orized taxes, a sufficient sum to pay said interest, and must in time to provide means for the payment of said bonds as they become due, cause to be levied a sufficient additional sum to pay said bonds at maturity; and all such taxes must be levied, assessed and collected as other city or town taxes, until the bonds so issued are fully paid, including the interest thereon; the faith, credit and all taxable property within said city or town, are, and must continue, pledged, and the proper officers of the city or town must continue to assess and collect on all the taxable property within the limits thereof, the necessary taxes to pay said bonds and interest thereon as the same becomes due.

Should the tax for the payment of interest on any bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, at any time, not be levied or collected in time to meet such payment, the interest must be paid out of any moneys in the city or town general or expense fund, and the money so used for such payment of interest must be repaid to the fund from which so taken out of the first moneys collected from taxes.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the city or town treasurer to use the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds in payment of the indebtedness described in said ordinance only. And it shall be the duty of the city or town officials to levy, collect and apply the tax herein provided for to the payment of interest and redemption of the principal of the bonds in the manner specified, and for no other purpose, and any failure to comply with the provisions of this Act, by the proper officers, or any neglect or refusal to levy and collect any such tax as aforesaid, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any city or town official guilty of the same shall, upon conviction, be fined in an amount equal to the sum that should have been levied; or for any misappropriation he shall be fined in an amount equal to the sum misappropriated, and imprisoned in the city or town jail not exceeding six months.

SEC. 8. That bonds may be issued under the fourth subdivision of section one of this Act for the purpose of funding, refunding, purchase or redemption of the out-standing indebtedness of any such city or town, when the same can be done to the profit and benefit of such city or town and without incurring any additional liability, without the submission of the question of the issuance of such bonds to the electors of the city

or town.

SEC. 9. That every city whose mayor and common council, and every town whose trustees, have authorized the issue of bonds for any one or more of the purposes specified in this Act, be and the same are hereby authorized to make provision for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same; and in any case where such provision has not been designated, or an insufficient provision has been designated, in the resolution of the mayor and common council of such city or of the trustees of such town which is provided for in section two of this Act, such sufficient provision may and the same is hereby authorized to be made by such mayor and common council or such trustees by an ordinance duly passed, and such provision by such ordinance shall be deemed and held to be a full and complete compliance with all the provisions of this Act, and with all other laws which require such provision to be made or designated; and in case any such bonds authorized as aforesaid have by any city or town been sold for value and the purchase price thereof at not less than par has been paid to and received by such city or town the common council or trustees thereof may by ordinance duly passed ordain and provide that upon the surrender of such bonds by the holder or holders thereof new bonds in the place thereof shall be issued and delivered to such holder or holders, Provided, That such new bonds shall not be for any greater sum or rate of interest than the bonds so surrendered, and the bonds so surrendered shall there. upon be immediately cancelled, and the new bonds thus issued in place thereof shall be the valid and binding obligations of the city or town so issuing the same.

SEC. 10. All acts and parts of acts, either special or general, in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 11. An emergency existing, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 2nd, 1899.

H. B. NO. 30.

AN ACT

PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS; FOR THE ISSUANCE OF ELECTION PROCLAMATIONS; PROVIDING WHAT OFFICERS SHALL BE ELECTED AT SUCH ELECTIONS; THE MANNER OF MAKING NOMINATIONS, FILING THE SAME AND FILLING VACANCIES THEREIN; FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTION PRECINCTS; FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF REGISTRARS AND THE MANNER OF PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF REGISTRAR; PROVIDING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS; THE MANNER OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS; THE CANVASSING OF THE VOTES AND DECLARATION OF THE RESULTS AND ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES; PROVIDING FOR ELECTIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF COUNTY SEATS AND THE ALTERATION OF COUNTY BOUNDARIES; FOR THE CONTESTING OF ELECTIONS AND MANNER OF CONDUCTING SUCH CONTEST; FOR THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTION LAWS; AND FOR THE PRINTING OF BALLOTS AND SUPPLYING OF ELECTION SUPPLIES AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.

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

SECTION 1. That the provisions hereinafter enacted shall regulate and govern all elections hereafter holden in the State of Idaho for election of all officers provided for by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Idaho, at either general or special elections, except school district elections.

SEC. 2. That every male person over the age of twenty-one years, possessing the qualifications following, shall be entitled to vote at all elections. He shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have resided in this State six months immediately preceding the election at which he offers to vote, and in the county thirty days: Provided, That no person shall be permitted to vote at any county seat election who has not resided in the county six months and in the precinct ninety days where he offers to vote; nor shall any person be permitted to vote at any election for the division of a county, or striking off from any county any part thereof, who has not the qualifications provided for in section 3, article XVIII, of the Constitution; nor shall any person be denied the right to vote at any school district election, nor to hold any school district office on account of sex.

SEC. 3. No person is permitted to vote who is under guardianship, idiotic or insane, or who has at any place been convicted of treason, felony, embezzlement of public funds, bartering or selling, or offering to barter or sell, his vote, or purchasing, or offering to purchase, the vote of another, or other infamous crime, and who has not been restored to the right of citizenship, or who at the time of such election is confined in prison on conviction of a criminal offense.

SEC. 4. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of this State or of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, nor while a student of any institution of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at the public expense.

SEC. 5. Every qualified elector shall be eligible to hold any office of this State for which he is an elector, except as otherwise provided by the Constitution.

Electors are privileged from arrest except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace, during their attendance on election.

The Time for Holding Elections for State, District and County Officers, Members of Congress and Presidential Electors.

SEC. 6. A general election shall be held in the several precincts in this State on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday or November, A. D. 1892, and on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November every alternate year thereafter.

SEC. 7. At the general election, A. D. 1894, and every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected in every county of the State, a clerk of the district court, who is ex-officio auditor and recorder, and at the general election, A. D. 1892, and every alternate year thereafter, there shall be elected in every county of the State, the following officers, to-wit: Three county commissioners, a sheriff, county treasurer, who is ex-officio public administrator; probate judge, who is ex-officio county superintendent of public instruction, and county assessor, who is ex-offico tax collector; one coroner and one surveyor.

SEC. 8. At the general election, A. D. 1892, and every alternate year thereafter, there shall be elected the following State officers, to-wit: One Governor, one Lieutenant-Governor, one Secretary of State, one State Treasurer, one State Auditor, one Superintendent of Public Instruction, one Attorney-General, and in each representative and senatorial district of the State such Representatives and Senators as they may severally be entitled to. Also on the first Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, A. D. 1892, and every alternate year thereafter, there shall be elected the number of Representatives in Congress to which the State may be entitled.

SEC. 9. At the general election, A. D. 1892, and every alternate year thereafter, there shall be elected: One Judge of the Supreme Court, at the general election, A. D. 1894, and every fouth year thereafter there shall be elected in each Judicial District of the State, one district judge and one district attorney.

SEC. 10. At the general election, A. D. 1892, and every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected such a number of electors of President and Vice-President of the United States as the State may be entitled to in the electoral college.

SEC. 11. At the general election, A. D. 1892, and every alternate year thereafter, there shall be elected in each justice's precinct, except wards in incorporated cities, two justices of the peace and one constable, and all other officers, not herein specified, that now are, or hereafter may be created shall, unless otherwise provided, be elected on the day of the general election.

Election Proclamations.

SEC. 12. At least forty days before each general election, and whenever he orders a special election, the Governor must issue an election proclamation under his hand and the great seal of the State of Idaho, and transmit copies thereof to the board of commissioners of the counties in which such elections are to be held.

SEC. 13. Such proclamation must contain a statement of the time of election and the offices to be filled.

SEC. 14. The clerk of the several boards of county commissioners must at least twenty days before any general election make out and transmit by registered mail to the registrar of each election precinct, three notices to be as nearly as circumstances will admit as follows: Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday following the first Monday of November next at the....(here designate polling place) in the county of. an election will be held for Members of Congress, State, county, district and precinct officers (naming the candidates and offices to be filled as the case may be) which election shall be open at eight o'clock in the morning and will continue until seven o'clock in the evening of the same day. Dated this ...day of.... A. D. 18.... (as the case may be.)

Signed.......

Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners. SEC. 15. The registrar aforesaid to whom such notices are transmitted, as aforesaid must cause to be posted up in three of the most public places of each election precinct the notices referring to such election precinct at least fifteen days previous to the time of holding any general election; said notices shall be posted as follows: One at the house or place where the election is authorized to be held, and the others at two of the most public and suitable places in the precinct.

Nominations of Officers.

SEC. 16. Any convention or primary meeting, as hereafter defined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public office, and also electors to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public office to be filled by election within the State. A convention or primary meeting, within the meaning of this Act, is an organized assemblage of electors or delegates representing a political party or principle.

SEC. 17. All nominations made by such convention or primary meeting shall be certified as follows:

The certificate of nomination, which shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence, his business, and the office for which he is named, and shall designate in not more than five words, the party or principle which such convention or primary meeting represents, and it shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention or primary meeting, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence and their business. Such certificates, made out as herein required, shall be delivered by the secretary or president of such convention or primary meeting to the Secretary of State or to the county auditor, as hereinafter required.

SEC. 18. Certificates of nominations of candidates for offices to be filled by the electors of the entire State, or of any division or district greater than a county, shall be filed with the Secretary of State. Cer tificates of nomination for county and precinct officers shall be filed with the auditor of the respective counties wherein the officers are to be elected. Certificates of nomination for municipal offices shall be filed with the clerks of the respective municipal corporations wherein the officers are to be elected.

SEC. 19. Candidates for public office may be nominated, otherwise than by convention or primary meeting, in the following manner:

A certificate of nomination, containing the name of a candidate for the office to be filled, with such information as is required to be given in certificates provided for in section twenty-six of this Act, shall be signed by electors residing within the district or political division in and for which the officer or officers are to be elected, in the following numbers: The number of signatures, when the nomination is for a State office, shall not be less than three hundred; for a district office, or subdivision of the State including two or more counties, the number of signatures shall not be less than one hundred and fifty; for a county office, not less than fifty; and for a township, precinct or ward office, not less than ten: Provided, That the said signatures need not all be appended to one paper. Each elector signing a certificate shall add to his signature his place of residence and his business. Such certificates may be filed as provided for in section twenty-seven of this Act, in the same manner and with the same effect as a certificate of nomination made by a party convention or primary meeting: Provided, That the registrar of each precinct or ward, as the case may be, shall certify to the Secretary of State, the county auditor, or the clerk of the municipality, as the case may be, that all the signers of such certificates are qualified electors and registered according to law for the ensuing election.

SEC. 20. No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one candidate for each office to be filled. No person shall join in nominating more than one person for each office to be filled, and no person shall accept a nomination to more than one office.

SEC. 21. The Secretary of State and the auditors of the several counties and clerks of the several municipal corporations shall cause to be preserved, in their respective offices, for one year, all certificates of nominations filed in their respective offices under the provisions of this Act. All such certificates shall be open to public inspection under the proper regulations to be made by the officers with whom the same are filed.

SEC. 22. Certificates of nomination to be filed with the Secretary of of State shall be filed not more than sixty days and not less than thirtyfive days before the day fixed by law for the election of the persons in nomination. Certificates of nomination herein directed to be filed with the county auditor shall be filed not more than sixty days and not less than twenty-five days before election. Certificates for the nomination of candidates for the municipal offices shall be filed with the clerks of the respective municipal corporations not more than thirty days and not less than ten days previous to the day of election: Provided, That the time specified for filing certificates of nominations, as provided in this section, shall not be held to apply to nominations for special elections to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or otherwise.

SEC. 23. Not less than thirty days before an election to fill any public office, the Secretary of State shall certify to the county auditor of