Condemn property. thereof made for State and county taxation purposes, next preceding the time of making such street or sidewalk, drain or sewer, or repairing or improving the same, as the case may be; Fourth. To condemn property for the use of the said city in the manner hereinafter provided; Fifth. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize, establish, companies. regulate, and disband fire or hose companies in said city; Sixth. To regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder and other exexplosives, plosive or combustible materials within the limits of said city; Fires and fire Storage of etc. Nuisances. Licences. Houses of Seventh. To determine by ordinance what shall be deemed nuisances within the limits of said city, and provide for the punishment, removal and prevention of the same; Eighth. To fix and regulate a license upon and regulate all theatres, theatrical performances, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements within said city; to fix and regulate and collect a license tax upon, and regulate all taverns, hotels, restaurants, eating houses, boarding houses, lodging houses, saloons, bar-rooms, bankers, brokers, gold dust or bullion dealers, manufactories, livery stables, livery stable keepers, express companies, persons or corporations engaged in carrying letters or packages, railroad and stage companies, or the owners of railroads, stages or stage lines, having an office agency or place of business in said city, or running through said city; to license, tax and regulate auctioneers and stock brokers within said city; to license, tax, regulate or prohibit all tippling houses, dram shops, saloons, and raffles and lotteries; and license, tax, and regulate all hawkers and peddlers (except the hawkers and peddlers of the agricultural products of the State), pawnbrokers, refreshment and coffee stands, booths and sheds within the city; to regulate or prohibit prostitution within the city; to license, tax, regulate or prohibit prostitutes, ill-fame, etc houses of ill-fame, unlicensed and disorderly houses, gaming houses, hurdy-gurdy houses or dance houses, within the city; to levy and collect an annual per capita tax on all dogs within said city, and to provide for the destruction of all dogs upon which said tax shall not have been paid, and to prevent all other animals from running at large in said city, and to fix and have collected a license tax on all trades, professions and classes of business carried on in said city, and not herein before speciInsuance of fied; Ninth. To provide for the issuance of all licenses in this Act specified or permitted to be issued, and to fix the amount thereof, and the times for which and the terms upon which the same shall be issued; Tenth. To punish, restrain and prevent any disorderly conduct within the city; Eleventh. To hold, manage, use and dispose of all real and personal property of said city, and to enforce the payment and collection of all dues and demands belonging or inuring to said city; but no sales of any Property to such property shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three appraisers, taxpayers of said city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five per cent. of such appraised value; Twelfth. To fix and prescribe the prescribed. punishment for the breach of any ordinance of said city adopted by said Board of Trustees, to be enforced therein; but no fine Dogs, etc. licences. Disorderly conduct. Sale of property. be appraised. Punish ments to be fines not to employed. Marshall to prevent escapes. Adoption of how con demned and ated. be Disagree ment of appraisers. shall be imposed for any offense in a sum greater than five Amount of hundred dollars, nor shall any term of imprisonment exceed six exceed. months; but in case of imprisonment, any person committed Prisoners to for punishment, after conviction may be made to work during be the term of such imprisonment on any public works of said city, and the City Marshal or Street Inspector may use any law- City ful means to prevent the escape of such prisoners while so at and Street work, or while going to or from such work; Thirteenth. To adopt Inspectors and pass all ordinances, resolutions, rules and orders, and to do and perform all other acts and things necessary for the execution of the powers and jurisdiction conferred by this Act, and ordinances. to audit and allow all claims properly payable out of the treas- Claims how ury of said city; provided, said Board shall not have power to payable. audit or allow any claim whatsoever unless there be sufficient Proviso. funds in the treasury to pay the same at the time of such allowance. Any property, real or personal, necessary for the public Property, use of said city, may be condemned and appropriated in the following manner: The Board of Trustees shall appoint one approprireferee, and the claimant or claimants, or owner or owners of the property to be condemned, shall appoint one referee; and Referees to in the event the two referees so appointed shall not agree in appointed. the valuation of the property, or claimant's interest therein, then the two so appointed shall select a third referee, and the decision of the majority of such three, as to the valuation of the property, or interest therein, by them appraised, shall be reported to the Board of Trustees, and may by them be regarded as final and binding; and upon the tender, in gold coin of the United States, of the sum named by said appraisers for said property to the claimant or claimants, owner or owners thereof, or his or their agent or attorney, such property, or the interest therein appraised, shall become and be the property of the city; and the said Board of Trustees may at any time, after the twenty days' notice, cause the Marshal to remove all persons and obstructions from such property, in case the same be real, and may take immediate possession of the condemned property, whether the same be real or personal. In case the claimant or Board of claimants, owner or owners of property sought to be condemned Trustees as herein provided, shall refuse or neglect for twenty days, when required by the Board of Trustees of the city to appoint Appraisers. a referee to value such property, the said Board of Trustees shall constitute a Board of Appraisers of such property, and their valuation shall be final and binding; but no Act of condemnation of property, or any claim or interest therein, as herein provided, shall be deemed or held as an admission on the part of the city of the legality of the asserted claim thereto or right therein; and in the condemnation of property, as in this Act provided, the referees or the Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall consider whether the proposed improvements for which such property is to be condemned will be of any benefit to the persons owning or claiming the said property, or some interest therein; and if they find the same will be of any benefit to such person or persons, they shall estimate the value of such benefit to him or them, or to such person or persons, Removal of obstruc person and tions from condemned property. can become a Board of Police. Style of ordinances and process and deduct the amount thereof from the estimated value of the property or interest therein condemned; Fourteenth. To cause the City Marshal to appoint one or such number of policemen as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time determine, who shall be under the direction and control of the Marshal, as head of the police force of said city; but such appointment shall be of no validity whatever, until the same shall have been approved by said Board of Trustees, and the said Board of Trustees shall have power to remove any such policemen from office at pleasure, upon good cause shown, and upon a charge being preferred, to suspend until the same shall have been passed upon finally. SEC. 2. Section twenty-five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Twenty-five. The style of all ordinances shall be: "The Board of Trustees of Carson City do ordain." All ordinances shall be published three days before going into effect. The style of all civil process shall be: "The City of Carson." All criminal process shall be: "The State of Nevada." School Ormsby CHAP. LXVI.--An Act authorizing the School Trustees of School District Number One of Ormsby County to issue warrants to pay certain indebtedness in said District, and to continue the sessions of the school in said District. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of School Trustees of School District Trustees of Number One of Ormsby County are hereby authorized to issue interest bearing warrants, payable in not exceeding one year from their date, and for a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars; said warrants shall be payable to bearer, and issued in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, with interest not exceeding one per cent. per month, payable semi-annually. County may issue warrants bearing interest. Limit of interest on back indebted ness. SEC. 2. In paying any indebtedness contracted prior to the first Monday of January, 1879, said Board of School Trustees shall not allow or pay any percentage of exchange or interest due, at a rate exceeding one per cent. per month. CHAP. LXVII.—An Act to appropriate two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500) for the immediate relief of those rendered destitute by the Silver City fire of March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of furnishing immediate relief to Relief of those rendered destitute by the fire in Silver City of March Silver City. fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500) is hereby appropriated $2,500 out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise speci- ated. fically appropriated. appropri disburse. SEC. 2. The sum appropriated by section one of this Act Governor to shall be placed in the hands of the Governor to be by him distributed in such amounts and manner as the immediate necessities require. SEC. 3. The State Controller is hereby authorized and empowered to draw his warrants in favor of the Governor of this State for the amount appropriated by this Act, or so much thereof as the Governor may, from time to time apply for, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 4. This Act to take effect immediately after its passage. CHAP. LXVIII. An Act to prohibit the unauthorized use of horses, mules or work cattle. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. If any person shall use or work any horse or horses, mule or mules, or work cattle without first obtaining the consent of the owner thereof, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than fifty days or more than three hundred days. SEC. 2. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the County in which the conviction is had, for the benefit of the State School Fund. County Commis- duties as Mileage of officers. CHAP. LXIX.—An Act regulating the powers and duties of the Board of County Commissioners of the several Counties within this State in certain cases. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of the several Counties within this State are hereby authorized and directed, from and after the passage of this Act, to examine, to jails, etc. audit, and allow to any Sheriff or Constable, in any one of said Counties, the actual fare paid by such officer in the conveyance or transportation of any one or more prisoners, that may be committed to the County Jail, by the Justice of the Peace of such County or Counties, in addition to the amount now allowed by law for the safe keeping and delivering of prisoners to the County Jail; provided, such officers shall upon the presentation of their bill or bills, for the fare actually paid in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, such bill or bills shall be accompanied with a receipt showing the amount paid, and by what conveyance said prisoner or prisoners was conveyed to said County Jail, whether by the means of railroad, stage-coach, or private conveyance; and in no case shall a greater sum be allowed for a private conveyance than is usually charged by stage conveyance for a similar distance, such amount shall always be determined by the Board of County Commissioners, in accordance with their best judgment and information. County SEC. 2. The County Auditor of the several Counties within this State, are hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the General Fund for the payment of such sum as may be allowed by the County Commissioners from time to time, in accordance with the provisions of section one of this Act, and the County Treasurer of the several counties is hereby directed to pay the sum upon presentation in their regular order. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. General appropria tions. CHAP. LXX.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the Civil Government of the State of Nevada, for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth fiscal years. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The following sums of money are hereby appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, and for the sup |