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LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,

PASSED AT THE

FOURTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1869.

CHAPTER I.—An Act for the relief of C. S. Varien.
[Approved January 26, 1869.]

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

directed

warrant.

SECTION 1. The County Auditor of Humboldt County is hereby Auditor authorized and directed to draw a warrant on the contingent fund of to draw said county for one hundred dollars, in favor of C. S. Varian, for services rendered and expenses incurred in making supplemental assessment of Humboldt County, Nevada, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-eight.

CHAP. II.-An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Ormsby
County to issue to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company
Bonds to the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, and
to provide for the payment of the same.

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The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly,

do enact as follows:

Board of

SECTION 1. Whenever within eighteen months from the passage of Commisthis Act, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company, a corporation sioners reexisting under the laws of this State, shall have completed the con- issue bonds. quired to

Amounts of bonds.

Coupons.

struction of a first-class iron railroad from some point within the limits of the city of Carson to a point upon the county line of Ormsby County, on the line of a railroad between said city and the city of Virginia, Storey County, and the same shall be in complete readiness to receive the rolling stock proper therefor, the Board of County Com missioners of Ormsby County are hereby authorized and directed to prepare and issue the bonds of said county, to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, in the form hereinafter specified, and deliver the same to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company, for its benefit.

SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be of such amounts as shall be deemed most salable and convenient, but no bonds shall be for a less amount than one hundred dollars, and none for a greater amount than one thousand dollars; said bonds shall be printed with interest coupons attached thereto; shall express on the face of both bonds and coupons that they are payable in United States gold coin; shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. The bonds shall be payable to bearer. at the office of the County Treasurer Bonds, how of said county, in fifteen years from their date. The bonds shall be prepared in proper form under the directions of the Board, and shall be signed by the President of the Board, and countersigned by its Clerk, who shall attach thereto the County Seal. The coupons for semi-annual interest shall be signed by the President of the Board.

How payable.

prepared.

Coupons,

how signed.

Fulfillment of conditions.

Board to

SEC. 3. Immediately after being notified by the company of the fulfillment of the conditions upon which said bonds are to issue as above stated, the Board of Commissioners shall proceed to satisfy themselves, issue bonds by personal inspection or otherwise, of the fact of the performance of said conditions, and on being so satisfied shall without delay prepare, issue and deliver the bonds as above directed; provided, that the certificate of the Surveyor-General of the State and the County Surveyor of Ormsby County to the fact of fulfillment of said conditions shall be conclusive evidence thereof to said Commissioners.

Proviso.

Tax to be levied and collected.

Proviso.

Additional tax to be

levied.

Same.

Proceeds of

tax, how applied.

SEC. 4. The said Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually, until all of said bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall have been fully paid or provided for, a tax of one per cent. upon all taxable property of Ormsby County, to be applied exclusively to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, to be issued as herein provided; provided, that for the first two years after the issuance of said bonds, the surplus of the proceeds of said tax, if any there be, after the payment of said interest, shall be paid into the general fund of said county, and after said two years said surplus shall be used in the redemption fund as hereinafter provided. The said Board of County Commissioners are further authorized and required to levy and collect annually, during the five years succeeding the two years above mentioned, such tax upon all the taxable property in Ormsby County, in addition to the aforesaid tax of one per cent., as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of five thousand dollars per annum, to be applied exclusively to the redemption of the said bonds to be issued as herein provided. And after said five years the said Commissioners shall levy and collect annually, in addition to said tax of one per cent., such further tax, if any shall be necessary, as will be sufficient to pay the accruing interest, and to redeem annually one-eighth of the amount of bonds outstanding at the end of seven years from the date of their issuance.

SEC. 5. After the expiration of two years from the issuance of said bonds there shall be applied from the proceeds of the tax above di

rected, to the redemption of the principal of said bonds, for the first five years thereafter, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum, and for the succeeding eight years a sum equal to one-eighth of the whole amount of principal of said bonds outstanding and unredeemed at the expiration of seven years from the date of their issuance; provided, Proviso. that if in any year, by reason of the special tax imposed as above required, there shall be a surplus after payment of the interest and the application for redemption of the amounts as directed above, such surplus shall be transferred to the general fund of said county.

interest and

SEC. 6. The amount raised by the tax levied as above required and Railroad not hereinbefore directed to be placed in the general fund, shall be Sinking placed in a separate fund, to be called the "Railroad Interest and Fund. Sinking Fund," which shall be applied first to the payment of the semiannual interest as above directed; and second, to the redemption of said bonds as provided in the following section.

surrender

invited.

SEC. 7. Whenever all interest due upon said bonds shall have been Surplus not needed, fully paid and there shall be in said fund a surplus, which upon a fair sealed proestimate of the receipts which will probably come into the same, will posals for not be needed for the payment of the future interest to accrue within of bonds the next succeeding twelve months, the Board of Commissioners, after having ascertained the amount of said surplus, shall insert an advertisement in at least one newspaper published in said county, for the period of not less than two weeks, stating the amount of money on hand to be applied in the purchase of said bonds, and inviting sealed proposals to surrender the same, to be made and filed with the Clerk of said Board, on or before a day certain therein named. At the next meeting of the Proposals Board after said day, the Board shall open such sealed proposals as shall have been filed on or before the day fixed in the advertisement, and to the extent of the amount named shall purchase the bonds so offered, giving the preference in all cases to the bidder who shall offer to surrender said bonds at the lowest price; provided, that no offer Proviso. shall be accepted for more than the par value of the said bonds.

opened.

the State

SEC. 8. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby solemnly Faith of pledged that this Act shall never be repealed or so modified as in any pledged. way to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase the bonds herein provided for.

CHAP. III.—An Act to create a Board of Commissioners to exam-* ine and report upon the amount of just claims existing, for property destroyed and for losses sustained by Indian depredations in Humboldt County, in this State, in the years 1867 and 1868.

[Approved January 30, 1869.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly,

do enact as follows:

sioners

SECTION 1. Alonzo Denio, J. B. Merchant, and C. C. Woods, and Board of their successors in office, are hereby constituted a Board of Coumis- Commissioners to examine all claims for property destroyed and losses sus- constituted. tained, by Indian depredations in Humboldt County, in this State, in

Qualification and duties.

Place of

business.

Majority to constitute a

quorum.

Resignations and

the years 1867 and 1868; and report the same to the Governor of this State by the first day of May, 1869.

SEC. 2. At any time as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners herein appointed shall enter upon the discharge of their duties, under oath, to be administered by any one authorized to administer oaths; shall elect one of their number to act as president, and shall cause to be published, for two successive weeks, in some newspaper published in said county, a notice requiring all parties holding claims for property destroyed, or for losses sustained, by Indian depredations in said county, in the years aforesaid, to come forward and present the same within one month from the time of the first publication of such notice.

SEC. 3. The place of business of said Board shall be at the town of Scottville, Paradise Valley, in said county; and sessions of said Board may be held at said town, at any time, without further notice than to the members thereof left at the residence or place of business of such members, if personal service be not had.

SEC. 4. Whenever a majority of said Board shall qualify, such majority may enter upon the discharge of the duties of said Board; and, at any time thereafter, any two members of said Board, who shall have qualified, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business and the exercise of the powers of said Board.

SEC. 5. Resignations in the Board may be accepted by the majorvacancies. ity of said Board, and all vacancies in said Board, whether caused by death, resignation or otherwise, may be filled by appointment of said Board.

When office

deemed

vacant.

Governor, when to fill vacancy.

Powers.

Perjury.

Compensation.

Proviso.

May employ a clerk.

SEC. 6. If any member of said Board shall remove from said county, or be absent therefrom for the period of one month, his office shall be deemed vacant.

SEC. 7. In case of a lack of a majority of said Board to accept a resignation or fill a vacancy, such resignation may be accepted and such vacancy be filled by appointment by the Governor.

SEC. 8. Said Commissioners shall have full discretion to determine the justice of said claims, and for that purpose shall have full power to send for persons and papers; and any one of said Commissioners, who shall have qualified, shall have power, during his continuance in office, to administer oaths to any parties or witnesses who may be examined by said Board.

SEC. 9. If any person shall willfully make or give, under oath or affirmation, before said Board, a false statement of his or her property destroyed, or losses sustained, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished therefor as is by law provided for the punishment of perjury.

SEC. 10. The said Board shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars as compensation for discharging the duties imposed by this Act, to be apportioned pro rata among the members of said Board, in accordance with the period of actual service of each member; provided, that Congress allow said amount, in addition to an appropriation for the ment of claims for property destroyed, and losses sustained, by Indian depredations as aforesaid; and in no manner whatever shall any costs, claim, or compensation for any service done, or any expenses incurred by said commission, be paid by the State of Nevada.

pay

SEC. 11. The said Board may employ a clerk, whose duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of said Board, and who shall be allowed as compensation therefor the sum of five hundred dollars, to

tion.

be paid only as provided in the preceding section of this Act. Said Compensaclerk shall hold his office at the will of the majority of said Board; and if different persons are employed as clerk, the Board shall report the amount which should be paid to each of said persons.

be made to

SEC. 12. When the said Commissioners have completed their labors Report to they shall make a full report thereof to the Governor of this State, set- the Goverting forth the facts and amount of claims as ascertained and allowed nor. or rejected by them, that he may be advised in the premises and take such means as he may deem expedient to secure the payment of the same, by an appropriation from the general government.

CHAP. IV. An Act to transfer certain Moneys in the Indigent
Sick Fund of Esmeralda County, to the Redemption and
Treasurer's Salary Fund of said County.

[Approved January 30, 1869.]

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

ferred.

SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand dollars of the Indigent Sick Fund transFund of Esmeralda County, is hereby transferred to the Redemption and Treasurer's Salary Fund of said County, and to be apportioned as hereinafter provided.

transfer.

SEC. 2. The County Treasurer of said Esmeralda County is hereby Treasurer authorized and required to transfer to the Redemption Fund the sum of required to seven hundred dollars, and to the Treasurer's Salary Fund the sum of three hundred dollars, as hereinbefore appropriated from the Indigent Sick Fund.

SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts that are in conflict with the fore- Acts in going provisions are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

conflict

repealed.

CHAP. V.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada.

[Approved January 30, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section One. The decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada shall be published in one good octavo volume of the size as near as may be of the Third Nevada Reports, containing about 700 pages, and

Decisions of
Supreme

Court, how
published.

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