payment. them in the preservation of the peace, and the maintenance of Reason of the law, order, and quiet of the City of Virginia, and the protection of the lives and property of the citizens thereof, subsequent to and immediately following the conflagration in said city, on the twenty-sixth day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Act to take effect CHAP. XXII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of Churchill County," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy one. [Approved February 3, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said Act is so amended as to read as follows: Commis proposals. Section Five. On the first day of such regular meeting, or at County any special meeting of said Board of County Commissioners, stones they, together with the County Auditor and Treasurer, shall shall open attend at the office of the latter, and then and there open all sealed proposals, and accept the lowest bids for the surrender of county indebtedness specified in the preceding section; provided, that no bid for more than par value be accepted by them, Par value. nor any bid unless accompanied by the certificate or certificates issued for the indebtedness proposed to be surrendered; and, provided further, that when sealed proposals are opened as above Proviso. prescribed, if there be not a sufficient amount of obligations of said county offered at not exceeding of the amount of the prin cipal and interest then due thereon, to exhaust the money then in said Redemption Fund of said county, the Treasurer of said county shall immediately give notice for ten days, as required Treasurer for sealed proposals, of the amount of money remaining in notice. said fund, and that the same will be applied to the payment of the then oldest outstanding obligations of said county (specifying them), payable out of said fund at par, of principal and interest then due thereon; and shall state in such notice that the obligations specified in the notice will-if not presented and paid cease to bear interest from and after the expiration of said notice; and the money so specified for their payment shall be reserved in the said fund for that purpose until called Money for under such notice; provided, it be called for within one year, and if not so called for within one year after such notice, such If not money shall then be applied to the payment of other obliga- a one tions of said county, payable out of said Redemption Fund, if year. there be any such, and if none, then said money shall be placed in the General Fund of said county. SEC. 2. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to give reserved. called for Section Eight. At the first meeting in January of each year, or at any regular or special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of said county, they may transfer any surplus money there may be in the General Fund, Indigent Sick Fund, and Contingent Fund of said county to the fund created by the Act of which this [is] amendatory. Appropriation. Controller CHAP. XXIII.-An Act to provide for the payment of services of the Clerk in State Library for the years eighteen hundred and seventyfive and eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved February 3, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury of this State not otherwise appropriated by law, or which may come into said State Treasury, for the payment of services of Clerk in Library for the years eighteen hundred and seventyfive and eighteen hundred and seventy-six. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby directed to draw to draw his warrant in favor of said Library Clerk for said amount, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. warrant, etc. Territory detached County and at tached to Eureka CHAP. XXIV.-An Act to detach a portion of the territory of Elko [Approved February 7, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The following described territory, now a portion from Elko of Elko County, Nevada, is hereby detached from said Elko County, and is hereby attached to and made a part of Eureka County, Nevada, to wit: All that territory embraced within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point where the Central Pacific Railroad crosses the east boundary line of Eureka County, and running thence southerly to a point where the one hundred and sixteenth (116) meridian crosses the east and west line between Eureka and Elko Counties; thence westerly along said east and west line to the southwest corner of Elko County; thence northerly along the present dividing line between Eureka and Elko Counties, to the place of beginning; the same embracing and transferring from Elko County to Eureka County all that portion of territory commonly known as the "Mineral Hill Strip," and the line surveyed by the County Surveyor of Eureka County during the year A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, commencing at a point where the Central Pacific Railroad crosses the east boundary line of Eureka County, and running thence southerly to a point where the one hundred and sixteenth (116) meridian crosses the east and west line between Eureka and Elko Counties, is hereby fixed and established as the boundary line between said counties. In consideration of this cession of territory by Elko Payment County to Eureka County, the latter shall, within one year made to from the date of the passage and approval of this Act, pay to Elko the former the sum of twelve hundred dollars, gold coin of the County. United States. to be County Elko and certi etc., to SEC. 2. All suits now pending in the District Court in and Duty of for Elko County, which in any way appertain to property, real, Clerk of personal, or mixed, situate within the territory hereby detached County to from said Elko County and attached to Eureka County, and all transfer actions for the recovery of any debt between citizens now liv. fy suits, ing within the boundaries of the said territory detached from papers, Elko County, shall within forty days from the date of the Eureka approval of this Act, be by the County Clerk of said Elko County. County duly and legally transferred and certified to the Clerk of Eureka County, together with all papers and documents pertaining to the same, which shall be by said Clerk of Eureka County filed in his office and entered in the calendar of the District Court in and for Eureka County at the first term thereof after the receipt of the same; provided, where both the Proviso. plaintiff and defendant to any suit, residing within the limits of said territory hereby detached from Elko County, pending in the District Court in and for Elko County, shall file with the County Clerk of Elko County, prior to the expiration of the forty days above mentioned, a statement consenting or requesting that the suit to which they are parties may be determined in said District Court in Elko County, then, and not otherwise, said suit or suits shall not be transferred, as herein provided; and any suit or suits transferred as herein provided from the said District Court in and for Elko County to the District Court in and for Eureka County, shall be heard, tried, and determined in all respects as though originally commenced in said last mentioned Court. County to SEC. 3. The County Recorder of Elko County is hereby Duty of County authorized and empowered, and it shall be his duty, to tran- Recorder scribe into suitable books all records in his custody pertaining of Elko or relating to or affecting the title to any property situated transcribe within the limits of the territory hereby detached from said records. Elko County, and to make a suitable index thereto. Said transcript and index shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage and approval of this Act-and within ninety days after the approval of the same-and when completed, shall deliver the same to the County Recorder of Eureka County, and they shall thereafter be kept in his office, and shall be, for every purpose, of the same force and effect as other county sation. Compen records. The Recorder of Elko County shall be entitled to receive, as compensation for the services hereby imposed, one half of the fees now allowed by law for recording and indexing written instruments in his office. His claims for said compensation shall be allowed, upon presentation, by the County Commissioners of Eureka County, on the completion and delivery of said transcripts and index, and be paid as other claims against said county. Prison have full control of grounds, CHAP. XXV.-An Act to amend sections one, three, four, five, and [Approved February 8, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act to provide for the government of the State Prison of the State of Nevada," approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section One. The Board of State Prison Commissioners, as sioners to named in section twenty-one of Article V of the Constitution, "shall have such supervision of all matters connected with the State Prison as is provided for," as follows: They shall have labor, etc. full control of all the State Prison grounds, buildings, prison labor, prison property; shall purchase, or cause to be purchased, all needed commissary supplies, all raw material and tools necessary for any manufacturing purposes carried on at said prison; shall sell all manufactured articles and stone, and collect the money for the same; shall rent, or hire out, any or all of the labor of the convicts, and collect the money therefor. SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Duty of Section Three. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to Secretary keep, or cause to be kept, a full and complete account, in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, of all the transactions and proceedings of the Board." Legislature to elect a Warden. SEC. 3. Section four of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section Four. On the second Monday in February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and on the first Monday of February of each regular session of the Legislature thereafter, the Senate and Assembly shall convene in the Assembly Chamber, and by joint vote shall elect a Warden of the State Prison for the term of two years, and until his successor is duly elected. The Warden so elected shall be the chief executive officer of the prison, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, and shall reside at the prison. The Deputy Warden, in the absence of the Warden, shall perform all the duties of the Warden, shall reside at the prison, and shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 4. Section five of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: of the Section Five. The Warden shall appoint a Deputy Warden, Duties and have power to remove the same, also all necessary help; warden. shall have the general superintendence of prison discipline and prison labor; shall keep, or cause to be kept, a book wherein shall be recorded the name, age, sex, occupation, place of birth, where sent from, the crime charged, date of incarceration and expiration of the term for which the prisoners therein confined were sentenced, and shall make out a correct monthly report of the same, and file such report with the Secretary of the Board; and shall securely and carefully file in his office all commitments of prisoners that may be sent to the State Prison, and keep, or cause to be kept, a correct account, and certify any mileage that may be due to any Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff for conveying prisoners to the State Prison. SEC. 5. Section twenty-two of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: execute a Section Twenty-two. The Warden, before entering upon Warden to the discharge of his duties, shall execute a bond in such sum bond. as the Board of Commissioners shall designate, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be given to the State of Nevada, approved by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and filed with the Secretary of State. how filled. SEC. 6. In the event of the death or resignation of the Vacancy, Warden so elected, the vacancy shall be filled by the Board of State Prison Commissioners. take effect, etc. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect on and after its final pas- Act to sage and approval by the Governor, and all Acts and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. XXVI.- -An Act to authorize the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Virginia to pay the claim of William Cook. [Approved February 8, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and and Board ascertain SECTION 1. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City Mayor of Virginia shall, upon the passage of this Act, proceed to exam- of Alderine into and ascertain the validity of the claim of William Cook, men to or his assigns, against said city, based upon a warrant issued validity upon the twenty-sixth day of February, A. D. eighteen hun- of claim. dred and sixty-three, in favor of George F. Jones & Co., or bearer, for the sum of four thousand dollars, in gold coin of the United States, payable in one year from date, with interest at |