cancelled: specifying the numbers, date, and amount of each bond, and shall, at the time of receiving the same surrender the said scrip for which bonds are received, to the said Mayor, and the said Mayor shall at the next meeting of the Council report the number, date, and amount of each bond so issued, and the name of the persons to whom issued. He shall also produce the scrip, to the said Council, with a memorandum showing the number, date, denomination, and the name of the person from whom, and the time when received for the purpose aforesaid; and the Council shall then, in the presence of the said Mayor, cause the said scrip to be concelled by writ- And be ing across the face of the same in large letters, the word "cancelled," and shall also cut or otherwise mutilate the same, and the said bonds are hereby declared to be binding obligations in law on the said city, any law or decision of any court of this State or any other court to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding; Provided, that a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of bonding said city scrip and not otherwise. SEC. 5. The question to be submitted to a vote, so as aforesad, Form in shall be as follows, that is to say: "For bonding city scrip, Yes." which "For bonding city scrip, No." And if a majority of the people submitted. voting on said proposition shall vote yes, or for bonding the said scrip, then the City Council shall forthwith cause the bonds to be issued as hereinbefore provided. But if a majority of the votes should be against bonding such scrip, then no further steps shall be taken by said Council towards bonding the same. Such elections shall be conducted in the manner now prescribed by law for holding conducting elections in said city. question shall be Manner of the election Tax to pay and pro ing fund. SEC. 6. The said City Council, in case the said scrip is so bonded as aforesaid, is hereby authorized and required in addition to the amount of tax now levied and collected to pay the current expenses of the city government, to levy and collect upon the annual assess- interest ment of the real and personal property in said city, for the year vide sink1869, and in each year thereafter until all of said bonds and scrip are paid, a sum equal in amount to the interest due on the same, and the one-tenth of the principal remaining unpaid, which said tax shall constitute a sinking fund to be applied exclusively to the payment of the said bonds and interest thereon; Provided, that if any part of such fund shall remain after the payment of said indebtedness, then the same shall be transferred to the general fund of the said city. bonds after Interest on SEC. 7. All bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of Jan. 1, 1879. this act, which shall remain unpaid on the first day of January, 1879, shall cease to draw interest after that date unless the holders thereof shall, when the same become due and payable, present them to the City Treasurer for payment, who, if there be funds in the treasury therefor, shall pay them. But if there shall be no such funds it shall be his duty to endorse on such bonds, "presented for payment, this day of 1879, but not paid for want of funds. How pro shall be app ied. , Treasurer," in which case the bonds shall continue to draw interest until the same are fully paid. SEC. 8. The money collected each year from the tax herein ceeds of tax provided for, shall be applied, first, to the payment of the interest on said bonds, and secondly, to the payment of the principal, in the following manner: The Treasurer of said city shall annually on the 10th day of July, publish in at least one newspaper, a notice stating the amount in his hands subject to the payment of the bonds, and that he will receive sealed proposals until the first day of August following, for the surrender of said bonds for payment. Such proposals shall state the sum the holder of the bonds will take in payment thereof, and the said proposals shall remain sealed until the time for receiving the same shall have passed, and the same shall be opened Treasurer in presence of the said Mayor, and the Treasurer shall then award the money to the holders of the bonds, who agree to receive the lowest sum therefor; Provided, the person or persons to whom the awards shall be made, shall present their bonds to said Treasurer for payment, within ten days from the time of making such award, and in case of any failure to present said bonds, as herein provided, the Treasurer may pay such money to the next lowest bidder, in order. Coupons to be cancelled. Frauds un der this act. SEC. 9. The City Treasurer shall forthwith cancel all coupons or bonds received by him by writing across the face of the same, the date of the payment, the amount, and to whom paid, and shall cut or otherwise mutilate the same, and the said Treasurer shall within ten days of such payment report the same to the said Mayor. SEC. 10. If any person or officer contrary to the provisions of this act shall knowingly issue or put in circulation, use or in any manner dispose of any bond or bonds herein provided for, either before or after the same shall be paid or cancelled, intending thereby to defraud any person or persons, or body corporate, he shall on 1 conviction be fined not less than five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not less than one nor more To establish the boundary lines between the Counties of Dodge and Burt. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the boundery lines between the counties of Dodge and Burt shall be as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of Township twenty (20), north of range eight (8), east, thence east along the fifth standard parallel to the north-east corner of section six (6), township twenty (20), north of range nine (9), east, thence south on the section line one mile east of, and parallel to the guide meridian, four miles to north line of Washington county, as defined by act of the Territorial Legislature, approved February 9, 1857. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after To authorize Ọ. A. Abbott, Henry A. Koenig and John Wallichs, to change the north channel of the Platte River, at Grand Island, in Buffalo county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That O. A. Abbott, Henry A. Koenig, John Wallichs and their associates and assigns, are hereby authorized to change the north channel of the Platte river, into the main channel at or near the head of Grand Island, in Buffalo county, for the purpose of preventing the overflow of valuable farming lands. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT To restrain stock from running at large in Lancaster and Saline Counties, in the State of Nebraska. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That it shall be unlawful for horses, mules, asses, cattle, fined. Stock de Breeches by stock, sheep and swine to run at large in the counties of Lancaster and Saline, of this State. SEC. 2. That if any of the above named stock running at large, shall break into the enclosure hereafter mentioned in this act, the general or special owner or owners of such stock, upon conviction before any Justice of the Peace in the county where such damage may have been committed, that such person or persons have violaPenalty for ted this act by permitting such stock to run at large, shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, onehalf of said fine shall be given to the person or persons sustaining such damages from such stock, and the other half to the common school fund for the benefit of said county. Owners of such stock double the value. SEC. 3. The general or special owner or owners of such stock, liable for permitting the same to run at large, shall be liable to the person or persons injured by said stock, in amount double the actual value of the property injured, if it be proven that the injury or destruction was committed between sunset and sunrise, but if the injury or destruction be committed in the day time, then the said owner or owners shall be liable to the party injured in an amount equal to the actual value of the property so injured or destroyed. Persons seeking re dress. Benefits of this act conditional Damages SEC. 4. That any person or persons seeking redress for injury or destruction of property by reason of said stock running at large, shall, to prosecute, under sec. two of this act, or he may, to sue for the damages he may have sustained, as provided for in Section three of this act, and in no case shall any person be allowed to prosecute for a violation of this act, and also to sue for damages for injury and destruction of property committed by such stock. SEC. 5. That no person shall have the benefit of this act after the first day of July, A. D. 1869, unless such person or persons shall have plowed a fence row at least twelve (12) feet wide, around the land to be protected by this act, and that fon or before the first day of June, A. D. 1870, such person or persons shall have planted, at least one rod of live fence for every acre so enclosed, which fence shall be either osage orange, honey locust, yellow willow, cottonwood or walnut, and shall each year thereafter, plant and cultivate one rod of such fence for every acre so enclosed, until the said enclosure is entirely fenced. SEC. 6. That any person or persons entitled to recover damages recovered. under section three of this act, may recover a payment as in other cases, in any court having competent jurisdiction. the bene act extend. SEC. 7. That any tenant, occupier, lessee or owner of such To whom lands, and any person or persons holding and occupying, by virtue fits of this of the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States, who have endorsed and cultivated or shall enclose and cultivate any lands in said county, as provided in section five of this act, shall be entitled to the provisions herein contained, so far as they may be applied to injury and destruction, committed, in and upon said lands. SEC. 8. That the provisions of this act shall extend to all per- Same. sons, who, after the first day of June, A. D. 1869, shall purchase and occupy, or settle upon any lands in said counties, by virtue of the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States, if such person or persons enclose such lands, plant and cultivate a live fence, such as is provided in Section five of this act. the stock, SEC. 9. Any person or persons injured by the destruction of Lien on his property by such stock running at large, shall have a lien on such stock committing the injury or destruction, from the time such injury or destruction was committed, and any such lien may be enforced by a writ of fieri facias, to be issued to collect the judgment obtained by a suit had, as provided for in Section three of this act. damages. SEC. 10. That the measure of damages for injury done to such Measure of live fence or growing timher in and upon such enclosures in said counties by such stock, shall be three times the average cost of obtaining and planting such fence and growing timber, and fifty per cent. additional for each year that said fence may have been growing and cultivated. SEC. 11. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed. SEC. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT To fund or discharge, and pay off the indebtedness of Johnson county, contracted prior to the first day of January, A. D. 1866, and remaining outstanding and unliquidated. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, That the County Commissioners of the county of John-commisson, at the regular meeting of their board, on the first Monday in give notice March next, shall cause notice to be given by publication in two or of warrants sioners to to holders |