President of Board.

Proviso.

Vacancy.

Board to appoint certain

officers.

Proviso.

Regular meetings.

Quorum.

Rules, etc.

be declared vacant; provided, that in case the person so elected be absent from the county at the time of his election, he shall be allowed twenty days in which to return and enter upon the duties of his office.

SEC. 10. The Board of Trustees so elected shall, at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be, select one of their number as President, who shall preside at their meetings, and perform such other duties as said Board may prescribe; provided, that it shall be his duty to make out on the third Monday in April of each year, and cause to be published either in a newspaper published in Storey County, or by posting in not less than five public and conspicuous places in said town, a full and correct statement of the financial condition of the town, showing the total indebtedness thereof.

SEC. 11. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Treasurer, the Board of Trustees shall fill such vacancy; and, provided further, that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee, the remainder of said Board of Trustees, or a majority thereof, shall, at their next regular meeting held after the said vacancy shall have occurred, appoint some person to fill such vacancy; provided, that the person so appointed must be eligible to the office under the requirements of sections three, five and six of this Act.

SEC. 12. The Board of Trustees shall have discretionary power to appoint a clerk, an attorney and a marshal, at such rates of salary or contingent compensation as said Board may determine. The Board may also employ such other assistance or laborers as may be, from time to time, required for the assessment or collection of taxes or licenses, or the care and repair of streets, water works or other town property. Any of the aforesaid officers or employés, in this section provided for, may be by said Trustees removed or discharged, or the office or position abolished, as circumstances and a due sense of economy may require; provided, that the salary of the Marshal shall not exceed, including compensation for assessing and collecting town taxes and licenses, the sum of two thousand dollars per annum.

SEC. 13. The Board of Trustees shall hold regular meetings on the first and third Mondays in each month, and such other meetings as by adjournment or resolution they may determine, but the President of the Board shall have power to call special meetings whenever, in his judgment, it may be necessary.

SEC. 14. A majority of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum for business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time, and may compel the attendance of absent members, by peremptory order, or by resolution imposing fine not to exceed ten dollars for any one meeting.

SEC. 15. The Board of Trustees shall adopt rules for the government of their own proceedings, and shall be the judges of the election and qualification of their own members, subject, however, to the decision of the District Court of the First Judicial District in cases of contested elections. Their meetings shall be public, except when the Board shall decide that the interests of the town require secrecy. A journal of all proceedings of the Board shall be kept by the clerk, and the ayes and noes shall be taken at the request of any member, and shall be entered in the journal.

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SEC. 16. The Board of Trustees shall have power: First, To Powers of make by-laws and ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the State of Nevada. Second, To levy and collect taxes on all real and personal property within the town, made taxable by the laws of this State, for State and county purposes, which are now in force or may hereafter be enacted, except proceeds of mines, which shall not be subject to taxation, which tax shall not exceed one and three fourths per centum per annum on the assessed value of all property, with not to exceed ten per centum on the amount of such tax additional thereto, as a penalty on all delinquent taxes; provided, that they shall have further power, when in their opinion it may become necessary and expedient, to levy an additional tax, not to exceed five cents on each and every one hundred dollars valuation of all property, for the continuous maintenance of the public schools of said town, said tax to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes in this Act provided for. Third, To lay out or extend, open, alter or repair all streets and alleys, and provide for opening, grading, widening, draining, cleaning and lighting, or otherwise improving the same. Also, to provide for the construction, repair, preservation and cleaning off all sidewalks, crosswalks, bridges, sewers and drains. To prevent obstructions being erected or placed in any of the streets, alleys or sidewalks, or the use of any sewers or drains as cesspools, and for the removal of the same. To compel the owners of lots and property to bear the expense of erecting sidewalks, or improving the road or streets in front of the same, by special tax or otherwise. To condemn property for the use or benefit of the town, in the following manner: The Board of Trustees shall appoint one referee, and the owner or owners of the property to be condemned shall appoint one referee, and in the event that the two referees so appointed shall fail to agree in the valuation of the property, two so selected shall appoint a third referee, and the valuation of such property agreed to by such referees, or two of them, shall be final and binding upon the parties, unless the person or persons aggrieved by the decision of such referees, shall appeal from such decision or valuation to the District Court of the First Judicial District within thirty days after notice of such valuation shall have been served on him or them. Fourth, To provide for the Same. prevention and extinguishment of fires; also to organize, regulate, establish, locate or disband fire or hose companies. Fifth, To regulate the storage of gunpowder, and other explosive or combustible material. Sixth, To prevent and remove nuisance; also, to determine what are nuisances. Seventh, To employ police- same. men, and prescribe their duties and compensation, and provide for the regulation and government of the same. Eighth, To fix and collect a license tax on and regulate all theatres, circuses, shows, billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all other exhibitions and amusements. Ninth, To fix and collect a license tax on barrooms, hurdy-gurdy houses, and public dance houses; on auctioneers, hawkers, peddlers, and all dealers in liquors; on all drays, job wagons or carts, or any other public vehicle running within the limits of said town for hire; also to fix and collect a license tax on all trades and business not heretofore specified or enumerated, having due regard to the amount of business done by each

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fund, etc.

person or firm so licensed. Tenth, To license, tax and regulate, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, public card tables, raffles, hawkers, peddlers and pawnbrokers, gambling houses, disorderly houses, and houses of ill fame; provided, however, that nothing in this section of this Act contained, shall be construed as granting power to suppress gaming when the same shall have been authorized by license, issued by proper authority, pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to restrict gaming," passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, or any Act amendatory thereof. Eleventh, To levy and collect an annual tax on all dogs owned or kept within the limits of said town, and to provide for the extermination of all dogs for which such tax shall not have been paid, and to prohibit the keeping of hogs, or the running at large of goats or cows within the corporate limits of said town. Twelfth, To provide for the issuance of licenses before named, for such terms and in such sums as they may consider best: provided, that the several kinds of business or occupations to be licensed, shall be classified by ordinance, into two or more classes, with a specific or certain rate of license provided for each class, and the blank certificates of license for each class, including the fixed sum to be paid therefor by the licensee, shall be printed and numbered. Thirteenth, To provide all necessary buildings for public use of said town. Fourteenth, To establish a Board of Health, and define their powers and duties; to prevent the introduction or spread of disease, and to provide for the indigent. Fifteenth, To prevent and restrain any riot or riotous assemblage or disorderly conduct, and to prohibit and suppress the sale of spirituous or malt liquors or wines on any day of municipal, county or general election. Sixteenth, To fix and prescribe the punishment for the breach of any town ordinance or resolution, but no fine shall be imposed for any offense in any sum greater than five hundred dollars, and no term of imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding six months. Seventeenth, To determine the duties and fix and establish the fees, salaries, compensation and emoluments of all officers and employés of said town; provided, that the Trustees shall not receive, or be entitled to receive, for their services as such, any sum whatever. Eighteenth, To compel the attendance of absent members, to punish members for disorderly conduct, and to expel a member for cause by a vote of four fifths. Nineteenth, To make all necessary contracts and agreements for the benefit of the town; and to contract debts on the faith of the town, but no debt shall be contracted, or liability incurred, except on a cash basis. To issue and sell bonds bearing interest at a rate not to exceed eighteen per centum per annum, for the purpose of creating a contingent fund for current expenses, or for the purpose of paying, retiring and canceling any bonds or warrants, or other outstanding claims already existing against the town; provided, that the aggregate of liabilities outstanding shall not at any time exceed the sum of seventy thousand dollars. Twentieth, The said Board of Trustees shall not create a debt against the town for printing, in a greater sum than five hundred dollars per an

num.

SEC. 17. One half of the revenue arising from the collection of taxes, as provided in the second subdivision of section sixteen

of this Act, shall be set apart as a Redemption Fund, which fund shall be used exclusively for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of the town, in the manner hereinafter in this Act provided. The remaining one half of said revenue, together with all revenue derived from licenses, fines, and other sources, shall be set apart as a Contingent Fund, and used to defray the current expenses of the town.

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SEC. 18. No money shall be paid out of the " Redemption Money, how Fund," except by order of at least four members of the Board of Trustees, and in the manner by them directed; and it shall be their duty, from time to time, when there shall be, in their judgment, a sufficient sum of money in the "Redemption Fund,' over and above the interest accrued or shortly to accrue on bonds outstanding, to give notice for at least five days, by publication in a newspaper published in Storey County, that sealed proposals, Proposals directed to the President of the Board of Trustees of the town of Gold Hill, will be received until a day and hour stated in such debtedness. notice for the surrender of warrants, bonds, or other legal evidences of indebtedness of said corporate body, known as 'The Town of Gold Hill."

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SEC. 19. At the expiration of the time named in said notice, Proposals the Board of Trustees shall meet and open such sealed proposals, opened, etc. and they shall accept the lowest and best bids or proposals for the surrender of said evidences of indebtedness specified in the preceding section of this Act, but no bid or proposal to surrender any such evidence of indebtedness at a higher rate than par value shall ever be accepted. Whenever any bids or proposals are accepted, the clerk of the Board shall make a record in the journal of proceedings, describing the warrants or bonds, or other written evidence of indebtedness to be redeemed, specifying the face or par value of the same, also the amount to be paid therefor, together with the number and date of issue, and such legal evidence of indebtedness shall be, by a vote of the Board, ordered paid, and soon as paid the clerk shall cancel the same, by writing in red ink, across the face of the same, the words: Redeemed by payment of the sum of dollars, in coin, this day of 18-." Which sum shall be paid out of the "Redemption Fund," and all such evidence of indebtedness shall be filed away and preserved by the Treasurer.

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SEC. 20. All legal claims or demands whatsoever existing or Indebtedoutstanding against said "Town of Gold Hill," at the time of this ness, how Act going into effect may be purchasable as provided in sections and paid. eighteen and nineteen of this Act, and paid out of said redemption fund.

edness,

SEC. 21. All ordinances, contracts or agreements passed or Evidences made, and all bonds, warrants, or other evidences of indebted- of indebtness issued by such Board of Trustees, shall be held invalid un- etc., to be signed. less signed by the President of said Board and countersigned by the clerk.

Board to

SEC. 22.

money transfer

Whenever there shall be more than sufficient in the contingent fund to pay the current expenses of the town, fund. the Board of Trustees shall have power to transfer a portion thereof to the redemption fund, to be used as is by this Act provided for other moneys in said fund.

Statement

SEC. 23. The Board of Trustees shall make out and publish, of finances. for at least three days in a newspaper published in Storey Coun

Accountability of officers,

Assessment and collection of taxes.

ty, in the months of January, April, July and October, of each year, a full and detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements, from what sources received, and for what purpose paid out, during the three months next preceding such report.

SEC. 24. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to provide for the accountability of all officers or employés elected' or appointed under this Act, to whom the receipt or expenditure of any of the funds of this corporation may be intrusted, by requiring of each of them sufficient security for the faithful and honest performance of their respective duties; and in case of neglect or refusal on the part of any of such officers or employés to furnish such security to the satisfaction of said Board, within ten days after notice of such requirement, the said Board of Trustees may discharge such officer or employé, and proceed to appoint some other person to fill his place.

SEC..25. Real and personal property may be sold for taxes due said town, by the Marshal, if there be a Marshal, and if no Marshal be appointed, then and in that case by the Constable of Township No. Three of said Storey County. The manner of assessing and collecting taxes shall be prescribed by ordinance, and title upon sale of property for taxes, either real or personal, or mixed, shall vest in the purchaser, to be provided for by ordinance. The Tax deeds. Marshal, or Constable, as the case may be, shall, upon sale of real property for taxes, execute and deliver a deed of such property to the purchaser thereof, and such deed shall be received in any and all courts in this State as prima facie evidence that the grantee or grantees named in said deed, or his or their successors in interest have a good and legal title to the premises described therein; and possession of such property may be obtained in the form and manner provided by law, where the relation of landlord and tenant exists.

Duties of
Treasurer.

Provisions

for collection of taxes, etc.

SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys derived from any source for the benefit of said town, and he alone shall disburse the same on proper warrants or orders of the Board of Trustees. He shall keep an accurate and full account of all receipts and disbursements, and furnish the Board a full statement of the same whenever required, and his books shall be kept posted and subject to the examination of any member of the Board. All warrants and orders drawn on the Treasurer shall specifically show on their face for what service or indebtedness they are drawn and on what fund; and shall be paid in the regular order of registration on the Treasurer's books. The Treasurer shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution of the Board.

SEC. 27. The Board of Trustees shall make suitable provision from time to time for the assessment and collection of taxes and licenses and all other revenue due, or to become due to said town of Gold Hill, and the person or persons charged with the collection of such revenue shall pay all moneys by him or them collected, after deducting the percentage allowed by ordinance or resolution for collection, at least once in each week to the Treasurer. The time and manner of assessing and collect