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CRIMES & PUNISHMENTS § 2. Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, depository or contrivance, designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, or who, knowing that the same is intended for unlawful use, shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or give away any slug, device or substance whatsoever intended or calculated to be placed or deposited in any such automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box telephone or other such receptacle, depository or contrivance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Approved March 11, 1931.

An Act amending and re-enacting Sections 1, 2, 4, and 12 of Chapter 116, Session Laws of North Dakota for 1929, providing for the appointment of a State Superintendent of Criminal Identification and two assistant superintendents; defining their powers and duties and providing for the payment of salaries and expenses.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. AMENDMENT.] That Section 1, Chapter 116 of the Laws of 1929, be and is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 1. Within thirty days prior to July 1st and each odd numbered year, there shall be appointed by the Governor an officer who shall be designated and known as State Superintendent of Criminal Identification, whose term of office shall begin on July 1st of each odd numbered year and shall be for two years or until his successor is appointed and qualified. Such officer shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation and shall be a person having at least four years experience in the work of identifying and securing the conviction of criminals. Such superintendent shall receive an annual salary of Three Thousand Dollars ($3000.00), payable monthly, and such salary together with the necessary expenses for clerk hire, office furniture, equipment, supplies, salaries of two assistants and expense of travel, when necessary, shall be paid out of the Criminal Bureau Fund. The Board of Administration is hereby directed to cause to be transferred to the criminal bureau fund out of the twine and cordage operating fund as now created and established, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per year which transfer shall be