Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-27
INCORPORATION ACT.

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repair and preservation Of sidewalks, bridges,
drains and sewers, and for the preservation
and removal Of distractions from the streets
and side Mlks; and in the creation OF SIDE
walks, and making other Improvements 70
compel the owners of lots and properly 10
bear the expense of erecting sidewalks or
creating improvements in front oil the same
| by special tax or otherwise;
Fourth-To provide for the prevention and
extinguishment Of hres;
FifSh-To regulate the storage OF gun
nowdnr and other coubustible material.
Siytb-To prevent and remove nuisances !;
also 10 determine what are nuisances.
Seyenth-To create and establish town
notice, 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 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,
job 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, and public card tables, raffies, hawk
ers, peddlers and pawn-brokerS, refreshment
or coffee stands, boOthes and sheds; also, to
prohibit and suppress all gaming, gambling
| houses, disorderly houses, and houses Of i'll
/ 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.
Twelfth-To provide for the issuance Of
! licenses before named for such terms, and in
| such sums as they may deem best.
| Thirteenth-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.
Fiteenth-To prevent and restrain any riot
| or riotous assemblage, 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.
Sixteenth-To fix and prescribe the punish
ment for breach of any town ordinance or
| resolution but no fine shall be imposed for
/ any ore ofFense in any sum greater than five
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
| pensatlon, of all officers Of said town; Prort-
| 9ed, that no member of the Board Of Trustees
! shall receive or be entitled to receive for his
/ services any sum whatever.
Eshteenth-To compel the attendance Of
! absent members; to punish members for dis
/ orderly conduct, and to expel members, for
/ cause, BY vote Of fOur-ffths Of Its members
| elected.
NineteeHth-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, OF
/ liability incurred, except upon a cash basis,
nor which shall exceed in the aggregate, in
| elusive of its present Indebtedness, the sum
| Of forty thousand dollars. The Board OF
| Trustees shall have power at all times, when
/ 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 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
I 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-
| ceedincs-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 fnes imposed,
| and all scrip and bonds issued, shall be made
PAYABLE only in gold and 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.
| habitants Of said town, all real and persona!
/ 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
I of the property so to be condemned, shall ap'
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 two so appointed select third
referee, and the decision of a majority Of such
three, as to the valuation of the property OIL
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
! 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-
/ tons, By order through the Marshal OF said
town, and take full and immediate posses
! 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, 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 If the proposed i'm
proyements 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