CHAP. LIV.—An Act to admit to probate a certain paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Thomas Sheehan. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and attested. SECTION 1. The paper purporting to be the last will and Same as testament of Thomas Sheehan, deceased, is hereby declared though to be as valid and legal as though the signature of the testator to the same was attested by two subscribing witnesses; and the claimant, George Elliott, is hereby authorized to offer said paper for probate before the proper Court; and the same shall be considered by the Court as if the signature of the testator was attested as required by law. mined. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as deter- Issue mining the issue of fact, whether said paper is the last will not deterand testament of said deceased, but said issue shall be submitted to and be determined by the proper Court. contested. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to pre- May be vent any heir or heirs of said deceased from contesting the validity of the said paper purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased, within the time allowed by law, should any such contestant or contestants appear. tion. SEC. 4. No claim of George Elliott, or of any other person, Limitato the money or estate of said Thomas Sheehan, deceased, and no action for the recovery of the same by any person, shall be held by any Court to be barred by the statute of limitations or otherwise; provided, such claim shall be set up or such action Proviso. shall be commenced within three months from the date of the passage of this Act. repealed. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts heretofore passed, so Acts far only as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. LV.-An Act to amend sections two and four of an Act entitled "An Act granting the right of way for a railroad from the mines of the Virginia City Coal Company, Lyon County, to Virginia City, Nevada, and intermediate points," passed February twentieth, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of the Act of which this Act is amendatory, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two. It shall be the duty of the grantors herein. named to make and complete the survey of said route before Survey and com the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventypletion of six, or of such part or parts thereof to which said road shall the road. be extended, and said grantors, their associates and assigns, shall complete all of such road which they may deem advisable to construct for the transportation of coal from said coal mine within four years from the passage of this Act. May transfer SEC. 2. Section four of the Act of which this Act is amendatory, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Four. Any time within four years after the passage franchise. Of this Act, the grantors herein named, their associates and assigns, may form themselves into an incorporation under the general laws of the State, or may transfer the rights, privileges, and franchises herein granted, to the said Virginia City Coal Company. May erect buildings and lay pipes. Proviso. CHAP. LVI.-An Act to grant certain privileges to gas companies and others. [Approved February 26, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any person, persons, or company desiring to supply the inhabitants of any city or town in this State with illuminating gas, it shall have the license and authority to erect within the limits of such city or town the necessary buildings, works, and machinery for the manufacture or production of such gas; to make the necessary excavations in the public streets of such city or town, for the purpose of laying gas pipes therein; to lay all necessary pipes, and to reopen such excavations at any time for replacement, repair, or examination of the pipes; provided, that no street shall be obstructed to an unnecessary degree, or for an unnecessary period of time, by any work as aforesaid. CHAP. LVII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to restrict gaming, passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [Approved February 28, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of the Act entitled "An Act to restrict gaming," passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as amended by section two of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to restrict gaming," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: license. Section Four. The amount to be paid to the Sheriffs as a Quarterly quarterly license shall be as follows: In any county in which, at the general election next preceding the time of application, were polled five hundred votes or more, or in any county created after said general election, four hundred dollars, and in all other counties two hundred and fifty dollars; and such license shall be paid for actually, and not constructively, quarterly in advance. SEC. 2. Section seven of the Act entitled "An Act to restrict gaming," passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, as amended by section three of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to restrict gaming," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: must not Section Seven. None of the above mentioned games shall Games be carried on, nor shall any license issue to carry on the same, be on the in any room of the first floor or story of any building; and first floor. when any building has two first floors or stories, the other being or fronting on one street and the other being or fronting on another street, then and in such case no license shall issue to carry on any of said games in any room on or in either of said first floors or stories of such building; provided, that in Proviso. any county in which, at the general election next preceding the time of application, were polled less than fifteen hundred votes, or in any county created after said general election, the licensee shall be entitled to carry on his game in any back room of the first or ground floor of any building; and if any person carrying on any of said games shall knowingly permit Misdeto enter or remain in any licensed room any person under the meanor to age of twenty-one years, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde- minor. meanor, and shall be punished by the same penalties for violation of its provisions as are prescribed in section one of the Act of which this is amendatory. admit a SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts, in so far as they conflict Acts with this Act, are hereby repealed. repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and Act takes effect. after the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy seven. CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Storey County to issue bonds for certain purposes, and to provide for the payment of the same. [Approved February 28, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying all outstanding indebtedness due by the County of Storey, incurred in the construc thorized. Loan au- tion, completion, and furnishing of the Court House at the City of Virginia, in said county, the County Commissioners of Storey County are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue the bonds of said county in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, payable in gold coin of the United States, and to dispose of the same and use the proceeds arising therefrom in the manner hereinafter provided. Bonds, how prepared. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be of such amounts as shall be deemed most salable and convenient; but no bond shall be for a less amount than one hundred dollars, and none for a greater amount than one thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be printed with interest coupons attached thereto; shall express on the face Gold coin. of both bond and coupons that they are payable in gold coin of the United States; shall bear interest at the rate of ten per Interest. cent. per year, payable semi-annually at the office of the County Treasurer of said county, in the City of Virginia. The bonds shall be payable to bearer, at the office of the County Treasurer of said county, in five years from their date, and shall express upon their face that they are subject to redemption pursuant to the provisions of this Act. The bonds shall be prepared in proper form, under the direction of the Board, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, and countersigned by its clerk, who shall attach thereto the county seal. Coupons. coupons for semi-annual interest shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, and shall be paid on the first day of January and July in each year, on presentation at the office of the County Treasury of said County of Storey. How sold. Fund created. How applied. The SEC. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of said county, after said bonds shall have been so prepared and signed, shall appoint some competent and disinterested person, who shall be a member of said Board, to dispose of said bonds, and said bonds shall be delivered to the person so appointed, and he shall be thereupon authorized and directed to dispose of them, or any part thereof; but the rates at which said bonds shall be disposed of shall be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners, and may be changed from time to time, as they may order; but none of said bonds shall be sold at a rate of less than ninety cents of the par value thereof. SEC. 4. There is hereby established in the said County of Storey, and the Treasury thereof, a special fund, to be known as and called the Court House Fund, and all sums of money derived from the sale of any or all of said bonds shall be paid into the County Treasury and credited to said "Court House Fund," and from the same shall be paid the outstanding indebtedness accrued and to accrue for the purpose aforesaid; and all moneys derived from the collection of the tax hereinafter authorized shall be paid into said Treasury and credited to said fund, which shall at all times hereafter, and until the full payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, remain inviolate, and shall not be used or appropriated for any other purpose whatsoever; and said fund shall be applied: First, to the payment of the semi-annual interest as above directed; and second, to the redemption of said bonds as herein provided. SEC. 5. The said Board of County Commissioners shall levy and collect annually, until all of said bonds issued under the . levied. provisions of this Act shall have been fully paid or provided Tax to be for, a tax of one fourth of one per cent. upon all taxable property of Storey County, to be applied exclusively to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds to be issued as herein provided. tion. bid to be SEC. 6. Whenever all interest due, upon said bonds at any Redempspecified time shall have been fully paid, and there shall be in said fund a surplus, which upon a fair estimate of the receipts which will probably come into the same, will not be needed for the payment of the future interests to accrue within the next succeeding twelve months, the Board of Commissioners, after having ascertained the amount of said surplus, shall insert an Notice. advertisement in at least one newspaper published in said county, for the period of not less than two weeks, stating the amount of money on hand to be applied in the purchase of said bonds, and inviting sealed proposals to surrender the same to be made and filed with the Clerk of said Board on or before a day certain therein named. At the next meeting of the Board Lowest after said day, the Board shall open such sealed proposals as accepted. shall have been filed on or before the day fixed in the advertisement, and to the extent of the amount named shall purchase the bonds so offered, giving the preference in all cases to the bidder who shall offer to surrender said bonds at the lowest price; provided, that no offer shall be accepted for more Par value. than the par value of the said bonds; and if at any time there shall not be a sufficient amount of bonds presented for redemption to exhaust the sum in said fund to be used for such purpose, then said Board of County Commissioners shall be and they are hereby authorized to determine by lot in some appro- May priate manner to be by them determined, which of the out. lot standing bonds shall be redeemed, and shall give ten days' Notice. notice thereof by an advertisement in at least one newspaper published in the county. Any bonds so declared to be redeemed shall be paid upon presentation at the Treasury at any time, and the interest upon any bond so declared to be redeemed shall cease after the expiration of said ten days. determine legalized. SEC. 7. All loans heretofore made by the County Commis- Contracts sioners of Storey County for the purpose of raising funds to complete and furnish the said Court House, are hereby made legal and binding upon said county, and all evidences of indebtedness issued for such loans under the direction and authority of said Board for said purposes, are hereby declared legal and valid claims against said county for the amount of the principal and interest thereof, as in said evidences of indebtedness expressed. pledged. SEC. 8. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby solemnly Faith pledged that this Act shall never be repealed or so modified as in any way to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase the bonds herein provided for. SEC. 9. All Acts and parts of Acts conflicting with the pro- Acts visions of this Act are hereby repealed. repealed. |