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fixed for the payment of the semi-annual installments of interest, the amount of each interest coupon attached thereto, and such other and further information concerning the same as he shall deem necessary. When the bonds shall have been sold, the State Auditor shall require of the State Treasurer and the Treasurer shall furnish to the Auditor the name of the purchaser, or purchasers, of each which information the Auditor shall thereupon enter in his register with the other information contained therein relating to such bonds.

Having registered the same as above required the State Auditor shall deliver the said bonds to the State Treasurer, taking the Treasurer's receipt therefor, and shall charge the Treasurer, on the books of the Auditor's office, with the full par value of each bond.

SEC. 7. That, at the time of the issuance of the said bonds under the provisions of this act, the State Treasurer shall sign them with his own proper name to which he shall affix his official character and shall, in like manner, sign the coupons thereto attached, and such signing shall bind the State. The Treasurer shall deliver all bonds sold under the provisions of this act to the purchaser, or purchasers, upon the receipt of the par value thereof and any premium which may have been effered by such purchaser, or purchasers, and accepted therefor. None of said bonds shall be sold or delivered to any purchaser, or purchasers, for any sum or amount less than their par or face value.

All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be by the State Treasurer placed in a fund, hereby created and established, which shall be known as the "Soldiers' Home Improvement Fund, 1905."

The State Treasurer shall also make and keep a register of all bonds sold under the provisions of this act, which register shall contain all the facts and data relative to such bonds required to be shown by the register thereof in the office of the State Auditor and such other information concerning the same as the Treasurer shall deem necessary.

SEC. 8. When the moneys arising from the sale of any of the bonds authorized hereby are received by the State Treasurer, he shall notify the State Auditor of the amount of the money so received and the name of the person, or

persons, to whom such bonds were sold. The Auditor shall thereupon charge to the Treasurer an amount, in addition to the amount charged at the time the said bonds were delivered by the Auditor to the Treasurer, equal to the premium bid and paid by the purchaser, or purchasers, of such bonds.

SEC. 9. That the proceeds of the sale of the bonds hereby authorized are hereby appropriated out of the said Soldiers' Home Improvement Fund, 1905, for the improvement of the Idaho soldiers' home under the direction of the board of trustees of the soldiers' home and for the payment of the necessary expenses of procuring the printing or lithographing of the bonds required in carrying out the provisions of this act, which expenses are hereby declared to be a legal charge against the same properly payable therefrom.

SEC. 10. That for the purpose of providing moneys for the payment of the interest upon the said bonds and the principal thereof as and when the same shall become due and payable, an annual ad valorem tax of one and onehalf (1 1-2) mills on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessed valuation of all property in the State of Idaho, not exempt from taxation, is hereby levied and the same shall be collected as taxes for general State purposes are collected and in like manner shall be paid into the State treasury. When received into the treasury, the moneys collected on account of such tax shall be set apart in and constitute a fund, hereby created and established, which shall be known as the "Soldiers' Home Improvement Bond Fund, 1905" and all moneys belonging thereto are hereby appropriated to meet, or fulfill, the purposes herein before, in this section, stated-that is to say all moneys which may hereafter accrue to the Soldiers' Home Improvement Bond Fund, 1905, are hereby appropriated for the payment of the principal and the interest upon the principal of the Idaho Soldiers' Home Improvement Bonds, 1905, as and when the same shall become due or payable.

SEC. 11. For the prompt payment of the interest coupons attached to the said bonds when due, at such times as there shall not be sufficient moneys in the Soldiers' Home Improvement Bond Fund, 1905, for such purpose, there is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of

the State of Idaho, annually, when required for such purpose, an amount equal to the annual interest upon the principal of the Idaho Soldiers' Home Improvement Bonds, 1905, and to meet the requirements of this section the State Treasurer shall reserve any and sufficient funds in the said general fund, in preference to all other claims whatsoever, except the interest upon bonds of the State of Idaho heretofore, or before the going to effect of the provisions of this act, issued pursuant to law.

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The State Treasurer shall replace any moneys from the said general fund, under the provisions of this act, with moneys from the Soldiers' Home Improvement Bond Fund, 1905, as soon as a sum sufficient for such purpose shall have been received into the said last mentioned fund.

SEC. 12. An emergency existing therefor, this act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved on the 6th day of March, 1905.

SENATE BILL NO. 122.

AN ACT

TO AMEND SECTION ONE (1) OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF AN ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SOLDIERS' HOME' APPROVED FEBRUARY 9TH, 1899," APPROVED FEBRUARY 23, 1905.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

SECTION 1. That section 1 of an act of the Legsilature of the State of Idaho entitled "An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled 'An act to establish a soldiers' home' approved February 9th, 1899" approved February 23, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1. That there shall be established in the State an institution under the name of the soldiers' home, which institution shall be a home for honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the Union armies during the war of the Rebellion; also for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection incident thereto; and also for members of the State National Guard disabled while in the line of duty; and veterans of the Mexican war: Provided, That before any person is admitted to said home, he shall have

been a bona fide resident of this State for not less than two (2) years and shall have registered and voted at one or more general election in the State of Idaho prior to making application for admission thereto.

Approved on the 6th day of March, 1905.

SENATE BILL NO. 123.

AN ACT

CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE IDAHO INDUSTRIAL REFORM SCHOOL FUND, PROVIDING THAT MONEYS RECEIVED INTO THE STATE TREASURY FROM CERTAIN SOURCES BE PLACED IN AND CONSTITUTE SUCH FUND AND APPROPRIATING ALL OF THE MONEYS ACCRUING THERETO FOR THE SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE IDAHO INDUSTRIAL REFORM SCHOOL.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: SECTION 1. That a fund which shall be known as the Idaho Industrial Refrom School Fund is hereby created and established and that all moneys now in, or credited to, that certain fund designated upon the books in the offices of the State Auditor and the State Treasurer the "Idaho Industrial Refrom School Fund" and all sums which may accrue from the investment of moneys belonging to that certain fund known and described upon the books in the offices of the State Auditor and the State Treasurer, as the "Idaho Industrial Refrom School Endowment Fund" and also four-fifteenths (4-15) of any and all moneys which may be received on account of rentals charged for the use of any of those certain lands granted to the State of Idaho "for other State charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions" by the act of Congress approved July 3rd, 1890, entitled "An act to provide for the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union," and four-fifteenths (4-15) of all moneys received by the State Treasurer on account of interest upon deferred payments on such of the said lands as may have been sold by the State, shall be credited to, placed in and constitute the said Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund.

SEC. 2. That no moneys shall ever be appropriated out of the said Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund for any purpose other than the support and maintenance of the Idaho Industrial Reform School, nor shall any moneys properly belonging to the said fund ever be diverted therefrom or used for any other purpose whatsoever.

SEC. 3. That all moneys which may accrue to the Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund under the provisions of this act, during the years 1905 and 1906, shall be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the payment of a portion of the cost of supporting and maintaining the Idaho Industrial Reform School during the period beginning on the first Monday in January, 1905, and ending on the first Monday in January, 1907.

SEC. 4. That perpetually from and after the first day of January, 1907, all moneys which may accrue to the Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund shall be, and the same are hereby, appropriated and set apart for the support and maintenance of the Idaho Industrial Reform School and that the same shall be, and they are hereby, made available for such purpose immediately upon their being credited to the said fund.

SEC. 5. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. Whereas, an emergency exists therefor, this act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved on the 6th day of March, 1905.

SENATE BILL NO. 124.

AN ACT

COMPELLING WITNESSES TO TESTIFY IN BRIBERY CASES.

Be It Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Idaho: SECTION 1. No person shall be excused from testifying or producing documents, at the instance of the State in any criminal cause or proceeding touching any offense relating to bribery, on the ground that the testimony required of him may incriminate him.

But no person shall be prosecuted or punished on account of any transaction, manner or thing concerning which he may be so required to testify or produce evidence: Provided, That no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury in so testifying.

Approved on the 7th day of March, 1905.

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