distribution SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, upon the Duty of Secreception of the reports aforesaid, to distribute the same in the manner State in reretary of following: to each State and Territory of the United States, two cop- lation to ies; to each of the heads of Departments at Washington, one copy; of Reports. to the Library of Congress, two copies; to the Nevada State Library, two copies; to each State officer, Justice of the Supreme Court, District Judge, District Attorney, County Clerk and Justice of the Peace in this State, one copy; to each public library and literary association within this State, one copy. He shall also distribute said reports to such literary and scientific institutions, publishers and authors, as in his opinion may secure an interchange of works, which may properly be placed in the State Library. All reports distributed to State, District, and officer to other officers in this State, shall be for the use of the office, and to be Reports to by the person receiving the same turned over to his successor in office, successor. and the Secretary of State shall take proper receipts for such books. SEC. 9. The Secretary of State shall retain one hundred copies of Future diseach publication of said reports for future distribution and for the use etc. of the Legislature while in session, and any surplus remaining in his Surplus to possession shall be sold by him at a price not exceeding ten dollars be sold. per volume, and the money received from such sales shall be paid into the State Library Fund, without delay, after making such sales. turn over tribution, tion. SEC. 10. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund Appropriaof the State, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars in gold coin, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry this Act into effect for the third fiscal year, and also a like amount is hereby appropriated out of the general revenues of the fourth fiscal year, to carry this Act into effect during said year; and the Controller shall on presentation of any account duly certified by said Commissioner, and duly approved by the Board of Examiners, for expenses incurred in procuring the publication of said reports, or for services rendered, draw Controller his warrant on the fund hereby created for the amount of the account draw warso certified and approved, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same rant, etc. out of the fund aforesaid. required to SEC. 11. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for reporting the Acts reDecisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada," approved pealed. March 14, 1865, and an Act entitled “An Act in relation to the distribution of the Reports of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada," approved March 1, 1866, and all Acts, or parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. LXXVIII.-An Act to regulate the presentation and auditing of Demands against Counties. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Accounts presented against a county must be sworn to Account to by the claimant, or some one in his behalf, before the County Auditor, be sworn to. to be issued. or some other officer authorized by law to administer oaths; and at the Certificate, request of the claimant, the Auditor shall issue a certificate and deliver the same to the claimant, showing the amount allowed, and out of what fund payable. No more than one certificate shall be issued upon the same allowance, unless the same be plainly marked or shown on Fees allow the face thereof to be a duplicate certificate. No fee shall be allowed or charged by the County Auditor for any service as herein provided to be rendered by the Auditor, except as follows: For swearing the claimant, when the demand exceeds fifty dollars, fifty cents; and for issuing the certificate, when the amount allowed exceeds said sum of fifty dollars, one dollar. ed Auditor. Appropriation. CHAP. LXXIX.—An Act making appropriation to pay the rent of Adjutant General's office, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars, for the purpose of paying rent of Adjutant General's office, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. Commis sioners to CHAP. LXXX.-An Act amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the support of the Poor," approved November 29th, 1861. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: [Section Seven.] When an application is made by any paurequire sat per to the Board of County Commissioners of any county in this isfactory evidence of State, for relief, it shall be necessary for said Commissioners to reresidence. quire of said pauper satisfactory evidence that he or she has been a resident of said county for six months immediately preceding the day upon which such application is made, or if such is not the case, satisfactory evidence in regard to where said pauper last resided for six months prior to arrival in the county where such application is made. SEC. 2. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: to relief. [Section Eight.] When application is made by any pauper to the When pauBoard of County Commissioners aforesaid, and it shall appear to the sat- per entitled isfaction of said Board that the person so applying for relief has resided in said county agreeably to the provisions of the foregoing section of this Act, said pauper shall be entitled to all of the relief provided by this Act; but if, on the contrary, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Board, that such pauper has not been a resident of said county agreeable to the provisions of the foregoing section, but that said pauper, previous to removing to the said county where said application is made, was a resident of some other county of this State, said Board shall provide temporary relief for said pauper, and immediately notify the Temporary Board of County Commissioners of the county where said pauper last had a residence for six months, and said notice shall be in writing, duly Comm'rs of attested by the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, and de- Co. where posited in the post office, addressed to the Board of County Commis- resided. sioners of said county, and it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners receiving said notice to cause said pauper to be imme-Pauper to diately removed to their county, and pay a reasonable compensation for Compensathe temporary relief afforded, and if said Board of Commissioners tion for neglect or refuse to remove said pauper, the county affording relief temporary shall have a legal claim against said county for all relief necessarily furnished, and may recover the same in a suit at law. relief. Notice to pauper last be removed. relief. CHAP. LXXXI.-An Act to provide for payment to Kinkead and Harrington, for goods furnished the late Supreme Court of the Territory of Nevada. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Examiners claim. SECTION 1. The State Board of Examiners are hereby authorized Board of to audit and certify as correct, a claim against the late Territory of authorized Nevada, and in favor, of Kinkead and Harrington, for the sum of one to audit hundred and nine dollars and thirty-eight cents, for goods furnished the Supreme Court of the Territory. Upon said claim, so audited and certified, being presented to the Treasurer of State, he shall issue bonds therefor in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for carrying out in part the provisions of Section seven, Article seventeen, of the Constitution of the State of Nevada," approved February 14th, 1865, [and] an Act supplemental to, and amendatory thereof, approved March 10th, 1865. Board of sioners con- Qualification and duties. Principal place of business. Proviso. Majority to constitute a quorum. Resignations and vacancies. When office vacant. Governor to fill vacancy. CHAP. LXXXII.-An Act to create a Board of Commissioners to examine and report upon the amount of just claims existing, for property destroyed and losses sustained by Indian depredations in Lander County, in this State, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Frank Wheeler, Geo. W. Jacobs, and Joseph Farren, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners, to examine all claims for property destroyed and losses sustained by Indian depredations in Lander County in this State, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six; and report the same to the Governor of this State by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. SEC. 2. At any time within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the commissioners herein appointed shall enter upon the discharge of their duties, under oath, to be administered by any one authorized to administer oaths; shall elect one of their number to act as President, and shall cause to be published for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in said county, a notice requiring all parties holding claims for property destroyed or for losses sustained by Indian depredations in said county, in the years aforesaid, to come forward and present the same within six months from the time of the first publication of such notice. SEC. 3. The principal place of business of said Board shall be at Austin in said county, and sessions of said Board may be held at said city at any time, without further notice than to the members thereof, left at the residence or place of business of such members, if personal service be not had; but sessions of said Board may be held at any other place in said county that the said Board may direct; provided, ten days' notice of such session be given by posting a written notice of the time and exact place of such session in not less than three public places in the district in which such session is proposed to be held. SEC. 4. Whenever a majority of said Board shall have qualified, such majority may enter upon the discharge of the duties of said Board; and at any time thereafter, any two members of said Board, who shall have qualified, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and exercise the powers of said Board. SEC. 5. Resignation in the Board may be accepted by the majority of said Board, and all vacancies in said Board, whether caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, may be filled by appointment, by a majority of said Board. SEC. 6. If any member of said Board shall remove from said county, or be absent therefrom for a period of one month, his office shall be deemed vacant. SEC. 7. In case of a lack of a majority of said Board to accept a resignation or fill a vacancy, such resignation may be accepted and such vacancy filled by appointment by the Governor. SEC. 8. Said commissioners shall have full discretion to determine Powers. the justice of said claims, and for that purpose shall have power to send for persons and papers; and any one of said commissioners who shall have qualified, shall have power during his continuance in office to administer oaths to any parties or witnesses who may be examined by said Board. SEC. 9. If any person shall willfully make or give under oath or Perjury. affirmation, before said Board, a false statement of his or her property destroyed, or losses sustained, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor as by law provided for the punishment of perjury. tion. SEC. 10. The said Board shall receive the sum of three thousand Compensadollars as compensation for discharging the duties imposed by this Act, to be apportioned pro rata among the members of said Board, in accordance with the period of actual service of each member; provided, Proviso. that Congress allow said amount in addition to an appropriation for the payment of claims for property destroyed and losses sustained by Indian depredations as aforesaid, and in no manner whatever shall any cost, claim, or compensation for any service done, or any expenses incurred by said commissioners, be paid by the State of Nevada. clerk. SEC. 11. The said Board may appoint a clerk, whose duty it shall May apbe to keep a record of the proceedings of said Board, and who shall be point a allowed as compensation therefor the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid only as provided in the preceding section of this Act; said clerk shall hold his office at the will of the majority of said Board, and if different persons are employed as clerks, the Board shall report the amount of said one thousand dollars which should be paid to each of said persons. be made to SEC. 12. When the said commissioners have completed their labors, Report to they shall make a full report thereof to the Governor of this State, the Govsetting forth the facts and amount of claims as ascertained and allowed ernor. or rejected by them, that he may be advised in the premises, and take such means as he may deem expedient to secure the payment of the same by an appropriation from the General Government. CHAP. LXXXIII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of the Territory of Nevada, approved November twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one," approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. [Approved March 13, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of said Act, approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: |