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§§ 18-23
POLITICAL CODE.
The Legislature.

Article 2.-Subordinate Officers.

Section.

18. Assistant clerks.

19. Assistant enrolling and engrossing clerks-Additional assistant.

20. Additional enrolling and engrossing clerks.

Section.

21. Assistant sergeants-at-arms and post­master.

22. Pages.

23. Stenographers.

24. Clerks of judiciary committee,

25. How appointed.

Assistant clerks.
s. 1, c. 16, 1881

§ 18. There shall be elected one assistant clerk for each branch of the legislative assembly, who shall each receive the sum of six dollars per day for services during the sessions thereof; to be audited and paid out of the territorial treasury upon an account certified by respective presiding officers of the two houses of said assembly.

Assistant enrolling and engrossing clerks, and additional assistant clerks.
s. 1, c. 103, 1885.

§ 19. The president of the council and speaker of the house of representatives are authorized to appoint when necessary an assistant clerks. assistant enrolling and engrossing clerk, and an additional as­sistant clerk of the council and house of representatives, respect­ively. Each of said clerks shall receive for their services the sum of five dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, to be audited and paid out of the territorial treasury on the certificate to and allowance of their account of services by the said president and speaker respectively.

Additional engrossing and enrolling clerks.
s. 1, c. 104, 1885.

§ 20. The president of the council and the speaker of the house are hereby authorized to employ such additional engross­ing and enrolling clerks for both branches of the legislature as are in their judgment deemed necessary for a proper fulfillment of the duties required of the committees of each house, and there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury a sum of money sufficient to cover the expenses of such additional service.

Assistant sergeants-at-arms and postmaster.
s. 1, c. 109, 1885.

§ 21. There shall be appointed by the president of the coun­cil and the speaker of the house one assistant sergeant-at-arms, and the president of the council shall appoint a postmaster to discharge the duties pertaining to that office for both council and house, the duties of which postmaster shall be prescribed by the president of the council. The assistant sergeant-at-arms shall discharge the several duties of the sergeant-at-arms in case of his absence or inability to serve, and shall, alternately with the watchman, serve as night watchman of the halls of the council and house of representatives.

Pages.
s. 1, c. 112, 1881.

§ 22. There shall be appointed by the president of the coun­cil one, and by the speaker of the house of representatives two pages, who shall each receive the sum of one dollar per day for such services, to be audited and paid out of the territorial treasury on accounts certified by the presiding officers of the respective houses.

Stenographers.
s. 1, c. 102, 1885.

§ 23. The president of the council and speaker of the house of representatives of the territory of Dakota are authorized and it is hereby made their duty to appoint a competent and skilled stenographer for their respective houses. Such stenographers shall be under the direction and control of the pre ident and speaker respectively for the service of the various committees of the respective houses. Each of said stenographers shall receive six dollars per day for the time actually employed by them in the performance of their duties, which services shall be audited and paid out of the territorial treasury on the certificate of the presi­dent of the council and speaker of the house of representatives

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