Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-04
NO. 80.

An Act to License Express Companies.
Bait Enacted By the Legislative assembly of
the State of North Dakota:
SECTION l. Each and every express
company doing any express business with.
in this state, shall on or before the first dav
of August each year procure a license from
the state auditor, which license shall o n
tain the name, population and IL
cense fee of every station, town, village
and city wherein said express company is
doing business.
SIC. 2. The words "express company"
herein used shall mean any person, COM
pany, or corporation doing an express
business.
SEC. 8. The state auditor shall charge
and the treasurer shall collect from
each and every express company doing
business within this state five dollars IL
cense fee for each and every, station, town
and city having 200 Or less inhabitants, and
ten dollars license fee for each and every
station, town and city having between 200
and 1000 inhabitants in which they have
an agent, and twenty-five dollars license
fee for each and every station, town and
city having not less than 1000 nor more
than 5000 Inhabitants, and fifty dollars IL
cense fee for each and every station, town
and city having over 5000 inhabitants, in
which they are doing business; provided,
that one or all stations. towns and cities
may be named in one and the same license
issued to one and the same company.
SEC. 4. Each and every express COM
pany doing business in this state shall, on
or before the first day of July each year,
make out and deliver 10 the state auditor a
certified list of all stations, towns and
cities in which they are doing business in
this state.
SEC. s. The state auditor shall immedi-
ately thereupOn determine the number of
inhabitants of each station, town and city
0000rnInr IN tho loot o0nSrS of hiu horIo
and he shall satisfy himself of the correct
ness of the list of stations, towns and cities
sent him. He shall then notify each and
every express company Of the number OF
inhabitants n the license fee of each and
every station, town and city wherein they
are doing business, and the total amount of
license fee they are required to pay in this
state, which notice shall be sent to the
president, secretary or treasurer of the
proper express company affected thereby,
as soon as possible after the first day Of
July each year.
SEC. g.. The state auditor shall, upon
payment of the license fee herein required,
titled thereto and he shall pay all license
fees into the state treasury general fund
and shall take the state treasurer's receipt
therefor.
SEC. z. The state auditor and treasurer
shall each keep a book in which shall be
euleTtu GIle ldllo u every express COM
pany doing business in this state, the name
of stations, towns and cities in which they
are doing business and the number of in
habitants of each, and the amount of
license fee collected for each station, town
and city.
SEC: s: Any express company doing
with the provisions of this act, shall be
liable to a fine of not less thar two hun
dred (200) dollars nor more than one thous-
and (1,000) dollars for each and every
offense, at the discretion of the court, and
no property belonging to said company
shall be exempt from seizure and sale for
such fine.
SEC. 9. The attorney general of this
state shall prosecute all violations af this
act.
Approved March II, 1890.