Certificate. 3, 1869, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: yeas, 30; nays, 6. D. O. ATKISON. Speaker of the Assembly. STATE OF NEVADA, SENATE CHAMBER, This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 37, An Act for the relief of ; nays, JOHN WASSON, Secretary of the Senate. President of the Senate, pro tem. Appropriation. CHAP. LXX. An Act for the relief of James Slingerland, Warden of the State Prison. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the claim of J. S. Slingerland, for the value of money and property belonging to him, lost or destroyed at the time of, and by reason of the fire at the State Prison, on May 1, 1867. SEC. 2. The claim of said Slingerland for the losses mentioned in presented to section one, shall be presented to the Board of Examiners, who shall Examiners. allow thereon the value of the property lost, at the time and in the manner described in said section, not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars; and the examination and allowance of said claim shall be subject to all the provisions of law in force in reference to unliquidated claims, for the payment of which an appropriation has been made. Claim to be Certificate. STATE OF NEVADA, Assembly Chamber, March 4, 1869.) This is to certify that Assembly substitute for Senate Bill No. 165, an Act for the relief of James S. Slingerland, Warden of the State Prison, passed the Assembly this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, 27; nays, 10. A. WHITFORD, D. O. ATKISON, Speaker of the Assembly. Clerk of the Assembly. This is to certify that Assembly substitute for Senate Bill No. 165, Certificate. an Act for the relief of James S. Slingerland, Warden of the State Prison, passed the Senate this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, 16; nays, 4. CHAS. F. BICKNELL, Ass't Secretary of the Senate. T. D. EDWArds, President of the Senate, pro tem. CHAP. LXXI.-An Act to restrict gaming. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: game with SECTION 1. Each and every person who shall deal, play, carry on, Penalty for open, or cause to be opened, or who shall conduct, either as owner or carrying on employé, whether for hire or not, except under a license as hereinaf- out license. ter provided, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenette, rouge et noir, rondo, or any banking game played with cards, dice, or any other device, whether the same be played for money, checks, credit, or any other representative of value, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand, nor more than three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. may be SEC. 2. Any person may procure a license for carrying on any one How license of the games mentioned in section one of this Act, in any single room, cured. proupon the payment to the Sheriff of the county in which the same is situated, the amount of license money fixed in section four of this Act, and upon giving to said Sheriff a definite description of the room in which he designs to carry on said game, and filing with the County Clerk of the county a copy of said description. prepare Licenses. contain. SEC. 3. Blank licenses shall be prepared by the County Auditor, Auditor which shall be signed, issued and accounted for, as is by law provided required to in respect to other county licenses. Each license delivered by the Blank Sheriff under this Act to any person, shall contain the name of the li- What censee, a particular description of the room in which the licensee desires license shall to carry on the game licensed, and shall by its terms authorize the licensee to carry on one of the games mentioned in the first section of this Act, specifying it by name, in the room therein described, for the period of three months next succeeding the date of issuance of the license. The said license shall protect the licensee and his employer or License to employers against any criminal prosecution for dealing or carrying on protect the game mentioned in the room described during said three months, but not for dealing or carrying on any other game than that specified, or the specified game in any other place than the room so described : Licensee. Proviso. Amount to be paid for license. provided, that the licensee shall be entitled to deal, or play, or carry on two or more games in the same room, by paying a license for each game so dealt or carried on. SEC 4. The amount to be paid to the Sheriff for 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 two thousand or more votes, or in any county created after such General Election, four hundred dollars; in any other county two hundred and fifty dollars. Carrying on game with ished. SEC. 5. All moneys received for licenses under the provisions of this Act, shall be paid, one half into the County Treasury and one half into the State Treasury, for general county and State purposes respectively. SEC. 6. Every person who shall knowingly permit any of the out license games mentioned in the first Section of this Act to be played, conto be pun- ducted, dealt, or carried on in any house owned by him or her, in whole or in part, except by a person who has received a license as herein provided, or his employé, and in the room described therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in Section one of this Act. Game not to be carried room. SEC. 7. None of the above mentioned games shall be carried on, on in front nor shall any license issue to carry the same on, in any front room of the first or ground floor of any building, and if any person carrying on any of said games shall knowingly permit to enter or remain in Persons un- any licensed room, any person under the age of seventeen years, he der 17 not shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as to remain. provided in Section one of said Act. permitted Licensed gaming SEC. 8. No town, city, or municipal corporation in this State shall hereafter have power to prohibit, suppress or regulate any gaming game not to house, or game licensed as provided by this Act. house or be suppress ed, etc. disqualified SEC. 9. No person otherwise competent as a witness shall be disPersons not qualified or excused from testifiying as such, either before a grand or from testi- petit jury or any Court, to any facts concerning the offenses mentioned fying. in the foregoing sections of this Act, on the ground that his testimony may criminate himself. torney to re District At- SEC. 10. The District Attorney of the county shall receive two ceive fee for hundred and fifty dollars for each conviction of any person charged conviction. with the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in this Act, which sum shall be taxed as costs in the action, but in no case shall such costs be a charge against the county. Repeal. Certificate. SEC. 11. An Act entitled "An Act to prevent gaming," approved February 25, 1865, is hereby repealed. This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 78, "An Act to restrict gaming," passed the Assembly this [day] notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, 29; nays, 7. A. WHITFORD, Clerk of the Assembly. D. O. ATKISON, Speaker of the Assembly. SENATE CHAMBER, State of Nevada, March 4, 1869. This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 78, "An Act to restrict Certificate. gaming," passed the Senate this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. Yeas, 15; nays, 4. T. D. EDWARDS, President pro tem. of the Senate. CHAS. F. BICKNELL, Secretary of the Senate. CHAP. LXXII.—An Act to abolish the Recorder's Court and the office of City Recorder in the City of Virginia. [Approved March 5, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Court, etc., SECTION 1. The Recorder's Court now established in the City of Recorder's Virginia, in the County of Storey, together with the office of City Re- abolished. corder, in said city, are hereby abolished. the Peace to SEC. 2. The Justices of the Peace within the City of Virginia Justices of shall have jurisdiction of all violations of city ordinances, and may have juris hold to bail, fine or commit to prison any offender, in accordance with diction. the provisions of such ordinances. the City SEC. 3. All fines, forfeitures and penalties coming into the hands Fines to be of either of the Justices of the Peace in said city, in cases arising under paid into any city ordinances, shall be by him paid into the City Treasury, Treasury. under oath, on the first Monday of each month; provided, that the costs and fees allowed by law to such Justices and other officers shall be deducted from said fines, forfeitures and penalties, before making such payment. SEC. 4. All prosecutions for the violation of any city ordinance City and shall be conducted by the City Attorney of said city; all other by the District Attorney of the County of Storey. District Attorneys to conduct Prosecu ed. SEC. 5. Section thirty-one of an Act entitled "An Act to incorpo- tions. rate the City of Virginia, provide for the Government thereof, and re- Acts repealpeal all other laws in relation thereto," approved March 4, 1865, and all other Acts in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. effect, when. SEC. 6. This Act shall be in force from and after the first Tuesday Act to take after the first Monday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 18 Treasure porated. CHAP. LXXIII.-An Act to incorporate Treasure City, in the [Approved March 5, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose hereinafter mentioned, the inhabitants City incor- of that portion of Lander County embraced within the limits hereinafter set forth in this section, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Inhabitants of Treasure City, and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual Boundaries. succession, sue and be sued in all courts. The boundaries of said incorporated city shall be as follows, viz: Beginning at the Flag-Staff in Treasure City, and running thence due.east one-half mile; thence north one mile; thence west two miles; thence south three miles; thence east two miles; thence north two miles, to place of beginning. Corporate powers, vested in Board, Trustees, etc. Term of offices. Persons not eligible to office. Not allowed to vote. General Laws applicable to election. SEC. 2. The corporate powers of said city shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, to consist of five members, who shall be resident householders of said city. In addition to said Trustees, there shall be a Treasurer, Assessor and Marshal elected by the qualified voters of said city. SEC. 3. The said officers shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Trustee, Treasurer, Assessor, or Marshal, who shall not be a qualified elector of the State of Nevada, and who shall not have been an actual resident of the said Treasure City for three months next preceding the election. SEC. 5. No person shall be allowed to vote at any election for said officers who shall not be a qualified voter of the State of Nevada, and shall not have actually resided at Treasure City for three months next preceding the election. SEC. 6. The general election shall be held on the [first] Monday of June of each year. SEC. 7. All the provisions of law now in force, and of all laws which may be hereafter enacted, regulating elections in the State of Nevada, so far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this Act, shall apply to the election of officers herein provided for. The Trustees to Board of Trustees of Treasure City shall, for each election, at least appoint Judges. three days prior to the same, appoint three Judges, and shall designate Certificates the place for opening the polls. Within two days after each election of election. the Judges and Clerks of the same shall make out, sign and deliver to such of the Trustees receiving the highest number of votes, certificates of their elections to such office. Immediately after the votes are counted Statement the said Judges and Clerks shall make out a statement of the number of votes cast for the offices of Trustees, Treasurer, Assessor and Marshal, and for each person severally, which statement shall be certified under oath by the majority of said Judges; and they shall cause the same, together with the poll list, and votes, duly sealed up, to be delivered to the Board of Trustees of said city, within two days after said election. Within two days after the receipt of the same the said Board of votes cast. Canvass. |