Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-23
INCORPORATION ACT.

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walks, and making other Improvements, 70
compel the owners Of lots and properly 10
hear the expense OF erecting sidewalks OF
creating improvements IN 'front.' OF tue s"'ie'
by special tax or otherwise.
Fonr,h-To provide for the prevention and
extinguishment Of hres;
4 ETf,S-To regulate .he storage of gun
poyjer and other cou4oustible material.
Sfytb-To prevent and. remove nuisances;
also 10 determine what are nuisances.
Seyenth-To create and establish town
notice, and prescribe their duties and COM
nnensa;ion, and provide for the regulation and
government Of the same.
Eiehth-To FIX and collect q license tax
on. and regulate alltheatres, circuses, shows,
| billiard tables, bowling alleys, and all exhi-
/ billions and amusements.
! Sinth-To ix 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 We
| hicle running within the limits Of said town.
! Tenth-To license, tax and regulate, pro-
hibit and suppress, all tippling houses, dram
| shops, and public card tables, rafies, hawk
ers, peddlers and pawn-brokers, refreshment
! or coffee stands, boothes and sheds; also, to
| prohibit and suppress all gaming, gambling
I houses, disorderly houses, and houses Of i'll
/ fame.
EIeyenth-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 nav deem best.
/ Thirtecntn-To provide for all necessary
public buildings for the use Of said town.
Fourteenth To establish Board Of
Health" to prevent the introduction aud
spread of disease, and provide for the indi-
gent.
Fifeenth-To prevent and restrain any riot
or riotous asSemblage, or disorderly conduct
within said town to close all places Of BUSH
/ ness or amusement on Sunday, and prohibit
[ and suppress the sale Of spirituous liquors
on any day OF municipal, county or State
/ elections.
! Si1teenth-To hx 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.
! Seven,eenth-To determine the duties, and
I TX and establish, the fees, salaries and COM
pensatIou, Of all officers Of said town; Prori-
ded, 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; 20 punish members for dis
/ orderly conduct, and to expel members, for
cause, by vote Of four-hfths Of its members
elected.
Nineteenth-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, or
liability incurred, except upon 4 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 il e1pedient, 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 wears which funded debt shall not bear
| interest greater than the legal interest OF I %
State of Nevada. They shall have power -,
| 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
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-Au 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 aud bonds issued, con-
tracts and agreements made, shall be signed
By the President and countersigned by the
Clerk Of said Board.
wenty-frst-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
| shah have power 10 condemn and appropri-
I ate to the public use, or the use of the in
/ habitau:s 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 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 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 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
! 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
I 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,
J 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
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, 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.