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CHAP. III.-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act to legalize certain contracts made by the Mayor and Board of Alderman of the City of Virginia, Storey County, State of Nevada, and the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company, of the same place, and for the issuance and sale of bonds for the payment of said indebtedness thereof incurred," approved January twentysecond, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

[Approved January 24, 1879.]

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

SECTION 1. The unpaid and outstanding bonds, issued pursuant to the provisions of the Act, to which this is supplemental, shall, from and after the passage of this Act, become due and payable, as follows: Twenty-eight thousand dollars of the bonds due and payable on the first day of February, 1879, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on said first day of February, 1879, and the remaining twentyeight thousand dollars of said bonds, due and payable on said first day of February, 1879, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on the first day of February, 1880; twenty-eight thousand dollars of the bonds due and payable on the first day of February, 1880, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on the first day of February, 1881; and the remaining twenty-eight thousand dollars of said bonds, due and payable on said first day of Febrúary, 1880, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on the first day of February, 1882; twentyeight thousand dollars of the bonds due and payable on the first day of February, 1881, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on the first day of February, 1883; and the remaining twenty-eight thousand dollars of said bonds due and payable on the said first day of February, 1881, according to section two of said Act, shall become due and payable on the first day of February, 1884.

SEC. 2. In order to determine priority of payment between bonds payable at the same time as provided by section two of the Act, to which this is supplemental, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Board of Alderman of the City of Virginia to determine the order of payment by lot, at a public meeting of said Board of Alderman, to be held on or before the first day of November, of the years when it shall be necessary to determine such priority; provided, that for the purpose of determining priority of payments of bonds payable on the first day of February, 1879, as by said section two provided, such meeting may be held at any time prior to the payment of the bonds which shall become due February 1, 1879.

payment of bonds, as

'Providing

to time, amounts.

Mayor and Aldermen, order of lot, etc.

Board of

payment by

Proviso as

to payments

Feb. 1, 1879.

Number of
Notaries

Public to be
appointed.

Proviso.

CHAP. IV. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend section one of an Act to amend an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of notaries public, and defining their duties," approved February ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, approved February ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, approved March thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

[Approved January 27, 1879.]

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

SECTION 1. Section one of the above-entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint and commission notaries public in the several counties in this State, as follows: For Storey County, twelve; Lander County, sixteen; Nye County, sixteen; Churchill County, four; Esmeralda County, ten; Ormsby County, four; Humboldt County, sixteen; Washoe County, nine; Douglass County, five; Lyon County, eight; Roop County, two; Eureka County, ten; Elko County, twelve; White Pine County, ten; Lincoln County, eight; and for any new county hereafter created or organized, six, who shall hold office for the term of two years; provided, the Governor may at any time for cause revoke the commission of any notary public appointed under the provisions of this Act.

Public use
Legislative
Hall

CHAP. V.-An Act concerning the use of the Legislative Halls in the Capitol Building.

[Approved January 28, 1879.]

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

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, the public use of the Legislative Halls, in the State Capitol Building, exprohibited. cept during the biennial sessions of the Legislature, is hereby prohibited.

Capitol
Commis-

sioners, etc.

SEC. 2. The State Board of Capitol Commissioners, Judges of the Supreme Court, other State officers, or any person in no power to authority, shall have no power to permit any persons, corporations, courts or assemblage of persons, to occupy the aforesaid Legislative Halls, for the transaction of any public business whatever.

permit persons, etc.,

to occupy Halls.

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Commis

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Capitol Commissioners Capitol to take charge of the aforesaid Legislative Halls immediately sioners to after the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature, of Halls, and to strictly enforce the provisions of this Act.

take charge

etc.

CHAP. VI.-An Act to amend "An Act to provide for the purchase for the benefit of the State School Fund, of the bonds of this State known as the Territorial Bonds," approved March 8, A. D. 1877.

[Approved January 28, 1879.]

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

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

Money may

be used for purchasing State bonds for benefit School fund

of the State

Section Two. All money in the Territorial Interest and Sinking Fund, together with all securities now in said fund, and all money coming into said fund from other sources, and also all securities and money now in, or coming into, the State School Fund, may be used for the purchase of the State Bonds herein specified, on account and for the benefit of the State School Fund, in the manner hereinafter set forth, under the direction of a Board of Commissioners consisting of the Governor, Attor- Commis ney-general, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Surveyorgeneral, State Controller and State Treasurer. The Governor Chairman shall be chairman, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction and secretary of said board.

Board of

sioners.

Secretary.

SEC. 2. Section three is hereby amended so as to read as fol- Conditions lows:

of purchase

Authorized bonds, etc.

to exchange

Section Three. The commissioners herein named are authorized to purchase the bonds herein specified, if they can purchase the whole issue (three hundred and eighty thousand dollars), and not otherwise, if such purchase can be made at such rate of premium as would guarantee to the purchaser four and one half per cent. per annum interest on the amount paid during the life of the bonds so purchased; they are also authorized, in making such purchase, to exchange the United States and other bonds, now in the Territorial Interest and Sinking Fund, and also in the State School Fund, for the bonds herein proposed to be purchased: provided, that in making such exchange, the Proviso. value of such United States and other bonds shall be at least the value of such bonds, with the average premium added, as shown by the sales of such securities in the market on the day of exchange, and in no case at less than par. The amount of securities placed at the disposal of said Board of Commissioners for the purpose herein specified is as follows: One hundred thousand dollars in United States Bonds, and seventy-five thousand dollars in money now in the Territorial Interest and

Bonds upon purchase to

be issued to State School Fund, etc.

Tax

authorized.

Resources

of the Terri

in case of failure to purchase.

Sinking Fund, and three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in United States Bonds and money in the State School Fund, and no more.

SEC. 3. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Four. Upon the purchase of the bonds herein mentioned, the Board of Commissioners shall surrender them to the State Treasurer for cancellation, and a bond to the amount of three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, not redeemable or transferable, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, shall be issued to the State School Fund of the State of Nevada. Said bond shall be signed by the Governor and State Controller, countersigned by the State Treasurer, and authenticated with the great seal of the State, and shall state in substance that the State of Nevada owes to its State School Fund three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the interest on which sum, at the rate of five per cent. per annum she agrees to pay for all time for the benefit of the common schools of the State. Said bond shall be engrossed on parchment and deposited with the Treasurer of the State. The interest on said bond shall be paid semi-annually, on the first days of January and July of each year, on the written order of the State Board of Education to the State Controller, directing him to draw his warrant for the amount of such semi-annual interest on the Territorial Interest Fund herein created. All sums derived from the interest on said bond shall go into the General School Fund for the support of the common schools of the State, and for the regular and prompt payment of said interest the faith and credit of the State is hereby solemnly pledged.

SEC. 4. Section five of this [said] Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Five. There shall be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing January first, eighteen hundred and seventynine, and annually thereafter, an ad valorem tax of eight cents upon each one hundred dollars of all the taxable property in the State, including the tax upon the proceeds of the mines, which tax shall take the place and be in lieu of the tax heretofore levied for Territorial Interest and Sinking Fund purposes. All sums derived from this tax shall go into the Territorial Interest Fund, and shall be disposed of as provided for in this Act.

SEC. 5. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Seven. In the event that the Commissioners are torial Fund unable to purchase the "Territorial Bonds" of the State under the terms of this Act, the securities herein placed at their disposal for that purpose shall remain in their respective funds; and the resources of the Territorial Interest and Sinking Fund for the fifteenth and sixteenth fiscal years shall be: First. All money now in said fund, or that shall come into it from delinquent taxes and interest on the United States Bonds now, or that may be placed in said fund; and, Second. All money from the tax herein levied for a Territorial Interest Fund.

Repeal.

SEC. 6. Section eight of the Act to which this Act is amendatory is hereby repealed.

CHAP. VII.-An Act amendatory of, and supplemental to, an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the State Debt proper," approved January twenty-eight, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

[Approved January 28, 1879.]

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

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etc., in

Fund, how used.

Board of

Commis

SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two. The amount now in the State Interest and Sinking Fund, whether in bonds or money, together with all sums coming into said fund from other sources, shall, under the unanimous directions of a Board of Commissioners, consisting of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sur- sioners. veyor-general, Attorney-general, Secretary of State, Controller, and State Treasurer, be used as follows: First. In the purchase Purchase of of the bonds issued under the authority of the Act herein mentioned, if such purchase can be made at such rate of premium as would guarantee to the purchaser four and one half per cent. per annum interest on the amount paid during the life of the bonds; Second. In United States four per cent. bonds. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Nevada bonds.

U. S. Bonds.

State

Interest and
Sinking

Fund, what

to consist of

tax levied.

Section Four. From and after the passage of this Act the State Interest and Sinking Fund provided for in this Act herein named, shall consist of amounts derived from the delinquent taxes, heretofore payable into said fund, of United States or California State bonds now in, or that may hereafter come into said fund, together with the amounts derived from interest on said bonds, and of amounts derived from an ad valorem tax Ad valorem hereby levied of two cents upon each one hundred dollars of the taxable property in this State, which shall be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter, until all the bonds, both principal and interest, issued under the provisions of the Act herein named, shall have been fully paid, or their payment at maturity shall have been fully provided for; provided, that no portion of any tax whatsoever levied on the proceeds of the mines shall be construed to form any part of the revenue appropriated by this section for the payment of the interest on, or redemption of the bonds herein before mentioned. SEC. 3. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section Five. Immediately after the passage of this Act, the commissioners herein named may advertise in one or more daily papers published in this State, and in the cities of San Francisco and New York, for sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds provided to be paid by this Act. They shall advertise the amount of money on hand applicable to the redemption of such bonds; and they may accept bids calling for no higher

Proviso. of tax in proceeds of into fund.

No portion

mines to go

Advertise

for proposals

for

surrender of bonds.

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