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gust in each year, determine the rate of the school tax for said district, levy the same by resolution, and shall certify the rate and levy to the assessor of Canyon county. The county commissioners of Canyon county, as a board of equalization, shall have power and it is their duty to equalize the assessment roll for said independent school district at the times and in the manner provided by law for equalizing assessments for State and county taxes. The general school taxes of said district shall be extended on the general roll by the county assessor, in a separate column, at the rate certified by the board of trustees of said district, at the time the said State and county taxes are extended, and the whole taxes shall be carried into a column of aggregates and shall be collected by the county assessor and tax collector of Canyon county, at the times and in the manner provided by law for collecting State and county taxes, and the assessor and tax collector of Canyon county shall have the same powers conferred upon him respecting the collection of said school taxes for said independent school district and sale of delinquent property as are conferred respecting the collection of State and county taxes. All county officers of Canyon county entrusted with the assessment, collection, paying over and custody of said school taxes for said district, and their sureties shall be liable upon their official bonds for the faithful performance of their duties in the assessment, collection and safe keeping of said school taxes. The county assessor and tax collector of Canyon county shall furnish and give a good and sufficient bond in the amount to be fixed by the board of county commissioners of Canyon county, as a protection to said Independent School District of Emmettsville. Said bonds shall run to said Independent School District of Emmettsville and shall have therein provided the same conditions, requirements and penalties as are provided in the bond of said official as such county assessor.

Section 28. It shall be the duty of the assessor and tax collector of Canyon county to pay over to the treasurer of said Independent School District of Emmettsville all moneys collected by him on account of said school taxes as fast as collected, and on or before the third Monday in July of each year to make a final settlement with said treasurer respecting said school taxes and pay over all moneys then due said district, including also said district's proportionate amount or delinquent school taxes, interest and costs on all tax sales and redemptions therefrom. The treasurer of said school district

shall give to the assessor and tax collector of said Canyon county, duplicate receipts for such payments, and the said assessor and tax collector of Canyon county shall give one to the clerk of said district and the other shall be an acquittance to such county assessor and tax collector in settling with the clerk of said independent school district, to the extent of the payment shown.

Section 29. All school taxes levied and assessed under the provisions of this act shall become due and delinquent and shall attach to and become a lien on the real property assessed, at the same time as State and county taxes; all the provisions of the general revenue laws of Idaho governing and in aid of assessing and collecting State and county taxes, are hereby made applicable to the assessment and collection of said school taxes for said independent school district, wherever the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The Independent School District of Emmettsville shall pay to said Canyon county one and one-half per cent. on the amount of school taxes collected, and such payment shall be in full for the services and compensation of the county assessor and tax collector, and all county officers in assessing, collecting, equalizing and paying over said school taxes.

Section 30. That all parts of said act creating the Independent School District of Emmettsville of which this is amendatory, relating to the assessment and collection of school taxes which are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Section 31. No general laws of the State or any amendment that may be made thereto, shall have the effect to alter or amend this special law or any of the provisions thereof, providing for or relating to the Independent School District of Emmettsville, when inconsistent therewith, unless the act, enacting said general laws, clearly expresses such intention by direct reference to the special and local laws of said Independent School District of Emmettsville.

Section 32. Whereas an emergency exists therefor, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage: Provided, however, That the present board of trustees of said independent school district, and the clerk and treasurer thereof, shall have all the powers and shall perform all of the duties devolving upon the board of trustees, clerk and treasurer provided for by this act, until the next election of trustees in the year 1907.

Approved on the 19th day of February, 1907.

SENATE BILL, NO. 19.

AN ACT

TO REPEAL AN ACT ENTITLED “AN ACT RELATING TO FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DOING BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF IDAHO.

Be It Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act relating to foreign corporations doing business in the State of Idaho," approved February 8, 1905, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Whereas an emergency exists therefor, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved on the 21st day of February, 1907.

SENATE BILL NO. 57.

AN ACT

AMENDING SECTION 3843 OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, RELATIVE TO HOLDING TERMS OF THE PROBATE COURTS AND PROBATE BUSINESS THEREIN.

Be It Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That Section 3843 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Idaho be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows:

Section 3843. The terms of the probate courts in the several counties for the transaction of probate business, except that specially authorized by law to be done in vacation, must be held on the fourth Monday in each month. Any de cision, decree or order may be made or rendered by said court at any time without regard to term time. For the transaction of all civil, other than probate business, and all criminal business, these courts are always open.

SEC. 2. An emergency existing therefor this act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved on the 21st day of February, 1907.

HOUSE BILL NO. 48.

AN ACT

TO CREATE, ORGANIZE AND GOVERN THE COUNTY OF TWIN FALLS IN THE STATE OF IDAHO, TO DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES THEREOF; TO CLASSIFY SAID COUNTY AND LOCATE ITS COUNTY SEAT; TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND SERVICE OF OFFICERS, THE MAKING, TRANSCRIBING, TRANSFER AND LEGALIZING OF RECORDS AND THE CREATION OF REVENUE FOR SAID NEW COUNTY; THE TRANSFER OF ACTIONS, PLEADINGS, FILES, RECORDS, PAPERS AND OTHER MATTERS TO AND THE HOLDING OF COURTS IN SAID COUNTY; THE APPORTIONMENT AND ADJUSTMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS AND PROPERTY BETWEEN SAID COUNTY AND THE COUNTY OF CASSIA; THE PLACING OF SAID TWIN FALLS COUNTY IN JUDICIAL, SENATORIAL, AND LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS; FOR THE REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ACTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY WHEREBY THIS ACT SHALL BE IN EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE AND APPROVAL.

Be It Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That there is hereby created and formed out of a portion of the existing county of Cassia in the State of Idaho, a new county to be named and called Twin Falls county, which new county shall be organized and governed as provided by this act and the general laws of the State, relating to the organization and government of counties.

SEC. 2. That all that portion of the State of Idaho contained within the following boundaries, to-wit: Commencing with the intersection of the middle of the channel of the Snake river with the north and south center line of section twentyeight (28), in township ten (10), south, of range twenty-one (21), east of the Boise Meridian, running thence south on said center line of said section twenty-eight (28), to the point of intersection of the north line of the right of way of the Minidoka and Southwestern Railroad Company, which point is one hundred (100) feet distant, at right angles, from the center of the main track of the line of road of said railroad company as the same is now located, running thence in a southwesterly direction along the north line of said railroad right of way to a point where said line intersects the south line of the canal right of way of the Twin Falls Land and Water Company, which point of intersection is one hundred (100)

feet distant, at right angles, from the center line of the main canal of said Twin Falls Land and Water Company, running thence south to the south line of section thirty-six (36), in township ten (10), south, of range twenty (20), east of Boise Meridian, thence west to the southwest corner of said section thirty-six (36), thence south on the section lines to the south line of township eleven (11), thence west to the southeast corner of township eleven (11), south, of range eighteen (18), east of the Boise Meridian, thence south on the range lines to the south line of the State of Idaho, thence due west along the south line of the State of Idaho, to the thirty-eighth Meridian of longitude west from Washington, thence north along said meridian to the intersection of the center of the main channel of the Snake river, thence up the center of the main channel of said Snake river to the point of beginning, be and the same is hereby organized into and declared to be the county of Twin Falls, and, for the purpose of fixing the annual salaries of the county commissioners, said county of Twin Falls is designated as a county of the third class; and the county seat of said last named county is hereby located and declared to be at the village of Twin Falls.

SEC. 3. The Governor of the State of Idaho is hereby authorized and directed to appoint, and shall do so within ten days after the approval of this act, for said county of Twin Falls, three county commissioners, a sheriff, a clerk of the district court who shall be ex-officio auditor and recorder, a county treasurer who shall be ex-officio public administrator, a county assessor who shall be ex-officio tax collector, a coroner, a surveyor, a probate judge, a county superintendent of public instruction, and a prosecuting attorney, all of which officers shall qualify according to law and enter upon the discharge of their official duties within twenty days from the date of their appointment and shall hold their respective offices for the full time and terms for which they would hold had they been elected at the general election of the year 1906 and until their successors are elected and qualified as provided by law. A vacancy existing in any of said offices after the expiration of ten days from the approval of this act shall be filled in the manner provided by the statutes of the State relating to vacancies.

SEC. 4. The county commissioners of said Twin Falls county shall provide suitable offices and places at said village of Twin Falls for the accommodation and safe keeping of the

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