who on receipt thereof shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount threeof; provided, that in the current execution of such contracts the commissioners are empowered, in their discretion, to deliver to such contractor a certificate for an amount not exceeding seventy-five per cent of completed work upon the contractor filing with the commissioners a statement of the amount of work done, for which amount the state auditor shall give his warrant upon the state treasurer to such contractor.
§ 64. Distribution of journals and executive documents. Each member and officer of the legislative assembly, for himself, and each clerk of a court of record, and each county auditor, for the use of their offices respectively, is entitled to one copy of each journal, and the volumes of the executive documents. Each university, college, academy or other literary institution within the state is entitled to one copy of the general laws passed at each session of the legislative assembly and also to the volumes of executive documents.
§ 65. Who entitled to the laws. Penalty for refusing to turn over same by officers to successors. Each member and officer of the legislative assembly, for himself, shall have a copy of the laws; each judge and clerk of a court of record; each justice of the peace, each auditor or clerk in any city or incorporated village; each county auditor, treasurer, sheriff, register of deeds and state's attorney is entitled to receive one copy of the general laws passed at each session of the legislative assembly for his use while filling such offices, but every such officer, except members and officers of the legislative assembly, shall deliver the same to his successor in office for his use while filling such office; and if any person refuses on demand, to make such delivery, he shall forfeit and pay not less than five nor more than fifteen dollars to be recovered in a civil action brought by the successor in office of any such person in the name of the state for the use of the county where such action is brought before any justice of the peace in such county.
§ 66. Secretary of state to furnish laws, journals and documents to state officers, libraries, etc. The secretary of state shall deliver to the governor, state auditor, state treasurer, attorney general, adjutant general, railroad commissioners, commissioner of insurance, commissioner of agriculture and labor, clerk of the supreme court, supreme court reporter, superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of every state benevolent society, each public institution, United States circuit judge, United States district judge, clerk of each of the United States courts, United States attorney for North Dakota and the United States marshal, each, one copy of the laws and of the journals and documents. He shall supply each state and each of the departments and territories of the United States and the general government of the United States with a copy: He shall furnish the state library with ten copies of the general and special laws, the journals and the volumes of executive documents.
§ 67. Secretary of state to forward laws, journals and documents. The secretary of state shall as soon as the laws, journals and executive documents of each session are printed and ready for distribution box up the number of each to which each county is entitled and forward the same by public conveyance to the county auditor of the county. If any county seat is so situated that the laws, journals and documents cannot be forwarded by public conveyance, they shall be forwarded to a secure place as near such county 78
