AN ACT To amend Chapter 22, Howell Code, "Of Vacancies, Resignations and Removals from Office. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. That there shall be added at the end of chapter 22, Howell Code, "Of Vacancies, Resignations and Removals from Office," and become a part of said act, an additional section, to be designated as section 8, as follows: § 8. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered, upon good cause shown, to grant leave of absence from the Territory to any Territorial officer, under such regulations and conditions as may be deemed proper for the interests of the Territory and the performance of the duties of the office of such officer during his absence. The Board of Supervisors of the respective counties are hereby authorized and empowered, upon good cause shown, to grant leave of absence from the county or Territory, to any county officer, under such regulations and conditions as may be deemed proper for the interests of such county, by reason of the absence of such officer. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11th, 1875. AN ACT Concerning the School Fund of Pinal County. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. In making the apportionment of Territorial school moneys during the present public school year to the several counties of this Territory, the county of Pinal shall be credited with the number of children, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, residing in said county, as certified to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the last annual report made to such Superintendent by the County Superintendents of Public Schools of Pima and Maricopa counties. All children of school age so reported by the County Superintendent of Pima county as being in any school districts which was then in Pima county, but the major part of which is now in Pinal county, and all children of school age so reported by the County Superintendent of Maricopa county as being in any school district which was then in Maricopa county, but the major part of which is now in Pinal county, shall be credited to Pinal county and be deducted from said Pima and Maricopa counties respectively. SEC. 2. The number of children so ascertained as being in Pinal county shall be credited to Pinal county, the same as if they had been regularly reported from said county, and the apportionment of Territorial school moneys shall be made to said Pinal county and paid over to the County Treasurer of said county, the same as if said county had been organized at the time the reports as to the number of children in districts now within said county were made. SEC. 3. All school moneys in the hands of the County Treasurer of Pima or Maricopa counties, which by law it would have been the duty of the County Superintendent of Pima or Maricopa counties to apportion to any School District, the major part of which is now in Pinal county, during the ensuing school year, derived from taxes levied prior to January 1, 1875, shall be paid to the County Treasurer of Pinal county, and the County Superintendents of said Pima and Maricopa counties shall draw their warrants therefor, in favor of and deliver the same to the County Treasurer of said Pinal county, whenever thereunto by said Treasurer requested, without any report from any of said Districts being made to them or either of them, farther than those which they now have from said Districts. SEO. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11th, 1875. AN ACT To establish the Salaries of the Officers of the County of Pinal. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. That the salary of the Recorder and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Pinal be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum. SEC. 2. That the salary of the District Attorney of the county of Pinal be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum. SEC. 3. That this act be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11th, 1875. AN ACT Authorizing the County Recorder of Pima County to transcribe certain records for certain purposes. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. The County Recorder of the county of Pima is hereby authorized and directed to transcribe, in books furnished him for said purpose bythe county of Pinal, all records now on record in said Pima county pertaining to, or in any wise relating to the said county of Pinal. SEC. 2. Said transcript to be in every way similar to the original record, to be properly indexed, and certified to be a correct copy of the original in every case. SEC. 3. Upon the completion of said transcript, and upon the certificate of the Probate Judge of Pima county, or the Judge of the District Court, that the work has been performed in accordance with the tenor of this act, the Board of Supervisors of Pinal county shall draw their warrant on the treasurer of said county in favor of the Recorder of Pima county for the amount due for transcribing said records. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11th, 1875. AN ACT To Provide Revenue for the Territory of Arizona and the Several Counties Thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona: SECTION 1. The annual ad valorem tax of twenty-five cents upon each one hundred dollars' value of taxable property is hereby levied and directed to be collected and paid for territorial purposes, upon the assessed value of all property in this Territory not by this act exempted from taxation; and upon the same property the Board of Supervisors of each county is also hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect for county purposes such additional and special taxes, not exceeding two dollars upon each one hundred dollars, value of taxable property, as the laws of this Territory may authorize or require them to levy and collect. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of each county shall, on the second Monday in August of each year, assess the amount of taxes that shall be levied for county purposes, designating the amount which shall, on each one hundred dollars of taxable property, real and personal, be levied for such purposes; and shall add thereto the amount required by this act to be levied for territorial purposes. The Board of Supervisors of the respective counties shall, prior to the first Monday of March of each year, cause to be prepared suitable books for the use of the Assessor, in which he shall enter his assessment rolls, as herein provided; and said books shall contain suitable printed or written heads, and be ruled to conform with the form of the assessment roll as provided in this act. SEC. 3. Every tax levied under the provisions or authority of this act, upon any real property, is hereby made a lien upon the property assessed, which lien shall attach on the first Monday in March, and shall not be satisfied or removed until the taxes are all paid or the property has absolutely vested in a purchaser under a sale for taxes. SEC. 4. All property of every kind and nature whatsoever, within this Territory, shall be subject to taxation, except: First. All lands and lots of ground, with buildings, improvements and structures thereon, belonging to the Territory or any municipal corporation, or to any county of the Territory, and all lands belonging to the United States or this Territory, and all buildings and improvements belonging to the United States or this Territory. Second. Court-houses, jails, town halls, council chambers, houses occupied by fire companies and their apparatus, and other public structures and edifices, and all squares and lots kept open for health or public use, or for ornament, belonging to any county, city, town or village in this Territory; public libraries, colleges, school-houses and other buildings for the purpose of education, with their furniture, libraries, and all other equipments, and the lots or lands thereto appurtenant and used therewith, and so long as the same shall be used for that purpose; provided, that when any of the property mentioned in this subdivision is private property, from which a rent or other valuable consideration is received for its use, the same shall be taxed as other property. Third. Public hospitals, asylums, poor-houses and other charitable or benevolent institutions for the relief of the indigent or afflicted, and the lots or lands thereto appurtenant, with all their furniture and equipments, all grounds and buildings belonging to agricultural societies, so long as the same shall be used for that purpose only, and without pecuniary gain. Fourth. Churches, chapels, and other buildings for religious worship, with their furniture and equipments, and the lots of ground appurtenant thereto and used therewith; provided, rent is not paid for such ground, so long as the same shall be used for such purposes only without yielding rent. Fifth. Cemeteries and grave-yards set apart and used for the purpose of interring the dead. |