Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-03-29
CHAPTER XXXIII.


An Act to provide for the payment of certain
Indebtedness, accrued and to accrue OF
White Pine County.
Approved February 20, 1879.
The people of the State of Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
| SECTION l. The Board of Commissioners
of White Pine County are hereby authorized
aud directed from and after the passage OF
this Act, to create in the County Treasury OF
said county, fund to be known as the Re
demption Fund of said county, as soon after
the passage of this Act as may be practicable,
said Board shall cause to be transferred into
said Redemption Fund, twenty per cent. OF
all resources in the General Fund of said
county, at the time of the taking effect of this
Act, and the County Treasurer of said county
| is hereby expressly prohibited from paying
out any portion of said twenty per cent. of
said revenues, from said Treasury, until the
order of transferrence to be made by SAID
| Board, as hereinafter provided for, is duly
certified to such Treasurer, and SAID Board
shall cause twenty per cent. OF all county rev.
enues, paid into the treasury of said county,
after the passage of this Act to be placed III
said Redemption Fund, as soon paid into
said Treasury the money placed IN the he
demption Fund created by this Act shall be
disbursed as hereinafter provided.
| SEC 2. Whenever at any time, there
shall be in said Redemption Fund, the sum
of FIVE hundred dollars, or more, 1t shall be
the duty of the County Treasur of said county
to give ten days notice by posting at the
Courthouse door of said county, that sealed
proposals directed to him, will be received for
| the surrender of county certificates of lndebt-
edness on the General Fund of said county,
pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and
| that said proposals will be received by hIn
until the next regular meeting OF the Board
! of County Commissioners of SAID county there
after.
| SEC 3. On the first day of such regular
| meeting of said Board of County Commits
sioners, thev, together with the County Au-
ditor and Treasurer, shall attend at the office
of the latter, and then and there open all
sealed proposals then received, and accept
the lowest bid or bids, for the surrender of
county certificates of Indebtedness as specl-
fed in the preceding section, provided that
no bid for more than par value shall be &C
cedted by them, nor any bid unless accom-
panied by certificate or certificates proposed to
be surrendered, and provided further, that
said Board shall, if it shall deem 1t for the
| best interests of the county, reject all bids,
and order the Treasurer to re-advertlse.
Said Board shall, on opening and accepting
bids, apply all funds then in said Redemption
Fund, if there be accepted bids sufficient to
cover the amount.
SEC 4. When any bid or bids are accept
| ed, the County Auditor, and County Treas
urer shall each take description of the Ger
tifcate or certificates to be redeemed, specl-
| flying the amount to be paid for each certlh-
cate surrendered, the date, number and
| IL l.
in their respective offices, and thereupon the
Board of County Commissioners shall, by or
der entered in their minutes, direct the
| County Treasurer to purchase the certificate
| or certificates of indebtedness desi grated in
the accepted bid or bids, and pay therefor
out of said Redemption Fund, and all certiti-
Gates, so redeemed, shall be cancelled by the
| County Treasurer, who shall write across the
face thereof, in red INK, " Purchased and re
deemed" adding thereto the the time when,
and the amount paid therefor, and signing
| the same officially. The order of the Board
| of Commissioners aforesaid, together with the
record made by the County Auditor as herein
required shall be sufficient vouchers for the
County Treasurer in the settlement OF his
accounts The bids specsfed i'll this Act be-
ing equal, preference shall be given to prior
itv of date of allowance, and to the smallest
amount
That shall be deemed the lowest bid which
offers the largest amount of certificates for the
least sum of money The bids and amounts
of certificates being equal, each shall be &C
cepted and paid pro rata as nearly as possible.
The County Treasurer shall return all unac-
cepted bids to the owners on demand. The
County Treasurer shall keep a separate &C
count, under the head of Redemption Fund,
of all moneys received therein, of all moneys
paid out thereof, and when and to whom
paid. He shall also, on the register of county
certificates of indebtedness kept by him, write
opposite each certificate redeemed under the
provisions of this Act, the word purchased,
when, and the amount paid therefor.
SEC. 5. All officers of said county, who
shall render any services, official or otherwise
under the provisions of this Act, shall do so
free of charge or fee.
SEC 6. An Act entitled An Act to pro
vide for the payment of certain indebtedness,
accrued and to accrue, of White Pine County,
approved January twenty eighth, eighteen
hundred and seventy nine, and all other Acts
and parts of Acts heretofore passed, so far
only as in conflict with this Act, are hereby
repealed.
CHAPTER XXXIV.