of the issuance of such bonds to the electors of the city or town.

SEC. 2. An emergency existing therefor, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved March 3, 1911.

CHAPTER 31

AN ACT

TO CREATE AND ORGANIZE THE COUNTY OF ADAMS AND TO DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES THEREOF; TO FIX THE COUNTY SEAT THEREOF TEMPORARILY; TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS, FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THAT PORTION OF THE RECORDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY EMBRACED WITHIN SAID ADAMS COUNTY HEREBY CREATED; TO CONSTITUTE THE COUNTY OF ADAMS A PART OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND A PART OF THE TWENTYSECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY THEREFOR.

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

SECTION 1. That there shall be and there is hereby created and formed out of the northern part of Washington County in the State of Idaho, a new County, to be called Adams County, to be organized as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. All that portion of the present County of Washington, State of Idaho, included within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Oregon, the same being the middle of the center channel of Snake River, 3960 feet in a southwesterly direction from the mouth of Wildhorse River; and running thence south and in a southeasterly direction fifteen and one-half (152) miles to a point onehalf mile east of the west quarter corner, Section Six (6), Township Seventeen (17) North, Range Two (2) West; thence south about twelve (12) miles to the intersection of said line with Cow Creek; thence southeast down the center line of Cow Creek to its confluence with the Weiser River; thence south across the Weiser River to a point Five Hundred (500) feet east of the north quarter corner of Section Twenty-nine (29), Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Two (2) West, Boise Meridian; thence east about three and three-quarter (334) miles to a point 1320

feet east of the northwest corner of Section Twenty-five (25), said township and range; thence south eight and onehalf (812) miles to a point 1320 feet east of the west quarter corner of Section One (1), Township Thirteen (13) North, Range Two (2) West; thence in a southeasterly direction Six and one-half (612) miles to a point 1320 feet south and 1320 feet east of the west quarter corner of Section Twenty-four (24), Township Thirteen (13) North, Range One (1) West, Boise Meridian; thence due east to the county boundary line between Washington and Boise Counties; thence in a northerly direction along the present boundary line between said Washington and Boise and Idaho Counties, to the northeast corner of Washington County; thence due west along the said northern boundary of Washington County and southern boundary of Idaho County to the middle of the center channel of Snake River, the same being the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Oregon; thence in a southerly direction following said boundary line between said States of Idaho and Oregon to the point of beginning; shall be and the same is hereby created into the County named and to be known as the County of Adams, and to be organized as herein provided.

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

SEC. 4. The Governor of the State of Idaho is hereby authorized and directed forthwith when this Act becomes effective, to appoint for the County of Adams the following officers, to-wit: Three (3) county commissioners; one (1) sheriff; one (1) clerk of the district court, who shall be ex-officio auditor and recorder and clerk of the board of county commissioners; one (1) county treasurer, who shall be ex-officio 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, as is, or hereafter may be, provided by law. And the territory of said Adams County for judicial purposes and the enforcement of laws against crime, shall be deemed to belong to the territory of the County of Washington, until the offi

cers of Adams County have been appointed and qualified as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 5. The temporary county seat of the said Adams County shall be, after the establishment of the County, located at and within the corporate limits of the present village of Council. And at the general election held in 1912, a vote as provided by law shall be had as to the location of the permanent county seat of said Adams County.

SEC. 6. The County of Washington shall have, own and retain all of the property remaining within its boundaries after the creation of Adams County, and shall pay to Adams County proportionate share of the value of such property as may be determined and hereafter herein provided for.

SEC. 7. For the purpose of ascertaining the value of the property and determining the amount of money to be paid to Adams County by Washington County therefor as its proportionate share, the board of county commissioners of said counties, at the first meeting next following the establishment of Adams County shall each appoint a competent appraiser, who shall within five (5) days after such appointment meet at the county seat of said Washington County and take the usual oath of office and proceed then and there to ascertain and appraise and honestly and impartially determine the present value of the county buildings, the jail, the courthouse and permanent fixtures, furniture, safes, vaults and all other personal property and real property belonging to and remaining within the County of Washington, as well as any similar and corresponding property falling within the territory of Adams County, and make and file with the chairman of the board of county commissioners of each of the counties a report and certificate of such appraisal in writing over their signatures; and such appraisal when so made and certified shall be final and conclusive and such evidence of the same; Provided, That if such appraisers cannot agree as to the value of the county property and the things to be determined by them, the Governor shall appoint one (1) disinterested citizen of Idaho, who shall be neither a resident of nor an owner of taxable property in either of the counties interested, who, after taking the same oath of office shall act with said appraisers and the concurrence of the majority of said board of three, thus constituted, in such report and certificate, shall be final. In making such appraisal, such appraisers shall consider the cost of the county buildings and other property and allow for subsequent wear and depreciation thereof, and determine the present value thereof to the county.

SEC. 8. Said appraisers shall also at the same time and place, together with the one appointed by the Governor, if necessary, itemize, ascertain and determine all the money, credits and funds, including the estimate of unpaid delinquent taxes heretofore levied, in the county treasurer's hands or in the hands of any other officer belonging to Washington County at said time, or likely to come into his or their hands hereafter (exclusive of all funds belonging to school and road districts, villages and other municipalities located within either of said counties), as shown by the books in the auditor and treasurer's office of said Washington County, and also to determine the amount of the floating indebtedness, if any, of Washington County at said time, as represented by the unpaid outstanding warrants and orders, and shall make and file the same. Said appraisers shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for all of their services rendered under the provisions of this Act, to be audited and allowed by the board of county commissioners of each county equally.

SEC. 9. All money and funds in the hands of the County Treasurer or any other officer of Washington County at the time of the creation of Adams County, belonging to any school district or road district, village or other municipality located within the County of Adams, shall not be taken into consideration in the making of the appraisements provided for hereinbefore, but the same shall be paid over to the treasurer of the County of Adams to the credit of such school or road district, village or other municipality within thirty (30) days after the creation of Adams County, and all money and funds coming thereafter into the hands of the treasurer or any other officer of Washington County from delinquent taxes or unpaid taxes levied prior to the creation of Adams County, or from any other source belonging to any school or road district, village or other municipality located within the County of Adams shall be immediately paid to the treasurer of Adams County for the benefit and to the credit of such school or road district, village or municipality.

SEC. 10. Within thirty (30) days after the filing of said report and certificate as provided in Section Eight (8) of this Act, the board of county commissioners of Washington County shall draw or cause to be drawn a warrant in favor of Adams County, as its share of the value of the said present county property of Washington County, the basis of such snare being ascertained by the proportion as it bears to the whole of the assessable valuation of the property, as shown by the assessment roll for Washington County for the year 1910, and located within the County of

Adams. Said board of county commissioners shalı likewise within said time as herein provided, pay or cause to be paid to said Adams County its proportionate share of the moneys remaining in the hands of the county treasurer or other officers, or which shall hereafter come into their hands in the same proportions as herein provided; Provided, however, That Washington County may and shall pay all warrants or other indebtedness of said Washington County and thereafter pay to said Adams County her proportionate share of the money, as shown by the report of said commissioners hereinbefore provided for.

SEC. 11. The recorder of Washington County shall within ninety (90) days after the establishment of the County of Adams, transcribe all matters of record from the record books of Washington County that should be of record in Adams County into suitable books, to be provided by Adams County, and deliver the same to the recorder of Adams County, and when so transcribed and delivered they shall be the official records of all property and other matters to which they refer and shall have the same force and effect as the original. Said County of Adams shall pay to the County of Washington eight cents (8c) per folio of one hundred words as compensation for transcribing said records, including indexing and certifying of said records, said accounts to be audited and allowed by the commissioners of Adams County, as other proper accounts against said county.

SEC. 12. Until further provided by law, said county of Adams shall be attached to Washington County as the Twenty-second Senatorial District of the State and shall be entitled to elect one senator jointly with Washington County, and shall be entitled to elect one representative in the House of Representatives and such representative shall be deducted from the number of representatives now apportioned to Washington County until such time as the representation shall be fixed by a general apportionment act.

SEC. 13. All actions, prosecutions and legal proceedings which shall be pending in the district court and probate court of Washington County, after the establishment of Adams County, affecting persons and property within Adams County, shall be prosecuted and maintained in Adams County and all other proceedings had therein shall be in Adams County the same as if originally commenced in that county.

SEC. 14. The said County of Adams is hereby declared to be within and a part of the seventh Judicial District of the State of Idaho; and the terms of the district court for said county shall be fixed in the manner now provided by