Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-25
INCORPORATION ACT,

I
walks, and making other Improvements, TO
compel the owners of lots and property TO
bear the expense of erecting sidewalks or
| creating improvements in front OF the same,
BY special tax or otherwise.
Fourth-To provide for the prevention and
extinguishment OF hTes.
/ Fifth-To regulate the storage Of gun
| powder and other coubustlble material.
Sixth-To prevent and remove nuisances
also to determine what are nuisances.
| Seventh-To create and establish town
police, and prescribe their duties and COM
pensation, 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 exhi
billions and amusements.
! Ninth-To fix and collect a license tax on,
+ and regulate all taverns, hotels, saloons,
bar-rooms, hurdy-gurdy houses, and public
| dance houses, on auctioneers, hawkers and
! peddlers, on all dealers in liquors, on drays,
J job wagons or carts, or any other public We
| hicle running within the limits of said town.
! Tenth-To license, tax and regulate, pro-
hioit and suppress, all tipping hou 'es, dram
/ shops, and public card tables, raff1es, hawk
ers, peddlers and pawn-brokers, refreshment
or coffee stands, boothes and sheds; also, to
;
/ houses, disorderly houses, and houses Of ILL
| fame.
| Eleventh-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.
Twelth-To provide for the issuance of
licenses before named for such terms, and in
! such sums as they may deem best.
/ Thirteenta-To provide for all necessary
public buildings for the use of said town.
Fourteenth To establish "Board Of
/ HEALTH" to prevent the introduction and
spread Of disease, and provide for the indi
gent.
Fif,een,h-To prevent and restrain any riot
or riotous aSsemblage, or disorderly conduct
within said town TO close all places of busi-
ness or amusement on Sunday, and prohibit
and suppress the sale Of spirituous liquors
on any day Of municipal, county or State
elections.
/ Sixteenth-To FIX and prescribe the punish
mcnt for breach of any town ordinance or
resolution but no fine shall be imposed for
any ore offense in any sum greater than tive
| hundred dollars in gold coin, and no term of
imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding
, six months.
/ Seventeenth-To determine the duties, and
! fix and establish, the fees, salaries and com
I pensatlon, of all officers of said town; Prort-
/ dsd, that no member OF the Board of Trustees
/ shall receive or be entitled to receive for his
7 services any sum whatever.
/ Eighteenth-To compel the attendance Of
absent members; to punish members for dis
orderly conduct, and to expel members, for
cause, by a vote Of four-ffths Of its members
/ elected.
! Nineteenth-ro make all necessary con-
tracts and agreements for the benefit Of the
I 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 its present indebtedness, the sum
I of forty thousand dollars. The Board Of
| Trustees shall have power at all times, when
I they deem it 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 a 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 be 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 countersigned by the
Clerk of said Board.
Twenty-6rst-All taxes and fines imposed,
and all scrip and bonds issued, shall be made
PAYABLE only in gold and silver coin.
Twenty-second- Board Of Trustees
! shall have power to condemn and approprl-
ate to the public use, or the use Of the in
| habitantS of said town, all real and personal
property within the limits Of said town, and
all 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 10 be condemned, shall APP
/ point one referee-aud in the event that the
| two referees so appointed shall not agree in
| the valuation of such property or claim, then
! shall the two so appointed select third
! referee, and the decision of a majority of such
three, as TO 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
I owner thereof, or his agent or attorney, such
! property or claim shall become the property
or claim of said town; and the Board of
! Trustees may cause at once to be removed
! from such property, all persons and obStruc-
;ions, by order through the Marshal of said
town, and take full and immediate possess
sion OF the same for the public use and benefit;
! or possession of the same may be obtained in
: the form and manner provided BY law, where
/ the relation of landlord and tenant exists. In
case the owner or owners Of said property
| shall refuse or neglect to appoint said referee
when by said Trustees required, then shall
/ said Board Of Trustees constitute BOARD
/ of Appraisers" and their valuation shall be
hnal and binding. But no act of said Board
| or referee, in the condemnation Of property,
, or any claim, right or title to the same,
| 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 if the proposed i'm
provements for which such property is SO
! condemned, shall be Of any benefit to the per-
son or persons owning or claiming the said
property, and they shall estimate the value of
such proposed improvements, to him or
them, aud 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
| ppsseSSed of auy 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. II. 1t shall be the duty of the Board
of Trustees TO provide for the accountability