Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-20
INCORPORATION ACT.

walks, and making other Improvements, W
compel the owners of lots and properly !"
bear the expense of erecting siaeMa'ks vi
creating improvements IN front Vi '"e 0~@'
a Fonrth-To provide for the prevention anu
extinguishment OF hres, -, 800,
E;fsSNTn regulate the storage OF gun
DoIyIer and other coulbustible material
S;x.b-To prevent and remove nuISances;
also 10 determine what are nuisances'
Saventh-To create and establish town
,clicc, and prescribe their duties and com,
rcnsatiou, and provide Tor the regulation anu
Government of the same.
Fi,hth-To fix and collect license tax
an and regulate all theatres, circuses, shows,
billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhl-
billions and amuscments.
Nin,h-To liz and collect 4 license tax on,
and regulate all taverns, hotels, saloons,
blr-roons, hurdy-gurdy houses, and public
: dance houses, on auctioneers, hawkcrS and
peddlers. on all dealers in liquors, on drays,
100 wagons or carts, or any other public We
hicle running within the limits of said town.
Tcnth-TO license, tax and regulate, pro.
hibit and suppress, all tippling houses, dram
shops, aud public card tables, rallies, hawk
ers, peddlcrs and pawn-brokerS, refreshment
or coffee stands, b0othes and sheds; also, to
prohibit and suppress all gaming, gambling
houses, di>orderlv houses, and houses OF Ill
fame.
EIevsnth-To levy and collect an annual
tax upon all dogs within the limits Of said
town, and provide for the determination of all
dogs, for which such tax shall not have been
paid.
Twclth-To provide for the issuance of
licenses before named for such terms, and in
such sums rs they may deem best.
Thirteeutn-ro provide for all necessary
- Tor ,ho, Nf
Fourteenth TO establish Board Of
HEALTH" TO prevent the introduction and
spread Of disease, and provide for the indi-
gent.
Fifteenth-To prevent and restrain any riot
or riOtuuS aSscmblaGc, or disorderly conduct
within said town to close all places OF bust
ness or amusement on Sunday, and prohibit
and suppress the sale of spirituouS liquors
on any day of municipal, county or State
elections.
Six,seuth-To fix aud prescribe the punish'
meat FOR breach OF any town ordinance or
resolution; but no fine shall be imposed for
any ore otEenSe in any sum greater than hre
hundred dollars in gold coin, and no term Of
Imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding
SIX months.
Scventeeuth-To determine the duties, and
fix and establish, the fees, salaries and conf
pensaron, Of all officers of said town; Prori-
dsf, that no member Of the Board Of Trustees
shall receive or DC entitled 10 receive for mis-
services any sum whatever.
Eighteeuth-To compel the attendance Of
absent members; to punish members for dis
orderly conduct, and to expel members, for
cause, By u vote Of four-hfths OF its members
elected.
N;neteenth-To make all necessary con-
tracts and agreements for the benefit OF the
town to contract debts on the faith Of the
town: but no debt shall be contracted. or
liability incurred, except upon cash basis,
nor which shall exceed in the aggregate, in
elusive of lis present indebtedness, the sum
OF forty thousand dollars. The Board OF
Trustees shall have power at all times, when
they deem il eXpedient, to call in, and fund
the debt Of said town, BY the issuance Of
bonds for outstanding claims, or warrants,
or bonds over due, payable in one, two and
three years which funded debt shall not bear
interest greater than the legal interest Of the
State Of Nevada. They shall have power TO
issue and sell bonds, bearing not to exceed
two per cent. per month interest, for the pur-
pose of creating 4 contingent fund for cur
rent expenses, or for the purpose OF paying
off and canoeing bonds already issued, when
the same shall become due; but at no time
shall the bonds so issued, together with all
other liabilities of said town, exceed in the
aggregate the said sum Of forty thousand
dollars.
Twentieth-All ordinances made By said
Trustees shall De signed by the President and
Clerk of said Board, upon its journal of pro-
ceedings-where the same shall be written in
full; and all scrip and bonds issued, con-
tracts and agreements made, shall be signed
By the President and counter igned by the
Clerk of said Board.
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and all scrip and bonds issued, shall be made
PAYABLE only in gold aud silver coin.
Twenty-second-The Board of Trustees
shall have power to condemn and appropri-
ate to the public use, or the use OF the in
ha5ilants OF said town, all real and personal
prupertS within the limits Of said town, and
MI claims and asserted rights, or title of any
person whomsoeyer, to such property, when
they deem the same necessary, for the open
ing OF streets or alleys, or for other public
purpose, such property shall be condemned
and appropriated in the following manner:
, The Board of Trustees shall appoint one
referee and the claimants, owner or owners
OF the property so to be condemned, shall APP
point one referee-and in the event that the
two referees so appointed shall not agree in
the valuation Of such property or claim, then
shall the ,wo SO appointed select a third
referee. and the decision Of a majority of such
tnrec. as 10 the valuation OF the property or
claim by them appraised, shall be reported to
said Board OF Trustees, and may by them be
regarded and held as final and binding, and
upon the tender Of the sum named by said
appraisers for such property to claimant or
owner thereof, or his agent or attorney, such
properly or claim shall become the property
uI claim oi said town; and the Board Of
Trustees may cause ut once TO be removed
from such property, all persons and obstruc-
,OnS Uy order through the Marshal Of said
town. and take tull and immediate possess
sion OF the same for the public use and benefit;
or possession OF the same may be obtained III
the form and manner provided by law, where
tGe relation of landlord and tenant exists. II
. case the owner or owners OF said property
shall refuse or neglect 10 appoint said referee
when by said Trustees required, then shall
said Board Of Trustees constitute BOARD
Of Appraisers" and their valuation shall be
anal and binding. But no act Of said Board
nr referee, in the condemnation of property,
or auv claim, right or title to the same, as
, herein provided, shall be interpreted as an
, / admission on the part OF said incorporate
town, OF the legality Of such asserted claim,
. right or title; and in the condemnation Of
( property, as in this section provided, said
referees shall consider i; the proposed i'm
proyements for which such property is so
condemned, shall be OF any benefit to the per-
sou or persons owning or claiming the said
property, and they shall estimate the value Of
such proposed Improvements. to him or
them, and shall deduct such amount from the
estimated value of such property or claim
condemned. And whenever the said corpor-
ate body shall have become in any manner
possessed OF any real estate upon which any
improvements shall have been made for the
benefit Of said town or corporate body, no
Judgment in ejectment shall be rendered
against said town or corporate body, but only
judgment for damages in the value Of said
property, claim, right or title, at the time Of
the taking possession OF the same may be
rendered.
SEC L. L shall be the duty Of the Board