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SEC. 89. Each assessor, tax collector, and county treasurer, shall, on the Saturday next preceding the third Monday in December, in each year, attend at the office of the county auditor, for the purpose of making a settlement with him on account of all transactions connected with the revenue of the year ending on that day; and each and every officer, whether assessor, tax collector, treasurer, or auditor, on going out of office, shall deliver to his successor in office, all the public money, books, accounts, papers, and documents appertaining to his office and in his possession, taking a receipt therefor.

SEC. 90. If any tax collector, or county treasurer, shall either directly or indirectly use, loan, or in any manner place out of his possession, otherwise than as on special deposit, any funds belonging to, or collected by, or paid to him for the use and benefit of either the territory or of any county, he shall be guilty of felony; and, on conviction thereof, shall be forthwith removed from office, and shall also be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the territorial prison for any time not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The treasurer, tax collector, assessor, auditor, clerk of the board of equalization, and each member of such board, shall each separately perform the duties required of him in his office, and shall not perform the duties of any two officers under this act, except as provided by law; and any officer who shall at the same time perform the duties of any two offices in any manner connected with the public revenue, except in the manner expressly provided by law, or any collecting or disbursing officer who shall refuse or neglect the performance of the duties required by this act, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison, not more than one year, and by a fine of not less than two hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall forthwith be removed from office.

SEC. 91. The books, papers, and accounts, of each officer, in regard to the assessment or collection of taxes, or to the receiving, auditing, or disbursing moneys collected for the use or benefit of the territory, or of any county, shall, at all times during office hours, when not necessarily in use by the officers, be open for any person whomsoever to inspect, or copy, without any fee or charge.

SEC. 92. All county officers who are required, under this act, to copy any assessment roll, or delinquent list, shall receive in payment of the same, an amount to be allowed by the board of commissioners of the respective counties, not to exceed twenty-five cents per folio of one hundred words.

SEC. 93. The amount allowed and paid out of the county treasury to the collectors of taxes, assessors, and auditors, for

services under this act, shall be apportioned by the auditor in proportion to the amount of territorial tax, and charged to the territory and county rateably, in said proportion, and a verified statement of the amount allowed by the board of commissioners to said officers shall entitle the auditor to credit the county treasurer with such amounts.

SEC. 94. All county warrants, or orders, drawn upon the general fund of the county, are hereby made transferable, and shall be received for any county tax or dues, except poll taxes and one-half of the tax for licenses: provided, that any person holding a county warrant or order issued to him or her, in his or her own name, shall have the right to pay the same to the collector, for any county license issued to him or her, personally, or to the firm of which he or she is a member.

SEC. 95. The act entitled, "An act to provide a uniform system of territorial and county revenue, and for the assessing and collecting of the same," approved February 4th, 1864, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 96. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its approval by the governor.

APPROVED, December 22d, 1864.

CHAPTER V.

AN ACT

RELATIVE TO ELECTIONS.

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

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SECTION 1. That all white male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at any election for delegate to congress, and for territorial, district, county, and precinct officers: provided, they shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have resided in the territory four months, and in county thirty days where they offer to vote, next preceding the day of election. All persons having the qualifications of an elector shall be eligible to any district, county, or precinct office, except otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 2. No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, or insane, nor any person convicted of treason, felony, or bribery in this territory, or in any other territory or state in the Union, unless restored to civil rights, shall be permitted to vote at any election.

SEC. 3. .A general election shall be held in the several election precincts in this territory, on the second Monday of August in each year, at which shall be chosen all such officers as are by law to be elected in such year, unless otherwise provided for.

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of delegate to congress, to a seat as member of the council, or house of representatives, or any territorial office, unless he has been a resident of the territory one year prior to the time of election.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners, at their regular session in July preceding the general election, to appoint three capable and discreet persons, possessing the qualifications of electors, to act as judges of the election at each election precinct, and said commissioners shall also set off and establish election precincts, or districts, when it may be necessary, and the clerk of said board of commissioners shall make out and deliver to the

sheriff of the county, immediately after the appointment of such judges, a notice thereof in writing directed to the judges so appointed; and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff, within twenty days of the receipt of said notices, to serve the same upon each of the said judges of election .If in any precinct any of such judges do not serve, the voters of said precinct may elect a judge or judges to fill the vacancy on the morning of the election, to serve at such election. SEC. 6. The said judges shall choose two persons, having similar qualifications with themselves, to act as clerks of the election. The said judges shall be and continue judges of all elections of civil officers, to be held in their respective precincts until other judges shall be appointed as hereinbefore directed, and the said clerks of election may continue to act as such during the pleasure of the judges of election, and the county commissioners shall from time to time fill all vacancies which may occur in the office of judges of election, at any election precinct within their respective counties.

SEC. 7. The clerks of the several boards of county commissioners, shall at least twenty days before any general election, and at least ten days before any special election, make out and deliver to the sheriff of his county, or to the justice of the peace of any county attached for judicial purposes, three written notices thereof for each election precinct, said notices to be as nearly as circumstances will admit as follows.

"Notice is hereby given, that on the second Monday of August next, at the house of in the county of an election will be held for territorial, county, town, or district officers, (naming the offices to be filled as the case may be) which election will be open at eight o'clock in the morning, and will continue until six o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.

Dated this

[Signed]

day of

A.D. 18- (as the case may be.)

Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners."

SEC. 8. The sheriff aforesaid, to whom such notices shall be delivered as aforesaid, shall cause to be put up, in three of the most public places of each election precinct, the notices referring to such election precinct, at least ten days previous to the time of holding any general election, and at least seven days previous to the time of holding any special election, and in cases where towns and precincts may be set off by law as election precincts, said notices shall be posted as follows: one at the house where the election is authorized to be held, and the others at two of the most public and suitable places in that vicinity or settlement.

SEC. 9. Previous to votes being taken, the judges and clerks of election shall severally take the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may be) that I will perform the duties

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