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necessary, the governor shall order the executive accountant or his assistants to proceed to the county seat of such county, and examine and audit the accounts and books of such county, and of each officer thereof; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of such county so examined to pay the expenses and per diem of such executive accountant or his assistants, which money shall be paid to the state treasurer, and covered into the fund herein provided for.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the county officials of the county where such examination is made, to allow the executive accountant or his assistants to have access to all the books and records of said county, and to render such executive accountant such assistance as he requires.

§ 7. The executive accountant shall report to the governor of the state the result of his examination of every official, board, department, commission or county, within thirty (30) days after such examination is made, and a biennial report to the legislature at least thirty (30) days before each session of the legislature.

§ 8. The executive accountant, shall receive a salary in the sum of $1,800.00 a year, to be paid monthly, and his assistants shall receive such sum as shall be determined by the governor of this state, not to exceed the sum of $6.00 per day. Said executive accountant and assistants will also receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses, to be paid upon vouchers, as other state officials.

89. That there be, and there is hereby, appropriated out of any funds remaining in the hands of the state treasurer not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying the salaries, per diem and expenses of the executive accountant and his assistants, as provided in this act.

§ 10. Whereas, there is no provision in the laws of this state for the appointment of an executive accountant and assistants therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

Approved March 7, 1911.

Exemptions

CHAPTER 150

(S. B. 56)

PROVIDING FOR EXEMPTIONS

AN ACT Entitled an Act to Amend Section 361 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of South Dakota, Relating to Exemptions.

Be It Enacted by the Legi loture of the Siate of South Dakota:

§ 1. That Section 361 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the state of South Dakota be amended to read as follows:

Section 361. Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to exempt any personal property from mesne or final process for laborers or mechanics wages or physicians bills, or for the necessaries of life, including only food, clothing and fuel, provided for the debtor or his family, except property absolutely exempt; Provided, however, that a physician in order to be entitled to the benefits of this act must be a physician who has graduated at some reputable school of medicine, either of the United States or some foreign country, or who can produce a certificate of qualification from some state or territorial medical society, or who has been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine for a period of ten years or more: Provided, that in case of physicians bills or for necessaries of life, there shall also be exempt household and kitchen furniture, including stoves, of the debtor, to an amount in value not exceeding four hundred dollars, and also two cows; Provided, however, that the collection of physician's bills shall not be enforced by legal process in less than six months from the accruing thereof except when the debtor is about to remove from the state.

Approved March 2, 1911.

Experiment Station

CHAPTER 151

(H. B. 38)

LOCATING DRY FARMING LOCATION IN FALL RIVER COUNTY AN ACT Locating a Dry Farming Experiment Station on State Lands in Fall River County.

3e It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ 1. The regents of education are hereby instructed to locate a station for experiments in dry farming upon some suitable tract of land belonging to the state or some of the institutions thereof located within Fall River county, South Dakota. Providing that such tract so located shall not be less than one hundred and sixty acres in extent. The tract so selected is hereby withdrawn from sale and the proceeds derived from the sale of the products thereof shall be paid into the fund and for the benefit of the institution to which said tract belongs.

§ 2.

repealed.

All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby

Approved March 3, 1911.

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AN ACT Entitled, An Act Relating to Express Companies, and to the Rates of Charges to be Exacted by Them for the Transportation of Express Freight Within This State.

Ee It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ I. That the board of railroad commissioners of the state of South Dakota shall, within sixty (60) days after this act goes into effect, prepare for each of the express companies doing business in this state at this time or at any other time hereafter, a uniform schedule or schedules of reasonable, maximum rates of charges for the transportation of express freight between stations within this state over lines of railway wholly within this state, which rates or charges shall not exceed seventy (70) per cent of the lowest rates which were in force for the transportation of express freight over any lines of railway between stations within this state on the 1st day of January, 1909. The schedule or schedules so prepared shall take effect and be in force at such time as may be specified by said board in its order adopting such schedule, which shall be in no event later than ten (10) days after the expiration of the sixtv days above designated.

§ 2. The order of the board of railorad commissioners adopting such schedule or schedules of rates shall be enforced in the same manner as now provided by law for the enforcement of any other order made by said board.

§3. Whereas, there is no provision in the laws of this state for the regulation of the rates of charges to be exacted of express companies for the transportation of express freight within this state, therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

Approved March 7, 1911.

Farms

CHAPTER 153

(S. B. 122)

PROVIDING FOR NAMING FARMS BY OWNERS

AN ACT Providing for Registration of Names for Farms and Ranches Within This State and Providing for the Payment of Fees Therefor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ I. The owner of any farm or ranch in the state of South Dakota may, upon the payment of one dollar to the clerk of the circuit court in the county in which the farm or ranch may be situated, have the name of such farm or ranch entered and recorded in a register, which the clerk of courts shall keep for such purpose, and thereupon such owner shall be by said clerk furnished a certificate, issued under the seal of said official, setting forth therein the name and location of the farm or ranch and the name of such owner provided, that when any name shall have been recorded as hereinbefore provided any other person or persons shall not have the right to use the same name for any other farm or ranch in the same county except by prefixing or adding thereto disignating or other indentifying words.

Approved March 2, 1911.

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