panies. year, the number and amount terminated by death, by expiration, by surrender, by lapse, by change; total number and amount of policies in force, and the amount of the premiums; the amount of losses in cash and notes, and the percentage of loss to the total amount of policies in force; percentage of assets to risks in force. He shall, in like manner, require and obtain from every fire and marine Fire and marine insurance company doing business in this State, the follow- insurance coming facts, to wit: Name of company; amount of capital stock; the amount paid up; the number of persons employed in general administration; the number employed as agents; the gross assets of company; the total liabilities, exhibiting separately the amount of losses adjusted, losses unadjusted, losses resisted; re-insurance funds; all other liabilities, including capital; also, the total receipts, exhibiting separately fire premiums, marine and inland premiums, and receipts from all other sources, including interest, dividends and rents; also the total expenditures, exhibiting separately the number and amount of fire losses, of marine and inland losses, dividends, commissions, officers' salaries, State, national and municipal taxes, and all other expenses. He may require such other information as to the subjects of this section, as in his judgment may be necessary to secure such returns as will exhibit the transactions of said several companies. commence. SEC. 15. The enumeration required by this act shall Enumeration to commence on the first week day in June, A. D. 1885, for first census, and be taken as of June first, and each enumerator shall prosecute the canvass of his territory from that day forward, on each week day, without intermission, except for sickness or some other urgent cause, and any unnecessary cessation of his work shall be sufficient ground for his removal and the appointment of another person in his place; and any person so appointed shall take the oath required of enumerators, and shall receive compensation at the same rates; and it shall be the duty of each enumerator to complete the enumeration of his district, and to Enumeration to prepare the returns hereinbefore required to be made, and be completed. to forward the same to the Commissioner on or before the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the first census, and said fifteenth day of July of any subsequent census. And in any district or sub-division where the compensation paid the enumerator is per capita, then the enumeration of the population shall be taken within fifteen days from the first week day in June, and any delay Commissioner to prepare of schedules. beyond the dates above, respectively, on the part of any enumerator, shall be sufficient cause for withholding the compensation to which he would be entitled by compliance with the provisions of this act, until proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of Census shall be furnished that such delay was for reason or causes beyond the control of such enumerator. SEC. 16. The Commissioner of Census shall cause to authentic copy be prepared a complete and authentic copy of all schedules returned, and reports made to him by the several enumerators, and shall forward the same to the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, D. C., so that the same shall be received by him on or before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as required by section twenty-two of an act of congress, entitled "An act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses of the United States," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and also an act to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses," approved March third, eighteen hundred and Governor shall seventy-nine, and the Governor of the State shall make his make requisition. requisition upon the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for the amount authorized by the aforementioned act of congress, and shall deposit such amount, when received, with the State Treasurer, who shall place the same to the credit of the general fund. Final compila tion. SEC. 17. Upon the completion of the enumeration of the population by the several enumerators, the Commissioner shall cause to be prepared an alphabetical list for each county in the State, of all the population in such county, giving age, sex, color and nativity, and shall forward a certified copy of the same to the county clerk of such county, to be preserved in his office for reference. SEC. 18. Upon the final compilation and publication of the statistics taken by the enumerators of census, the Commissioner of Census shall cause all the original schedules, forms, official blanks, records, books and papers pertaining to the census, to be delivered to the Secretary of State, to be preserved in his office, and shall prepare a report, embodying the statistics, to be submitted to the General Assembly by the Governor at its next regular session after any such taking of census by the State. paid. SEC. 19. The expenses for postage and express neces- Expenses, how sary to secure the transmission of all blanks, forms, schedules, statements or returns relative to the census, to and from the respective enumerators, and the salaries of the Commissioner and assistant, of enumerators, copyists, computers, etc., shall be paid from the fund appropriated for that purpose, the accounts to be audited by the Auditor of State, and paid by the Treasurer on the order of the Commissioner, accompanied by the proper voucher or vouchers. SEC. 20. All censuses subsequent to the first census shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this act, and all officers of the census bureau, for the purpose of any subsequent census, shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of this act, and their terms of service likewise end, unless the General Assembly shall hereafter otherwise provide. SEC. 21. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri- Appropriation. ated from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses for the taking of the first census. The amount to be appropriated for the payment of such expenses for any subsequent census shall be as provided by law; Provided, That no more than one-half of the monthly salary shall be paid to said Commissioner, appointed to take the first census of 1885 herein provided for, unless the Commissioner of Census shall deposit with the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first day of September, 1885, a full and authentic copy of all schedules returned, and reports made by the officers and agents charged with such enumeration. Said enumeration shall be the basis for the General Assembly to revise and adjust the apportionment for senators and representatives, and whenever any action is required from the legislative, executive or judicial departments of the State, predicated upon the number of the inhabitants of the State, or of any part thereof, the statis- Statistics to be tics as to any such enumeration, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, shall be received as prima facie evidence of any such enumeration, and for the purpose of such evidence, the Secretary of State may make certified copies and transcripts, as in other cases of public records in his office. filed with secre tary of state. Emergency. SEC. 22. In the opinion of this General Assembly an emergency exists, such as is contemplated by the Constitution; therefore, this act shall take effect, and be enforced, from and after its passage. TO AUTHORIZE THE FUNDING OF THE DEBT OF THE CITY OF BLACK City council authorized to issue bonds. bonds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. That the city council of Black Hawk, Gilpin county, Colorado, are hereby authorized to issue to any person or persons, or any corporation holding any city orders or warrants of said Black Hawk, issued prior to January Ist., A. D. 1885, coupon bonds of said Black Hawk in lieu thereof to an amount equal to the face of said orders or warrants and accrued interest thereon to the date of issue of said bonds. SEC. 2. The city council of said Black Hawk shall Authority to sell also have the right to sell any of these bonds to any person or corporation not holding or not wishing to exchange city orders or warrants, but no bonds shall be so sold unless for cash and not then at a discount of more than two per cent. on its par value, including the costs and commissions of sale. The money arising from the sale of such bonds shall be forthwith used in redeeming the outstanding orders or warrants of said Black Hawk, and for no other purpose whatever. Denomination of bonds. SEC. 3. No bond shall be of less denomination than one hundred ($100) dollars, and if issued for a greater amount then for some multiple of that sum; such bonds to draw interest at the rate of not to exceed eight (8) per cent. per annum from the date of their delivery, the interest to be paid at the office of the treasurer of said Black Hawk on the first day of February in each year, upon the production of the proper coupons for the same, and the principal of such bonds to be payable at the pleasure of said Black Hawk ten (10) years after their date, but due and payable absolutely fifteen (15) years after their date; Provided, Expiration of however, That the whole amount of the bonds issued under this act shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars. bonds. signed. SEC. 4. The bonds issued, as provided in sections one and two of this act, shall be signed by the mayor and Bonds shall be attested by the city clerk of said Black Hawk, and bear the seal of said Black Hawk upon each bond, and shall be numbered and registered in a book kept for that purpose, in the order in which they are issued. Each bond shall state upon its face the amount, to whom issued, and the date of its delivery. value. SEC. 5. In no case, in exchanging said orders or war- Not less than par rants for bonds, shall any bond be issued at less than its par value. scribe form. SEC. 6. The city council are further authorized to Council to preprescribe the form of said bonds, and the coupons thereto attached, and to provide for the annual payment of the interest on bonds actually issued and delivered in pursuance of this act; said interest to be paid out of the regular levy Interest. for city purposes; and for the ultimate redemption of such bonds, they may levy a special tax upon all taxable property in the said Black Hawk, for that purpose, which tax shall be paid in cash only, and shall be kept by the treasurer of said Black Hawk as a special fund, to be used in the payment of the interest on and redemption of these bonds only, and for no other purpose. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes. SEC. 7. Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any increase whatever in the debt of said Black Hawk. SEC. 8. Such bonds shall not be authorized or issued until the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to To be submitted a vote of such qualified electors of said city, as shall in the to vote. year next preceding have paid a property tax therein; and |