between the County of Missoula and the County of Ravalli by first deducting from said indebtedness the amount of all moneys on hand, and all moneys belonging to said Missoula County, and also deducting the value of all real and personal property within and belonging to said County of Missoula on said first day of April, 1893, and the remainder of said indebtedness shall be apportioned between the respective Counties in proportion to the amount of taxable property in each of said Counties, said amount of taxable property to be ascertained and said apportionment and valuation of County property to be made by a commission consisting of the Boards of County Commissioners of Missoula and Ravalli Counties and the Judge of the Third Judicial District of the State of Montana, which said commission shall meet at the Court house in the City of Missoula on the fifteenth day of April 1893, and shall take as the standard for such apportionment of indebtedness the assessment for the year 1892 as determined by the Board of Equalization of said Missoula County.

SECTION 3. The following named persons are hereby appointed to fill the offices set opposite their names respectively to-wit:

J. M. Johnson, County Commissioner.

B. S. Chaffin, County Commissioner.
Abe Mettower, County Commissioner.
Thomas Irvine, Sheriff.

John A. Landrum, Treasurer.

R. Gwinn, Clerk of Court.
Charles Johnson, County Clerk.
J. H. Simpson, Assessor.

L. J. Knapp, County Attorney.
J. J. Bond, Superintendent of Schools.
T. B. Owens, Coroner.

G. T. Jones, County Surveyor.

J. W. Lancaster, Public Administrator.

Who shall have the same powers, duties and privileges as are by law conferred upon like officers in other Counties, and who shall hold their respective offices until after the next general election or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Said County Commissioners before entering on their duties shall severally give the bond and take the oath required of County Commissioners; said bond shall be filed and approved by the State Auditor.

SECTION 4. At the next general election three County Commissioners shall be voted for in the County of Ravalli. The two persons receiving the highest number of votes for County Commissioner shall

hold the office until the next general election of 1898, and until their successors are elected and qualified and the person receiving the next highest number of votes for County Commissioner shall hold his office until the general election in the year 1896, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

SECTION 5. All township and precinct officers, and all other officers of any kind, within the said County of Ravalli whose election or appointment is not herein provided for, shall or may continue to hold the offices and exercise the duties pertaining thereto until the expiration of the term for which they were respectfully (respectively?) elected or appointed.

SECTION 6. That the officers mentioned in section three of this Act shall each be allowed to receive an annual compensation for their services as such officers as follows, to-wit: Treasurer, Twenty-two hundred dollars. Sheriff, Twenty-seven hundred dollars. Assessor, Eighteen hundred dollars. County Clerk, Twenty-two hundred dollars. Clerk of Court, Fifteen hundred dollars. County Attorney, Twelve hundred dollars.

Superintendent of Schools, One thousand dollars.

Said salaries shall commence when said officers shall enter upon their respective duties.

SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of Missoula County to make out and transfer to the County Commissioners of Ravalli County for the use of said County lists of all delinquent taxpayers and amounts of uncollected taxes within the limits of said Ravalli County, which delinquent taxes shall belong to Ravalli County and be collected by its Treasurer.

SECTION 8. The Commissioners of the County of Ravalli shall have power to contract for transcribing such parts of the public records of Missoula County as they may deem necessary and useful to the County of Ravalli and its inhabitants, and for this purpose shall have suitable and necessary access to the records of Missoula County. Said records when completed, shall be carefully compared with the originals by the County Clerk of Missoula County, and if correct, he shall certify to their correctness under his official seal, and thereafter the copies of said records so transcribed and certified to shall be admitted and received in evidence in all the Courts of this State, and shall be in all other respects entitled to like faith and credit as said original records. And the County of Missoula shall receive the sum of six dollars per day for the services of the Clerk thereof actually

rendered in comparing and certifying to the correctness of the copy of said record, which amount shall be paid by the County of Ravalli in the manner provided by law for the payment of County obligations. SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of April, 1893, and the County of Ravalli shall be attached to and become a part of the Fourth Judicial District of this State for Judicial purposes.

SECTION 10. The County boundaries of the County of Missoula are hereby altered to conform to the County boundaries of Ravalli County as established by this Act.

APPROVED Feby. 16, 1893.

An Act to Amend an Act Entitled" An Act to Create the County of Ravalli, to Define Its Boundaries and to Provide for Its Organization," Approved the......Day of February, 1893.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: SECTION 1. That section of said Act be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 1. All that portion of the State of Montana lying and situated within the following boundaries, to-wit: South of a line drawn due east and west across the Bitter Root Valley from the Deer Lodge County line on the east, to the Idaho line on the west, on the township line dividing townships eleven (11) North, Range Twenty (20) West from ten (10) North, Range Twenty (20) West, be and the same is hereby created and set apart and established as a County to be known and called Ravalli County. That the Village of Stevensville, situated within said boundaries, shall be the County Seat of the said Ravalli County until some other place within the said boundaries shall be designated, as provided by law. All laws of a general nature applicable to the several counties of this State and the officers thereof are hereby applicable to said Ravalli County and the officers who be hereafter elected or appointed therein.

APPROVED Mch. 2, 1893.

An Act to Create the County of Granite, to Define Its Boundaries and to Provide for Its Organization and Government.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: SECTION 1. That all of that portion of the State of Montana embraced within the following boundaries shall be known as, and shall be

Granite County, in the State of Montana, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the present south boundary of Deer Lodge County, where it intersects the Flint Creek Guide Meridian, thence north along said Flint Creek Guide Meridian to the N. E. corner of T. 5 N., R. 14 W.; thence running east by township lines to a point at the intersection with the line between ranges 11 and 12 West, and running thence north by township lines to the intersection with the divide between Big Blackfoot and Hell Gate Rivers; thence westerly along the summit of said divide to the intersection with the west boundary line of Deer Lodge County, thence following said west boundary of Deer Lodge County, to the northeast corner of Ravalli County, thence along the north boundary line of said county to a point due north of the summit of the mountain range dividing Rock Creek and Bitter Root Rivers; thence south along the summit of said range and following said summit as it trends easterly to a point on the Flint Creek Guide Meridian; thence north along said Flint Creek Guide Meridian to its intersection with the present south boundary of Deer Lodge County which is the place of beginning.

SECTION 2. That for Judicial purposes said County shall be attached to and become a part of the Third Judicial District of this State, and regular terms of the District Court, as fixed by law, shall be held at the County Seat of the said County of Granite.

SECTION 3. That the Town of Philipsburg situated within the boundaries above mentioned, shall be the temporary county seat of said County until the permanent County Seat shall be designated as hereinafter provided. And for the final fixing and creating a County Seat of the County hereby created, the Board of Commissioners of Granite County shall cause to be inserted in the official ballots when printed for the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1894, at the foot of the names of the nominees therein, the following: "For the County Seat of Granite County" and the electors when voting at the said general election shall declare their vote upon said proposition by inserting in the blank space upon the ballot herein provided for, the name of some town within the County of Granite, and when the name of a town shall be so inserted within said space by an elector, and the ballot shall be cast as provided by law, the same shall be deemed a vote for the designated town as a place for the County Seat of Granite County, and upon a canvass of said ballots the town having the greatest number of votes shall be determined by the canvassing Board, the County Seat of Granite County, which result shall be entered of record in the County Commissioners' book, and from the date of such declaration

of result the town so elected shall be and remain until lawfully changed, the County Seat of Granite County.

SECTION 4. That the indebtedness of Deer Lodge County, as the same shall exist on the first day of March, 1893, shall be apportioned between the County of Deer Lodge and the County of Granite, by first deducting from said indebtedness the amount of all moneys on hand and all moneys belonging to said Deer Lodge County, and also deducting the value of all real and personal property within and belonging to said County of Deer Lodge on said first day of March, 1893, and the remainder of said indebtedness shall be apportioned between the respective Counties in proportion to the amount of taxable property in each of said Counties, said amount of taxable property to be ascertained and said apportionment and valuation of County property to be made by a commission consisting of the Boards of County Commissioners of Deer Lodge and Granite Counties and one of the Judges of the Second Judicial District of the State of Montana, which said commission shall meet at the court house in the City of Deer Lodge on the 17th day of April, A. D. 1893 and shall take as the standard for said apportionment of said indebtedness, the assessment for the year 1892, as determined by the Board of Equalization of said County of Deer Lodge.

SECTION 5. That the indebtedness of Missoula County as the same shall exist on the first day of March, 1893, shall be apportioned between the County of Missoula and the County of Granite by first deducting from said indebtedness the amount of all moneys on hand, and all moneys belonging to said Missoula County, and also deducting the value of all real and personal property within and belonging to said County of Missoula, on the said first day of March, 1893, and the remainder of said indebtedness shall be apportioned between the respective counties in proportion to the amount of taxable property in Missoula County, and that part of Granite County taken from the County of Missoula, said amount of taxable property to be ascertained, and said apportionment and valuation of County property to be made by a commission consisting of the County Commissioners of Missoula and Granite Counties and one of the Judges of the Second Judicial District of the State of Montana, which said commission shall meet at the Court House in the City of Missoula on the 27th day of April, 1893, and shall take as the standard for said apportionment of indebtedness the assessment for the year 1892, as determined by the Board of Equalization of said County of Missoula.

SECTION 6. That the Treasurers of Missoula and Deer Lodge Counties shall at the time of the adjustment as provided in section 5