Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-28
INCORPORATION ACT

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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. 49,
Fourth-To provide for the prevention and
extinguishment Of fires.
Fifth-To regulate the storage OF gun
powder and other combustible 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 \ license tax
on, and regulate all theatres, circuses, shows,
billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhi-
billions and amusements. s.
Ninth-To tix and collect a license tax on,
and regulate all taverns, hotels, saloons,
bar-rooms, hurdy-gurdy houses, and public
dance houses, on auetioneers, 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.
Tenth-To license, tax and regulate, pro-
hibi, and suppress, all tipping 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, disorderiy 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.
Twelnh-To provide for the issuance Of
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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" 10 prevent the introduction aud
spread of disease, and provide for the indi-
gent.
Fifteenth-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, countyor 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 orc offense in any sum greater than five
hundred dollars in gold coin, and no term OF
imprisonment shall be prescribed exceeding
six months.
Seventeen,h-To determine the duties, and
fix and establish, the fees, salaries and COM
pensatlon. of all officers Of said town; Prort-
Ged, 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 Of
absent members; to punish members for dis
orderly conduct, and to eIpel members, for
cause, by vote of four-hfths Of its members
elected.
Nincteenth-To make all necessary con-
tracts and agreements for the benefit Of the
town 10 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
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 10
issue and sell bonds, bearing not 10 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
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-Allt 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 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 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 majority OF such
three, as to the valuation OF the property OF
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
h., V,plor ~ tho nana1 hV EaI
appraisers for such property 10 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 oil
Trustees may cause at once 10 be removed
from such property, all persons and obstruc.
tons, by order through the Marshal o! 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
hual 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
prorerty, 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. II. 1t shall be the duty Of the Board
Of Trustees to provide for the accountability
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