$7. APPROPRIATION.] There is hereby appropriated out of the territorial treasury all the funds realized by the sale of the bonds provided for in this act; said funds to be expended for the following purposes:

For building a dormitory and furnishing the same, twelve thousand dollars.

For deficiency, amount due on main building, two hundred dollars.

For steam heating and plumbing, twenty-five hundred dollars. For sewerage, eight hundred dollars.

For tencing and improving grounds, five hundred dollars.

And it shall be the duty of the Auditor of the Territory, upon the application of the board of trustees, or a majority thereof, of said school for deaf mutes, to draw on the territorial Treasurer for the purpose of constructing said dormitory and carrying out the other provisions of this act.

8. IN CASE OF DIVISION.] In case of division of the Territory of Dakota, that part of said Territory in which said Deaf Mute school is situated, shall assume and pay said bonds and coupons which are issued by virtue of this act.

§ 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved, March 7, 1885.

NORTH DAKOTA INSANE HOSPITAL.

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT for the Erection of Additional Buildings for the North Dakota Hospital for the Insane, making Appropriation for the same,and for other purposes:

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

§ 1. APPROPRIATED.] There is hereby appropriated out of the funds provided for in this act, the sums hereinafter mentioned for the erection of buildings on the grounds of the North Dakota Hospital for the Insane near Jamestown, Dakota, as follows: For ward building, kitchen, bakery, dining room, laundry, boiler

house, boiler, fixtures, machinery, furniture, steam heating, offices and residence, the sum of sixty-three thousand ($63,000.) dollars. Officers' residences not to exceed in cost, four thousand dollars. Section of officers building not to exceed in cost, five thousand dollars. Laundry not to exceed three thousand dollars. Barn not to exceed in cost, three thousand dollars. Sewerage two thousand dollars. Water supply, four thousand dollars. Gas, two thousad dollars.

§ 2. BONDS TO BE ISSUED.] To provide such funds, bonds of this Territory shall be issued to the amount of not to exceed sixty-three thousand ($63,000) dollars, in denominations of five hundred ($500) dollars each, bearing date the first day of May, 1885, with interest payable semi-annually, at some place in New York City, to be specified in said bonds, on the first day of July and January of each year, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, running twenty years, and payable at the option of the Territory at any time after five years from the date of the same.

$3. BONDS HOW EXECUTED.] Such bonds shall be executed. for the Territory, and under the seal thereof by the Governor and Treasurer and shall be attested by the Secretary and shall be negotiated by the Treasurer of the Territory.

§ 4. PROPOSALS FOR BONDS.] It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds, after giving notice for thirty days in two newspapers of general circulation, one of which shall be published in the Territory, and the other in the city of New York, and said bonds shall be sold to the highest bidder for cash at not less than par.

§ 5. TAX FOR PAYMENT OF BONDS] For the purpose of prompt payment of principal and interest of the bonds herein provided there shall be levied by the Territorial Board of Equalization at the time the other taxes are levied and collected, in the same manner as other territorial taxes are collected, such sums as shall be sufficient to pay such interest and the exchange thereon, and after ten years from the first day of May, 1885, in addition thereto, a sinking fund tax shall be annually levied sufficient to retire and pay said bonds at their maturity. And it shall be the duty of the territorial Treasurer to pay promptly on the first days of January and July of each year, such interest as shall be due and to purchase said bonds at not more than their par value, and retire and cancel the same with the sinking fund tax as fast as the same shall be received. And no tax or fund provided for the payment of such bonds, either principal or interest shall at time be used for any other purpose.

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§ 6. PAYMENT OF INTEREST.] If for any reason the territorial Treasurer shall not have in his hands sufficient of the funds herein provided to pay either principal or interest upon such

bonds, when due, he shall pay such interest or principal out of any other unappropriated fund belonging to the Territory; and there is hereby appropriated and set apart out of the general fund belonging to the Territory, a sum sufficient to pay such interest on said bonds, as may become due before the funds and tax herein provided can be made available, and it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to pay said interest, promptly, at the time it falls due out of said funds.

$ 7. REPLACING FUNDS] All moneys belonging to the general territorial fund, applied by said Treasurer in payment of either principal or interest of said bonds, shall be replaced from the special tax levied to pay the same.

§ 8. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS.] The board of trustees of the Northern Dakota Hospital for the Insane near Jamestown, shall immediately after passage and approval of this act, prepare, or cause to be prepared, plans and specifications for building the additions and improvements enumerated in section one of this act, and after the same shall have been adopted and approved by them and the Governor of the Territory, the said board of trustees shall cause said plans and specifications to be filed with their secretary, and it shall be the duty of said board, within twenty days thereafter, to give public notice, which notice shall be inserted for thirty days in two newspapers published in the Territory, and of general circulation therein, and in two newspapers published in other states, and that on a day specified in such notice they will receive sealed proposals at the office of the Hospital, near Jamestown, for the building of the said additions and improvements to the Northern Dakota Hospital for the Insane near Jamestown, Dakota, according to plans and specifications aforesaid, which shall be open for inspection of bidders at the office of the Hospital for the Insane, or at such place in the city of Jamestown as the board may designate.

9 TOTAL COST.] The total cost of said buildings and improvements shall not exceed sixty-three thousand ($33,000.) dollars.

§ 10. AWARDING CONTRACT.] On the day advertised for the opening of said proposals for erecting and completing the said additions and improvements, the board of trustees shall proceed to award the contract or contracts, reserving the right to reject any or all bids, if in their judgment they are too high, and may again advertise for proposals, or to accept such bids as in their judgment may be for the best interests of the institution.

§ 11. HOW BUILT.] The walls of said buildings shall be constructed of good brick or stone, and said building shall be made as nearly fire-proof as practicable.

$12. PARTIAL PAYMENTS.] The board of trustees, as the work progresses, shall, on application of the contractor or contractors, certify to the territorial Auditor the value of the work done on the additions and improvements at the time, and on such certified statement the Auditor shall issue a warrant on the territorial Treasurer for a sum not exceeding eighty-five per cent. of the value of the work so certified to have been done on said additions and improvements at the time of making such application, including amount of all warrants previously issued in part payment of such work; Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated for the construction of said additions or improvements shall be paid, or value of work certified by the trustees, until at least one-fourth of the work has been completed by the con

tractor or contractors.

$ 13. MATERIAL TO BE OF GOOD QUALITY.] The contract or contracts aforesaid shall stipulate that all material shall be of good quality, and that the work shall be performed in a good workmanlike manner, and these stipulations shall be enforced.

14. FINAL PAYMENT.] The balance due the contractor or contractors, under the contract or contracts, shall be paid on the completion of the additions or improvements, and their acceptance and approval by the board of trustees.

15. IN CASE OF DIVISION.] In case of division of [the] Territory, that part of the Territory of Dakota in which said Hospital for the Insane is located, shall, on the division of the Territory, assume and pay all bonds and coupons issued and then existing on account of the construction of the said Hospital building.

§ 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from and atter its passage and approval.

Approved, March, 1885.

NORMAL SCHOOL, MADISON.

CHAPTER 25.

AN ACT entitled an act for the completion of the Territorial Normal School at Madison, Lake County, Dakota.

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

§ 1. BONDS TO BE SOLD.] That for the purpose of providing a fund to complete a Normal School, the territorial Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made his duty to prepare for issue, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars ($13,600.) of territorial bonds, ten thousand ($10,000) dollars to be used for completing the building, sixteen hundred dollars for steam heating apparatus; two thousand dollars for school furniture, including inodel. Said bonds shall be dated on the day of execution and delivery thereof, shall be due in twenty years from and after their date, and shall be payable at the option of the Territory at any time, after ten years from their date. Said bonds shall draw interest at the rate of six (6) per cent. per annum, which interest shall be expressed in coupons attached to said bonds, and be made payable semi-annually on the first days of July and January of each year. Said bonds shall be drawn in denominations of five hundred dollars each, and shall be numbered in the order of their issue, and shall be made payable at the office of the treasurer of the Territory. Said bonds shall be executed for the Territory and under seal thereof by the Governor and Treasurer, attested by the Secretary and negotiated by the Treasurer.

$ 2. FUND HOW DESIGNATED.] Said bonds and the money arising from the sale of the same, shall be known and designated as the "Madison Normal School Fund," and shall be kept as a separate fund on the books of the Treasurer.

§ 3. BONDS HOW SOLD.] Said bonds shall be sold in the fol. lowing manner. Whenever the directors appointed to superin. tend the completion of said Normal School as hereinafter pro.