Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-15
INCORPORATION ACT.

successors in interest, have a good and legal
title to the premises described therein, and
possession of such property may be obtained
in the form and manner as provided by law,
when the relation of landlord and tenant
exists.
SEC. 20. 1t shall be the duty Of the Treas
urer TO receive all moneys derived, for the
benefit of said town, from any and every
source, and he alone shall disburse the same
on proper warrants, or orders, OF SAID Trus-
tees. He shall keep an accurate and full
account of all receipts and'expenditures, IN
such manner as the Trustees may direct, and
he shall, at all times, keep his books and ac-
counts open for the inspection OF the Trus-
tees, and shall furnish them, whenever re-
uuired, full statement of such receipts and
expenditures. All warrants and orders
drawn on the Treasury, shall have specified
therein the services, or Indebtedness, for
which the same is drawn, and shall be re-
deemed in regular order of registration upon
the TreaSurer's books. Said Treasurer shall
perform such other acts and duties as may be
prescribed by ordinance, or resolution of said
Board.
SEC. 81. 1t shall be the duty of the Mar
shall to enforce the due observance of the
ordinances made BY the Trustees to perform
the duties of Assessor when an assessment
shall be made; TO collect the taxes levied by
said Board; to act, ex-otticio, as Chief of Po-
lice, and perform such other duties as shall
be, oy said Trustees, prescribed. II shall be
his duty to collect all licenses due the town,
and all other moneys or revenue due or to
become due, and to pay the same over to the
Treasurer. The time and manner Of such
assessing and collecting shall be such as the
Trustees, BY ordinance, may prescribe.
SEC. -. 1t shall be the duty of the Clerk
to keep the Corporate Seal and papers and
books belonging to the town; to lille the pa
pers and documents in his Office under ap-
propriate heads to attend the Sittings OF the
Board of Trustees, and keep u journal of
their proceedings, and record of all the BY
laws and ordinances, which journal OF pro-
ceedingS, after approval at each sitting, shall
be signed by the President of the Board; to
countersign all warrants, bonds and licenses
issued in pursuance of the orders and ordi-
nances of the Trustees to atfix the Corporate
Seal thereto ; to keep an accurate account, in
suitable book, under appropropriate heads,
of all warrants and orders drawn on the
Treasury; also 70 keep, in suitable book,
under appropriate heads, an account OF all
licenses issued, the date Of issue, and the
amount and he shall also do and perform
such other duties as may be required, or di-
rected by the Board Of Trustees by resolution
or ordinance.
SEC. %. Upon the passage Of all resoiu-
tons and ordinances, appropriating moneys,
imposing taxes, abolishing licenses, or IN
creasing or lessening the amount paid for
license, the ayes and nays shall be called, and
entered upon the journal.
SEC. q. The STYLE of the ordinances shall
be: -" The Board Of Trustees of the Town OF
Gold Hill do ordain." All ordinances shall
be published in one or more newspapers,
published in said county OF Storey, for at
least two weeks, and they shall be so publish
ed as soon as may be after their passage.
SEC. 25. Civil actions may be brought in
the name of the Inhabitants Of the Town OF
Gold Hill," in any Court of competent juris-
diction within the said county OF Storey and
actions for the breach Of any ordinance or
law Of the said town, may be brought before
any Justice of the Peace within the corporate
limits of said town; fines imposed by such
Justice OF the Peace may be recovered by cN-
ecution against the property Of defendant, or
the payment thereof may be enforced by i'm
prisonment in the town Jail, at the rate of one
day for every two dollars Of such tine and
costs; or said Justice, to enforce such pay
ment, may, in his discretion, adiudge that
such offender work upon the public highways
or other public works of the town, at the rate
of one day for every two dollars OF such fine
and costs, until the same be so exhausted or
paid. No fine. shall be imposed
exceeding five hundred dollars, and no ini-
prisonment, at one time, shall exceed the
term Of six months. Appeals from the judg-
ment of such Justice of the Peace, for the
violation of ordinances, may be had to the
District Court of Storey county, upon queS-
tions of law alone, within ten days after such
judgment is rendered; such appeal shall Je
taken in the manner provided by law OF the
State of Nevada for appeals from Justices
Court, in criminal cases, upon questions OF
law alone.
SEC. %. If any officer of said town shall
remove his residence therefrom, or shall alb
sent himself for more than thirty days, with
out leave of absence from the Board of
Trustees, his Office shall be declared vacated.
SEC. p. The present officers Of the town of
Gold Hill shall remain in Office until their
successors are elected and qualified, as pro-
vided in this charter; and nothing in this
Act contained shall repeal, or in any manner
affect, the binding force or validity of any or
dinance now in force in said town ; or affect,
in any manner, any debt, contract, or liabili-
ty of said town, now in existence. All the
official acts Of the present Board of Trustees,
who have acted BY virtue Of any charter here
tofore granted to said town BY the Legislature
of the Territory Of Nevada, are, and the same
are hereby declared, legalized. All debts and
liabilities contracted or incurred by said Board
OF Trustees, for which the credit Of the town
Of Gold Hill has been pledged, or scrip issued,
are hereby declared legalized, and are hereby
made valid liabilities and charges against
said town.
Sec. %. All property, real and personal,
acquired in the name of and for the benefit
of said town, by virtue of any prior charter,
or BY any act of any prior Board of Trustees,
shall be the property of the corporate body
created by this Act, and known as the In
h8bitants of the Town Of Gold Hill" All
streets, alleys, and avenues, within said cor
porate limits, used as public streets, alleys
and avenues, and all such streets, alleys and
avenues, laid out and plated upon the official
map of said town of Gold Hill, made by Geo.
Hunt, c. E., in the year 1868, or John Os-
from, C. E., in the year 1864, are hereby de-
clared open and public streets, alleys and
avenues, and exclusively under the control
and jurisdiction of said corporate body.
SEC. %. An Act entitled can Act to in
corporate the town of Gold Hill" approved
December II, 1862, and an Act entitled An
Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to in
corporate the town Of Gold Hill approved
December II, 1852" approved February Is,
1854, are hereby repealed.