demanded or received by them, or their agents or assigns, or either of them. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell any copies of the volumes to be so republished, which the State may now have on hand exceeding fifty copies of each volume, which he shall retain for the use of the State, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents ($2 50) per volume. of State parties SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, upon Secretary the republication of these Reports as herein provided, to ascer- to supply tain to whom the early Reports have been supplied, as per Act certain of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and with supply, when he finds deficiencies, the following parties, with Reports. all the Reports of the Supreme Court of Nevada: To each State and Territory, one copy; to each of the heads of departments at Washington, one copy; to the library of Congress and the Nevada State Library, two copies; to each of the United States Circuit and District Courts in the States of Nevada, California, and Oregon, one copy; to each State officer, Justice of the Supreme Court, Clerk of the Supreme Court, District Judge, District Attorney, County Clerk, and Justice of the Peace in this State, one copy; and to each public library and literary association within this State, one copy. He shall, also, from time to time, distribute said Reports to such literary and scientific institutions, publishers, and authors as, in his opinion, may secure an interchange of works which may be properly placed in the State Library. The remaining copies shall be Remainkept in the office of the Secretary of State for the use of the ing copies. Legislature when in session; provided, that no distribution shall be made to any party or parties outside of the State when there may be less than one hundred copies of any given volume on hand. be turned SEC. 5. All Reports distributed to State, district, and other Reports to officers in this State, shall be for the use of the office, and shall over. be, by the person receiving the same, turned over to his successor in office; and the Secretary of State shall take proper receipts for such Reports. SEC. 6. All volumes of Reports republished under this Act, Citations. except volumes one and two, shall contain a brief citation of the points made and authorities cited by the attorneys. SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Acts Act are hereby repealed. repealed. 15 Actions for the recovery of real property. Six years. Four years. Three years. Two years CHAP. LXVI.-An Act to amend "An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled 'An Act defining the time of commencing civil actions,'" approved November twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; and to repeal Acts amendatory of said Act, approved March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. [Approved March 2, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said Act, approved March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Five. Actions other than those for the recovery of real property, can only be commenced as follows: Within six years: First-An action upon a judgment, or. decree of any Court of the United States, or of any State or Territory within the United States. Second-An action upon a contract, obligation, or liability, founded upon an instrument in writing, except those mentioned in the preceding section. Within four years: First-An action on an open account for goods, wares, and merchandise sold and delivered. Second-An action for any article charged in a store account. Third-An action upon a contract, obligation, or liability, not founded upon an instrument in writing. Within three years: First-An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture. Second-An action for trespass upon real property. Third-An action for taking, detaining, or injuring any goods or chattles, including actions for the specific recovery of personal property. Fourth-An action for relief on the ground of fraud; the cause of action in such case not to be deemed to have accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud. Within two years: First-An action against a Sheriff, Coroner, or Constable, upon the liability incurred by the doing of an act in his official capacity and in virtue of his office, or by the omission of an official duty, including the non-payment of money collected upon an execution. Second-An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, where the action is given to an individual, or an individual and the State, except when the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation. Third-An action for libel, slander, assault, battery, or false imprisonment. Fourth-An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the State. Fifth-An action against a Sheriff, or other officer, for the escape of a prisoner arrested or imprisoned on civil process. SEC. 2. The time in section one of this Act shall be deemed to date from the last transaction, or the last item charged, or Time, how last credit given. reckoned. affect SEC. 3. The provisions of this Act shall not effect [affect] Not to any transactions already barred by the statute, or existing con- transac tracts or obligations made and incurred prior to the passage of tions already this Act, but the same shall be governed in accordance with barred. the provisions of law in force at the date they were contracted or incurred. CHAP. LXVII.-An Act to provide for the purchase of certain supplies for State officers and attachés of the Legislature. [Approved March 2, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State Board of Examiners is hereby consti- Furnishtuted ex officio a Furnishing Board, with the powers and duties ing Board. hereinafter specified. advertise. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board, as often as it Board to shall become necessary, to advertise, for thirty days, in one daily newspaper published in Virginia City, one daily newspaper published in Carson City, one daily newspaper published in Reno, Nevada, and one daily newspaper published in San Francisco, California, for sealed proposals to furnish stationery, blank books, and such other articles necessary for the use of said State and legislative officers as are entitled thereto, or any of them; and said Board shall specify in said advertisement the amount and kinds of each article desired, samples or minute descriptions of which shall accompany and be deposited with the sealed proposals for furnishing the same, in the office of the Secretary of State; and all proposals received, as aforesaid, shall be opened and compared by said Board, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, at the Secretary of State's office, at twelve o'clock M. of the day specified in the said advertisement; and the said Board shall then and there award Lowest the contract for furnishing said supplies, or any of them, to the lowest bidder, whose sealed bid shall be accompanied by a bond, with two or more sureties, in the sum of $- the sum Bonds. to be not less than twice the amount of the value of the articles to be supplied, payable to the people of the State of Nevada, conditioned that if the bidder shall receive the award of said contract he will, in twenty days thereafter, deliver the supplies or articles for which he has been awarded the contract; provided, that in their said advertisement said Board may classify said supplies and articles, and may receive bids. and award contracts for such separate articles or class of supplies as they shall deem the lowest and best; provided further, that said Board may require any class or articles of said Proviso. supplies to be delivered in installments; provided further, that any and all bids which shall be deemed too high by said bidder. All bids may be declined. Board may be declined, in which case said Board shall again advertise for sealed proposals to furnish the classes or articles of supply so declined, and so on for the same cause, as often as it shall occur; and, provided further, that in such case said May buy Board may purchase any articles or supplies for which bids in open market. Duties of Inventories. Legislative stationery. Expenses. have been rejected as aforesaid, in open market, and in amounts sufficient for immediate necessities, but at prices not exceeding the lowest prices in the bids rejected. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, immediately after the passage of this Act, to take a full and com plete inventory of all stationery, blank books, and other articles and supplies aforesaid, then on hand, and enter the same in a set of books to be kept for that purpose, making a separate account for each class of articles; and in like manner he shall enter in said books a detailed and classified account of all purchases of articles and supplies authorized by this Act, showing the amount and cost of each article and class of sup plies purchased, the amount and cost of each class issued, amount and cost of each article and class issued to each State officer and attaché of the Legislature, and amount and cost of each article and class on hand. He shall issue the supplies aforesaid only upon the requisition of the proper officer, and shall take a receipt for the same upon delivery, which requisition and receipt shall be filed and preserved in his office. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said Board, at the end of each fiscal year, and at such other times as they shall deem necessary, to cause an inventory to be taken of all the articles and classes of said supplies on hand and contracted for, and to make an examination of the amounts and vouchers appertaining to the same. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said Board, at least one month prior to the assembling of each Legislature, to advertise in accordance with section two of this Act, for a supply of stationery and such other articles as shall be sufficient for the use of the State officers and attachés of the Legislature, or necessary for the public service, and at the commencement of each session said Board shall report to the Legislature a full account of their receipts and expenditures and stock of supplies on hand. SEC. 6. The actual expenses incurred by said Board in executing the powers and discharging the duties prescribed and imposed in this Act, when certified by them, shall be audited by the Controller, and paid by the Treasurer out of any money which shall have been appropriated for that purpose; provided, Proviso. nothing in this Act shall be construed as allowing salary or compensation to said Furnishing Board for any services performed under the provisions of this Act. Station ery, how ture. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate issued to and Chief Clerk of the Assembly, as often as it shall become Legislanecessary, to make requisitions upon the Secretary of State for such stationery, etc., as they shall deem necessary for the use of the Legislature and all committees of the same, and for which, upon delivery, they shall give their receipts to the Secretary of State. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly, to issue all stationery to the several officers of their respective Houses as are entitled thereto, taking their receipts for the same. to be SEC. 8. At the close of each session of the Legislature here- Surplus after, it shall be the duty of each attaché of the Legislature returned. drawing supplies as above provided, to return to the officer from whom such supplies were drawn, all articles in his possession belonging to the State. The State Controller is hereby required to withhold the last week's warrant of all attachés until they present a certificate from the Secretary of State to the effect that the property of the State (or so much thereof as has not been necessarily consumed in the discharge of the duties of their office), for which he holds receipts, has been returned to his custody. SEC. 9. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with any of the Acts provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. repealed. CHAP. LXVIII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate Carson City," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [Approved March 2, 1877.] The People of [the State of] Nevada, represented in Senate [and] SECTION 1. Section ten of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: the Board. Section Ten. The Board of Trustees shall have the follow- Powers of ing powers: First-To institute and maintain any suit or suits of said city suits. in the proper Court or Courts, whenever in their judgment necessary, to enforce or maintain any right or rights of said city; and they may, in like manner, defend all actions brought against said city. Second-They shall annually levy a tax of not less than one Taxes. quarter of one per cent, and not exceeding one per cent, on all the assessed value of all real and personal property situate in said city, and by law made taxable for State and county purposes. Third-To lay out, extend, and change the streets and alleys Streets. in said city, and provide for the grading, draining, cleansing, widening, lighting, or otherwise improving the same; also to provide for the construction, repair, preservation, grade, and width of sidewalks, bridges, drains, and sewers, and for the prevention and removal of obstructions from the streets, alleys, sidewalks, drains, and sewers of said city; provided, that said Proviso. Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, assess the cost, or any part thereof, of improving any street, or repairing or building any sidewalk, to the owner or owners of the property in front of which said street or sidewalk, or proposed sidewalk, is or will be, and may make such cost of building, repairing, or |