The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-02-25
SYNOPSIS OF LAWS ENACTED
BY the Twelfth Legislative A,senbl
DEFINING crRrAIN NUrsAScEs.

lOuHcli Dill NO. %, All act 10 ucunc AIT
punish certain nuisances, approved February
Is, defines as anuisance the placing and keep
Ing within the limits Of any unincorporatet
town or village Of large quantities of wood
hay, straw, powder or other combustible OF
explosive material so as to endanger build
ings in the neighborhood. The penalty oil
conviction is not to exceed 500. Section
makes 1t the duty of the owner of any horse
cow, mule, hog, dog or other animal which
shall die within the town limits to remove Il
beyond the town limits within twenty-foul
hours and TO bury or burn the body. Penalty
for violation same as above.
SALARY OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
House Bill go, approved February Is
gives the district attorney of each Judicial
district, from and after March 20, 1881, a sal
airy Of $500 per annum, payable quarterly
by the Territory, and twenty cents per mile
mileage in travelling to attend courts. Nc
fees are allowed. 1t repeats section 500
fifth division, Revised Statutes, which gave
district attorneys $1,000 salary and fees.
RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF FIRE WAR.
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Council Bill No. %, approved February Is,
provides that when any chimney, stove or
stove pipe, oven, furnace, boiler, etc., Is de-
fective, out Of repair or so placed in any
building as to endanger it or any other, the
fire warden, on oral or written complaint, or
on his own examination or other satisfactory
proof, shall give written notice to the owner
or occupant of the building, directing the re-
pair of the dangerous thing so as to make it
secure; or may require a defective fue or
stove pipe to be replaced with substantial
brick chimney. If the owner or occupant
neglect for three days to comply he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and be
fined from $40 to 500. Or the court may
then order the fue, etc., removed, or that
no fire shall be maintained therein until the
directions Of the fire warden have been COM
piled with. A failure to regard the direc-
ton of the Court shall be regarded as a con-
tempt and punished accordingly. -
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Council Bill No. 17,approved February II,
provides that the proof Of acknowledgement
of every power of attorney or conveyance
affecting real estate within Montana, made
in foreign land, shall be taken by a notary
public or United States Consul, and when
certified and sealed by them shall be entitled
to be recorded in any county in which any
real estate affected thereby is situated. Sec
ton two gives the form of the certificate.
SUPREME COURT REPORTS.
Council Bill %, approved February Is, re-
quires the auditor to pay IS 90 per volume
for each copy Of the third volume of the
Montana Supreme Court Reports, now
printed and bound for the Territory. 1t con.
talns $50 pages. ....
BEAvERHEAD COUNTY OFFICERS.
Council Bill IL, approved February 10, re
peals the act of the Eleventh Session con-
solidating the Offices of Beaverhead county
and provides for the election of q full set of
unconsolidated Offices at the next general
election.
FEES OF SUPREME COURT CLERK.
20 House Bill No. So, approved February 10,
establishes a bill of fees to which the clerk
of the Supreme Court shall hereafter hesen-
titled. There was heretofore no rateestab-
lished by law.
CONCERNING PRAIRIE FIRES.
House Bill No. "a. approved February IS,
repeats section 17S, fifth division, Revised
Statutes, which made IL mfsdemeanor to
carclessiy set fire to any timber, woodland
or grass, except for useful and necessary pur-
poses, or who should make camp fire, or
any fire, without taking sufficient steps to
keep it from spreading, or who should fail to
extinguish 1t on leaving, and re-enacts It,
making the oflense . felony, punishable by
fine not exceeding 81, 900 and three years in
the penitentiary, or both, and liability for all
damages resulting from such act.
Section 2 provides that where such fires
are set designedly, or maliciously, or so left
remaining unextinguished, the party shall
be deemed guilty of felony and may be
fined not exceeding $1,000, with two to FIVE
years in the penltentiary, or both. One-half
the fine is to 90 to the person furnishing the
information necessary to convict one.half
to the school fund. ..
County commissioners are required to
have printed annually, on canvass, at least
fifty posters setting forth briefly the provis-
ions of the act and cause them to be posted
consciously along the highways. ID
SHERIFF OF DEER LODGE COUNTY.
Council Bill 80, approved February 10,
provides that the act to establish the county
Of Silver Bow shall not be so construed as to
deprive Lou p. Smith, sheriff Of Deer Lodge
county, from holding said Office and giving
him until May 1. 1881, to become an inhabi-
tant Of that county. (Sherif Smith was the
only one Of the local officers resident at
Butte at the date Of the passage of the bill,
and 1t was held that under section 554, fifth
division, Revised Statutes, the enactment of
the Silver Bow Bill might be construed to va
cate the Office Of Sheriff Of Deer Lodge
county,
DAWSON ATTACHED TO CUSTER COUNTY.
House Bill No. 60, approved February 10,
attaches Dawson county to Custer county for
judicial purposes, makes theusual provisions
in such cases and in addition provides that
the Custer county commissioners shall act as
the commissioners for Dawson county.
@ CHATTEL MoBrGAGKs.
House Bill 80, approved February 10, is a
substitution for chapter 46, fifth division, Re-
vised Statutes, in relation to chattel mortga-
ges. Its provisions are too. ample and diver
siied to attempt . synopsis here of the
changes made.
DIvERTING THE BOND SINKING FUND.
House Bill No. 81, which became a law
without the Governors approval, relates to
diverting the "sinking fund" set apart for
redemption of the Territorial bonds to the
general or warrant fund. 1t provides when
hereafter there is q surplus Of 81 900 or more
over the accrued interest in the sinking fund
the Treasurer shall advertise that he win re-
deem outstanding Territorial bonds to that
amount, and If none are presented within
thirty days, or If they are not equal to the
moneys he has on hand in that fund, he shall
at the end Of the thirty days turn the money,