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Proviso.

Co. Commissioners

phans to Asylum.

of said Trustees or Managers, and the State Board of Examiners shall audit and allow such claims arising from and after the passage of this Act, against the Orphan Asylum Fund; provided, that the amount audited and allowed against the Orphan Asylum Fund shall not in the aggregate, within the period of two years from the date of the passage of this Act, exceed the sum of six thousand (6,000) dollars, or the sum of three thousand (3,000) dollars in any one year from and after the date and passage of this Act.

SEC. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of any county in this authorized State are hereby authorized and empowered to send to the Nevada to send or- Orphan Asylum any orphan child or children under twelve years of age, left parentless while residing in this State; and all reasonable expenses incurred in sending such orphan child or children to Virginia City, from the late residence of their deceased parents, shall constitute a charge against the Orphan Asylum Fund, and the same shall be paid out of said Fund on being presented to and audited by the State Board of Examiners.

Duty of Managers to receive

and care for orphans.

SEC. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the corporate Trustees or Managers of the Nevada Orphan Asylum to receive and care for all orphan children committed to their charge, according to the provisions of this Act, by any Board of County Commissioners in this State; and in receiving applicants for admission into said Asylum no distinction or preference shall be made or given on account of the nationality or religion of the applicant, or his or her parents.

County of White Pine created.

County Seat
located at
Hamilton.
Proviso.

CHAP. LX.-An Act to create the County of White Pine, and provide for its organization.

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

SECTION 1. The County of White Pine is hereby created with the following boundaries, to wit: All that portion of the State of Nevada lying east of a line running due north and south through the most westerly part of the house known as Shannon's Station, on the westerly slope of Diamond mountains, in Lander County, on the road from Austin to Hamilton in said county, and south of a line running due east and west through the most northerly part of Camp Ruby, and north of the present line between the Counties of Nye and Lander, as located by Thomas J. Reed, County Surveyor of Lander County, made in 1868.

SEC. 2. The county seat of said county is hereby located at the town of Hamilton, provided the proprietors of said town or other persons shall, within one month after the passage of this Act, convey by deed to the County of White Pine, free and clear of all incumbrances, (except the title of the United States) a plat of ground conveniently located, and of sufficient size, for a Court House, Jail, and other necessary County buildings, to remain the property of said county so long only as the same shall be used for county purposes; and if no such conveyance shall be made within such time, then the county seat may be located by order of the County Commissioners of said county. When

recorded.

such conveyance is made and accepted by said Board, the same shall Deed to be be delivered to the County Commissioners, or some one of them, who shall cause it to be recorded.

stituted un

Election.

SEC. 3. The following named persons shall be and are hereby con- Officers of stituted the officers of said county, until the next general election, to County conwit: Sheriff, Edward Irwin; County Recorder, Warren T. Lockhart; til General County Clerk, H. M. Eddy; County Assessor, Augustus Ash; County Treasurer, M. W. Kales; County Surveyor, E. F. Mitchell; District Attorney, F. H. Kennedy; Public Administrator, M. J. Henly; County Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. S. Herrick; County Commissioners, Frank Drake, Frank Wheeler, T. R. Cranley. The said officers shall perform the duties now required by law of officers of the same character in the other counties of the State. There shall be in Treasure City and Hamilton, each, two townships, and one in Sher- Township mantown. For each of the townships herein named, or that may here- and townafter be created, there shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners one Justice of the Peace and one Constable.

Duties.

ship officers

tute one

SEC. 4. The County of White Pine shall constitute one Senatorial To constiand one Assembly District, and until otherwise provided shall be en- Senatorial titled to a representation of two (2) Senators, and five (5) Members of and Assemthe Assembly in the Legislature of the State.

SEC. 5. The salary of the District Attorney for White Pine County is hereby fixed at three thousand dollars per annum, and the salary of the County Treasurer shall be two thousand dollars per annum, and the salary of the County Superintendent of Public Schools shall be fixed by the County Commissioners, not to exceed six hundred dollars per annum, and their fees shall be the same as officers of like character under the laws of the State.

bly District.

Salaries of

Officers.

assume por

SEC. 6. The County of White Pine shall assume and pay to Lan- County to der County, as its portion of the debt of said county, the sum of twenty-tion of intwo thousand five hundred dollars. For the purpose of paying said debtedness amount, twenty per cent. of all the county revenues collected by the of Lander. County of White Pine shall be placed in a fund to be called the "Lander County Debt Fund," which fund should be applied exclusively to the payment of said debt until the whole twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid. Warrants drawn upon the County of White Pine in favor of the County of Lander, under the order of the Board of Commissioners of Lander County, shall be paid out of said fund by the Treasurer of said county until the said sum shall be fully satisfied. All moneys received from White Pine County by Lander County shall be placed in the Redemption Fund of said latter county.

Lander

transcribe

SEC. 7. The County Recorder of Lander County is hereby author- Duty of Reized and empowered, and it shall be his duty to transcribe into suitable corder of books all the records in his custody, pertaining or relating to, or affect- County to ing the title to any property situated within said County of White Pine, records. and to make a suitable index thereto. Said transcript and index shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and when completed shall be delivered to the County Recorder of said White Pine County, and shall thereafter be kept in his office, and shall be for every purpose of the same force and effect as other County Records. The Recorder of Lander County shall be entitled to receive as com- Compensapensation for the services hereby imposed one-half of the fees now al- tion. lowed by law for recording and indexing written instruments in his office. His claim for said compensation shall be allowed by the Commissioners of White Pine County, on the completion and delivery of

When Act to take effect.

said transcript and index, and shall be paid as other claims against said county.

SEC. 8. The provisions of this Act shall take effect, and be in full force, from and after the first day of April, A.D. 1869, at which time said county shall be duly organized.

A. WHITFORD,

Clerk of the Assembly.

D. O. ATKISON, Speaker of the Assembly.

T. D. EDWARDS,

President of the Senate, pro tem.

JOHN WASSON,
Secretary of the Senate.

Certificate.

STATE OF NEVADA, CARSON,
In Assembly, March 2, 1869. S

I hereby certify, that Assembly substitute to substitute to Assembly Bill No. 33, entitled "An Act to create the County of White Pine, and provide for its organization," was passed by the Assembly on February 19th, 1869-yeas, 26; nays, 11. That the same was amended by the Senate on the 20th day of February, as shown by the message of that body on record, and that the Assembly concurred therein on the 23d day of February, by a vote of 27 yeas to 7 nays, and that it was reported as correctly enrolled and handed to the Governor for his approval on the said last mentioned day, as is shown by the records of the Assembly, and that the same was returned by the Governor to the Assembly on the second day of March, A.D. 1869, without action, and that the same became a law by virtue of section thirty-five of article four of the State Constitution.

A. WHITFORD,

D. O. ATKISON, Speaker of the Assembly.

Clerk of the Assembly.

STATE OF NEVADA,

Certificate.

In Senate.

I hereby certify that the Senate was, on the second day of March, duly notified by the Assembly of the condition of the foregoing Act, as set forth in the preceding Assembly certificate.

JOHN WASSON,

Secretary of the Senate.

T. D. EDWARds,

President of the Senate, pro tem.

CHAP. LXI.-An Act concerning certain expenses relative to
Jurors in Civil Cases.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

ses to be

bursements.

SECTION 1. In all cases when a Jury is kept together by reason Jury expen of the requirements concerning Special Juries, or by failure to agree taxed as upon a verdict, the expenses of their board and lodging shall be taxed other disas other disbursements and expenses in favor of the prevailing party. No verdict shall be entered or judgment rendered thereon, until the same is paid or rendered. The Clerk shall receive and properly disburse all money properly taxable under the provisions of this Act.

CHAP. LXII.-An Act for the erection of a State Orphan's Home, and to provide for the same.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

Home

SECTION 1. There shall be established within the limits of the Orphan's city of Carson, in the manner hereinafter provided for, a State Orphan's established. Home.

under con

SEC. 2. The administration of said Home shall be under the con- Administrol of a Board of Directors, to consist of the Controller of State, State tration to be Treasurer and Surveyor-General. They shall select from their num- trol of Diber a President and Vice-President. They shall be known by the rectors. name and style of the Directors of the State Orphan's Home.

SEC. 3. The Board of Directors shall have full power to manage Power of and administer the affairs of said Home, and cause to be erected such Directors to buildings as may be hereinafter designated.

SEC. 4. The Directors shall have power to make by-laws for their own government and the goverment of the Home; provided, that they are not repugnant to the laws of the United States or of this State. They shall cause to be kept a record of their proceedings, which shall at all times be open for the inspection of a Committee appointed by the Legislature. They shall submit to the Legislature during the first week of each session, a biennial report, showing the amount of the receipts and expenditures, the condition of the Home, the number of orphans or half orphans admitted and discharged during the interval between the regular sessions of the Legislature. They shall have power to appoint a Superintendent and Matron, who shall be man and

manage affairs, etc.

Powers and duty of

Directors.

Organization of Board.

Appropriation.

Appropriation, how used.

Directors to fix location,

etc.

Money to be used in Pay

laries, etc.

wife, and all other suitable persons necessary to be employed in said Home. They shall have stated meetings, at least once in three months. A majority shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

SEC. 5. During the first week of October, A.D. 1869, the Board of Directors shall meet at Carson City, and shall immediately organize and make arrangements for building and furnishing said State Orphan's Home, in conformity with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 6. For the purpose of erecting a State Orphan's Home Building and supporting the same, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 7. A sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars of the amount appropriated shall be used for the construction, completion and furnishing said Orphan's Home Building in a manner suitable for the reception of the Orphans of this State.

SEC. 8. During the month of January, A.D. 1870, the Board of Directors shall fix and determine upon a proper place for said Home Building, and furnishing the same, and for the erection of said Building shall let the necessary contract, which contract must provide for the completion and furnishing said Home Building ready for occupation on or before the first day of October, A.D. 1870.

SEC. 9. The three thousand dollars remaining in the State Orphan's ment of Sa- Home Fund, after the erection of the building as hereinbefore provided for, or as much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for the payment of the salaries of the employés, and for the clothing, maintenance and education of the Orphans, and for the necessary expense in removing the State's Orphans.

Orphans,

how admitt

SEC. 10. All orphans in this State under fourteen years of age, ed to Home. shall be admitted to the State Orphan's Home upon the presentation to any one of the members of the Board of Directors of a certificate from the Board of County Commissioners of the County in which they reside, setting forth the fact that they are really orphans and worthy to receive the benefits intended to be given by virtue of this fact [Act].

Accounts to be approved

SEC. 11. All accounts or demands against the State Orphan Home and allowed Fund shall be examined and approved by the Board of Directors, before going before the State Board of Examiners, and when allowed by the State Board of Examiners, the Controller of State shall draw his warrant on the State Orphan Home Fund for the amount.

Salary of
Superin-
tendent and
Matron.
Nevada
Orphan

SEC. 12. The salary of the Superintendent and Matron shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of two thousand dollars per annum. SEC. 13. On or before the first day of October, A.D. 1870, it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors of the State Orphan Home to notify the Trustees of the Nevada Orphan Asylum that they will reof readiness ceive all orphans in their charge, and will bear all the necessary expenses in their removal.

Asylum to

be notified

to receive

State Orphans.

Warrant, when

SEC. 14. Said Orphan Home Building to be erected on a lot in Carson City of not less than ten acres, to be donated to the State by the citizens of Ormsby County.

SEC. 15. No warrant shall be drawn on said appropriation, nor drawn, and shall any expense be incurred by said Board of Directors previous to the first day of January, 1870.

expense incurred.

SEC. 16. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

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