Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-03-23
THREE VEIOES.
TWO MINING BILLS AND T-iE SGMi-AN-
NUAl TAX BILL

prevail as follows:
STATE OF NEVADA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
CARsoN, MARCH, %, 1898.
To THE HONORABLE, HE oECREFAhH
Or STATE OF NEVADA; SIR =
/ have
e honor to herewith file in your Of
flee, to be laid by you before the Leg
islature of Nevada at its next session,
Assembly Bill 95, entitled An act Tor
the location, recording and working
of mines and mineral deposits and fer
other purposes = without my appro-
val.
NV objections are as follows:
This proposed bill is an attempt 70
make new and strange requirements
for the locating, pefecting and e7t..5-
fishing valid ''lode' and ''plac"r
mining claims, which is inconsistent
and subversive to the mining laws OF
the United States now in force; and
the rights of miners of each mining
district, to make regulations not In
conflict with United States mining
laws governing the location, manner
of recording. amount of work neces
sarv, and the manner in which it Is to
be performed in order to hold poses
session of mineral claims Also, the
manner Of locating 'placer' claims
as defined in this bill would be in d.
rect contravention and in violation OF
the laws of the United States, govern
ing the same by substituting as pro-
posed in this bill, the word 'acres
instead Of feet y
The provisions of the whole bill
is intended Ito my mind and is en-
bodied in the last portion OF the title
"and for other purposes" which means
the promotion and the causing OF
endless litigation Gf approved) over
questions which have already been so
we'll established in our Courts, and
are generally we'll understood by MIN
ers and prospectors and any Interior
ence with them would in my Judge
ment lead to confusion and trouble.
| therefore withhold my approval.
Very Respectfully Submitted.
JOHN f. JONES, Governor
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, March goth,
To the Hon. Secretary of State. SIR
| T have the honor to herewith lille In
YOUR office to be laid by You before
the Legislature of Nevada at the next
session. assembly Bill 1872 entitled
"An act to encourage the Mining In
dustries of the State of Nevada with
out my approval:
My objections are as follows:
The bill as framed is ambiguous,
unintelligable and uncertain, on &C
count of its ungrammatical construc-
ton. and by reason of these defects, |
would consider that Of approved 1t
would be ineffective and void. For
those reasons | withhold my approval
! thereof.
Very Respectfully Submitted.
JOHN E JONES. Governor.
The third veto is as follows:
I have the honor herewith to file in
your Office. to be laid before the next
session of the Legislature, Assembly
/ Bill 81. entitled, '.An act allowing the
/ payment of taxes in equal semI-an-
nual instalments, and regulating the
collection of taxes on personal prop
erty - Without my approval.
Nv objections to the bills are as fol
| lows:
First. 1t is in my mind impractlc-
able in its provisions, and does not
and will not meet with any favorsfrom
the average taxpayer OF this State
and if tested in the courts, would be
declared imperative and void.
Second 1t would be in conflict with
the revenue laws now in force in many
respects. and would generally retard
the collection Of taxes by reason Of
said conflict.
Third. Its provisions are obvious
and to nay mind will result in nc
practical benefit to the general tax
payer, although possibly it might be
If advantage to those Of the Weather
class. of whom, unfortunately at pres
ent. Nevada holds but few within hel
borders, and as good Legislation IS IN
tended to be 1.-The greatest good to the
greatest number" and believing as
do I withhold my approval OF sale
bill
Very respectfully.
JOHN E. JONES.
Sacramento capitalists have orga-