CHAPTER 145 (H. B. 315) DESCRIBING EQUIPMENT FOR COMMON SCHOOLS AN ACT to Amend Section 145 of Article 6 of Chapter 135 of the Session Laws of 1907. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: That Section 145 of Article 6 of Chapter 135 of the Session Laws of 1907 be amended to read as follows: Section 145. Necessary Equipment] Each school and each school room, containing one or more of the grades, three to eight inclusive, and each ungraded district school shall be supplied with a dictionary of some standard grade of a kind and edition approved by the county superintendent of schools, and a globe of some standard grade, a well mounted and recent set of wall maps, black boards, and other suitable apparatus for efficient teaching; within thirty days after the request in writing for the same has been made by the teacher. And the district school board may also provide for each school other high grade library books and books of reference as they may deem for the best interest of the school; Provided, said expense for books and other equipment as enumerated above shall not exceed fifty dollars for any school in any one year. Provided, that no district school board shall buy any apparatus, chart, or similar device unless said board is expressly authorized so to do by a majority of the school electors of such school district at a regular or regularly called special meeting thereof. $2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 7, 1911. Elections CHAPTER 146 (H. B. 238) MANNER OF ESTABLISHING ELECTION PRECINCTS AN ACT Entitled, an Act to Amend Section 1867 of Chapter 19 of the Revised Political Code of 1903, as Amended by Chapter 134 of the Session Laws of 1903, Relating to the Establishment of Election Precincts. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. That Section 1867 of the Revised Political Code of 1903, as amended by Chapter 134 of the Session Laws of 1903 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1867. That the board of county commissioners of each county of the state shall on or before the first day of September of each year in which an election is to be held, set off, alter and establish election precincts in their respective counties in such manner that no precinct shall contain more than five hundred voters, and shall fix the polling places within such precincts. Provided, that in counties organized into civil townships the electors by a majority vote at the annual township meeting may designate where the subsequent general election for such townships shall be held. In such case the county commissioners shall establish the voting precinct in such township at the place thus designated by the electors. To enable the county commissioners to act in accordance with the wish of the electors of any such township the action taken as above mentioned shall be reported to the county auditor by the township clerk of such township before July 1st of the year in which such general election is to be held. Provided, further, that each organized civil townhip and each ward in every city in the state, shall constitute at least one precinct, and Provided, further, that whenever fifty qualified electors residing in any incorporated town in this state, which town is entirely in one county, shall sign and present to the board of county commissioners of such county a petition praying that such town may be declared a separate election precinct, the board of county commissioners in each county may, in their discretion, by resolution, declare such town to be a separate election precinct for all general and special elections, accurately describing and fixing the boundaries of such precinct, which may include continguous territory not to exceed nine square miles in area, in such resolution. That upon making and entering of such resolution by said board of county commissioners such town and contiguous territory within the boundaries so fixed shall be and constitute a separate election precinct for all general and special elections. AN ACT Entitled, an Act to Prevent the Interference with Electrical Apparatus. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. That everey person who shall willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disconnect, displace, cut, break, deface, ground, or in any way interfere with any pole, cable, wire, legally erected, put up or strung, or with any underground conduit, subway, cable or any electrical or other apparatus, lamps, transformer, switch appliances, instrument, or machinery of any kind, used in the construction or operation of any telephone, telegraph or electric plant, line, or system, or used in the producing, generating or transmitting of any electrical light, heat or power, or who shall aid, agree with, employ or conspire with any other person or persons, to do any of said acts, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or both. §2. That whereas an emergency exists this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 4, 1911. Evidence CHAPTER 148 (H. B. 327) PROVIDING FOR INTRODUCING PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS IN CIVIL CASES AN ACT Entitled, An Act to Amend Section 529 of the Revised Code of Civil Procedure of South Dakota, Relating to the Introduction in Evidence of Public Documents, Records, Etc. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. That Section 529 of the Revised Code of Civil Procedure of 1903 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 529. Copies of the records and judicial proceedings of any court of the United States which is now created or shall be by Congress hereafter created, of any court of any of the possessions of the United States now existing or hereafter created, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, of any state or territory of the United States, shall be admissible in evidence in all cases in this state, when attested by the Clerk and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the Judge, Chief Justice, or Presiding Magistrate, that the attestation is in due form. And the said records and judicial proceedings so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within this state as they have by law or usage in the courts of the United States or territory from which they are taken. § 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. 83. An emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 2, 1911. Executive Accountant CHAPTER 149 (S. B. 277) PROVIDING FOR APPOINTMENT, SALARY AND DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTANT AN ACT Entitled, An Act Providing for an Executive Accountant, Assistants, Their Compensation, Powers and Duties, and Appropriating Money for Salary and Expenses of the Executive Accountant and his Assistants. Be It Enacied by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. There shall be appointed by the governor of the state, immediately upon the passage and approval of this act, an executive accountant, whose term of office shall be for two years, but who may be removed by the governor for cause at any time. § 2. Whenever, in the opinion of the governor, it is necessary that the executive accountant shall have further assistance in his office, the governor shall appoint such assistants as he deems necessary to perform the duties of the office, which assistants may be removed by the governor at any time for cause. 83. It shall be the duty of the executive accountant to examine the accounts of all state officers, departments, boards and commissions, including all penal, charitable and educational institutions, when requested to do so by the governor, and he shall examine the accounts of each state officer, board, commission or department at least once each year; which examination shall be made by the executive accountant and his assistants without notice to the officer, board, commission or department examined. § 4. It shall be the duty of every officer, department, board or commission of the state so examined by the executive accountant or his assistants, to allow such executive accountant or his assistants, access to all of the accounts, papers, books, memoranda and vouchers in his office, and all other books, papers, accounts, memoranda or other documents pertaining to the office of such officer, board, commission or department. 5. Upon request of the board of county commissioners of any county in this state, or whenever the governor deems an examination |