SEC. 3. Section 1242 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 1242. Any person may take up and safely keep any such stallion, mule, ridgling or jackass found running at large or in his enclosures; and, when so found, must give the owner thereof five days' notice that such animal is in his possession; and if, at the expiration of the aforesaid time, the owner neglects to remove such animal and pay all reasonable charges for keeping the same, then the taker-up must notify the sheriff or any constable, whose duty it is to sell such animal at public auction, on the premises where taken up, after first giving five days' notice of such sale; and the proceeds of such sale must be applied, first, to the officer making such sale, which are the same as on execution; second, to the payment of the charges of the taker-up of such animal; and the remainder, if there be any, must be paid to the owner of such animal.

SEC. 4. Section 1243 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 1243. If the owner or claimant of any stallion, ridgling, unaltered male mule or jackass be unknown, the taker-up must give ten days' notice, with the description of the animal or animals, its marks or brands, by posting up at least three written or printed notices in at least three conspicuous places in the county, calling upon the owner to claim the property; and if, at the expiration of the ten days, the owner neglects to remove such animal or animals and pay all costs, then the taker-up shall call on the sheriff or any constable of the county to sell such animal or animals; and after deducting the fees of the officer making such sale and the reasonable charges of the taker-up, the balance if any there be, shall be paid into the county treasury, to be applied to the county school fund.

SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. An emergency existing therefor this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved the 2nd day of February, 1899.

H. B. NO. 28.

AN ACT

RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, AND IN ADDITION TO TITLE THREE, PART FOUR, OF THE REVISED STATUTES.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION I. No spirituous, malt, vinous or intoxicating liquor shall be sold at retail or given away, nor shall any saloon or bar room, or place where such liquor is sold or given away, be open on any general election day from the hour of six o'clock a. m. to the hour of eight o'clock p. m. within this State, or within the limits of any incorporated city or town thereof.

Whoever violates, or in any manner aids another in violating the provisions of this section, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than twenty-five dollars, and the revocation of the license of any saloon or bar room wherein such liquor is sold or given

away.

No person shall introduce in any way into any polling place on election day, until after the vote is canvassed and counted, any spirituous, malt, vinous or intoxicating liquor, and any election officer drinking any such liquor in such place, or being intoxicated therein during such election or counting, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months, or be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, or both.

SEC. 2. No person shall falsely make, or make oath to, or fraudulently deface, or fraudulently destroy any certificate of nomination, or any part thereof, or file, or receive for filing, any certificate of nomination, or letter of withdrawal, knowing the same, or any part thereof, to be falsely made, or suppress any certificate of nomination which has been duly filed, or any part thereof, or who shall wilfully delay the delivery of any ballots, or forge or falsely make the official indorsement on the ballot, or who shall wilfully destroy any ballot. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than five years.

SEC. 3. No person shall, during the election, remove or destroy any of the supplies or conveniences placed in the booths or compartments for the purpose of enabling the voter to prepare his ballot, or prior to, or on the day of, election, wilfully deface or destroy any list of candidates posted in accordance with the provisions of this Act. No person shall, during an election, tear down or deface the cards printed for the instruction of voters. Every person wilfully violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SEC. 4. No officer of election shall do any electionecring on election day. No person shall do any electioneering on election day within any polling place, or any building in which an election is being held, or within one hundred feet thereof, nor obstruct the doors or entries thereto, or prevent free ingress to, and egress from, said building. Any election officer, sheriff, constable or other peace officer is hereby authorized, and it is hereby made the duty of any such officer, to arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this section, and such offender shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or less than twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 5. No person shall attempt to influence the vote of any elector by means of a promise or a favor, or by means of violence or threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing custom or dealing in business or trade, or enforcing the payment of a debt, or discharging from employment, or bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, or any other threat of injury to be inflicted by him, or by any other means.

SEC. 6. No person shall in any way offer a bribe to an elector to influence his vote.

SEC. 7. Any registry agent, or other person, who in any manner shall wilfully or corruptly permit any person not entitled to registration or to a certificate of registration, to be registered or have a certificate of registration, or who delays or fails to deliver the certified copies of the official register and the check list to the judges of election as required by law, or who permits any person to register after the date on which the registration books close, or who shall otherwise wilfully or corruptly violate any of the provisions of the law governing elections, the penalty for which is not herein specially prescribed, shall be punished for each and every offense by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 8. Any person who shall wilfully cause, or endeavor to cause, his name to be registered in any other election district than that in which he resides, or will reside prior to the day of the next ensuing election, except as herein otherwise provided, and any person who shall cause, or endeavor to cause, his name to be registered, knowing that he is not a qualified elector, and will not be a qualified elector on or before the day of the next ensuing election, in the election district in which he causes or endeavors to cause such registry to be made, and any person who shall induce, aid abet any one in the commission of either of the acts in this section enumerated and described, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be confined in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than six months, or both.

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SEC. 9. Any person or officer of election who shall put, or permit to be put, into a voting booth any placard, notice or device, except the sample ballots and cards of instruction as by law provided, intended or likely to call the attention of the voter to any candidate, or urge to the voter to vote for any particular candidate, or shall put, or allow anything to be put, into such booths for the use or comfort of the voter whereby the claims of any candidate are urged upon the voter, either directly or indirectly, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed three months, or fined not to exceed five hundred dollars, or both. SEC. IO. Whereas an emergency exists therefor this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved the 2nd day of February, 1899.

H. B. NO. 29.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUE AND SALE OF MUNICIPAL COUPON BONDS, BY INCORPORATED CITIES AND TOWNS; FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE FUNDS DERIVED FROM THE SALE THEREOF; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THEREON.

'Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That every city or town incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Idaho, or of the State of Idaho, shall have power and authority to issue municipal coupon bonds, not to exceed at any time in the aggregate fifteen per cent of the real estate value of said city or town according to the assessment of the preceding year, for any or all of the following purposes:

FIRST. To provide for the construction and maintenance of necessary water works and supplying the same with water; and to provide lights for streets, public buildings and grounds.

SECOND. To provide for the laying, constructing, equipment and maintenance of sewers and drains.

THIRD. To provide for the grading, paving, construction and laying out of streets and alleys.

FOURTH. To provide for the funding, refunding, purchase and redemption of the outstanding indebtedness of such city or town.

FIFTH. To provide for the establishment and maintenance of hospitals, pest houses, and cemeteries, either within or without the corporate limits of such city or town.

SIXTH. To provide for the purchase, improvement, equipment and maintenance of lands for the use of public parks, either within or without the corporate limits of such city or town.

SEVENTH. To provide for the purchase, erection, construction, and furnishing of public buildings and building sites for the use of such city or

town.

EIGHTH. Το provide for the establishment, equipment and maintenance of a fire department, and for the purchase of suitable and necessary apparatus and buildings and building sites for the use thereof and for all other necessary public improvements.

SEC. 2. Whenever the common council of such city or the trustees of such town or other legislative body of any such city or town, shall deem it advisable to issue the coupon bonds of such city or town for any of the purposes aforesaid, the mayor and common council of such city or the trustees of such town shall provide therefor by ordinance, which shall specify the purpose of issuing such proposed bonds; if it is to create a new debt, the object thereof must be stated, or, if it is to fund or refund any existing indebtedness, it must be described; and, when it consists of warrants or other securities, they must be described by giving their number, date and amount and the fund out of which the same, according to the terms thereof, are payable; and the ordinance shall declare the purpose and the total amount for which such bonds shall be issued and designate the provisions to be made to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of the issuance of the same, and shall also provide for the holding of an election of the qualified electors who are taxpayers of such city or town of which thirty days' notice, to be provided for in such ordinance, shall be given in a newspaper of such city or town designated in said ordinance. Such election shall be conducted as other city elections. The voting at such election must be by ballot, and the ballots used shall be substantially as follows: "In favor of issuing bonds to the amount of dollars for the purpose stated in ordinance No. ...." and "Against issuing bonds to the amount of ...... dollars for the purpose stated in ordinance No.....”

If at such election held as provided for in this Act, two-thirds of the qualified electors who are taxpayers in such city or town, voting at such election, assent to the issuing of such bonds and the incurring of the indebtedness thereby created for the purpose aforesaid, such bonds for said purpose shall be issued in the manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. Said bonds shall be known as municipal coupon bonds of (name of city or town, county and State), and shall be issued as near as practicable in denominations of one thousand dollars each, but bonds of the denomination of five hundred or one hundred dollars may be issued when necessary, and each bond to be made payable within twenty years from the date of its issuance. Said bonds must bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, to be paid on the first day of January and first day of July in each year at the office of the city or town treasurer, or at such banking house or trust company in the City of New York, as may be designated by the mayor and common council of the city or trustees of the

town, issuing such bonds, at the option of the holder thereof. Such bonds shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the city or town at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of the issuance, and each bond must be redeemed in the order it is numbered.

SEC. 4. The bonds mentioned in the preceding section must have attached to each bond, when negotiated, semi-annual interest coupons covering the interest expressed in the bond from the date of issue until paid. Such bonds must be signed by the mayor or chairman of the board of trustees and attested by the city or town clerk, and bear the city or town seal, and be countersigned by the city or town treasurer, and the coupons attached to such bonds must be signed by the city or town treasurer. Each coupon must have annexed to the same a number corresponding with the number of the bond, and each bond must state upon its face the amount for which the same is issued, the date of issue, and to be made payable to or bearer, and must also recite that it is issued in conformity with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. The said mayor and common council or board of trustees must give notice by publication in some newspaper published in the city or town-if in a weekly paper in four issues thereof, -if in any other paper for four weeks, -of its intention to issue and negotiate such bonds, and invite bidders therefor, and, after ascertaining the best terms upon, and the lowest interest at, which such bonds can be negotiated, must secure the proper engraving or printing thereof, and thereafter must have them consecutively numbered and otherwise properly prepared and executed; and, when so executed, they must each be by the city or town clerk registered in a public record book to be kept for that purpose, and therein must be stated the number, date, amount of each bond, time and place of payment, rate of interest, number of coupons attached, and any other proper description thereof for future identification.

Then said mayor and common council or trustees must from time to time, in such amounts as they may deem best, deliver said bonds to the city or town treasurer and take and file his receipt therefor, and charge him with all bonds so delivered; and any duties required of said mayor and common council or trustees, by virtue of this Act, may be performed at any general, special or called meeting thereof. The city or town treasurer must, under the general supervision of said mayor and common council or trustees, sell said bonds for cash, and in no case must said bonds be sold for less than their face, or par value, and the accrued interest at time of disposal.

All proceeds derived from sale of said bonds must be applied exclusively to the purpose for which said bonds are issued. Said city or town treasurer must keep a record of all bonds disposed of, showing their number, rate of interest, date and amount of sale, and when and where payable, which record he must keep open for the inspection of the public at all reasonable office hours; and he must make such detailed statements to, and as often as required by, said mayor and common council or trustees of all of his transactions under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 6. The mayor and common council or trustees must, in accordance with the provisions designated to be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due and to create and constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds as they respectively become due, cause to be levied annually upon all the taxable property within said city or town, in addition to the auth