Notice for pay quent road tax. ment of delin Notice to have effect of gar. nishee process. Debtor liable to serve on any debtor of the person from whom such road tax is due, a notice printed or in writing or partly printed and partly written, that such road tax has been demanded and is unpaid, and requiring such debtor of the person delinquent to pay to such road overseer, the full amount of such road tax, with fifty cents additional thereto for costs of such notice, and every such notice may require such debtor to appear before some justice of the peace of the county at a day and hour named therein, to answer said road overseer as the garnishee of the delinquent tax payer. 2412. SEC. 38. The service of such notice shall have the same effect as the service of a garnishee process, and upon the service thereof, the person upon whom the same is served shall be authorized to pay to the road overseer the amount of tax assessed against said delinquent, together with fifty cents in addition thereto, and such payment shall to the extent thereof bar any further liability therefor to such delinquent tax payer. 2413. SEC. 39. If any such debtor, upon whom sercosts for failure Vice of any such notice is made, shall fail or refuse to pay of tax; fees of the road overseer serving the same the amount of such service of notice. tax, with the fee of fifty cents for serving such notice, as to pay amount road overseer for fines and pen alties. provided by the two preceding sections, he shall be liable for all costs thereafter accruing in the said proceedings of garnishment. Every road overseer, for the service of such notices, shall be entitled to receive fifty cents. 2414. SEC. 40. All fines, penalties and forfeitures proDisposition of vided by this act, where not otherwise specified, shall be recoverable by action of debt, in the name of the people of the state of Colorado, before any court of competent jurisdiction; all such fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be paid into the county treasury and shall be a fund for the improvement of roads of the road district wherein the same accrued. Repeal. 2415. SEC. 41. Chapter seventy-six of the revised statutes, an act "to establish a territorial road from the town of Evans in the county of Weld to Boulder city, in the county of Boulder, and for other purposes," approved February 11, 1870. An act "to amend chapter seventy-six of the revised stat utes of Colorado territory," approved February 10, A. D. 1870. An act "to establish a territorial road," approved February 9, A. D. 1872. An act "to estabish a territorial road," approved February 9, A. D., 1872. An act "to amend section twenty-seven and thirty of chapter seventy-six of the revised statutes of Colorado," approved, February 6, 1872. An act "to amend chapter seventy-six of the revised statutes," approved, February 13, A. D., 1874. An act "to amend an act, entitled roads and highways," approved, February 9, 1874. An act "to establish a territorial road in Huerfano county," approved, February 13, 1874. An act "regulating the pay of road overseers in Weld and Larimer counties," approved, February 13, 1874. An act "to legalize the roads and highways of Boulder, Douglas, Las Animas, Weld, Larimer, Jefferson, Arapahoe, El Paso, Lake, Costilla, Bent, Pueblo and Huerfano counties, established by order of the county commissioners of said county commisioners of said counties," approved, February 12, A. D., 1874. An act "regulating the pay of road overseers in Douglas and other counties," approved February 9, 1876. An act in relation to road law in Lake and Saguache counties, approved, January 11, A. D., 1876, all of the late territory of Colorado, be and are hereby repealed; provided, that the repeal of such chapter or acts, or any of them, shall in no wise take away, divest or impair any right acquired while the same remained in force. Approved, March 22, 1877. Time within demurrers, etc., are to be determined by judges district court. CHAPTER LXXXIX. SALARIES. AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE [Session Laws, 1870.] 2416. SECTION 1. Every motion, demurrer, issue or which motions, other matter, arrising in any cause pending or to be brought in any district court of this state, and which shall be submitted to any such court for judgment or decision thereon, shall be determined by the court within ninety days after the adjournment of court: Provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit a decision, after the expiration of the time limited, but only as working a forfeiture as hereinafter provided. Penalty for fail give decision within given time. 2417. SEC. 2. If any judge of any district court, to ure or neglect to whom any motion, demurrer, issue, or other matter arising in any cause, shall be submitted for judgment or decision, shall fail or neglect to decide or give judgment upon the same, within the time limited by section one of this act, he shall not receive from the state treasury any salary for the quarter in which such failure shall occur: Provided, that this section shall not apply in case of the sickness or death of the judge. What certificate auditing account of judge. 2418. SEC. 3. That the auditor of the state, before to be made in auditing or allowing the account of any judge for salary. shall require such judge to certify that all motions, demurrers, issues, and other matters arising in any cause, which have been submitted to him for judgment or decis ion thereon, have been determined as required in the first section of this act. Salaries of state officers. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF SALARIES TO OFFICERS Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: The lieutenant-governor shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars. The secretary of state shall receive an annual salary of twenty-two hundred dollars, and the further sum of one thousand dollars for the payment of a clerk. The auditor of state shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. The state treasurer shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. The superintendent of public instruction shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. The attorney general shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. The judges of the supreme courts shall each receive an annual salary of thirty-two hundred and fifty dollars. The judges of the district courts shall each receive an annual salary of thirty-two hundred and fifty dollars. The district attorneys shall each receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars and all fees. In what manner paid. 2420. SEC. 2. The salaries aforesaid shall be payable. in monthly installments at the end of each and every month salaries to be from the date of the qualification of the said officers respectively, for their respective offices, and upon request, the auditor shall draw warrants upon the state treasurer accordingly in favor of the several officers aforesaid. 2421. SEC. 3. Inasmuch as there is no existing law for the payment of salaries to the said officers, this general assembly is of the opinion that an emergency exists requiring this act to take effect without delay, therefore this act shall take effect immediately. Approved, February 19, 1877. Emergency. ΙΟΙ Style and device of seal. Punishment for illegal use, forgery, counter state seal. CHAPTER XC. STATE SEAL. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION AND PROCURING OF A SEAL Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 2423. SEC. 2. Any person who shall illegally use or affix the seal of this state to any written or printed docufeiting, etc., of ment whatever, or shall fraudulently forge, deface, corrupt, or counterfeit the same, or affix said forged, defaced, corrupted, or counterfeited seal to any commission, deed, warrant, pardon, certificate or other written or printed instrument, or shall have in his or her possession or custody any such seal, knowing it to be falsely made and counterfeited, and shall wilfully conceal the same, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished at hard labor in the penitentiary for a term of not less than two years, nor more than ten years, at the discretion of the judge of the court before whom the conviction was obtained. Custodian of seal. SEC. 3. The secretary of state is alone authorized to use or affix the seal of this state to any document whatever, and he only in pursuance of law; and the said secre |