and personal property, belonging to any county of this State, and all cemeteries, public squares, parks and places, public buildings, town halls, markets, buildings appertaining to the fire department, and the lots and grounds thereunto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or incorporated city, or dedicated by such town or city to bealth, ornament or public use. Tenth-The earnings of the debtor for his personal services at any time within thirty days next preceding the levy of the execution or attachment, as the case may be, when it shall be made to appear by the debtor's affidavit, or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of a family supported wholly, or in part, by his labor. execution. SEC. 2. Section two hundred and forty-three of an Act enti- Property tled "An Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts liable to of justice of the Territory of Nevada," approved November twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two Hundred and Forty-Three. The judge or referee may order any property of the judgment debtor, not exempt from execution, in the hands of such debtor, or any other person, or due to the judgment debtor, to be applied towards the satisfaction of the judgment. CHAP. XC.-An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding Indebtedness of the town of Gold Hill. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: authorized. SECTION 1. For the purposes hereinafter mentioned, the Additional Board of Trustees of the town of Gold Hill are hereby em- tax powered and authorized to levy and collect, annually, upon all the property within said town, made taxable by the laws of the State of Nevada, excepting the proceeds of mines, a further and additional tax than is provided in the charter of said town, of one dollar on each one hundred dollars. Redemption SEC. 2. The time and manner of levying and collecting said Time and additional tax shall be as provided by ordinance of said Board. collecting. SEC. 3. The revenue arising from said special or additional tax shall be set aside as a Redemption Fund, which shall be fund. used exclusively for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of said town, in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 4. No money shall be paid out of the said Redemption Money to be Fund except by order of said Board of Trustees, and in the paid out, by manner by them directed; and it shall be lawful for the said Board of Trustees, from time to time, whenever there shall be a sufficient sum in said Redemption Fund, to give notice, by publication in some newspaper in the county of Storey, that sealed proposals, directed to the President of said Board, will order of Trustees. warrants, Proposals for be received for the surrender of town warrants, bonds, or other surrender of legal evidences of indebtedness, of said town, or corporate body, known as "the inhabitants of the town of Gold Hill," and that such sealed proposals will be received until a day in said notice stated. etc. Proposals opened. Accepted bids. SEC. 5. After the expiration of the time named in said notice, at a meeting of said Board of Trustees, such sealed proposals shall be opened, and said Board shall accept the lowest bids for the surrender of said warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness, specified in the preceding section. No bid for more than par value shall be so accepted. When any bids are accepted, the Clerk of the Board shall take a description of the warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness, to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each of the same, the date, number and amount thereof, and make a record thereof in the journals of said Board; and such warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness, shall be ordered paid, and the same shall be canceled, by writing, in red ink, across the face of the same, the words: "Purchased and redeemed;" adding date of redemption and the sum paid for the same; and the said sum shall be paid out of the said Redemption Fund. The bids, specified in this Act, being equal, preference shall be given to the smallest amount. That shall be deemed the lowest bid which offers the largest Lowest bid. amount of warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness, in par value, for the smallest amount of money. The bids and amounts of warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness, being equal, taking into consideration both principal and interest, and such other equities as may exist in the premises, each shall be accepted pro rata, as nearly as pos purchasable. sible. SEC. 6. All legal claims or demands, whatsoever, such as Claims, how bonds, warrants, interest, coupons, and other legal evidences of indebtedness, of said corporate body, existing or outstanding at the time of the passage of this Act, may be purchasable, as herein provided, from the Redemption Fund of said town. Capital CHAP. XCI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the formation of Corporations for certain purposes," approved March 10, 1865. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section thirteen is hereby amended so as to read stock not to as follows: be reduced, etc. Section Thirteen. It shall not be lawful for the trustees to make any dividend except from the net profits arising from the business of the corporation; nor to divide, withdraw, nor in any way pay to the stockholders, or any of them, any part of the capital stock of the company; nor to reduce the capital stock, unless in the manner prescribed in this Act; and in case of any violation of the provisions of this section, the trustees under whose administration the same may have happened, except those who may have caused their dissent thereto to be entered at large on the minutes of the Board of Trustees at the time, or were not present when the same did happen, shall, in their individual and private capacities, be jointly and severally liable to the corporation, and the creditors thereof, to the full amount so divided, withdrawn, or reduced, or paid out; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent a division and distribution of the capital stock of the company which shall remain, after the payment of all its debts, upon the dissolution of the corporation or the expiration of its charter. Proviso. CHAP. XCII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to Common Jails, and the Prisoners thereof;" approved November 25, 1861. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: have custody Section Three. The Sheriff shall have the custody of the Sheriff to jail in his county, and of the prisoners therein, and shall keep ba the same personally, or by his deputy, or by a jailer or jailers, by him appointed for that purpose, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and shall furnish all necessary sustenance, bedding, clothing and fuel, for the prisoners committed to his custody; and the County Commissioners are hereby required to allow him, out of the County Treasury, all necessary costs, charges and expenses thereof. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: transfer Section Four. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff, either by Duty of himself, his deputy, or by one or more of his jailers, to transfer Sheriff to all prisoners from his county to whatever place of imprison- prisoners ment the sentence of the court may require, at as early a day after said sentence, as practicable; and for that purpose the County Commissioners are hereby required to furnish, out of the County Treasury, all necessary costs, charges and expenses of the prisoner or prisoners, and of the officer or officers having charge thereof, to which shall be added mileage for each officer, at the rate of twenty cents per mile, one way only; and the above provisions shall be applicable in cases where prisoners are taken from prisons to be tried at any courts in other counties. It is hereby made the duty of the County Repeal. Commissioners to allow, out of the County Treasury, as in other cases provided, a fair and adequate monthly compensation for the services of all jailers, by the Sheriff employed or appointed. SEC. 3. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. Taxes, etc., CHAP. XCIII.-An Act in regard to Currency. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Hereafter all costs, fines, licenses, taxes and salmay be paid, aries may be paid in any currency made, by the laws of the made legal United States, a legal tender. in currency, tender. Repea!. To take effect. SEC. 2. All Acts, and parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Conditions CHAP. XCIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Construction of a Railroad from Virginia City to the Truckee River," passed March 2, 1865. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate of [and] SECTION 1. Section three of the Act of which this is amendatory, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Three. Said persons and their assigns shall, within of franchise. six months from the passage of this Act, cause to be made the necessary preliminary surveys, and also a locating survey, fixing, as nearly as may be, the exact location of the route of said road, a description of which shall be, at said time, filed in the office of the Secretary of Stato, and shall, within two years thereafter, complete the grading of at least ten miles of said road, and within three years shall complete the grading of the whole road, between the termini above named, and within four years shall complete the entire road between said points, and place the rolling stock upon the same, and have the same, in all respects, ready for the transportation of freight and passengers from Virginia City to Truckee River and intermediate points. In the event of said persons complying with the conditions above named, and not otherwise, they, and their suc cessors and assigns, shall have the privilege of maintaining and operating a railroad between said points for the above named period of fifty years; and during said period no other parallel railroad shall be built westwardly from Virginia City, within one thousand feet of the road said persons between the termini named in this Act. CHAP. XCV.—An Act Concerning Juries. [Approved March 3, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The District Judge of the District, and County Manner of Assessor, or, in case of absence of the Assessor, then the County selecting Clerk, of the county in which a term of the District Court is, juries. or may be authorized by law to be, held, shall, at least ten days prior to the commencement of said term of Court, and at the court house, publicly and alternately, select the names of two hundred persons, lawfully qualified to serve as jurors, from the assessment roll of such county, provided that number of names are contained on such roll; and the names of the persons selected, after being written on separate slips of paper, shall be deposited in a box to be provided for that purpose; and from the names so deposited, after the same shall have been thoroughly shaken up, the Judge and County Assessor (or County Clerk) aforesaid shall alternately draw the names of twenty-four persons, who shall constitute trial jurors for the next ensuing term of such District Court; provided, that in the first judicial district the Judge, who shall act with the County Assessor (or County Clerk) in selecting and drawing such names, shall be determined by lot; and, provided further, that in said district the names of thirty-six persons shall be drawn to act as trial jurors. how SEC. 2. The list of names so drawn, certified to by the Judge Trial jurors, and County Assessor (or County Clerk), as drawn by them, summoned. shall thereupon be delivered to the Clerk of the District Court, who, upon receipt of the same, shall immediately issue a venire, directed to the Sheriff of the county, commanding him to summons the persons so named as trial jurors for each term of Court; and the Sheriff shall summons such persons at least five days prior to the day fixed by law for the convening of such term of Court. returned. SEC. 3. The venire, as provided in section two of this Act, Venire, shall be returned to the Clerk of such District Court by the when Sheriff aforesaid, at least two days prior to the day fixed by law for the commencement of such term of Court, and such venire, after its return, shall be subject to the inspection of any officer or attorney of the Court. locked up. SEC. 4. The box containing the residue of the names of the Box to be jury list as aforesaid, shall, after such drawing, be locked up, |