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134 CHAPTER 106.

POLICE POWERS TO CONDUCTORS.

AN ACT Giving Police Powers to Conductors of Railway Trains Carrying Passengers.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

§ 1. .) The conductors of all railway trains carrying passengers, while on duty in this Territory are invested with police powers of a sheriff.

§ 2. .] When an arrest is made by any such conductor, he must take the defendant before the nearest or most accessible magistrate of the county in which the offense is triable, or cause the same to be done, and he shall receive no fees or compensation therefor.

§ 3. .] This act shall have force and effect from and [after] its passage and approval.

Approved, March 5, 1889.

CHAPTER 107.

LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES ON RAILROAD PROPERTY.

AN ACT Providing for the Levy and Collection of Taxes upon Property of Railroad Companies in this Territory.

Be it Enacted by the Legíslatice Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

§ 1. .] In lieu of any and all other taxes upon any railroads, except railroads operated by horse power, within this Territory, or upon the equipment, appurtenances or appendages thereof, or upon any other property situated in this Territory belonging to the corporation owning or operating such railroads, upon the capital stock or business transactions of said railroad company there shall hereafter be paid into the treasury of this Territory an amount equal to a percentage of all the gross earnings of the corporation owning or operating such railroad, arising from the operating of such railroad, as shall be situated within this Territory, both upon Territorial and interstate traffic, in case the railroad company owning or operating