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AN ACT in relation to Trout Fishing.

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

SEC. 1. That a fishing tackle, consisting of a rod or pole, line and hook, shall be the only lawful way that trout can be caught in any of the streams of this Territory.

SEC. 2. That said hook shall not be baited with any drug or substance poisonous to any kind of fish whatever.

SEC. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any persons or persons in the Territory of Montana to make any dams, or use any nets, seins, or any similar means for catching trout, or to use any drug or poison intending to catch, kill, or destroy any species of fish.

SEC. 4. Any person or persons offending against this act, on conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, to be recovered, with costs of suit, in civil action, in the name of the Territory of Montana, before any court having jurisdiction; one-half of the fine so collected shall be paid into the county treasury for the benefit of the common schools of the county. in which the offence was committed, and one-half shall be paid to the person or persons informing the nearest magistrate that such offence has been committed. All such fines and costs shall be collected without stay of execution, and such defendant or defendants may, by order of the court, be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs shall have been paid.

SEC. 5. This act to be in force and take effect from and after its approval by the governor.

[Approved February 2, 1865.]

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AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled an act to provide for the Expenses of
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Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana:

SEC. 1. The form of the warrants of the auditor drawn on the treasurer for the payment of money shall be as follows:

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SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening section one of

this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 3, 1865.]

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AN ACT to authorize certain persons to solemnize Marriage.

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

SEC. 1. Marriage, as far as its validity is concerned, is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is essential, and the parties shall be of the age of majority.

SEC. 2. No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties shall have a husband or wife living, nor between parties who

are nearer of kin than second cousins, computing by the rules of civil law, whether by the half or whole blood.

SEC. 3. That marriages may be solemnized by any judge of a court of record, by any justice of the peace in the county or judicial district in and for which he is appointed or elected by the governor of this Territory, or by a minister of the gospel who may be settled over any congregation in this Territory as minister thereof.

SEC. 4. That every person solemnizing marriage shall make a record thereof, and within three months after such marriage, shall make out and deliver to the recorder of deeds of the county in which the marriage took place, a certificate, under his hand, of the following form, and deliver a copy to either or both of the parties, if requested.

SEC. 5. The certificate shall be in the following form:

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This is to certify that the undersigned, a justice of the peace of said county (minister of the gospel, judge, etc., as the case may

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SEC. 6. All such certificates shall be filed and recorded by the said recorder, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and he shall receive a fee of one dollar from the person solemnizing said marriage, who shall be entitled to receive the same from the parties before the marriage.

SEC. 7. That every person solemnizing marriages, who shall neglect to make and deliver to the recorder a certificate thereof within the time above specified, shall forfeit for such neglect a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars; and every recorder who shall neglect to record such certificate, so delivered, shall forfeit the like penalty.

SEC. 8. That every person who shall wilfully make and deliver a false certificate of marriage, or pretended marriage, or undertake to join others in marriage, knowing he is not lawfully authorized so to do, or knowing any legal impediment to the proposed marriage, he shall, on conviction in any court of competent jurisdic

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tion, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the Territorial prison until such fine is paid.

SEC. 9. No marriage solemnized before any person professing to be a judge or justice or minister, shall be deemed or regarded void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority, provided it be consummated with a full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.

SEC. 10. The original certificate and record of marriage made by the judge, justice, or minister, as prescribed in this act, and the record thereof by the recorder of the county, or a copy of such record, duly certified by the recorder, shall be received by all courts, and in all places, as presumptive evidence of the fact of such marriage.

SEC. 11. Illegitimate children shall become legitimatized by the subsequent marriage of their parents with each other.

SEC. 12. All fines arising under this act, in consequence of a breach of this act, shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of common schools; and said fines shall be recovered by a civil action, to be brought by any person aggrieved or by the county

treasurer.

SEC. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the governor.

[Approved February 6, 1865.]

AN ACT defining the time for Acts and Joint Resolutions to take effect.

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

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SEC. 1. All acts and joint resolutions which declare that they take effect from and after their passage and approval by the governor, are hereby declared to so take effect only at the seat of government; and in other portions of the Territory allowing fifteen miles from the seat of government for each day.

SEC. 2. All acts and joint resolutions which do not take effect

from and after their passage and approval by the governor, shall take effect and be in force in all parts of this Territory upon the day named in such act or joint resolution.

SEC. 29. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. [Approved February 6, 1865.]

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AN ACT providing for the collection of the Revenue.

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c. 1. An annual ad valorem tax of forty cents upon och New 462 one hundred dollars value of taxable property, for Territori purposes, upon the assessed value of all property in this Tentory not!! Mirin 321 by this act exempted from taxation, is hereby levied and directed to be collected and paid; and upon the same propert the board of commissioners of each county is also hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect, annually, a tax or county expenditures, not exceeding one hundred cents on each one hundred dollars; for the support of the poor, not more than one mill on the dollar; and upon the same property the board of commissioners of each county is also hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect such additional and special taxes as the laws of this Territory may authorize or require them to levy and collect. Provided, however, That whenever the board of commissioners levy any tax, they shall cause such levy to be entered on the record of their proceedings, and shall direct their clerks to deliver a certified copy thereof to the assessor and treasurer, each of whom shall file said copy in his office.

SEC. 2. Ever tax levied under the provisions or authority of this act is hereby made a lien against the property assessed, which lien shall attach on the first Monday of June in each year on all property then in this Territory, and shall not be satisfied or removed until the taxes are all paid or the property has absolutely vested in a purchaser under a sale for taxes

SEC. 3. All property, of every kind and nature whatsoever, I New 394

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