall be listed, assessed and taxed in the said County of Yellowstone. APPROVED March 4, 1891. BOUNDARIES OF DEER LODGE COUNTY. An Act to Amend Section 731 of Chapter XXXVIII of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana, Defining the Boundaries of Deer Lodge County and to Render the Same Definite. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: SECTION I. That section 731 of Chapter XXXVIII of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section I. That all that portion of the State of Montana, embraced within the following described boundaries, shall be known as the County of Deer Lodge, to-wit: Commencing in the middle of Hell Gate River, at a point directly opposite the most northerly point of the Medicine Tree Hill; thence down the middle of said river to the mouth of Stony Creek; thence up the middle of Stony Creek to its middle branch; thence up the middle Defining Bound branch of Stony Creek to a point due west of the southeast corner of township No. 4 north, of range No. 10 west, of the principal base and meridian of Montana; thence due east to said southeast corner of township No. 4 north, of range No. 10 west; thence north along the Deer Lodge guide meridian to the closing corner to township No. 4 north, between ranges Nos. 9 and 10 west, on the first standard parallel north; thence along said standard parallel east to the southeast corner of section 35, township 5 north, range 8 west; thence directly north from aries of Deer Lodge County. sai southeast corner of section 35, township 5 The boundaries of Jefferson County shall conform to the boundaries herein established. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts, or sections or parts of sections of the Compiled Statutes of Montana, in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED March 5, 1891. COUNTY BONDS. An Act to amend Sections 790, 795, 796 and 808 of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana. SECTION I. That section 790 of the Fifth Divi Amending Law County Bonds sion of the Compiled Statutes of Montana be amend- in Reference to ed so as to read as follows: Section 790. The bonds authorized to be issued When Bonds by this article shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the County, any time after five years, and payable Redeemable. within twenty years from the date of their issue. SEC. 2. That section 795 of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana be amended so as to read as follows: Section 795. The Board of County Commissioners of any County may, when in its judgment it Submitting is advisable for the County to incur indebtedness or ring County In- liability for any single purpose in an amount exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), submit the question to the qualified electors of the County. question of incur debtedness. Election. Powers of Coun ty Commission ers to Bond In debtedness and to Issue Bonds. SEC. 3. That section 796 of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana be amended so as to read as follows: Section 796. Such election shall be called by the Board of County Commissioners of such County by publishing a notice therefor in some newspaper published in the County for at least thirty days previous to the time fixed therefor. If no newspaper be published in the County, then such notice shall be given by posting notices for such period of thirty days in each voting precinct in the County. SEC. 4. That section 808 of the Fifth Division of the Compiled Statutes of Montana be amended so as to read as follows: Section 808. The County Commissioners of each County of this State shall have, and are hereby given, in addition to the powers already conferred on them by law, the authority to issue on the credit of their respective county, coupon bonds to an amount sufficient to enable them to redeem any or all legal outstanding bonds, warrants or orders, and also whenever thereunto authorized by a vote of the electors of the County, they shall have authority to issue on the credit of their respective county, coupon bonds, for the purpose and to the amount thereby authorized, not exceeding in the aggregate, including outstanding bonded indebtedness, five per centum on the value of the taxable property within such county, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and County taxes previous to issuing such bonds. The issue of such bonds may be made at any time such County Commissioners shall deem it expedient for the interests of their respective County. Such bonds shall be redeemable and payable at such times not longer than twenty years after the date thereof, as the County Commissioners of the County issuing the same shall determine, and the interest which such bonds shall bear shall be fixed by such County Commissioners, not exceeding seven per centum per annum, and be represented by interest coupons, payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July of each year. APPROVED March 4, 1891. COUNTY AUDITOR. An Act entitled "An Act to Create the Office Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State Office of County Auditor ir SECTION I. That the office of County Auditor is hereby created, and the same shall exist in all counties in the State of Montana, which now have or those which may hereafter acquire a total assessment of not less than eight million dollars, and the Certain Counties, Governor shall, within sixty (60) days after the passage of this act, appoint some male person possessing the qualifications hereinafter prescribed, in each and every county having the necessary valuation, to serve as County Auditor in the county for ernor. which he may be appointed until the first Monday in January, A. D. 1893, and until his successor is elected and qualified. First Appointments by Gov |