SPECIAL SESSION OF THE Legislature of the State of Nevada, BEGUN ON FRIDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH, AND ENDED ON TUESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF APRIL, 1867. LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, PASSED AT THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1867. CHAPTER I.-An Act to create certain Funds. [Approved March 28, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying the salaries of the members State Legisand attachés of the present Legislature, the mileage of the members, lative Fund and the incidental expenses of the same, the Treasurer of State is hereby authorized and required to set apart from the first moneys coming into the General Fund, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which shall constitute a fund to be denominated "The State Legislative Fund." The State Controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the members and attachés of the present Senate and Assembly, for mileage and compensation due, when duly certified to him in accordance with law. Funds. SEC. 2. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to Contingent set apart from the first moneys coming into the "State Legislative Fund," created by section first of this Act, the sum of four thousand dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars of which shall constitute the Contingent Fund of the Assembly, and one thousand five hundred dol- To be under lars, the Contingent Fund of the Senate. The said Contingent Funds control of shall be under the exclusive control of the Senate and Assembly. Assembly. SEC. 3. Any moneys that may remain in either of the funds cre- Money reated by this Act, upon the adjournment of the Legislature shall revert maining to to the General Fund. exclusive Senate and revert to General Fund. Treasurer required to pay Geo. F. etc. CHAP. II.—An Act providing for the payment of certain indebtedness due certain parties from the City of Virginia. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the city of Virginia is hereby required, from the first moneys now in or coming into and belonging to Jones & Co., the "Virginia City Redemption Fund," created and provided for in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of Virginia, Storey County," approved January twentyseventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, to pay George F. Jones & Co. the full sum of principal and interest due at the time of payment, upon the warrant or order number seven hundred and eighteen, draw [drawn] upon the City Treasurer of said city by Charles Rawson, Clerk, January second, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, in favor of George F. Jones & Co., according to the tenor and effect thereof, and to pay to all other holders of any and all warrants, orders, or other evidences of indebtedness for cash loaned the city of Virginia, the full amount due thereon, both principal and interest, at the time of such payment, and pay the same in the order of the issuance thereof. Act to take effect. Certificate. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. This is to certify that Assembly Bill 77, "An Act providing for the payment of certain indebtedness due certain parties from the city of Virginia," passed the Assembly on the 26th day of March, A.D. 1867, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, 26; Nays, 6. R. D. FERGUSON, Speaker of the Assembly. A. WHITFORD, Clerk of the Assembly. Certificate. SENATE CHAMBER, State of Nevada, March 29th, 1867. This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 77, "An Act providing for the payment of certain indebtedness due certain parties from the city of Virginia," passed the Senate this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, 13; Nays, 3. JAMES S. SLINGerland, President of the Senate. JOHN R. EARDLEY, Assistant Secretary of the Senate. CHAP. III.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide Revenue for the support of the Government of the State of Nevada," approved March 9th, 1865, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to provide Revenue for the support of the Government of the State of Nevada,' approved March 9th, 1865," approved February 24th, 1866. [Approved April 2, 1867.] 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: ied for State purposes. Section One. An annual ad valorem tax of one hundred and twenty-five Taxes levcents upon each one hundred dollars' value of taxable property is hereby levied and directed to be collected and paid, for State purposes, upon the assessed value of all taxable property in this State, including the proceeds of mines and the proceeds of mining claims, except such property as is by this Act exempted from taxation. Seventy cents of said tax on all property, other than proceeds of mines and mining claims, is and shall be held to be the same as that levied under the provisions of an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing a State Loan, and levying a tax to provide means for the payment thereof," approved February 6th, A.D. 1867, and the money coming into the State Treasury from said tax to the extent of seventy cents on all property, except proceeds of mines and mining claims, shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds provided to be issued by the last mentioned Act. Twenty-five cents of the one hundred and twenty-five cents levied under the provisions of this Act is hereby appropriated to the payment of Territorial indebtedness, funded under 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, which shall be applied exclusively to the extinguishment of such funded debt. Five cents of the one hundred and twenty-five cents by this Act levied, including the tax levied on the proceeds of mines and mining claims, is hereby set apart for the support and maintenance of a State University and Common Schools; and ninety-five cents of the one hundred and twenty-five cents levied on the proceeds of mines and mining claims, and twenty-five cents of the one hundred and twenty-five cents hereby levied on other property than proceeds of mines and mining claims, is hereby set apart for general revenue purposes. All assessments and valuation of property for taxable purposes shall be made on the value thereof in legal tender paper currency of the United States. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: use of As Section Two. The Board of County Commissioners of each county Books for shall, prior to the first Monday of April of each year, cause to be pre-sessor. pared suitable and well bound books for the use of the Assessor, in which the County Assessor shall enter his tax list and assessment roll, as hereinafter provided; and in which list and assessment roll shall be |