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provided, that as to the Eighth District it shall take effect immediately upon the happening of the contingency by which the provision creating the Districts shall take effect as provided in section two; and, provided further, that while the Sixth District shall continue to embrace the counties of White Pine and of Lander, the terms of Court therein shall commence as follows: In Lander County on the first Monday of January and August. In the County of White Pine on the first Monday of April and October.

Churchill
County.

Commissioners required to set apart money, etc.

CHAP. XLI.-An Act to amend an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada entitled "An Act to create Counties and establish the boundaries thereof," approved November 25, 1861.

[Approved February 27, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Section nine of the Act of which this Act is amendatory is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Nine. There shall be a county to be known as Churchill County, to include all that part of the State of Nevada within the boundaries described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of Lyon County, and running thence east along the northern line of Esmeralda County to the northeast corner of said Esmeralda County; thence northeast to the southwest corner of Lander County; thence north along the western line of said Lander County to the fortieth degree of north latitude; thence west along said fortieth degree north latitude to where it strikes the summit of a range of mountains marking the eastern boundary line of Roop County; thence southerly along said range to the northeast corner of Washoe County; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of Washoe County to a point one hundred feet north of the Central Pacific Railroad; thence northeasterly along the north side of said Central Pacific Railroad and parallel thereto, at a distance therefrom of one hundred feet, to a point sixteen miles from the east side of the bridge across the Truckee River, belonging to the Central Pacific Railroad Company, at the town of Wadsworth; thence southerly to a point on the Carson River three miles below Honey Lake, Smith's old station; thence southerly to the point of beginning.

SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Churchill County is hereby authorized and required to set apart annually for five years the sum of three thousand dollars out of the revenues of said county, which sum shall be paid to Humboldt County each year, until the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall have been paid. On or before the first day of January each year, the Auditor of Churchill County shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of Churchill County in favor of the Treasurer of Humboldt County for the sum of three thousand dollars in coin, and the Treasurer of Churchill County shall pay such warrant

on presentation out of the moneys set apart for the purpose as provided by this section. The Treasurer of Humboldt County shall place the same into the Redemption Fund of Humboldt County.

SEC. 3. All Acts, or parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with this Repeal. Act, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. XLII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Railroad Companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 22d, 1865.

[Approved February 27, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Section twelve of the Act of which this Act is amendatory is amended so as to read as follows:

estate of Stockhold

ers.

Section Twelve. The stock of such company shall be deemed per- Personal sonal estate, and shall be transferable in the manner provided by the preceding section, and upon the book of the company, upon proper assignment and delivery to the assignee of the certificate of stock; but no share shall be transferable until all previous calls or installments thereon shall have been fully paid in.

SEC. 2.

as follows:

Section fourteen of the said Act is amended so as to read

of Stock.

Section Fourteen. Certificates of Stock shall be issued, signed by Certificates the President and Secretary, in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the company.

SEC. 3. Section fifteen of the said Act is amended so as to read as follows:

money.

Section Fifteen. Such companies shall have power to borrow from May borrow time to time, on the credit of the corporation, and under such restrictions as two-thirds in interest of the stockholders may impose, such sum or sums of money, not exceeding in all the amount of its capital stock, as may be necessary for the construction and equipment of their road, at a rate of interest not to exceed fifteen per centum per annum, and to execute bonds or promissory notes therefor, in sums not less than one thousand dollars in any one note or bond, and to secure said notes or bonds may mortgage their corporated property and franchise, and pledge the income of the company; and the Directors of such company shall also provide, in such manner as to them may seem best, a sinking fund, Sinking to be especially applied to the redemption of such bonds on or before their maturity, and may also confer on any holder of any bond, so issued for money borrowed, or in payment of any debt, or contract, for the construction or equipment of such road as aforesaid, the right to convert the principal due or owing thereon into stock of such company, at any time within six years from the date of such bond, under such regulations as the company may adopt.

Fund.

Guardians, etc., may

estate to

company.

SEC. 4. Section twenty-three of said Act is amended so as to read as follows:

Section Twenty-three. If it shall become necessary, for any of the convey real purposes aforesaid, for such company to acquire any real estate, or any right, title or interest therein, which is the property of any infant, idiot, or insane person, the guardian, executor, or administrator, (as the case may be) may sell and convey the same to said company, but neither such sale or conveyance shall be valid, for any purpose, until the same shall have been approved by the Judge of the proper Court; and said Judge is hereby authorized to examine such deeds and conveyances, and if he shall deem the same just and proper he shall approve the same, and thereupon such conveyances shall have the same force and effect, for the purposes in this section mentioned, as if the same had been executed by persons competent to convey lands in their own

Special proceedings to

estate.

names.

SEC. 5. Section twenty-four of said Act is amended so as to read as follows:

Section Twenty-four. Such company may acquire any real estate, or acquire real any right, title, interest, estate, or claim therein or thereto, necessary for the purposes of said company, as hereinbefore provided, by means of the special proceedings prescribed in this Act. The said special proceedings shall be substantially as follows: The said company shall file in the Clerk's office of the District Court, in the county in which said real estate is situated, a petition verified according to law, stating therein the name of the company, the time when it was incorporated, that it still continues in legal existence, the principal termini of the proposed railroad, the description by metes and bounds, or by some accurate designation of the tract, or tracts of land which said company desire to appropriate for the purposes in the foregoing section mentioned; that said tract or tracts of land are necessary for said purposes; that the line of said railroad has been surveyed, and a map thereof made, (a copy of which shall be filed with the said petition); that said line has been adopted as the route of said railroad, and the names of the persons in possession of said tract, or tracts, of land, and of those claiming any right, title or interest therein, as far as the same can be ascertained by reasonable diligence.

Board of
Printing
Commis-
sioners

created.

CHAP. XLIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create the office of State Printer, define the duties and compensation thereof, and provide for the time and manner of election," approved January 10, 1865.

[Approved February 27, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1.

Section thirteen of said Act is hereby amended so as

to read as follows:
Section Thirteen. A Board of Commissioners is hereby created, con-
sisting of the Controller, Secretary of State, and one expert in printing,

to be selected by the Controller and Secretary of State, whose duty it shall be from time to time, as may be required, to examine and measure the work done by the State Printer, and no claim or account of the State Printer shall be audited unless first passed upon by the said Board of Commissioners, and the said expert shall be allowed a per diem not exceeding eight dollars, to be determined by the Controller and Secretary of State; and the compensation of said State Printer Compensation exempt and expert shall be exempt from the provisions of an Act entitled from Act in "An Act relating to the Board of Examiners, defining their duties and relation to powers, and to impose certain duties on the Controller and Treasurer," Examiners. approved February 7, 1865.

Board of

CHAP. XLIV-An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding and other indebtedness of Humboldt County.

[Approved February 27, 1869]

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

how paid.

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, all warrants Warrants, drawn on the treasury of Humboldt County, shall be paid in the order and manner as hereinafter provided.

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SEC. 2. All warrants hereafter drawn on the treasury, shall be pre- Warrants sented to the County Treasurer for payment, and if there be not suffi- not paid on cient funds in the treasury to pay the same, the Treasurer shall indorse tion to thereon, the words, "Not paid for want of funds," signing his name thereto, and he shall at the same time, register the same in a book kept for that purpose, and shall note therein the number, date of issue, date or [of registry, in whose favor drawn, and the amount thereof, and all such warrants shall bear interest from the date of their registration, at the rate of ten per cent. per annum.

SEC. 3. All interest-bearing warrants now outstanding, and all war- Kind of rants hereafter drawn, shall be paid in the gold and silver coin of the payment. United States, and all warrants not bearing interest, now outstanding, shall be paid in legal tender currency, and shall be paid in the following order: First-The interest-bearing warrants now outstanding, Order of shall be paid in the order of the date of their registration. Second payment. The warrants not bearing interest now outstanding, shall be paid, and in the order of the date of their issue. Third-The warrants hereafter issued shall be paid, and in the order of the date of their registration; provided, all warrants not bearing interest now outstanding, shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum after twelve months from their date.

SEC. 4. The Board of County Commissioners of said county shall, at their first regular session after the passage of this Act, place all moneys now in the treasury, or that may hereafter be received from county revenues, (beyond the amount required by law to be placed in the "District Judges' Salary Fund" and "School Fund,") as soon as the said moneys shall have been received and paid into the treasury,

Moneys and portioned.

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Surplus money to be transferred.

Duty of
County
Treasurer.

Warrants

not presented interest to cease.

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into the following funds, and in the following apportionment: To the Contingent Fund," fifteen per cent.; to the "Indigent Sick Fund," ten per cent.; and all the remainder of the revenues so collected, into the "Redemption Fund." And at the first regular session of said Board thereafter, they shall transfer any surplus that may remain in the "Indigent Sick Fund," to the "Contingent Fund," and at the same time, if any surplus remains in said "Contingent Fund," they may, in their discretion, transfer the same to the "Redemption Fund."

SEC. 5. Whenever at any time there shall be in said "Redemption Fund" the sum of five hundred dollars, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said county, to post a notice in some conspicuous place in his office, which notice shall state that there is now remaining in the "Redemption Fund" of the county, sufficient money to pay the warrant or warrants next payable, according to their registration, (or date of isssue, as the case may be,) as provided in this Act. He shall describe such warrant or warrants by giving their number, date, date of registry (if registered) and amount. And if such warrant or warrants are not presented for payment within thirty days after the date of posting said notice, the interest on the same shall thereafter cease. And said Treasurer shall use the money due on such warrant or warrants, in payment of other warrant or warrants, next in order, which may be presented; provided, if said warrant or warrants are afterward presented, they shall be paid out of the first moneys coming into the "Redemption Fund" after their presentation.

SEC. 6. Whenever any claim against said county is allowed by the allowed and Board of County Commissioners, it shall be payable out of its proper fund; and whenever any claim is duly allowed and audited, the warrant therefor shall be drawn upon the proper fund, and upon demand, delivered to the owner thereof.

drawn on

proper fund.

Acts repealed.

SEC. 7. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of Humboldt County," approved March 9, 1865, and "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of Humboldt County,' approved March 9, 1865," approved February 24, 1866, are hereby repealed.

Commis

sioners,

CHAP. XLV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create a Board of County Commissioners in the several counties of this State, and to define their duties and powers," approved March 8, 1865.

[Approved February 27, 1869.]

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

SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section One. At the General Election of the several counties in when elect this State, in A.D. eighteen hundred and seventy, by the qualified electors of each county, a Board of County Commissioners, to consist of three members, shall be elected, to possess such qualifications, and

ed and

terms of

office.

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