Catalogue.

To assay specimens of ores.

Specimens catalogued to be depos

ited in museum.

Power to engage services of employé.

Report.

Acts repealed.

are valuable, and desirable to be selected by this State, in satisfaction of lands granted by the United States to the State of Nevada.

SEC. 7. He shall collect, mark, and catalogue mineralogical and geological specimens, and carefully prepare a description of every such specimen, and of locality where each specimen was obtained.

SEC. 8. He shall assay or cause to be assayed, analyzed and described, so far as practicable and deemed expedient, all specimens of ores, which, together with the statement of the locality from which the same was obtained, shall be printed and attached, or refer to the specimen.

SEC. 9. All specimens properly catalogued shall be deposited in a museum, so soon as one shall have been prepared by the State, where they, together with the catalogue, shall be carefully kept, and shall at all seasonable times be subject to examination by any person, subject to the rules prescribed by the State Mineralogist. Until such time the same shall be kept in the office of the State Mineralogist.

SEC. 10. He shall have the power, and he is hereby authorized to engage the services of one employé, at such times as he may think necessary, fix the wages and time of service of said employé, and certify the amount to the Board of Examiners, who shall audit the same.

SEC. 11. He shall, on or before the second Monday in January, 1871, report to the Legislature in detail all acts performed and information obtained under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 12. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for establishing and maintaining a Mining School, and create the office of State Mineralogist," approved March 9, 1866, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 13. This Bill shall take effect from and after its passage.

Treasurer required to set apart

money quarterly to pay com

CHAP. LII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide a fund for the payment of the salaries of the District Judges of this State, and to regulate the disposition of the same," approved March 1, 1866.

[Approved March 1, 1869.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of the above entitled Act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section One. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of the county or counties composing the respective districts, and they are hereby directed and required, from the revenues of the several counties respectively, to set apart quarterly a sufficient amount of money to pay pensation. the quarterly compensation, or such county's proportion of the quarterly compensation of the several District Judges of this State, of and within the several Districts respectively as apportioned by law. And the moneys so set apart as aforesaid, shall be and remain a special

Fund.

and exclusive fund, to be known in each county as the "District Salary Judges' Salary Fund;" and it shall be the duty of the several County Auditors, and they are hereby directed and required, to draw their war- Auditor rerants upon such special fund, upon the County Treasurers of the sev- quired to draw wareral counties, upon the first Monday of each month of each year, in rants. favor of each District Judge of the said District, for the monthly compensation of said Judges as fixed by law; and it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of each county, and he is hereby directed and Treasurer required, to pay such warrants immediately upon the presentation pay warthereof to him, from the moneys so set apart in said fund; and the rants. moneys so set apart shall not be used or appropriated to any other fund, use or purpose.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

required to

CHAP. LIII.-An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of Nye County.

[Approved March 1, 1869.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION. 1. From and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be Treasurer lawful for the Treasurer of Nye County to pay any warrant drawn on prohibited from paying the treasury of said county, on account of any indebtedness of the warrants. county, outstanding prior to the passage of this Act, except in manner hereinafter provided.

sioners au

demption

ferred.

SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of said county are Commishereby authorized and directed, from and after the passage of this Act, thorized to to create in the county treasury of said county a fund, to be known as create a Rethe "Redemption Fund" of said county. As soon after the passage of Fund. this Act as is practicable, they shall cause to be transferred into said Redemption Fund, twenty (20) per cent of all county revenues in the Revenue to county treasury of said county, at the time of the taking effect of this be transAct; and the County Treasurer of said county is hereby expressly prohibited from paying out any portion of said twenty (20) per cent. of said revenues from said treasury, until the said order of transferrence (to be made by said Board of County Commissioners as hereinafter provided for) is duly certified to such Treasurer, and they shall cause twenty (20) per cent. of all county revenues paid into the treasury of said county at any time after the passage of this Act, to be placed in said Redemption Fund as soon as paid into said treasury. The moneys Disbursed. placed in the Redemption Fund created by this Act, shall be disbursed as hereinafter provided.

ness audited

SEC. 3. All indebtedness now audited and registered in the regis- Indebtedter of accounts of said county, directed and required by the provisions and regisof this Act to be paid out of the Redemption Fund, shall, from the date tered, to of the taking effect of the same, bear interest at the rate of ten (10) per est.

bear inter

Duty of

reasurer.

cent. per annum, and all indebtedness audited and allowed after the passage of this Act, and payable and purchasable out of the Redemption Fund herein, shall bear the like rate of interest from and after the date of the allowance thereof.

SEC. 4. Whenever at any time there shall be in said Redemption Fund the sum of one thousand dollars, or more, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said county, to give fourteen days' notice by publication in some newspaper published in said county, or, if no such paper be published, then by posting notices in three conspicuous places Sealed pro- in said county, that sealed proposals directed to him, will be received posals for for the surrender of county indebtedness, issued or outstanding prior to the passage, or under the provisions of this Act; and that said proposals will be received by him until the next regular, or special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of said county thereafter.

surrender of

indobted

ness.

Proposals opened.

SEC. 5. On the first day of such regular meeting, or at any special meeting of said Board of County Commissioners, they, together with the County Auditor and Treasurer, shall attend at the office of the latLowest bid ter, 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, nor any bid, unless accompanied by the certificate or certificates issued for the indebtedness proposed to be surrendered.

to be ac

cepted. Proviso.

Accepted bids.

Indebtedness to be canceled.

Vouchers.

SEC. 6. When any bids are accepted, the County Auditor and County Treasurer shall each take a description of the certificates to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each certificate, the date, number, and amount thereof, and make a record thereof in their respective offices, and thereupon the Board of County Commissioners shall, by order, direct the County Treasurer to purchase the indebtedness designated in the accepted bid, or bids, and pay for the same out of the Redemption Fund aforesaid, and all indebtedness so redeemed shall be canceled by the County Treasurer, by writing across the certificate surrendered, in red ink, "Purchased and redeemed," adding thereto the time and the amount paid therefor, and sign the same officially. The order of the Board of County Commissioners aforesaid, together 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 being equal, preference shall be given to the smallest amount. That shall be Lowest bid deemed the lowest bid, which offers the largest amount of indebtedness for the least sum of money. The bids and amounts of indebtedness being equal, taking into consideration both principal and interest, each shall be accepted pro rata as nearly as possible. The County TreasTreasurer to urer shall return all unaccepted bids, together with the certificates therein contained, to the owners, on demand. The County Treasurer shall keep a separate account, under the heading of "Redemption Separate ac- Fund," of all moneys received into the said fund, and of all moneys paid out of said fund, and to whom paid. The County Auditor shall also, on the register of audited or registered accounts kept by him, write opposite each audited account redeemed under the provisions of this Act, the word, "Purchased," and state the amount paid therefor.

return un

accepted bids.

count.

Indebted

ness purchasable

out of Redemption Fund.

SEC. 7. When any claim against said county, which accrued prior to the passage of this Act, is allowed by the Board of County Commissioners of said county, after the passage of this Act, the same shall be allowed as purchasable out of the Redemption Fund of said county, and all indebtedness audited on such claims shall be payable and pur

chasable out of said Redemption Fund, in the same manner provided by this Act for the purchase of other county indebtedness, with moneys of said county in said Redemption Fund.

pealed.

SEC. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts heretofore passed, so far as Acts rethey conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. LIV.—An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act defining the duties of the State Treasurer," approved February 2, 1866.

[Approved March 1, 1869.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The State Treasurer shall pay all warrants drawn Treasurer's duty in payupon him by the State Controller, out of the proper fund as directed ment of in the order in which the same are presented. If there be no money warrants. to pay any warrant when presented, the State Treasurer shall indorse thereon the words "not paid for want of funds," and shall note the date of presentation, and attest the indorsement made, by his official signature. He shall at the same time make an entry of the date of presentation, number and amount of the warrant in the Register required by law to be kept by him. So soon as money accumulates or is received into the State Treasury, applicable to and sufficient for the payment of any outstanding warrant or warrants so presented for payment and not paid for want of funds, the State Treasurer shall post a notice in writing in a conspicuous place in his office, setting forth the number and amount of his warrant or warrants, and the fact that there is money in the State Treasury to pay the same. From the time of the posting of such notice, no interest shall be allowed or paid upon any warrant which by law is, or may be, entitled to bear interest.

treble dam

ages on fail

pay war

Treasury to

SEC. 2. Any failure, neglect or refusal on the part of the State Liable to Treasurer to pay any warrant when presented, there being money in the State Treasury to pay the same, or to post the notice within five ure, etc., to days as required in this Act, after there shall have been received into rants when the State Treasury, money applicable and sufficient to pay any warrant money in or warrants presented and not paid for want of funds, or after having pay same. received the money and posted the notice as aforesaid on presentation for payment, to pay the warrants so posted, shall subject him to damages to the person or persons aggrieved to an amount equal to treble interest on the sum specified in the warrant or warrants not paid on presentation as provided in this section, such interest being computed at the rate of three per cent. per month during the time such warrant or warrants remain unpaid, and in any suit brought to recover the same judgment shall be rendered to cover the damages at the time of the entry thereof and for costs.

SEC. 3. The State Treasurer shall securely keep, in a good and Treasurer required to sufficient fire-proof safe, furnished and provided for him for that pur

keep money

in safe in of

fice.

pose, in his office at the seat of Government, all the public moneys of the State which may be at any time on hand in the State Treasury, Prohibited and shall not deposit any part or portion thereof with any individual, copartnership or corporation; nor shall he use said money, or any part cept in pay- thereof, or allow any one else so to do, except in payment of warrants properly drawn upon him by the State Controller.

from using

money, ex

ment of

warrants.

Secretary of
State re-

ments

CHAP. LV.—An Act to provide for the preservation of the Manuscript Laws, and other important State Papers.

[Approved March 1, 1869.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as all the laws, joint and concurrent resolutions, and memorials passed at quired to have certain the present session of the Legislature shall be properly enrolled, or State docu- within thirty days thereafter, to proceed to the City of San Francisco, bound, etc. in the State of California, and carry with him in his own personal custody all such enrolled laws, joint and concurrent resolutions and memorials, together with the enrolled copy of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, the enrolled description of the State Seal, and the manuscript copy of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, heretofore held for the purpose of framing a constitution for this State, and the manuscripts containing the enrolled Acts and joint and concurrent resolutions of the Territory of Nevada, and of the State of Nevada, passed prior to this session.

Duty in relation to binding.

Authorized to read

proof in San Francisco.

Appropriation.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall cause to be bound in suitable books or folios, in junk board marbled, with leather backs and corners, all such manuscripts enumerated in Section One of this Act, making separate volumes for each regular session of the Legislature, commencing with the session of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Said manuscripts shall be and remain under his personal supervision while in process of binding, and be by him, and in his care, brought back and deposited in the State archives.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and permitted, while in the City of San Francisco aforesaid, to read by copy and correct the proof sheets of the laws, resolutions and memorials passed at the present session of the Legislature.

SEC. 4. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay for the binding in this Act provided for, and to defray the reasonable expenses incurred by the Secretary of State, in the discharge of the duties imposed in this Act; provided, that the expenditures by him incurred shall be accounted for in his next ensuing official report.