Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-02-10

companies or corporations. all trust
| companies, building and loan associa-
tions and all other companies and cor
porations operating under the laws of
Kansas and required by law to hold
reserved fund. thirty per cent of said
| reserve may consist of the treasury
notes herein provided for.
Section II. Nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to make said
notes legal tender in payment of debts.
but all persons, corporations and off
| GERS performing service, or furnishing
material for any municipality or county
of the state of Kansas after the passage
of this act there shall be an implied
contract upon the part of such person.
officer or corporation to accept in pay
ment for such services and material
furnished, the promissory notes provid-
ed for in this act.
Section II. Every person or associa-
ton of persons who shall counterfeit or
alter or cause to be counterfeited or al
| tered or shall have in his or their posses
sion any altered, forged, photographed
or printed copy or copies of the notes
herein provided for or who shall have
i'll his or their possession any plates OF
dies for the printing or altering of said
notes, or shall assist in any manner in
engraving or causing to be engraved
said plates or dies, OF shall pass or at
tempt to pass any forged, counterfeited,
photographed or altered note, the issue
of which is provided for in this act.
shall be deemed guilty of counterfeiting
SAID notes, and upon conviction shall be
fined in any sum not less than one
thousand nor more than five thousand
(5OOO) dollars and by Imprisonment at
hard labor in the penitentiary not less
than five years, and not more than q
years.
Section 13. 1t shall be the duty of
the commissioner of loans, before the
delivery of the notes herein provided
Tor, to the county commissioners of
any county III the state of Kansas. to
cause said notes to be entered in the Of
flee of the auditor state, of who shall re-
cord the same without delay in a book
to be provided for that purpose. Said
record shall show the series, number
and denomination of the notes, and the
total amount issued by the several
counties, and true copy of said record
duly certified by the auditor, shall be
deposited in the office of the treasurer
of the state of Kansas.
Section ii. The commissioner of
loans before entering upon the dis
charge OF his duty shall make and exc
cute a bond to the state Of Kansas in
the full sum of 10000 dollars condition
ed for the faithful discharge of his duty.
and shall take and subscribe the oath
OF office in the usual form prescribed by
law, and any officer charged with the
execution of this act, who shall neglect
or refuse to perform his duty, shall be
liable on his official bond to the parties
injured to the full eXent of all damages
and costs, and in addition thereto,
shall be guilty of a felony and on con-
victlon shall be imprisoned in the peni-
tertiary not less than one year and not
to exceed ten years.
Section 10. Every person who shall
in his own behalf, or in behalf of any
other person, company or corporation,
attempt in any manner to depreciate
the notes herein provided for, by any
device, whereby said notes are discount
ed or received at sum less than their
face value, exclusive of accrued inter-
est. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined in
any sum not less than $50 90 nor more
than $500 for each offense, aud in addi-
ton thereto shall be imprisoned in the
county jail not less than 60 DAYS nor
more than six months.
Section Is. There is hereby appro-
priated. out of any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, suf-
ficient sum to carry into effect the pro-
visions of this act; but all money drawn
from the treasury shall be by warrant
in due form, and no warrant shall issue
until all accounts or demands shall be
itemIZed and sworn To and duIv audited