Same. ceed the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars; such further tax of one fourth of one per cent. shall be levied and collected as a special tax, at the time and in the manner by them provided for the levying and collecting of the general tax. Third-To lay out and extend, open, alter and repair the streets, 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 preservation [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 provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. Fifth-To regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustible material. Sixth-To prevent and remove nuisances; also, to determine what are nuisances. Seventh-To create and establish a town police, and prescribe their duties and compensation, and provide for the regulation and government of the same. Eighth-To fix and collect a license tax on, and regulate, all theaters, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements. Ninth-To fix and collect a license tax on, and regulate, all taverns, hotels, saloons, bar rooms, hurdy-gurdy houses, and public dance houses; on auctioneers, hawkers and peddlers; on all dealers in liquors; on all drays, job wagons, or carts, or on any other public vehicle running within the limits of said town. Tenth-To license, tax and regulate, prohibit and suppress, all tippling houses, dram shops, and public card tables, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, and pawnbrokers; refreshment or coffee stands, booths and sheds; also, to prohibit and suppress all gaming, gambling houses, disorderly houses, and houses of ill-fame. Eleventh-To levy and collect an annual tax upon all dogs within the limits of said town, and provide for the extermination of all dogs for which such tax shall not have been paid. 1 Twelfth-To provide for the issuance of licenses before named, for such terms, and in such sums as they may deem best. Thirteenth-To provide for all necessary public buildings for the use of said town. Fourteenth-To establish a "Board of Health;" to prevent the introduction and spread of disease, and provide for the indigent. Fifteenth-To prevent and restrain any riot, or riotous assemblage, or disorderly conduct, within said town; to close all places of business or amusement on Sunday, and prohibit and suppress the sale of spirituous liquors on any day of municipal, county or State election. Sixteenth-To fix and prescribe the punishment for the same. breach of any town ordinance or resolution; but no fine shall be imposed for any one offense in any sum greater than five hundred dollars; and no term of imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding six months. Seventeenth-To determine the duties, and fix and establish the fees, salaries and compensation of all officers of said town; provided, that no member of the Board of Trustees shall receive, or be entitled to receive, for his services, any sum what ever. Eighteenth-To compel the attendance of absent members, to punish members for disorderly conduct, and to expel members, for cause, by a vote of four fifths of its members elected. Nineteenth-To make all necessary contracts and agreements for the benefit of the town; to contract debts on the faith of the town; but no debt shall be contracted, or liability be incurred, except upon a cash basis, nor which shall exceed, in the aggregate, inclusive of its present indebtedness, the sum of forty thousand dollars. The Board of Trustees shall have power, at all times, when they deem it expedient, to call in and fund the debt of said town, by the issuance of bonds, for outstanding claims or warrants, or bonds over due, payable in one, two and three years; which funded debt shall not bear interest greater than the legal interest of the State of Nevada. They shall have power to issue and sell bonds, bearing not to exceed two per cent. per month interest, for the purpose of creating a contingent fund for current expenses, or for the purpose of paying and canceling bonds already issued, when the same shall become due; but at no time shall the bonds so issued,. together with all other liabilities of said town, exceed, in the aggregate, the said sum of forty thousand dollars. Twentieth-All ordinances made by said Trustees shall be signed by the President and Clerk of said Board, upon its journal of proceedings, where the same shall be written in full; and all scrip and bonds issued, contracts and agreements made, shall be signed by the President, and countersigned by the Clerk of said Board. Twenty-first-All taxes and fines imposed, and all scrip and bonds issued, shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States. Twenty-second-The Board of Trustees shall have power to condemn and appropriate, to the public use, or the use of the inhabitants of said town, all real or personal property within the limits of said town; and all claims and asserted rights or title of any person whomsoever, to such property, when they deem the same necessary for the opening of streets or alleys, or for other public purpose, such property shall be condemned and appropriated in the following manner: The Board of Trustees shall appoint one referee, and the claimants, owner or owners of such property so to be condemned, shall appoint one referee, and in the event that the two referees so appointed shall not agree in the valuation of such property or claim, then shall the two so appointed select a third referee, and the decision of a majority of such three, as to the valuation of the prop Same. erty or claim by them appraised, shall be reported to said Board of Trustees, and may by them be regarded and held as final and binding; and, upon the tender of the sum named by said appraisers for such property, to the claimant or owner thereof, or his agent or attorney, such property or claim shall become the property or claim of said town, and the Board of Trustees may cause, at once, to be removed from such property all persons and obstructions, by order, through the Marshal of said town, and take full and immediate possession of the same, for the public use and benefit, or possession of the same may be obtained in the form and manner provided by law, where the relation of landlord and tenant exists. In case the owner or owners of said property shall refuse or neglect to appoint said referee, when by said Trustees required, then shall said Board of Trustees constitute a Board of Appraisers, and their valuation shall be final and binding; but no act of said board of referees, in the condemnation of property, or any claim, right or title to the same, as herein provided, shall be interpreted as an admission on the part of said incorporate town of the legality of such asserted claim, right or title; and, in the condemnation of property, as in this section provided, said referees shall consider if the proposed improvement for which said property is so condemned, shall be of any benefit to the person or persons owning or claiming the said property, and they shall estimate the value of such proposed improvements to him or them, and shall deduct such amount from the estimated value of such property or claim condemned; and whenever the said corporate body shall have become, in any manner, possessed of any real estate upon which any improvements shall have been made for the benefit of said town or corporate body, no judgment in ejectment shall be rendered against said town or corporate body, but only judgment for damages, in the value of said property, claim, right or title, at the time of the taking possession of the same, may be rendered. Seal required. Design, CHAP. XLI.-An Act to provide a Seal of State for the State of [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be a seal of the State of Nevada, which shall be kept by the Governor, and used by him officially, and shall be called "The Great Seal of the State of Nevada" the design of which shall be as follows, to wit: In the foreground, two large mountains, at the base of which, on the right, there shall be located a quartz mill, and on the left a tun nel, penetrating the silver leads of the mountain, with a miner running out a car load of ore, and a team loaded with ore for the mill. Immediately in the fore-ground there shall be emblems indicative of the agricultural resources of the State, as follows: A plow, a sheaf, and a sickle. In the middle ground, a train of railroad cars, passing a mountain gorge; also a telegraph line extending along the line of the railroad. In the extreme back-ground, a range of snow clad mountains, with the rising sun in the east. Thirty-six stars to encircle the whole groupe. In an outer circle, the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Nevada," to be engraven with these words, for the motto of our State, "All for Our Country." CHAP. XLII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Disincorporation of Cities and Towns Incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Nevada," approved February 7, 1865. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: missioners incorporate. Section One. The Board of Commissioners of each county Board of shall have the power to disincorporate any city or town which County Commay have been incorporated under the laws of this State, or granted the Territory of Nevada, upon the petition of a majority of the Power to dis legal voters residing within the corporate limits of such city or town; but no corporation shall be dissolved, by virtue of this Act, unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Board that notice has been given of the intended application for such Notice. dissolution of the corporation, by advertisement in a newspaper published in the city or town praying to be disincorporated; and in case no such newspaper be published in said city or town, then by written notice, posted in three of the most public places in said city or town, for at least thirty days prior to such application; nor until all the liabilities of such city or town have been paid, or secured, to the satisfaction of the Board of County Commissioners. Liabilities. Controller, how commissioned. To give bond. To report annually to Governor. To keep and counts, etc. CHAP. XLIII.—An Act Defining the Duties of State Controller. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller shall be commissioned by the Governor, and shall keep his office at the seat of government. He shall not absent himself from the State for a longer period than ninety days without leave of absence obtained from the Legislature. SEC. 2. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall execute his official bond to the State of Nevada, with such sureties as shall be approved by the Governor, in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the duties enjoined by law, and for the safe delivery to his successor in office of all books, papers, documents, maps, vouchers and other effects belonging or appertaining to the office of Controller, or to the State of Nevada. SEC. 3. He shall digest, prepare and report to the Governor, on the first day of January, or within twenty-five days thereafter, annually, to be laid before the Legislature at each regular session, a complete statement of the condition of the revenues, taxable funds, resources, incomes and property of the State, and the amount of the expenditures for the preceding fiscal year; a full and detailed statement of the public debt; estimate of the revenues and expenditures for the succeeding fiscal year, specifying therein each object of expenditure, and distinguishing between each object of expenditure, and between such as are provided for by permanent or temporary appropriation, and such as require to be provided for by law. Also, a tabular statement showing separately the whole amount of each appropriation of money made by law, the amount paid under the same, and the balance unexpended; a tabular statement showing the amount of revenue chargeable to each county for the preceding year; the aggregate amount of each object of taxation, together with the tax due on the same; and shall recommend such plans as he may deem expedient for the support of the public credit, for promoting frugality and economy in the public offices, for lessening the public expenses, and, generally, for the better management and more perfect understanding of the fiscal affairs of the State. SEC. 4. He shall keep and state all accounts between the state all ac- State of Nevada and the United States, or any State or Territory, or any individual, corporation or public officer of this State, indebted to the State, or intrusted with the collection, disbursement or management of any moneys, funds or interests, arising therefrom, belonging to the State, of every character and description whatsoever, where the same are derivable from or payable into the State Treasury. He shall examine and settle the accounts of all County Treasurers, and other collectors and receivers of all State revenues, taxes, tolls and incomes, |