Interfer Assistance in cleaning apparatus Salaries of officers. orders, rules and regulations concerning the same, are carried into effect, and also to attend to such duties as Fire Wardens as may be required, and to see that all laws, orders and regulations established in said city to secure protection against fire are enforced. It shall also be his duty to enforce the rules and regulations made from time to time, to secure discipline in said Fire Department; he shall diligently observe the condition of the apparatus and working of said department, and shall from time to time report to said Board of Fire Commissioners upon the same, and make such recommendations and suggestions respecting it, and for securing its greater efficiency, as he may deem proper. Any interference at time of fires, impeding the ence at fires. Chief Engineer in the discharge of his duty, shall be punishable as the Board of Aldermen may by ordinance prescribe. The Chief and Assistant Engineer may employ such assistance as may be necessary after fires, to put the hose and fire apparaafter using. tus in good order, and the Board of Fire Commissioners may pay for such assistance, such per diem wages as they may deem just, and shall limit such assistance from time to time, as in their discretion they may see fit. The salaries of the officers and men comprising the Fire Department shall not exceed the following sums, to be paid monthly in United States gold coin: The Chief Engineer, two hundred dollars per month; Assistant Engineer, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; firemen, including the regular police holding the position of firemen, twenty-five dollars per month; but the Board of Fire Commissioners may, by resolution adopted at two successive regular meetings, increase or diminish such salaries, or any of them. The Board of Fire Commissioners shall have power to purchase engines, etc. such necessary steam engines, hose and hose carts, or other fire apparatus and horses, not to exceed eight in number, and to purchase or provide such engine houses for the use of said Fire Department, as the public safety of the city may require. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall from time to time cause Moneys set apart for fire such sums of money as may be necessary to pay the salaries and all expenses of the Fire Department, to be set apart from the revenues of the city, and all of the expenses of the said Fire out, and fire Department shall be paid out of the money so set apart. The moneys so set apart shall be known as the "Fire Department Fund," and no money shall be drawn from said fund unless first authorized by the Board of Fire Commissioners, and upon warrants to be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk. The Board of Fire Commissioners shall have power to sell at private or public sale, from time to time, engines, engine houses, hose carriages, or other property, which shall not be required for the use of the department, and to execute and deliver sufficient conveyances for the same, paying the proceeds of such sale into the City Treasury; Sixth. To regulate the storage of gunpowder and other explosive or combustible materials; Seventh. To prevent and remove nuisances, also to determine what are nuisances; Eighth. To create and establish a city police and jailors, to prescribe their duties and compensation, and provide for the regulation and government of the same, but the pay of Purchase of purposes. How paid Fund created. Sale of extra and unnecessary property. Storage of explosives. Nuisances. Police department Department the regular policemen and jailors at any one time shall not ex- Expenses of ceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum; Ninth. To fix and collect a license tax on and regulate all theatres and theatrical performances, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate all taverns, hotels and restaurants, saloons, bar-rooms, bankers, brokers, gold dust buyers, manufacturers, livery stables, and stable keepers, express companies, and persons engaged in the business of transmitting letters or packages, and stage companies or owners, whose place of business is in said city, or who have an agency therein; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate auctioneers, assayers, barbers, boot-blacks, boot-makers and cobblers, brokers, factors and general agents, cock-pits, dog-pits, stage companies, freight companies, grocers, merchants, traders, hay yards, corrals and barns, boarding-houses, lodging-houses, insurance and insurance agents, lumber yards, manufacturers, markets, public criers, bell ringers, quartz mills, shooting galleries, skating rinks, solicitors, tailors, telegraph companies, water companies, gas companies, tradesmen, artisans, vehicles employed for hire or public use, and stock brokers; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate, prohibit, and suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, and pawnbrokers, refreshment or coffee stands, booths and sheds; to fix and collect a license tax on and regulate all gaming, games of chance, banking games, and gambling houses; also, to fix and collect a license tax upon all professions, trades or business not heretofore specified, having regard to the amount of business done by each person or firm thus licensed; to prohibit, suppress, or regulate disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame, and to confine the same within the following described limits: Commencing at a point fifty feet north of the north line of Union street, thence running west from the west side of D street fifty feet, thence running to the south line of Mill street, thence running east along said south line of Mill street to E street, thence running south to a point fifty feet north of Union street, thence running west to the place of beginning. The City Tax Collector shall demand from each person and Statements firm, and from the president, secretary, cashier, treasurer, r superintendent, or managing agent of each corporation, association or company liable to procure a license under this subdivision, during the first ten days of the last month of each quarter thereafter, a sworn statement in writing of the amount of business done during the prior two months, and for the purpose of ascertaining the rate of license, the monthly average for the prior two months and thereafter for the preceding first two months of each quarter, shall constitute the monthly average for the whole quarter. If any person or firm, or the president, secretary, cashier, treasurer, superintendent, or managing agent of any corporation, association or company, within the corporate limits of the City of Virginia, shall neglect or refuse, on demand of the City Tax Collector, to give under oath or affirmation the statement required by this section, within five Houses of ill fame and district prescribed. of business firms, etc. Average of amount of business, how computed. Refusal or neglect to furnish the statement. required Penalty. Public Board of Fines and Attendance of members and expulsion. Contracts and agreements. Oaths. days after such demand, or shall give a false name, or shall refuse to give his or her name, or shall refuse to verify such statement, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be arrested upon the complaint of the City Tax Collector, and upon conviction thereof, he or she shall be punished by a fine in any sum not less than fifty nor exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not exceeding one hundred and fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court; Tenth. To provide for all necessary public buildings for the use of the City; Eleventh. To establish a Board of Health to prevent the introduction and spread of disease; Twelfth. To prevent and restrain any riot or riotous assembly or disorderly conduct within said City; Thirteenth. To fix and prescribe the punishment for the breach of any city ordinance, but no fine shall be imposed for one offense in any sum greater than five hundred dollars, and no term of imprisonment shall be prescribed for more than six months; Fourteenth. To compel the attendance of absent members, to punish members for their disorderly conduct, and to expel members for cause by a vote of three fourths of its members elected; and also to fill all vacancies occurring in their own number, or in the office of any city officer mentioned in this Act; Fifteenth. To make all necessary contracts and agreements for the benefit of the City, but no contract shall be made, nor any debt contracted, nor liability incurred, unless there is at the time actual cash in the Treasury to meet such liabilities; to appropriate money for any item of city expenditure, and to appropriate to the use of the City all fines, penalties, and forfeitures for the breach of any city ordinance; Sixteenth. The Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths. County Recorder to keep mining records. Responsibility of Recorders. CHAP, LXXII.—An Act to provide for the better preservation of the Mining Records in certain Mining Districts in this State. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In every mining district in this State in which the seat of government of any County is situated, the County Recorder of said County shall be ex-officio District Mining Recorder, subject, in the discharge of his duties, to such rules, regulations, and compensation, as may be now in force or hereafter prescribed by the mining laws of the mining districts respectively to which this Act is applicable. He shall, as such ex-officio Mining Recorder, be responsible on his official bond for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and the correct and safe-keeping of all the Records thereof. effect. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force. from and Act to take after the first day of August, A. D. 1880. CHAP. LXXIII.—An Act to prohibit the employment of Chinese and Mongolians in certain cases. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Chinamen golians not employed or Mon on any public works. Charters or SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, no Chinaman or Mongolian shall be employed directly or indirectly in any capacity on any public works, or in or about any buildings or institutions, or grounds, under the control of this State. SEC. 2. Hereafter no right of way or charter, or other privileges for the construction of any public works by any other railroad or other corporation or association shall be granted to such corporation or association, except upon the express condition that no Mongolian or Chinese shall be employed on or about the construction of such work in any capacity. privileges not to issue unless with proviso. for SEC. 3. Any violation of the conditions of this Act shall work Penalties a forfeiture of all rights, privileges, and franchise granted to violation. such corporation or association. CHAP. LXXIV. An Act concerning Railroad Corporations or Companies. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and articles of associations ized. etc., legal SECTION 1. All Railroad Corporations or Railroad Companies, Signatures organized and acting in the manner and form of such corporations or companies, whose projectors or promoters have filed articles of association in the office of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of being incorporated, but which articles of association may be defectively acknowledged, or may in some manner be defective, owing to said articles of association appearing to be signed by the proxy of some of the subscribers to said articles of association instead of in person. Said articles of association, so executed and filed, are hereby legalized and declared to be as valid as if said articles of association, when filed, had been properly signed and acknowledged. How construed. SEC. 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to impair any rights which have heretofore been acquired or vested in any person whatever. Unlawful to kill certain birds, or disturb CHAP. LXXV.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to preserve wild game, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy seven. [Approved March 6, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time, to kill or injure, or to pursue with such intent, any sparrow, blue-bird, blue jay, martin, thrush, mocking-bird, their nests. swallow, red-breast, cat-bird, wren, or humming bird, or to disturb the nest or eggs of said birds. Unlawful to kill game birds during certain seasons. Trapping and netting SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time between the first day of April of any year, and before the first day of September following, to catch, kill or destroy, or to pursue with such intent, any partridge; pheasant, woodcock, quail, or any wild-goose, wood-duck, teal, mallard or other ducks, sand-hill crane, brant, swan, plover, curlew, snipe, grouse, robin, meadow-lark, yellow hammer, or bittern; and after the first day of April, and before the first day of August in each year, except in the counties of Humboldt, Elko, Eureka and Lander, hereinafter provided for, any sage-cock, hen or chicken. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons within this State, at any time, to trap or net quail, or to destroy, inprohibited. jure or disturb the nest or eggs of any of the birds protected by this Act. Quail Nests and Sage Hens Deer, Elk, etc., protected certain seasons. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to catch, kill or destroy, or pursue with such intent, within the counties of Esmeralda, Douglas, Ormsby, Lyon, Storey, Churchill, and Washoe, any sharp-tailed grouse, so-called prairie chicken, before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, nor within the counties of Humboldt, Elko, Eureka and Lander, after the fifteenth day of March, and before the fifteenth day of August in each year, or in said counties of Humboldt, Elko, Eureka, and Lander, any sage-cock, hen or chicken, after the fifteenth day of March, and before the fifteenth day of July in each year. SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time after the first day of January, and before the first day of August in each year, to catch, kill or destroy, or to pursue with such intent, any deer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep or goat, or to have in his or their possession, or to expose for sale, or to |