Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-27

IlVSUkAlVCt Law WIN
signed BY governor
A bill for an act establishing hal
insurance department and making tn
commissioner of agriculture and labo
also the commissioner of hail insur
ance; prescribing rules, regulation
and duties of officers and person.
connected Herewith; prescribing how
, premiums, expense, and indemnit!
for losses by hail shall be paid.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Az
sembly of the State Of North Dakota
Section I. A hail insurance de
partment of the state of North Dakots
is hereby established, and the com
missioner of agriculture and labol
shall also be the commissioner of hal
insurance, and the management Of
said hail insurance department shall
be under his supervision.
He shall have the authority to ap
point and engage such additional depu
ties and clerks as he may find neces
sary to properly conduct the business
and salary of such deputies and
clerks shall be allowed, not to ex-
coed one hundred dollars per month
for each deputy, and eighty dollars
per month for each clerk, to be paid
out of the hail insurance fund. He
shall also prepare and provide the
necessary blanks, books, stationery
and postage, and cause the same to be
delivered to the proper officers and
persons. This hail insurance depart
ment shall insure growing grain in any
county In the state against loss by
hail upon the terms and In the man.
ner hereinafter set forth, and shall
draw up and furnish standard form
of hail insurance policy; provided,
that the appointment and employ
ment of all additional deputies and
clerks shall have the approval Of the
state auditing board, and all expenses
and salaries audited and allowed by
it.
Section 2. Assessors Duties and
bond.) 1t shall be and is hereby
made the duty of each and every coun-
ty, township, city and village asses
sor in the state, each within his re-
spective district, at the time of list
ing the property for assessment, to
inquire of the party assessed how
many acres of crop, if any, such party
desired to have insured in said state
hail insurance department for the
year in which said assessment is
made, and at the same time inform
said party that as premium for said
hail insurance payment of twenty
(2O) cents per acre for each and ev-
cry acre so insured must be made;
and if the party assessed is willing
and consents to have all or part of
his crops insured, it shall be the duty
of said assessor to take said appli-
cation for such hail insurance on
blanks furnished him for that pur-
pose by the county auditor, the form
of which must have been approved by
the commissioner of hail insurance,
and carefully describe each piese of
land that he so insures, describing
particularly the section or quarter
section, or any subdivision thereof,
and the township and county where.
in the. same is situated; also stating
the number of acres Of
wheat, oats, barley, fax, rye or other
grain that said party so insures, and
collect twenty (20) cents for each acre
30 insured, and in addition an appli.
cation fee, to be paid to the assessor
Of twenty-five cents for one hundred
sixty acres or less and ten cents for
each additional one hundred sixty
acres or fraction thereof, and the as.
SCISSOR shall forward the application
promptly, together with the premiums
so collected, to the county auditor
The assessor shall execute an official
bond, in addition to the regular as
SCISSORS bond, to the state of North
in the sum of one thousand
to be approved by the proper
officials as provided by law.
Section 8. County Auditors Du.
ties) Each county auditor in the
state shall file and keep the insurance
returned to him by the
several assessors and turn all moneys
collected for such insurance over to
the county treasurer, taking his re-
ceipt therefor, and amy party who
fails to insure his crop with the as.
SCISSOR. as above described, may at
any time up to and including the
18th day of August, apply to the coun.
ty auditor of the county where the
land is situated to have his crop in.
sured, as provided in this act, by fill.
ing out and filing with the county
auditor an application, as prescribed
in section 2 hereof, and upon the
payment of fee Of twenty-five cents
for one hundred sixty acres Or less
and ten cents for each additional one
hundred sixty acres or portion there
Of to the county auditor for his SER
vices, in addition to the premium to
be paid at that time to the county
auditor for such insurance, which
premium shall be turned over to the
county treasurer as above provided.
1t is further provided that said in.
Burance shall be in force and effect
from the time of the filing of the ap-
plication in the Office of the county
auditor and until tho Grain Ia cI,f