Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-03
INJURIES TO T4IREsEIING
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Oh. B. No. 45-Piper.)
An Act Prohibiting the secreting Of Any
Stone. Wood, Iron or Other Substance
in Any Sheaf, Shock, Pile, Load or Stack
of Grain, That Might or Could Injure
or Destroy Any Threshing Machine or
Cause the Death or Injury Of Any Per
son or Any Damage to Personal Prop
erty and Prescribing the Measure OF
Damages That May Be Recovered, and
Prescribing Punishment for the Violation
of the Provisions Hereof.
Be it enacted, ETC.:
Section l. Every person who shall
wantonly, maliciously or mischievous-
ly put, place or conceal in any sheaf,
shock, pile, load or stack Of wheat,
oats or other grain, any stone, wood,
iron or other substance, which IL fed
into threshing machine would or
could injure such machine or any part
thereof or that could or might cause
the death, manning or injury OF any
person employed about said machine,
shall on conviction thereof be deemed
guilty as follows: If the injury caus-
ed by the violation of this section re-
suits in the death of any person, OF
manslaughter in the first degree: IL
the injury caused as aforesaid results
in manning or injury to any person or
breaking of the machine, OF a felony.
In all other cases he shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by fine of not more than
one hundred dollars or imprisonment
in the county jail not more than one
year, or by both such fine and impris.
onment. '.s -. :
Sec. 2. Every person violating the
provisions of section l. of this act shall
be liable to the owner of the machine
injured for all the damages arising
from such violation including the ac-
tual damage caused and all damage
and loss such owner may sustain by
reason of stoppage caused by such
ibreakage, to be recovered in the same
manner that civil damages for an in.
jury are now recoverable.
Approved February IA, 1905.
EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY.
III. B. No. 30-Stevens of Burleiph.o
An Act to Amend Section S44l of the Re.
xlsed Codes of North Dakota, Relating
to Jurors. = = = = 9
Be 1t enacted, etc.:
Section 1. Amendment.) That sec
ton AL of the revised codes of the
state of North Dakota, be amended to
read as follows: ~
Sec. AL. Qualifications of Jurors
All male citizens residing in any Of
the counties of. this state having the
of electors, and of sound
mind and discretion, and not judges of
the supreme, district or county court
sherln, coroner, jailer, attorney at
law engaged in practice. and who are
not subject to any bodily infirmity
amounting to a disability, and who
nave not been convicted of a criminal
onense punishable by imprisonment
IN the penitentiary, and not subject to
disability on account OF the comm,s.
sion OF any offense which by special
provision OF law dfsqualifies him, are
competent to serve on all grand and
petlt 1uries within their respective
counties or judicial subdivisions: pro.
Vlded, chat persons over sixty years az
age ministers of the gospel, county conn
mlss1oners, registers Of deeds. conntv
auditors, county treasurers. countv
superintendent Of schools. clerk ~
tne supreme court, clerks Of the ala.
trict court, clerks OF the county conrt
county judges. practicing physicians.
practicing dentists, registered phar.
maclsts, postmasters, carriers Of INIT
cd states mail. and members IA good
standing OF any regularly Organized
nre company, shall not be Compelled
70 serve as Jurors in any Of the courts
OF this state. '''' -
Approved February Is, 1905.