Auditor shall draw warrant. five hundred dollars, to aid in the construction of the National Lin- SEC. 2. The State Auditor is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the said sum of five hundred dollars, payable to the Governor, and to be by him payed over to the National Lincoln Monument Association. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT To Provide for the Sale of Lot 1, in Block No. 67, in the Town of Lincoln. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Governor Nebraska, That, the Governor of the authorized and empowered, to convey in authorized to sell to Mary B. Abbott. State be, and is hereby fee simple, to Mrs. Mary B. Abbott, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and her heirs, upon the payment of two hundred dollars, the following described lot or parcel of land, situate in Lancaster County, Nebraska, to-wit: Lot No. 1, in Block No. 67, in the Town of Lincoln, Nebraska. Approved February 15, 1889. $300 appro AN ACT For the Payment of Samuel V. Niles, for Securing Certain School Lands to Nebraska. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska That the sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropropriated. priated out of the State school fund for the payment of Samuel V. Niles, who was employed by Wm. R. Craig, as School Superintendant, to secure to Nebraska the south half of north east quarter of Section sixteen, Township eight, north of Range fourteen east, adjoining Nebraska City, in Otoe County, as school lands, and who performed the service and secured the said land to the school fund. Description of lands. SEC. 2. The State Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of said Niles, for the sum of $300, which shall be in full for such service of Samuel V. Niles. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT To Define the Western Boundary of Lincoln County. tended, enne coun SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the western boundary of the county of Lincoln be Limits exand the same is hereby extended five miles west of the western boundary of said county, as defined by the provisions of An Act entitled "An Act to define the boundaries of Shorter county, (since Territory lying west changed to Lincoln county,) approved January 7th, 1860, and that and Cheyall the unorganized country lying west of the western boundary of ty attached said county of Lincoln, as hereinafter provided, and east of the and reveeast line of Cheyenne county, and south of the North Platte River, poses. be and the same is hereby attached to the said county of Lincoln for judicial and revenue purposes, and that the county of Cheyenne be and the same is hereby attached, for judicial and revenue purposes, to the said county of Lincoln. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. for judicial nue pur AN ACT To Prevent the Importation of Texas or Cherokee Cattle into the State of Nebraska shall be SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to when it bring into this State any Texas or Cherokee cattle, between the first unlawful, day of July and the first day of September, of each year. SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions Forfeiture for viclaof this act shall, for every such violation, forfeit and pay into the tion. treasury of the county where the offense is committed, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and such person or persons, shall pay all damages that may accrue to any person or persons by reason of such violotion of this act. this act apply to have been SEC. 3. This act shall not apply to any Texas or Cherokee How far cattle now on hand, or hereafter such as shall have been kept shall through one winter within this State, but any person or persons cattle that owning or having such cattle shall keep them separate from other wintered cattle; and any damage that may accrue from allowing such cattle in the State to run at large, and thereby spreading disease among other cattle, shall be recovered from the owner or owners thereof, who shall be liable to all the pains and penalties as provided for in section second of this act. its SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after passage. Approved February 15, 1869. Time of term. AN ACT To Fix the Time of Holding the District Court in Cuming County. SECTION 1. Pe it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That it shall be the duty of the Judge of the third Judicial District of this State, to hold a term of the District Court within the county of Cuming, on the fourth Monday in June, in each year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the time of its passage. Eighty acres of AN ACT To provide for a State Cemetery at Lincoln. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That eighty acres of the lands belonging to the State of State land? Nebraska, to be selected as hereinafter provided, be and the same for ceme- are hereby set apart for the uses and purposes of a State Cemetery teries. at or near Lincoln, the Capitol of the State. set a part State cem Trustees of SEC. 2. That at the electiun for city officers of said city of etery. Lincoln, occuring next after the passage of this act, the qualified voters of said city shall elect three Trustees, to be known as "Trustees of the State Cemetery," one of whom shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, the term of service of each respectively to be decided by lot, so that one of said Trustees shall be elected annually by the qualified voters aforesaid at each annual election for city officers of said city, thereafter ocJuring. Said Trustees shall be a body corporate, with power to sue Declared porate. a body cor- and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and acquire and hold or convey property, real and personal, for all purposes consistent with the provisions of this act. Trustees to select site. SEC. 3. That within sixty days from the passage of this act, said Trustees shall select, subject to the approval of the Governor, a site for said Cemetery, not more than three miles distant from the State Capitol building, which said site, when so selected as aforesaid, shall be conveyed by the Governor, to said Trustees, to be held, used and controlled by them for the benefit of the State, and for the uses and purposes herein set forth. the ceme SEC. 4. Said Trustees shall cause the said lands to be laid off Division of and platted by a competent Surveyor, to be then selected, and shall tery. set apart, in suitable subdivisions, not less than fifty acres of said Cemetery, to be devoted as burial places for the inmatesof the various benevolent or other public institutions of the State, which are or may hereafter be located at Lincoln. The residue of said Cemetery, not exceeding thirty acres, shall be set apart as a burial ground for the uses and purposes of the citizens of Lincoln, and shall be subdivided and platted by said Trustees, and sold, in lots of suitable Lots size, and upon such terms and at such prices as said Trustees may prescribe, to citizens of Lincoln, the proceeds of such lots to be devoted, under the direction of said Trustees, to the improvement and ornamentation of the grounds, and for such other purposes, consistent with the provisions of this act, as they may determine. sold. ceeds of acres of pended in SEC. 5. That eighty acres of land belonging to the State, in The proaddition to the Cemetery site, hereinafter provided for, to be se- eighty lected by the Governor, shall be sold at public or private sale, as to be exthe Governor may determine, the proceeds of said sale to be by the enclosing Governor paid over to said Trustees, to be by them expended in menting suitably enclosing and ornamenting with forest trees, evergreens grounds. and shrubbery, the Cemetery grounds aforesaid. and orna said his duties SEC. 6. The said Trustees shall have power to employ a Sexton Sexton, and to take charge of said Cemetery, and keep the same in good order and salary and repair, and superintend the setting out of trees and the care of the same, and perform such other duties as said Trustees shall prescribe, and they shall pay to said Sexton, such salary, out of the proceeds of the sale of the lots or lands herein provided for, as they shall deem just and reasonable. be eleeted. SEC. 7. If no election for city offices in said city of Lincoln When trusshall occur before the first Monday in April, 1869, the Trustees tees shall hereinafter provided for, shall, on the second Monday of April be chosen by the qualified voters as aforesaid, to serve for the terms respectively provided for in the first Section of this act. the trus SEC. 8. Said Trustees shall have power to prescribe all needful Powers of rules and regulations for the government of said Cemetery grounds, tees. and for the burial of the dead from the various public institutions of the State, in the subdivisions set apart by them for that purpose, and to do and perform such other duties, consistent with the objects herein contemplated, as they shall deem necessary for the good government of the same. SEC. 9. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. Amount that may be conveyed. AN ACT To authorize the Governor to convey lands belonging to the State, upon Salt creek, mill purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enrcted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the Governor shall have authority to grant to any responsible person or association of persons, the privilege of erecting a mill on Salt creek, upon any land belonging to the State, known as "Saline Lands," and he may execute a conveyance in the name of the State, for land sufficiene for the site of such mill, not exceeding thirty acres, above such site; Providing no land shall be flowed above such site, except such as shall have been purchased by said party, and no salt spring shall be included in such conveyance. SEC. 2. In order to enable the Governor to determine the loploy sur- cality of said site, and the value thereof, he shall have power to the expense employ a Surveyor to go upon the ground selected, and establish the of the par- location thereof, by metes bounds, and to report the same to the Governor. The expense of said survey shall be advanced by the party to whom the conveyance is to be made. Governor may em vey or at ty. Governor shall fix price of land. SEC. 3. Upon such report the Governor shall fix a reasonable sum as the price of said land and privileges therwith; and upon the payment of such sum, together with all expenses, to the State Treasurer, and upon presentation of the certificate of the Treasurer, that such price and expenses have been paid, the Governor shall execute a conveyance as in the first section of this act provided. SEC. 4. The Governor shall have power to require bonds for the faithful compliance with the conditions and objects of said grant. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. Where dam may be built. AN ACT To authorize an Irrigation Company to build a Dam across Wood River. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the Wood River Irrigation Company, or successors, are hereby authorized to erect and build a Dam across Wood |