May condemn property. Gunpowder. Nuisances Police. Licenses. Barrooms, etc. Proviso. upon any of the streets, alleys, or sidewalks, and to provide for the removal of such obstructions; to prevent the use of any sewers or drains as cesspools; to compel the owners of lots and property to bear the expense of erecting sidewalks, or improving the roads or streets in front of the same, by special tax or otherwise; to condemn property for the use or benefit of the town, in the following manner: The Board of Trustees shall appoint one referee, and the owner or owners of the property to be condemned shall appoint one referee, and in the event that the two referees so appointed shall fail to agree in the valuation of the property, the two so selected shall appoint a third referee, and the valuation of such property agreed to by such referees, or two of them, shall be final and binding upon the parties, unless the party aggrieved by the decision. of such referees shall appeal from such decision of valuation to the District Court of the First Judicial District, within thirty days after notice of such valuation shall have been served on him or them. Fourth-To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; also, to organize, regulate, establish, locate, or disband fire and hose companies. Fifth-To regulate the storage of gunpowder and other explosive or other combustible material. Sixth-To prevent and remove nuisances; also, to determine what are nuisances. Seventh-To employ policemen, prescribe their duties and compensation, and provide for their regulation and govern ment. Eighth-To fix and collect a license tax on, and regulate all theaters, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all other exhibitions and amusements. Ninth-To fix and collect a license tax on barrooms, hurdy gurdy houses, and public dance houses, on auctioneers, hawkers, peddlers, and all dealers in liquors, on all drays, job wagons, or carts, or any other public vehicle running within the limits of the said town for hire; also, to fix and collect a license tax on all trades and business not herein before specified or enumerated, having due regard to the amount of business done by each person or firm so licensed. Tenth-To license, tax and regulate, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dramshops, public card tables, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, and pawnbrokers, gambling houses, disorderly houses, and houses of ill fame; provided, however, that nothing in this section of this Act contained shall be construed as granting power to suppress gaming when the same shall have been authorized by license issued by proper authority, pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to restrict gaming," passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine, or any Act amendatory thereof. Eleventh-To levy and collect an annual tax on all dogs owned or kept within the limits of said town, and to provide for the extermination of all dogs for which such tax shall not have been paid; and to prohibit the keeping of hogs or the running at large of goats or cows within the corporate limits of said town. of issuing Twelfth-To provide for the issuance of licenses before Manner named, for such terms and in such sums as they may consider licenses. best; provided, that the several kinds of business or occupation to be licensed shall be classified by ordinance in two or more classes, with a specific or certain rate of license provided for each class; and the blank certificates of license for each class, including the fixed sum to be paid therefor by the licensee, shall be printed and numbered. Thirteenth-To provide all necessary buildings for public use of said town. Fourteenth-To establish a Board of Health and define their Board of Health. powers and duties, to prevent the introduction or spread of disease, and to provide for the indigent. Fifteenth-To prevent and restrain any riot or riotous assem- Riots, etc. blage, or disorderly conduct, and to prohibit and suppress the sale of spirituous or malt liquors or wines on any day of municipal, county, or general election. Sixteenth-To fix and prescribe the punishment for the To fix penalties. breach of any town ordinance or resolution; but no fine shall be imposed for any offense in any sum greater than five hundred dollars, and no term of imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding six months. Seventeenth-To determine the duties and fix and establish Salaries the fees, salaries, compensation, and emoluments of all officers and fees. and employés of said town; provided, that the Trustees shall not receive, or be entitled to receive, for their services as such, any sum whatever. ance, etc. Eighteenth-To compel the attendance of absent members, Attendto punish members for disorderly conduct, and to expel a member for cause by a vote of four fifths. Nineteenth-To make all necessary contracts and agreements Debt. for the benefit of the town, and to contract debts on the faith of the town; but no debt shall be contracted, or liability incurred, except on a cash basis; to issue and sell bonds bearing interest at a rate not to exceed twelve per centum per annum, for the purpose of creating a Contingent Fund for current expenses, or for the purpose of paying, retiring, and canceling any bonds, or warrants, or other outstanding claims already existing against the town; provided, that the aggregate of liabilities outstanding shall not at any time exceed the sum of sixty Limit of thousand dollars; and, provided further, that the said Board of debt. Trustees shall not create a debt against the town for printing in a greater sum than five hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 2. Section thirty-one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: nances. Section Thirty-one. The style of all ordinances shall be: Ordi"The Board of Trustees of Gold Hill do ordain." All ordinances shall be published for one week in a newspaper published in the County of Storey, prior to going into effect. Printed copies of ordinances purporting to have been made by and published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of said town, shall be admitted by the Courts and officers of this State, on all occasions, as presumptive evidence of such ordinances. Penalty. Notice. Act to take effect CHAP. XLIX.-An Act to prohibit animals from being ridden or driven over any toll or county bridge in this State, faster than a walk. [Approved February 23, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That any person or persons riding or driving any animal or animals upon any toll or county bridge in this State faster than a walk, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that the County Commissioners, or owners of toll roads, shall cause to be placed in a conspicuous place at or near the end of such bridge, a notice warning all persons not to ride or drive animals upon such bridge faster than a walk. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Preferred lien. CHAP. L.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to secure liens to mechanics and others, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto," approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [Approved February 24, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Where ore is delivered to a custom mill or reduction works, and either sold to said mill or reduction works, or worked at a percentage, the party or parties so furnishing ore to mill or reduction works shall have a preferred lien upon the bullion product, and upon the ore not reduced, as against attachment and other creditors. CHAP. LI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning estray animals," approved November eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act entitled "An Act concern reported Justice. ing estray animals," approved November eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section One. Every person finding any stray horse, mare, Estrays colt, jack, or jenny, or any neat-foot animal, or any number of to be these animals, upon his farm or premises, or upon the public to a highway or domain, and shall take the same up for keeping, shall, within ten days, if said animal or animals remain on his farm or premises, or keeping, go before some Justice of the Peace of his township, and give, under oath, a full description of the marks and brands, color, and kind of such animal or animals, also the time, and all necessary information that will lead to the cause of the said animal or animals coming into his keeping, that may have come to his knowledge, and the marks and brands have not been altered since they came to his farm or premises; provided, no animal shall be considered an estray if the owner is known to the person finding it. At the time the taker up appears before the Justice, as aforesaid, the Justice shall, without delay, appoint two disinterested appraisers, who are res- Appraisident householders of the county, to appraise and describe such ers. animal or animals, and cause a notice of such estray or estrays, with a full description of the same, giving the brands, marks, Notice. and colors thereon, to be published once a week for two consecutive months, in a newspaper published at the county seat of the county in which the animal or animals may be taken up, and if there be no newspaper published at the county seat, then the said notice shall be published in the newspaper nearest to the same. The said Justice shall also cause three notices to be posted of such estrays, in conspicuous places, one of which shall be the Justice's office, and the others the vicinity of the place where the estray animal or animals may have been taken up. For refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this Penalty. section of this Act, Justices of the Peace shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in office, and the taker up of such estray or estrays shall be deemed guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the estray animal or animals taken up, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as is provided in the law of the State of Nevada entitled "An Act concerning crimes and punishments." SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: used. Section Four. No person shall be allowed or permitted to Estrays use, or cause to be used, to profit or otherwise, any animal within not to be his charge or keeping, under the foregoing provisions of this Act; and any person failing or refusing to comply with the requisitions set forth in this section shall be deemed guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the same, and, on conviction thereof, be punished in accordance with the provisions of the "Act concerning crimes and punishments." Separate book to be kept. Publica tion. Acts repealed. CHAP. LII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons," approved November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two hundred and eighty-nine of the above Act be so amended to read as follows: Section Two Hundred and Eighty-nine. All orders and decrees made by the Probate Court during its terms shall be entered at length in a separate book of the Court, to be kept for that purpose, and, also, all orders which the Probate Judge is empowered to make out of term time, and which by the Act to which this Act is amendatory, specially required to be so entered. Upon the close of each term the Judge shall sign the minutes of the proceedings. When publication is ordered, such publication shall be made daily, or otherwise as often during the prescribed period as the paper is regularly issued, unless otherwise provided in this Act. The Court or Judge may, however, prescribe a less number of publications during the period prescribed. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Governor directed to offer rewards in certain cases. CHAP. LIII.-An Act to authorize and require the payment of rewards in certain cases. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Governor shall offer a standing reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest of each person engaged in the robbery of, or in the attempt to rob, any person or persons upon, or having in charge in whole or in part any stage coach, wagon, railroad train, or other conveyance, engaged at the time in conveying passengers, or any private conveyance within this State, and for the arrest of each person engaged in the robbery of, or in the attempt to rob, any person or persons upon any highway in the State of Nevada, the reward to be paid to the person or persons making the arrest, immediately upon the conviction of the person or persons so arrested; but Lo reward shall be paid except after such conviction. |