Territory, and which said tax shall be payment in full of all demands for any tax on said premium receipts, or license for conducting such business of insurance.

SEC. 4. Any person, or firm in this Territory, who receives, or receipts, for any money on account of, or for any contract of insurance made by him or them, or for any such insurance company, or individual, aforesaid, or who receives or receipts for money from other persons, to be transmitted to any such company or individual, aforesaid, for a policy of insurance or any renewal thereof, although such policy of insurance is not signed by him, or them, as agent or agents of such company, or who in any wise directly or indirectly makes, or causes to be inade, any contract or contracts of insurance for, or on account of such insurance company aforesaid, shall be deemed to all intents and purposes an agent, or agents, of such company, and shall be subject, and liable to all the provisions, regulations and penalties of this act.

SEC. 5. The Territorial Treasurer shall be entitled to the following fees herein: For filing statements mentioned in section one, five dollars; for issuing certificate of authority, five dollars; for issuing each subsequent certificate of authority to other agents of same company, two dollars.

SEC. 6. Any person violating the provisions of this act within this Territory shall, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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 February 9th, 1875.

AN ACT.

Relating to Compulsory Education.

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

SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the Territory of Arizona, having control and charge of a child or children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be required to send such child or children to a public school for a period of at least sixteen weeks in each school year, at least eight weeks of which shall be consecutive, unless such child or children are exempted from such attendance by the Board of School Trustees of the school district in which such parents or guardians reside, upon its being shown to their satisfaction that the bodily or mental condition of such child or children has been such as to prevent his, her or their attendance at school, or application to study, for the period required, or that such child or children are taught in a private school, or at home, in such branches as are usually taught in a primary school, or have already acquired the ordinary branches of learning taught in the public school. Provided, in case a public school shall not be taught for the period of sixteen weeks, or any part thereof, during the year, within two miles, by the nearest traveled road, of the residence of any person within the school district, or if not sufficient accommodation for all the children are provided for within the school district, he or she shall not be liable to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of School Trustees of each school district, in this Territory, on or before the first Monday of September in each year, to furnish the teacher of each public school taught in such district with a list of all children, residing in the school district, between the ages of eight and fourteen years, said list to be taken from the report of the School Census Marshal. At the beginning of each school month thereafter it shall be the duty of the teacher of each school in such district to report to the Board of School Trustees of such district the names of all children attending school during the previous school month; when, if it shall appear, at the expiration of four school months, to the Board of School Trustees, that any parent, guardian, or other person having charge or control of any child or children, shall

have failed to comply with the provisions of this act, the board shall cause demand to be made upon such parent, guardian, or other person, for the amount of the penalty hereinafter provided; when, if such parent, guardian, or other person shall neglect or refuse to pay the same within five days. after the making of said demand, the board shall commence proceedings in the name of the school district for the recovery of the fine hereinafter provided, before any Justice of the Peace in the township in which said school district is located; or if there shall be no Justice of the Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice of the Peace in the county.

SEC. 3. Any parent, guardian, or other person, having control or charge of any child or children, failing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, nor less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for the second offense, and each subsequent offense, besides the costs of collection.

SEC. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Board of School Trustees of any school district in this Territory, that the parents, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child or children in attendance upon the public schools of said district, in accordance with the provisions of this act, are unable to procure suitable books, stationery, etc., for such child or children, it shall be the duty of such Board to procure or cause to be procured for such child or children, all necessary books, stationery, etc., the same to be paid out of the fund of said school district, in the same way that other claims against the school district are now allowed and paid. Provided, that all books, stationery, etc., purchased under the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be the property of the school district, to be under the care and control of the School Trustees when not in actual use.

SEC. 5. All fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury on the account of the Territorial School Fund.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Governor to cause to be published two thousand copies of this law, one thousand of which shall be in the Spanish language, and it shall be his duty to distribute the same to the School Trustees of the several counties of the Territory of Arizona, the expense of said publication to be paid out of the Territorial School Fund. The

Board of School Trustees shall cause to be distributed annually among the parents, guardians or other persons of their district, copies of said law."

SEC. 7. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of September, A. D. 1875.

APPROVED February 9th, 1875.

AN ACT

In relation to the sale of spirituous and malt liquors or wines at retail.

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

SECTION 1. That from and after March 1st, A. D. 1875, no bill or open account or note, where the bill, open account, or note is for spirituous or malt liquors or wines by the drink or bottle shall be collectible in any of the courts of this Territory, should the amount of such bill, account or note exceed five dollars.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 9th, 1875.

AN ACT

To amend chapter eleven, Howell Code, regulating proceedings in criminal cases.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be added at the end of section three hundred and twenty, chapter eleven, Howell Code, and become a part of said section, the following words: "It shall be the duty of the Judge before whom any criminal prosecution is conducted, to plainly instruct the jury as to the meaning of the words 'qualified' and 'unqualified opinion,' before any question is put to the jury touching their qualifications as jurors."

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEO. 3. This act shall take effect in Pima county immediately, and in all other counties in thirty days after its passage.

APPROVED February 9th, 1875.

AN ACT

Granting leave of absence to R. N. Leatherwood, Treasurer of Pima county, Arizona Territory.

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

SECTION 1. That R. N. Leatherwood, County Treasurer of Pima county, be and he is hereby granted leave of absence from the Territory for the period of six months at any time during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five; Provided, that the said R. N. Leatherwood shall appoint a Deputy Treasurer who shall perform the duties of the said office during the absence of the said R. N. Leatherwood.

SEC. 2. The absence of the said R. N. Leatherwood from his county under the leave of absence granted in this act, shall not work a forfeiture of the office, nor shall it be construed to