Lien. Fires. Gunpowder. Nuisances Licenses. Issue licenses. Police. Property. improvement a lien upon such property; provided, further, that said cost of building, repairing, or improving any street or sidewalk which may be so as aforesaid assessed to the owner of, and made a lien upon, the property in front of which the same is or will be, shall not exceed ten per cent of the assessed value of such property, as the same shall appear from the last annual assessment thereof made for State and county taxation purposes, next preceding the time of making such street or sidewalk, or repairing or improving the same, as the case may be. Fourth-To condemn property for the use of said city in the manner hereinafter provided. Fifth-To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize, establish, regulate, and disband fire or hose companies in said city. Sixth-To regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder and other explosive or combustible materials within the limits of said city. Seventh-To determine, by ordinance, what shall be deemed nuisances within the limits of said city, and provide for the punishment, removal, and prevention of the same. Eighth-To fix and regulate a license upon, and regulate all theaters, theatrical performances, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements within said city; to fix, regulate, and collect a license tax upon, and regu late all taverns, hotels, restaurants, eating houses, boarding houses, lodging houses, saloons, barrooms, bankers, brokers, gold dust or bullion dealers, manufacturers, livery stables, livery stable keepers, express companies, persons, or corporations engaged in carrying letters or packages, stage companies, or the owners of stages or stage lines having an office, agency, or place of business in said city; to license, tax, and regulate auctioneers and stockbrokers within said city; to license, tax, and regulate or prohibit all tippling houses, dram shops, saloons, and raffles; and license, tax, and regulate all hawkers and peddlers (except the hawkers and peddlers of the agricultural products of this State), pawnbrokers, refreshment and coffee stands, booths, and sheds within said city; to regulate or prohibit prostitution, houses of ill-fame, unlicensed and disorderly houses, gaming houses and hurdy-gurdy houses, or dance houses, within said city; to levy and collect an annual per capita tax on all dogs in said city, and provide for the destruction of all dogs on which such tax shall not have been paid, and to prevent all other animals from running at large in said city; and to fix and have collected a license tax on all trades, professions, and classes of business carried on in said city and not herein before specified. Ninth-To provide for the issuance of all licenses in this Act specified, or permitted to be issued, and to fix the amount thereof, and the times for which, and the terms upon which the same shall be issued. Tenth-To punish, restrain, and prevent any disorderly conduct within said city. Eleventh-To hold, manage, use, and dispose of, all real and personal property of said city, and enforce the collection of all dues and demands belonging or inuring to said city; but no sale of any such property shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three appraisers, taxpayers of said city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five per cent of such appraised value. Twelfth-To fix and prescribe the punishment for the breach Penalties. of any ordinance of said city, adopted by said Board of Trustees, to be enforced therein; but no fine shall be imposed for any offense in a sum greater than five hundred dollars, nor shall any term of imprisonment exceed six months; but in case of imprisonment, any person committed for punishment, after conviction, may be made to work during the term of such impris onment on any public work of said city; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the formation of a chain-gang in said city. nances. how con Thirteenth-To adopt or pass all ordinances, resolutions, rules, Ordiand orders, and do and perform all other acts and things necessary for the execution of the powers and jurisdiction conferred by this Act; and to audit and allow all claims properly payable out of the Treasury of said city; provided, said Board shall not have the power to audit or allow any claim whatsoever, unless there be sufficient funds in the City Treasury to pay the same at the time of such allowance. Any property, real or personal, Property, necessary for the public use of the city, may be condemned and demned. appropriated in the following manner: The Board of Trustees shall appoint one referee, and the claimant or claimants, or owner or owners of the property to be condemned, shall appoint one referee; and in the event the two referees so appointed shall not agree in the valuation of the property, or claimant's interest therein, then the two so appointed shall select a third referee, and the decision of the majority of such three as to the valuation of the property, or the interest therein 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, in gold coin, of the sum named by said appraisers for such property, to the claimant or claimants, owner or owners thereof, or his or their agent or attorney, such property, or the interest therein appraised, shall become and be the property of the city; and the said Board of Trustees may, at any time after twenty days notice, cause the Marshal to remove all persons and obstructions from such property, in case the same be real, and may take immediate possession of the condemned property, whether the same be real or personal. In case the claimant or claimants, owner or owners of property sought to be condemned as herein provided, shall refuse or neglect, when required by the Board of Trustees of the city, to appoint a referee to value such property, the said Board of Trustees shall constitute a Board of Appraisers of such property, and their valuation of the same shall be final and binding; but no act of condemnation of property, or of any claim or interest therein, as herein provided, shall be deemed or held as an admission on the part of the city of the legality of the asserted claim thereto or right therein; and in the condemnation of property as in this Act provided, the referees or the Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall consider whether the proposed improvements for which such property is so to be condemned will be of any benefit Police. Ordi nances. to the persons owning or claiming the said property or some interest therein; and if they find the same will be of any benefit to such person or persons, they shall estimate the value of such benefit to him or them, and deduct the amount thereof from the estimated value of the property or interest therein condemned. Fourteenth-To cause the City Marshal to appoint one or such number of policemen as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time determine, who shall be under the direction and control of the Marshal, as head of the police force of said city; but such appointment shall be of no validity whatever until the same shall have been approved by said Board of Trustees; and said Board of Trustees shall have power to remove any such policeman from office, at pleasure, upon good cause shown, and, upon a charge being preferred, to suspend until the same shall have been passed upon finally. SEC. 2. Section twenty-five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Twenty-five. The style of all ordinances shall be "The Board of Trustees of Carson City do ordain." All ordinances shall be published three days prior to going into effect. The style of all process shall be "The City of Carson." Appropriation made. Controller to draw warrant. CHAP. LXIX.-An Act to provide for the payment of certain claims against the State of Nevada therein mentioned. [Approved March 2, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand two hundred and sixtyfour dollars and twenty cents ($10,264 20), in United States gold coin, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated, for the payment of the claims of E. B. Rail, A. B. Driesbach, and A. W. Pray, for work and labor done and materials furnished in and about the construction of the State Capitol, and for the payment of the several amounts due and unpaid on the various claims audited and allowed by the State Board of Examiners, under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of outstanding and unsatisfied claims for labor performed, money or materials furnished, services rendered, and necessary expenses incurred in and about the construction and completion of the State Capitol, at Carson City," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Controller of State to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer in favor of the said claimants as follows, to wit: E. B. Rail, one thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-five cents ($1,220 95); A. B. Driesbach, two hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-one cents ($236 61); A. W. Pray, five hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-one cents ($546 81). prepare SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the State Board Clerk to of Examiners to prepare from the records of the Board, a true fist. and accurate list of the claims against the State of Nevada on account of the construction and completion of the State Capitol, which were audited and allowed by the State Board of Examiners, and paid pro rata under the provisions of the said Act of March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, mentioned in section one of this Act, as appears in the report of the Controller of the State, in the Appendix to the Senate Journal of the sixth session, showing the name of the claimants, the amount of each claim allowed, the amount paid on each claim, and the amount remaining unpaid on each claim, which said amounts, together with two years' interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, shall be placed opposite the names of the said claimants respectively, a copy of which list, signed by the State Board of Examiners, and certified by the Clerk to be true and correct, as shown by the records on file, shall be deposited in the offices, each, of the Controller of State and of the State Treasurer. Controller SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Controller of State, on Duty of the application of any claimant, or his legal representative, whose name appears on the list mentioned in section three of this Act, to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of such claimant, or his legal representative, for the amount due and unpaid on his claim, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent. per annum for the term of two years, as shown by said list. Treasurer. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to pay Duty of the warrants in this Act authorized and provided for, in the order of their registry, out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated. revert to General SEC. 6. On the expiration of six months from the passage Surplus to of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Controller of the State to furnish the State Treasurer a statement in writing of all war- Fund. rants drawn and issued under the provisions of this Act; and any portion of said ten thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents ($10,264 20) in this Act appropriated, for which warrants have not been drawn, shall revert to the General Fund in the State Treasury, and thereafter no further warrants shall be drawn under the provisions of this Act, and all claims in this Act provided for shall be forever barred. Preamble. Appropri ation made. Controller to draw warrant. Money appro CHAP. LXX.—An Act to provide for payment to Peter Cavanaugh, for expenditures of money made by him for the completion of the State Capitol of Nevada. [Approved March 2, 1877.] WHEREAS: By Act of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of outstanding and unsatisfied claims for labor performed, money or material furnished, services rendered, and necessary expenses incurred in and about the construction and completion of the State Capitol, at Carson City," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, it was provided that Peter Cavanaugh should be allowed a sum not exceeding six thousand (6,000) dollars for expenditures incurred by him, for money expended, and services performed by him in the construction and completion of the State Capitol of Nevada; AND WHEREAS: Said Peter Cavanaugh was compelled to expend the said sum of six thousand dollars so appropriated for him, and more, by reason of the failure of the Commissioners to comply with their part of the contract for the erection of said building, and by reason of the numerous and important changes in the original plans of said building, made by the said Commissioners, and for the purpose of completing said building, so as to enable the parties who had furnished labor and material and expended money in and about the construction of said building, to obtain the payment of the same; AND WHEREAS: The said Peter Cavanaugh has not received any benefit from the said Act appropriating said sum of six thousand dollars, for his own use, in consequence of his having to expend said sum, and more, in the construction and completion of the said building, so changed from the original plan as above stated; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That Peter Cavanaugh having expended the sum of six thousand (600[0]) dollars, by reason of changes in the construction of the State Capitol of Nevada, authorized and required by the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, the sum of six thousand (6,000) dollars is hereby appropriated to reimburse him for said ordinary [extraordinary] expenditure. SEC. 2. That the Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of State, in favor of said Peter Cavanaugh, for the sum of six thousand (6,000) dollars, and the Treasurer of State is hereby directed to pay the sum out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise specifically appropriated. SEC. 3. The sum of six thousand (6,000) dollars is hereby priated. appropriated for the payment of said warrant, out of any money not otherwise specifically appropriated. |