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STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,

Secretary's Office, Bismarck.

I, Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, hereby certify that the laws contained in this volume are true and correct copies of the original enrolled bills passed at the Thirteenth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota, beginning January 7th, 1913, and terminating March 7th, 1913, now on file in this office, with the exception of clerical

errors.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Dakota, this twentieth day of April, 1913.

[SEAL.]

THOMAS HALL,

Secretary of State.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTERS.

CHAPTER 1-An Act to amend and re-enact Section 2231 of the

Revised Codes of North Dakota, as amended by Chapter 1 of

the 1907 Session Laws relating to abstracters of title, and to

repeal Chapter 329 of the Session Laws of 1911, relating to

abstracters of title.....

ACCOUNTANCY.

CHAPTER 2-An Act to regulate the certification of public ac-

countants and the practicing of the profession of accountancy

in North Dakotoa..

ADVERTISING.

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CHAPTER 3.-An Act to prohibit false and misleading advertising

of all kinds, and providing a penalty therefor...

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS.

CHAPTER 4-An Act repealing Chapter 233 of the Laws of North

Dakota for the year 1911.....

APPROPRIATIONS.

CHAPTER 5-An Act to provide for increased maintenance and

contingent expense for establishing and maintaining an Agri-

cultural Extension Department and other permanent improve-

ments and repairs for the North Dakota Agricultural College

CHAPTER 6-An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, of Chapter 35 of the Session Laws of

the year 1911 of the State of North Dakota, being an Act to en-

courage Elementary education in North Dakota and appropriate

money therefor

CHAPTER 7-An Act to appropriate $578.35 out of the general

fund in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the

County of Burke, State of North Dakota, for the purpose of

reimbursing said county for moneys paid out of the county

treasury of said county, as costs incurred in certain condemna-

tion proceedings instituted by the state veterinarian in said

County of Burke, for the destruction of glandered horses tem-

porarily in said county, but enroute into the Dominion of Can-

ada, and not the property of residents of said county at the time

of the institution of such proceedings...

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CHAPTER 8-An Act providing for the cancellation of all North

Dakota live stock brands or marks; providing for re-recording

of same; notices to record owners; publication of notices;

manner of re-recording and future recording fees; expenses;

appropriation; repeal

CHAPTER 9-An Act authorizing the board of trustees of public

property to acquire for the state, by purchase or condemnation

proceedings in the name of the state, additional land for capi-

tol park and site purposes and making an Appropriation therefor

CHAPTER 10-An Act authorizing the governor of the State of

North Dakota to employ chartered public accountants to ex-

amine, audit and check the accounts of the several depart-

ments of the state government; to list, examine and appraise

the securities of all kinds in possession of any of the state

officers; to make a complete appraisal on a date certain of all

buildings and property of all kinds belonging to the state; to

make a careful research into the business methods, system of

accounting and bookkeeping, and making reports of the various

state, county and city officers, and to install improvements in

bookkeeping and methods of handling the business of the state;

extending the duties of the state examiner prescribed in Sec-

tion 141 of Article 9 of the Political Code of 1905, by amend-

and re-enactment of said Section 141, to cover an examination

of the books and accounts of city auditors and city treasurers,

county clerks, county judges, register of deeds, county superin-

tendent of Schools, county auditors and sheriffs of the counties

of the State of North Dakota, and prescribing fees therefor;

requiring the governor to make report to the Legislature next

succeeding any such examination of the results of such ex-

amination, auditing and checking of the several state depart-

ments of the state property by the chartered public accountants

by him employed, and appropriating money to carry out the

provisions of this Act..

CHAPTER 11-An Act authorizing the Supreme Court of North

Dakota to direct the Bar Association of North Dakota, to in-

stitute legal proceedings for the disbarment or other discipline,

of practicing attorneys of the State of North Dakota, provid-

ing for the payment of counsel in the conduct of such disbar-

ment proceedings, and authorizing the Supreme Court to fix

the amount and direct the payment thereof, and to appropriate

money for the payment thereof.....

CHAPTER 12-An Act to provide for making permanent improve-

ments at the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Dunseith, to assist

in the maintenance thereof, and for other purposes, and making

appropriations therefor

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CHAPTER 13-An Act appropriating money for the current and

contingent expenses of the state tuberculosis sanitarium at

Dunseith

CHAPTER 14-An Act making an appropriation for a suitable

building at the mining experiment sub-station at Hebron, Mor-

ton County

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CHAPTER 15-An Act making an appropriation for the experi-

mental station of the School of Mines and the Mining Sub-

station at Hebron, Morton County....

CHAPTER 16-An Act making an appropriation annually for the

support and maintenance of Agricultural Sub-Experiment Sta-

tion Located at Hettinger, Adams County....

CHAPTER 17-An Act to appropriate money to reimburse the

citizens of Mandan, North Dakota, for moneys advanced by

them for the purchase of certain lands in Morton County, North

Dakota, to be deeded to the board of trustees of the North Da-

kota Agricultural College and to be used in connection with

the experiment station established by Act of Congress and

located near Mandan, North Dakota.

CHAPTER 18-An Act to appropriate money for the maintenance,

care and repair of the State Park at Fort Abercrombie, in Rich-

land County, North Dakota...

CHAPTER 19-An Act relating to the fish hatchery at Fish Lake

in Rolette County, and making appropriation therefor.....

CHAPTER 20-Whereas, There will be held on the battle field of

Gettysburg in the month of July, 1913, a reunion of the Federal

and Confederate soldiers who took part in the Civil War; and

Whereas, The people of the state of North Dakota thoroughly

appreciate the sacrifices made by the men who fought the bat-

tles of the Civil War, men who were instruments for the set-

tlement on the battlefield of a great issue that could not be set-

tled by the statesmen of the nation...

CHAPTER 21-An Act to appropriate the sum of Thirty Thousand

Dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, to indemnify

persons who have lost animals from the disease known as

glanders

CHAPTER 22-An Act to reimburse John Harold for work done

under the direction of the Capitol Commission in grading Ninth

Street to the State Capitol....

CHAPTER 23—An Act making an appropriation to pay F. O. Hell-

strom for the use of land for State Penitentiary for the

years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913....

CHAPTER 24—An Act to provide an appropriation for the current

and contingent expenses, for the erection of necessary addi-

tional buildings, for other necessary improvements and repairs

at the State Hospital for the Insane of North Dakota at James-

town, and for purchasing additional land for the use of such

state hospital

CHAPTER 25-An Act to appropriate moneys for maintenance,

equipment and permanent improvements at the Ellendale State

Normal and Industrial School...

CHAPTER 26-An Act to provide an appropriation for the cur-

rent and contingent expenses, and for permanent improvements

for the Institution for the Feeble Minded at Grafton, North

Dakota

CHAPTER 27-An Act to provide an annual contingency fund to

be placed at the disposal of the commissioner of insurance....

CHAPTER 28-An Act to amend section 35 of the Revised Codes

of 1905 for North Dakota....

CHAPTER 29-An Act to provide an appropriation for the pur-

pose of expenses incurred as a part of and during the Twelfth

Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota...