Approved March 4, 1929

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Now THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that this Twentieth Legis­ lative Assembly of the State of North Dakota, hereby endorses said Roosevelt National Park Project, and respectfully urges the Congress of the United States to establish a National Park as provided for in said H. R. 3942; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Congress, in furtherance of said park project, make appropriate provision for exchanging with the State of North Dakota public lands of the United States, of

equal quantity, character and value for the State school lands lying within said proposed park area heretofore granted to the State of North Dakota under the Provisions of Sections 10 and 11 of the Enabling Act of February 22nd, 1889; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of State transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,

.and to the Senators and Congressmen for the State of North Dakota.

Filed February 28, 1927.

Copy of CR Roosevelt Park

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 'H'

(Baird)

DISTRIBUTION "OTHER FUNDS" NATIONAL GUARD ORGANIZATIONS

WHEREAS, it has been duly made known to the proper authorities of the State of North Dakota that the Secretary of War of the United States has in his possession, as trustee, certain monies known as "Other Funds,'' which had been collected for their own use and benefit by certain National Guard organizations, that were broken up as units for and as a result of the World War, and have not been reconstituted; and

WHEREAS, it further appears that the Secretary of \Var, as trustee, desires to turn over to a substitute trustee, duly authorized by the State of North Dakota, such portion of the said funds as equitably belongs to the National Guard of North Dakota.

Now, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Senate of the State of North Dakota, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Governor of North Dakota is hereby authorized to receive such funds as trustee, and to distribute them for the benefit of the National Guard of this State in such manner as his judgment shall dictate.

Filed February 28, 1927.

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CHAPTER 26

(H. B. No. 49—Committee on Appropriations)

BURIAL SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES, WAR OF REBELLION

An Act Making an Appropriation to Pay for the Burial Expense of Honorably Discharged Sailors, Soldiers and Marines of the United States War of the Rebellion and Erection of Head Stones Therefore, as Authorized by Sections 3181, 3182, 3183, and 3184 of the Compiled Laws of 1913.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Appropriation.] There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300.00, for the biennium, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for the burial of honorably discharged sailors, soldiers and marines of the United States War of Rebellion, and the erection of headstones therefor, as authorized under Sections 3181, 3182, 3183 and 3184 of the Compiled Laws of North Dakota for 1913.

Approved February 21, 1927

Copy of House Bill 49

Found on page 50 of Full legislative laws

VETERANS

CHAPTER 281

(S. B. No. 109—Baird, Hamilton and Schlosser)

VETERANS' SERVICE COMMISSIONER

An Act Creating the Office of Veterans' Service Commissioner; Providing the Qualifications, the Manner of Appointment, Duties, Salary, Tenure of Office of Such Officer, Providing an Appropriation There for, and Declaring An Emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. There is hereby created the office of Veterans' Service Commissioner.

§ 2. Qualifications and Appointment.] Such commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor of the State of North Dakota from a list of names of five men furnished by the State Executive Committee of. the American Legion. Any person to be eligible for appointment as such commissioner shall be an actual and bona fide resident of North Dakota, a regularly licensed attorney, or someone experienced in the prosecution of claims against the Veteran's Bureau and shall possess an honorable discharge either from the Navy, Army, or Marine Corps of the United States Government. 

§ 3. Duties.] It shall be the duty of the Veterans' Service Commissioner to investigate pending claims and to make a survey of the state to ascertain the number of veterans entitled to compensation who have not filed claims and to assist them in filing such claims if they are eligible for compensation; and to represent any honorably discharged veteran who has served at any time as a commissioned officer, or in the enlisted personnel of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Army Nurse Corps or Naval Nurse Corps, or the widow, administrator, executor, guardian or heir, of any such veteran, in securing a fair and equitable adjustment of any claim of any such veteran, or such other person, made to the United States Veterans' Bureau, United States Pension Bureau, or the proper department of the United States, for adjusted compensation, insurance, pension, compensation for disability, hospitalization, vocational training, or other benefit which such veteran may be or may have been entitled to receive under the laws of the United States.

§ 4. Said commissioner shall have a seal of office and be authorized to administer oaths to any person whose acknowledgment may become necessary in the prosecution of any claim for compensation, hospitalization, insurance or other aid or benefits; and he shall likewise be authorized and empowered to certify to the correctness of any document or documents which may be submitted in connection with any such application.

§ 5. Compensation and Expenses.] The salary of such Veterans' Service Commissioner shall be Twenty-five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) per annum, payable monthly on proper voucher submitted therefor to the State Auditor. He shall likewise be allowed the sum of One Thousand Twenty Dollars ($1,020.00) per annum for clerk hire, Two Hundred Thirty Dollars ($230.00) per annum for office supplies and expenses, and the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) per annum for expenses for travel and investigation of claims, the same to be paid monthly on war rants of the State Auditor, after proper vouchers have been filed and approved as provided by law.

§ 6. Office.] Office of said commissioner shall be located in the same city as the office of the United States Veterans' Bureau for this district ; and in the event that such Veterans' Bureau be removed from the State of North Dakota, then said commissioner's office shall be in the State Capitol at Bismarck.

§ 7. Appropriation.] For the purpose of carrying out and making effective the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of the general funds in the treasury of the State of North Dakota, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Eleven Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($11,100.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

§ 8. Duration of Office.] The office of Veterans' Service Commissioner shall exist for a period of two years from the date of the passage and approval of this act. Provided, however, if any of the money appropriated hereby has not been used, the office may be continued to July 1, 1929, when the emergency for which the same was created will have expired.

§ 9. Emergency.] Whereas, the period of limitation as set by the Federal law provides that all claims for compensation, hospitalization and insurance must be proven before July 1, 1929, or be forever barred; and Whereas there are now within the State of North Dakota approximately four thousand ex-service men who have just claims for compensation, hospitalization, insurance, or other benefits which are not properly or efficiently being prosecuted owing to the fact that they are not familiar with the necessary steps and procedure, and owing to the further fact that under the laws of the United States, the Veterans' Bureau, through which such claims are presented, is estopped to assist such disabled service men in the prosecution of such claims ; and Whereas the preservation of the public peace, health and safety makes it necessary that the provisions of this act shall become operative immediately, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 7, 1927.

Copy of SB 109

WORLD WAR

CHAPTER 287

(S. B. No. 115— Baird)

RECORD OF NORTH DAKOTA CITIZENS SERVING AND ACTIVE IN WORLD WAR

An Act to Provide for the Compilation, Publication and Distribution of the Record of the Citizens of North Dakota Who Rendered Military Service on Behalf of the State and Assisted in the Administration of the Selective Service Act During the World War.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. The Adjutant General of the State of North Dakota is hereby authorized and directed to compile, publish and distribute, in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may adopt, a record of the citizens of the State of North Dakota who rendered Military Service on behalf of the State and assisted in the administration of the Selective Service Act during the World War.

§ 2. The Industrial Commission of the State of North Dakota shall defray all expenses incident to carrying out the pro visions of this act out of any moneys in its hands which have accumulated through the administration of the provisions of Chapter 244 of the Laws of 1923, provided, however, that all expenditures hereunder by the Industrial Commission shall be limited to such accumulations.

§ 3. The Adjutant General and Industrial Commission shall have full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things which may to them seem necessary and proper for the purposes of carrying out the terms and conditions and spirit of this act.

Approved, March 3, 1927.

Copy of SB 115

SOLDIER'S BONUS

CHAPTER 254

(S. B. No. 169— Baird)

LIMITATION FOR FILING SOLDIERS BONUS CLAIMS

An Act Limiting the Time in Which to File Claims Against the Returned Soldiers Fund Under the Provisions of Chapter 206, Laws of 1919, and Laws Amendatory Thereto.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. No claim under the provisions of Chapter 206, Session Laws 1919, and all acts amendatory thereto, shall be received by the Adjutant General of North Dakota on and after July 1, 1927; provided, that the prohibition mentioned in this act shall not be construed to prevent the completion of any and all claims now in the office of the Adjutant General of North Dakota, but all such, claims shall be deemed to have been filed prior to July 1, 1927.

Approved, March 3, 1927

Copy of SB 169

CHAPTER    121.

[H. B. No. 99.)

GOVERNMENT OF SOLDIERS' HOME.

AN AC'T to Amend Sections 2, 5 and 13 of Chapter 165 of the Laws of 1890, Entitled" An Act for the Establishment, Government and Maintenance of a Soldiers' Home.''

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ l.  AMENDMENT.] That Section 2 be amended to read as follows:

§ 2.    OBJECT OF SOLDIERS' HOME-WHO MAY BE ADMITTED.]  The object of the Soldiers' Home shall be to provide a home and subsistence for all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who have served in the army or navy of the United States, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, old age or otherwise and their wives and widows; Provided, That no applicant shall be admitted to said home who has not been a resident of this State at least one year next preceding his application for admission therein, unless he served in a Dakota regiment, or was accredited to the Territory of Dakota.

§ 2. AMENDMENT.]  That Section 5 be amended to read as follows:

§ 5.   BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS-HOW APPOINTED.]              The general supervision and government of the Soldiers' Home shall be vested in a board of five commissioners, each of whom shall have served in the army or navy of the United States, who shall be ap­ pointed by the Governor by and with the consent of the Senate of the State of North Dakota, no two of whom shall be from the same county, except the county wherein said institution is located, from which at least two of the members of said board shall be appointed. The members of said board shall hold their respective offices for the term of two, three, four and five years respectively, except the chairman of said board, who shall hold his office for one year only. The time for which each of the members of said board shall hold such office shall be designated in his cer­tificate of appointment; Provided, That when not otherwise in­ competent in the opinion of the Governor, he shall appoint as chairman of said board of commissioners the commander or chief officer of that organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic, and the appointment of such chairman shall be made each year immediately after his election by said organization with­ out the advice or consent of the Senate. The compensation of said commissioners shall be three dollars per day each, for not exceed­ ing twenty-four days in any one year, and necessary expenses, while performing duties as such commissioner.

3. AMENDMENT.] That Section 13 be amended to read as follows:      

§ 13.   FUNDS-HOW KEPT.]          All moneys that may arise from the interest received on all money derived from the sale of lands herein before or that may hereafter be appropriated for said home, including all money that may be received from the renting of said lands, and all moneys that may be hereafter appropriated for said home by the State of North Dakota, including all money raised in any other manner or donated to said home shall be deposited with the State Treasurer, to be by him transmitted, at least once in every sixty days to the institution treasurer, if he shall have qualified as provided by law, and such money when received by said institution treasurer shall be used exclusively for the benefit of said home as may be herein or hereafter provided by law.

§ 4.   EMERGENCY.]          Whereas, an emergency exists in this, that it is necessary to appoint commissioners for the Sold1eirs Home as herein provided long prior to the first day of July, 1893; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved, February 18, 1893.

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Copy of bill

CHAPTER   88.

[H.B. No. 97.]

ARMS FOR G. A. R. POSTS.

AN ACT Entitled An Act Empowering and Authorizing the Governor of the State of North Dakota to Furnish Arms and Equipments to all Grand Army Posts in Good Standing in the State of North Dakota.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1.  ARMS FOR G. A. R. POSTS, HOW SECURED.] The Governor of the State of North Dakota is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish to any Grand Army post in the State of North Dakota, not to exceed twenty-five stands of arms, when a requisition is drawn upon him by such Grand Army post, signed by the commander and at least ten members of such post, accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, signed by the proper officer, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Governor, conditioned that said Grand Army post and the surities thereon are bound in double the value of the arms so furnished, that arms and equipments will be properly cared for and returned to the State of North Dakota, upon the call of the Governor thereof, in as good condition as when received by such post, ordinary wear and tear excepted; Provided, That it shall be the duty of the inspector general of the State militia to visit annually the Grand Army posts having such guns and inspect their condition, said officer to make a report to the Governor of such inspection.      If the report of the said in­ spector general is to the effect that the said guns are not properly stored and cared for, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to recall the loan of such guns.

§ 2. EMERGENCY.] Whereas an emergency exists in that it is necessary that said arms and equipments shall be furnished long prior to July 1, 1891, therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 21, 1891.

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CHAPTER  87.

[S. B. No. 131.)

MAINTENANCE OF STATE MILITIA.

AN ACT to Provide for the Maintenance of the Military Department as Provided in the Military Code of the State of North Dakota.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. APPROPRIATION.] For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Military Code of the State of North Dakota, there is herby made an appropriation of $11,000 per annum, or­ as much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the State Treasury, and all warrants against said appropriation shall be drawn by the State Auditor upon the State Treasurer, upon the certificate of the adjutant general, approved by the Governor.

§ 2. REPEAL.] All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved February 20, 1891.

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CHAPTER  21.

[S. B. No. 60.)

FOR ERECTION OF SOLDIERS' HOME AT LISBON.

AN ACT Appropriating Money for the Erection of a Soldiers' Home at Lis­bon, North Dakota, and for the Contingent Expenses Incident Thereto.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ I. APPROPRIATION.] There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000 for the erection of a suitable Soldiers' Home at Lisbon, Ransom County, North Dakota, and for the contingent expenses incident thereto.

Approved February 27, 1891.

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CHAPTER 165.

[ H. F. 305]

SOLDIER'S HOME AT LISBON.

AN ACT for the Establishment, Government and Maintenance of a Soldier's Home.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. LOCATION.] That there be and is hereby created, located and established a Soldier's Home in the city of Lisbon, in the county of Ransom and State of North Dakota.

§ 2.    OBJECTS OF SOLDIER'S HOME-WHO MAY BE ADMITTED.] The object of the Soldier's Home shall be to provide a home and sub -sistence for all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who have served in the army or navy of the United States, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, old age or otherwise; Pro­ vided, That no applicant shall be admitted to said home who has not been a resident of this State or the Territory of Dakota at least one year next preceding his application for admission therein, unless he served in a Dakota regiment or company, or was accredited to the territory of Dakota.

§ 3. GRANTED LANDS AND FUNDS PLEDGED.]  All lands granted or hereafter to be granted by the United States or by the State of North Dakota or by the Constitution of the  State, set apart for the support of a Soldier's Home at the city of Lisbon, in the county of Ransom in the State of North Dakota, and all the proceeds from sales thereof, are hereby pledged as a perpetual fund for the use and benefit of said Soldier's Home as herein provided.

§ 4. MANAGEMENT.] The government and management of said Soldiers' Home, until otherwise provided, is hereby vested in a board of commissioners to be known as the Board of Commis­sioners of the Soldiers' Home.

§ 5.    BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, HOW APPOINTED.]        The general supervision and government of the Soldiers' Home shall be vested in a board of five commissioners, who shall be selected by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate of the State of  North Dakota; no two shall be from the same county.  The members of said board shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years, except the chairman of said board, who shall only hold his office for one year; Provided, That when not otherwise incompetent in the opinion of the Governor, he shall appoint as the chairman of said board of commissioners the commander or chief officer of that organization known as the "Grand Army of the Republic," and the appointment of such chairman shall be made each year immediately after his election by said organization without the advice or consent of the Senate.

§ 6.    OATH-BOND-PLANS AND SPECIFICATION .]     Before enter­ing upon the duties of their office, each member of the said board of commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath, as follows: "I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of North Dakota and will faithfully discharge the duties of board of commissioners of the Dakota Soldier's Home, according to the best of my ability; that I have not received and will not knowingly and intentionally, directly or indirectly, receive any money or other consideration from any source whatever, for any vote or influence I may give or withhold, or for any other official act I may perform as such commissioner, except as herein provided," and also execute a bond in the penal sum of $3,000 for the use and benefit of the State of North Dakota, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Governor, and be filed with the Secretary of the State, conditional upon the faithful performance of his duties, and the honest and faithful disbursement of and accounting for all monies which may come into his hands under the provisions of this act. The said board, having taken the foregoing oath and executed the bond as aforesaid, is hereby empowered and required to cause to be prepared suitable plans and specifications by a competent architect, such plans shall contemplate the erection of a building or buildings, which shall accommodate not less than 100, nor more than 300 inmates, and shall be accompanied by specifications and by a detailed estimate of the amount required and description of all material and labor required for the entire and full completion of the buildings, and no plan shall be adopted that contemplates the expenditure of more money for its completion than the amount reasonably necessary to carry out the objects of said institution.

§ 7. SUPERINTENDENT OF CONSTRUCTION.] That the said board of commissioners shall employ the architect whose plans and spec­ specifications are accepted, to act as a superintendent of construction, who shall receive for such plans and specifications and for superintending construction, such pay as the board shall by agreement determine, which pay shall not exceed an amount equal to 5 percent of the estimated cost of said buildings.

§ 8.     PROPOSALS.] Whenever the said plans and specifications shall have been approved and adopted by a majority of the board, the commissioners shall cause to be inserted in at least two of the daily newspapers published in the State of North Dakota, and having a general circulation therein, an advertisement for sealed bids for the construction of the buildings herein authorized, and they shall furnish a printed copy of this act and of the plans and specifications to all persons applying therefore;  Provided, Said commissioners may advertise as aforesaid whenever there shall be a sufficient amount of money to the credit of said Soldier's Home with which to construct all or any part thereof, deemed expedient by said commissioners to erect or construct; Provided, further. That before the bids aforesaid shall be advertised for, there shall be secured to the State of North Dakota fee simple title to sufficient and suitable grounds on which to establish said Home.

§ 9.     BOARD NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN ANY CONTRACTS.]     NO commissioner or officer of said Soldier's Home shall be in any way interested in any contract for the erection of said buildings, or furnishing any material for said buildings and if any such officer be so interested, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding $5,000.

§ 10.    SECRETARY-MEETINGS-ANNUAL REPORTS.]     It   shall be the duty of the board of commissioners to meet annually, the first Tuesday in June of each year, and at such annual meeting they shall elect a secretary, whose compensation shall be determined by the board, and who shall hold his office for one year or until his succ ssor shall be elected and qualified. The board of commissioners shall have four regular meetings in each year and not to exceed two special meetings, and shall have a right to adopt a seal and make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution of the  United States, the  Constitution  or  laws of the State of North Dakota, for the management and government of said Soldiers' Home, including such rules as they shall deem necessary for the preservation of order, enforcing discipline and preserving the health of its inmates. The board of commissioners shall make full and minute reports of the disbursements of the Home and its condition, financial and otherwise, to the Governor of this State, annually, and to each regular session of the General Assembly.

§ 11.      COMMANDANT,   QUALIFICATION  OF COMPENSATION   OF SUBORDINATE OFFICERS.] The board of commissioners shall have the power and it shall be their duty to appoint a commandant for said Home who shall serve during the pleasure of said board and who shall be one who was honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, who served in the war of the rebellion of 1861 and 1865, whose salary shall not exceed $1,200 per annum, and who shall nominate, for the approval, of the board, all necessary subordinate officers, who shall all be persons either honorably discharged from the service of the United States or widows of honorably discharged soldiers, who may be removed by said commandant for inefficiency or misconduct, but in case of removal he must make a detailed statement of the cause of such removal to the commissioners, and the board shall have the power to reinstate such persons. The compensation of the subordinate officers shall be fixed by the board; Provided, None of the foregoing officers shall be chosen until said Home is in condition to receive inmates.

§ 12. FUNDS, HOW RAISED-RESTRICTIONS.] To provide tempo­ rarily for the erection and maintenance of said Soldier's Home, the said board of commissioners may receive such sum or sums of money as can be actually used in the construction of permanent buildings, procuring of ground whereon to build the same, and other needed and necessary improvements to be made and expense incurred in connection therewith, not exceeding the sum of $10,000, and to each person, association, organization or corporation so subscribing and advancing money as aforesaid, the said board of directors shall issue a certificate stating the date of issue and the amount of such subscription, which said certificate shall bear interest at a rate of interest not exceeding 6 percent. per annum, and shall be made payable from the funds to accumulate in the interest and income fund arising from interest on permanent fund or from rents received for any land set apart for said Home, or from any appropriation that may hereafter be made for that purpose; Provided, That until a sufficient amount of money accumulates in the fund provided for that purpose, with which to pay said certificates, the holders thereof shall each be paid a pro rata shar of all monies to be paid out on said indebtedness; Provided, further, That  no part of  any appropriation hereinafter to be made from the funds of the State of North Dakota, unless specifically appropriated for that purpose, shall ever be used in payment of said indebtedness or any part thereof.

§ 13. FUNDS, HOW KEPT.]  All money that may arise from the interest received on all money derived from the sale of lands here­ inbefore or that may hereafter be appropriated for said Home, in­ cluding all money that may be received from the renting of said land, and all monies that may be hereafter appropriated for said Home by the State of North Dakota, including all money raised in any other manner or donated to said Home, shall be deposited with the State Treasurer, to be by him kept in a separate fund, which shall be known as the Soldier's Home Fund, and be used exclusively for the benefit of said Home as may be herein or here­ after provided.

§ 14.    MAJORITY OF BOARD TO APPROVE CONTRACT, ETC.] Every duty and contract to be performed by said commissioners must re­ ceive the approval of the majority of the board in regular session duly called in order to make binding and valid. That all proceedings of said board shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and open to the inspection of anybody on request.

§ 15. ACCOUNTS, HOWAUDITED AND PAID.] All money that may come into the Treasury of the State of North Dakota and credited to the Soldier's Home Fund shall be paid out to the parties entitled thereto and the State Auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the fund in the hands of the State Treasurer belonging to said Home upon the written order of the said board of commissioners, which order shall be accompanied by itemized vouchers for the full amount of such order; Provided, No such order shall be issued until there is cash in the treasury with which to pay the same.

§ 16.     COMMISSIONERS  ENTITLED  TO ACTUAL  EXPENSES  ONLY.]

The commissioners provided for in this act shall receive no com pensation and shall be entitled only to their actual and necessary expenses while performing duties as such commissioners.

§ 17. EMERGENCY.] There being no law authorizing the building of a Soldier's Home and in order to at once select a proper site for the same and receive donations to pay for the same, therefore this act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 14, 1890.

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MILITIA.

CHAPTER   94.

[S. F. 183.]

SUSPENSION OF MILITIA LAWS.

AN ACT to Reduce the Expenses of the State by Suspending Sections 7 and 14 of Chapter 118, Laws of 1885, and Sections 20, 37 and 69 of Chapter 100, Laws of 1887, Relating to the Militia, and to Make Appropriations for Armory Rent of Companies, and for Adjutant General's Salary and Expenses.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. MILITIA LAWS SUSPENDED.] Sections 7 and 14 of Chapter 113 of the General Laws of 1885, and Sections 20, 37 and 69 of Chapter 100 of the General Laws of 1887, are hereby suspended and made inoperative until the second Tuesday of January, 1893, and from and after that date they shall be in full force and effect the same as if this act had never been passed.

§ 2.    APPROPRIATION FOR ARMORY RENT, AND SALARY ADJUTANT

GENERAL.] During the suspension provided for in Section 1, there is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury the sum of three hundred (300) dollars a year for armory rent of each company, troop or battery that shall maintain its organization at its own expense, which sum shall be paid quarterly in advance. There is further appropriated the sum of four hundred (400) dol­ lars a year for salary and expenses of the Adjutant General.

§ 3.    EMERGENCY] An emergency exists in this, that it is nec­essary to reduce the expenses of the State; therefore, this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 20, 1890.

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CHAPTER  13.

[S. F. 194.]

TO PAY MILITIA DEFICIENCY.

AN ACT Entitled "An Act to Appropriate Money to Pay Amounts Due the Militia of the Territory of Dakota."

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. APPROPRIATION.] That the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury of the State, not otherwise appropriated, to pay accounts now outstanding against the Territory of Dakota, which have been incurred under and by virtue of chapter one hundred (100) of the session laws of 1887, by those organizations and officers, enrolled in its militia, within the limits of the present State of North Dakota.

§ 2. DUTIES OF AUDITOR AND TREASURER.]  The Auditor of this State shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of all organized commands and officers of the North Dakota National Guard, who present properly executed vouchers, which have been duly approved by the proper officers whose lawful duty it was to approve accounts against the militia fund of the Territory of Dakota, and which vouchers have never been paid and have been marked "not paid for want of funds," and the Treasurer of this State shall pay the same in conformity with Section 1 of this act.

§ 3.  EMERGENCY.]  The absence, in the present laws of the State of North Dakota, of speedy and adequate remedies for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness specified in the foregoing sections of this act, creates an emergency, which calls for the immediate taking effect of the same; therefore, the same shall take effect and be i11 force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 20, 1890.

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