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Executive. the condition of such corporations so ascertained, to the governor, together with his recommendations or suggestions respecting the same, and the governor may cause the same to be published, or, in his discretion, take such action as the exigencies of the case may seem to demand.

§ 122. To enable said examiner to perform the services herein required of him, the trustees and financial officers and managers of the several territorial institutions, the county and territorial treasurers and auditors, and other county and territorial officers, and officers and employes of all banking, insurance, annuity, safe deposit, trust companies, moneyed and savings institutions herein referred to, shall afford all reasonable and needed facilities, and it is hereby made the duty of all such trustees, officers, managers, and employes to make returns and exhibits to the said examiner, under oath, in such form and at such time or times as he shall prescribe; and each and every person so required who shall refuse or neglect to make such return or exhibit, or to make or give such information as maybe required by said examiner, shall be deemed guilty of felony; and if any person in making such exhibit, or giving such information, or affording any statement required under this act, on his oath, shall knowingly swear falsely concerning the same, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury and punished accordingly.

§ 123. Every person or persons who shall wilfully obstruct or mislead the public examiner in the execution of his duties, as herein perscribedprescribed [sic], shall be subject to a conviction and punished therefor, in the same manner as is provided for the conviction and punishment of persons obstructing or hindering any other officers, ministerial, judicial or executive under the authority and laws of this territory. And said examiner shall have full power and authority for the various purposes named, to examine any of the books, papers, accounts, bills, vouchers and other documents or property of any or all of the aforesaid territorial institutions, moneyed, banking, insurance, annuity, safe deposit, trust companies and moneyed or insurance corporations, and county or territorial officers and custodians of county and territorial funds, and also to examine under oath, any or all of the trustees, managers, officers, employes and agents of such institutions and moneyed and savings corporations, and other persons in the control of, or doing business with said moneyed and savings institutions, and the county and territorial officers and custodians of county and territorial funds aforesaid. The said examiner is empowered to issue subpoenas and administer oaths in the same manner and with the same power to enforce obedience thereof in the performance of his said duties, as belong and pertain to courts of law in this territory; and any person refusing access by said examiner to any such books or papers, or any trustee, manager, officer, agent, clerk, employe, or other person aforesaid, who shall obstruct said access or refuse to furnish any required information, or who shall in any manner hinder the thorough examination required by this act, of the officers, territorial, moneyed, banking, insurance, annuity, safe deposit, trust companies and savings institutions, or pertaining to the county and territorial officers aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine of one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the territorial prison for a term of one year. And when necessary to employ stenographers or clerical help, the expense incurred therefor shall be