however, that when the Board of County Commissioners levy Proviso. any tax, they shall cause such levy to be entered on the records of their proceedings, and shall direct their Clerk to deliver a certified copy thereof to the Assessor, Auditor and Treasurer, each of whom shall file said copy in his office. SEC. 2. Section thirty-five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Thirty-five. In case judgment is rendered for the Judgment to be general defendant, it shall be general, without costs, and may be en- etc. tered in favor of some one or more of them, and against others, as in other civil cases; but when defendants have no claim or title to the property at the time of assessment, judgment may, notwithstanding, be entered against the property by continuing the suit, and summoning the owner, known or unknown, as provided in section thirty-one of this Act. In case judgment is rendered for plaintiff, it may be entered against such defendant, or defendants, as are found liable for the tax, and for such portions as he or they may be found liable for. Judgment may be entered against the real estate, improvements, and personal property, for the taxes and costs severally due thereon; and when it appears on the assessment roll, and is not disproved at the trial, that the real estate, improvements, and personal property belong to the same person or persons at the time assessments were made, then the whole tax of such person or persons for that year, may be recovered out of any of such real estate, improvements or personal property, or out of any other property of the defendant or defendants, at the time of levy under execution; provided, that upon such real estate and improvements assessed, lien shall attach thereon for the taxes due upon the personal property, and shall not be released from such lien until all taxes are paid, as provided in section three of this Act. Such judgments shall be a lien as aforesaid, as in other Lien. civil cases, when rendered in the District Court, and a transcript of such judgment rendered in a Justice's Court, when filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county, and docketed by him as other judgments in the District Court, shall be liens in like manner as judgments rendered in the District Court. Such liens shall not be extinguished until the delinquent tax and costs of sale for the same shall have been paid. The clerk of the District Court may issue execution upon judgments rendered in his court, as in other civil cases, and may also issue execution upon the judgment transcript from Justices' Courts, to any other county in the State, except the county wherein said judgment was obtained; in which case it shall be enforced by an execution issued by the justice, or his successor, by whom such judgment was rendered. Judgment may be rendered by default, for want of an answer, as in other civil cases. In case any person shall be sued for taxes on any lands or improvements, of which he was the owner, or in which he had a claim or interest at the time of the institution of suit, and shall be discharged from personal liability, under an answer in conformity with the third subdivision of section thirtytwo of this Act, and such lands or improvements shall be sold under a judgment obtained against it, and shall thereafter be Default. Judgment, what to include. Treasurer's compensa. tion for collecting State taxes. redeemed by such discharged defendant, or if he shall pay the taxes and costs to prevent a sale, then such personally discharged defendant shall have, and is hereby given, the right of recovery over against the owner at the time of the assessment, or any subsequent purchaser for the full sum of taxes and costs, or redemption money paid. And in every case of such recovery, the judgment shall, in addition to the taxes and costs, or in addition to the redemption money paid, include twentyfive per centum of the amount of taxes and costs or redemption money, as liquidated damages; and the receipt of the District or Prosecuting Attorney for taxes and costs, or of the ex-officio Tax Receiver for the redemption money, shall be prima facie evidence of the debt and of its amount. SEC. 3. Section eighty-four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Eighty-four. The several County Treasurers in this State shall be allowed, for collecting all State taxes, excepting poll taxes, school tax, passenger tax, stamp tax, collection of personal property tax by the Assessor, and the taxes from the proceeds of the mines, four per cent. for all moneys collected and paid to the State Treasurer, and all moneys now in the Treasurer's Salary Fund, of the respective counties, heretofore accrued for taxes collected and paid over to the State, shall be allowed to the said County Treasurers. From all county revesalary fund. nues paid into the County Treasury, four per cent. of the amount shall be set aside into the Treasurer's Salary Fund. Whenever, at the end of each fiscal year, there shall remain any moneys in said fund, after paying the Treasurer's salary, the Board of County Commissioners shall order the money so remaining, to be transferred into the General County Fund. No warrants shall be drawn on said fund except to pay the County Treasurer's salary. Treasurer's Tax levied on ores, quartz, SEC. 4. Section ninety-nine of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Ninety-nine. An ad valorem tax of one hundred cents, on each one hundred dollars valuation (after the deducminerals, etc tion, for cost of extracting and reducing, as provided in this Act), is hereby levied, and directed to be assessed, collected and paid, every three months, for State and county purposes, on all ores, quartz or minerals, from which gold and silver, or either, is extracted by any mill, arastra, smelting furnace, or any process whatever, in this State. All of said ores, quartz or minerals, shall be assessed as follows: From the gross return, or assessed value per ton of all ores, quartz or minerals, from which gold and silver, or either, are extracted in this State, there shall be deducted the sum of twenty dollars per ton; and upon seventy-five per cent. of the remainder (after such deduction is made as aforesaid), shall the taxes be levied and collected as provided in this Act. Stamp SEC. 5. Section one hundred and twenty-six of said Act is duties levied hereby amended so as to read as follows: on instru ment, etc., Section One Hundred and Twenty-Six. On and after the mentioned first Monday of May, A. D. 1865, there shall be levied, col in schedule. lected and paid, for and in respect of the several instruments, matters and things mentioned and described in the schedule hereunto annexed, or for and in respect of the vellum, parchment or paper, upon which instruments, matters or things, or any of them, shall be written or printed by any person or persons, or party, who shall make, sign or issue the same, or for whose use or benefit the same shall be made, signed or issued, the several duties or sums of money set down in figures against the same respectively, or otherwise specified or set forth in said schedule. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Formation of Corporations for Certain Purposes," approved March 10, 1865. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of the Act of which this Act is amendatory shall be amended so as to read as follows: not dissolved officers when Section Six. If it shall happen, at any time, that an election Corporation of Trustees shall not be had on the day designated by the by- by failure to laws of the company, the corporation shall not for that reason elect trustees be dissolved, but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold an election for Trustees, in such manner as shall be provided for in the by-laws of the company, and all acts of the Trustees shall be valid and binding on the company until their successors shall be elected. Whenever a majority of any newly elected Duty of Board of Trustees shall fail to qualify and file in the office of majority of the company their oath of office, within thirty days from the Trustees fail day of their election, it shall be the duty of any officer of the etc. company, upon the request of owners in said company representing not less than one third of the capital stock of the corporation owned in the company, to call a meeting of the stockholders of said company, which meeting, when assembled, shall have power to elect Trustees to supply the place of those who have failed to qualify; but such Trustees may qualify and enter upon the duties of their office at any time after the said thirty days, if such meeting for a new election shall not have been called. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. to qualify Funds created, Moneys to be CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Payment of the Outstanding Indebtedness of Humboldt County," approved March 9, 1865. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of the Act of which this is amendatory, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 66 Section Two. The Board of County Commissioners of said county are hereby authorized and directed, from and after the passage of this Act, to create and maintain the following special funds: First A fund which shall be known as the "Contingent Fund." Second-A fund which shall be known as the Indigent Sick Fund." Third-A fund which shall be known as the " Redemption Fund." At the first session of the said Board, after the taking effect of this Act, the said Board shall apportioned. create said funds, and shall apportion all moneys then in the treasury of said county not included in the "School Fund," or in the "District Judge Salary Fund," as follows: First-They shall place in the "Contingent Fund" such an amount as, with the amount already set apart for the payment of contingent expenses, and not paid out, will constitute fifteen per cent. of all of said moneys. Second-They shall place in the "Indigent Sick Fund" such an amount as, with the amount already appropriated for such purpose, not paid out, will constitute ten per cent. of all of said moneys. Third-They shall place all of the remainder of said moneys in the "Redemption Fund.” The said Board shall also cause all moneys received from county revenues, after the passage of this Act, beyond the amount required by law to be placed in the "School Fund," and in the District Judge Salary Fund," to be placed in the funds hereby ordered to be created, as soon as the said moneys are paid into the treasury, and to be placed in the said funds under the following apportionment: To the "Contingent Fund," fifteen per cent. of all of said moneys. To the "Indigent Sick Fund," ten per cent. of all of said moneys, and to the "Redemption Fund," all of the remainder of said moneys. Money to be And at the first session of each regular quarterly meeting of said Board, they shall transfer any surplus there may exist in the "Indigent Sick Fund" to the "Contingent Fund;" and, also, at such session, if any surplus exist in the " Contingent Fund," whether before or after such transfer from the "Indigent Sick Fund," they shall transfer the same to the "Redemption Fund." County revenues to be apportioned. transferred. Duty of County SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Three. Whenever, at any time, there shall be in said "Redemption Fund," the sum of five hundred dollars, or more, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said county, to give fifteen days' notice, by publication in some surrender of warrants. newspaper published in said county, that sealed proposals, Proposals for directed to him, will be received for the surrender of county warrants, whether issued prior or subsequent to the passage of this Act; and that said proposals will be received by him until the next regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, thereafter. SEC. 3. Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: paid out of proper fund. demption Section Six. Whenever any claim against said county, which Claims to be accrued prior or subsequent to the passage of this Act, is allowed by the Board of Commissioners of said county, the same shall be allowed as payable out of its proper fund, and, also, as purchasable out of the "Redemption Fund" of said county, in Purchasable the same manner provided by this Act, for the purchase of out of Reother county warrants, and all warrants drawn for the pay- fund. ment of the same, not drawn upon the "Contingent Fund," or "Indigent Sick Fund," shall be drawn upon said "Redemption Fund; and whenever any claim against said county is duly allowed and audited, the warrant therefor shall be drawn upon the proper fund, and upon demand, delivered immediately to the order of the owner thereof, whether there be money in such fund to pay the same, or not; provided, that no interest shall be allowed on any warrant drawn after the taking effect of this Act. SEC. 4. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Seven. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with Repeal. the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, so far as the same relate to said Humboldt county. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to provide for the Registration of the Names of Electors, and for the ascertainment, by proper proofs, of the Persons who shall be entitled to the Right of Suffrage. [Approved February 24, 1866.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Registry SECTION 1. The Justices of the Peace of the several counties of the State shall constitute and act as Registry Agents Agents. for the election precincts or districts which are within their respective townships; and, as such, their duties shall be as provided in this Act. delivered to SEC. 2. Immediately upon the approval of this Act, the Registers, respective Boards of Registration of the several counties of etc., to be the State shall deliver over, or cause to be delivered, to the Registry several Registry Agents of their counties, as provided for in Agents. this Act, the respective registers, and all other registration books, belonging to, or heretofore prepared for, the election |