of the Ter either of them, is authorized and required to make such contracts and arrangements as may be necessary for the payment of said interest and the protection of the faith of the State. SEC. 7. In the event that the Commissioners are unable to Resources purchase the "Territorial bonds" of the State under the terms ritorial of this Act, the securities herein placed at their disposal for Fund in that purpose shall remain in their respective funds; and the failure to resources of the Territorial Interest and Sinking Fund for the buy. thirteenth and fourteenth fiscal years shall be: First-All money now in said fund, or that shall come into it from delinquent taxes and interest on the United States bonds now in the fund. Second-The fifty thousand dollars hereby transferred from the General Fund; and, Third-All money from the tax herein levied for a "Territorial Interest Fund." case of tisement SEC. 8. Immediately after the passage of this Act it shall be Adver the duty of the Commissioners herein named to advertise, in to be one or more daily papers published in this State and in the City made. of San Francisco, for the surrender of bonds provided to be purchased by this Act. They shall advertise the amount of money and securities at their disposal applicable to the purchase of such bonds, and they may accept bids calling for no higher rate of premium than would guarantee the purchaser six per cent. per annum interest on the amount to be paid for said bonds for the time they have yet to run. sioners SEC. 9. The Commissioners herein named shall report to the Commis Legislature at its next session, in detail, all their doings under reports to the provisions of this Act. repealed. SEC. 10. All Acts and parts of Acts, in so far only as they Acts conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to create a Current Expense Fund for Lincoln County. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and created. SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing means for the pay. Fund ment of certain expenses in the County of Lincoln, a special fund is hereby created, to be known as the Current Expense Fund of said county. thorized. SEC. 2. At the time of levying the tax for general State and Tax aucounty purposes, as now provided by law, the Board of County Commissioners of said Lincoln County may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to levy a special tax not to exceed fifty (50) cents on each one hundred dollars' valuation of all the taxable property in said county, including the tax on the proceeds of the mines, to be known as the Current Expense. Fund, how disbursed. Proviso. Surplus, how dis Fund tax; the proceeds of said special tax shall go into and form the Current Expense Fund of said Lincoln County. SEC. 3. Allowances shall be made by the Board of County Commissioners against said Current Expense Fund for the following purposes, and none other: Repairs on the Court House and jail, stationery, fuel and lights, board, clothing, bedding, and medicines for prisoners confined in the county jail, and the necessary current expenses incident to the care of the indigent sick of said county, whether the said indigent sick are cared for in the county hospital or otherwise provided for; provided, that no outstanding bills, claims, or warrants, or any part thereof, that may have accrued against said county for any of the articles or purposes mentioned in this section, or for any purposes whatever, prior to the approval of this Act, shall be allowed against or paid out of said Current Expense Fund; and, provided further, that neither the fees nor salaries of county or other county officers shall be allowed against or paid out of said fund. SEC. 4. Whenever there shall be any surplus of moneys in posed of. said Current Expense Fund over and above all demands against the same, the Board of County Commissioners of said county may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to transfer such surplus, or any portion thereof, to the several other funds, or either of them, of said county, in the manner and proportion best calculated in the minds of the said Commissioners to subserve and protect the credit of Lincoln County. In the distribution of moneys as herein provided, preference shall be given in all cases to the fund standing in the greatest need or assistance, with the view of keeping the scrip, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness against the several funds of said county as nearly equal in point of intrinsic or marketable value as may be practicable. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, To be notwith CHAP. CXX.-An Act admitting Charles S. Queen, a minor, to The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. On production of satisfactory testimonials of admitted, good moral character, and undergoing such examination as to standing his qualification as the Supreme Court may direct, Charles S. age. Queen, of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, may be admitted as an attorney and counselor at law, in the same manner and upon the same terms as other applicants to practice law are admitted, notwithstanding his being under twenty-one years of age at the time of his application. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Secretary of State. CHAP. CXXI.-An Act to create a Current Expense Fund for The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and created. SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing means for the pay- Fund ment of certain expenses in the County of White Pine, a special fund is hereby created, to be known as the Current Expense Fund of said county. tax to be SEC. 2. At the time of levying the tax for general State and Special county purposes, as now provided by law, the Board of County levied. Commissioners of said White Pine County may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to levy a special tax, not to exceed five (5) cents on each one hundred dollars' valuation of all the taxable property in said county, including the tax on the proceeds of the mines, to be known as the Current Expense Fund tax. The proceeds of said special tax, together with fifteen per cent. of all other county revenues collected, shall go into and form the Current Expense Fund of said White Pine County. out of SEC. 3. Allowances shall be made by the Board of County Money, Commissioners against said Current Expense Fund, for the fol- how paid lowing purposes and none other: Repairs on the Court House said fund. and jail, stationery, printing, fuel and lights, board, clothing, bedding, and medicines for prisoners confined in the county jail, and until all claims or warrants that have been or may be allowed against the Indigent Sick or Hospital Fund of said county, prior to the approval of this Act, shall have been paid and liquidated, the necessary current expenses incident to the care and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county may also be, in the discretion of the Board of County Commissioners, paid out of said Current Expense Fund; provided, that no outstanding bills, claims, or warrants, or any part Proviso. thereof, that may have accrued against said county for any of the articles or purposes mentioned in this section, or for any purpose whatever, prior to the approval of this Act, shall be allowed against or paid out of said Current Expense Fund; and, provided further, that neither the fees nor salaries of county or Surplus, how disposed of. Act to take effect other officers shall be allowed against or paid out of said fund. SEC. 4. Whenever there shall be any surplus of moneys in the said Current Expense Fund, over and above all demands against the same, the Board of County Commissioners of said county may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to transfer such surplus, or any portion thereof, to the several other funds, or either of them, of said county, in the manner and proportion best calculated, in the judgment of said Commissioners, to subserve and protect the credit of White Pine County. In the distribution of moneys, as herein provided, preference shall be given in all cases to the fund standing in the greatest need of assistance, with the view of keeping the scrip, certificate[s], or other evidences of indebtedness against the several funds of said county as nearly equal in point of intrinsic or marketable value as may be practicable. SEC. 5. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Bonds may be issued. CHAP. CXXII.—An Act to authorize the School Trustees of School District Number Ten, in Washoe County, to issue bonds for the purpose of providing additional school buildings for said school district. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of School District Number Ten, in the Town of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, are hereby authorized, under the provisions of this Act, to issue Interest. bonds, bearing interest not exceeding twelve (12) per cent. per annum, for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in United States gold coin; none of which said bonds shall run for a period longer than twenty years from the date thereof. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be issued for sums not less than one bond, etc. hundred dollars each, in gold coin; shall be payable to bearer, and the interest thereon shall be payable semi-annually, and coupons for each installment of such interest shall be attached to each of said bonds. Amount of each Bonds, when payable. SEC. 3. The principal of said bonds shall be made payable as follows: one thousand dollars of the bonds so issued shall be made payable in two years from the date of issuance thereof, the remainder shall be made payable in annual payments there after; none of which shall run for a period longer than twenty years from the date of their issuance. to be SEC. 4. The Board of Trustees of said school district are Meeting hereby authorized, when in their judgment it may be advisable, called by to build or purchase one or more school houses for said district, Trustees. in addition to the one now in use; to call a school meeting for the purpose of providing means therefor. Such meeting shall be called in the manner provided by law for calling meetings for the purpose of raising money for similar purposes in school districts, and if a majority of the persons in said district, qualified to vote at said. meeting, shall vote to carry out the recommendation of said Board of Trustees, then the said Board shall proceed to issue the bonds herein provided for, and dispose of the same, and to erect or purchase and furnish the school house or school houses provided for in this Act. how SEC. 5. The bonds and coupons herein provided for shall be Bonds, signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, signed. and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said Washoe County. out. SEC. 6. All moneys received from the sale of said bonds Proceeds, shall be paid into the County Treasury, and the County Treas- bow paid urer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the "Reno School District Building Fund," and to pay out said money only on warrants signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, and duly allowed by the Board of County Commissioners of said Washoe County. The County Treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto. levied to pay bonds SEC. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the Tax to be bonds hereby authorized to be issued, the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County are hereby authorized and required, at the time of the annual levy of taxes for State and county purposes for the year eighteen hundred and seventyseven, and annually thereafter, to levy upon all the taxable property of said School District Number Ten an amount not exceeding one fourth of one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars valuation of said property, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, which will become due during the next ensuing year. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and levied, and shall be paid into the County Treasury and set apart to a fund which is hereby created, to be known as the "Reno School District Redemption Fund," and the money in said fund shall be paid out by the County Treasurer in payment of the interest on the bonds aforesaid as the same becomes due, and upon the presentation of coupons therefor, and upon the presentation and surrender of said bonds when the same become due. how paid. SEC. 8. To provide for the payment of the first installment First of interest upon the bonds issued under the provisions of this interest, Act, the Board of County Commissioners of said county are hereby authorized and required, at their last regular meeting before said interest will become due, in case there is not suffi |