elected a certificate of election, stating the term, and shall mail a copy thereof to the county superintendent of schools.

Section 13. That Section 1782, of Article 4, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 3, Political Code, be amended to read as follows:

Section 1782. Trustees elected shall take office immediately after qualifying and shall hold office for the term of three years and until their successors are elected and qualified, or appointed by the county superintendent of schools and qualified. Every trustee elected shall file his or her oath of office with the county superintendent of schools. Any trustee who shall fail to qualify within fifteen days after being elected shall forfeit all rights to office, and the county superintendent of schools shall appoint to fill the vacancy.

Section 14. That there shall be added to said Article 4, Chapter 6, Part 3, Title 3, Political Code, as new enactments the following additional Sections, to be hereafter designated and known as Sections 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788:

Section 1783. Any person, male or female, who is a qualified voter at any election under this act, shall be eligible to office of school trustee in such district.

Section 1784. The board of county commissioners of every county in which there shall be a school district of the first class shall, at least fifteen days before the school election for the year 1897, and thereafter at least twenty days before the next annual school election, by order entered on the minutes of the board, lay out such district into not less than two nor more than thirty registry precincts as may seem to the board most necessary, and shall define the boundaries thereof, which shall be known as School Registry Precinct No. 1, School Registry Precinct No. 2, and so on. They shall at the same time the registry precincts are established, appoint one person, male or female, qualified to vote at the coming election in such precinct, registry agent for such precinct, and of the number of registry agents appointed, they shall designate one as principal registry agent for said school district. All registry agents shall be appointed annually, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, and to do such other acts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Before entering upon the duties prescribed in this Act, the registry agents must severally take and subscribe before an officer authorized to administer oaths the constitutional oath of office, and file the same with the county clerk of their respective counties. The

Board of County Commissioners shall designate the place where the office of every registry agent appointed under this Act shall be kept, and they shall cause to be published in a newspaper in the district, or posted in at least three places in each registry precinct, a notice of registration, which shall describe the boundaries of each registry precinct, give the location of the office, and the name of the registry agent therefor, and the date when, and the hours during which the office of the registry agent will be open, and during which persons residing in said precinct may apply and be registered therein. This notice must be published or posted for three days preceding the day when the registration begins, and continued until registration is closed, and shall be issued and signed by the county clerk. Every registry agent appointed under this Act, shall open his office for the purpose of registering votes in his or her district on the tenth day preceding the day of the next annual election for school trustees: Provided, said day be not Sunday or a legal holiday; and should said day be Sunday or a legal holiday, then he or she shall open his or her office on the ninth day next preceding the day of election. He or she shall keep his or her office open between the hours of nine A. M. and twelve M. and one P. M. and five P. M. and from six P. M. until ten P. M. for the period of three days, not including Sunday or a legal holiday and during said time he or she shall register the names of all persons residing in his or her registry precinct, qualified and entitled to vote at the coming election, or who will have a vote thereat under the provisions of this Act. Registry agents shall not sit on Sundays or legal holidays, and while not opened required to register, during the hours of, from twelve to one P. M. and five to six F. M. they may nevertheless do so if they desire, each registry agent shal! be provided with an official register. He or she shall enter therein under the proper heading, the number and date of registration the name, with the first or given name in full and the nativity of the elector, together with the number or a particular description of the house, room or building where the elector resides so as to reasonably identify the same. The names shall be entered in alphabetical order the surname being written first. Every person desiring to be registered for such election must apply to the registry agent for the precinct in which he or she shall reside, at his or her office during the hours of registration. No persons shall be registered by any registry agent unless such person is at the time a resident of his or her precinct. Every person applying to the registry agent shall, before he or she shall be entitled to have his or her name registered, take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation, which shall be admin

istered by the registry agent to-wit: I do solemnly swear or affirm that I am a citizen of the United States, or that I am entitled to become a citizen of the United States, and it is my honest intention to become such before the school election day of this year; and that I am of the age of twenty-one years, and will have actually and not constructively, been a bona fide resident in Montana twelve months, and in the school district. thirty days next preceding the day of election, and that I am not regis、 tered elsewhere in this school district for this election year, So help me God. The registry books shall be open at all times to the inspection of any electors of the district.

Section 1785. The county commissioners in establishing the voting precints and registry precincts shall so arrange them that each voting precinct in which a polling place shall be established shall be composed of a certain number of designated registry precincts. On the next day succeeding that on which the registration is closed each registry agent shall deliver to the county clerk of his or her county his or her official registry duly certified by himself or herself. The principal registry agent of each district shall immediately enter upon the work of making therefrom official check lists. He or she shall copy into books to be provided for that purpose and to be known as the official check lists for each election precinct, designating the number of the voting precinct thereon, all the names in alphabetical order contained in the several official registers which have been returned from the several registry precincts within said voting precinct, together with the other entries contained in the official registers and shall complete the making of one official check list in such manner for each election or voting precinct which has been established, within five days. The county commissioners shall allow him or her such assistance as may be necessary to complete such official check list within such time. When he or she has completed the official list he or she shall verify each of them by his oath. that the same is correct according to his or her best information, knowledge and belief and deliver the same with all official registers to the county clerk who shall on the day of election at or before the time for the polls to open, deliver the official check list for each election precinct or polling place to one of the judges thereof at such polling place.

Section 1786. All the expenses necessarily incurred in the matter of holding elections for school trustees shall be paid out of the school funds of the district. For districts of the first class the county commissioners

shall provide all the stationery, books and supplies and all bills and claims therefor and for the expenses of such election shall be presented to and allowed by the board of County Commissioners when audited by the County Auditor as other claims, and said board shall thereupon cause the same to be certified and delivered by the County Clerk to the proper board of school trustees, who shall cause the same to be paid out of the school funds of the district as other school expenses are paid. All registry agents shall receive the sum of four dollars per day each for the time which they shall be engaged in work of registration; judges of election in districts of the first class shall receive not to exceed five dollars per day each for all services connected with the election. Judges of election in other districts shall receive no compensation. The compensation hereby provided shall be paid in the same manner as other claims.

Section 1787. Every school trustee in a district of the first class, provided said district shall have a population not less than twenty thousand, shall give an official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars to his or her district for the faithful discharge of his or duties, and he or she shall be entitled to receive out of the school funds of the district the sum of four dollars for each meeting of the Board of Trustees, which he or she shall attend, in giving the necessary attention to school business, not exceeding, however, four meetings in any one month, and he or she shall receive no compensation for his attendance at any meeting unless he or she attends throughout its entire session. The compensation here provided shall be audited and allowed by the board of trustees and entered upon their records..

Section 1788. This Act shall be in force immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. And all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 6th, 1897.

SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 81.

An Act to amend Section 1911 and 1912, of Article 13, Chapter 6, Title 3, of the Political Code, relating to the examination and certificates of teachers.

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

Section 1. That Section 1911 of Article 13, Chapter 6, Title 3, Part 3 of the Political Code be amended as follows:

"Section 1911." County Certificates shall be of four grades. The professional grade for a term of not less than four years, and the first grade certificate for a term of not less than three years, and the professional and first grade certificate shall be good and valid for as long as the holder thereof continues teaching and gives the county superintendent satisfactory evidence of progress and efficiency, the second grade certificate shall be valid for a term of two years, and the third grade certificate shall be valid for a term of one year, according to the ratio of correct answers of the applicant and other evidences of qualification appearing from the examination. No certificate shall be granted unless the applicant shall be found proficient in and qualified to teach the following branches of a common English education: penmanship, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, mental arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and hygiene, U. S. History, and theory and practice of teaching. In addition to the above, applicants for a second grade certificate shall pass a satisfactory examination in civics of the United States and Montana, and physical geography; applicants for a first grade certificate shall pass an examination in civics of the United States and Montana, physical geography, American literature and elementary algebra; applicants for a professional grade certificate shall pass an examination in civics of the United States and Montana, physical geography, American literature, elementary algebra, physics and plane geometry. No person shall be employed as a teacher in high school or as the principal teacher of a school of more than two departments, who is not the holder of a professional County certificate or the holder of a life or State diploma, issued by the State Board of Education of the State of Montana, or who is not a graduate of some reputable University, College or Normal School. The percentages required to pass any branch shall, by a standing rule be prescribed by the superintendent of Public Instruction. In addition to these regular grades of certificates, the County Superintendent may grant a temporary certificate to teach until the next regular examination, to any person applying at any other time than at a regular examination, who can show satisfactory reasons for failing to attend such examination, subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Such temporary certificate shall not be granted more than once to the same person, Provided; that where a temporary certificate has been duly issued to any teacher, and that it is impossible, by reason of sickness or other unavoidable accident, for such teacher to attend the next regular examination, such teacher, upon due