LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, PASSED AT THE EIGHTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1877. CHAPTER I-An Act to create a State Legislative Fund. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Legisla SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying the salaries of the State members and attachés of the present Legislature, the mileage tive Fund of the members, and the incidental expenses of the respective created. Houses, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart from any moneys now in the General Fund, not otherwise specifically appropriated, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, which shall constitute a fund to be denominated the State Legislative Fund. The State Controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on said fund in favor of the members and attachés of the Senate and Assembly, for stationery allowance, mileage, compensation, and the incidental expenses of the respective Houses, when properly certified to him in accordance with law; and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same. relating to SEC. 2. All demands against said fund are hereby exempted Exempt from the operations of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the from Act Board of Examiners, to define their duties and powers, and to Board of impose certain duties on the Controller and Treasurer," approved ers. February seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty five. Examin remaining SEC. 3. Any money that remain[s] in the fund created by Surplus this Act, upon the adjournment of the Legislature, shall revert to revert to the General Fund. to General Fund. Treasurer to pay interest from Interest Fund. cates if Interest Fund is CHAP. II.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to consolidate and fund the indebtedness of Lincoln County," approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. [Approved January 18, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nine of said Act of which this is amendatory is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Nine. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of Lincoln County, whenever the interest on said bonds becomes due and the same is presented to him for payment, as provided in section two of said Act, to pay the same from the "Interest Fund" provided for in section eight of said Act. Such payment shall be made in the order of presentation, and if the money in said "Interest Fund" be exhausted before the interest on all of said bonds so presented shall be paid, then the Treasurer said Treasurer shall give to the holders of said bonds respectmust give certifi- ively, on which the interest cannot be paid, a certificate or certificates of the amount of interest due on each of said bonds, together with the reason why the same is not paid. Such cerexhausted tificate or certificates shall be indorsed on, or attached to coupons presented for payment, and it shall then be the duty of said Treasurer to set aside from the first money subsequently coming into said "Interest Fund" sufficient to pay said certified coupons in the order of their first presentation, and shall immediately notify the holders of said "certified coupons" if the same can be conveniently done, and if not, shall, when there is sufficient money so set aside from said Interest Fund to pay all of said certified coupons, advertise said fact in a newspaper published in said county, if there be one, for the period of one month; provided, any of said certified coupons are not presented within one year, then the amount set aside for the payment of the same, as above, shall be used in the payment of any unpaid certified coupons. Money to be set aside. Adver tisement. County Commissioners fer money SEC. 2. Section twenty-one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Twenty-one. At the first meeting in December in each year of the Board of County Commissioners of said may trans- county, they may transfer any surplus money there may be in to Sinking the General Fund of said county to the Sinking Fund created Fund. by this Act; provided, there shall be left in the Treasury a sufficient amount to defray the current expenses of said county for the twelve months next ensuing. Proviso. Acts repealed. Act to take effect SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. III.-An Act to repeal an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the destruction of noxious animals within this State," approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventythree, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy five, and the Act of which the same is amendatory. [Approved January 18, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to pro- Act vide for the destruction of noxious animals within this State, repealed. approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the Act entitled an Act to provide for the destruction of noxious animals within this State, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, are severally hereby repealed. CHAPTER IV-Repealed. See Chapter XIV. CHAP. V.-An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Eureka County to issue certain bonds, and to provide for the payment of the same. [Approved January 19, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and sioners ized to SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Eureka County County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue Commis the bonds of said county, in any sum not to exceed sixteen authorthousand dollars. No bonds issued as herein provided, shall issue be of a less amount than two hundred dollars, and none for a bonds,etc. greater amount than one thousand dollars each. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed fourteen per cent. per annum, and shall be redeemed in the following manner: Said bonds shall be payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Eureka County on the first Monday of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. The interest on said bonds shall be payable semi-annually, at the office of the County Treasurer, in Eureka County, Nevada. Of the first moneys coming into the County Treasury each year, after the issuance of said bonds, and after the apportionment shall have been made for State purposes, and to the District Judge's Salary Fund, the County Auditor shall set apart a sufficient sum to |