The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-26
PUBLICITY BILL
To Advertise the Agricultural and
Industrial Opportunities Of
Montana.

the recent session ot the state leg
islature and provides that the
board OF county commissioners Of
any county upon receiving petit
ton signed bv fifty freehold tax
payers, is authorized to make an
appropriation from the General
Fund for the purpose OF advertis.
ing the resources OF the county:
An Act to increase duties of the Com'r
of the Bureau Of Agriculture. Labor and
Industry: to provide for the collection and
compilation of Statistics for the use Of
! said Bureau. by Counties and Chambers
J of Commerce. Commercial Bodies. Farm
ers Institutes. Cooperative Societies of
Farmers. State Federated Trade Unions.
and other industrial associations of promo
tive character; to provide for the publica-
tion and publicity of such statistics: to
provide for appropriations by counties and
by the state to meet the expenses incurred
in the fultheranee of such purposes. and
to provide for the appointment and salary
of an assistant clerk for said Bureau.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly
of the State of Montana:
Section 1. The commissioner of the
bureau of agriculture. labor and industry
shall prepare reports from the data. cuts
and statistics on file in his Office or submit
ted to him as hereinafter provided. Such
reports shall furnish reliable information
upon one or more of the following topics.
to-wIt:
Upon the agricultural commercial min
ing, manufacturing. labor or other indus
trial resources Of the state. or upon the
educational and social interests or sanitary
conditions OF the people of the state.
Such reports shall be published in such
form and quantity as in the judgment Of
the Commissioner may b: deemed exped-
lent and practicable. Reports so prepared
by the commissioner. or prepared and de-
livered to him as hereinafter provided.
shall be by him sent to such parts of the
United States as in the opinion of the COM
missioner, would secure the greatest bene-
fit, considering the character of tine infor-
nation contained in the report. All re.
ports sent out by the Commissioner shall
bear a certificate thereon to the ef-
feet that the same are issued by authority
OF the state of Montana. The commission
er shall opsn correspondence with bureaus
of emigration, boards of trade and other
organizations in the United States who are
willing to assist in disseminating informa-
tion in regard to the climate, productive,
commercial, industrial and labor resources
of Montana. He shall also provide ior a
liberal distribution of such reports at state
and county fairs Throughout, the United
States. and n, all espoai,ions Of a National
character. To secure the distribution by
the bureau Of local advertising matter IN
the manner hereinafter provided. the man
useripts of all reports. pamphlets. and sta
tistics so complied must be submitted TO
the commissioner and approved by him
Section 2. The commissioner shall an
nually. on the goth day Of November. sub
init complete itemlzed account to the
Governor, showing all the business of the
bureau for the year. and all expenditures
made during such period.
Section B. The commissioner shall have
authority to appoint. in addition to the
chief clerk now provided for by law. an as
sistant clerk at salary of eighteen hun
dred dollars per annum. to be paid in the
same manner as other salaries are paid.
Section 4. There shall be appropriated
for the purposes of paying the expenses
incurred under this Act the sum of five
thousand dollars for the year 1909 and five
thousand dollars for the year 1910.
Section S. The board OF county COM
missioners of any county Of the state. upon
receiving petition signed by at leas, flity
freehold taxpayers. whose names appear
on the last assessment books of the county,
Is authorized to make an appropriation. as
hereinafter provided. from the General
Fund of the county for the purpose OF ad
vertising the agricultural commercial.
mining, manufacturing. labor or other in
dns,rial resources af the county. Saie
petition shall specifically state the class ol
classes Of industries OF said county that thu
petitioners desire to advertise. and tn.
appropriation shall be limited to the pur
poses stated in the petition.
Said appropriations shall not exceed fol
lowing amounts. to- wit:
In counties OF the iirst class. thirteer
hundred dollars. Counties Of the .hirs
class. one thousand dollars. and all coun
ties below the third class. eigh, hundres
dollars.
Section 9. The board of county com
missioners of counties where appropriation
have been made in accordance with Sec
,ion S of this Act, may appoint some sui,
ahls n1rson fc oafhar data and S,at;S,;rs