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 § 135. All the expenses incurred by the commissioners for advertising, stationery, and other necessary expenses shall be paid by the auditor of the territory by his warrant upon the terri­torial treasurer, upon the certificate of the said commissioners; and the commissioners shall be paid for their services the sum of five dollars each for each and every day actually employed, by the warrant of the auditor of the territory upon the territorial treasurer.

§ 136. The commission created by said chapter 104 is hereby discharged, and said commission is directed to turn over to the commission created by this act, within twenty days after its pas­sage and approval, all books, papers, and other property of the territory in their possession.

§ 137. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall biennially appoint three competent persons, who shall constitute a board of railroad commissioners, and who shall hold their office for the term of two years from the first of April next after such appointment. The governor shall, by appoint­ment, fill any vacancy caused by death, removal or resignation; said commissioners shall hold their offices until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. No person owning stock, bonds or other property in any railroad company, or who is in the employment of, or who is in any manner pecuniarily in­terested in any railroad corporation, public warehouse or eleva­tor, shall be eligible to the office of railroad commissioner. Said commissioners shall be selected, so nearly as practicable, one from the southern, one from the central, and one from the northern part of the territory.

§ 138. Said commissioners shall have general supervision of all railroads in the territory, and shall inquire into any neglect or violation of the laws of this territory by any railroad corpora­tion, its officers, agents or employes doing business therein, and shall from time to time carefully examine and inspect the condi­tion of each railroad in the territory, and the manner of its con­duct and management, with reference to its safety and general relations to the public business of the territory.

§ 139. Whenever in the judgment of the railroad commis­sioners it shall appear that any railroad corporation fails in any respect or particular to comply with the laws of the territory, or its charter, or when in their judgment any repairs are necessary­ upon its road, or any addition to its rolling stock, or any addition or change in its station houses, or any change in the rates of passenger fare or its charges for transporting freight or transferring the same from one road or station to another, or any change in the manner of operating its road and conducting its