empowered to issue bonds in the sum of twenty thousand dolPurchase of lars, or any part thereof, for the purpose of purchasing a lot or lots of land, and constructing and furnishing school buildings thereon. lots, etc. Bonds, how issued. Interest. Redeemable Tax levy. Rate of taxation. How assessed and collected. Fund created. Form of bonds. SEC. 2. The bonds to be issued under the provisions of this Act shall run not to exceed five years, shall be in sums not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred dollars, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed twelve per cent. per annum, and shall be redeemable annually at the office of the County Treasurer in Eureka, Eureka County, Nevada. SEC. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Eureka County are hereby authorized and empowered, at the time of the annual levy of taxes for State and County purposes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter, to levy upon all the taxable property in the said Eureka School District an amount not exceeding one fourth of one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars' valuation of said property, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act which will become due during the next year. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be paid into the County Treasury, and set apart to a fund which is hereby created, to be known as the "Eureka School District Redemption Fund," and the money in said fund shall be paid out by the County Treasurer in payment of the interest of the bonds and principal aforesaid, as the same becomes due. SEC. 4. The Board of School Trustees shall prepare said bonds, in form and manner to carry out the provisions of this Act, and to make such other rules and regulations regarding the issuance, sale, redemption and payment of principal and interest on said bonds as will insure safety to the holders thereof, and payment at maturity. County officers empowered to employ criminals. CHAP. XCVI.-An Act to authorize the employment of criminals confined in the several Jails throughout this State. [Approved March 8, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners in each and every county of the State of Nevada, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of each and every incorporated city within this State, City officers. and the Board of Trustees of each and every incorporated town Town officers. within this State, are hereby authorized and required to make all necessary arrangements, as hereinafter provided, to utilize the labor of the prisoners committed to any Jails within any county, city or town within this State, for a term of imprisonment by the Judges of the several District Courts within this State, or the Justices of the Peace in any and all townships Prisoners to labor. SEC. 2. All prisoners sentenced by the judge of any District deemed Court, or by the Justices of the Peace of any Justice's Court, sentenced and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in any county, city, or town Jail, shall be deemed to have been also sentenced to Proviso. labor during such term, unless the Judge or Justice of the Peace, sentencing said prisoner, for good cause orders otherwise. control. chiefs of Powe control. Duties of chiefs of SEC. 3. The Sheriff of each and every county in this State Sheriff's shall have charge and control over all prisoners committed to his care and keeping, in their respective County Jails, and the Chiefs of Police and Town Marshals in the several cities and towns throughout this State shall have charge and control over all prisoners committed to their respective city and town Jails; and the said sheriff, Chiefs of Police and Town Marshals, and each of them, shall see that the prisoners under their care are at all times kept at labor on the public works in their respective counties, cities and towns, at least six hours a day during six days of the week, when the weather will permit, when so required by either the Board of County Commissioners of their respective counties, or by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of their respective cities, or by the Board of Trustees of their respective towns. By the public works, as used in this Act, is Public understood the construction, or repair, or cleaning of any works, streets, road, sidewalks, public square, park, building, cutting of term. away hills, grading, putting in sewers, or other work whatever, which is or may be authorized to be done by and for the use of any of the said counties, cities, or towns, and the expense of Expense of which is not to be borne exclusively by individuals or property repairs. particularly benefited thereby. application Penalties dience on prisoners part of Punishment SEC. 4. In case any prisoner or prisoners are disobedient or for disobedisorderly, or do not faithfully perform their task, the said officers having charge of them may inflict punishment upon them by confining them in dark and solitary cells, and the officers so punishing shall keep a record of the punishment so inflicted, showing its cause, mode and degree, and duration, making a correct report of the same, on the last day of each month, to records and their respective boards in each county, city and town, together reports. with the amount and character of work done by said prisoners during the month. SEC. 5. No prisoner or prisoners shall be allowed to go from the walls of the prison without a proper and sufficient guard. SEC. 6. For each month in which the prisoner appears, by the record provided for in section four of this Act, to have been obedient, orderly and faithful, five days shall, with the consent of the board having power in the premises, be deducted from his term of sentence. Officers to keep Guard of prisoners. Rebate to prisoners for good conduct. SEC. 7. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with the pro- Repeal. visions of this Act are hereby repealed. Elko county County Jail to be Limit of debt. Commissioners. CHAP. XCVII.-An Act to authorize the County of Elko to contract a debt and to issue bonds for the construction of a County Jail. [Approved March 8, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to contract a debt and to borrow money on the faith and credit of the county, for the purpose of constructing a County Jail; provided, that the whole amount of such debt or money borrowed in the aggregate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, exclusive of interest. SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of said county, and their successors in office shall be and are hereby empowered empowered to perform the duties hereinafter enumerated, to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. Bonds to be issued. Size of bonds. Interest coupons. SEC. 3. The said Board of County Commissioners shall cause to be prepared, and shall have power to issue, on behalf of said county, bonds in sums of not less than two hundred dollars, nor greater than one thousand dollars each, with coupons for interest attached, bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, payable in gold and silver coin, which bonds shall How drawn be made payable in gold coin and silver coin, which bonds shall be made payable at the treasurer's office of said county, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninetynine, and the interest on the same shall be made payable by the treasurer of said county, at his office, annually, on the first day of the month of January in each year, on presentation of the coupons therefor as the same became due. up and made payable. When and where payable. Numbering of bonds and mode of signing. Purport of bond. SEC. 4. Back of said bonds so issued shall be consecutively numbered for each denomination, and shall be signed by the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, and authenticated by the clerk of the said board, and shall purport, in substance, that the said county is indebted to the holder thereof in the sum named therein, payable and bearing interest as aforesaid, and that the faith and credit of the County of Elko is pledged for the redemption of the same. The coupons for interest shall to coupons. also be signed by the chairman and clerk of the board, and shall be consecutively numbered, according to the date of payment. Signatures Record of all bonds issued to be kept. Disposition of bonds. Application of money derived from sale of bonds. SEC. 5. The clerk of the Board of County Commissioners shall keep a record of all their proceedings, and all bonds that may be issued under this Act, showing the number, date and amount of each, and to whom issued; and as soon as such bonds can be prepared for issue, the Board of County Commissioners shall proceed to sell and dispose of a sufficient number and amount thereof to provide the moneys necessarily required for the purpose of constructing a County Jail and furnishing the same. SEC. 6. All sales of bonds shall be made for gold and silver coin of the United States. The moneys derived from the sale of such bonds shall be devoted solely and exclusively to the created. Money, how use and purposes declared in the foregoing section, shall be SEC. 7. Should there, however, be any money still remaining in the said "Jail Fund" unused and unappropriated, after the completion of the said County Jail, and furnishing the same as provided, then the said money shall by order of the Board of County Commissioners be transferred to the Jail Redemption Fund of said County. paid out. Transfer of balance in fund. of notice for SEC. 8. All sales of bonds shall be made in the following Publication manner: The Board of County Commissioners shall cause notice sale of to be published for twenty days in any newspaper published bonds. in Elko County, inviting sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds. The notice shall state the time and place of re- Contents of ceiving such bids, the amount of bonds to be disposed of, and Notice. that bids will be received for one bond or more, naming the amount for which the bonds are issued, and that the payments for the same must be made in gold and silver coin of the United States. Parties proposing to purchase bonds offered as afore- Purchasers said must state in writing the amount they propose to purchase, style of bid. and the rate per centum they propose to pay; provided, that no Proviso. bid shall be accepted, nor any of such bonds sold by the Board for less than ninety per centum of the par value thereof. opened and rejected. of acceptance. SEC. 9. At the time specified in the notice for receiving and Bids considering bids, the Board of County Commissioners, or a considered. majority of them, shall meet and proceed to open and consider the proposals, and may accept such as propose to purchase such bonds at the highest percentum of the par value thereof, as hinted in the last preceding section, or may reject any or all Bids may be of such bids, and may re-advertise for proposals if sufficient funds be not provided by the acceptance of a portion or all of the bids so made. Upon the acceptance of any such bid, Notification the Clerk of the Board shall immediately notify the bidder thereof and require him to pay to the County Treasurer the amount of the purchase-money in gold and silver coin within ten days thereafter, and upon the payment of such purchase-money by Delivery of the bidder, shall deliver to him the bonds so purchased. SEC. 10. At any time after the opening, consideration, and Further acceptance of proposals for the purchase of such bonds, if it shall appear that the whole amount thereof so offered has not been taken, the Board of County Commissioners may proceed to sell the remainder, or any portion thereof, at private sale, to Private sale such purchasers as may present themselves; provided, that no bonds shall be thus sold for a less per centum of the par value thereof than those sold under the bids hereinbefore provided for, and in like manner the said Board of County Commissioners may issue and sell to any contractor or contract- contractors. ors such portion or amounts of said bonds as may be agreed bonds. provision for sale of bonds. Proviso. Sales to Terms and rates. Expenses of advertising, etc., how paid. Tax levy for interest and redemption Amount of tax. upon between the parties, at the rates and upon the terms and conditions herein before prescribed for the payment of any materials furnished, or current liability incurred or contracted in the construction of said County Jail and furnishing thereof, but for no other purpose whatever. SEC. 11. The necessary expenses of preparing such bonds, advertising and issuing the same shall be paid out of any moneys in the "General Fund" of said County, not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 12. For the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds issued by authority of this Act, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of said County to levy and collect annually at the same time and in the same manner that other State and County taxes are levied and collected, a tax of five cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of the taxable Application property in said County, and the moneys derived from this tax shall be set apart and kept separate in the amount and manner hereinafter provided, from other moneys in the County Treasury, and shall be designated as the "Jail Redemption Fund," and shall be applied to the payment of the interest accruing on the bonds herein provided for, and for the redemption and payment of said bonds. of money. Fund created, and its purposes [This clause is meaningless.] Surplus. Advertise for SEC. 13. Whenever on the first Tuesday in January of any year hereafter the payment of said bonds. SEC. 13. Whenever on the first Tuesday in January of any year hereafter the payment of the interest then accrued, there shall remain a surplus in the "Jail Redemption Fund" of five hundred dollars or upwards, the County Treasurer of said County shall proceed to advertise for not less than thirty days redemption in some newspaper published in Elko County, inviting proposals from [for] the surrender of bonds issued under this Act; such advertisement shall state the time and place of receiving such bids, the amount of money on hand applicable to the redemption of such bonds, and that no bid will be received exBids opened ceeding the par value thereof. The County Treasurer together with the Board of County Commissioners, shall proceed to open and consider such proposals at the time named in the advertisement, and shall accept such proposals at rates not exceeding the par value as may render [redeem] the greatest amount of bonds until the amount of cash on [hand] is exhausted. and acted upon. Taxation to cease. Money to Cancellation. Penalty for misappro SEC. 14. Whenever the said bonds and interest, provided for in this Act, shall have been rendered or fully paid at maturity thereof, the tax authorized and levied by this Act shall cease, and all moneys then remaining in the "Jail Redemption Fund" shall be transferred, by order of the Board of County Commissioners, to the "General Fund" of said County. SEC. 15. Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay any coupons or bonds, under the provisions of this Act, he shall cancel the same in the usual manner, and turn them over to the County Auditor, who shall give them credit therefor in his books. SEC. 16. The use, appropriation, or diversion of any of the funds. moneys mentioned and provided for in this Act, to any other priation of |