AN ACT. Authorizing and requiring the County Superintendent of Public Schools of Pima County, Arizona Territory, to draw his warrant on the County Treasurer of said County in favor of H. B. Summers, for any money belonging to School District Number Two, not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars. WHEREAS, The Trustees of School District Number Two, Pima County, Arizona Territory, employed, and the said District received, the services of H. B. Summers, as Teacher, for the period of seven months during the years of eighteen hundsed and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and are still indebted to him in the sum of three hundred dollars, for such service, and whereas, the County Superintendent of Public Schools has some doubt as to his right to pay any indebtedness that accrued previous to the present fiscal year; therefore Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. That the County Superintendent of Public Schools of Pima County be and he is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the County Treasurer of said County, for any money belonging to School District Number Two, at the time of the passage of the act creating the County of Pinal, in favor of H. B. Summers, not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars. SEC. 2., This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT Regulating the Herding of Sheep. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for the owner or person having charge of sheep to graze or herd the same upon the public lands of the United States within the distance of three miles from the exterior limits of any Village, Town or City in this Territory. Provided, that any person engaged in slaughtering such sheep for market in said Village, Town or City, shall be at liberty so to graze or herd within said limits not exceeding fifty head. SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for the owner or person having charge of any sheep to graze or herd the same upon the public lands of the United States within this Territory, to the material injury or inconvenience of any actual settler, except as herein provided. SEC. 3. Actual settlers upon contiguous or adjoining lands may graze or herd sheep upon the public lands of the United States, subject to the following conditions and provisions, and not otherwise: If the possessions or claims of such settlers so lie that one is wholly more northward than the other, neither of such persons shall graze or herd sheep nearer to the possession or claim of the other than a line running east and west at equal distance between such possessions or claims for a distince of two miles either way on such line from said claims. If such possessions or claims so lie that a line running east and west would pass through both, such line or boundary shall run north and south at equal distance between said possessions or claims, and neither shall herd or graze sheep nearer to the possession or claim of the other than such line, and for a distance of two miles either way on such line from said claim. SEC. 4. A violation of the provisions of this act is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, and upon conviction for each subsequent offense upon the same possession or claim, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. SEC. 5. All fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the County Treasurer of the proper County, and placed to the credit of the County School Fund. SEC. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent persons holding contiguous or adjoining possessions or claims from making other and different lines or boundaries, by agreement governing the herding and grazing of sheep. SEC. 7. To exempt the Counties of Pima, Pinal, Maricopa and Yuma from this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 12th, 1875. AN ACT Authorizing a loan on the faith and credit of the Territory, and to provide for the erection of a Territorial Prison and for the confinement of prisoners therein. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. That a loan of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be negotiated on the faith and credit of the Territory, to be paid at the expiration of five years from the date thereof, and to bear interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum. SEC. 2. The Treasurer of the Territory is hereby authorized and directed, when required by the Territorial Prison Commissioners, to issue bonds of the Territory in sums of fifty, one hundred, and two hundred, and fifty dollars, payable in five years from date, and not exceeding in the aggregate the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in the following form, to wit. : Bond No. day of $ , A. D., 187 dol Five years after date the Territory of Arizona promises to pay to the order of the Governor of the Territory lars, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date, payable annually at the Treasury of the Territory for value received. Secretary of the Territory. SEC. 3. All such bonds shall be signed by the Secretary, with his own proper name, affixing his official character, and shall be authenticated with the great seal of the Territory, and shall be indorsed by the Governor of the Territory, with his proper name, and affixing his official character, and shall then be delivered by the Secretary to the Treasurer of the Territory, and the Secretary shall keep a register of said bonds, showing the number and amount of each bond, and shall charge the Treasurer with the full amount of said bonds. At the time of issuing said bonds under the provisions of this act, the Territorial Treasurer shall sign a sufficient number of them with his own proper name, affixing his official character, which said signing shall bind the Territory, and shall in the same manner sign the coupons thereunto attached, as hereinafter provided. The coupons or certificates for the payment of interest shall be attached to said bonds in such manner that they may be taken off without injuring or mutilating the bonds, and shall be severally numbered from one to five inclusive, each bearing the corresponding number of the bond to which they are attached. The Treasurer shall keep a register of all the bonds issued by him, and shall deliver to the Board of Prison Commissioners all the bonds, or such part thereof as the said Board of Prison Commissioners shall require under the provisions of this act, or upon the order of the said Board of Prison Commissioners, shall convert the said bonds into money. Upon receiving the written order of said Board of Prison Commissioners the Territorial Treasurer shall thereupon advertise for proposals for the purchase of said bonds, and at the time and place designated shall open the bids and award the sale of the bonds to the highest biddder. Provided, that no bonds shall be sold for a less sum than eighty cents on the dollar. And the orders of the said Commissioners on the Treasurer for either bonds or money accruing from the sale thereof shall be valid and sufficient vouchers in the hands of the Treasurer for said bonds or the money arising from the sale of the same. It shall be left to the discretion of the Board of Prison Commissioners to cause the bonds to be sold as herein provided, or to pay for the erection of the prison building with the bonds as to them shall seem most advisable. SEC. 4. The Territorial Treasurer shall pay the interest on said bonds wheh due, taking the coupons as his vouchers therefor, and he may retain in his hands for that purpose a sufficient amount of money of the Territory. The said bonds and coupons after they become due shall be taken in payment for all taxes and licenses levied, assessed or collected by the Territory of Arizona. Provided, they shall not be received for any County tax, nor for any School tax, either County or Territorial. SEC. 5. The Board of Territorial Prison Commissioners shall consist of three persons, two of whom shall constitute a quorum for business, and they shall be elected by a joint con vention of the two Houses of the Legislature by the vote of a majority of the members thereof, and shall hold their offices for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In case of a vacancy the Governor shall appoint one or more as may be required to constitute a full Board. The Governor shall issue Commissions to the persons elected to the office of Prison Commissioners upon certificate of their election. SEC. 6. The Board of Territorial Prison Commissioners are authorized and required on or before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to select and locate a site for a penitentiary or Territorial Prison at or near the town of Yuma, in the County of Yuma, and purchase ground for that purpose in the name of the Territory not less than ten acres. SEC. 7. The Board of Territorial Prison Commissioners shall adopt such plan for laying out and inclosing said grounds, and for the erection of necessary buildings thereon, as shall be deemed best for the security of convicts to be confined therein, and shall cause such buildings and inclosures to be erected as soon as practicable. SEC. 8. The Board may also appoint a Superintendent who shall have charge of the grounds and buildings, and of the prisoners or convicts confined in the Territorial prison under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said Board of Territorial Prison Commissioners, and they may cause the Superintendent to appoint such number of guards as shall be necessary for the security and safe-keeping of prisoners. SEC. 9. The Board of Territorial Prison Commissioners may, when necessary for the purchase of grounds for the prison site or for the purpose of erecting the necessary buildings or inclosures as provided in this act, draw the bonds provided for in this act from the Territorial Treasurer by an order of their Board, a copy of which order duly signed by the Board, or a majority of the members thereof, shall be sufficient voucher for the Treasurer, or should they deem it for the best interest of the Territory that said bonds should be converted into money, they shall by an order signed as above mentioned, direct the Territorial Treasurer to convert the said bonds into money, and upon the receipt of said order the Territorial Treasurer shall proceed to convert the said bonds into money in the manner provided for in section three of this act. SEC. 10. If the bonds are converted into money as herein |