For the purchase of 3,500 copies of the statutes published under the provisions of "An act to provide for the publication of a compilation of the statues," the same to be distributed by the Secretary of State to the same officers as the General Statutes of 1873 were distributed. $8750.00 For Sheriff's fees in cases of State of Nebraska vs. Holly Scott, and State vs. Priest and Walken, prosecuted for crimes committed in the unorganized territory of this State....$ 1882.30 For compensation of B. S. Gillespie, Sheriff of Holt county, for keeping Richard Muck for robbery...$ Geo. L. Brown, as provided in section 6, of an act to create and provide for a state board of immigration, approved Feb. 24, 1875..... R. W. Wilson, capturing horse thief. STATE UNIVERSITY. For the support of the State University, payable out of the "University fund," $28,000 per year. 84.00 $1104.00 60.00 . $56000.00 Provided, that the amount appropriated shall be disbursed under the direction of the board of regents by the warrant of the auditor of public accounts drawn upon the state treasurer, and that no warrant shall be drawn in excess of the receipt of money in the state treasury in the University fund, and that no salary shall be paid. during the continuance of this appropriation to exceed $2,500 per annum for the service of a chancellor, or $1,800 for the service of any professor in the state University; and that $5,000 per annum of said amount appropriated shall be expended for the use of the college farm. Officers' item expenditures. SEC. 2. Each state officer and each board en-ized account titled to draw against the appropriation provid- and report of. ed for in sec. one of this act, shall keep an itemized account of all expenditures made by them, and report the same with vouchers to the finance committee of the next legislature, and all officers and institutions shall make a semi-annual report to the governor under oath. drawn. SEC. 3. The auditor of public accounts is here- Amounts, how by authorized, upon the presentation of proper vouchers approved by the secretary of state in the manner provided by law, to draw his warrant on the general fund (except in case of appropriation for state University, which shall be payable out of the University fund) and against the appropriation as made in section one of this act for the amount due, such warrant giving the name of the person and nature of the service performed. Provided, that warrants in payment for two wings to insane hospital in this act provided for, shall be drawn on hospital fund for the in AN ACT to provide for the payment of salaries due stenographic reporters of the various judicial districts. WHEREAS, At the fifteenth session of the legislature of the state of Nebraska, an act providing salaries for the official stenographers of the various judicial districts of the state was Preamble. Appropriation for stenographic reporters. 1879, 92. To take effect. Stone contributed. passed to take effect from and after the first Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($6,250), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the deficit in the salaries of said official stenographic reporters from the first day of March, A. D. 1879, to the thirtyfirst day of March, A. D. 1881, in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to amend Chapter thirteen of the Revised Statutes of 1866, enand approved February 27th, titled 'Courts,' A. D. 1879. SEC. 2. An emergency existing, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 14th, A. D. 1881. CHAPTER 10. AN ACT to authorize the contribution by the state of Ne- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That the board of public lands and buildings are hereby authorized and direct ed to cause to be prepared in accordance with the regulations of the Washington National Monument Society and to present to said society for its use in the erection of said monument a memorial block of stone bearing the coat of arms of the state of Nebraska, accompanied by such other devices or inscriptions as said board may consider appropriate. Said memorial block to be of Nebraska stone. SEC. 2. The sum of one thousand dollars or Appropriation. so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of the general fund for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. Approved March 1st, A. D. 1881. Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ 11 . AN ACT entitled "An act for the relief of Wm. A. Brown." WHEREAS, R. H. Miller, the treasurer of Otoe Preamble. county, state of Nebraska, did on the 24th day of July, A. D. 1874, employ William A. Brown, the proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Nebraska Press, a newspaper of general circulation in said county, to publish the delinquent tax list under the provisions of an act to provide relief for delinquent tax payers, passed and took effect February 27, A. D. 1873, and WHEREAS, William A. Brown as aforesaid, did publish in said daily and weekly newspaper said delinquent tax list on the 24th day of July, 1874, and for four consecutive weeks thereafter as provided by said act, and WHEREAS, Said advertisement contained eigh Appropriation for W. A. Brown. teen hundred and twelve squares, and was worth the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, two thousand of said sum having been expended by said William A. Brown for labor and large quantities of new material consisting principally of materials good for that work only, and WHEREAS, The said William A. Brown did on the 7th day of September, A.D. 1874, present a bill for the same to the commissioners. of Otoe county for the sum of $4,500 who refused to pay the same, that said Brown then and there sued said county commissioners for said sum, which case was taken to the supreme court of the state where a decision was rendered that William A. Brown having failed to appeal from the decision made by the commissioners of Otoe county within the time required by the law that he could not recover, and WHEREAS, The said William A. Brown has not received any payment whatever for the services rendered, and materials furnished as aforesaid, and WHEREAS, The state of Nebraska would have been required to pay one thousand and five hundred dollars of said amount of $4,500 for publishing the delinquent tax list due the state of Nebraska if said appeal had been taken. within the time required by law by said William A. Brown who is justly and equitably entitled to the same, therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the state of Nebraska not otherwise appropriated, |