order to show cause to be personally served upon all persons interested in the estate, and on any general guardian of a minor, or incompetent person, so interested, and any legatee, or devisee, or heir of a decedent provided they ara residents of the county, at least two weeks before the time appointed for hearing the petition, and published once a week for two successive weeks in such newspaper of the county where the court is held as the judge shall direct. If there be no newspaper published in the county in which the proceedings are had, then it shall be published in such newspaper as the court or judge may direct, and shall be in all cases posted in three of the most public places in the county where the land is situated; Provided, That all parties interested in said estate shall, before final action is taken according to the provisions of Section 1 of this act receive due notice as provided by law for the sale of real estate of decedents. If all persons interested, in the estate join in the petition or assent in writing to the execution of the mortgage, the notice may be dispensed with and the hearing may be had any time.
§ 3. EMERGENCY.] As there is no law granting power to county courts to mortgage the real estate of deceased persons as provided in Section 1, an emergency arises and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.
Approved February 26, 1890.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
CHAPTER 55.
[H. F. 272.]
SALARIES FIXED BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AN ACT to Provide for Fixing the Salaries of County Officers.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
§ 1. SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS, WHEN FIXED.] The board of county commissioners, at their quarterly meeting in the month of July, or at some special meeting during said month next prior to each and every general election, shall fix the amount of salary which shall be received by every county officer for the ensuing term, whose salary is fixed by the board of county commissioners, and is entitled by law to receive a salary, payable out of the county treasury. And the salary so fixed shall not be increased or diminished dur-
