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CHAP. LXIII.-An Act to regulate the business of Assaying within the State of Nevada.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

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SECTION 1. Every person or firm now engaged in, or who may Assayers hereafter engage in, the business of assaying within the State of required to Nevada, shall be required to place a written description pasted on or scription on stamped upon every bar of bullion or amalgam melted, retorted, as- bullion. sayed or refined by such person or firm, the name of the person or company by whom such bullion or amalgam was deposited with or sold to such person or firm.

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SEC. 2. Every person or firm within the State of Nevada engaged Penalty for in or carrying out [on] the business mentioned in the first section of this refusal or Act, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the County Jail not less than one month nor more than six months for each and every such refusal or neglect.

CHAP. LXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to provide revenue for the support of the Government of the State of Nevada,' approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five," approved March 11, 1867.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Section one of the Act of which this is amendatory, is amended so as to read as follows:

Salaries.

Section One. The Treasurers of the several counties of this State Treasurers' shall be allowed the following annual salaries, to wit: The Treasurer of Storey County, three thousand dollars; of Ormsby County, fifteen hundred dollars; of Douglas County, five hundred dollars; of Esmeralda County, one thousand dollars; of Lyon County, eighteen hundred dollars; of Washoe County, two thousand dollars; of Churchill County, one thousand dollars; of Nye County, fifteen hundred dollars; of Lander County, twenty-five hundred dollars; of Humboldt County, eight hundred dollars. Said salaries to be audited by the Board of County Commissioners, and paid at the end of each quarter out of the Treasurers' Salary Fund.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage.

County Commissioners may offer rewards in certain cases.

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Order to be made offering Rewards.

Rewards,

CHAP. LXV.--An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of the several Counties in this State to offer and pay rewards in certain cases.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Hereafter, when it shall come to the personal knowledge of the County Commissioners, or a majority thereof, of any of the counties in this State, that the crime of murder has been committed within said county, or whenever one or more of the residents of the county shall state in writing and under oath that such crime has been committed in the county, and that to the best of their knowledge and belief the person or persons, whether known or unknown, committing the crime, has or have not, at the time of making such statement, been apprehended or taken into custody, and the Board, from such statement or other evidence, believe that a murder has been committed, and that the offering of a reward would tend to cause the arrest of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the crime, the Board of County Commissioners, or a majority thereof, are authorized to offer a reward for the arrest and safe delivery of such criminal or criminals to the proper officers; provided, that in no case shall a reward be offered, as provided for in this Act, for more than five hundred dollars in each case; and such offer shall expire so soon as the Board of County Commissioners offering the reward shall make and [an] order to that effect, which they are authorized and empowered to do at any general session, or at a special session convened without notice, and shall cause the same to be entered in their minutes of proceedings. No reward shall be offered as herein authorized until after an order shall have been made by the Board and entered in the minutes of their proceedings, reciting the name of the person or persons murdered, and the amount of the reward offered, and the order shall have been approved by the Board and attested in the usual manner of attesting the minutes of their proceedings in other

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SEC. 2. All claims for rewards, as provided for in the preceding how paid. section, shall be allowed and paid as other claims against the county, under the direction of the County Commissioners, as provided for by law.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. LXVI.—An Act providing offices for the District Judges in this State.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

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SECTION 1. Offices shall be provided and furnished by, and at the Offices to be expense of the several counties in this State, for the several District provided Judges therein ; and whenever the County Commissioners of any Judges. county in this State shall neglect or refuse to provide and furnish an office for the use of the District Judge, it shall be lawful for such District Judge to make an order (which shall be entered upon the minutes of the Court) requiring the Sheriff to provide and furnish such office; and the necessary expenses incurred therein shall become a legal and valid claim against said county.

CHAP. LXVII.-An Act to require Foreign Corporations to furnish evidence of their incorporation, and corporate name.

[Approved March 3, 1869.]

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

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SECTION 1. Every incorporated company or association created Foreign and existing under the laws of any other State, or of any foreign gov- tions requirernment, shall file in the office of the County Recorder of each county ed to file Copy of of this State, wherein such corporation is engaged in carrying on busi- Certificate. ness of any character, a properly authenticated copy of their certificate of incorporation, or of the Act or law by which such corporation was created, with a proper certificate of the officers of the corporations, as to the genuineness of the same, and to each of such certificates shall be appended a duly certified list of the officers of such corporation.

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SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall act as the managing Carrying on agent or superintendent of any such corporation in conducting or without filcarrying on any business of such corporation, in any of the counties ing deemed of this State, without any such certificate having been filed as required, or. as provided in Section one herein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined, not exceeding five hundred Penalty. dollars, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding six months. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of July, A.D.

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CHAP. LXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act relating to the Board of Examiners, to define their duties and powers, and to impose certain duties on the Controller and Treasurer," approved February 7, 1865.

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

SECTION 1. read as follows: Section Five.

Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to

It shall be the duty of the Board of Examiners to Board when examine into all claims against the State, presented to them by petino Appropriation has tion, for which no appropriation has been made, and which require to to pay claim be acted upon by the Legislature, and to take all evidence in regard to the same which may be offered by the claimant or deemed proper by the Board. The evidence shall be reduced to writing, and together with the petition shall be transmitted to the Legislature on the first day of its next session, together with the opinions of the Board in reference to the merits of the same.

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SEC. 2.

as follows:

Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read

Section Six. All claims against the State for services or advances, Appropria- for payment of which an appropriation has been made by law, and been made. which have been by law authorized, but of which the amount has not been liquidated and fixed, may be presented to the Board of Examiners in the form of an account or petition, and in such manner as said Board shall prescribe by their rules; the claimant may present his evidence to sustain said demand, which evidence, if oral, shall be reduced to writing, and they shall either reject or allow the claim in whole or in part within thirty days from its presentation, and shall indorse upon the same, if allowed in whole or in part, over their signatures, "Approved for the sum of dollars," and shall immediately transmit the same so indorsed, together with all the evidence received by them relating thereto, to the Controller of State. Controller shall not allow or draw his warrant for any claim of the class described in this Section, which shall not have been approved by said Board, or for a greater amount than allowed by said Board, except when said claim shall not have been acted upon by said Board within thirty days prior to its presentation.

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SEC. 3. Sections four and seven of said Act are hereby repealed.

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This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 129, An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act relating to the Board of Examiners, to define their duties and powers, and to impose certain duties on the Controller and Treasurer," passed the Assembly this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: yeas, 27; nays, 10. D. O. ATKISON, Speaker of the Assembly.

A. WHITFORD,
Clerk of the Assembly.

SENATE CHAMBER, STATE OF NEVADA,

March 3, 1869.

This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 129, An Act to amend an Certificate. Act entitled "An Act relating to the Board of Examiners, to define their duties and powers, and to impose certain duties on the Controller and Treasurer," passed the Senate this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: yeas ; nays,

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T. D. EDWARDS,
President of the Senate, pro. tem.

JOHN WASSON,

Secretary of the Senate.

CHAP. LXIX-An Act for the relief of A. M. Krutschnitts and his bondsmen.

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

SECTION 1. All rights of action, and all claims for damages which Rights of have accrued in favor of the State of Nevada against A. M. Kruts- Action, etc., released by chnitts, late Assessor of Storey County, and his bondsmen, on account State. of a failure by said Assessor at any time during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to place upon the assessment roll of the proceeds of the mines of said county a valuation of said proceeds different from that contained in the sworn or affirmed statement of the Presidents, Superintendents, Treasurers or Managing Agents of the respective mining companies or corporations furnished to said Assessor under the provisions of section one hundred of an Act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty- Same. five, or for a failure during said period to make any different valuations of said proceeds than those contained in said sworn or affirmed statements, or on account of a failure during said period to amend or change the valuations contained in said statements in any proceedings subsequent to their reception, which were by law required to be performed by said Assessor in relation to said tax, are hereby released and discharged, and no action for such cause shall be maintained by, or on behalf of, the State against said Assessor or his bondsmen.

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SEC. 2. The Attorney-General of the State shall cause to be dis- Attorneymissed, upon payment by defendants of all costs hitherto accrued, any required to and all actions now pending against said Assessor or his bondsmen, dismiss wherein the State is plaintiff, for any of the causes set forth in section one of this Act.

STATE OF NEVADA, ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

Carson City, March 3, 1869.

Actions.

This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 37, An Act for the relief Certificate. of A. M. Krutschnitts and his bondsmen, passed the Assembly March

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