Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-18
act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval.
Approved March 20, 1890,

act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval.
Approved March 20, 1890.
SOLDIERS HOME AT LISBON.
An Act for the Establishment, Government and
Maintenance of a Soldiers Home.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the
State of North Dakota:
SECTION l. That there be and and is
hereby created, located and established a
soldiers home in the city of Lisbon, in the
county Of Ransom and State of North
Dakota.
SEC. 2. The object of the soldiers home
shall be to provide a home and subsistence
for all honorably discharged soldiers,
sailors and marines who have served in
the army or navy of the United States,
and who are disabled by disease, wounds,
old age or otherwise; provided, that no
applicant shall be admitted to said home
who has not been a resident OF this state
or the territory of Dakota at least n
year next preceding his application for
admission therein, unless he served in a
Dakota regiment or company, or was
accredited to the territory of Dakota.
SEC. 8. All lands granted or hereafter
to be granted by the United States or by
the state Of North Dakota or. by the con
port of a soldiers home at the city of Lis
bon, in the county of Ransom in the
state of North Dakota, and all the pro-
ceeds from sales thereof, are hereby
pledged as a perpetual fund for the use
and benefit of said soldiers home as herein
provided.
SEC. 4. The government and manage
ment Of said soldiers home. until other
wise provided, is hereby vested in a board
of commissioners to be known as the
board of commissioners Of the soldiers
home.
SEC. s. The general supervision and
government of the soldiers home shall be
vested in q board of five commissioners,
who shall be selected by the governor, by
state of North Dakota; no two shall be
from the same county. The members of
said board shall hold their respective
offices for the term of two years, except
the chairman of said board, who shall
only hold his Office for one year; pro-
tent in the opinion of the governor, he
shall appoint as the chairman Of said
board of commissioners the commander or
chief officer of that organization known as
the "Grand Army Of the Republic" and
the appointment of such chairman shall
be made each year Immediately after his
election edSido 4 by C9s said organization pr tSd saio without the
SEC. s. Before entering upon the
Der of the said board of commission
ers Shall take and subscribe an oath, as
follows: II do solemnly swear that | will
support The constitution of the United
States and the constitution of the state of
North Dakota and will faithfully discharge
the duties OF board Of commissioners Of
the Dakota Soldiers Home, according to
the best of my ability; that l have not re-
ceived and will not knowingly and inten-
tionally, directly or Indirectly, receive any
money or other consideration from any
source whatever, for any vote or influence
official act l may perform as such com
missioner, except as herein provided" and
also execute a bond in the penal sum of
three thousand $4,000 dollars for the use
and benefit of tho state of North Dakota,
with two Of more good and sufficient
sureties, to be approved by the governor,
and be filed with the secretary
Torrance Of his duties, and the honest and
faithful disbursement of and accounting
for all moneys which may come into his
hands under the provisions of this act.
The said board, having taken the foregoing
oath and executed the bond as aforesaid, is
hereby empowered and required to cause
to be prepared suitable plans and speciti-
cations by a competent architect; such
plans shall contemplate the erection of a
building or buildings, which shall accOmo-
date not less than loo, nor more than 300
inmates, and shall be accompanied by
specifications and by a detailed estimate of
the mount required and description Of all
material and labor required for the entire
and full completion OF the buildings, and
no plan shall be adopted that contemplates
the expenditure of more money for Its
completion than the amount reasonably
necessary to carry out the object of said
institution.
SEC. Z. That the said board of commits
sioners shall employ the architect whose
act as a superintendent of construction,
who shall receive for such plans and speci.
ficatiOns and for experimenting con
%struction, such pay as the board shall by
agreement determine, which pay shall not
exceed an amount equal to five per cent. of
the estimated cost of said buildings.
SEC. 8. Whenever the said plans and
specifications shall have been approved
and adopted by a majority OF the board,
the commissioners shall cause to be in
serted in at least two of the daily news
papers published in the state Of North
Dakota, and having a general circulation
therein, an advertisement for sealed bids
in authorized, and they shall furnish a
printed copy Of this act and of the plans
and specifications to all persons apply
ing therefor: provided, said com
miSsiOners may advertise as afOre-
said whenever there shall be a suffi-
cient amount OF money to the credit
of said soldiers home with which to con-
struct all or any part thereof, deemed ex-
pedient by said commissioner to erect or
construct; provided. further, that before
the bids aforesaid shall be advertised for,
there shall be secured to the State of North
Dakota fee simple title to sufficient and
suitable grounds on which to establish said
home.
SEC. 9. No commissioner or officer of
said Soldiers home shall be in any way in
terested in any contract for the erection of
said buildings or furnishing any material
for said buildings, and if any such officer
be so interested, he shall be deemed guilty
Of a misdemeanOr, and on conviction be
fined in any sum not exceeding five thou
sand (5.O00) dollars.
SEC. 10. 1t shall be the duty of the board
of commissioners to meet annually, the
first Tuesday in June of each year, and at
such annual meeting they shall elect a Sec
mined by the board, and who shall mold his
Office for n year, or until his successor
shall be elected and qualified. The board
of commissioners shall have four regular
meetings in each year and mott to exceed two
| special meetings, and shall have a right to
| adopt a seal and make rules and regula-
lions not inconsistent with the constitution
{! Of the United States, the constitution or
laws of the State Of North Dakota, for the
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