The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-15

OOnQ ana lake the OATH required OF county
commissioners. Said bonds shall be filed
with the territorial auditor, and thereafter
said persons named shall enter on their
duties as commissioners, aud shall continue
in office until their successors are elected and
qualified, as provided in section 4 Of this act.
SEC. 6. That in addition to the duties re-
quired under the general law relating to the
manner of conducting elections the county
commissioners named shall, for at least one
month prior to the time of holding said cleo
ton, give notice of the same in some news
paper published within the limits of Silver
Bow County said notice shall state the time
OF holding said election, the different voting
places, and the offices for which votes shall or
may be cast.
SEC. 7. Upon receiving a certificate of cleo
ton from the commissioners mentioned, the
persons so elected or receiving said certifi-
Gates shall, without delay, qualify in the
manner required by law, and enter upon the
discharge of their duties of the several OIL
ces TO which they may be respectively elected.
but nothing herein shall be construed as de-
priving any candidate voted for at said cleo
ton from contesting the right of Office in the
method prescribed by law.
SEC. s. The cOuniy commissioners of Sill
yer Bow COUNT shall, at their first regular
meeting after the passage of this act, and at
ter being elected and qualifying, decide upon
and levy the rate of taA atiOn in said county
for the year 1881, which levy shall be in con-
formity with The general law relating to the
manner and amounts of taxes authorized to
be levied. Said commissioners shall also have
power and authority to contract for TRANSCRIPT
ing such parts Of the public records of Deer
Lodge county as they may deem useful and
necessary to the county of Silver Bow and its
inhabitants, and for this purpose shall have
suitable access to the records of Deer Lodge
county. Said recolds when completed shall
be carefully compared with the originals by
the county clerk of Deer Lodge county, and
if correct he shall certify to their correctness
under his official seal, and thereafter
the copies of said records so trans
cribed and certified to shall be
admitted and received in evidence in all
courts of law in this territory, aud shall be in
all other respects entitled to like faith and
credit as said original records. The county
clerk of Deer Lodge county shall receive for
his services i'll comparing and certifying
The correctness of the copy of said record, SIX
dollars per diem while engaged in said labor,
which amount shall be paid by the county Of
Silver Bow on the completion thereof.
SECS 3. All township and precinct officers,
road supervisors, officers of school districts
and other officers of every kind within the
county Of Silver Bow, whose cleo ion is not
herein provided for, shall or may continue to
hold said offices, and exercise the duties per-
tanning thereto, until the expiration of the
crm for which said officers were respectively
elected or appointed. Whenever dis riot
courts are appointed for said county, the
clerk or deputy Gas the case may be) shall,
from the time he enters on his duties, be
paid for his public services to be rendered
said county and the officers thereof as provid-
ed IN sections one and two of an act entitled
St9n act tn DroyiIp commemorative fnr jn ,l.,lyo
of the district courts,' approved July 22d,
1879, an annua' salary of eight hundred and
twanty-iiv i've dollars, payable in quarterly pay
lnentS by warrants drawn on the contingent
fund Of the said county. and shall. in addi-
ton to said salary, be entitled to the fees pre-
scribed in said act. The county clerk and
recorder Of said county shall receive fer his
services as defined III section one of an act in
relation to the fees OF county clerks, approved
July %, 1870, a salary at the rate Of seven
hundred dollars per annum payable quarterly
by warrant on the general fund of said coun
ty, and payable as other warrants are paid.
Said officer shall also be entitled to the fees
prescribed by law for recording deeds and
other instruments, and for all other services
rendered by him. The fees and emolunents
of all officers of said county shall be as pre-
scribed by law, when not otherwise provided
for in this act.
SEt. w. tIc county Vi Cl1NeT bow, ana
all persons in its name, are hereby prohibited
from contracting any Indebtedness whereby
said county shall become bound in any sum
which shall lat the time ofcontracting the same,
exceed two and one-half per cent. of the as
sessed value of the taxable property of said
county, taking the last previous assessment
thereof as the standard of valuation, and no
cause of action shall lie against said county
for any indebtedness contracted in its name
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same may be evidenced but nothing herein
contained shall deprive the holder Of any in
debtedness contracted in the name of, or on
the behalf of said county, from a right of ac-
ton against the person or persons who actual
ly contracted the same, OF who received a
consideration therefor.
SEC. II. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage ; but the county of Sill
yer Bow shall remain united to the county of
Deer Lodge for judicial purposes until the
first of May. A. d. 1881, and the officers of
of Deer Lodge county shall also act as officers
of Silver Bow county until the date above
named, except as otherwise provided in this
act.