SEC. 6. The County Judge shall have the power to appoint a Court Commissioner, who shall have all the powers now conferred by law on the Court Commissioners of the District Courts, and whose term of office shall last during the term of office of the County Judge making the appointment, with the same compensation, fees or salary of District Court Commissioners.

SEC. 7. When said County Judge is interested in any suit, matter or proceeding pending in his Court, or has been an attorney or counsel therein, or is related to either party thereto, he shall cease to further act upon the case, unless with the joint consent of all parties appearing upon the record, and a change of venue to the most accessible County Court or District Court shall be granted, or some disinterested County Judge or District Judge shall be called in to hear and determine the case, and in either event full jurisdiction of the case shall vest in the Court or Judge hearing the same.

SEC. 8. Said County Judge shall be a magistrate of, for and within his county, to the same extent and in the same cases and with the same powers granted by law to other magistrates. Said County Judge shall not practice law in any of the Courts of this Territory, nor shall he have a partner in the practice of the law.

SEC. 9. The County Clerk may appoint one or more deputies, for whose acts he shall be responsible on his official bond. He shall keep such records, papers and files of his Court as are required by law to be kept by the Clerks of the District and Probate Courts, and shall perform in and for the County Court and the Judge thereof the same duties that are now required by law of the Clerks of the District and Probate Courts in and for their respective Courts and Judges, and he shall receive the same fees therefor which are received by said Clerks for similar services, and he shall pay said fees into the Salary Fund of the County Treasury at the end of each and every calendar month, and he shall file therewith, with the County Treasurer, a sworn statement in detail of the amount of fees received by him, and the sources and persons from whence and whom received during the past calendar month, and he shall file a duplicate of said sworn statement with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors at the same time, and he shall at the same time take receipts in duplicate of such payment from the County Treasurer, and shall thereupon file one

of said receipts with the said Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 10. The Probate Court of said Apache County shall continue to exist and retain and exercise the jurisdiction now and heretofore held and exercised by such Court and the Judge thereof, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, until the first day of January, A. D. 1887, at which time said Probate Court is hereby declared to be and shall be abolished, and the records, files, papers thereof, all causes and matters pending therein, and the jurisdiction then held and exercised by the said Probate Court and the Judge thereof shall be transferred to the County Court of said Apache County, and the said County Court shall thereupon and thereafter, without any lapse of jurisdiction of said causes or matters of jurisdiction so transferred, have, hold and exercise said jurisdiction, and proceed with all such causes and matters, and shall hear, determine and adjudge the same under the provisions of Chapters XXVI, XXVIII, XXIX, and all other Chapters of the Compiled Laws of Arizona, and of all other laws and all parts of Acts conferring jurisdiction upon the Probate Court or the Judge thereof, with the same powers, force, and effect as said Probate Court could and would exercise prior to the passage of this Act abolishing said Court and transferring its jurisdiction to the County Court as herein provided.

SEC. 11. The County Judge shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The County Clerk shall receive for his services as such County Clerk a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, and he shall not receive any other compensation whatever for his services as County Clerk other than the salary above named. The salary of the County Judge shall be paid quarterly by the County Treasurer of said Apache County, out of the Salary Fund of said County Treasury and in the same manner as other county salaries are paid. The salary of the County Clerk and ex officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall be paid monthly by the County Treasurer out of the Salary Fund of the County Treasury, in the same manner as other county salaries are paid.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of said Apache County to provide a suitable room for the holding of said County Court, together with suitable furniture therefor, and they shall also provide a suitable office for the chambers of said Judge, and a suitable office for said County

Clerk, together with the necessary furniture and stationery therefor.

SEC. 13. Said County Judge may appoint a short-hand reporter, who shall be the reporter of said Court. It shall be the duty of said reporter to report all criminal cases tried in said Court which the Judge may order to be reported, and he shall receive such compensation therefor as said Judge may deem proper, to be paid by the County Treasurer out of the Salary Fund, upon the written order of the County Judge; provided, however, that said reporter shall not receive more than eight dollars per day for reporting, nor more than fifteen. cents per folio of one hundred words for transcribing.

SEC. 14. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act amendatory to Chapter XXXIII of Compiled Laws of Arizona Territory, to provide revenue for the Territory of Arizona and the several Counties thereof," approved March 10, 1881.

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

SECTION 1. That Section 8 of an Act entitled "An Act amendatory to Chapter XXXIII of compiled Laws of Arizona Territory, to provide revenue for the Territory of Arizona and the several counties thereof, approved April 12, 1875," approved March 10, 1881, be and the same is amended so as to read as follows:

"§ 8. The owner or person in possession of any real estate offered for sale for taxes due thereon, may designate in writing to the County Collector, prior to the sale, what portion of the property he wishes sold, if less than the whole, but if

the owner or possessor does not, then the Collector may designate it, and the person who will take the least quantity of the land, or in case an undivided interest is assessed, then the smallest portion of the interest, and pay the taxes and costs due, including one dollar for the duplicate certificate of sale to the purchaser, and the County Recorder's fee for filing same in his office, shall be declared the purchaser. But in case there is no purchaser in good faith for the same, as provided for in this Section, on the first day the property is offered for sale, then, when the property is offered thereafter for sale, and there is no purchaser in good faith for the same, the whole amount of the property assessed shall be struck off to the Territory as the purchaser, and the duplicate certificate delivered to the County Treasurer and filed by him in his office. No charge shall be made for the duplicate certificate or for filing the same in the Recorder's office, except as hereinafter provided, when the Territory is the purchaser, and in such case the the County Collector shall make an entry, 'sold to the Territory,' on the duplicate assessment book, opposite the tax, and he shall be credited with the amount thereof in his settlement made pursuant to this Act."

SEC. 2. That Section 11 of said Act, approved March 10, 1881, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

§ 11. On filing the certificate with the County Recorder, the lien of the Territóry vests in the purchaser, and is only divested by the payment to him, or to the County Treasurer for his use, of the purchase money and costs mentioned in Section 8 of this Act, and thirty per cent on the amount thereof. Where the Territory is the purchaser of the property so redeemed, the Treasurer shall pay the costs so collected over to the officers entitled to the same under the provisions of said Section 8.

SEC. 3. That Section 15 of said Act, approved March 10, 1881, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso, viz: "Provided, that when the Territory is the purchaser, and no person has redeemed the property during the time allowed for its redemption, the Collector shall execute and acknowledge a deed to the Territory of such property, and deliver the same to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, without charge, and it shall be the duty of the County Recorder, without fee, to record the same."

SEC. 4. That said Act amendatory to said Chapter XXXIII, and approved March 10, 1881, be and the same is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following Sections, viz:

§ 15 a. That it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of each county of this Territory, on or before the first Monday of November, in each year, to prepare a list of the real estate held by the Territory, by tax deed, and situate in their respective counties, under the provisions of this Act, giving a full and intelligent description of each tract, together with the name of the former owner thereof, if known, and the total amount of taxes, penalties and costs, including the unpaid charges of the Collector and Recorder, for which said deed was given to each tract described, and advertise the same for sale at private sale at their office, by publication of said list at least once a week for two months, or oftener if the Board so direct, in some daily or weekly newspaper published in the county, and having the largest circulation in said county, of any paper therein published; and by posting the said list in two or more public places in each election precinct wherein any of said real estate is situated, and by keeping such notice and list, as revsied from time to time continuously posted in the Supervisors' office, and Sheriff's office, and at the front door of the Court-house of the county.

§ 15 b. That it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors from time to time, and as purchasers therefor may present themselves to sell the real estate thus held by the Territory for such sums of money as they shall be able to obtain therefor, not less, for each tract, than the amount charged against the same in the advertised list thereof under the provisions of the preceding Section, with interest added thereto at the rate of ten per cent per annum, and shall make, execute and acknowledge by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board under the official seal thereof, and deliver to the purchaser thereof, at his cost, a deed conveying to him the title of the Territory in and to the tract so purchased. The purchase money thus received by the Board of Supervisors shall be paid over by them to the County Treasurer who, after deducting and paying therefrom the several amounts due on such tract to the County Collector and County Recorder, shall distribute and credit the same to the several funds entitled thereto.

$15 c. That in the event that any of the real property thus held by the Territory, under tax deed, shall be improved and occupied adversely to the title of the Territory, the Board