Volume, what to contain. Clerk of Court ap- to be substantially bound in calf binding. Said volume to contain the full reports of each year commencing with the first day of January and ending with the 31st day of December, when the entire number do not make more than 700 pages of printed matter; but in cases where such reported decisions shall exceed 700 pages, the surplus shall go into the next succeeding volume. SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section Three. The Clerk of the Supreme Court is hereby appointed Commissioner to contract with some competent and responsible publisher for printing and publishing each volume of reports thus preNumber of pared by him. He shall furnish the State of Nevada with six hundred copies to be furnished to copies of each volume published, which six hundred copies shall be State. delivered to the Secretary of State at the Capital. Duty of Commissioner. Judges to accept. Proofsheets to be submitted to judges. State to be owner of edition. SEC. 3. Section four of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section Four. It shall be the duty of said Commissioner to have said reports printed on good paper in clear and suitable type; and they and each of them shall be subject to the approval and acceptance of the Judges of said Supreme Court. SEC. 4. Section five of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section Five. The proof sheets of said reports during the progress of their publication shall be submitted to the Judges of the Supreme Court and receive their sanction. SEC. 5. Section six of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section Six. That the State may be the owner and have the benefits of the entire edition, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to contract with his publisher that none of said reports in excess of the six hundred volumes herein provided for shall be published by him. SEC. 6. Section ten of said Act is amended to read as follows: Appropria- Section Ten. There is hereby appropriated and set apart three thoutions for publication. sand seven hundred dollars in gold coin for the preparation and publication of the fourth volume of the Nevada Reports, and also a like sum is hereby appropriated and the same shall be set apart in gold coin on the first Monday of January A. D. 1870, for the preparation and publication of the fifth volume of said Nevada Reports, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the Act of which this is amendatory; and on presentation of the proper evidence of acceptation of said Nevada Reports by the Judges of the Supreme Court, or a majority of them, the Controller of State shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of said Commissioner for said sum of three thousand seven hunacceptation dred dollars, and said Treasurer shall pay the same out of the fund by judges, hereby created. Controller to draw warrant an etc. CHAP. VI.—An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to encourage the construction of a Telegraph Line to Unionville and Star City," approved February ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. [Approved February 1. 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ed. SECTION 1. The Act of the Legislature of the Territory of Ne- Act repealvada entitled “An Act to encourage the construction of a Telegraph Line to Unionville and Star City," approved February 9, 1864, is hereby repealed. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the tenth (10) day of December, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. CHAP. VII.-An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Storey [Approved February 1, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sioners re SECTION 1. Whenever within one year from the passage of this Board of Act, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company, a corporation exist- Commising under the laws of this State, shall have completed the grading of quired to a railroad track from some point within the corporation limits of the issue bonds. City of Virginia, to a point upon the county line of said county on the line of a railroad between said city and the City of Carson, Ormsby County, and shall have placed the necessary ties thereon, and the same shall be in proper condition for receiving the iron superstructure, the Board of County Commissioners of Storey County are hereby authorized and directed to prepare and issue the bonds of said county, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the form hereinafter specified, and deliver the same to the said Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company, for its benefit. And whenever within eighteen months from the passage of this Act, the said Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company shall have fully completed the said road from the City of Virginia to the City of Carson, and the same shall be in complete readiness to receive the rolling stock proper therefor, and to operate between said points, the said Commissioners shall prepare, issue and deliver to said company for its benefit, the bonds of said county, in like form, to the additional amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Amounts of bonds. Coupons. ble. SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be of such amounts as shall be deemed most salable and convenient, but no bond shall be of 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 How paya- 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 of said county, as follows: of the first issue, one hundred thousand dollars in amount, in six years from their date, and fifty thousand dollars in ten years from their date; of the second issue, fifty thousand dollars in amount in ten years from their date, and one hundred thouBonds, how sand dollars in fifteen years from their date. The bonds shall be preprepared. pared 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. Coupons, how signed. Fulfillment of conditions, Board to issue bonds. Proviso. Tax to be levied and collected. SEC. 3. Immediately after being notified by the company of the fulfillment of either of the conditions upon which said bonds are to be issued as above stated, the Board of Commissioners shall proceed to satisfy themselves 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 Storey County, to the fact of fulfillment of said conditions shall be conclusive evidence thereof to said Commissioners. SEC. 4. The said Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually, until all the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall have been fully paid or provided for, a tax of one-half of one per cent. on all the taxable property of Storey County, to be applied exclusively to an interest and sinking fund for the payment of the bonds and coupons to be Faith of the issued as herein provided. And the faith of the State of Nevada is pledged. hereby solemnly pledged that this Act shall never be repealed or so modified, as in any way to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase the bonds herein provided for. State When tax assessed and collected. SEC. 5. The County Commissioners shall annually, at the time of to be levied, the levying of other county taxes, levy the tax aforesaid of one-half of one per cent. provided for in the preceding section. The said tax shall be levied, assessed and collected in the same manner and by the same officers as other county taxes; but if the County Commissioners fail to make the levy in this Act provided for, the Tax Collector of the county shall proceed to collect the same, as if the levy had been properly made by the County Commissioners; and when the taxes hereby provided for are not paid to the Tax Collector, they shall be collected by the District Attorney, as taxes for other county purposes are collected; and the failure of the Board of Commissioners to levy the tax shall in no way invalidate the tax or any proceeding to collect the same. Railroad SEC. 6. The proceeds of said tax shall be placed by the County Treasurer in a separate fund, to be known as the "Railroad Interest and Sinking Fund," and shall be applied: first, to the payment of the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due; and second, to the redemption of said bonds in the manner prescribed in the next section. needed. surrender SEC. 7. Whenever all interest due upon said bonds shall have been Surplus not 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 invited. 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 Proposals meeting of the Board after said day, the Board shall open such sealed opened. 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 Proviso. no offer shall be accepted for more than the par value of the said bonds. CHAP. VIII.—An Act to establish the financial transactions of the State upon a coin basis. [Approved February 2, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: paid in coin.. SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January, A.D. eighteen Salaries, hundred and sixty-nine, all salaries, fines, fees, imposts and dues of etc. to be whatsoever description, whether State, county, township, or municipal, shall be payable in United States gold and silver coin. SEC. 2. All taxes which may hereafter be levied, whether State, Taxes to be county or municipal, shall be levied, assessed and collected in United levied, etc., States gold and silver coin. in coin. convert SEC. 3. The State Treasurer, by and with the advice and consent Treasurers of the Board of Examiners; and the Treasurers of the several coun- required to ties, by and with the advice and consent of the Board of County Com- currency missioners; and the Treasurers of municipalities, by and with the into coin.. advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, or Board of Trustees, within the State, are hereby authorized and required to convert the legal tender paper currency, not required for the payment of claims, as provided in Section four of this Act, which now is, or hereafter shall be, paid into any fund in either respective treasuries, into the United States gold and silver coin. SEC. 4. Nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed as to Act not to affect any claim against the State, or any county, township or munici- affect claims prior to pality, contracted prior to the first day of January, A.D. eighteen hundred Junel, 1869. and sixty-nine; but all such claims shall be paid in the legal tender paper currency of the United States. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in any wise conflicting with or Repeal. repugnant to any of the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Treasurer prohibited from paying warrants. Redemption Fund created. tioned. CHAP. IX.-An Act for the purpose of placing the finances of Lyon County upon a permanent cash basis, and to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of the said County. [Approved February 4, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for the Treasurer of Lyon County to pay any account or accounts of said county, allowed or audited prior to the passage of this Act, except in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Lyon County are hereby authorized and required from and after the passage of this Act, to create in the County Treasury a fund to be known as the Redemption Fund of said county. Out of the amount of tax allowed by law to be levied for general county purposes, said Commissioners shall Tax appor- apportion annually, to the said Redemption Fund, forty (40) cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of the taxable property of said county, until the indebtedness hereinafter provided for, to wit: thirtytwo thousand dollars, ($32,000) as principal, and no more, is fully paid. Said tax shall be levied, assessed and collected at the same time and in like manner, as other State and county taxes; and the amount of tax so apportioned and collected shall be placed in said ReDisbursed. demption Fund as soon as paid into said Treasury. The moneys Duty of Proposals for surrender of accounts. Proposals opened. placed in the Redemption Fund created by this Act, shall be disbursed only as hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. Whenever at any time there shall be in said Redemption Fund five hundred dollars, ($500) or more, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said county to give fifteen days' notice, by publication in some newspaper published at the county seat of said county; or if there is no newspaper published at the county seat of said county, then said notice shall be published in some newspaper in Storey County, of general daily circulation, that sealed proposals directed to him will be received for the surrender of the accounts allowed and audited prior to the passage, or under the provisions of this Act; and that said proposals will be received by him until the next regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of said county thereafter. SEC. 4. On the first day of such regular meeting of such Board of County Commissioners, they, together with the County Auditor and County Treasurer, shall attend at the office of the latter, then and there Lowest bid open all sealed proposals, and accept the lowest bids for the surrender of county accounts allowed and audited as specified in the preceding section; provided, that no bid for more than par value shall be accepted by them, nor any bid, unless accompanied by the account or accounts allowed and audited against said county, proposed to be surrendered. to be ac cepted. Proviso. Accounts .classified. SEC. 5. All outstanding accounts allowed and audited against said county are hereby divided into three classes; all accouuts audited prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, (1867) shall be deemed the first class; and all audited from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven (1867) to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight (1868) |