CAPITOL BUILDING.
CHAPTER 23.
APPROPRIATION FOR FREIGHT.
AN ACT to Appropriate Funds to Pay Charles W. Thompson for Rebate of Freights on Material Furnished for Construction of the Capitol Building at Bismarck, D. T., as per finding of Board of Arbitration in case of Thompson vs. Territory of Dakota.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
§ 1. POWER OF TERRITORIAL AUDITOR.) The auditor of the Territory of Dakota is hereby authorized and empowered to hear, determine, and to audit a certain claim against the Territory of Dakota, and in favor of Charles W. Thompson, for rebate on freights on material furnished by said Thompson for the construction of the Capitol building at Bismarck, D. T., not exceeding the sum of $6,032.25 and interest from date of payment to railroad company, as per finding of board of arbitration in the matter of Charles W. Thompson vs. Territory of Dakota, and the said auditor is empowered to issue his warrant upon the Territorial Treasurer for such sum as he may allow said Charles W. Thompson, and the Territorial Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the amount mentioned in such warrant, by exchanging therefor refunding warrants for the amount of the principal and interest lawfully accrued thereon at the date of such exchange. The principal of said refunding warrants shall be payable in five years after the date of the issuance thereof, and the same shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the Territorial Treasurer; but any of said refunding warrants may be redeemed if the Governor, at the time of the maturity of any installment of interest falling due, after the period of two years subsequently to the date of the issuance thereof by the payment to the lawful owner and holder of such refunding warrants, of the principal thereof, and of the interest which shall have accrued thereon prior to the date of making such redemption. After the tender by the treasurer to the holder of such refunding warrant of the amount required as aforesaid for the redemption
