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TIME OF MEETING OF LEGISLATURE.

AN ACT to fix the Time of Meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho.

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

SECTION 1. Hereafter the legislative assembly of this territory shall convene on the second Monday of November, of each year, at the territorial capitol, at the hour of twelve o'clock, (M).

SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor.

APPROVED, February 1st, 1864.

SECURITIES.

AN ACT to Prevent Officers Dealing in certain Securities.

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

SECTION 1. The territorial treasurer and auditor, and the several county, city or town corporation officers in this territory, are hereby expressly prohibited from purchasing or selling, or in any manner receiving to their own use or benefit, or to the use and benefit of any person or persons whatever any territory, county, or city or town warrants, scrip, orders, demands, claim or claims, or other evidence of indebtedness against the territory, or any county, or city or town thereof.

SEC. 2. The territorial treasurer and auditor, and all county, city or town corporation officers, are prohibited from purchasing or being interested, or receiving, or selling, or transferring, or causing to be purchased, received, sold or transferred, either in person or by, or through the agency or means of any person or persons whatever, any interest, claim, demand, or other evidence of indebtedness against the territory, or any county, or city or town corporation thereof, either directly or

indirectly; nor shall any clerk or employee of any such officer, or officers, nor the commissioners employed or to be employed to fund any county, city or town corporation indebtedness, be allowed to make any such purchase, sale, or transfer, or bargain, in any manner for any territory, county, city or town corporation indebtedness be allowed to make any such purchase, sale, or transfer, or bargain, in any manner for any territory, county, city or town corporation, warrants, scrips, demands or other evidence of indebtedness against the territory, or any county, city or town corporation thereof.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the territorial treasurer and the several county, city or town corporation treasurers, of the territory, to refuse to redeem any warrants, against the territory, or any county, city or town corporation thereof, whenever it shall come to their knowledge that such warrants, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness has been purchased, sold, received, or transferred in violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. All public officers herein referred to, shall have the right to sell or transfer any evidence of public indebtedness which may be issued according to law and held by such officers for services by them to the territory, county, city or town corporation, legally and justly due; and this act shall not be deemed to prevent the purchase, sale and transfer of any funded public indebtedness whatever of the territory or of any county, city or town corporation.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of any officer charged with the disbursement of any public moneys, or any evidence of public indebtedness, when he shall be informed by affidavit of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, by any officer whose account is to be settled, audited or paid by him, to withhold any settlement or payment of the same, and to cause said officer to be prosecuted for a felony; and on conviction any officer guilty of any violation of the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the territorial prison for a term of not less than two months; such conviction shall operate as a forfeiture of office, and the party convicted shall forever be disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit in this territory. Any person giving information which may lead to the conviction of any person under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to one half of any fine assessed upon and collected from any such officer.

SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor.

APPROVED January 22d, 1864.

CERTAIN COUNTY TREASURERS.

AN ACT relating to certain County Treasurers, etc. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho as follows:

SECTION 1. The county treasurers of the counties of Nez Perce, Idaho, Boise, and Shoshone, shall, on or before the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, pay over to the territorial treasurer of the territory of Idaho, all moneys held by them as such county treasurers for the use of the territory under and by virtue of any law of Washington territory.

SEC. 2. The territorial treasurer is hereby required to receive any and all moneys thus paid by said county treasurers, or any of them, and receipt for the same to said treasurers, which receipt shall discharge them from all liability.

SEC. 3. For a failure to comply with the provisions of this act, they, and their sureties, shall be liable on their official bonds; and it is hereby made the duty of the several district attorneys in the several counties designated in the first section of this act, to prosecute said county treasurers before any court having jurisdiction of the same.

SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor. APPROVED January 13th, 1864.

MARKS FOR SIGNATURES.

AN ACT to provide for Marks instead of Signatures.

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

SECTION 1. The signature of a party, when required to a written instrument, shall be equally valid if the party cannot write; Provided, The person make his mark, the name of the person making the mark being written near it, and the mark

being witnessed by a person who writes his own name upon such instrument, as a witness.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor. APPROVED January 4th, 1864.

OBSERVANCE OF LORD'S DAY.

AN ACT for the better Observance of the Lord's Day.

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

SECTION 1. No person shall keep open any play house or theatre, race ground, cock pit, or play at any game of chance, for gain, or engage in any noisy amusements, on the first day of the week commonly called Lord's Day.

SEC. 2. No judicial business shall be transacted by any court, except deliberations of a jury, who have received a case on a week day, so called, and who may receive turther instructions from the court, at their request, or deliver their verdict, nor any civil process be served by certifying or attesting officer, nor any record made by any legally appointed or elected officer, upon the first day of the week, commonly called the Lords Day; Provided, That criminal process may issue for apprehension of any person charged with crime, and criminal examination to be proceeded with.

SEC. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of the two preceding sections of this act, shall be punished, on conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than thirty dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 4. Justices of the peace may have jurisdiction of all complaints arising under this act.

SEC. 5. On complaint of any person, before a justice of the peace, the person or persons found guilty of any offence specified in this act, shall be fined as aforesaid, to be paid to the treasurer of the territory, for the benefit of common schools; and the offender shall, in addition to the said fine, and the costs of prosecution, give bonds, with two good and sufficient sureties, in the sum of no less than two hundred dollars, for good behavior during any time within the discretion of the court, and stand committed until the whole order is complied with and the fine be paid.

SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor.

APPROVED January 23, 1864.

PRESERVATION OF FILES OF NEWSPAPERS.

AN ACT to provide for the Preservation of files of the various Newspapers published in Territory of Idaho.

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

SECTION 1. The secretary of the territory of Idaho is hereby authorized and empowered to subscribe for one copy of each of the newspapers at present published in the territory of Idaho, to wit: The Golden Age and the Boise News.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the territory carefully to preserve the files of each one of the said newspapers, and at the expiration of each quarter of three months, to cause the same to be securely and substantially bound the files of the Golden Age and Boise News, and other papers that may be printed within this territory after the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. It shall further be the duty of the secretary of the territory to receive such bound volumes into his custody and deposit them in the archives of the territory, where they shall be kept subject to the inspection of the public; but the secretary of the territory shall, at no time, permit any person or persons to remove said volumes from the office where said archives are preserved.

SEC. 4. The secretary of the territory is hereby authorized to draw upon the general fund for the payment of such expenditures as may be necessarily incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor.

APPROVED January 22d, 1864.

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