What brands to be rejected

fore the above committee a statement of the brands of said animals, and if in the judgment of any two of them said brands conflict with any previously recorded in that county, it shall be the duty of the owner or manager of said animals to brand them with a brand that the committee shall consider a full and distinguishing mark from all brands there recorded, but the owner shall be enjoined from any further use of the conflicting brand. A failure to comply with the above shall render the party so failing liable for all damages resulting from such failure, which damages may be recovered in a civil suit. It is further provided that this section shall apply to all animals now in any county in this state whose brands are considered by this committee to infringe on previously recorded ones.

SEC. 7. In deciding as to the conflict of brands, the by committee. committee will reject any one that, being the same as one previously recorded, has in addition any of the following, whether placed across, above, below, at either side, or encircling the main brand, viz.: a straight bar, a quarter, half, or entire circle, a quarter, half, or entire diamond, either upright or inverted, the same not constituting a true brand, and rendering the owner of the same brand liable to damage by its use, saving only when one or more of these shall be filed by the owner of the first record of the main brand, in which case it may be accepted. The committee shall reject any brand formed by repetition of any letter, number or figure which shall have been previously recorded, whether to be placed on the same or on a different part of the animal; the exclusive right of the first record to the letter, number, or figure, and to repetition of it being reaffirmed. They shall also reject all brands known as solid brands, and all ear-marks which shall remove to exceed one-half of the ear. A variation in the size of a letter, number, or figure, shall not constitute a new brand, and

shall be rejected. A combination of letters, numbers, or figures, may be permitted though the same letters, numbers, or figures, may have been recorded singly or together, if, in the judgment of the whole committee, said combination is so different from any previous record as to constitute a new brand, with no danger of infringement; but in this case the objection of one member shall reject.

any Brand evi

dence of own

in- ership of cattle.

SEC. 8. In all suits in law, or in equity, or in criminal proceedings, when the title to any stock is volved, the brand on any animal shall be prima facie evidence of the ownership of the person whose brand it may be; Provided, that such brand has been duly recorded as provided by law. Proof of the right of any Proof of right person to use such brand shall be made by a copy of the record of the same, certified by the county clerk of that county or of any county in which the same is recorded under the hand and seal of office of such clerk. Approved, February 25th, A.D. 1879.

to use brand.

County bounties for killing wolves, wild cats, and coyotes.

To provide for the payment of bounties for the destruction of wild animals in the state of Nebraska.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That any person or persons killing wolves, wild cats, or coyotes within the boundaries of such counties as may at any election, by a vote of the majority of electors voting, to determine as hereafter provided, and presenting the scalps of the same, with the two ears and face down to the nose, to the county clerk of the county in which the same were killed, with satisfactory proof in writing, upon oath, that the same were killed within the boundaries of the aforesaid counties, shall be entitled to the following bounties: For every wolf so killed, two dollars; for every wild cat so killed, two dollars; for Bounties, how every coyote so killed, two dollars. Certificates of such bounties when so allowed, shall be issued by the county clerk to the person entitled thereto, and upon the presentation of such certificates to the county treasurer said treasurer shall pay to the holder of such certificates the amount named therein out of the county general fund. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to give such person or persons, on receiving said scalps, a

paid.

Duty and certificate of coun

ty clerk.

certificate of the number and kind of such scalps accepted by him for bounty, and deface such scalps by cutting the same in two parts, so as to separate the two ears, and ' shall keep a record of the number and kind by him certified and destroyed.

SEC. 3. All scalps upon which bounties are claimed Proof of killing

before county

shall be presented to the clerk of the county in which clerk.
the animals were taken and killed, and the applicant for
bounty will be required by the said clerk to make his
statement in writing, under oath, as to where the said ani-
mals were taken and killed, and any person making a
false statement under oath as provided in this act, shall
be liable to prosecution for perjury, and suffer the pen-
alties of the same as provided by the laws of this state.

driving, etc.

one to another

SEC. 4. Any person or persons driving, baiting, Penalty for enticing, bringing, or taking any of the animals men- animals from tioned in this act from outside the boundaries of such county. counties as are provided in this act, for the purpose of procuring bounties thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense so committed.

may adopt pro

act.

SEC. 5. Upon the petition of fifty freeholders of any How counties county, to the county commissioners or county board, visions of this favorable to granting bounties for the destruction of wild animals, as provided in section one of this act, it shall be the duty of said county commissioners or county board to present the prayer of said petitioners to the electors of such county at the next succeeding election.

SEC. 6. The voting upon the aforesaid proposition Election. shall be by ballot, the ballots having written upon them "For bounties," or "Against bounties," and the votes to be canvassed as other votes are canvassed in precinct elections, and if a majority of the votes cast at such election be in favor of the proposition as contained in

How counties released from provisions of act.

this act, the same shall be in effect within ninety days after such election.

SEC. 7. Any county desiring to be released from the payment of bounties, as provided in this act, may revoke the same by the same authority and manner of procedure as provided in section five of this act, for the establishment of the same.

SEO. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 25, A.D. 1879.

Levy and tax

for payment of outstanding

road fund warrants.

AN ACT

To provide for the payment of outstanding county road fund war

rants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That in order to provide for the payment of outstanding road fund warrants issued by any organized county in this state prior to the repeal of the act authorizing their issue, the county commissioners of any county where such indebtedness exists be and the same are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax not exceeding five mills upon the dollar of the valuation of said county, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay all the outstanding indebtedness of the character herein before mentioned. Said levy to be made by the county commissioners at their next regular annual meeting in July, 1879, while assembled for the purpose of levying other taxes as provided by law. Said tax to be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as other county taxes are collected, and the said warrants