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§§ 94-98
POLITICAL CODE.
Executive Department.

enter a complete list of all stationery, books, articles or other supplies furnished him by such board, making a separate list of each class of articles, and all purchases made by the board, the amount and cost of each article and the amount and cost of each article furnished each officer or board and each member and officer of the legislative assembly. He must embody in his report to the legislative assembly a statement showing the amount of supplies purchased and disposed of as aforesaid.

§ 96. Fees. The secretary of state for services performed in his office, must charge and collect the following fees:

1. For a copy of any law, resolution, record or other document or paper on file in his office, ten cents per folio.

2. For affixing his certificate and seal to any document, one dollar; for affixing his signature and seal without a certificate, fifty cents.

3. For filing articles of incorporation of corporations for profit, five dollars; other corporations, two dollars.

4. For issuing a certificate of corporate existence, three dollars.

5. For recording official bonds, two dollars.

6. For each commission or other document signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state, except pardons and military commissions, three dollars.

7. For each patent for land issued by the governor, if for one hundred and sixty acres or less, one dollar, and for each additional one hundred and sixty acres or fraction thereof, one dollar.

8. For searching records and archives of the state, one dollar.

9. For filing and recording notice of appointment of agent, three dollars.

10. For filing and recording notice of removal of place of business, three dollars.

11. For filing certificate of increase or decrease of capital stock, three dollars.

12. For issuing a certificate of increase or decrease of capital stock, three dollars.

13. For filing a certificate of continuance of existence of a corporation, three dollars.

14. For issuing such certificate, three dollars.

15. For recording miscellaneous records, papers or other documents, fifteen cents per folio, and for filing any paper not otherwise provided for, twenty-five cents. But no member of the legislative assembly or state or county officer can be charged for any search relative to matters appertaining to the duties of his office; nor must he be charged any fee for a certified copy of any law or resolution passed by the legislative assembly relative to his official duties. All fees must be paid in advance, and when collected must be paid into the state treasury at the end of each month and placed to the credit of the salary fund.

§ 96. Salary of secretary of state. The annual salary of the secretary of state, to include all services rendered ex officio as member of any boards or commission as now required, or which may be by law hereafter devolved upon him, is two thousand dollars.

§ 97. Official bond. The secretary of state shall give a bond to the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Article 4.-The State Auditor.

§ 98. Duties of. It is the duty of the state auditor:

1. To superintend the fiscal affairs of the state.