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44 board of Territorial commissioners at their semi-annual settlement with the Territorial treasurer, to be made on the fifteenth day of June and the fifteenth day of January of each year.

It shall be the duty of the Territorial commissioners and of each member of said board, on or before the times mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter, to make a semi-annual settlement with the Territorial treasurer for all drafts drawn in accordance with and for the purposes specified in this chapter, and produce and file with said treasurer all vouchers properly attested by some court of competent jurisdiction, upon which said drafts have been drawn, taking a receipt therefor from said treasurer. Such settlement may be made in person or by legally authorized agent of said commissioners, or in writing; provided, that this section be construed as in no manner releasing the said commissioners from their responsibility for the loss or destruction of their vouchers prior to filing the same with the Territorial treasurer.

The board of Territorial commissioners, or any member of said board, may draw on the treasurer of the Territory, and from the Indian war fund, drafts for the payment of ranger corps not formed under the provisions of the act authorizing the raising of rangers, when in their sound discretion the exigencies of the times may have required the services of such body of men, and the affidavit of the leader of such party or corps may be taken as a voucher for the same, in the same manner as the affidavits of the captains of the regular ranger corps; Provided, that this section be not construed to compel such board, contrary to their convictions as to the justness and correctness of the same, to receive the affidavits of any and every leader of irregular parties engaged in the war against the Apache Indians.

That the board of Territorial commissioners be and are hereby authorized, in the disbursement of the Indian war fund to the different ranger corps, to pay such amounts in gold as may in their sound discretion seem advisable and proper for the services rendered, making such provision for said disbursement, and for such class of services, as may in their opinion conduce to the greatest benefit of the Territory.

Each commissioner appointed by this act shall enter into bonds to the Territory of Arizona, with three or more sufficient sureties, to be approved of by the judges of probate of the counties where they severally reside, in the penal sum of forty thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of their duties, and shall hold their office for the period of three years, unless sooner removed by death, resignation, or for malfeasance in office.

The board of Territorial commissioners shall be allowed all the necessary expenses in printing and negotiating the sale of the bonds of the Indian war loan, on their accounts being approved and audited by the board of Territorial auditors, and a draft drawn on the Territorial treasurer for the payment of the same by said board of Territorial auditors; said sums so audited and allowed shall be paid out of the funds of said loan, and the amount so allowed shall not exceed one thousand dollars for each commissioner.

John N. Goodwin, King S. Woolsey, and John G. Capron are hereby appointed a board of Territorial commissioners, to hold their office