Contracts extended, when. CHAPTER XXXIII. [H. B. No. 132.] EXTENDING TIME OF PAYMENT ON CONTRACTS FOR AN ACT extending the time of payment on contracts for the sale of Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. The time for making payments of principal on contracts for the sale of school lands for agricultural or grazing purposes, made under the provisions of the acts of the legislature approved March 28, 1890, and March 15, 1893, respectively, is hereby extended to the first day of December, 1905, in all cases where one-fifth or more of the purchase price has been paid prior to the taking effect of this act, and thereafter all accrued interest must be paid annually on the first day of December of each year until full payment of the purchase price is made. The extension of the time for the payment of any part of the purchase price is hereby made on all such contracts on which only one-tenth of the purchase price has been paid prior to the taking effect of this act: Provided, That in order to have the benefit of this act, the holder of any such contract shall pay the second one-tenth of the purchase price, according to the terms of such contract, together with all interest that may be due on such contract at the taking effect of this act, as follows: One-fourth of such second one-tenth of the purchase price and accrued interest, on or before December 1, 1895, and one-fourth of said second one-tenth of the purchase price and accrued interest, on or before the first day of December of each year thereafter, until the whole second one-tenth is paid: Provided further, That all such contracts shall continue to draw interest at the rate therein specified until the principal sum provided in such contract be fully paid, and that holders thereof, in order to have the benefit of this act, shall pay the accruing interest thereon annually: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the holder of any contract from paying the full amount due at any time. feited. of forfeitures. SEC. 2. That any person or persons or their assigns, Rights forhaving failed to pay interest for three consecutive years after such interest becomes due, shall forfeit all rights vested in them by the terms of the contract for said land. SEC. 3. That all school land contracts heretofore de- Reinstatement clared forfeited by the state school land commission or state board of land commissioners, shall be reinstated by the commissioner of public lands: Provided, That principal and interest be paid at the times and in the manner in this act provided for the payment of delinquent principal and interest on contracts which have not been so declared forfeited: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to contracts for school lands which have been resold. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall, therefore, be in effect from and after its passage and approval by the gov ernor. Passed the house February 8, 1895. CHAPTER XXXIV. [S. B. No. 165.] RELATING TO NORMAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS. AN ACT relating to state normal schools, and making appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. There is hereby created a fund to be known Fund created. as the "state normal school fund," into which fund shall be paid all proceeds from the sales of lands granted to the Cheney appropriation. Whatcom appropriation. Board of Fund anticipated, how. state of Washington by the United States for state normal schools, and that no appropriation for the erection of state normal school buildings shall be made from any other fund, except the fund derived from the sale of lands granted by the United States to the State of Washington for state normal schools. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of erecting and equipping a state normal school building for the state normal school at Cheney, there is hereby appropriated from said "state normal school fund" the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), to be expended under the directions of the board of trustees of the Cheney normal school. SEC. 3. That for the purpose of erecting a state normal school building for the Washington state normal school at New Whatcom, there is hereby appropriated from said state normal school fund the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000), to be expended under the direction of the board of trustees of the Washington state normal school located at New Whatcom. That said building shall be constructed by a board of trustees consisting of three residents of Whatcom county, Washington, to be appointed by the governor, and who shall serve without compensation, said trustees to be under bonds of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) each, to be approved by the attorney general, and all accounts for indebtedness created therefor shall be audited by the state auditor. SEC. 4. For the purpose of anticipating the fund out of which the foregoing appropriation is provided to be paid, the governor, state auditor and state treasurer are hereby authorized to make a loan of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) upon the bonds of the state, to be signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state under the seal of the state and countersigned and registered by the state auditor. Said bonds shall be of denominations of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) each and shall on their face be made payable at any time after five years and within fifteen years from their date at the option of the state at the office of the state treasurer, shall bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum and shall be payable out of the fund provided for in section one of this act, and not otherwise, and no primary or secondary application for the payment of said bonds, except out of the aforesaid fund is intended to be created by this act. Said bonds shall not be sold for less than par. issued in SEC. 5. Until the sale of said bonds, the work of erecting Warrants said normal school buildings shall proceed and be paid for cidentally. by warrants drawn upon the fund created by this act which shall draw interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable annually, and whenever there shall not be sufficient moneys in said fund to pay all outstanding warrants, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to reserve a sufficient amount to pay the interest on all outstanding warrants before paying the principal of any senior outstanding warrants. Whenever there shall not be sufficient moneys in Rate of insaid fund to pay the interest on all outstanding warrants warrants. drawn against it, the interest shall be paid on warrants in the order in which they are drawn, and all unpaid interest on junior warrants shall draw interest at the rate of seven per cent. annually. Interest on warrants drawn under the provisions of this act shall be computed from the first day of the month succeeding the date of the warrant. SEC. 6. Whenever the money realized from said bonds. shall have been covered into the state treasury, all outstanding warrants drawn upon the said fund shall then be taken up and paid, and thereafter the warrants drawn on said fund for the further prosecution of the work of erecting said normal school buildings shall be paid when the same shall be presented. Passed the senate February 26, 1895. Approved March 7, 1895. terest on Deficiencies unlawful. Individual liability. Liability on bond. Exceptions. CHAPTER XXXV. [S. B. No. 298.] TO PREVENT THE CREATION OF DEFICIENCIES IN AN ACT relating to deficiencies in public institutions and depart- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any of the state officers or trustees, managers, directors, superintendents or boards of commissioners of any of the public institutions of the State of Washington, or for the officers of any of the departments of the State of Washington, to create a deficiency, incur liability, or to expend a greater sum of money than is appropriated by the legislature for the use of said public institution or department. SEC. 2. Any officer, trustee, manager, director, superintendent or commissioner, enumerated in section one of this act, who shall violate the provisions of this act by creating a deficiency, incurring a liability, or expending a greater sum than is appropriated by the legislature for any public institution or department of this state in any one year, shall be individually liable for the same, and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 3. Any person, co-partnership or corporation with whom a liability is attempted to be incurred or debt contracted by such officers, trustees, managers, directors, superintendents or commissioners in violation of the provisions of this act shall have a cause of action against such officers, trustees, managers, directors, superintendents or commissioners so violating the provisions of this act, and against the sureties on their official bonds for the full amount of such liability incurred or debt contracted. SEC. 4. In case of an emergency requiring an expenditure of a greater sum than the amount appropriated by the legislature for the insane asylum, reform school, sol |