cient money in said "Reno School District Redemption Fund" to pay said interest, to direct the County Treasurer to set apart from the General Fund in the County Treasury to said "Reno School District Redemption Fund" a sufficient amount to pay said interest, which amount shall be repaid out of the first moneys coming into said Treasurer's hands from the taxes levied as aforesaid and belonging to said School District Redemption Fund. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Secretary of State. Bonds authorized. Rate of interest. Where payable. CHAP. CXXIII.—An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of Esmeralda County to issue certain bonds, and to provide for the payment of the same. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Esmeralda County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said county in any sum not to exceed fif teen thousand dollars ($15,000). None of the bonds issued as herein provided shall be of a less amount than two hundred dollars ($200), and none for a greater amount than one thousand dollars ($1,000) each. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed eighteen per cent. per annum, and shall be redeemed in the following manner: The said bonds, with interest, shall be payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Esmeralda County, not less than one year nor more than two years from their date of issue; and the interest on said bonds shall be payable semi-annually at the Treasurer's office in Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada. The Board of County Commissioners shall provide for the prompt payment in full of said bonds, together with the interest thereon at the date of Money to their maturity, and for this purpose the said Commissioners are hereby duly empowered to set apart, at the proper period, a sufficient sum out of the Current Expense Fund of said county to fully discharge and liquidate the said bonds and the interest thereon. be set apart to pay bonds Bonds, how sold. SEC. 2. Whenever, in the opinion of the Board of County Commissioners, the issuance of said bonds, or any part thereof, is for the best interests of said Esmeralda County, the County Treasurer shall sell at par such proportion of the same as may be designated by the said Board of County Commissioners, and the proceeds thereof shall be placed in the Current Expense Fund of said county, to be subject to the same restrictions and to be expended in the same manner as other moneys coming into said fund. how SEC. 3. The County Commissioners of the said County of Bonds, Esmeralda are hereby authorized and empowered to have the printed. bonds prepared and printed in the form and manner to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, CHAP. CXXIV.—An Act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County to issue bonds for certain purposes. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: thorized across SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing the right of way Bonds auand laying out a public highway in Washoe Valley, commencing to build a at or near Franktown, and running across said valley in an road eastern direction, so as to connect with what is known as the Washoe Ophir toll road, leading to Virginia City, Nevada, the Board of Valley. County Commissioners of Washoe County, Nevada, when, in their discretion, they may deem the same necessary and for the best interests of said county, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the name of said county, in any sum not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and to pledge the good faith and credit of said county for the payment of the same, both principal and interest, in gold coin of the United States. pared. SEC. 2. The Commissioners may cause the bonds to be pre- Bonds, pared. They shall, when issued, be signed by the Chairman how pre of the Board and countersigned by the Clerk of the Board, indorsed by the County Treasurer and authenticated with the seal of the County Clerk. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the coupons can be removed without injury to the bonds; said coupons, consecutively numbered, shall be signed by the County Treasurer. SEC. 3. No bonds issued under the provisions of this Act Coin. shall be sold for any currency except gold and silver coin, nor at less than par. proceeds SEC. 4. The County Commissioners are hereby duly author Negotia ized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, the proceeds of which tion and shall be placed in the County Treasury as a special fund, for of bonds. the purpose mentioned in section one of this Act. Tax au SEC. 5. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment thorized of the bonds hereby authorized, and the interest thereon, the to pay Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and interest. bonds and Bonds, what denomina empowered to levy a tax of not to exceed one eighth of one per cent. on all property in the county subject to taxation, the same to be levied at the time for levying the general State and county tax, and collected in the same manner. After the issue and sale of said bonds, said tax shall be levied and collected each year, until such bonds, and the interest thereon, shall be paid in full. SEC. 6. The bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars each; they shall be numbered from one to ten, tion, rate inclusive, the interest shall not exceed twelve per cent. per annum, payable, annually, the first of January each year; and in no case shall the bonds issued by virtue of this Act run a longer term than three years from and after date of issue. of interest etc. Viewers to be SEC. 7. The bond [Board] of County Commissioners may, appointed after the issue and sale of said bonds, appoint three disinterested property holders of the county to view out and locate the road mentioned in section one (1) of this Act, and cause the said road to be put in suitable condition for use, as soon as convenient thereafter. Notice of redemp given. SEC. 8. The Board of County Commissioners shall give tion to be notice in some newspaper published at the county seat of Washoe County, for a term not less than thirty days, setting forth the amount of money on hand for the purpose of redeeming such bonds, and the number and date of such bonds subject to redemption, also, the time at which interest will cease on said bonds. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) after the final adjournment of the Legislature, and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Bonds au CHAP. CXXV.—An Act to authorize the School Trustees of School District Number One, in the County of Elko, State of Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of providing additional school buildings for said school district. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of School District Numthorized. ber One, it being the Town of Elko, in the County of Elko, State of Nevada, are hereby authorized under the provisions of this Act, to issue bonds bearing interest not exceeding ten (10) per cent. per annum, for a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars in United States gold coin, none of which said bonds shall run for a period longer than ten (10) years from the date thereof. Bonds, for what amounts issued, and SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be issued for sums not less than interest. one hundred dollars each in gold coin, and shall be payable to bearer, and the interest thereon shall be payable semi-annually, and coupons for each installment of such interest shall be attached to each of said bonds. thousand SEC. 3. The principal of said bonds shall be payable to the One amount of one thousand dollars each year, commencing with dollars the date of the issuance thereof. payable each year. SEC. 4. The Board of Trustees of said school district are Trustees meeting, hereby authorized, when in their judgment it may be advisable to call a to build or purchase one or more school houses for said district etc. in addition to the one now in use, to call a school meeting for the purpose of providing means therefor. Such meeting shall be called in the manner provided by law for calling meetings for the purpose of raising money for similar purposes in school districts, and if a majority of the persons in said district qualified to vote at said meeting shall vote to carry out the recommendation of said Board of Trustees, then the said Board shall proceed to issue the bonds herein provided for, and to dispose of the same, and to erect or purchase and furnish the school house or houses provided for in this Act. by whom SEC. 5. The bonds and coupons herein provided for shall be Bonds, signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, signed. and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said Elko County, State of Nevada. of bonds, SEC. 6. All moneys received from the sale of said bonds Proceeds shall be paid into the County Treasury, and the County Treas- how used. urer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the "Elko School District Number One Fund," and to pay out said money only on warrants signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, and duly allowed by the Board of County Commissioners of said Elko County. The County Treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto. thorized of bonds. SEC. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the Tax aubonds hereby authorized to be issued, the Board of County Com- for the missioners of Elko County is hereby authorized and required, at payment the time of the annual levy of taxes for State and county purposes, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and annually thereafter, to levy upon all the taxable property of said School District Number One of Elko County, an amount not exceeding one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars of all property subject to taxation according to law, and its value as assessed, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, which will become due during the next ensuing year. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and levied, and shall be paid into the County Treasury and set apart as a fund which is hereby created, to be known as the "Elko School District Number One Fund;" and the money in said fund shall be paid out by the County Treasurer, in payment of the interest on the bonds aforesaid, as the same becomes due, and upon the presentation of coupons therefor, and upon the pre First installment sentation and surrender of said bonds when the same become due. SEC. 8. To provide for the payment of the first installment of interest of interest upon the bonds issued under the provisions of this how paid. Act, the Board of County Commissioners of Elko County is hereby authorized and required, at its last regular meeting before said interest and principal will become due, in case there is not sufficient money in said "Elko School District Number One Fund" to pay said interest and principal, to direct the County Treasurer to set apart from the General Fund of the County Treasury, to said "Elko School District Number One Fund," a sufficient amount to pay said interest and principal, which amount shall be repaid out of the first moneys coming into said Treasury from taxes levied as aforesaid and belonging to said "Elko School District Number One Fund." This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the final adjournment of the Legislature (Sundays excepted), and no objections having been filed by his Excellency, it has therefore become a law this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. MINOR, Inspector. Apparatus to be CHAP. CXXVI.-An Act to create Inspectors and to provide for the The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Chief of Police in every city and town in this State where such officer is, shall be ex officio Inspector of Gas Meters within such city or town. SEC. 2. The said city or town shall provide and keep for provided. the use of the Inspector suitable apparatus for testing the accuracy of gas meters. Seal. Inspector to exam SEC. 3. The said city or town shall also provide a suitable seal with which to seal meters inspected by the Inspector and found to be correct. SEC. 4. The Inspector may appoint deputies, and shall, upon ine meters request, by himself or deputy, inspect and test the accuracy of any gas meter used or intended to be used for measuring the quantity of gas furnished by any person, persons, or gas company; and if found correct the same shall be sealed with his seal, and if not found correct shall be destroyed. No meter shall be accounted correct which registers an amount more than three per cent., greater or less, than the amount actually passed through it. Misdemeanor to SEC. 5. Any person, persons, or gas company placing or use an un- using for measuring gas a meter which has not been inspected inspected by the proper Inspector, and which does not bear his seal, meter. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be |
