the board of county commissioners, and shall receive a receipt therefor, and the said clerk shall produce the same at the next session of the board of county commissioners for their action.

SEC. 10. The board of county commissioners shall carefully inspect such returns, and if defective, shall cause the same to be corrected, after which it shall be made a matter of record with the number and amount of each warrant so returned; such warrants shall then be publicly destroyed. The county commissioners shall have the date and manner of their destruction entered in their journal.

SEC. 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2.

This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its passage.

APPROVED January 8, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled, "An act concerning Roads and Highways in Boise county." Approved January 10th, A. D. 1873.

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

SECTION 1. That section 2 of said act be amended to read as follows: Section 2. The board of county commissioners of said county shall at least four weeks prior to the regular meeting of said board in July, biennially cause notice to be published in some newspaper published in said county, if any, and if not in an adjoining county, for at least three weeks, for sealed proposals to be received by the said board for keeping in repair and improving the public roads and highways in said county, for the respective districts, separately; and each proposal or bid so submitted to the board shall be accompanied with a bond, conditioned for the well and faithful performance of such contract as may be made and entered into, by and between the person or persons making the proposal or bid; and the board of county commissioners in a sum not less than double the amount bid and stated in such proposal for the improvement and keeping in repair of the roads and highways within the district proposed; two (2) or more sureties to be on such bonds, who shall justify in the same

form and manner as is required of sureties on the official bonds of county officers.

SEC. 2. That section 3 of said act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. At the time to be stated in the notice, the board of county commissioners shall open and examine the proposals or bids, together with the accompanying bonds, and award to the lowest responsible bidder the contract for each road district separately, for the keeping in repair and improving the public roads and highways in such districts, for the term of two years, from and after the date of the awarding of such contract by the board of county commissioners.

SEC. 3. That the board of county commissioners of said county shall at the regular meeting of said board in January, 1877, let special contracts to the lowest responsible bidders, for the keeping in repair and improving the public roads and highways in said county in the road districts in said county, separately; such contracts to expire upon the day of the awarding of the contracts in July, 1877, by said board; and the clerk of the board of county commissioners of said county shall post notices in at least five of the most public places in said county, not less than ten days before the regular meetings of said board in January, 1877, asking for sealed proposals for so keeping in repair and improving such roads and highways in the respective districts of said county, and all proposals or bids under such notice shall be accompanied with bonds, conditioned as provided by section 1 (one) of this act.

SEC. 4. The board of county commissioners may in its discretion accept or reject any or all of such bids or proposals, when it appears to the satisfaction of the board that such bid or bids are of an exorbitant character, or that the best interests of the county would be subserved by such acceptance or rejection, as the case may be.

SEC. 5. No warrant shall be drawn in favor of any person awarded a contract under the provisions of this act, until such person shall have procured from at least one member of the board of county commissioners and filed with the recorder and ex-officio clerk of the board a certificate to the effect that such contractor has kept in repair and improved the public roads and highways embraced in his contract.

SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED, December 22, 1876.

AN ACT

To provide for the levying and collecting of a Hospital Tax in Shoshone county.

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

SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Shoshone county, are hereby empowered and required to levy, and cause to be collected in the same manner and at the same time as other per capita taxes, and by the same officer provided by law for the collection of per capita taxes, a special per capita tax of two dollars for each and every taxable inhabitant in said county. Said tax, when collected, to be appropriated to the care and maintainance of the indigent sick, idiotic and insane persons in said councy.

SEC. 2. An act entitled, "An act to provide for the levying and collecting of a hospital tax in Shoshone county," approved January 4, A. D. 1871, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. The county of Shoshone is hereby exempted from the opperations of the provisions of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the annual transfer of moneys in the hospital funds of Alturas and Shoshone counties to other funds of their respective counties," approved January 8th, A. D. 1873. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED, December 16th, 1876.

AN ACT

To repeal all previous Acts fixing the Compensation of Probate Judge of Nez Perce County, and to provide the Compensation which he shall receive.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That the probate judge of Nez Perce county shall retain all fees he may receive as probate judge and exofficio clerk of the probate court, and shall receive, in addition thereto, to be paid quarterly, such sum, not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, as the board of county commissioners

of said county may, in their discretion, allow; and no compensation or fees shall be allowed except as in this act provided.

SEO. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, so far as they relate to Nez Perce county, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED January 8th, 1877.

AN ACT

Fixing the Salaries of certain Officers in Ada County. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows:

SECTION 1. The sheriff of Ada county shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly out of the county treasury, for all services to be by him rendered or performed for said county. He shall also be allowed a jailer, for whose services he shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day for each day a prisoner or prisoners is confined in the county jail. He shall also be allowed the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day for each prisoner confined in the county jail as remuneration for board, clothing, and medical attendance of such prisoners; and he shall receive no other compensation for services rendered Ada county.

SEO. 2. The county auditor shall receive the sum of eight hundred dollars, payable quarterly out of the county treasury, for all services to be by him rendered to and for said Ada county, as auditor and clerk of the board of county commissioners: Provided, That for any services rendered the Territory he shall receive such fees as may be allowed by law.

SEC. 3. The county treasurer of said county shall receive the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, payable out of the county treasury quarterly, for all services to be rendered or performed by him for said county: Provided, That for any services rendered the Territory he shall receive such fees as may be allowed by law.

SEC. 4. The assessor of Ada county shall be ex-officio tax collector of Ada county, and is hereby authorized and empowered to receive and collect all per capita or poll taxes, as

provided by law, and he shall have the same power to enforce the payment of taxes that is provided by law for the collection of taxes by tax collectors of this Territory. The assessor shall

be allowed as compensation for his services as assessor and tax collector fifteen per centum of all poll taxes for the county, and five per centum of all other taxes by him collected for the county, and of all taxes collected for the Territory such compensation as is allowed by law.

SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPOVED January 12, 1877.

AN ACT

To change the time of the meeting of the Legislative Assembly. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows:

SECTION 1. The legislative assembly of this Territory shall hereafter meet biennially, at the capital, on the second Monday in January, at twelve o'clock, M.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED January 11, 1877.

AN ACT

To authorize the construction of a Wagon Road from Squaw Creek to Miner's Bridge, in Boise County.

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

SECTION 1. All that certain part of Boise county, in this Territory, north and west of Miner's bridge, across the Payette river, in said county, is hereby exempted from the provisions and requirements of an act entitled, "An act concerning roads and highways in Boise county," approved January 10th, 1873,