Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-21
INCORPORATION ACT.


repair and preservation of sidewalks, bridges,
drains and sewers, and for the preservation
and removal of distractions from the streets
and sidewalks; and in the creation OF siue'
walks, and making other Improvements "
compel the owners OF lots and properly 70
bear the expense Of erecting Slee~AiNS VI
creating Improvements in frontoi 'he S"'ii''
BY special tax or otherwise,
Fonrth-To provide for the prevention anu
extinguiShment of hreS: - .,,,,,
Fifth-To regulate the storage OF gun
powder and other couonStiole mat:
Z S;x,b-To prevent and remove nulsances
d,tcrmine what are puisanceS.
as S w create and establish town
l., md prescribe their duties and COM
sensation, and provide for the regulation and
government of the same.
E;cb,h-To FIX and collect license tax
IN and regulate all theatres, circuses, shows,
! billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhi-
bitious 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,
( lob wagons or carts, or any other public ve-
! hicle running within the limits Of said town.
| Tenth-TO license, tax and regulate, pro-
/ shops, and public card tables, rafiles, hawk
rrS, peddlers aud pawn-brokers, refresh ment
or coffee stands, bootheS and sheds; also, to
prohibit and suppress all gaming, gambling
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.
Twelnh-To provide for the issuance OF
licenses before named for such terms, and in
such sums as they may deem best.
Thirteent..-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 riol
: or riOtous asSemblase, or disorderly conduct
within said town; 10 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
I elections.
( Sixteenth-To fix and prescribe the punish
ment for breach Of any town ordinance oil
I 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
I six months.
Seventeenth-To determine the duties, anc
, fix and establish, the fees, salaries and CON-
pensauon, of all officers OF said town; Prori'
/ Gsd, that no member Of the Board of Trustees
shall receive or be entitled to receive for his
services any sum whatever.
Eighteenth-To compel the attendance o!
absent members; 10 punish members for dis
( orderly conduct, and to expel members, fol
] cause by a vote of four hfthS Of its members
! elected.
/ Nineteenth-To make all necessary con-
1 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, OF
/ liability incurred, except upon cash basis
| nor which shall exceed in the aggregate, in
! elusive of its present Indebtedness, the sun
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 oi
( bonds for outstanding claims, or warrants
( or bonds over due, payable in one, two ano
| three years which funded debt shall not bs~
/ 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
/ Oft 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.
| Tweutieth-All ordinances made by said
! Trustees shall be signed by the President and
| Clerk Of said Board, upon its journal OF pro-
cecdings-where the same shall be written in
/ full; and all scrip aud 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-The Board of Trustees
shall have power to condemn and appropri
ate 10 the public use, or the use of the in
habitants Of said town, all real aud persona
property within the limits of said town, ant
all claims and asserted gifts, or title OF any
person whomSoever, 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 owner:
of the property SO to be condemned, shall ap
point one referee-aud in the event that the
Two referees so appointed shall not agree il
the valuation of such property or claim, ther
shall the two so appointed select thirC
referee, and the decision Of majority Of such
three, as 70 the valuation of the property oil
claim by them appraised, shall be reported &c
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 a "Board
of Appraisers" and their valuation shall be
hnal and binding. But no act Of said Board
or referee, in the condemnation Of property,
FOR 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
provements for which such property is SC
condemned, shall be of any benefit to the per.
son or persons owning or claiming the said
prorerty, and they shall estimate the value Of
. smch nrnnnsPd imnrnYementS. to him OF