magistrate; it shall be the duty of said County Clerk to draw an order on the Treasurer of the county in favor of the President and Treasurer of said society for a sum equal to the amount thus raised; Provided, it does not exceed ten cents on each inhabitant of said county upon a basis of the last vote for delegate to Congress, allowing five inhabitants for each vote then cast, but not to exceed in any county the sum of two hundred dollars, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said county to pay the same. Be and is hereby Amended. amended to read as follows: County ag societies. "Whenever twenty or more persons, residents of any county of ricultural the State shall organize themselves into a society for the improvement of agriculture within said county, and shall have adopted a constitution and by-laws agreeable to the rules and regulations furnished by the State Board of Agricnlture, and shall have ap pointed the usual and proper officers, and when the said society shall have raised paid into the Treasury, by voluntary subscription or by fees imposed upon its members, any sum of money in each year not less than fifty dollars, and whenever the President of said society shall certify to the County Clerk the amount thus paid; it County Clerk to draw an order on the county in favor of said President of said from coun- society for a sum equal to three cents on each inhabitant of said ty treasury county, upon a bassis of the last vote for member of Congress, al shall be the duty of said May re- County Treasurer of said ceive funds Original section re lowing five inhabitants for each vote thus cast, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said county to pay the same." SEC. 2. That the said section one of chapter one of the revised ealed. statutes of Nebraska, entitled, "Agriculture," as it read before, amended by section one of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force fron and af ter its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. LAWS OF THE FOURTH SESSION. AN ACT To provide for the Election of Electors of President and Vice-President of the election. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, The qualified voters of the State of Nebraska shall meet Day of at their respective places of holding elections, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and after the first Monday of November, on the first Tuesday thereafter unless the Congress of the appoint a different day, and in that the said Congress shall appoint, and shall proceed to elect as many fit persons as the State shall then be entitled to elect as Electors of President and Vice President, which said Electors shall be resi- Who may dents of the State and shall be chosen by the State at large. every fourth year United States shall case on such day as be eleccors. conducting elections. SEC. 2. The election shall be conducted by the judges who may Manney of have been appointed to hold the general election for the same year, and under the same regulations, and have the public notice thereof given in each county as is or may be required by law regulating such general elections, except the first election, when notice may be dispensed with. votes of and SEC. 3. Returns shall be made, the votes canvassed and certifi- Canvass cates issued in the same manner, and by the same officers as returns required by law in the case of electing a representative in Congress. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Governor, at the expense of the State in all cases, immediately to notify the persons chosen of Persons Notic ele ted. to Contested elections, Governor shall cause their election, as soon as the same shall have been ascertained agreeably to the provisions aforesaid. SEC. 5. All contested elections for Electors shall be determined by joint vote of both Houses of the Legislature. SEC. 6. The Governor shall, on or before the meeting of such lists to be Electors, cause three (3) lists of the names of such Electors, to be made. made and delivered to them as required by act of Congress. Meeting of SEC. 7. The Electors shall meet at the Seat of Government of electors. Vacancies, how filled. Compensation. this State on the day which is or may be directed by the Congress of the United States, and shall then and there give their votes for President and Vice President, and shall do and perform all the duties required of them by the act of Congress in that case made; Provided, That if the Congress of the United States shall not have fixed the day on which the Electors shall convene in their respective States. Then and in that event the Electors for the State of Nebraska shall meet on the first Wednesday of December succeeding their election. SEC. 8. If one or more of the Electors appointed under this act fail to attend at the Seat of Government, by the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon of the day herein pointed out, then such Elector or Electors as attend shall proceed immediately by appointment in writing to fill such vacancy. SEC. 9. The electors shall receive for their services the same compensation as members of the Legislature, and the Secretary of State shall audit their accounts and grant them certificates for the amount ascertained to be due, which certificates shall be sufficient vouchers to authorize the State Auditor to draw his warrant for the amount which shall be paid out of the State Treasury as other demands. SEC. 10. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved October 28, 1868. AN ACT To provide for the payment per diem and mileage, of the Members of the Fourth SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Nebraska, |