for amusement or profit, shall pay a license of fifty dollars per month for each house so kept.

SEC 12. Licenses may be granted under the provisions of this act for one year or less, at the option of the applicant. Provided, No license shall be granted for a less time than that mennoned in the rates of assessments of licenses in this act.

SEC. 13. Each tax collector shall make diligent Inquiry and examination as all persons in his county liable to pay licenses required in this act; and it shall be his duty to requife each person to state, under oath or affirmation, the amount of business which he, or the firm of which he is a member, or for which he is the agent or attorney, or the association or corporation of which he is the president or officer, have done in the last preceding month or quarter, and also to make a statement, under oath if required, in order to carry out the provisions of this act, and thereupon such agent or other person shall procure a license for such month or quarter for the class of which such party liable to pay; and in all cases where an under-estimate has been made, the applicant shall be made to pay double license for the next month or quarter. Such license-shall authorize the party obtaining the same in his county to transact business as provided isch license. Provided, however, That nothing in this act, nor any license issued under Я, y shall be construed to authorize any person to carry on any business without procuring such additional license as may be lawfully required by the laws of the United States, or of any incorporated city.

SEC. 14. Any person of persons who shall commence, or continue to carry on or transact any business, trade, profession, or calling, for the transaction of which a license is required by this act, without a proper cense as herein required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the collector may commence suit in the name of the people of the United States in the Territory of Montana; and in such case either the collector of the attorney may make the affidavit, and a writ of attachment may issue without any bonds given by the plaintiffs and in case of a recovery by the plaintiffs, the sum of twenty doNars liquidated damages shall be included in the judgment and coss, and be collected from the defendant, and five dollars thereof sha

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

SE 1. That all that portion of Montana Territory embraced within the following boundaries be, and the same is hereby created a county, to be known as Missoula County, to wit: commencing at a point of intersection of the parallel of latitude forty-nine degrees with the line of longitude one hundred and sixteen degrees, thence along said line of longitude south to the summit of the Bitter Root Mountains, and along the summit, of the Bitter Root Mountains, in a southerly direction, to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and along said summit of the Rocky Mountains, dividing Deer Lodge Valley from Bitter Root Valley, in a north-westerly direction, to meredian of longitude one hundred and thirteen degrees and thirty minutes to the parallel forty-nine degrees, and along said parallel of latitude to place of beginning; and the county seat of said county of Missoula is hereby located at Hell Gate.)

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SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all that portion of the healed Territory of Montana embraced in the following boundaries be, 1674 101

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ison County; thence west along the northern boundary of Madison County to the eastern boundary of Jefferson County; thence northerly along said eastern boundary of Jefferson County to the Missouri River, thence down said Missouri River to the forty-seventh parallel of latitude; thence east along said parallel to the place of beginning. And the county seat of said Gallatin County is hereby located at the town of East Gallatin.

Sc. 8. Be it further enacted, That all that portion of the mended Territory of Montana embraced in the following boundaries be, and 87129

the same is hereby, created a county, to be known as Choteau County, to wit: commencing at the intersection of the one hundred and eighth meridian of longitude with the forty-ninth parallel of latitude; thence south along said meridian of longitude to the forty-seventh parallel of latitude; thence west on said parallel of latitude to the Missouri River; thence down said Missouri River to the mouth of Sun river; thence up San River to the one hundredth meridian of longitude; thence north along said meridian of longitude to the forty-ninth parallel of latitude; thence east along said parallel of latitude to the place of beginning. And the county seat of the said Choteau County is hereby located at Fort Benton.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That all the remaining portion Mout 418

of the Territory of Montana, not included in the counties before

named in this act be, and the same is hereby, created a county, to be known as Big Horn County, and shall be attached, for legislative and judicial purposes, to the County of Gallatin.

SEC. 10. The people of the several counties in this Territory may, by a vote at the first election to be held in this Territory, locate the county seat of their respective counties.

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its passage.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after

[Approved February 2, 1865.]