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shall be raised to furnish additional school facilities for said district, or to keep any school or schools in such district open for a longer period than the ordinary funds will allow, or for building an additional school house or houses, or for any two or all of these purposes. Such election shall be called by posting notices in three of the most public places in the district for twenty days, and also, if there be a newspaper in the county, by advertisement therein once a week for three weeks. Said Notice. notices shall contain the time and place of holding the election, the amount of money proposed to be raised, and the purpose or purposes for which it is intended to be used. The Trustees shall appoint three Judges to conduct the election, and it shall be held in all other respects, as nearly as practicable, in conformity with the general election law. At such election the ballots shall contain the words "Tax, Yes," or Ballots. "Tax, No." If a majority of the votes cast are "Tax, Yes," the offi cers of the election shall certify the fact to the County Commissioners, together with a statement of the amount of money proposed to be raised, who shall ascertain the necessary percentage on the property of Duty of said district, (as shown by the last assessment made thereof, after equal- sioners. ization) to raise the amount of money voted, and shall add it to the next county tax, to be collected on the property aforesaid. The same shall be paid into the County Treasury as a special deposit in favor of said school district, to be drawn in the same manner as the other school

moneys.

SEC. 12. Section thirty-six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Commis

Auditor to

Section Thirty-six. If for any reason said tax is not added to the When county tax by the County Commissioners, the County Auditor shall County enter it on the assessment roll to be charged against the property of enter tax that district, on application from the Trustees of said district. SEC. 13. Section thirty-seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

on Assessment Roll.

property.

Section Thirty-seven. All taxes assessed as in this Act provided Taxes to be shall constitute a lien on the property charged therewith, from the date a lien on of the levy thereof by the County Commissioners, or entry thereof on the assessment roll by the County Auditor, until the same are paid, and their payment if allowed to become delinquent shall be enforced in the same manner.

SEC. 14.

Section thirty-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as Rate-bills to read as follows:

Section Thirty-eight. After a school shall have been maintained free to all pupils six months of the current school year, the Trustees of any district shall have power, at their discretion, to assess such rate bills of tuition as they may deem necessary for the payment of teachers' salaries, in addition to the public moneys of such district. Said rate bills of tuition shall be made out by said Board of Trustees against all persons sending children to school, in proportion to the number of children sent, and the time of attendance of said children; and the Board of Trustees shall exempt such indigent persons from the payment of such rate bills as they may consider entitled to such exemption. Any person refusing or neglecting to pay said bills shall be excluded from the benefits of said school in such manner as the Board of Trustees, with the advice and consent of the public school teachers, may determine.

SEC. 15. Section thirty-nine of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

of tuition

Organiza

tion of new

tricts.

Section Thirty-nine. Whenever at least ten heads of families petiSchool Dis- tion the County Superintendent for the organization of a new school district, or a subdivision of or change in the boundaries of an old one, that officer shall transmit the petition to the Board of County Commissioners, with the approval or disapproval of the proposition indorsed thereon. Upon receiving any such petition, the said Commissioners shall have power to establish, alter, or modify the district or districts, in accordance with the prayer of the petition; provided, however, that if the Superintendent disapproved, then said Commissioners shall give at least one month's notice to the district or districts affected by the change, in such manner as the Commissioners may order; and then, by vote of said Board of Commissioners, the petition may be granted; and, provided further, that no district shall be considered as being organized, or be entitled to any pro rata of moneys standing to the credit of the district from which it was separated, or of which it is a subdivision, until a public school has been actually commenced in such new district; and, provided further, that unless such new school district shall commence a school within sixty days from the action of the Board of Commissioners making such new district, such action shall become void, and no such district shall exist.

Board of Examination.

When Dis

trict not entitled to receive

money.

SEC. 16. Section forty-one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Forty-one. The County Superintendent of Public Schools shall appoint three competent persons in each county within the State, who shall be and constitute a Board of Examination for the purpose of examining applicants and granting certificates of qualification to teachers of public schools. They shall meet at such times and places as the interests of the public may require, and be governed by such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education may from time to time direct. They shall only grant certificates (except as hereinafter provided) to such persons as shall pass a satisfactory examination; which certificate shall remain in force, as specified in this section, unless revoked for good cause shown. Said Board of Examiners shall have power to grant certificates of the following grades: Certificates of the first grade, for teaching unclassified grammar and high schools, which shall be good for two years; certificates of the second grade, for teaching primary schools, which shall be good for one year. Said certificates shall be issued to such persons only as have passed a satisfactory examination in the branches of study pursued in each specified grade of the public schools, and shall have given evidence of good moral character, and fitness to teach; and such certificate shall be signed by a majority of the Board of Examiners. Said Board shall have power to renew the certificate of a teacher who is successfully and continually engaged in teaching in the county, without a re-examination.

SEC. 17. Section forty-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Forty-eight. No school district, except when newly organized, shall be entitled to receive any portion of the public school moneys, in which there shall not have been taught a public school for at least three months within the year ending the last day of August previous; and no public school shall receive any moneys, benefits or immunities under the provisions of this Act, unless such school shall have been instructed by a teacher or teachers duly examined, approved and employed by legal authority, as herein provided. When a new district is formed by the division of an old one it shall be entitled to a just

trict enti

share of the school moneys to the credit of the old district, after the New Dispayment of all outstanding debts at the time when a school was actu- tled to porally commenced in such new district; and the County Superintendent tion of shall divide and apportion such remaining moneys according to the number of census children resident in each district, for which purpose he may order a census to be taken, the expenses of which shall be met as provided in section thirty-two.

SEC. 18. Section fifty-six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

money.

Each vil

lage, etc., to

constitute

one Dis

trict.

Section Fifty-six. Each village, town or incorporated city of this State shall constitute but one school district, and the public schools therein shall be under the supervision and control of the Trustees thereof; provided, in all such villages, towns and cities, wherein the aggregate number of registered votes thereof at the last previous gen- Proviso. eral election exceeds fifteen hundred, there shall be elected five (5) instead of only three Trustees.

CHAP. CII.- An Act to Incorporate Shermantown, Lander

County.

[Approved March 6, 1869.]

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

town in

SECTION 1. For the purposes hereinafter mentioned, the inhabit- Shermanants of that portion of Lander County embraced within the limits here- corporated. inafter set forth in this section, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Inhabitants of Shermantown, and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, in all the Courts. The boundaries of said Boundaries. incorporated city shall be as follows, viz: Beginning at a point below the present surveyed town site of Silver Springs, and known as the "Golden Gate"; thence, following the crest of the hills lying immediately east of the town, in as nearly a direct line as may be in a northerly direction to the mouth of the Cañon, just below the junction of the public road from Treasure Hill with Gries' and Rice's toll road; thence in a southerly direction to a point known as Chimney Rock; thence, due south to a point due west from the Golden Gate; thence, due east to the Golden Gate, or place of beginning.

powers

SEC. 2. The corporate powers of said city shall be vested in a Corporate Board of Trustees, to consist of five members, who shall be resident vested in householders of said town. In addition to said Trustees, there shall be Board of a Treasurer, Assessor and Marshal elected by the qualified electors of etc. said town.

SEC. 3.

Trustees,

office.

The said officers shall hold their offices for the term of one Term of 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, Treas- Ineligible

to office.

Qualification of elector.

General election.

Laws

applicable

Elections.

urer, Assessor, or Marshal, who shall not be a qualified elector of the State of Nevada, and who shall not have actually resided at Shermantown for three months next preceding the elections.

SEC. 5. No person shall be allowed to vote at any election for said officers who shall not be a qualified elector of the State of Nevada, and shall not have actually resided at Shermantown 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 to elections. which may be hereinafter 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 Board of Trustees of Shermantown shall for each election, at least three days prior to the same, appoint three judges, and shall designate the place for opening the polls. Within two days after each 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 said office. Immediately after the votes are counted the said judges and clerks shall make out a statement of the number of votes cast for the offices of Trustee, 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 town within two days after said election. Within two days after the receipt of the same the said Board of Trustees shall proceed to ascertain from said statement what persons have received the highest number of votes for the offices of Treasurer, Assessor, and Marshal; and a certificate of election shall be issued by the clerk, under the direction of said Trustees, to the person receiving the highest number of votes for each of said offices, respectively. The clerk of said Board of Trustees shall keep the sealed packages containing the ballots and poll lists for thirty days, when, if no notice of any contested election shall have been given, he shall destroy the same.

Canvass.

Sealed packages.

To qualify and enter on duties.

President.

Vacancies.

Meetings.

Quorum.

SEC. 8. The Trustee, Treasurer, Assessor and Marshal chosen at any election shall be qualified and enter upon the discharge of their duties within one week after being notified of their election, and in case any Trustee, Treasurer, Assessor or Marshal shall fail to qualify within said time, his office shall be deemed vacant. All officers before entering upon their official duties shall take the official oath prescribed by law.

SEC. 9. The Board of Trustees so elected shall, at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be, elect one of their number as President, who shall preside at all meetings when present, and discharge such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Trustees.

SEC. 10. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee, Treasurer, Assessor or Marshal, the Board of Trustees shall appoint some person to fill such vacancy, and such person so appointed shall hold his office for the residue of the term of said predecessor.

SEC. 11. The Board of Trustees shall have regular meetings, at least once each week, and such other meetings as by adjournment or resolution they may direct; and the President shall have power to call special meetings whenever he deems the same necessary.

SEC. 12. A majority of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

SEC. 13. The Board of Trustees shall determine rules for the gov- Rules, etc. ernment of their own proceedings, and shall be judges of the election and qualifications of their own members. All the meetings shall be public, except when the Board shall deem that the interest of the town requires secrecy. A journal of all proceedings of the Board shall be accurately kept by the Clerk, and the yeas and nays shall be taken and entered upon the journal upon the passage of any question, at the request of any member.

Clerk, etc.

SEC. 14. The Board of Trustees shall have power: First-to Powers of make by-laws and ordinances not repugnant to the constitution or laws Board. of the State of Nevada. Second-to levy and collect taxes upon all Taxes. property within the city, both real and personal, made taxable by the laws of the State of Nevada for State and county purposes, which are now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, except the proceeds of mines, which shall not be subject to taxation; which tax shall not exceed one and one-half per cent. per annum upon the assessed value of all property. Third-to lay out, extend, open, alter and repair the Streets, etc. streets and alleys, and provide for the grading, draining, cleaning, widening and lighting, or otherwise improving the same; also, to provide for the construction, repair and preservation of sidewalks, bridges, drains and sewers, and for the prevention and removal of obstructions from the streets and sidewalks, and in the creation of sidewalks and making other improvements; to compel the owners of lots and property to bear the expense of erecting sidewalks, or creating improvements in front of the same, by special tax or otherwise. Fourth-to Fires. provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; also, to organize, regulate, establish and disband fire companies. Fifth-to regulate Gunpowthe storage and sale of gunpowder and all other explosive or combusti- der. ble material. Sixth-to prevent and remove nuisances; also, to deter- Nuisances. mine what are nuisances. Seventh-to elect a Clerk, and create and fill the additional offices of City Attorney and City Recorder, and such other offices as they may deem necessary for the public interests, whenever in the opinion of a majority of said Board the exigencies of the times require such offices; and to provide for the election of all officers that may be appointed under this provision. All officers appointed by the Board shall hold their respective offices until the general municipal election, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless they shall be sooner removed, for misconduct in office, neglect of duty, or other causes, or said office be abolished. Eighth-to create and estab- Police... lish a City Police, and prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation, and provide for the regulation and government of the same. Ninth-to fix and collect a license tax on, and regulate all theaters and theatrical performances, shows, circuses, billiard-tables, bowling-alleys, and all exhibitions and public amusements; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate all hotels, restaurants, lodging-houses, chop-houses, saloons, bar-rooms, bankers, brokers, gold dust and bullion buyers, manufacturers, livery stables, express companies, and persons engaged in the business of transmitting letters or packages; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate auctioneers, stock-brokers, drays, job-wagons and stage companies or owners, whose place of business is in said town, or who shall have an agency therein; to license, tax and regulate, or prohibit and suppress all tippling-houses, dram-shops, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, hurdy-gurdy houses and public dance-houses; to fix and collect a license tax on all professions, trades or business not herein before specified, having due regard to the amount of busi

Licenses.

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