Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-07-29
PETITIONS OUT FOR NEW LAWS

Laws Affecting Newspapers and the
State Board of Administra-
ton Included
Petitions by which an effort will be
made to place five measures before
the voters this fall were received in
Bismarck today.
Ten thousand signers will be sought
to the petitions by Friday night, the
number necessary to put the initjatory
. measures before the people at the No
,vember election. The laws which it
lis proposed to initiate by popular vote
are as follows:
A law providing for regular exam
inations of the Bank Of North Dako-
ia and other state institutions.
A law giving counties, cities, viii
lagos, townships and school districts
the right to handle their own funds
through local banks if they SO desire.
Leaves it compulsory to deposit al!
moneys belonging to ali state institu--
tions and the state proper in the
Bank of North Dakota.
A law ordering the Bakn of Norh
Dakota to net make loans on land ex-
cept to actual farmers residing in
North Dakota.
A law that will permit the publica-
ton of private and legal notices in
local papers, all county legal notices
and other official publications of all
kinds to continue to be published in
the county official paper as at present.
a law placing all strictly education
al matters under the direct super
vision of the superintendent of public
instruction, taking these powers from
the board of administration.
The proposed law providing for ex-
limitations of the Bank of North De-
kota and other state institutions is in
the nature of an amendment to Section
369 Of the Compiled Laws of 1918.
! The law proposed follows:
Section 1863 (Members of Board)
There is hereby created board of
auditors for the state of North Da-
kota which shall consist of the Sec
retray of state, the scate auditor and
the attorney general, whose duty it
shall be to examine and audit, the
accounts, books and vouchers of the
state treasurer, and of the Bank of
North Dakota and all other industrial
institutions of the state, and to take
an account and ascertain the amount
Of funds in the state treasury or be-
longing to the state, and to take an
account and ascertain the assets and
liabilities Of the bank of North Dakota
and of all other industrial institutions
of the state at least twice in each
year without previous notice to the
treasurer, or to the officials Of said
state Institutions ana make report
thereof, and Of their ac.s and doings
in the premises, to the governor, and
make the same public, and also to
witness and attest the transfer and de-
livery of accounts, books, vouchers
and funds by any outgoing treasurer,
!. or bank manager, OF manager of any
industrial institution, to his successor
in Office, and report the same to the
governor, and the failure or neglect
Of the aforesaid board of auditors, OF
any member thereof, TO do and per-
form any Of the acts at any time, OF
times, and in the manner in this Sec
tion provided for, shall constitute and
be nisdemeanor in cfice. The board
is authorized and empowered to en-
sploy such expert accountants as it may
deem necessary to carry out the pro-
visions Of this section. - p
The board of auditors is Independent
Of the state auditing board, the du-
ties Of which are entirely different and
have to do particularly with the au-
ditiing of accounts filed for payment
by the several departments OF state.
Regarding Public Deposits
To accomplish change in the Bank
cf North Dakota law, which will re-
store to political subdivisions, Of the
state the authority to handle their
funds without state interference, an
amendment proposed follows:
Section y. All state funds, and
funds Of all state penal, educational
and industrial institutions shall be ,by
the persons having control Of such
funds, deposited in the Bank Of North
Dakota = .5
AZ originally passed by the legis-
lature, and approved by the people in
1919, this section Of the bank law
i axes il compulsory for treasurers Of
school districts, cities, towns, villages,
counties, ETC., to deposit public funds
in the state bank, on pain Of being
{ sentenced to prison Il they fail 50