States; Provided, that the said election shall be conducted and the returns made in the same manner and under the same regulations as are prescribed by law, in the case of the election of Territorial officers The election returns for the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer and Supreme Judges, shall be made to the same offices, and the canvass of such return made in the same manner as is now prescribed by law for Delegates in Congress. Resolved by the Council and House of Representatves of the Territory of Nebraska,. That the forgoing Constitution be submitted to the qualified electors of the Territory, for their adoption or rejection, at an election, hereby authorized to be held at the time and in the manner specified in the seventh (7th) section of the Schedule of said Constitution, and that the returns and canvass of the votes cast at said election be made as in said section prescribed. JAMES G. MEGEATH, Approved February 9th, 1866. Speaker of the House of Representatives. O. P. MASON, President of the Council. ALVIN SAUNDERS, Governor of the Territory of Nebraska. GENERAL LAWS. AN ACT To Transfer the Sinking and Military Funds to the General Fund. moneys fund to the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the sinking fund now in the State Treasury, Transfer of together with whatever amount there is still remaining in the from sinking and hands of the State Treasurer of the militia fund, refunded to the militia State of Nebraska as re-imbursement for expenses incurred in gen'l fund. organizing and equiping the militia, from the general government, be, and the same is hereby transferred to the general fund of the State, to be paid out and disposed of in the same manner, and for like purposes, as other monies belonging to said fund; also, all delinquent taxes belonging to said sinking fund which may be paid into the State Treasury, and the sinking fund taxes of 1868 be transferred to the general fund. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT from sale kept for To Exempt from Sale on Execution Property Used and Kept to Extinguish Fires. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That all fire engines, hose, hose carriages, ladders, Exempt buckets, and all vehicles, machinery and appliances of every kind, property used or kept by incorporate cities, villages or fire companies, for putting out the purpose of extinguishing fire, be, and the same is hereby exempt from execution and sale, to satisfy any debt, judgment or decree arising upon contract or otherwise: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not affect any voluntary lien created by fires. bill of sale, mortgage, or otherwise, on such property, by the SEC. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. tion to pay AN ACT Making Appropriation for the Payment of Per Diem and Mileage of the Members, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Appropria- Nebraska, That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much per diem. thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriof Legislators. ated for the payment of the per diem and mileage of the members, officers and employees, and the incidental expenses of the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, convened on the 7th day of January, 1869. SEC. 2. The State Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the several amounts due the members and employees for per diem and mileage allowed by law. SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 26, 1869. Relief of mal School at Peru. AN ACT For the Relief of the State Normal School. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of State Nor- Nebraska, That there is hereby appropriated out of the general funds of the State, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the benefit of the State Normal Sohool located at Peru, in the State of Nebraska, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to locate, establish and endow a State Normal School," approved June 20th, 1867. SEC. 2. The said sum hereby appropriated shall be expended as follows: First, In paying the outstanding debt incurred by the Board of Education of said School in furnishing the Normal School building and employing teachers since the said School was established. Second, In repairing, finishing and furnishing the said Normal Repairing. School building as far as may be necessary, building the necessary outhouses and enclosing the ground. Third, In paying teachers employed in said school, when the revenue derived from tuition is not sufficient for that purpose, and incidental expenses. Fourth, In procuring apparatus for said school. SEC. 3. The said fund to be expended under the direction of the Board of Education of the Normal School, according to the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to locate, establish and endow a State Normal School." SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after date. Approved February 1, 1869. Apparatus. AN ACT Providing for Holding Terms of the Supreme Court. Supreme SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That there shall be held a term of the Supreme Court, Court at Lincoln, the Capital, beginning on the first Tuesday after the to be held first Monday in January and July of each year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of June, 1869. All acts or parts of acts establishing the Supreme Court at other places are hereby repealed. Approved February 3, 1869. at Lincoln. AN ACT To Prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on days of Election. the sale of ing liquors SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That it shall be unlawful for any person in this State to Prohibit sell, or give away, or dispose of with intent to evade the law, any intoxicatintoxicating liquors on the day of any general or special election. election SEC. 2. Any person offending against this act shall be guilty of days. a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine not less than twenty-five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of March, 1869. Approved February 3, 1869, Incorpora to elect officers. AN ACT To Amend Section No. 59 of Chapter No. 25 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Incorporations." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of tions failed Nebraska, That section number fifty-nine of chapter number twentyfive of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Incorporations," which is in words and figures following, that is to say: Section 59. All officers of any such incorporate companies, organized under the provisions of this chapter, shall be residents of this Territory; and whenever any company, association or society heretofore or hereafter incorporated, shall have failed to elect its officers at the time designated, it shall be lawful for any such company, association or society to call a meeting and elect its officers, who shall hold their respective offices until the time specified for the annual or other fixed time for holding such election; and when any incorporated company heretofore organized, or that may hereafter be organized under the provisions of this chapter, shall have a special time fixed for its annual meeting, a majority of the stockholders in interest may, at any regular annual meeting, change the time of the annual meeting thereof, shall be so amended as to read as follows, that is to say: Section 59. Whenever any company, association or society heretofore or hereafter incorporated, shall have failed to elect its May ch'nge officers at the time designated, it shall be lawful for any such company, association or society, to call a meeting and elect its officers, who shall hold the respective offices until the time specified for the annual or other fixed time for holding such election; and when any incorporated company heretofore organized, or that may hereafter be organized under the provisions of this chapter, shall have a specified time fixed for its annual meeting, a majority of the stockholders in interest may, at any regular annual meeting, change the time of the annual meeting thereof. its annual time of meeting. Approved February 6, 1869. AN ACT To Provide for the Appointment of Notaries Public, and to Define their Duties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Governor Nebraska, The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint and commission such number of persons to the office of Notary Public, in each of the respective counties of this State as he shall deem necessary, not exceeding the number hereinafter limited, each of whom shall hold the office for the term of six years from the date of appoint Notary Public. |