Manner of assessing and collect ing Duties of paid, a tax of not to exceed one per cent. upon the assessed value of property within the boundaries of the city of Aurora, as described in the Act herein repealed, for the purpose of creating a fund to be applied in payment of the indebtedness of the city of Aurora. SEC. 3. Said tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner, and subject to the provisions of the general laws for the assessment and collection of taxes, and assessed and collected at the same time, and by the same officers who assess and collect State and county taxes, and shall be paid over to the County Treasurer. The County Treasurer shall keep said moneys in a separate fund, to be known as the "City of Aurora Redemption Fund;" and no moneys shall be paid out of said fund except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 4. The Board of County Commissioners shall prosecute, County Com- to final judgment, and defend, all suits instituted by or against missioners. said corporation; collect all moneys due the same; liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and, for that purpose, shall sell and convey any property belonging to said corporation, and are hereby empowered to do all acts necessary and required to be done to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the corporation. All moneys coming into the possession of said Board of County Commissioners, from sale of property, or any other source, belonging to said city of Aurora, shall be paid into the County Treasury, and paid out as hereinafter proMayor and vided. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and other officers Aldermen to of the city of Aurora, shall, upon this Act taking effect, deliver records, etc. up to the Board of County Commissioners all books, records and documents, and all property, of whatever nature, belonging to said city of Aurora. Money to be deliver Duty of County Treasurer. warrants, etc. SEC. 5. Whenever at any time there shall be in said "Redemption Fund" three hundred dollars or over, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to give one week's notice, by publication in some newspaper published in the county of Proposals for Esmeralda, that sealed proposals, directed to him, will be surrender of received for the surrender of city warrants, or other legal evidences of indebtedness of said city of Aurora, and that said sealed proposals will be received by him until the next regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners thereafter; and at the time for the first regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners thereafter, such Board, together with the County Clerk and Treasurer, shall attend at the meeting room of such Board, and, then and there, open all sealed proposals, and accept the lowest bid or bids for the surrender of city warrants, or other legal evidence of city indebtedness. No bid for more than par value shall be so accepted, nor unless accompanied with the warrant or other legal evidence of indebtedness. Proposals opened. Accepted bids. SEC. 6. When any bids are accepted, the County Auditor and County Treasurer shall each take a description of the warrants, or other legal evidence 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 their respective offices; and thereupon the Board of County Commissioners shall, by order, direct the County Treasurer to purchase the warrants, or other evidence of legal indebtedness, designated in the accepted bid or bids, and pay for the same out of the Redemption Fund aforesaid; and all warrants, or Warrants, other legal evidences of indebtedness, so redeemed, shall be etc., to be canceled by the County Treasurer, by writing across the face canceled. thereof the words (in red ink), "Purchased and redeemed," adding thereto the time when the same was so redeemed, the amount paid therefor, and sign the same officially. The order of the Board of County Commissioners aforesaid, together with the record made by the Auditor, as herein required, shall be sufficient vouchers for the Treasurer in the settlement of his accounts. That shall be deemed the lowest bid which offers Lowest bid. the largest amount of warrants, or other legal evidence of indebtedness, in par value, for the smallest amount of money, The County Treasurer shall return all unaccepted bids, together with the warrants, or other legal evidence of indebtedness, therein contained, to the owner, on demand. The County Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all moneys paid out Separate of said fund, and to whom paid. Vouchers. account. transferred SEC. 7. When it is ascertained that all city warrants, and When other legal evidences of indebtedness, as provided for in this money to be Act, are redeemed and paid, and the affairs of the corporation to school are settled, it shall be the duty of the Board of County Com- fund. missioners to order, and the County Treasurer to transfer, on such order, the balance of money remaining in said Redemption Fund to the School Fund of the county, and notify the Auditor of the amount so transferred, and the time of the transfer; which amount shall become a part of and belong to said School Fund of the county of Esmeralda. CHAP. XXXII.-An Act to Transfer Certain Moneys from the [Approved February 21, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State Treasurer is authorized and required Transfer of to transfer the sum of one thousand dollars from the Legisla- money. tive Fund to the Assembly Contingent Fund, and the sum of twelve hundred dollars to the Senate Contingent Fund. The surplus to revert back to the General Fund. pay fees, etc. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act amendatory of, and supplemental to, an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of the several counties of this State to apportion the County Revenues," approved March 10, 1865. [Approved February 21, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful to pay, or order to be paid, Unlawful to any fees, per diem, or salary, of any county officer, or County out of Con- Commissioner, out of the Contingent Fund of any county in tingent fund this State, created by "An Act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of the several counties of this State to apportion the County Revenues," but such Contingent Fund shall only be applied to the payment of the legitimate contingent expense of said counties. Misdemeanor. Penalty. SEC. 2. Any County Commissioner who shall order the payment of any such fees, per diem, or salary, out of said Contingent Fund, and any County Auditor who shall draw his warrant on such Contingent Fund for the payment of such fees, per diem, or salary of any County Commissioner, or other county officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and be removed from office. tion. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act to provide for the Payment of the The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There is hereby set apart, and appropriated Appropria quarterly, from the first money coming into the Treasury from taxes or otherwise, during such quarter, and not otherwise appropriated, 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 salary of the Judges of the Supreme Court, for such quarter. Treasurer required to set apart each quarter. SEC. 2. The Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart such first money, each quarter, coming into the Treasfirst money ury from the revenue of such quarter, and not otherwise appropriated, the said sum, amounting, with the docket tax fund, to five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, which sum, when so set apart, shall be termed the Judicial Salary Fund, and shall only be drawn from the Treasury in payment of salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada. Judicial salary fund. issue war Proviso. SEC. 3. The Controller of State shall, on the first Monday Controller of January, April, July and October of each year, issue his required to warrant to each of the Supreme Judges, for the previous quar- rants, etc. ter's salary, the sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, payable out of the money so set apart, less the amount he may have received from the clerk of his court, out of the docket tax, during the preceding quarter; provided, the Controller shall not, in any case, issue to any Judge his warrant for such quarter's salary, until such Judge shall have produced and furnished to him a certificate of the clerk of his court, as to the amount he may have received from docket tax during the preceding quarter; provided further, that if any Judge shall, from Proviso. any cause, have only served a portion of the preceding quarter, the Controller shall issue his warrant only for the proportional part of a quarter for which said Judge may have served. transferred. SEC. 4. All money now in the judicial salary fund, except Money the sum of five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, which sum is hereby set apart for the salary of the Supreme Judges for the first quarter of the year 1866, is hereby transferred to the general fund of the State. SEC. 5. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the pro- Repeal. visions of this Act, are hereby repealed. This is to certify that the foregoing Bill passed the Senate this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, fourteen; nays, none. This is to certify that the within Bill passed the Assembly this day, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, by the following vote: Yeas, thirty-one (31); nays, four (4): JAS. A. BANKS, U. E. ALLEN, Clerk of the Assembly. Taxes levied for State purposes, etc. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of the State of Nevada," approved March 9, 1865. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section first of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section One. An annual ad valorem tax of ninety-five cents upon each one hundred dollars value of taxable property, is hereby levied and directed to be collected and paid, for State purposes, upon the assessed value of all taxable property in this State, not by this Act exempt from taxation. Said tax of ninety-five cents aforesaid, is, and shall be held to be, the same as that levied under the provision of "An Act authorizing the issuance and sale of certain State bonds, and levying a tax to provide means for the payment thereof," approved January 19, 1866; and the money coming into the State treasury, from said tax, shall be first applied to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, provided to be issued under the provisions of said Act. Upon all taxable property in this State, as aforesaid, there shall be levied, and directed to be collected and paid, an additional ad valorem tax of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars value of said taxable property, which shall be appropriated to the payment of the indebtedness of the Territory of Nevada, assumed by the State of Nevada, and to that purpose only. Upon all the taxable property in this State, as aforesaid, there shall be levied, and directed to be collected and paid, an additional ad valorem tax of five cents upon each one hundred dollars value of taxable property, for the support and maintenance of a State University and common schools; and upon the same property, the Board of County Commissioners, in each county, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and direct to be collected and paid, annually, an ad valorem tax, for county purposes, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty cents on each one hundred dollars value of taxable property in the county. The Board of County Commissioners, of each county, shall apportion the revenues coming into the county treasury, under the provisions of this Act, (after deducting the four per cent., as hereinafter provided, for the Treasurer's salary fund), into such funds as are now, or hereafter may be, provided by law; provided, that the Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized to set aside such portion of Redemption all the revenues of the county to create a "Redemption Fund" for the payment of outstanding indebtedness, as is provided by any law now in force, or which may hereafter be passed. The and special Board of County Commissioners, of each county, is hereby authorized and empowered, annually to levy and collect such additional and special taxes as the statutes or laws of the State may authorize and require them to levy and collect; provided, Tax authorized for county purposes. Apportionment of county revenues, fund. Additional taxes. |