the School of Mines, who shall be appointed by the said Board of Trustees, to charge and collect such reasonable fees for any and all assays and analysis made by them, as the said Board may prescribe, on an?) account of which shall be kept by said President and paid over monthly to the Treasurer of said School of Mines, which shall become a part of the School of Mines Fund.

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SECTION 17. The Board of Trustees are hereby prohibited from creating any debt as against the School of Mines, buildings, machinery or appliances, or in any manner incumbering the same, or of incurring any expense beyond their ability to pay from the annual income of the School of Mines for the current year.

SECTION 18. The Board of Trustees are empowered to select a President and Faculty, and such professors and teachers as may be necessary to properly conduct the said School of Mines, and the President so selected shall be the President of the Faculty and Board of Teachers employed for said School.

SECTION 19. The Board of Trustees are authorized to accept any donations of land, money or other property offered for the use and benefit of said School of Mines, and to take proper deeds or conveyances of the same in their own name for the sole and exclusive use of said School, such donations, gifts or bequests, to be invested, used and ⚫ disposed of as other property or funds provided for said School.

SECTION 20. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED Feby. 17, 1893.

An Act to Establish a State Normal School at Dillon, in the County of Beaverhead, State of Montana.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

SECTION 1. That there be and hereby is established a State Normal School within two miles of the corporate limits of the City of Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana, which shall be called the "State Normal School at Dillon."

SECTION 2. The object of said Normal School shall be the instruction and training of teachers for the public schools of the State. SECTION 3. The control and supervision of such school is vested in the State Board of Education, which must elect a President, all teachers and employes, and prescribe all necessary rules therefor. SECTION 4. The State Board of Education, herein mentioned, and their successors, shall receive, in the name of the State Normal

School hereby established, all the benefits, of whatsoever nature, that may be derived from the distribution and selection of lands contemplated in Section 17, of an Act of Congress, approved February 22nd, 1889, entitled "An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington, to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States and to make donations of public lands to such States."

SECTION 5. Said State Board of Education shall, immediately after their organization, provide for the appointment of a committee having charge and supervision of the construction and erection of such buildings as are necessary and may be provided for by the resolutions of the Board; whose duty it shall be to make all necessary arrangements for the speedy completion of necessary buildings to the end that the school may be at the earliest date, available for the purposes contemplated by this Act.

Any bequests and donations to the State, on account of and for the benefit of the Normal School hereby established, shall be taken in the name of the State, and the deeds thereof duly recorded in the proper county according to law. The State Board of Education shall be in perpetuity; and bequests may be made to them for the benefit and exclusive use of the State Normal School hereby established.

SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 7.

after its passage.

This Act shall take effect and be in force, from and

APPROVED Feby. 23, 1893.

An Act to Create a School for the Deaf and Dumb and Providing for the Location Thereof and Also Providing for the Education and Maintenance of the Blind and Feeble-Minded Therein.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:

SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby created and established to be maintained at or near the Town of Boulder Valley, in the County of Jefferson, in the State of Montana, a school for the deaf and dumb which shall be called by the name of "The State Deaf and Dumb School."

SECTION 2. The object and purpose of said school, shall be and is, to promote the intellectual, physical and moral culture of deaf and

dumb persons by a judicious, intelligent and well adapted course of treatment, training and education, to the end that they may, in so far as possible, be reclaimed from their unfortunate condition and restored to society, and fitted to discharge the duties, and to enjoy the proper pleasures of human life.

SECTION 3. The management and supervision of said school is vested in the State Board of Education, which shall employ a proper Principal, all Teachers, a Matron, Steward and such other servants and agents as shall be necessary and expedient, and said Board shall prescribe and regulate the duties and fix the compensation of each and everyone thereof, and in the exercise of a proper discretion, discharge any of said employees.

SECTION 4. Said Board shall also make and enforce, such proper rules and regulations, as to the age and terms of the admission of the Deaf and Dumb, as shall be necessary, just and proper.

SECTION 5. All deaf and dumb persons residing in this State of proper age and capacity shall be admitted into, and enjoy the benefit and advantages of said school free of charge.

SECTION 6. Deaf and dumb persons of like age and capacity residing in other States and jurisdictions may be admitted into and enjoy the benefits and advantages of said school upon the payment into the State Treasury of such sum of money as shall be determined upon by said Board of Education, but such non-residents shall not be admitted to the detriment and exclusion of residents of this State.

SECTION 7. No member of the said Board of Education, officer, agent or employee of said school, shall be directly or indirectly concerned or interested in the purchase of supplies for the use of said school.

SECTION 8. The lands heretofore granted by the government of the United States to the State of Montana, for the use and benefit of the deaf and dumb are hereby set apart and declared to be for the use in perpetuity of said school, and all funds arising from the sale or leasing of said lands or any part or portion thereof, shall be sacredly applied to the proper use and benefit thereof, and all donations, gifts, devises or grants, which shall hereafter be made by any person or corporation, to said school, shall rest in the State of Montana for the use and benefit thereof.

SECTION 9.

There is hereby created a fund to be known as the "Deaf and Dumb Fund" in which all moneys for the use of said school shall be kept by the State Treasurer.

SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education within ninety (90) days from the date of the passage of this Act, if

then organized, but if not organized, then, within ninety (90) days from the organization of the said (Board?) to select the site for the definite and permanent location of the State Deaf and Dumb School".

SECTION II. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the State Board of Education, may designate and appoint an Executive Board consisting of five (5) members, at least three of whom shall be residents of the County wherein said institution is situated. The said Executive Board shall have of the erection

and construction of suitable buildings of said School, and it shall be the duty of the said Board to make all necessary preparations and arrangements for the construction of such buildings to the end that said school may become available for its proper uses and purposes at the earliest date possible.

SECTION 12. That blind and feeble-minded persons may be admitted into said School to be properly treated and educated under such rules and regulations as said Board of Education may make, Provided: that all of the proper expenses of treating, educating and maintaining said blind and feeble-minded persons shall be paid by the State out of the State Treasury, and not out of the "Deaf and Dumb Fund" hereinbefore created.

APPROVED Mch. 1, 1893.

An Act to Provide for the Establishment and Location of a State Reform School, and to Appropriate Moneys Therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana : SECTION 1. That a Reform School be and is hereby established, to be located at or within three miles of the City of Miles City, in the County of Custer, to be known as the Montana State Reform School.

SECTION 2. Said School to be for the keeping and reformatory training of all youths between the ages of eight and twenty-one years, who are residents of the State of Montana, and who on presentation to the presiding officer of such School, by an accompanying officer, parent, or guardian, shall be accompanied by a certificate of commitment from a Court legally authorized to make such commit

ment.

SECTION 3. The Governor shall on or before the first day of April, A. D. 1893, appoint three competent persons who shall constitute a Board of Trustees to be known as the Trustees of the Montana

State Reform School. He shall notify said Trustees of such appointment as soon as may be, and he shall have power to fill by appointment all vacancies occurring in said Board, whether by death, removal, resignation, or expiration of term of office, and he shall further have power to remove for good and sufficient cause anyone or all Members of said Board.

SECTION 4. As soon as notified of such appointment each Member of the Board of Trustees shall before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to an oath, before any officer qualified to administer oaths that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office according to law, and he shall give a bond to the State of Montana, in the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, which bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

SECTION 5. As soon as each member of the Board of Trustees shall have complied with the requirements of Section 4 of this Act, they shall meet at the County Seat of the County of Custer, and shall at once organize or elect one of their number President, and one Secretary. Immediately after such organization the Board shall secure a suitable tract of land of not less than five, or more than one hundred acres, on which to erect such buildings and other improvements as may be necessary for the establishment of said School, and shall proceed to purchase the same in the name of the State of Montana. And said Board is hereby authorized to receive in the name of the State, any and all donations, gifts or contributions to said School whether in money, lands, labor, material, or supplies. Immediately upon the purchase of the land as aforesaid under this Act, the Board shall establish a permanent office as near to said tract as may be, and the Secretary shall keep any and all books of the Board, which shall be open for the inspection, and he shall also file with the Secretary of State any and all deeds executed, conveying lands to the State of Montana for the use and benefit of said School. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees, superintend the performance of all contracts for labor and material which have been authorized by the Board; and see that the terms of each contract are faithfully fulfilled, and he shall perform such other duties as the Board may direct.

SECTION 6. On or before the first day of June 1893, the Board of Trustees shall select upon the Lands purchased for the Reform School, a suitable building site and shall proceed to erect thereon necessary buildings according to the provisions of this Act, but no member of this Board shall be either directly or indirectly interested in any