Proviso. Trustees to choose other officers, etc. Individual Trustees to deliver property. May hold real and personal chosen; provided, that when the number of trustees, and the mode of the appointment of their successors, is fixed in the deed, will, or other instrument of the original founder, the provisions relating thereto shall govern in said corporation, so far as consistent with the laws of this State. The other officers of said corporation shall be chosen by the trustees from their own numbers or otherwise, as the trustees shall determine. A majority of such trustees shall form a quorum, and may make by-laws, and alter the same, for the more orderly transaction of their business, and for the regulation of the care or relief to indigent and other sick and infirm persons. As soon as such corporation shall be duly organized, the individual trustees, who hold or possess the lands or other property so given, granted, devised or bequeathed, shall forthwith convey and deliver the same to such corporation by deed or other proper mode of transfer, and said corporation shall thereupon and thereafter hold, possess and enjoy the same to the same extent, and for the same purposes, as designed and declared by the original donor. SEC. 4. Such corporation may, by gift, grant, devise or bequest, take, receive, and hold any property, real or personal, but only for the property. purposes for which it is incorporated; provided, that said corporation shall not hold any lands except such as shall be necessary for the direct and reasonable use or convenience of its Hospital or Asylum, for a longer period than ten years. Proviso. Trustees not entitled to Funds of corpora SEC. 5. No trustees of said corporation shall be entitled to any compensa- compensation, except under some special employment by the board, or tion. authority expressed in the original deed or instrument of trust. SEC. 6. All the funds of said corporation shall be faithfully and tion, how exclusively used for the purposes thereof, as set forth in its articles, and the same shall be wholly used within this State. Said corporation may invest its funds by loan, on mortgaged security, or by purchase of any city, county, State or United States bonds, or by loan on pledge of the same; provided, that no loan of such funds shall be made to any trustee, officer, or servant of such corporation. used, etc. Proviso. Asylum building exempt from taxation. Corporation to report to County Commis SEC. 7. The property on which said Asylum or institution building stands, together with said buildings, shall, while occupied for the objects and purposes thereof, be exempt from taxation. SEC. 8. Such corporation shall report yearly, to the County Commissioners of the county wherein such corporation is situated, and biennially to the Legislature, a full statement of its affairs, under the oath of one or more of its trustees; and for any neglect so to report when Legislature. required, each one of its officers, and all of the trustees so neglecting, shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars each, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the People of the State of Nevada. sioners and CHAP. XLV. An Act to amend Chapter one hundred and thirteen of the Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix, entitled “An Act to consolidate and pay certain indebtedness of the County of Ormsby," approved March twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 4, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of the Act of which this Act is amendatory, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: tion Fund Section Two. A Redemption Fund of said county is hereby created, Redemp into which the Treasurer of said county is authorized and required, created. upon the passage of this Act, to transfer all moneys in the aforesaid Building, General, Hospital, and Contingent Funds; and said Treasurer is further authorized and required to pay into said Redemption Fund, all moneys hereafter collected (after the expenses of repairs shall have first been deducted) from rents of the building of said county, also all moneys hereafter collected from the delinquent taxes of said county from eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eighteen hundred and sixtythree, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and eighteen hundred and sixty-five, levied for the aforesaid Building, General, Hospital, and Contingent Funds, and for a Jail Building Fund in eighteen hundred and sixty-three. In addition, the Commissioners of said county, at the time provided by law for the levy of State and county taxes, out of the amount of taxes allowed by law to be levied for general county purposes, shall apportion not less than forty, nor more than seventy cents Revenue upon each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said county, apportionto the said Redemption Fund; and none of the moneys, directed by this ed to Fund. Act to be paid into said Redemption Fund, shall be used for any other purpose or purposes than those specified in this Act. SEC. 2. Section seven of this [said] Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: to be how Section Seven. To determine what is the lowest bid, as between any Lowest bid, two or more obligations offered to be surrendered under the provisions determined. of this Act, and at the same time to give a preference to obligations of said county longest remaining unpaid, the Board of County Commissioners shall compute the principal and interest due upon such obligations by its terms, and add to the amount of such principal and interest a further sum of one and one-fourth per cent. on the principal of such obligation, for each period of three months after it would have been paid had funds existed for its payment when presented, up to the day of opening such bid; but such further sum of one and one-fourth per cent. being so Per cent. added, not added solely for the purposes of computation, shall not be considered as to form a forming a debt due by the county, and to be redeemed under the debt. provisions of this Act, but such debt shall consist of the principal of the obligation, together with the interest allowed thereon, from the time of registration under the then existing laws. The obligations upon which the largest discount is offered to be allowed, by this method of computation, shall be deemed the lowest bids, and shall be accepted as such and To be paid pro rata when bids are equal. Indigent sick fund abolished. Claims payable out of gen eral fund. ordered to be paid. When the lowest bids are equal in discount, and one or more owners shall offer more obligations than the Treasurer has funds to pay, their several obligations shall be paid pro rata, so far as the whole of any obligation or obligations can be redeemed; and, in case none of such obligations are small enough to be redeemed by the Treasurer out of the money in the Redemption Fund, then such bidders may, in the presence of the Commissioners, deliver their sealed bids upon such obligations, and the lowest of such bids shall then be paid. SEC. 3. Upon the passage of this Act, the "Indigent Sick Fund" of` said county shall be and is hereby abolished, and any moneys remaining therein shall be transferred by the Treasurer and Auditor, upon the books of their respective offices, to the "General Fund" account, and thereafter all existing unpaid claims against the said "Indigent Sick Fund" shall be payable out of the General Fund, in order of date of allowance, and as if they had originally been payable out of said fund; and hereafter, all claims allowed as incident to the care, support, and maintenance of the indigent sick, shall be payable out of the General Fund. County Commis sioners au audit CHAP. XLVI.-An Act for the relief of R. Ranney, Sheriff of [Approved March 5, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The County Commissioners for the County of Nye are hereby authorized and directed to cause the County Auditor of said thorized to county to audit, to the account of A. Ranney, Sheriff of said county, the sum of one thousand dollars, being compensation for moneys expended by said Ranney, in the keeping and feeding of prisoners confined in the jail of said county. accounts. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to the distribution of the Reports of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada," approved March first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 5, 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: tion of Reports of Court. Section One. The Judges of the Supreme Court of this State are Distribuhereby authorized and directed to distribute copies of the volumes of the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State by Supreme such means of transportation and such routes as said Judges shall deem most convenient, as follows: to each Department of the National Government, one copy; to each of the States and organized Territories of the Union, one copy; to the Library of Congress, two copies; to each of the District Judges of this State, one copy; and to the District Attorney and County Clerk, each, one copy. CHAP. XLVIII.—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 5, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one hundred and twenty-five, in chapter four, in title five, of said Act is amended, so as to read as follows: Attach Section One Hundred and Twenty-five. The Sheriff, to whom the Writ of writ is directed and delivered, shall execute the same without delay; ment, how and if the undertaking mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-executed. three be not given, as follows: First-Real property shall be attached by leaving a copy of the writ, with the occupant thereof, or if there be no occupant, by posting a copy in a conspicuous place thereon, and filing a copy, together with a description of the property attached, with the Recorder of the County. Second-Personal property, capable of manual delivery, shall be attached by taking it into custody. Third-Stock or shares, or interest in stock or shares of any corporation or company, shall be attached by leaving with the President or other head of the same, or the Secretary, Cashier, or managing agent thereof, a copy of the writ, and a notice stating the stock or interest of the defendant is attached in pursuance of such writ. Fourth-Debts and credits, and other personal property not capable of manual delivery, shall be attached by leaving with the person, or the Treasurer, or financial agent of any city, town, county, or municipal corporation owing such debts, or having in his or its possession, or under his or its control, such credits or other personal property, a copy of the writ, and a notice that the debts owing by him to the defendant, or credits and other personal property in his or its possession, or under his or its control, belonging to the defendant, are attached in pursuance to such writ. SEC. 2. Section one hundred and twenty-six is amended, so as to read as follows: Section One Hundred and Twenty-six. Upon receiving information when ion of other How served in writing from the plaintiff or his attorney that any person, city, town, property county, or municipal corporation has in his or its possession, or under is in possess-his or its control, any credits or other personal property belonging to the persons, etc. defendant, or is owing any debt to the defendant, the Sheriff or Constable shall serve upon such person, or upon the Treasurer or financial agent of any city, town, county, or municipal corporation, a copy of the writ and notice that such credits, or other property, or debts, as the case may be, are attached in pursuance of such writ. Liability of persons, etc. SEC. 3. Section one hundred and twenty-seven of said Act is amended, so as to read as follows: Section One Hundred and Twenty-seven. All persons, cities, towns, having counties, and municipal corporations having in their possession or unproperty in der their control any credits or other personal property belonging to possession. the defendant, or owing any debt to the defendant at the time of ser Examina tion of per fendant,etc. vice upon them of a copy of the writ and a notice, as provided in the last two sections, shall be, unless such property be delivered up, or transferred, or such debts be paid to the Sheriff or Constable, liable to the plaintiff for the amount of such credits, property, or debts, until the attachments be discharged, or any judgment recovered by him be satisfied. SEC. 4. Section one hundred and twenty-eight of said Act is amended, so as to read as follows: Section One Hundred and Twenty-eight. Any person owing debts son indebt to defendant, or having in his possession or under his control any ed to de- credits or other personal property belonging to the defendant, may be required to attend before the Court, or Judge, or a referee appointed by the Court or Judge, and be examined on oath respecting the same; and any town, county, or municipal corporation owing debts to the defendant, or having under its control any credits or other personal property belonging to the defendant, may be required by its Treasurer or financial agent to attend before the Court or Judge, or a referee appointed by the Court or Judge, and be examined on oath respecting the same. The defendant may also be required to attend for the purpose of giving information respecting his property, and may be examined on oath. The Court or Judge may, after such examination, order personal property, capable of manual delivery, to be delivered to the Sheriff or Constable, on such terms as may be just, having reference to any liens thereon or claims against the same, and a memorandum to be given of all other personal property, containing the amount and description thereof. Applicable to Justices' Courts. SEC. 5. The provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and twenty-six, one hundred and twenty-seven, and one hundred and twenty-eight, as above amended, shall be applicated to proceedings in Justices' Courts. |