Did you Know?

That the following act was approved at the Thirteenth Session of the Idaho Territorial Legislature:

IDAHO COUNTY - 

AN ACT TO EXEMPT FIREMEN FROM PAYING POLL TAX, AND FROM JURY DUTY

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows:

Section 1.  That all active members regularly enrolled as members of any volunteer fire company in this Territory, who are citizens of the United States, be a and are exempt from paying poll tax; and active members shall be exempt from jury duty as follows:  At the rate of twenty active members for every one thousand inhabitants of the town or city where such fire company is located.

Section 2.  It shall be the duty of the County Recorder to give certificates of exemption for one year to those members whom the Chief Engineer of the Department, or in case there is no Department, the foreman of the company, may designate, not to exceed the number and rate heretofore provided for in Section 1.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 15, 1885