this Act, may be purchasable, as provided in sections eighteen and nineteen, from the Redemption Fund of said town.

SEC. 21. All ordinances, contracts and agreements made, and all Evidences scrip and bonds issued by said Trustees, shall be signed by the President, and countersigned by the clerk of said Board of Trustees.

of indebtedness, how

signed.

SEC. 22. Whenever there shall be a surplus of funds over and above Board to a sufficient fund to pay the current expenses of said town, the Board of transfer surplus funds. Trustees shall have power to transfer such surplus money to the Redemption Fund, and the same shall be used and disbursed the same as required by the sections of this Act relating thereto.

SEC. 23. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to make out Statement and publish in a newspaper published in the county of Storey, at least of finances. once in three months, to-wit: in January, April, July, and October, of each year, a full and detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements, from what sources received, and for what purpose paid out of the town, during the three months next preceding such report.

SEC. 24. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to provide Accountafor the accountability of all officers, and other persons elected or ap- officers. bility of pointed under this charter, to whom the receipt or expenditure of any of the funds is intrusted, by requiring of them sufficient security for the faithful performance of their respective duties; and in case of neglect or refusal on the part of any such officers to furnish such security within one week after notice of such requirement, the Trustees may declare such office vacant.

lection of

SEC. 25. Real and personal property may be sold by the Town Assessment Marshal for taxes or assessments due said town. The manner of and colassessing and collecting taxes shall be as prescribed by ordinance; taxes. and title, upon sale of property, shall vest in the purchaser, as provided by the revenue laws of this State, or as may be provided by ordinance. The Marshal shall, upon the sale of such real property for taxes, execute and deliver a deed of such property to the purchaser thereof, and Tax Deed. such deed shall be received in any and all Courts of this State as prima facie evidence that the grantee or grantees named in said deed, or his or their successors in interest, have a good and legal title to the premises described therein; and possession of such property may be obtained in the form and manner as provided by law where the relation of landlord and tenant exists.

Treasurer.

SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all Duties of moneys derived for the benefit of said town from any and every source, and he alone shall disburse the same on proper warrants or orders of said Trustees. He shall keep an accurate and full account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the Trustees may direct, and he shall at all times keep his books and accounts open for the inspection of the Trustees, and shall furnish them, whenever required, a full statement of such receipts and expenditures. All warrants and orders drawn on the treasury, shall have specified therein the services or indebtedness for which the same are drawn, and on what fund, and shall be redeemed in regular order of registration upon the Treasurer's books. Said Treasurer shall perform such other acts and duties as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution of said Board.

Marshal.

SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the Marshal to enforce the due ob- Duties of servance of the ordinances made by the Trustees; to perform the duties of Assessor when an assessment shall be made; to collect the taxes levied by said Board; to act ex-officio as Chief of Police; and perform such other duties as shall be by said Trustees prescribed. It shall be

Duties of
Clerk.

Yeas and
Nays.

Style of

his duty to collect all licenses due the town, and all other moneys or revenue due the town, or to become due, and to pay the same, less the per centage allowed for collection, over to the Treasurer; the time and manner of such assessing and collecting shall be such as the Trustees, by ordinance, may prescribe.

SEC. 28. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep the corporate seal, papers, and books, belonging to the town; to file the papers and documents in his office, under appropriate heads; to attend the sittings of the Board of Trustees, and keep a journal of their proceedings, and a record of all the by-laws and ordinances, which journal of proceedings, after approval at each sitting, shall be signed by the President of the Board; to countersign all warrants, bonds, and licenses issued in pursuance of the orders and ordinances of the Trustees; to affix the corporate seal thereto; to keep an accurate account in a suitable book, under appropriate heads, of all warrants, and orders drawn on the treasury; also, to keep in a suitable book, under appropriate heads, an account of all licenses issued, the date of issue, and the amount; and he shall also do and perform such other duties as may be required or directed by the Board of Trustees, by resolution or ordinance.

SEC. 29. Upon the passage of all resolutions and ordinances appropriating money, imposing taxes, abolishing licenses, or increasing or lessening the amount paid for licenses, the yeas and nays shall be called and entered upon the journal.

SEC. 30.

The style of the ordinances shall be, "The Board of ordinances Trustees of the town of Gold Hill do ordain." All ordinances shall be published in a newspaper published in Storey County for at least one week.

How actions may be brought.

Fines, etc.
Appeal.

Absence of officer.

Present

officers to remain in office.

SEC. 31. Civil actions may be brought in the name of the inhabitants of the town of Gold Hill, in any Court of competent jurisdiction within the said County of Storey, and actions for the breach of any town ordinance or law of the said town may be brought before any Justice of the Peace within the corporate limits of said town; fines imposed by such Justice of the Peace may be recovered by execution against the property of the defendant, or the payment thereof may be enforced by imprisonment in the town jail, at the rate of one day for every two dollars of said fine and costs; or said Justice to enforce such payment may, in his discretion, adjudge that such offender work upon the highways or other public works of the town, at the rate of one day for every two dollars of such fine and costs, until the same be so exhausted or otherwise paid. No fine shall be imposed greater than five hundred dollars, and no imprisonment prescribed exceeding a term of six months. Appeals may be had from the judgment of such Justice of the Peace, for the violation of ordinances, to the District Court of Storey County, in the manner provided by law of the State of Nevada for appeals from Justices' Courts in criminal actions.

SEC. 32. If any officer of said town shall remove his residence therefrom, or shall absent himself for more than thirty days without leave of absence from the Board of Trustees, his office shall be declared vacant.

SEC. 33. The present officers of the town of Gold Hill shall remain in office until their successors are elected and qualified, as provided in this charter; and nothing in this Act contained shall repeal or in any way affect the binding force or validity of any ordinance now in force in said town, or affect in any manner any debt, contract or liability of said town now in existence. All debts and liabilities contracted or in

ized.

curred by the present Board of Trustees, or by any prior Board of Debts legalTrustees, for which the credit of the town of Gold Hill has been pledged, or scrip issued, are hereby declared legalized, and are hereby made valid liabilities and charges against said town.

ty, etc.. un

SEC. 34. All property, real or personal, acquired in the name and All properfor the benefit of said town, by virtue of any prior charter, or by any ris act of any Board of Trustees, shall be the property of the corporate diction of body created by this Act, and known as the "Inhabitants of the town corporate body. of Gold Hill." All streets, alleys and avenues within said corporate limits, used as public streets, alleys and avenues, laid out and platted upon official map of said town of Gold Hill, made by George Hunt, C. E., in the year one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-three, or John Ostram, C. E., in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-four, are hereby declared open and public streets, alleys and avenues, and exclusively under the control and jurisdiction of said corporate body.

SEC. 35. An Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Acts reGold Hill," approved December seventeenth, one thousand eight hun- pealed. dred and sixty-two; an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill,' approved December seventeenth," approved February eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; an Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill," approved March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five; an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill,' approved March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five," approved February twenty-fourth, sixty-six; also an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of outstanding indebtedness of the Town of Gold Hill, Storey County," approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five; an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the outstanding indebtedness of the Town of Gold Hill," approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and each and every preceding Act relating to the incorporation of the town of Gold Hill, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. XXXIX.—An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to establish the financial transactions of the State on a coin basis," approved February 2, 1869, and making provisions by which County Commissioners and Municipalities may be enabled to carry out the provisions thereof.

[Approved February 26, 1869.]

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

Currency to

when need

SECTION 1. Whenever any county, township or city shall be under obligations to pay any debt in the legal tender paper currency of the be procured United States, and shall not have in their respective treasuries legal ed to pay tender paper currency of the United States to pay the same, or shall debt. not have sufficient for such purpose, it shall be lawful, and is hereby

Proviso.

When debt to be dis

currency.

made the duty of such county, township or city, by and through its proper officers, out of any money belonging thereto, not otherwise specially appropriated or set apart, to procure a sufficient amount of the currency specified in this section to pay such obligation or liability; provided, if the owner and holder of any such debt or obligation will offer in writing to receive in full satisfaction and payment thereof a sum in gold coin which will be equal to the market value in such gold coin, of the legal tender paper currency of the United States (such valuation to be determined by said county or municipal authorities) which he would be entitled to receive, it shall be lawful for such county, township or city, by and through its proper officers, to accept the surrender of such obligation and pay in gold coin a sum that will be in full satisfaction thereof, upon the terms herein provided.

SEC. 2. Whenever since the first day of January, A.D. 1869, any charged in county, township or city government shall have contracted or incurred any debt, expense or obligation on a basis of value reckoned in the legal tender paper currency of the United States, and not on a gold coin basis, the same shall be paid and discharged in such legal tender paper currency, and the funds necessary to so pay and discharge the same may be obtained, or the same satisfied and paid in manner as provided in section one of this Act.

Not to apply to payent for

lands.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act or the Act to which this Act is suppleshall be so construed as to apply to the payment for any lands mentary, heretofore or that may hereafter be purchased of the State; but all such lands may be paid for in the legal tender paper currency of the United States.

Judicial
Districts.

First.
Second.

Third.
Fourth.
Fifth.
Sixth.

Seventh.

Eighth.

When Judges elected.

Counties of
White Pine

CHAP. XL.-An Act to redistrict the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 27, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the State shall be divided into Judgment Districts as follows: The County of Storey shall constitute the first Judicial District. The Counties of Ormsby, Douglas, Washoe and Roop, which latter shall be attached to Washoe, for judicial purposes, the Second District. The Counties of Lyon and Esmeralda, the Third District. The County of Humboldt, the Fourth District. The Counties of Nye and Churchill, the Fifth District. The County of Lander, the Sixth District. The County of Lincoln, the Seventh District. The County of White Pine, the Eighth District. For each of which District Judges shall be elected by the qualified Electors thereof, at the general election, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy.

SEC. 2. Until said first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and and Lander seventy-one, the Counties of Lander and White Pine shall constitute the Sixth Judicial District; provided, that if at any time previous to said day, a vacancy shall happen in the office of District Judge of

to consti

tute Sixth District.

of W. H.

the Sixth Judicial District, then, and upon the happening of said event, Proviso. the County of Lander shall become and constitute separately the Sixth Judicial District; and the County of White Pine separately the Eighth Judicial District. If such vacancy shall happen by reason of the Resignation resignation of W. H. Beatty, the present Judge of said Sixth Judicial Beatty, etc. District, then the said W. H. Beatty shall immediately upon said resignation be and become the District Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, and hold said office until the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one; and the vacancy in the Sixth District shall be filled by appointment of the Governor. In case a vacancy happens in said Sixth District prior to said first Monday of Vacancy in January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in any other Sixth Dismanner than by the resignation of said incumbent, then the Governor filled. shall appoint a District Judge for each of said Districts, who shall hold their offices until said first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

trict, how

salaries.

First.

Third.

Sixth.

SEC. 3. The salary of the Judge of the First District shall be Judges' seven thousand dollars a year. Of the Second District, five thousand dollars a year, of which sum the County of Washoe shall pay twentysix hundred dollars, the County of Ormsby sixteen hundred dollars, Second. and the County of Douglas eight hundred dollars. Of the Third District, five thousand five hundred dollars a year, of which the County of Lyon shall pay thirty-five hundred dollars, the County of Esmeralda two thousand dollars. Of the Fourth District, three thousand Fourth. two hundred dollars a year. Of the Fifth District, three thousand Fifth. six hundred dollars a year, of which the Counties of Nye and Churchill shall pay each one-half. Of the Sixth District, five thousand dollars a year. Of the Seventh District, three thousand dollars a year. Of the Eighth District, seven thousand dollars a year. The Eighth. said provision as to salaries shall take effect as to all said districts except the Eighth, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and in said Eighth District on said day, or on the happening of the contingency by which it becomes a district previous to said day, as provided in Section Two of this Act. So long as Sixth, how White Pine County shall remain a part of the Sixth Judicial District, paid. the salary of the Judge shall be paid in equal proportions by the Counties of Lander and White Pine.

Seventh.

SEC. 4. The terms of Court shall commence in said Districts as Terms of Court. follows: In the First District on the first Monday in January, March, June and October. In the Second District, in the County of Washoe, First. on the first Monday in January, June and October; in the County of Second. Ormsby on the first Monday in March, August and November; in the County of Douglas on the first Monday of May and of December. In the Third District, in the County of Lyon, on the first Mondays of Third. February, June and October, and in Esmeralda on the third Mondays of March, July and November. In the Fourth District on the first Mon- Fourth. day of March, July and November. In the Fifth District, in the County of Nye, on the first Monday of January, April and August, and in Churchill County on the first Monday of March, June and November. In the Sixth District on the first Mondays of March, June, Sixth. September and December. In the Seventh District on the first Mon- Seventh. days of March, August and December. In the Eighth District on the first Monday of March, June, September and December. The provi- when prosions of this section in regard to terms of Court shall go into effect on the first Monday of January, A.D. eighteen hundred and seventy-one; take effect.

Fifth.

Eighth.

visions of section to