SEC. 3. The Auditor of State, upon the order of the board of control of said school, countersigned by the secretary of said board, shall draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer, for the moneys hereby appropriated, in favor of the treasurer of said board. SEC. 4. That, inasmuch as there was a deficiency in the last appropriation, and the said industrial school is without funds to defray its current expenses, in the opinion of this General Assembly, an emergency exists; this act shall, Emergency. therefore, take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 6, 1885. APPROPRIATION-STATE PENITENTIARY. (H. B. 345.) AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of tioned and for SECTION I. There is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriation. moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the years 1885 and 1886, the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand ($190,000) dollars, to wit: $95,000 for How apporthe year 1885, and $95,000 for the year 1886, together with what purpose to be expended. fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars of moneys received for convict labor during the years 1885 and 1886, to be expended as follows: For maintenance and support of, including salaries of officers and employés, the sum of two hundred and ten thousand ($210,000) dollars; for the building of additional shop room, five thousand ($5,000) dollars; for the building of sewers, five thousand ($5,000) dollars; limekilns and quarry expenses, the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. To be used exclusively for the purposes for which same is appropriated. Emergency. SEC. 2. Said appropriations shall be used exclusively for the purposes aforesaid, and the Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the payment of the same, upon vouchers certified by the president of the board of commissioners and attested by the secretary thereof. SEC. 3. Inasmuch as it will be necessary to draw upon this fund before the expiration of ninety days, therefore it is the sense of this General Assembly that an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force on and after its passage. Approved April 6, 1885. ARCHULETA COUNTY. (S. B. 144.) AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE COUNTY OF ARCHULETA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR Boundary. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. That so much of the county of Conejos lying west of a line beginning at a point upon the southern boundary of the State of Colorado, directly south of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway depot building called Cumbres, and running thence northwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Chama and Los Pinos rivers to the Continental divide, thence along said Continental divide to the northern boundary of Conejos county, thence west along the said northern boundary line of Conejos county to the southwest corner of Rio Grande county, thence west along the southern boundary of Hinsdale to the northwest corner of Conejos county, thence south to the State line, thence along the southern boundary line of the State due east to the place of beginning, shall be set apart, and is hereby established as a county, with the legal capacity and function of other counties of this State, to be called the county of Archuleta. SEC. 2. The county seat of said county shall be at the County seat. town of Pagosa Springs. Conejos county leta county. SEC. 3. All county and precinct officers who live in Officers of that part of Conejos county that is hereby made Archuleta living in Archucounty, shall hold their respective offices for the term for which they may have been elected, and are hereby declared to be legal officers of Archuleta county, to hold their respective offices until after the next general election in said county, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified according to law; and it is further provided that the county records shall be kept, and all county offices shall be at the town of Pagosa Springs, in said Archuleta county, until otherwise provided by law. SEC. 4. SEC. 5. SEC. 6. There shall be held annually in said county of Archuleta, four terms of the county court, commencing on the first Monday in the months of March, June, September and December. court. SEC. 7. There shall be held annually in said county of Terms of district Archuleta, one term of district court, on the fourth Tuesday of the month of June. SEC. 8. All county records or other county property heretofore belonging in or to the county of Conejos, shall be and remain the property of said county of Conejos. SEC. 9. A duly certified transcript of all the records of Transcript of all property situated in the county of Archuleta, shall be records. furnished to the county clerk of said county as is now provided for by law, and such transcript shall be entered upon. the record books of said county of Archuleta, and when so entered shall be deemed and held to be good and legal record. SEC. 10. edness. The present indebtedness of the county of County indebtConejos, shall be apportioned between the county of Conejos and the county of Archuleta, in proportion to the ratio which the taxable property of that portion of the county of County commissioners to adjust Conejos, which is now included within the boundary of Archuleta county, bears to the taxable property of the county of Conejos, as shown by the assessment rolls for the year 1884. . SEC. II. The board of county commissioners of said indebtedness. counties of Conejos and Archuleta, shall have full power and authority to adjust and settle all matters of revenue that it may be necessary to adjust and settle on account of the formation of said new county of Archuleta, and also to apportion the indebtedness of said county of Conejos specified in section ten of this act, and for these purposes the said commissioners of Conejos and Archuleta counties shall meet at the town of Conejos upon ten days' notice in writing being given by the commissioners of either county to the commissioners of the other county, at any time after the officers of the county of Archuleta shall have been duly appointed and qualified, and a majority of the united boards of commissioners of the counties of Conejos and Archuleta shall be a legal quorum to adjust said revenue and apportion said indebtedness of said Conejos county. In case there shall not be a quorum present at any of said meetings, or in case the said commissioners fail to agree on the adjustment of said revenue, and the apportionment of indebtedness of said county, then upon the request of either of the said boards of commissioners, each board of county commissioners shall choose one man, they to choose the third man; the three men so chosen shall have power of arbitration, and their decision shall be final; the expenses of such arbitration, if any shall be required as to the present indebtedness of Conejos county, shall be paid in equal proportion by said counties of Conejos and Archuleta. Part of the twentieth senatorial district, sixth judicial district. SEC. 12. The county of Archuleta is hereby attached and made a part of the twentieth senatorial district and of the sixth judicial district, and is hereby attached to the county of Conejos for representative purposes, and shall so remain until otherwise changed by law. SEC. 13. In the opinion of this General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 14, 1885. (H. B. 222.) AN ACT IN RELATION TO ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF CREDITORS, make a general assignment, etc. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Any person may make a general assign- Any person may ment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors, by deed, duly acknowledged, which, when filed for record in the office of the clerk and recorder of the county where the assignor resides, or, if a non-resident, where his principal place of business is, in this State, shall vest in the assignee the title to all the property, real and personal, of the assignor, in trust, for the use and benefit of such creditors. attach inventory. SEC. 2. The assignor shall annex to such assignment an Assignor to inventory, under oath, of his estate, real and personal, according to the best of his knowledge, with the estimated value thereof, and also a list of his creditors, giving their names, residence if known, and the amount of their respective demands; but such inventory shall not be conclusive of the amount of the assignor's estate, nor shall the omission of any property from such inventory defeat the assignment or conveyance of the same. SEC. 3. No such deed of general assignment of property by an insolvent, or in contemplation of insolvency for the benefit of creditors, shall be valid, unless by its terms it be made for the benefit of all his creditors, in proportion to the amount of their respective claims. SEC. 4. In case of the assignment of property for the benefit of all the creditors of the assignor, the assent of the creditors shall be presumed. shall be filed. SEC. 5. The assignee shall forthwith file with the clerk Where inventory of the district court, or the superior court, where such court is established in any county in which such deed of assignment is recorded, a true and full inventory and valuation, under oath, so far as the same has come to his knowledge, and shall then and there enter into bonds before said clerk in favor of the people of the State of Colorado, for the use |