Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-08
v A LRGIsLATURK.
second Session.
SENATE.
CARSON CRY, Feb. Z, l86

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CARSON CrrY, Feb. Z, 1866.
RIPoRTs. a
BY Mr.. Thompson, as correctly engross-
ed-An Act TO legslizs the levy and COL
Of taxes for the purchase or erection
Of county buildings in the several counties
Of this State and provide for the DISPOSE.
ton thereof. ggFg Erag
By MI. Thompson, from the Committee
Mines and Mining, favorably, Assem-:
bly, bill-An Act to secure persons and
animals from danger arising from mining
and other excavations.
By Mr.. Seely, from Judiciary Commit
tee, Assembly bill-An Act defining the
duties Of the Attorney General Of the State
Of Nevada. Agreed to.
Assembly bills, Nos. 81, rs and n, each
entitled-An Act to regulate proceedings
in civil cases in the Courts Of Justice Of
the Territory Of Nevada, approved Nov.
20, 1861. .ftsgaE 2o rnafE iiG
Assembly bill-An Act to regulate the
civil jurisdiction and practice in Justices
Courts, and to consolidate into one Act
former provisions on the same subject,
was laid on the table for the time being.
.usf trI,, MESSAGES.
Messages from the Assembly transmit
ting Assembly bill-An Act to prohibit
lotteries, ~rafles, gift enterprises. etc. , Re-
ferred to Committee on Public Morals.
Also, Assembly bill-An Act authoriz-
ing the survey and establishment Of the
boundaries between the several counties OF
this State. Referred to the Committee on
Counties and County Boundaries.
INTRODUCTION oP Hills.
BY Mr.. Hobart, from the Committee on
Ways and Means-An Act to further
amend an Act entitled An Act to provide
revenue for the support Of the Govern
ment Of the State Of Nevada. Ordered
printed. q ~
GENERAL FILE.
Senate bill-An Act to legalize the levy
and collection of taxes for the purchase or
erection Of county buildings in the several
counties Of this State, and provide for the
disposition thereof. Passed unanimously.
Senate bill-An Act defining the duties
of the Attorney General Of the State OF
Nevada. Ordered engrossed.
Assembly bill-An Act to regulate the
civil jurisdiction and practice in Justices
Courts and to consolidate into one Act
former provisions on the subject.
Mr.. Sumner said he hoped that bill
would not be read that it was an inter.
minable mass Of words, throwing around
Justices Courts more machinery and mys'
terry than surrounded the high Court o.
Admiralty that the Judiciary Committee
recommended that it quietly reposo upon
the table for the inspection Of any mem
bers whose curiosity led them to examine
it. He hoped the recommendation woult
be adopted.
The bill was laid on the table.
Assembly bill-An Act to secure per.
sons and animals from danger arising from
mining and other excavations.
Mr.. Tritle thought the section requiring
persons engaged in mining to keep a fence
around their shafts, impracticable. HI
did not see how they could prosecute work
on their claims when their excavations
were fenced up.
Mr.. Kellogg said when a party was a,
work on a shaft it was guarded and die
not need protection. but when he left i
he should either cover it up or keep Q
fence around it. There WAS nothing i'm.
practicable in that provision. He thought
the bill would be useless if that provision
was not in the bill.
Mr.. Ives said he desired the bill to go q
little further. He said that in his dis
trict, where houses were built over shafts,
and the work was suspended, unless a
strict guard was kept over them, miners
would tear them down and leave the shaft
exposed, and he moved that the bill be re.
ferred to the committee, with instructions
to incorporate an additional section. i'm.
posing a severe penalty upon any person
destroying buildings over mining shafts.
Mr.. Kellogg snid that the present crimi-
nal law provided fully for any such crimes,
Furnishing malicious mischief and larceny
with severe penalties.
Mr.. Doran said he could see no harm in
adding a provision, covering the ground
proposed by Mr.. Ives, even if the criminal
law did make it a crime. 1t would direct
public attention to provision. 1t was a
notorious fact in his county that whenever
a building over a shaft was temporarily
abandoned, it would be torn down and
carried off. The law ought to make it a
crime in express terms.
Mr.. Hutchins said he thought the crimi-
nal law was sufficient f; he was afraid il
the bill was amended and returned 10 the
House there would be SOM hitch in !,
which would defeat it, he therefore would
oppose the motion.
The motion lost, and bill passed.
SPECIAL ORDER.
Senate bill-An Act supplementary to
and amendatory of an Act to provide fol
the maintenance and supervision of public
schools, approved March goth, 1865, the
special order for u NJ, was called up and
postponed until IL N. next Friday.
fssa..rs ASSEMBLY. grFg
CARSON, Feb. 7, 1866.
REPORTS.
By Mr.. Mayhugh, from the Committee
on Mines and Mining lntesests, for the
consideration Of the House-Assembly
Bill, " An Act to provide for the estab-
liahment and maintenance of a Mining