Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-18
AN
AN ACT
To Protect the Wages OF Labor In
the atuto OF Nevada.

tho Stuto Of Nevada.
The following is a Bill introduced by Sena-
tor Sumner, January Is, 1856, which was
read frs. time, rules suspended, read second
time BY title, and referred to Committee on
Mines and Mining, and 2+0 copies ordered
printed: A..
The People of the State of Nevada, repre-
sented an Senate and Assembly, do enact as
foHorS:
SECTION l. In all assignments Of property,
whether real or personal, which may here
after be made BY any person or persons, firm,
company, or association, whether incorpo-
rated or chartered or not, to trustees or as
signees, on account Of inability, or pretended
inability, at the time Of such assignment, to
pay his, her, their, or its debts, the wages or
salaries OF persons employed by such person
or persons, firm, company, or association
shall be preferred aud paid by such assignees
or trustees before any other creditors OF such
assignor or sssignors.
SEC. 9. In case Of the death OF any person
resident within this State, the wages or sala-
ries Of any person employed by him shall be
first paid out Of his estate, before any other
debts, except necessary funeral expenses,
and medicine and professional attendance
furnished in the last sickness. And in case
Of the dissolution OF any firm, company or
association, as aforesaid, or the private sale.
or transfer, or determination whatsoever, Of
the business Of which firm, company or asso-
citation, as aforesaid, the wages and salaries
Of persons employed by them shall be u lien
upon their property and shall be first paid out
OF the estate, effects and assets Of such firm
or company.
SIC. 8. In all cases Of executions, land
lords warrants, renditioni crponaJ, Sari
fiacias, and writs Of like nature, hereafter to
be issued for the sale Of real or personal
property, against any person, or persons,
firm, company, or association, as Aforesaid,
il shall be the duty OF the Sheriff, or other
officer executing such writ, to give to the per-
sons employed by the defendant in said writ
notice OF the issuance thereof, by advertising
the same in one daily newspaper in the
county where such writ is issued, or il there
be no daily newspaper in the county, then in
a weekly newspaper, or in u daily newspaper
in a county adjoining, or by printed handbills
not less than ten in number, put up in public
places in the neighborhood Of the property to
be sold, at least ten days before the proposed
sale, requiring them to make known to him, |
before the sale Of said property, the kind and
amount Of their respective claims against
such defendant, and such claims, when so
made known, shall be first paid out Of the
proceeds OF such sale, pro rata, by the officer,
Court, making such distribution such
claims being subject, however, to all legal
objections which may be made as to the
or existence thereof.
SEC. 1. The claims for wages, or on ac-
count Of salaries, mentioned in the foregoing
sections, shall be a lien on the real estate Of
the person, persons, firm, company or asso-
liable to pay the same, prior and SUI
perior to all other liens upon said real estate,
except the lien Of judgments and mortgages
given for the purchase money Of the property
which there are liens, and the liens Of
judgments and mortgages entered prior to the
commencement Of the work for which such
wages are due, and the liens Of mechanics or
material-men, fled under the Act Of Novem-
Der 81, 1861, and except rs may be in the
foregoing sections excepted prorIded, that
the persons who may be entitled to demand
the claims intended to be preferred by the
provisions OF this Act, shall in any case hrst
exhaust the proceeds Of the personality, If
there be such, before resorting TO the realty,
and that in no one claim so preferred, or
hereby made a lien, shall exceed the sum Of
one hundred dollars; prorided, further, that
the lien provided for shall not exceed beyond
the period Of six months from the end Of the
time during which the work or service was
rendered, unless judgment for the amount
due shall, before that time, have been re-
ceiyed, and \ transcript thereof filed and
docketed in the office Of the County Clerk Of
the proper county.
SIC. 5. The provisions OF the foregoing
section shall only apply to cases for the re.
coyery q wages OF labor done and performed
within six months Immediately preceding the
death or levy by execution men
herein.
SEC. 6. In all cases Of appeals by defend
ants from the Judgment Of Justices OF the
Peace, or award OF arbitrators obtained in
any suit brought for the recovery Of wages or
by any miner, mechanic, laborer, or
clerk, agains; any person or persons, or cor
engaged in mining for gold or silver,
coal, iron, or copper, or the milling Of any
ores, or the manufacture Of iron, or
the smelling Of copper, the said defendant or
defendants, or his or their agent or attorney,
shall, before any such appeal be granted, de-
clare, on oath or affirmation, in writing, that
the appeal is not for the purpose OF delay, but
that the judgment to be appealed from is I'M
Just, and for more money than is justly due.
SEC. I. All Acts and parts Of Acts incon-
.sissent, or in conflict with the provisions Of
This Act. are hereby repealed.