Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-03-24

| able plans and specifications; but no plans
| shall be adopted which shall not first have
been approved by the Governor. Said
plans shall be accompanied by specifca-
| tons and by detailed estimates of the
amount, quality and description of all
materials and labor required for the cree
ton and completion Of the elevator or
warehouse according to said plans.
SEC. S. Whenever the said plans and
specifications shall have been approved
and adopted, the said Board of Grain and
Warehouse Commissioners shall cause to
be duly published an advertisement at
Duluth or West Superior aforesaid for
sealed bids for the construction of the
elevator or warehouse herein author
lied and provided, and shall furnish
a printed copy of this act and of the
specifications to all parties applying there
for; and all parties interested who shall
desire it shall have free access to the
plans with the privilege of taking notes
and making memoranda thereof; and a
copy of said plans and specifications shall
be left in the city in which said elevator or
warehouse is to be built.
Sec. 6. Not less than twenty days
after the publication of said proposal for
bids, and at the time and place named in
said advertisement, in the presence of the
bidders, or so many of them as may be
present, the bids shall be opened for the
first time, and the contract shall be let to
the lowest and best bidder; Pyo,1d;ng,
The Board shall deem this for the best
interest of the state; Pyo,yded, That no bid
shall be accepted which is not accompanied
by a good and sufficient bond in the penal
sum of ten thousand dollars (S1o,ooo)
signed by at least three 81 good and
sufficient sureties, conditioned as a guaranty
for the responsibility and good faith of the
bidder, and that he will enter into contract
and give bond as provided in this act in
case his bid is accepted.
SEC. 7. The contract to be made with
the successful bidder shall be accompanied
BY a good and sufficient bond in a sum to
be fixed by the said commissioners, said
bond to be approved by the Governor be.
fore being accepted, conditioned for the
faithful performance of his contract.
The said contract shall be signed by
the chairman of the Board of Grain
and Warehouse Commissioners on behalf
of the board, and attested by the signature
of the secretary of the board. It shall be
drawn in triplicate, and one copy of the
same shall be deposited in the office of the
State Auditor.
Sec. S. The moneys herein a%ppropri-
ated for purchasing the site and construct
ing the elevator or warehouse shall be
paid to the parties to whom they may be.
come due and payable directly from the
treasury of the State, on the warrant of
the State Auditor, and the State Auditor
is hereby authorized and required to draw
said warrant for money due under this
act upon the order of said Board of Grain
and Warehouse Commissioners.
Sec. 9. 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of Grain and Warehouse Commits.
sioners to appoint a suitable person as
warehouseman of the said State elevator
or warehouse, and such assistants as shall
be necessary, who shall hold their Offices
during the pleasure of said commissioners,
Said warehouseman and assistants shall
not be members of any board of trade or
association of any like character; thew
shall give bonds in such sums as the Grain
and Warehouse Commissioners shall re-
quire, conditioned for the faithful dis.
charge of their duties, and shall receive
such compensation as the Board of Grain
and Warehouse Commissioners shall de.
termine, which compensation shall be paid
out of the warehouse fund hereinafter ere.
ated, on the order of the Grain and Ware.
house Commissioners.
SEC. 10. The Grain and Warehouse
Commissioners shall adopt such rules and
regulations for the receiving, handling,
storing, selling and delivering of wheat as
they shall deem proper.
SEC. II. The Grain and Warehouse
Commissioners shall M the charges for
storage and handling of wheat, including
the cost of receiving and delivering; said
charges shall be and constitute a lien on
the grain so received, and said charges for
receiving, handling, storing, selling and
delivering of wheat shall be collected by
the warehouseman and assistants, and
shall by them be paid into the State Treas,
ury and be known as the Warehouse Fund
SEC. IL. In addition to the charges
mentioned in Section ten (1o) there shall
be charged the sum of one (1) cent pei
bushel On all wheat received into the
elevator or warehouse, which shall 20 into
a fund to be known as the Special Ware.
house Fund, which shall be under the
control of the Board of Grain and Ware.
house Commissioners and used by them
for increasing the capacity and facilities fol
handling, storing and shipping wheat.
SEC. IS. Said warehouseman shall
make weekly reports to the Board o,
Grain and Warehouse Commissioners
said reports to be made on blanks furnished
by said commissioners.
SEC. "a. All moneys mentioned in
Sections eleven (11) and twelve (12) re-
ceived by the warehouseman or his as.
sistants shall be turned into the State
Treasury weekly, and at the same time,
that the reports are made to the Grain anc
Warehouse Commissioners, which shall
be mailed to and filed with the State Au
ditor.
SEC. IS. No wheat shall be received
in the said elevator or warehouse excep,
such as shall have been grown in the State
of North Dakota.
SEC. 16. 1t shall be the duty of the
Treasurer of the State of North Dakota tc
receive all moneys collected by virtue Of
this act, and to keep a separate account OF
the same, and to pay the same out on the
order of the Grain and Warehouse Com.
missioners.
SEC. II. No construction or expendi
ture shall be made in any State under the
provisions of this act until the Legislature
of said State shall have first coded to the
State of North Dakota absolute civil iuris.
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