The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-13

aPProVc Claims against estates; HE approve aha account of executors, admin.
orders o give notice 70 creditors; and generally to make such orders a may be
necessary se..aa e the exercise Of the powers hereby conferred.
Section 2. Any act Of the clerk, a contemplated in section Of this act shall be
binding on all parties Interested therein until the next term OF the court after they
are cntercd of record, when they shall be read in open court and approved, set
aside Or modified, but until $50 set aside pr modified it shall have the same force
Section J. Nothing in this act shall be SO construed as to in any way abrdge the
power Or duties already conferred upon clerks Of the district courts
Approved March 9 1901
> 81 snce re- 5 oss,,cr. IS.
! L. Rotwit, secretary of state of the state of Montana, do hereby certify
that tina the above Is, with the exception Of corrections in photography and runetua.
rect copy of a act entitled a bill for an act comforting additional powers and
duties N clerks of district courts, enacted by the second session of the legislative
assembly of the state of Montana, and approved by Jos K Toolc, governor of said
state, on the 9th day Of March, 1891.
In testimony whereof ] have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of
said state.
Done at the city of Helena the capital of said state, this rah day of March, A.
d. 1891. L. RorwIrr.
[sEAL] Secretary Of State.
An act requiring certain county and district officers to report the feesa and emol-
uments received by them to the county commissioners, and requiring the county
Jerks to report the subsistence thereof to the satea auditor, and for the publication
Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the state Of Montana:
Section T. 1t shall be the duty of all clerks of the district courts county clerks
and recorders, shenfs, county attorney, and all special attorneys in III employ
O. countless county superintendent ofc common schools, county neasurers, county
assessors and public administrators, and the incumbents of all other county or
district offices Q wcreatedo or that may hereafter be created by law, save judicial
officers, and notaries public, to make quarterly reports to the board of county
emoluments or compensation received, and moneys discussed by them, in their
official capacity, from any and all sources pertaining o their respective Offices,
during the quarter year Immediately preceding the date of making such reports.
Section ?. The reports referred to in section shall b 81 n writing on oath, and
shall be made o n the first Monday of March, June, September and December in
each year.
Section 3 1tshan be the duty ofthe board of county commissioners of the several
~ Of this acu and If found correct shall write the words approv ed N orc sea
filed" n the back of said reports, and the charrnan of the board shall SIGN the
same, and if lot found correctt o re returned to the official with a statement If
the insuGciency, which shall forthwith be corrected by said Official by him re-
turned to thu board, and if then found correct filed as aforesaid.
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty of the clerk of the board If county commits
sioners of each county within ten days after the adjournment OF the board of
act. to report in tabular form, to the auditor of the state, from the information
and moneys disbursed and for what purposes disbursed, shall be filed in the Office
of the auditor of the state.
Section S. The auditor of the state is hereby required to publish said reports Of
the severalc county clerks, in tabular form, annually, in the auditors and treas.
urers annual reports, and he shall also report the same to the governor, annually.
The published report shall show, in tabular form, the our received and
moneys disbursed by each officer ie each county, and the sources from which said
amounts were received.
Section e Any officer who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and o conviction thereof shall b. pn-
failure.
lpealed.
Section s.. This act shall go into effect o n and after its passage.
Approved Feb. 49, 1891.
STATE o MONTANA, |a
SEcRETARYs OFEIcE.
IL. Rotwiu, secretary of state OF the shteo of Montana, do hereby certify that
the above is with the exception Of corrections in photography and punctuation
and inserion of omissions or substitute words n brackets, a true and correct col
|f a N act entitled al act requiring certain county ad district officers to report the
and emolumentsr received by them Ito the county commissioners and reouir-
ing the county clerks to report the subshncet thereof to the state auditor and fr
the publication of the same, enacted by the second session of the Legislative
assembly oft the state of Montana, and approved by los X. Tooe governor of
said state, o the od day of February, 1891
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal NJ
said state.
Done at III city of Helena, the capital of said said state, this 18th day Of March
A. d. 1891.
IsEAL] I. Rorw1rr
Secretary of State.