newspapers not exceeding four in number. The proclamation therein provided for shall be published for the space of four consecutive weeks before the day of election.

SEC. 3. The controller, treasurer and territorial superintendent of public instruction shall hereafter make their official reports to the governor at least twenty days prior to the day on which the legislative assembly is appointed to meet in regular session, who may cause the same together with his message to be printed prior to the beginning of such session. They shall also whenever required make special report, and furnish such information as he may require.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED January 12, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled, "An act relating to Estrays." Approved December 22d, 1864.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows:

SECTION 1. That section three of an Act entitled, "An act relative to Estrays," approved December 22d, 1864, read as follows: If the owner or claimant of any stray animal be unknown, the taker-up shall within ten days after taking up such animal post up written notices, giving a description of such animal, the marks, brands, natural or artificial as near as practicable, the name and residence of the taker-up, and the time at which the same was taken up, one in each school district of the county, and one also shall be posted at the door of the auditor's office of said county, or by publication thereof in a weekly newspaper published in the said county, in at least four issues of said paper during the six weeks hereinafter mentioned, a written notice shall also be deposited by the taker-up of such estrays in the office of the county auditor, and shall be kept on file by said auditor for the period of six months.

SEC. 2. That section four of said act shall be, an is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. That section five of said act shall read as follows: If the owner or any person entitled to the possession of any estray shall appear at any time within six weeks after said notice is filed with the auditor as aforesaid, and from his right thereto he shall be entitled to the possession and ownership of such estray upon paying all lawful charges which have been. incurred in relation to the same.

SEC. 4. That section seven of said act shall read as follows: That if any person entitled to the possession of any estrays, shall not appear and substantiate his title thereto, and pay charges thereon within six weeks from the time said notice. is filed with the county auditor, as provided for in this act, such estray shall be sold at the request of the taker up by the sheriff, or any constable of the county at public auction, upon first giving public notice thereof in writing, by posting up the same in three of the most public places in the precinct, where such estray may have been taken up, at least ten days before such sale, and the taker-up may bid thereon at such sale, and after deducting all the lawful charges of the taker-up as aforesaid, and the fees of the sheriff or constable, which shall be the same as on an execution, the remaining proceeds of such sale shall be deposited in the county treasury.

SEC. 5. If the owner or claimant of any stray sold under the provisions of this act shall within the period of six months after such sale, make satisfactory proof of ownership to the county commissioners of said county in which said stray was sold, the said commissioners shall thereupon order a warrant to be drawn upon the treasurer for the amount paid to him upon the sale of such estray. In case such proof is not made within the said six months, the said money shall be applied to the county school fund of the county.

SEC. 6. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to permit any person or persons to take up or treat any animal as an estray between the first day of April and the first day of November.

SEC. 7. This act shall apply only to the county of Bear Lake.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED, January 12th, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled, "An act concerning Grand and Petit Jurors.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows

SECTION 1. That an Act entitled, "An act concerning grand and petit jurors," approved January 10th, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the 28th section thereof the following: Provided, That any person who is indigent and unable to pay the said per diem, and shall satisfy the court of such indigence and inability, he shall be entitled to a jury trial at the cost of the county without such deposit; And provided further, That if such indigent person shall recover judgment, the said per diem shall be taxed as costs against the losing party, and the clerk of the court shall have exclusive control of the judgment until such costs are paid the county.

APPROVED, January 12, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled, "An act relative to Elections." Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows :

SECTION 1. That section 3 of the act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Idaho, now in force and unrepealed, providing among other provisions for general elections in and for said Territory entitled, "An act relative to elections," be amended to read as follows: Section 3. A general election shall be held in the several election precincts in this Territory, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and thereafter biennially on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November; and all elective territorial, district, county and precinct officers shall hereafter be elected at the times herein specified unless otherwise provided by legislation subsequent hereunto.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED, January 12th, 1877.

AN ACT

To provide for the redemption of the outstanding Warrants drawn upon the Treasurer of Ada county, and to provide for the payment of all the county Expenses of said Ada county.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows:

SECTION 1. The treasurer of Ada county shall upon the payment into the treasury of any moneys collected for county purposes set apart thirty-five (35) per cent. thereof, which shall be named the "Redemption Fund," and which shall be applied and disbursed only to, and for the payment and redemption of all warrants drawn upon the treasurer of Ada county prior to January 15, A. D. 1869, or duplicates which have been issued in lieu thereof, in the order of their registry as provided for by law.

SEC. 2. The remaining sixty-five (65) per cent. of all said moneys collected and paid in for county purposes shall be named the "Current Expense Fund," and shall be disbursed and paid out in the manner hereinafter provided, and none other.

SEC. 3. At the regular meeting of the board of county commissioners of Ada county in January, April, July and October of each year, the board shall audit and allow all claims or accounts that may appear to them to be just, and order payment to be made out of any moneys belonging to the current expense fund of said county, and at the close of each session prior to the adjournment of the board they shall cause two (2) lists to be made out of all the accounts so allowed, specifying in said lists the several names, amount and for what allowed, which lists shall be certified to as correct by the chairman of the board, attested by their clerk under the county seal, one of which lists shall be immediately transmitted to the county treasurer, the other to the auditor of Ada county, and a copy of the same shall be recorded by their clerk in a book to be provided for that purpose. The county

auditor shall, upon receiving the list furnished him by the board file the same in his office, and upon application of any person or persons to whom allowances have been made, draw his warrant upon the county treasurer for the amount so certified to as allowed, and in favor of the person or persons designated in said list, payable out of any moneys belonging to the "Current Expense Fund." The treasurer,

upon presentation of such warrant for payment, shall carefully compare the same with the list, and if correct shall pay it, but if any discrepancy exists he shall note the particulars of such discrepancy upon the back of the warrant, and it is hereby made the duty of the auditor, upon presentment of the warrant so rendered, to issue a duplicate corrected warrant, filing the original in his office, and marking across the face the words "duplicate issued," and sign his name thereto, and on the duplicate warrant shall write in red ink the word "duplicate."

SEC. 4. Immediately upon the receipt of the list of allowances made by the board of county commissioners at their regular session in January of each year, the treasurer shall compute the amount thereof, and add thereto all amounts remaining unpaid and payable out of the current expense fund, and all moneys in excess thereof in said current expense fund, he shall thereupon transfer to the redemption fund, and disburse in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this

act.

SEC. 5. The county treasurer shall upon the payment of any warrant or order write upon the face thereof the word "redeemed," the date of redemption, and shall sign his name thereto.

SEC. 6. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with or relate to moneys levied or collected for school purposes.

SEC. 7. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED, January 11th, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled, "An act regulating the Salaries and Fees of certain Officers of Alturas county."

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of of Idaho, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section three of an Act entitled, "An act regulating the salaries and fees of certain officers in Alturas county," approved January 14th, 1875, be, and the same is hereby, changed and amended to read as follows: Section 3. The per diem allowed the assessor of said Alturas county shall