to attorney SEC. 14. The auditor of public accounts shall Auditor report report to the attorney general any violation of general. the provisions of this chapter which shall come to his knowledge, and the attorney general shall institute the proper legal proceedings in the name of the state against any person violating any such provision. being SEC. 15. Every surety company not incorpo-admitted to do in this state, applying for admission to trans-business. act business therein, shall pay to the auditor of public accounts for the use of the state for filing copy of its charter or deed of settlement, the sum of thirty dollars; for filing statement preliminary to admission, and for filing each annual statement after admission, the sum of twenty dollars, and for each agent's certificate annually the sum of two dollars. Approved March 7th A. D. 1885. CHAPTER 24. AN ACT to authorize the incorporation of detective asso- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of incorporated. SECTION 1. Whenever any number of per- How sons associate themselves together for the purpose of carrying on the detective or secret service business for pay, they shall make a certificate in writing subscribed and verified by Bonds to be given. the oaths or affirmations of all the members thereof showing the full name and place of residence of each. The name and style by which such association shall be called, and the name of the town and county where their principal office shall be located, which certificate shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state to be by him preserved and recorded in his office in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Within thirty days from the date of filing the certificate as provided in section one of this act, the members of such association shall execute and deliver to the secretary of state a bond for the state of Nebraska in the penal sum of ten thousand (10,000) dollars signed by all the members of such association with a number of sureties equal to two for each member of said association, which sureties shall sev-· erally justify in sums aggregating the sum of ten thousand (10,000) dollars as hereinafter provided, coneitioned for the faithful performance by such association of all the duties of their employment as prescribed in this act, and each member of such association shall make an oath or affirmation to be endorsed on such bond and subscribed by him before some officer authorized to administer oaths and by him certified thereon, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of Nebraska, and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of a detective as prescribed in this act. Upon the receipt of such bond by the secretary of state incorporation. he shall file the same to be preserved in his office and shall certify in writing that such association has complied with the law authorizing the incorporation of detective associations and affix thereto the great seal of the State of Nebraska, attest the same and record such certificate together with the certificate Certificate of and bond filed by such association in a book to be kept for the purpose, and shall within five days thereafter deliver said certificate issued by him to some member of said association or mail the same properly sealed, stamped, and addressed to said association at the town where their principal office is located, and upon receipt of such certificate it shall be the duty of such association before transacting any business, other than to meet for such purpose to elect a chief and secretary, who shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified. of sureties. SEC. 3. The justification of sureties on the Justification bond required by section two of this act shall be an oath or affirmation endorsed on such bond to the effect that each of said sureties is a resident, and freeholder of the state of Nebraska and is worth at least the sum in which he justifies over and above all debts and liabilities by him owing, and all property exempt by law from levy and sale on execution, which oaths or affirmations shall be subscribed by the sureties and taken before and certified to by some officer authorized to administer oaths. SEC. 4. When any detective association Body shall be incorporated under the provisions of corporate. the three preceding sections of this act such association is authorized to engage in the secret service or detective business, through and in the name of such association; and shall be deemed a body corporate limited without successors, and they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity in and by their corporate name, and may have a corporate seal and may alter the same at will and may acquire and hold such property as they may deem expedient or necessary whether it be real, personal, or mixed for the uses and purposes of their employment as defined in this act, and may employ any number of persons to assist them, but it shall be the duty of such association to deliver to every person employed by them a certificate showing the date of their employment the name of the association and the time for which such person is employed, which cetificate shall be signed by the chief and attested by the secretary of such New members. association; Provided, however, That whenever May employ help. any person shall be admitted to such association as a member and not an employe, such association shall file a new certificate and bond in the office of the secretary of state, and at the expiration of every five years from the date of the last certificate issued to such association they shall make and file in the office of the secretary of state a new bond and certificate, and in either case such new certificate and bond shall be in all respects the same that required by the first three sections of this act and verified and recorded in the same manner. bers and SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the members Duty of memand employes of every detective association in- employes. corporated under the provisions of this act, to preserve inviolate all secrets of state which may come to their knowledge, and all secrets confided to them in the course of their employment unless required in the furtherance of justice to divulge the same in courts of examination, trial, or impeachment to aid executive judicial and police officers in preventing crime the pursuit, identification, arrest, and conviction of secret offenders and fugitives from justice, and to report to the chief any information of threatened insurrection or invasion against the state which may come to their knowledge, which chief shall forthwith convey such information to the governor, and upon the request of any magistrate within the county where the principal office of such association shall be located it shall be the duty of the members thereof to execute all writs issued by such magistrate upon information against any person prosecuted by the state of Nebraska, for any offense punishable by fine, imprisonment, or death. detectives. SEC. 6. When any magistrate shall require a Service by member of any detective association incorporated under the provisions of this act to execute any writ as provided in section five, it shall be the duty of such magistrate to direct such writ to the chief of such association, and the return thereon shall be verified in the same manner as provided by law for returns of such writs by sheriffs and shall be signed by |