Fees of officers.

the town charges of each town shall be levied on the taxable property in such town, in the manner prescribed by law for raising revenue. The rate of taxes for town purposes shall not exceed, for roads, two mills on each dollar of the valuation; for bridges, two mills on each dollar of the valuation; for all other purposes, three mills on each dollar of the valuation; and if the electors at the annual town meeting fail to vote a tax to pay the town charges hereinbefore specified, or the town board fail to certify up to the county board the amount of tax voted, if any, by a town meeting, then the county board shall have power and it shall be the duty of such county board to levy upon the taxable property in said town, a tax sufficient to pay all such town charges.

SEC. 4. That section fifty-five (55) of said act be amended to read as follows:

SEC. 55. The following town officers shall be entitled to compensation as hereinafter specified: Town treasurer three per centum on the amount collected by him as taxes, excepting on school taxes, on which taxes he shall receive one per centum; the town clerk and supervisors shall each receive two dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily employed in attending to the duties of their respective offices; Provided, That the town clerk shall receive fees for the following services and not a per diem: For serving notices of election as required by law, twenty-five cents each; filing papers, ten cents each; posting notices, as required by law, twenty-five cents each; for

recording any order or instrument of writing authorized by law, five cents for each one hundred words; for copying any record in his office and certifying the same, ten cents for each one hundred words, to be paid by the person applying for the same; and for copying by-laws, for posting or publication, five cents. for each one hundred words.

SEC. 5. That section fifty-six of said act be amended to read as follows:

town board.

SEC. 56. The members of the town board Per diem of shall be entitled to two dollars per day each, for their services while actually engaged in their duties as such board.

1883, 215,

SEC. 6. Said sections fifty (50), fifty-two (52), Acts repealed, fifty-four (54), fifty-five (55) and fifty-six (56) of 216. said act amended are hereby repealed. Approved March 7th, A. D., 1885.

CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to provide for the discontinuance of township or-
ganization in any county, to adjust the affairs of and pro-
vide a revenue to pay the indebtedness of the towns, and
establish a temporary county organization.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Nebraska:

tinue by vote.

SECTION 1. Any county of the state of Ne- May disconbraska which may have adopted township organization or that may hereafter adopt the same pursuant to the constitution and any statute of the state, shall discontinue the same

Submission for

discontinu

ance.

Form of ballots.

Result of election.

Procedure.
Commissioner

whenever the majority of the electors of said
county voting on the question of such discon-
tinuance shall so decide in the manner herein

provided.
SEC. 2. Whenever a petition or petitions
for a submission of the question of the discon-
tinuance of township organization to the voters
of his county, signed by not less than one-
third of the number of electors of the
county voting at the last general election,
shall be filed in the office of the county clerk
not less than thirty days before the date of
any general election, it shall be the duty of
said county clerk to cause said question to
be submitted to the voters of said county at
such election and give notice thereof in the
general notice of such election.

SEC. 3. The forms of ballots shall be respectively "for continuance of township organization" and "against continuance of township organization," and the same shall be written or printed upon the regular ballots cast for officers voted for at such election, and shall be counted and canvassed in the

same manner.

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SEC. 4. If it shall appear from the turns of said election that a majority of the votes cast on the question are against the continuance of township organization, then such organization shall cease to exist as soon as a board of county commissioners are appointed and qualified, as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 5. When township organization shall districts. cease in any county, as provided by this act,

the office of county commissioner which became vacant by reason of its adoption, is hereby restored, and such county is hereby divided into commissioner districts, with the same boundaries and comprising the same territory as such districts had when township organization was adopted.

ers to be ap

SEC. 6. On the first Saturday after the first commissionTuesday of January following the election at pointed. which township organization shall be voted to be discontinued. the county commissioners of such county, for the purpose of temporary organization under this act, shall be appointed by the county clerk, treasurer, and county judge of said county, and their successors shall be elected at the next general election in the manner provided by law in cases of the first election of a board of commissioners in any county.

supervisors.

SEC. 7. The board of county commissioners, Successors of appointed as herein provided, shall be the legal successor of the board of supervisors in said county; and the county in which township organization shall be discontinued, and such board of county commissioners, shall thereafter be governed by the laws that shall govern counties not under township organization, and in the same manner that said county would have been governed had not such organization been adopted.

clerk.

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SEC. 8. Where township organization shall Duty of town be discontinued in any county, it shall be the business. duty of the town clerk in each town in said county, as soon as the board of county com

missioners are appointed and qualified, to deposit with the county clerk of the county all town records, papers and documents pertaining to the affairs of such town, and to certify to him the amount of indebtedness of such town outstanding at the time of such discontinuance, and the board of county commissioners shall have full and complete power to settle all the unfinished business of the towns as fully as might have been done by the town itself, and dispose of any and all property belonging to such towns, the proceeds of which, after paying all indebtedness, shall be disposed of by the board of county commissioners of such county for the benefit of the taxable inhabitants thereof, by their crediting all unexpended balances of said towns to such fund or funds as they in their discretion shall deem for the best interest of such county, and it shall be their duty, at such time as shall be provided by law, to levy a tax upon the taxable property of such towns, to pay any unliquidated indebtedness it may have outstanding.

Approved March 5th, A. D. 1885.