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provided, however, that no officer shall charge against said Pima County, nor shall said County of Pima allow or pay any fee, percentage or per diem other than as provided for by this Act.

SEC. 15. The Sheriff, Assessor, Recorder, Clerk of the District Court, Probate Judge and Clerk of the Probate Court of said Pima County, shall each keep a fee book in which he shall enter an exact and full account of all fees, mileage, commissions or compensations and percentages of whatever kind or nature by him or his deputies, earned and collected with the date, the name of the payer and the nature of the service in each case. Immediately after the close of his official term he shall deposit said book in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said County of Pima. On the first Monday in January, April, July and September, respectively, in every year, he shall file in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said county a sworn statement in writing of the amount of fees, commissions, compensations and percentage earned and collected by him or his deputies for official services during the three calendar months ending on the last day of the previous month. If any person occupying any of said offices shall hold more than one office he shall keep a separate fee book for each office and shall make separate statements for each. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said county is hereby required to make an abstract of the amount of fees, compensation and percentage returned to him as having been earned and collected by the respective officers named in this Section, and shall forward the same, duly sworn and certified, to the Secretary of the Territory in the month of January in each year, to be by him filed, kept and preserved in his office for the inspection of the public, Territorial Officers and the Legislative Assembly as other public records and documents. Every county officer mentioned in this Section who shall willfully fail or neglect to file such statements as required by this Section shall be removed from his office by the Board of Supervisors of said County of Pima and be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any Court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 16. The Sheriff, Assessor, Recorder, Clerk of the District Court, Probate Judge and Clerk of the Probate Court, of said Pima County, shall on the first Monday of each month in each year pay into the County Treasury of said county, ex

cept as in this Act otherwise provided, all money collected and received by them severally for fees, commissions, compensation or percentage of their several offices during the month next preceding, and take the receipt of the County Treasurer in duplicate therefore, and forthwith file such duplicate receipt with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Said duplicate receipts shall be kept and preserved by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors upon file in his office. Every officer who shall willfully fail or neglect to pay over any money collected or received by him as required by the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years.

SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of every officer mentioned in the last two preceding Sections of this Act to collect in advance all fees, commissions, compensation and percentage allowed by law.

SEC. 18. The Board of Supervisors of said Pima County shall prescribe the number and compensation of all employees in and about the County Jail of said county, and shall allow and pay said employees in the same manner as other charges against the county are allowed and paid.

SEC. 19. All fees paid to the County Treasurer of Pima County by virtue of this Act shall be by him placed in a fund to be known as the "General Salary Fund,” and all warrants drawn by the Board of Supervisors for salaries as provided in this Act shall be drawn on said Salary Fund, and if · at any time the amount of money in said fund is insufficient to pay the warrants so drawn, upon demand the Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to transfer from the General Fund of the county to said Salary Fund so much money as may be necessary to pay said warrants, and if at any time the amount of money in said Salary Fund is more than sufficient to pay the warrants so drawn upon said fund, the Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to transfer such amounts as they may deem proper from said Salary Fund into the General Fund of the County.

SEC. 20. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after April 1, 1885, except Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which shall take effect from and after its passage.

SEC. 21. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 12, 1885.

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Supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act to aid in the construction of a certain railroad between the City of Phoenix and the Southern Pacific Railroad," approved March 4, 1885.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:

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SECTION 1. If the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County fail to comply with the provisions of the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona entitled "An Act to aid in the construction of a certain railroad between the City of Phoenix and the Southern Pacific Railroad," approved March 4, A. D. 1885, and do not within thirty days after the passage of said Act, meet at the county seat of Maricopa County, and issue the bonds of said county in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, in the manner and form in said Act provided, and deposit said bonds in said sum of two hundred thousand dollars when so issued with the County Treasurer of said Maricopa County, as in and by said Act said Board is required to do, then and in such event it is hereby provided that Neils Peterson of Tempe, James M. Cotten and Wm. R. Morris of Phoenix, shall constitute a Board of Commissioners to be known as the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maricopa County," whose duty it shall be in the same manner as provided in said Act, whereof this Act is supplemental for the said Board of Supervisors, and in lieu of said Board of Supervisors, to prepare, issue and deliver said two hundred thousand dollars in said bonds to said Treasurer of said Maricopa County, and said Treasurer shall receive said bonds from said "Board of Railroad Commissioners;" and said "Board of Railroad Commissioners" shall in all things provide for the carrying out of the provisions of the said Act whereof this Act is supplementary in lieu, place and stead of said Board of Supervisors, except as to the levying of taxes for the payment of the interest and principal of the bonds authorized by said Act to be issued; and in the event that said Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County shall fail or refuse to do or perform any act required and directed by this Act or the Act to which this Act is supplementary to be performed by said Board of Supervisors; except as to the levying of taxes, then and in that event the said Board of Railroad

Commissioners, created by this Act, shall proceed and perform such act in the place and stead of said Board of Supervisors, with the same force and effect as though such act or acts had been performed by said Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 2. Said Commissioners shall elect a Chairman of their Board, and in the event of the issuing of said bonds by said Commissioners, he shall sign said bonds as Chairman of said Board of "Railroad Commissioners of Maricopa County," affixing his own proper name and official character and the seal of said Board of Railroad Commissioners in lieu and stead of the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors, and the seal thereof; and he shall preside at all meetings of said Board, and in the event that said Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maricopa County, shall enter upon the discharge of their duties as such Board, and prepare and issue said bonds in consequence of the failure of said Board of Supervisors to perform the duties prescribed by the Act, to which this Act is supplementary, or any one of said duties; then and in such case whenever and wherever the words "Board of Supervisors" appear in the Act to which this Act is supplementary, the words "Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maricopa County" shall be, and they are hereby substituted for said words, "Board of Supervisors," except where they relate to the levy and collection of taxes, and the Act to which this Act is supplementary shall read and be construed accordingly; and from and after the happening of that event said "Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maricopa County" shall have exclusive power to proceed under and carry out the provisions of said Act to which this Act is supplementary as to all matters except the levying and collecting of taxes; and the Chairman of said Board of Railroad Commissioners shall perform all the functions which would otherwise have been performed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and said Board shall also adopt a common seal, which shall be used in all cases when the seal of the Board of Supervisors would otherwise have been used under the Act to which this Act is supplementary, and be affixed to said bonds in lieu of the seal of said Board of Supervisors, and for no other purpose; and said bonds when so issued shall have the same force and effect as though they have been issued by said Board of Supervisors, and the faith and credit of said Maricopa County is hereby pledged for the payment of said bonds, whether issued by said Board of Supervisors or said Board of Railroad Commissioners.

SEC. 3. Upon the completion of the duties of said Board of Railroad Commissioners as in this Act and the Act to which this Act is supplementary, provided, the said Board of Railroad Commissioners shall turn over to the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County their common seal together with a record of their proceedings at any and all meetings held by them under the provisions of this Act and the Act to which this Act is supplementary, which said Board of Supervisors shall receive and carefully keep and preserve as permanent files and records in their office.

SEC. 4. The members of the Board of Railroad Commissioners created by this Act shall receive a compensation at the rate of ten dollars per day, for each day actually and necessarily engaged in discharging the duties of their office, but in no event shall the total compensation allowed any one Commissioner exceed the sum of fifty dollars.

SEC. 5. It is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the Act whereof this Act is supplementary, that the bridge to be constructed across Salt River by the Railroad Company, in said Act mentioned, shall be located at the most practicable point for the erection of such bridge across said river, at Hayden's Ferry, which is declared to be for the purposes of construing said Act, a part of and within the boundaries of Tempe.

SEC. 6. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to relieve or take away the duties and obligations imposed upon the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County by the said Act whereof this Act is supplementary.

SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 12, 1885.

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