Section Nine. Section four hundred and seventy-three of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section Four Hundred and Seventy-three. An appeal must Appeal, be taken within three months after the judgment is rendered. taken. when CHAP. VIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to encourage the construction of a railroad from Battle Mountain Station, on the Central Pacific Railroad, in Lander County, State of Nevada, to the City of Austin, in said county, and to authorize said county to issue its bonds for two hundred thousand dollars to aid the same, passed February ninth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive. [Approved January 23, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Commis when ten are com Section Four. Whenever the said persons, their heirs or Duty of assigns, shall have graded, laid the ties and a good quality of County iron rails, completed and prepared ready for the reception of sioners the rolling stock ten miles of said railroad, and such fact shall miles of appear to said Board of County Commissioners by the affidavit railroad of the Superintendent of the construction of said railroad, pleted. and by the personal examination of said Commissioners, and the petition aforesaid shall have been presented to said Board, then the said Board shall prepare, issue, and deliver to said persons, their heirs and assigns, bonds of said county, in an amount which shall bear the same proportion to the whole amount of the bonds to be issued as herein before provided, as the said ten miles of railroad bears to the whole length of said railroad proposed to be constructed, as shown by the survey thereof; and thereafter, upon the completion of the said railroad ready for the rolling stock as herein before provided, of each succeeding and continuous ten miles of said Each sucrailroad, a like amount of said bonds shall be prepared, issued, ten miles. and delivered, until upon the completion of the last section of ten miles, or less, at the terminus of said railroad, when and at which time the whole amount of said bonds remaining unissued shall be issued and delivered to said persons, their heirs or assigns. SEC. 2. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ceeding comple Section Ten. The said persons, their heirs and assigns, shall, Time of in order to secure the privileges herein specified, within one tion. year after the approval of this Act, complete the locating survey of the route of said railroad, and shall within five years after the approval of this Act, complete, finish, and equip the said entire railroad, from said Central Pacific Railroad, in said Lander County, to said City of Austin, in the manner hereinbefore stated. County Commissioners empow. ered. CHAP. IX.-An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Eureka County to change the apportionment of county revenues to certain funds in said Eureka County. [Approved January 23, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Commissioners of Eureka County are hereby empowered to apportion to the General Fund and Current Expense Fund of said county, as nearly equal as may be deemed necessary, all moneys coming into the County Treasury and by law directed to be apportioned to the Contingent Fund and Indigent Sick Fund. Payment estopped. Treasurer vertise for CHAP. X.—An Act to provide for the payment of the indebtedness of White Pine County known as the Hamilton debt. [Approved January 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Treasurer of White Pine County to pay any warrant drawn on the "Hamilton Debt Fund" of said county prior to the passage of this Act, except in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Whenever at any time there shall be in said Hamshall ad- ilton Debt Fund the sum of five hundred dollars or more it proposals. shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said county to give at least ten days notice, by publication in some newspaper published in the county. If there be no newspaper published in said county, or if the publisher of such paper shall fail or refuse to publish such notice, for any cause whatever, then in that case the Treasurer of said county shall cause said notice to be posted upon the Court House door, that sealed proposals directed to him will be received for the surrender of county indebtedness audited and allowed by the Board of County Commissioners and payable out of the Hamilton Debt Fund of said county. The lowest bid to be SEC. 3. On the first day of such regular meetings of said Board of County Commissioners they, together with the County accepted. Auditor and Treasurer, shall attend at the meeting room of such Board, and then and there open all sealed proposals, and accept the lowest bid or bids for the surrender of legal evidence of county indebtedness against said Hamilton Debt Proviso. Fund audited; provided, that no bid for more than par value shall be accepted by them, nor any bid unless accompanied with the legal evidence of indebtedness proposed to be surrendered. to be tion. SEC. 4. When any bid or bids are accepted the County Purchase Auditor shall take a description of the indebtedness to be sur-made. rendered, specifying the amount to be paid for each, the date, number, and amount thereof, and make a record thereof, and thereupon the Board of County Commissioners shall, by order, direct the County Treasurer to purchase the warrants of indebtedness designated in the accepted bid or bids, and pay for the same out of the Hamilton Debt Fund aforesaid; and all warrants so surrendered shall be canceled by the County CancellaTreasurer, by writing across the face thereof, in red ink, "Purchased and redeemed," adding thereunto the time when, and the amount paid therefor, signing the same officially. The order of the Board of County Commissioners aforesaid, together Vouchers. with the record made by the County Auditor, as herein required, shall be sufficient vouchers for the County Treasurer in the settlement of his accounts. The bids specified in this Act Equal being equal, preference shall be given to the smallest amount. That shall be deemed the lowest bid which offers the largest amount for the least sum of money. The bids and amount of indebtedness being equal, each shall be accepted pro rata, as near as possible. The County Treasurer shall return all unac- Bids cepted bids to the owners, on demand. The County Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all moneys received into said Separate fund, and of all moneys paid out of said fund, and to whom paid. He shall also, in the register of Hamilton debt warrants kept by him, write opposite each warrant redeemed under the provisions of this Act, the word "Purchased," and the amount paid therefor. bids. returned. account. repealed. SEC. 5. All those parts of an Act entitled an Act to disin. Act corporate the Town of Hamilton, in White Pine County, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. XI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to prevent the destruction of fish in the waters of the State of Nevada," approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. [Approved January 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ders must Section Two. All persons, firms, or corporations who have Fish laderected mill dams, water weirs, or other obstruction on rivers be built or streams within the waters of this State, shall, within thirty over all days after the passage of this Act, construct fish ways, or fish dams. Penalty ladders, at such mill dams, water weirs, or obstructions, so that, at all seasons of the year, fish may ascend above such dam, weir, or obstruction, to deposit their spawn. Any person, firm, or corporation owning such mill dam or obstruction, who shall for failing fail to construct or keep in repair such fish way, or fish ladder, to comply with this shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine, upon conviction thereof, not exceeding three hundred dollars. All other Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with section one of this Act are hereby repealed. Act. Acts repealed. When to take effect SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XII-Repealed. See Chapter LXXII. Paper to be as legal two witnesses. CHAP. XIII.—An Act to admit to probate a certain paper purport- The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The paper purporting to be the last will and tesas though tament of Rufus Adams, deceased, is hereby declared to be as signed by legal and valid as though the signature of the testator to the same was attested by two subscribing witnesses, and the executor of said estate is hereby authorized to offer said paper for probate as the last will of said deceased, before the proper Court, and the signature of the testator to said will may be established with legal evidence other than subscribing wit Issue of fact not determined. May be contested. nesses. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as determining the issue of fact whether said paper is the last will and testament of said deceased, but said issue shall be submitted to and determined by the Court. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent heirs at law, or other parties interested in said estate, from contesting the validity of said paper as the last will of deceased. This bill having remained with the Governor five days (Sunday excepted), and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has therefore become a law without the signature of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Secretary of State. CHAP. XIV.—An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to legalize certain contracts made by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Virginia, Storey County, State of Nevada, and the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company, of the same place, and for the issuance and sale of bonds for the payment of certain indebtedness thereby incurred," approved January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. [Approved January 30, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. "An Act to legalize certain contracts made by Act the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Virginia, repealed. Storey County, State of Nevada, and the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company, of the same place, and for the issuance and sale of bonds for the payment of certain indebtedness thereby incurred," approved January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby repealed. not to be SEC. 2. The Secretary of State is hereby directed and re- Act quired to exclude from publication, in the volume of laws to be repealed published of the eighth session of the Nevada Legislature, the published. Act hereby repealed. CHAP. XV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to require foreign corporations to furnish evidence of their incorporation and corporate name," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. [Approved January 30, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: incorpo any other certificate Section One. Every incorporated company or association Every created and existing under the laws of any other State, or of company any foreign Government, shall file in the office of the County rated in Recorder of each county of this State, wherein such corporation state is engaged in carrying on business of any character, a properly must file authenticated copy of their certificate of incorporation, or of the Act or law by which such corporation was created, with a proper certificate of the officers of the corporation as to the genuineness List of of the same; and to each of such certificates shall be appended officers to a duly certified list of the officers of such corporation, which pended. said list, with the proper supplemental certificate, shall be cor- Must be rected as often as a change in such officers occurs; and a copy from time of such certificate, duly certified to by the County Recorder to time. be ap corrected |