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degree of north latitude; also any addition which may hereafter be made to this State on the south, east of the thirty-ninth degree of longitude west from Washington.

SEC. 2. Whenever a petition shall be presented to the Governor, signed by three hundred or more citizens of said county, who shall be, at the time of signing such petition, registered voters, certified to be such by the Clerk of the county of Nyeand it shall be the duty of the County Clerk of said county of Nye to make out such certificate-praying for the organization of a county government, he shall appoint and commission three persons, legal voters of said county, as County Commissioners for said county, who shall, immediately on receipt of their commissions, qualify by administering to each of them the Constitutional oath of office. They shall then elect, of County and their own body, a chairman, and then appoint all other necestors to be sary county and township officers, who shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their respective official duties within ten (10) days after their appointments are certified to them. The County Clerk so appointed may take the oath of office before the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, and the other officers before said Clerk.

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SEC. 3. Until otherwise fixed by law, Crystal Springs shall be the county seat of said county.

SEC. 4. If the county government of said county be organized, early enough for the same to be done, said county shall be entitled to, and shall elect, in conjunction with Nye county, one Senator, and one member of the Assembly for said county County Gov- alone. Said county shall be attached to Nye county for all county government purposes until its own is fully organized, and shall be a portion of the Fifth Judicial District until otherwise provided by law.

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CHAP. XLIX.-An Act to create a Board of Commissioners to Examine and Report upon the amount of Just Claims existing for property destroyed, and for losses sustained, by Indian Depredations in Humboldt County, in this State, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix.

[Approved February 26, 1866.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. F. A. Shaw, J. D. Minor and J. J. Kellogg, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners to examine all claims for property destroyed, and losses sustained, by Indian depredations in Humboldt county, in this State, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and report the same, to the Governor of this State, by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

tion and

SEC. 2. At any time within ninety days after the passage of Qualifica this Act the Commissioners herein appointed shall enter upon duties. the discharge of their duties, under oath, to be administered by any one authorized to administer oaths; shall elect one of their number to act as President, and shall cause to be published, for four successive weeks, in some newspaper published in said county, a notice requiring all parties holding claims for property destroyed, or for losses sustained, by Indian depredations in said county, in the years aforesaid, to come forward and present the same within six months from the time of the first publication of such notice.

place of

SEC. 3. The principal place of business of said Board shall Principal be at Star City, in said county; and sessions of the said Board business. may be held at said city, at any time, without further notice than to the members thereof, left at the residence or place of business of such members, if personal service be not had; but sessions of said Board may be held at any other place in said county that the said Board may direct; provided, ten days Proviso. notice of such session be given by posting a written notice of the time and exact place of such session, in not less than three public places in the mining district in which such session is proposed to be held.

quorum.

SEC. 4. Whenever a majority of said Board shall have quali- Majority to fied, such majority may enter upon the discharge of the duties constitute a of said Board; and at any time thereafter any two members of said Board, who shall have qualified, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business and the exercise of the powers of said Board.

and

SEC. 5. Resignations in the Board may be accepted by the Resignations majority of said Board, and all vacancies in said Board, vacancies. whether caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, may be filled by appointment by a majority of said Board.

vacant.

SEC. 6. If any member of said Board shall remove from When office said county, or be absent therefrom for the period of one month, his office shall be deemed vacant.

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SEC. 7. In case of a lack of a majority of said Board to Governor to accept a resignation or fill a vacancy, such resignation may be cies, when. accepted and such vacancy be filled by appointment by the Governor.

SEC. 8. Said Commissioners shall have full discretion to de- Powers. termine the justice of said claims, and for that purpose shall have full power to send for persons and papers; and any one of said Commissioners who shall have qualified shall have power, during his continuance in office, to administer oaths to any parties or witnesses who may be examined by said Board. SEC. 9. If any person shall willfully make or give, under Perjury. oath or affirmation, before said Board, a false statement of his or her property destroyed, or losses sustained, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished therefor as is by law provided for the punishment of perjury.

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Governor.

SEC. 10. The said Board shall receive the sum of three thousand dollars as compensation for discharging the duties imposed by this Act, to be apportioned pro rata among the members of said Board, in accordance with the period of actual service of each member; provided, that Congress allow said amount, in addition to an appropriation for the payment of claims for property destroyed, and losses sustained, by Indian depredations, as aforesaid; and in no manner whatever shall any cost, claims or compensation for any service done, or any expenses incurred by said commission, be paid by the State of Nevada.

SEC. 11. The said Board may employ a clerk, whose duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of said Board, and who shall be allowed, as compensation therefor, the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid only as provided in the preceding section of this Act. Said clerk shall hold his office at the will of the majority of said Board; and if different persons are employed as clerk, the Board shall report the amount of said one thousand dollars which should be paid to each of said per

sons.

SEC. 12. When the said Commissioners have completed made to the their labors they shall make a full report thereof to the Governor of this State, setting forth the facts and amount of claims as ascertained and allowed or rejected by them, that he may be advised in the premises and take such means as he may deem expedient to secure the payment of the same by an appropriation from the General Government.

Dockets and papers to be given into

CHAP. L.-An Act in relation to the late City Recorder's Court, in the City of Austin.

[Approved February 26, 1866.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact us follows:

SECTION 1. The dockets, and all papers, in the custody of W. P. Harrington, late City Recorder of Austin, as City Recustody of corder and ex officio Justice of the Peace, shall be given into the custody of his successor in office.

successor.

Successor to have full control over

SEC. 2. The City Recorder and Justice of the Peace receiving such dockets and papers, as the successor thereof, shall docket and have full and complete control over the same, to enter judg ments, issue executions, alias, summons, and every other act, the same as if the said actions were originally commenced before the said successor.

papers.

Invalid acts

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valid.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to render valid any act otherwise invalid, as done and performed by the said City Recorder or Justice of the Peace.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. LI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Payment of the Salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada."

[Approved February 27, 1866.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section first of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section One. There is hereby set apart, and appropriated Appropriaquarterly, from the first money coming into the Treasury during such quarter, from taxes or otherwise, not specially appropriated to the payment of the principal or interest of Territorial or State bonds, an amount sufficient, when added to the Docket Tax Fund, to equal the sum of five thousand two hundred and fifty ($5,250) dollars, to pay the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court for such quarter.

CHAP. LII.-An Act in relation to the Payment of Salaries and
Other Claims against the State.

[Approved February 27, 1866.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

paid in coin,

Monday in

SECTION 1. All salaries and claims accruing against the State Salaries and prior to the first Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred claims to be and sixty-six, shall be paid in gold and silver coin of the United to first States, and after such salaries and claims have been paid, as April. provided in this section, the State Treasurer shall, and it is hereby made his duty to, convert the gold and silver coin in the State Treasury, (except such gold and silver coin as may be in said treasury for the payment of the principal or interest of the bonds of this State), into the legal tender notes of the United States, by purchasing the same at the market price therefor.

SEC. 2. From and after the first Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, all salaries and claims accruing against the State, except for money borrowed and the interest thereon, shall be payable in any currency made a legal tender by any law of the United States; provided, that the compensation of the State Printer shall be paid in gold coin up to July first, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

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required to pay warrants on current

expense fund in order of

CHAP. LIII.-An Act to Appropriate Moneys to defray the Civil
Expenses of the State Government up to the close of the Second
Fiscal Year.

[Approved February 27, 1866.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys now in, or the first moneys hereafter paid into, the State treasury, not otherwise specifically appropriated, to defray the necessary expenses of the State Prison, from the expiration of the last appropriation made by the Legislature of this State until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the same shall be paid out in the manner as provided by law.

SEC. 2. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and set apart into a fund, to be known as the Current Expense Fund, subject to the appropriation made in section first of this Act, and to all other specific appropriations heretofore made to defray the current expenses of the State Government, as follows: First-To pay the salaries of State officers, (except the Justices of the Supreme Court). SecondThe State public printing. Third-The salaries of all the clerks of the different State officers, and the Governor's Private Secretary. Fourth-The several sums due for fuel, furniture, postage, fixtures and other contingent expenses for the offices of the different State officers. Fifth-For all rent which the State has or may contract to pay for public buildings, and for all other necessary civil expenses of the State Government for the fiscal year.

SEC. 3. The State Treasurer is hereby required and directed to pay all warrants drawn on the Current Expense Fund, as created in section two of this Act, in the order of their registration and presentation, and in case of a failure on his part to so pay such warrants, he shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, registration and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State Prison for a term of not less than one year and not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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