the principal officer in charge of each public institution in the territory; and to each library association organized and maintained for the benefit of the public in any county or town in the territory. The volumes distributed to the several territorial, county, township or other officers in the territory shall be the property of the offices respectively, and shall be safely kept and turned over to successors in office. The compilers shall also provide copies for sale to parties who may desire to purchase the same, at an advance of ten per centum upon the cost price thereof, and all sums received for such sales shall be by them turned into the territorial treasury to the credit of the general funds of the territory. They shall keep an accurate record of each and every volume distributed or disposed of as provided herein, and file the same with the territorial auditor. The compilers shall procure the copyright for the volume herein provided, for the exclusive benefit of the territory.
§ 4. When the laws shall have been printed and are ready for distribution, which shall be within eight months from the passage and approval of this act, the governor shall issue his proclamation announcing such fact and his acceptance of such compilation; and thirty days after the date of such proclamation, said compilation shall go into effect, and thereafter the laws so compiled shall]be received by all the courts and officers of this territory, and shall in all respects be as valid and binding as original enrolled acts approved and fled in the office of the secretary of the territory, as now provided by law.
§ 5. Each of the persons appointed to the office of compiler and assistant compiler, respectively, as provided in this act, shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, execute to the territory of Dakota a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, to be conditioned on the proper performance of the duties herein prescribed, approved and filed according to law. For their services as herein prescribed they shall each be paid two hundred dollars per month for the time actually and necessarily employed in such work, and the territorial auditor is hereby directed to draw warrants upon the territorial treasurer for such amounts as may be due said compiler or assistant compiler at the end of each month, as shown by duly verified vouchers filed by said officers respectively.
§ 6. All acts or parts of acts, in so far as they are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.
§ 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.
Approved, March 11, 1887.
