to keep ac

ceipts and expenditures, etc.

Must submit statement to County Court annually.

County Clerk required to keep an accurate account of all recount of re- ceipts and expenditures of his county, also of all debts payable to and by said county. At the session of the county court, annually, during the June term thereof, the county clerk shall submit to the said court a statement showing the total amount received from each source of revenue during the fiscal year ending on the thirty-first day of May next preceding, the balance, if any, in the treasury at the close of the previous fiscal year, the expenditures during the fiscal year just closed, specifying separately the total amount paid to each officer and the total amount for each and every disbursement, the balance on hand, if any, together with a statement of all the debts payable to and by said county. The said court shall thereupon audit said statement, and the county clerk shall, within ten days from the close of said auditing,publish a true copy of said stateStatement to ment as approved by the county court, in some newspaper having general circulation in the county, and by posting up the said copy in his office, and shall keep said copy posted up during the year, and shall also biennially, on or before the first day of November, send a correct copy of each year's report to the Auditor of Public Accounts. A neglect of any of these duties by the clerk of county court shall render him liable to a fine in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Court must audit statement.

be published and posted, when.

Copy to be sent to Auditor.

Penalty.

Auditor of Public Accounts to receive financial state

SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts to receive the financial statements mentioned in section 1 of this act, to carefully examine and audit the same, and durpresent same ing the first two weeks of the session of the Legisto Legislature. lative Assemby to present them to the Legislative Assembly,

mens, and

SEC. 3. Chapter XXVIII, Laws of Utah, 1880, is hereby repealed.

Approved March 9, 1882.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

AN ACT to further define the Duties of the Auditor of Public
Accounts.

Auditor of

prosecute for

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the Auditor of Public Accounts be and is hereby authorized and empowered to direct prose- Public Ac cution, in the name of the Territory, for all offi- counts to cial delinquencies in relation to the assessment, official delincollection and payment of the revenue against all quencies. persons who, by any means, become possessed of public money or property, and fail to pay over or deliver the same, and against all debtors of the May employ Territory, and when necessary to employ counsel counsel. for that purpose.

Approved March 9, 1882.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

OF REVISION AND COMPILATION.

AN ACT providing for the Revision and Compilation of the
Laws of the Territory of Utah.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That P. H. Emerson, John T. Caine, Samuel R. Committee Thurman and Arthur L. Thomas are hereby con- compile and stituted a committee on the revision and compilation of the laws of the Territory of Utah.

appointed to

revise laws.

Duties of
Committee.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said committee, during the next ensuing two years, to revise and compile all the laws of said Territory, in force therein, including the laws passed at the present session, and to arrange the same in one bill, divided into titles, chapters and sections, with said titles and sections, numbered consecutively. The said bill shall contain no repealed laws, and all the laws inconsistent with each other and not specially repealed, shall be noted in the margin, so far as said committee shall discover such inconsistencies.

SEC. 3. Said committee shall report said bill with notes, as aforesaid, and such recommendaCommittee to tions relating thereto as they may deem wise, to the Legislative Assembly, during the first week of its next session.

report to

Legislature.

Compensation.

Appropriation.

How vacancie sin Com

SEC. 4. Said committee shall receive the sum of four dollars per day each for each day actually employed at said labor, and their necessary traveling expenses; and there is hereby appropriated from the territorial treasury the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used in the purchase of the necessary stationery and incidentals of said labor, and the balance to be paid to said committee on account of per diem and expenses. The remainder of said per diem and expenses, if any, to be paid for at the next session of the Legislative Assembly.

SEC. 5. If from any cause there should become a vacancy in said committee, the other three members thereof are hereby empowered to fill mittee to be such vacancy by appointment, and the appointee shall have all the powers and liabilities of the original members.

filled.

Approved March 9, 1882.

CHAPTER XL.

OF JURORS AND WITNESSES.

AN ACT Relating to Jury Attendance Rolls and Certificates of Witnesses.

Clerks of Dis

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the clerks of the several district courts are hereby required to keep an attendance roll, on trict Courts to which shall be noted every day's attendance of tendance rolls each juror required to attend the court in criminal

cases.

keep jury at

certify num

SEC. 2. The foreman of the grand jury for Foreman of any term of court shall certify to the clerk of the Grand Jury to district court of the district for which such jury ber of days is summoned, the number of days' attendance of Witnesses each witness who appears before said grand jury.

attend.

to Witnesses.

SEC. 3. Upon the receipt of said certificate from the foreman of the grand jury, the clerk Certificates for shall make up the amount due each witness for amount due attendance and mileage, which mileage shall be calculated from the precinct in which such witness was subpoenaed, and give a certificate therefor under the seal of said court.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all officers or Duties of offiother persons serving subpoenas on witnesses to cers serving attend any of the district courts, in their returns subpoenas. on such subpoenas to recite the precinct in which

such service was made.

Approved March 9, 1882.

C

CHAPTER XLI.

OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.

An Act in relation to Negotiable Instruments.

CHAPTER FIRST.

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS IN GENERAL.

Be it enacted by the Goxernor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah:

Negotiable

ARTICLE FIRST.

General Definitions.

SEC. 1. That a negotiable instrument is a written promise or request for the payment of a Instrument, certain sum of money to order or bearer, in conformity to the provisions of this act.

what.

Must be for

SEC. 2. A negotiable instrument must be uncondition- made payable in money only, and without any condition not certain of fulfilment.

al payment of money.

Payee.

Instrument

SEC. 3. The person to whose order a negotiable instrument is made payable must be ascercertainable at the time the instrument is made.

SEC. 4. A negotiable instrument may give to the payee an option between the payment of may be in al- the sum specified therein and the performance of another act; but as to the latter, the instrument is not within the provisions of this act.

ternative.

Date, etc.

SEC. 5. A negotiable instrument may be with or without date, and with or without designation of the time or place of payment.

SEC. 6. A negotiable instrument may conMay contain a tain a pledge of collateral security, with authority

pledge, etc.

to dispose thereof.