Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-08

act are hereby repealed.
Approved March %, 1895.
BLIND ASYLUM.
III. B. No. 1861
An Act Entitled Gan Act to Locate and
Provide for the Government of a
State Blind Asylum at Bathgate,
Pembina County, North Dakota.
Be 1T enacted, etc.:
SECTION l. There is hereby estab-
lished and located at the corporation of
Bathgate, Pembina county, North Da-
kota, a blind asylum, which shall be
known by the name of the North Da-
kota Blind Asylum. The government
and management of said blind asylum
is hereby vested in a board of trustees
consisting of five members, who shall
be styled the board of trustees of the
North Dakota blind asylum.
SEC The members of said board
shall be nominated by the governor.
and by and with the consent and advice
OF the senate, shall be appointed on or
before the third Monday in February of
a biennial session of the legislative
assembly, for a period of four years
from said date; provided, however, that
the first board of trustees shall be ap-
poined by the governor at once upon
the taking effect of this act; and pro-
vided, further, that the terms of the
first board shall be three members for
the period of four years and two of the
members for a period of two years, the
length of the term of the respective
trustees to be designated by the gov
ernor in making the appointments.
Such appointments to be by and with
the consent and advice of the senate.
should the legislativeIassembly be then
in session; otherwise the trustees an
pointed shall qualify and hold office
until their successors are appointed and
qualified. The governor shall have
power to fill all vacancies in said board
which may occur when the legislative
assembly is not in session, and the mem
bers OF said board shall. hold their office
until their successors are appointed and
qualified as provided in this act.
SEC. 5. The governor shall cause to
be issued to each of said trustees a
commission, which shall be under the
seal OF the state. At the first meeting
OF said board the members thereof shall
take and subscribe the oath of office
required OF all civil officers of the state.
and shall then proceed to elect a presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer, but the
treasurer need not be a member of the
board OF trustees. A majority of said
board shall be a quorum for the %transac.
ton OF business. The board shall re-
qulre a bond of it's treasurer and fix the
amount thereof.
SEC. 4. The board of trustees shall
hold it's meetings at the corporation Of
Bathgate and fix the time of holding
the same; provided, there shall not DO
to exceed twelve regular meetings in
each year. The members of the board
shall receive as compensation for their
services three dollars per day for each
day employed. not to exceed twenty-four
days in any n year, and five cents per
mile for each mile actually and necessa-
rily travelled in attending the meetings
OF said board, which sum shall be paid
out of the state treasury on the vouch-
ers of said board.
SEQ. 5. Until such time as the legis-
lative assembly of the state of North
Dakota shall make an appropriation for
the construction and maintenance of
such asylum, or until there shall be de-.
rived from the interest of the proceeds
Of the sale or rent for the leasing Of the
acres appropriated for this asy-
lum, sufficient funds to construct and
maintain such asylum, the sum Of $1,000,
the trustees appointed under this act
shall receive no compensation whatever, !
nor shall they issue their warrant upon
the state treasury for any purpose what
ever.
SEC. 6. The thirty thousand acres of
land donated by congress for the pur-
pose of such blind asylum and appro-
by the constitution of this state
therefor, and all moneys received from
the interest and income derived from
the sale Of such land or rents derived
from the leasing of such lands, are here
by appropriated for the construction
and maintenance of said asylum.
SEC. Z. The said board of trustees
shall direct the disposition of all moneys
appropriated by the legislative assembly
Of the state of North Dakota or the in
terest of all moneys that may be derived
from the sale, or the rent derived from
The leasing of land donated by congress
to said state and by the constitution of
said state appropriated for said asylum,
and shall have supervision and charge
If the construction of all buildings pro-
vided for or authorized by law for said
Said board of trustees of said
shall have power to enact by
avs and rules for the regulation of all
ts concerns not inconsistent with the
1--WE of this state, to see that it's affairs !.