into four wards, then, at the next annual election held under this Act, one of said Trustees shall be elected from each of said wards, and one from the town at large. Appropriation made. Controller to draw warrant. CHAP. LXI.-An Act for the payment of the claim of Doctors [Approved March 1, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of eleven hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund of the State not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the claim of Doctors Langdon and Clark, for the keeping, maintenance, and support of Mrs. Margaret Mott, an indigent insane person. SEC. 2. That the State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for said sum of eleven hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents in favor of Doctors Langdon and Clark, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of the appropriation herein made. Claim authorized. CHAP. LXII.-An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of [Approved March 1, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Commissioners of Elko County, in the State of Nevada, are hereby authorized to allow the claim of James M. Mateer, in the sum of two hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents ($265 50), amount claimed by him for witness fees and traveling expenses in the case of the People of the State of Nevada against John W. Nelson; and, upon said allowance by the said County Commissioners, the County Treasurer of said Elko County is hereby authorized to pay the same.. › CHAP. LXIII.—An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Fire Department of the City of Virginia," approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved March 1, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Fire Act Department of the City of Virginia," approved February twen- repealed. tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby repealed. CHAP. LXIV.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the civil government of the State of Nevada for the thirteenth and fourteenth fiscal years. [Approved March 1, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and ations. SECTION 1. The following sums of money are hereby appro. Appropri priated for the objects hereinafter expressed, and for the support of the government of the State of Nevada for the thirteenth and fourteenth fiscal years: For salary of Governor, twelve thousand dollars. For salary of Lieutenant Governor, as ex officio Adjutant General and State Librarian, seven thousand two hundred dol lars. For salary of the Secretary of State, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of State Controller, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of State Treasurer, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of Surveyor General and Register, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of State Mineralogist, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of Attorney General, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of Superintendent of Public Instruction, four thousand dollars. For salary of Justices of the Supreme Court, forty-two thousand dollars. For salary of Clerk of the Supreme Court, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase of Nevada Supreme Court Reports, six thousand four hundred dollars. Same. For preparation of Nevada Reports for publication, fourteen hundred dollars. For furnishing fuel, lights, preparing legislative halls, and preparing furniture for the ninth session of the State Legisla ture, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, fifteen hundred dollars. For salary of Governor's Private Secretary, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of Deputy Secretary of State, six thousand dol lars. For salary of Deputy Controller, six thousand dollars. lars. For the transportation, care, and support of the indigent insane of the State, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Directors, seventy-five thousand dollars. For payment of rewards offered by the Governor, five thousand dollars. For copying and indexing laws by the Secretary of State, five hundred dollars. For copying and indexing journals of the eighth session, five hundred dollars. For stationery, fuel, lights for State officers and the Stato Capitol building, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, seven thousand dollars. For insurance of State Library and Capitol building, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, two thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of two porters and one night watchman for State Capitol, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, seven thousand dollars. For improving and keeping up Capitol grounds, to be expended under direction of the Board of State Capitol Commis. sioners, three thousand dollars. For prosecuting delinquents of infraction of revenue laws and enforcing the collection of the revenue, to be expended under the direction of the State Controller, three thousand dollars. For extra clerical services in the office of State Controller, two thousand dollars; and the Controller is hereby authorized to employ such clerical services as he may need, not exceeding the amount of this appropriation. For extra clerical services in the office of State Treasurer, one thousand dollars; and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to employ such clerical services as he may need, not exceeding the amount of this appropriation. For extra clerical services in the office of the Secretary of State, two thousand dollars; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to employ such clerical services as he may need, not exceeding the amount of this appropriation. For State printing, paper, and official advertisements, and pay of the expert, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Printing Commission, forty thousand dollars. For support and conducting the Orphans' Home, to be ex pended under the direction of the Board of Directors, twenty- Same. six thousand dollars. For building an addition and repairing the Orphans' Home, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Directors, thirty-five hundred dollars. For the support and education of the deaf, dumb and blind, and their transmission to and from the institution, four thousand dollars. For storage and transportation of State property, five hundred dollars. For traveling expenses of State Mineralogist, sixteen hun dred dollars. For traveling expenses of Superintendent of Public Instruction, sixteen hundred dollars. For current expense appropriation, to defray the telegraphic, postage, and contingent expenses of the several State officers, Supreme Court and State Library, and for transportation of books and documents, to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, ten thousand dollars. For the support of Nevada State Prison, including the salary of Warden, Deputy Warden, payment for services of Chaplain, and for transportation of convicts, and for purchase of material for carrying on industries at the prison, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For pay of Deputy Register, draftsmen, purchase of maps and charts, and expense of selecting lands in State Register's office, ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the State School Fund. For contingent expenses of the Board of Examiners, six hundred dollars. For support of State University, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Regents, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of Clerk in State Library, three thousand six hundred dollars. For payment of attorneys at Washington, D. C., for looking after State land interests, one thousand five hundred dollars. statement disburse SEC. 2. The various State officers to whom appropriations Sworn other than salaries are made under the provisions of this Act, to be made shall, with their biennial reports, submit a detailed and item relative to ized statement, under oath, of the manner in which all expen- ments. ditures for their respective departments, other than the payment of salaries, have been expended, and that all such expenses were actually and necessarily incurred; provided, that no officer shall use or appropriate any money for any purpose whatever, unless authorized to do so specifically by law. apply to SEC. 3. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as Not to to apply to any appropriation that may have been, or that may specific hereafter be made specifically by law. appropri ations. Reports, and in ner to be CHAP. LXV.-An Act to provide for the republication and stereotyping of certain volumes of the Reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court. [Approved March 2, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be published, by the publishers of by whom, the current volumes of Nevada Supreme Court Reports, from what man- time to time, under the direction and by the approval of the published Supreme Court, all volumes of the Reports of the decisions of said Court which shall be out of print, or so nearly so as to make the republication thereof, in the opinion of the Court, advisable; and such republication shall be edited by such person, learned in the law, as shall be selected or approved by said Court, and in such manner, and with such reduction of the number of volumes as said Court shall, by its order, direct; the entire cost of such editing to be paid by the publishers, and the numbers and pages of the present volumes to be preserved in such new edition; and the plates of all such volumes of Reports as shall be republished under this Act shall be stereotyped, and four hundred copies of each volume thereof, the same to be of the same style and quality as to paper and binding as volume ten of Nevada Reports, and to contain seven hundred and fifty pages or more, as the Supreme Court may determine, shall be delivered to the Secretary of State. And upon furnishing to the Secretary of State such copies, and satisfactory proof of having stereotyped the plates of such volumes, the said publishers shall receive from the State the price of two dollars and fifty cents ($2 50) per copy for each volume of Nevada Reports so republished and furnished to the State, to be audited by the State Board of Examiners, and paid by the State Treasurer, on the warrant of the State Controller, out of any money not otherwise appropriated; provided, that when two volumes of said Reports shall be printed and bound in one volume, by direction of the Supreme Court, the price to be paid by the State shall be five dollars ($5) per copy; and, provided further, that the said publishers shall enter into a contract, to be approved by the Justices of the Supreme Court, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, stipulating that they will faithfully perform all the acts and conditions in this Act required to be performed by them, and particularly will, at all times, keep for sale, and sell to the State of Nevada, and to the residents of the State, copies of the volumes to be so republished, at the rate herein fixed; and said publishers shall give bonds for the fulfillment of said contract, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, which bond shall be filed with the Secretary of State and approved by the Justices of the Supreme Court, or a majority thereof. Price per volume. SEC. 2. The said publishers shall sell said volumes at a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents ($2 50) per volume for each and every volume of Nevada Reports so republished, to all residents of this State, and no greater price shall be |