place or public school premises or place where the public are accustomed or invited to come and who shall harbor in such public buildings or upon such premises any person or persons under the age of twenty-one years while using or smoking a cigarette or tobacco enclosed in a cigarette paper or wrapper, or paper of any kind, or who shall grant to such person or persons under the age of twenty-one years the privilege of indulging in the use of same in such public place or places shall be guilty of a nisdemeanor and shall be punishable for violation of this section upon conviction thereof in the same manner as provided for violations of section 1 of this act.

§ 4. Chapter 85 of the Session Laws of 1907 and Chapter 112 of the Session Laws of 1909 and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 10, 1917.

Coal

CHAPTER 154.

(S. B. 89)

RELATING TO PURCHASE OF COAL FOR STATE BUILDINGS.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act to Provide the Manner of Purchase of Coal for State Owned Buildings and Institutions and to Repeal Chapter 127 of the Session Laws of 1913, and Declaring an Emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ 1. That all coal needed for the institutions and buildings under the control of the state board of regents of education, the state board of charities and corrections, the state board of managers of the soldiers' home and the custodian of the state capitol building shall be purchased in the open market under such specifications and contracts as such boards and custodian shall provide, and in the same manner as other supplies for such institutions and buildings are purchased.

§ 2. That Chapter 127 of the Session Laws of 1913 relating to the purchase of coal be and is hereby repealed.

§ 3. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall be in force and effect immediately upon its passage and approval. Approved March 8, 1917.

Coal Lands

CHAPTER 155.

(S. B. 81)

AUTHORIZING COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE STATE OWNED

COAL LANDS.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Creating and Authorizing a Commission to Investigate the Advisability and Practicability of State Owned and Operated Coal Mines, and Appropriating Money for the Expense of Such Commission.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ 1. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act a commission to consist of three members is hereby authorized and created. The said commission shall be appointed by the governor and shall serve until the completion of the work as herein provided. Provided, that this commission shall go out of existence without further legislative act not later than January 1, 1919.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of said commission and it shall have the power to make a minute and careful investigation of the state owned coal lands, shown to contain mineral deposits of coal by the Report of the United States Geological Survey, to investigate the cost of opening, stripping, mining, operating, maintaining, transporting and marketing of such coal.

§ 3. The said commission shall prepare a report of its findings and submit same to the biennial session of the Legislature next following the passage and approval of this act, provided, however, that said commission shall report sooner, or al stated periods if requested so to do by the governor.

§ 4. The said commission shall be empowered to employ

such legal, engineering, and clerical help as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and may fix and determine the salaries of same.

§ 5. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys now in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Fifteen Hundred ($1,500.00) Dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act.

$ 6. Whereas. At a General Election held in the State of South Dakota, in November, 1916, there was submitted to the electors of the state at such general election an amendment to Article Thirteen (13) of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, and, Whereas, the said amendment was ratified by a majority vote of the electors participating in such election, and Whereas, no adequate provision now exists for carrying out the provisions of such amendment to Article Thirteen (13) of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, an Emergency is hereby declared to exist, and does exist, and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and approval.

Approved Feb. 23, 1917.

Code Revision

CHAPTER 156.

(H. B. 1)

RELATING TO REVISION OF CODES AND STATUTES.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act to Provide for the Revision of the Codes and Statutes of the State of South Dakota, Providing for the Printing and Publishing Thereof and Appropriating Money Therefor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

§ 1. The Supreme Court to Appoint and Engage Commission.] That the Supreme Court of the State of South Dakota by and through its Presiding Judge be, and it hereby is, authorized and required to forthwith appoint a Chief Revisor, a resident

of this state and learned in the law, and shall engage, by contract, two expert assistants, one of whom shall be an expert revisor and the other an expert in annotating and indexing, the three persons so appointed and engaged to constitute the Code Commission, to revise, annotate and index the laws of this state, including the Session Laws of 1917, and to annotate and index the Constitution of this state. Provided, that any member of said commission may be removed by the Presiding Judge of said Court. The Chief Revisor shall qualify by taking the constitutional oath of office and filing the same in the office of the Secretary of State. Should a vacancy occur in said commission such vacancy shall be filled in the same manner that the original appointment was made.

§ 2. Duties and Powers of Commission.] The Chief Revisor shall have supervision and control of said work and said assistants shall be under his direction and control; and the said Chief Revisor shall have full power and authority to employ all necessary clerks, proof readers, printers and stenographers. The commission, so appointed, shall, in executing the duties imposed upon them by this act, work in conjunction and continuously as far as practicable until such work is completed, and shall meet and do their work at the State Capitol, and they shall have the power and it shall be their duty to eliminate all statutes that are inoperative or that have been repealed, to incorporate all amendments and include all new statutes and to add to or fake from such laws and statutes whatever may be necessary to make a perfect, complete and consistent Code of Laws. They shall arrange such laws under suitable titles, divisions and sub-divisions, chapters and sections, and shall number each section consecutively from the first to the last thereof; and head notes shall be placed at the beginning of each section. briefly expressing the matters therein contained, and a note shall be placed at the end of each section properly referring to the original source from which said section is compiled and containing such other matter as is deemed proper or advisable by the commission. Said commission shall prepare a complete subject index of all of the laws of the state: including the Constitution of the United States, the Enabling Act and the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, which index or idices shall be made from a page to page examination of the said statutes and laws and shall be arranged in suitable sub-heads in alphabetical order with proper cross references. The said index shall be made independently of and without reference to the general index of the statutes and laws of the state heretofore published, and shall be made according to the most modern system of indexing. They shall also make

a complete annotation of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory and of the State of South Dakota and the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and of the United States District Court and Court of appeals for the District of South Dakota, which may have been rendered, construing statutes or constitutional provisions of this state, specifying as far as possible the citation where such decision appears in any and all reports of cases. Said commission shall present to the Legislature of this state, convening in the year 1919, the completed Code so revised, compiled, annotated and indexed, for such action as is hereinafter more fully specified.

§ 3. Printing of Report and Code.] As soon as the Code Commission herein provided for shall have prepared any portion of the copy of such revised code, and not later than December 20th, 1917, they shall notify the Commissioner of Public Printing to that effect, and the Commissioner of Public Printing shall advertise in at least three newspapers of general circulation in this state for a period of thirty days for bids for the printing and binding of the Report of the Code Commission and of

such revised code when adopted. Among other things, the fol

lowing shall be specified by the Commissioner of Public Printing in the contract for such printing:

Bids for printing and binding 350 copies of the Report of the Code Commission, including index, to be known as the temporary edition of said Revised Code.

The type to be used shall be ten point roman with black face for headings and six point roman for all citations, annotations and reference fool notes.

The pages to be made up thirty pica ems wide and fifty two pica ems long with suitable margin and printed with thirty-two page folio sections; each page of the statutes to have at the top a subject matter heading and first and last section number appearing on page. All type composition to be set in linotype form. The paper to be twenty-eight by forty-two of weight, quality and kind to be specified, to be approved by the Code Commission and the Commissioner of Printing.

Temporary Code or Report of Commission to be bound in heavy board covers in such divisions and sizes as the Code Commission and Printing Commissioner shall direct. The permanent Code to be bound in buckram of quality to be specified by the Printing Commissioner, with two leather labels on each volume of said Revised Code. The contractor shall preserve the linotype slugs of the temporary edition herein provided for in a fireproof vault for use in printing the permanent edition of the Revised Code after it shall have been adopted by the Legislature, and he