SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, January 12th, 1877. AN ACT Amendatory of an Act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of Territorial and County revenue, and for the assessing and collecting the same." Approved, January 15, 1875. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. That section one hundred and one (101) of an act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of territorial and county revenue, and for the assessing and collecting the same," approved, January 15, 1875, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: And Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize any assessor to levy or collect any tax upon any team, wagon, pack-train, or any of the animals or property belonging thereto or connected therewith owned without this Territory, which may be temporarily within this Territory for the purpose of carrying or delivering goods, merchandise or any other freight whatsoever, the owner or owners of which said property shall exhibit to the assessor a receipt for taxes paid in any other county, state or territory, within the year in which said assessment and collection is sought to be levied and collected, or who shall make to the said assessor an affidavit or affirmation that he is a non-resident of the Territory, and that he does not make the said affidavit for the purpose of gain, profit or evasion of the payment of his taxes for the current year. And in every such case the assessor is hereby authorized to administer such oaths; Provided, That if no place of residence outside of this Territory be stated in such affidavit or such receipt shown, such persons shall be liable to pay taxes within this Territory. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, January 2d, 1877. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of Territorial and County revenue, and for the assessing and collecting the same." Approved, January 15, 1875. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. Sections thirty-one and thirty four of an act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of territorial and county revenue, and for assessing and collecting the same," approved, January 15th, 1875, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 31. On the second Monday of December in each year, the sheriff, as tax collector, shall at the close of his official duties on that day, enter upon the assessment roll a statement that he has made a levy upon all the property therein assessed, the taxes upon which had not been paid, and shall immediately ascertain the total amount of taxes then delinquent, and file in the office of the auditor a statement of said amount, verified by the oath of himself or deputy, which list shall be completed by the third Monday in December, and shall be known as the "delinquent list;" and to enable the tax collector to make out the said list, no taxes shall be received by him on the duplicate assessment roll after making the entry provided for in this section. Section 34. At any time after the third Monday in December, and before the institution of suit as hereinafter provided, any delinquent tax-payer may upon a certificate from the auditor giving description of the property and the taxes due thereon, pay to the county treasurer the taxes assessed against said delinquent with five per cent. additional thereon, taking from the treasurer duplicate receipts for the amount paid, one of which receipts shall be filed with the county auditor, the other with the district attorney of the county. After having been served by any person with a duplicate receipt of the county treasurer for the total amount of taxes due from such persons, or upon a piece of property with five per cent. thereon additional, the district attorney shall not commence the suit authorized by this act against such persons or property; Provided, That if any person shall fail to serve said receipt, such person shall pay all costs that may result from his or her negligence. The additional five per cent. provided for by this section, shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of the county. SEC. 2. Sections 31 and 34 of an act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of territorial and county revenue, and for the assessing and collecting the same," approved January 15, 1875, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, January 12th, 1877. AN ACT To provide for the imprisonment of Territorial prisoners in county jails in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. That in all cases wherein the sentence of imprisonment in the territorial prison is not to exceed one year, the jail of the county wherein the prisoner is tried, or of an adjoining county, shall be deemed the territorial prison, and the prisoner be sentenced to imprisonment therein; Provided, That this act shall have no force or effect, except in cases wherein the sheriff of the county in which such jail is situated shall first file an offer with the clerk of the court wherein such prisoner is tried, to keep prisoners at the same rates as they are kept in the general territorial prison. SEC. 2. That it shall be the official duty of such sheriff, filing such offer, to be the lawful keeper of such prisoners, for a breach whereof he shall be liable in all respects as he is now liable for the safe keeping of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail; Provided, That the keeper of the said prisoners shall have his accounts allowed and payment made for the keeping of said prisoners in the same manner and at the same rates as the accounts and payments are made to the keeper of the territorial prison. APPROVED, January 8, A. D. 1877. AN ACT To protect the Officers of the Law in the performance of their duties. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows SECTION 1. If any person shall knowingly and willfully obstruct, resist or oppose any sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, constable, marshal, policeman, or other officer or person duly authorized in arresting any person without a warrant, or other process, for committing a crime, every person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, together with the costs of suit. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage. APPROVED, January 12th, 1877. AN ACT To amend an Act, "To protect certain game in Idaho Territory." Approved, January 12th, 1875. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons hereafter, within the Territory of Idaho, to willfully kill or destroy any quail or partridge, or trap or carry away the same, or destroy their eggs, prior to the first day of September, A. D. 1879, and after the first day of March, A. D. 1879, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to kill or destroy quail or partridge, or trap or carry away the same, or destroy their eggs, at any time between the first day of April and the first day of September of each year. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage, AN ACT Supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled, "An act relating to the discovery of Gold and Silver bearing Quartz Lodes, and of the manner of their location." Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. That an act entitled, "An act relating to the discovery of gold and silver bearing quartz lodes, and of the manner of their location," approved, January the 12, A. D. 1875, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding the following supplementary sections: Section 15. In mining districts, distant thirty miles or more from the county seat of the county in which such district is or may be situated, it shall be lawful for the county recorder to appoint, and he is hereby required on the application of five adult male citizens of such district to appoint a resident deputy recorder, whose duties shall be as follows: To receive for record all notices of the location of quartz claims, and enter the same in a book kept by him in said district for that purpose. That said deputy recorder is hereby authorized to administer the oath required by law to be taken by the person or persons for whom such record shall be made, and enter a copy of the same on his book of records. Section 16. That said deputy recorder shall at least once in six months transmit to the county recorder a certified copy or transcript of all mining records made by him, (not previously transmitted) and shall also transmit the original notices from which such records were made, and it shall be lawful for such deputy recorder to retain for his own use and benefit one-half the fees now allowed by law to county recorders for recording mining claims, paying over the remaining half to the county recorder. Section 17. It shall be the duty of the county recorder when such transcript shall have been received by him, to enter the same in the proper book of records for mining claims, and place on file the original notices as well as the transcript of the record forwarded by the deputy recorder. Section 18. The deputy recorders provided for in this act, shall not by virtue of this act be authorized to perform any other than the special duties herein provided for. SEC. 2. All laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED January 4, 1877. |