of the Boise Meridian; thence north along the range line between Ranges Forty-one (41) and Forty-two (42) East to the southeast corner of Township One (1) South of Range Forty-one (41); thence west along the township line between Township One (1) and Township Two (2) South of the southwest corner of Township One (1) South of Range Forty (40); thence north along the range line to the base line; thence west along the base line; thence west along the base line to the southwest corner of Township One (1) North of Range Thirty-eight (38); thence north along the range line to the northeast corner of Section Twenty-four (24), Township One (1) North of Range Thirty-seven (37); thence west along section lines to the southwest corner of Section Fifteen (15), Township One (1) North of Range Thirty-seven (37); thence north along the section line to the northwest corner of said Section Fifteen (15), Township One (1) North of Range Thirtyseven (37); thence west, following the section lines to the range line between Ranges Thirty-three (33) and Thirtyfour (34); thence north to the south line of of Fremont County; thence east, south and east along the south line of Fremont County to the west line of the State of Wyoming; thence south along the west line of the State of Wyoming to the point of beginning, shall be, and hereby is, created into the county named and to be known as the County of Bonneville and to be organized as herein provided.

SEC. 3. All that portion of Bingham County within the State of Idaho not embraced within the boundaries of the County of Bonneville County, (as defined in Section 2 of this Act), shall remain and constitute the County of Bingham.

SEC. 4. The Governor of the State of Idaho is hereby authorized and directed forthwith, when this Act becomes effective, to nominate and, by and with the consent of the Senate, appoint for the County of Bonneville the following officers, to-wit: Three (3) county commissioners; one (1) sheriff; one (1) clerk of the district court, who shall be exofficio auditor and recorder and clerk of the board of county commissioners; one (1) county treasurer, who shall be exofficio public administrator; one (1) county assessor, who shall be ex-officio tax collector, one (1) coroner; one (1) surveyor; one (1) probate judge; one (1) superintendent of public instruction, and one (1) prosecuting attorney, of whom the recorder shall first qualify and the other officers so appointed shall immediately thereafter qualify in the manner now provided for by law, and enter upon the discharge of their respective duties. The officers so appointed

shall hold their respective offices and discharge the duties thereof until their successors are elected and have qualified, as is or may hereafter be provided by law. And the territory of the said Bonneville County, for judicial purposes and the enforcement of the laws against crime, shall be deemed to belong to the territory of the County of Bingham until the officers of Bonneville County have been appointed and qualified, as herein provided.

SEC. 5. The county seat of the said County of Bonneville is hereby located and declared to be the City of Idaho Falls, and, for the purpose of fixing the annual salaries of the county commissioners, said County of Bonneville is designated as a county of the second class. The county commissioners of said Bonneville County shall provide suitable offices and places at said City of Idaho Falls for the accommodation and safe keeping of the papers, files, records and other personal property belonging to the said county or connected with any of the officers therein and for the proper use of the county officers of said county and for the holding of the district court therein.

SEC. 6. The county commissioners of said Bonneville County shall, within five (5) days after their qualification, meet at the City of Idaho Falls and organize for the transaction of county business and shall, at said meeting, establish precincts for said county and appoint officers therefor who shall hold their respective offices from the time of their qualification until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, However, That where, at the general election of the year 1910, officers were elected in precincts as heretofore established in said territory while the same was a part of Bingham County, such officers shall continue in office for such part or all of their respective precincts as said board of county commissioners may prescribe, during the full term for which they were elected.

SEC. 7. Within ten (10) days after the qualification of the county commissioners of Bonneville County, the board. of county commissioners of said county and of the County of Bingham, respectively, shall meet and each of said board shall appoint a competent accountant. Said accountants shall constitute an auditing board and board of appraisers and shall, within five (5) days after their appointment, meet at the City of Idaho Falls in Bingham County, and, after taking the usual oath of office, shall then and there proceed to ascertain from the county records the whole amount of indebtedness, (if any), of said Bingham County, as said county existed prior to the subdivision thereof as herein made; and shall make statement and determine the

value of all of the public property belonging to Bingham County and report thereon; and shall compute from the assessment roll of said county for the year 1910 the total taxable property of each of said counties; and shall determine the amount of money in the possession or under the control of the county treasurer of said Bingham County, including school moneys and school funds and money belonging to municipal corporations located within the territory of said new county; and shall make full statement and report of all of said matters and of all other matters proper to be audited and reported upon in order to make a full and satisfactory adjustment and settlement between said Counties, with their conclusion as to the amount due from the one county to the other upon the settlement of such indebtedness, (if any), and of such public property and for and on account of the money in the hands or under the control of the county treasurer as aforesaid; and shall file a copy of all such statements, reports and conclusion with the board of county commissioners of each of said counties. The indebtedness of said County of Bingham, (if any), and the value of the public property of said county, as determined in the manner provided in this Act, and all moneys belonging to the general funds of the county, shall be apportioned between said counties in proportion to the assessed valuation of the taxable property of said counties as shown by the assessment roll for the year 1910. In the event of a disagreement of said accountants as to any of the matters included in their duties as above specified and defined, they shall choose a third competent third person to assist them, and the decision of any two shall control. Either of said counties may, if dissatisfied with the statements, reports or conclusion of said accountants, appeal to the district court of said Bingham County. For whatever amount is found to be due from either of said counties to the other in the manner above provided, the board of county commissioners of the debtor county shall cause county warrants to be drawn by the county auditor of said county for the amount so due, payable to the creditor county. Said accountants shall be allowed reasonable compensation for their services, each to be paid by the county making his appointment, and, in the event of a third one being employed, one-half (2) of his compensation shall be paid by each of said counties. The county courthouse and county courthouse grounds situate at Blackfoot, Idaho, shall be and remain the property of Bingham County without any compensation therefor or on account thereof to the said Bonneville County. Said accountants shall, as nearly as prac

ticable, divide between the respective counties equally all chattel property of the old county which is capable of division. The title to real property and tax sale certificates for real property to which the former county of Bingham shall have acquired any right, title or interest by virtue of tax deeds or tax sales heretofore made shall vest in the county in which the same is situate.

As soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, the county recorder of Bingham County shall transcribe, or cause to be transcribed from the records of his office in a neat and proper manner and clearly written with pen and ink or with a typewriter with indelible ink, into permanent records all instruments, papers and other matters and things relating to or affecting property in the territory included in said County of Bonneville. When any of said records are completed, said county recorder shall certify therein as to the identity and correctness of said record and deliver the same into the possession of the county recorder of said Bonneville County. Said records, when so prepared and certified, shall be official records of said Bonneville County as to all property, matters and things to which they refer or which they affect, and shall have the same force and effect as the originals. The county commissioners of Bonneville County shall employ competent persons to prepare proper indexes for said new records, and the actual cost of such transcribing and indexing shall be audited and paid by the said County of Bonneville. Any of the records, instruments, documents, maps, plats, tax sale certificates, or other papers of Bingham County which relate wholly to and cover property located entirely in Bonneville County, shall be certified to by the officers of said Bingham County in whose proper possession they now are, and by him turned over to the proper officer of Bonneville County without being transcribed, and shall be a part of the public records of said last named county.

SEC. 9. The county assessor of Bingham County shall, immediately upon the taking effect of this Act, proceed to make and certify to a copy of all of the tax rolls of his office so far as they show the unpaid taxes against persons, firms, associations, corporations, and property in the territory included in the County of Bonneville, and, as soon as completed, shall deliver said copy to the county assessor of the county last named. Said copies of the tax roll shall be official records of said last named county with the same force and effect as the originals thereof, and the same shall be authority for the tax collector of said Bonneville County

to collect said unpaid taxes in any manner authorized by. law.

SEC. 10. The county treasurer of Bingham County shall, as soon as the county treasurer of Bonneville County is qualified to act, pay over to the county treasurer of said last named county all school money in his hands belonging to the district schools and independent school district in Bonneville County which has come into his possession or under his control from taxes or other revenues collected up to the time of the taking effect of this Act, and shall also pay to the municipal corporations in said last named county all funds in his hands belonging to such municipal corporations.

SEC. 11. Said County of Bonneville shall be included in and form a part of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Idaho, and the terms of the district court for said county shall be fixed by the judge of said court in the manner now provided by law for fixing terms of the district court in this State, and all actions and proceedings now pending in the district court of Bingham County, the causes of which arose in the territory included in Bonneville County and which should have been brought in said last named county had said county at the time existed, shall be transferred to the said Bonneville County.

SEC. 12. Upon the written application of a party interested in any of said actions or proceedings, his agent or attorney, the judge of said district court shall sign, in duplicate, an order directing the transfer of the actions or proceedings specified in said application, one of which orders shall be filed with the clerk of the district court of each of said counties.

SEC. 13. Upon the filing with him of said order for transfer, the clerk of the district court of Bingham County shall immediately transmit to the clerk of the district court of Bonneville County all the pleadings and other papers belonging to the files, and shall make out and include therewith a transcript of all the record entries of the proceedings and orders had and entered in said case and an itemized statement of all costs and fees taxed or claimed therein, and shall send with said files, transcript and statement his certificate specifying and identifying the several pleadings and other papers so transmitted, and stating that the record entries so transcribed comprise all of the proceedings and orders in relation to said action or proceeding.

SEC. 14. Upon receipt by him of the papers in the actions so transferred, the clerk of the district court of Bonneville County shall file the same and docket said cases in