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and making certain improvements for the Albion State Normal School, a loan of twelve thousand dollars ($12000.00) is hereby authorized to be negotiated by a board consisting of the Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State and Attorney General of the State of Idaho, upon the faith and credit of the State of Idaho, and secured by the proceeds of the sale of the lands set apart and appropriated to the use and for the benefit of the said Albion State Normal School by section five (5) of an act establishing said normal school, approved March 7th 1893, and the timber thereon as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized, empowered and directed immediately upon the passage of this act to issue twenty-four (24) bonds of the State of Idaho to be known as "The Albion State Normal School Improvement Bonds", in the sum of five hundred ($500.) dollars each, payable in twenty years from the date of their issuance to bear interest at a rate not to exceed four per centum, per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year at a bank in the city of New York, to be selected by the State Treasurer; said bonds, however, to be redeemable at the option of the State of Idaho at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of their issuance. Said bonds shall be plainly numbered from one (1) to twenty-four (24) consecutively.

SEC. 3. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to cause to be printed, or lithographed suitable bonds in proper form with coupons attached for the purposes of this act.

All such bonds shall be signed by the Secretary of State with his own proper name, affixing his official character, and shall be authenticated by the great seal of the State and shall also be signed, or endorsed, by the Governor of the State with his own proper name, affixing his of ficial character and shall then be delivered by the Secretary of State to the State Auditor who shall make and keep a register of such bonds, showing the number and amount of each bond, and then deliver the said bonds to the State Treasurer and charge the State Treasurer on the books of the Auditor's office with the full amount of each bond.

SEC. 4. At the time of issuing said bonds under the

provisions of this act, the State Treasurer shall sign them with his own proper name, affixing his official character and shall in like manner sign the coupons thereunto attached and such signing shall bind the State. The coupons 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 (1) to forty (40), each bearing the corresponding number of the bond to which it is attached. The Treasurer shall keep a register of all the bonds issued by him, showing the date of issuance and shall deliver said bonds with the coupons attached as aforesaid to the purchaser, or purchasers, upon the receipt of the purchase money therefor; and the money received from the sale of said bonds shall be by the said Treasurer placed in a certain fund to be known as "The Albion State Normal School Improvement Fund". None of said bonds, however, shall be sold for less than their face or par value. The expense for printing, or lithographing, and procuring said bonds with coupons attached, shall be paid out of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of securing the payment of the principal of the bonds provided for in this act, the proceeds of the sale of the lands, or of timber growing thereon, granted to the State of Idaho, by the United States of America, for "State Normal Schools" and set apart and appropriated to the use of said Albion State Normal School by section five (5) of said act establishing said normal school are hereby set apart as a separate fund to be known as "The Albion State Normal School Improvement Bonds Sinking Fund," subject, however, first to the payment of bonds and the interest thereon issued under the provisions of an act entitled "An act providing for the issue of State bonds for the benefit of the Albion State Normal School and the Lewiston State Normal School and prescribing how the proceeds of the sale of such lands shall be expended passed the 7th day of March, 1895," and also subject to the payment of bonds and the interest thereon issued under the provisions of an act entitled "An act, providing for the issue of State bonds for the purpose of completing the present building and for the erection of two dormitories for the Albion State Normal School and

providing how the proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be expended, and after a full satisfaction of the obligations provided for in said acts and after payment of said principal of said bonds provided by this act, then the proceeds of the sale of the said land, or timber, shall be paid into the general fund of the State Treasury until an amount equal to the total amount of interest that has theretofore been paid out of said general fund on said bonds issued under the provisions of this act, less the amount of interest that may have been paid into the said general fund from investment of the Albion State Normal School improvement bonds sinking fund moneys in State warrants as hereinafter provided for has been so paid into said general fund. When the principal of said fund shall have been fully paid and the general fund of the State reimbursed for the interest on said bonds, provided in this act as herein specified then and thereafter the proceeds of the sales of such land and timber shall be disposed of as may by law be provided.

SEC. 6. At any time after ten years from the issuance of said bonds whenever there shall be five thousand ($5000.) dollars of said sinking fund, the Treasurer of the State shall make a call by publication for sixty days in some daily newspaper in this State, notifying all the parties interested that certain bonds of the Albion State Normal School improvement bonds provided by this act, giving their numbers, will at a certain date be paid at the office of the Treasurer and the bonds so called shall cease to bear interest from and after the date in said call specified.

SEC. 7. At any time when money to the amount of one thousand ($1000.) dollars, or more, is in said sinking fund it is hereby made the duty of the State Treasurer to invest such money is registered State warrants of this State and in registered State warrants only and to hold such warrants until they are redeemed as a part of said sinking fund, and whenever State warrants so held by the Treas urer are paid the Treasurer shall certify the amount of intérest that may have accrued thereon to the State Auditor and the amount of such interest shall thereupon be placed to the credit of and become a part of the general fund of the State and the amount of the principal of said sinking fund invested in such shall, upon the redemption of said

warrants, be returned to said sinking fund to be reinvested in the same manner: Provided, That when the principal of said sinking fund is required for the redemption of the bonds called as provided for in this act, such principal shall not be so invested in such warrants.

SLC. 8. For the prompt payment of the interest that nay accrue upon said bonds there is hereby appropriated for each year out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to the amount of said interest on said bonds as the same may become due and for the payment of such interest when due the Treasurer of the State shall reserve any and sufficient of the funds in his hands in preference to all other claims whatsoever, except the interest on bonds of the State heretofore issued pursuant to law.

SEC. 9. When the moneys arising from the sale of said bonds are received by the State Treasurer he shall notify the State Auditor of the amount of money so received and the State Auditor shall thereupon credit the Treasurer's account with the amount of bonds sold.

SEC. 10. All moneys paid, or to be paid into the Albion State Normal School improvement fund are hereby appro priated to the Albion State Normal School for the purposes stated in this act, to wit: for completing the building, increasing the water supply, increasing the equipment and improving the grounds of said Albion State Normal School.

SEC. 11. All moneys appropriated in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be expended and the accounts therefor audited and paid in the manner provided in the act establishing said Albion State Normal School.

SEC. 12. An emergency existing therefor this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved the 4th day of March, 1903.

HOUSE BILL NO. 128.

AN ACT

RELATING TO ESTRAY ANIMALS; REPEALING SECTION 1364 OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF IDAHO; AMENDING SECTIONS 1360, 1362, 1363, 1365 AND 1370 OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF IDAHO; AND ADDING TO TITLE 9 OF POLITICAL CODE OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, THE

FOLLOWING SECTIONS: SECTIONS 1371 AND 1372 PROVID-
ING FOR THE DESIGNATION OF AN OFFICIAL ESTRAY PA-
PER, AND PROVIDING PUNISHMENT FOR THE BREACH OF
ANY OF THE CONDITIONS OF LAW ENTITLED TITLE 9
OF THE POLITICAL CODES OF THE REVISED STATUTES
OF IDAHO.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. Section 1364 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Idaho be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Section 1360 of the Revised Statutes of the State or Idaho be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1360. Every person taking up any estray animal must, within five days thereafter, notify the owner thereof, if to him known, and request such owner to pay all reasonable charges and take such estray away: Provided, That the charge for taking care of such estray shall not exceed the sum of ten cents per head per day.

SEC. 3. That section 1362 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Idaho as amended, be and is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1362. If the owner or claimant of any estray animal be unknown the taker up must, within ten days, after taking up such animal, give notice by publication thereof, in a weekly newspaper published in the county in at least six issues of said paper giving the description of such animal or animals, the marks, brands, natural natural or artificial, age, and sex, the name and residence of the taker up, and the time and place at which the said estray was taken up; such notice to be filed within said ten days with the county auditor, to be kept by him on file in his office for a period of one year from date of filing same. And such county auditor shall furnish copy of same to the newspaper for publication. At the time of filing such notice the taker up must deposit with the county auditor the sum of fifty cents for filing, and one dollar for publishing said notice.

SEC. 4. That section 1363 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Idaho be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1363. If the owner or any person entitled to the possession of any estray appears at any time within ninety days after said notice is filed with the auditor as aforesaid, and makes out his right thereto, he is

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