Judge, by order, may prescribe bounds for exemption of persons in certain manner.

Courts may by an order, entered upon the minutes of their Courts, prescribe bounds in their several counties, and all persons residing without said bounds may be exempted from serving on juries in the manner hereinafter prescribed; any person residing without said bounds may present his affidavit, showing his exemption, to the Court or Judge, and if the Judge shall be satisfied therefrom that he is one of the persons entitled to be exempt, under the provisions of this Act, he shall endorse thereon an order to the Clerk to make an entry on the jury list, opposite the name of the applicant, showing that he is exempted from jury service till the first Monday of January next ensuing. Upon presentation of this order to the Clerk, and upon payment to him of the sum of twenty-five dollars in gold coin, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to grant to him a certificate showing the payment of said sum and specifying that he is exempted from jury service until the first Monday of January next Clerk to file ensuing. The Clerk shall also file the affidavit and order

Clerk to grant certificate of exemption.

affidavit,

and other duties.

Fees, how applied.

and make proper entry on the jury list. The money coming into the hands of the Clerk under the operation of this law shall constitute a Jury Fund, for the safe keeping and due application of which the Clerk and his bondsmen shall be responsible on his official bond. It shall be applied: First-To the payment to the Clerk of fifty cents for each juror exempted for his services in filing the affidavit and order, and issuing the certificate herein provided for, and two per cent. of the whole sum collected for all other services rendered in pursuance of this Act; the balance of the fund shall be applied to the payment of the compensation of the jurors who served on trial juries. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep an accurate account of all moneys received and disbursed under the provisions of this Section and to submit the same to the inspection of the Court whenever it is so ordered; and it shall be the duty of the Judge to inspect and verify said account at the close of each term of the Court. It shall also be the duty of the Clerk to keep an accurate account of the attendance of each juror during the term of the Court, and at the close of the Mileage, etc term to ascertain the amount due each juror for mileage and attendance after deducting the amount received by him as Payment of fees in civil cases. If there is money enough in the Jury Fund to pay the jurors in full they shall be paid therefrom. If the amount in the Jury Fund is insufficient to pay the jurors in full, said jurors shall be paid from said fund in the order of their claims until the fund is exhausted; the balance of the jurors, if any, shall be paid from the General Fund of the county.

Judge to

inspect and verify accounts.

juries.

CHAP. CXVI.-An Act to Authorize the Commissioners of Lyon County to Issue Certain Bonds, and to Provide for the Payment of the Same.

[Approved March 7, 1881.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Lyon County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the name of the county of Lyon, not exceeding in amount the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of placing the finances of said county upon a permanent cash basis, and for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of the same; provided, that it shall not be incumbent on said Board of Commissioners to issue all of said bonds at the same time; but said bonds may be issued from time to time, as the necessities of the county may require. The money obtained by the sale of said bonds shall be placed in the General Fund of Lyon County.

SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of said county shall cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board and countersigned by the Clerk of the Board, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond, and coupons consecutively numbered shall be signed by the Chairman of said Board of Commissioners.

bonds;

ments, etc.

SEC. 3. The Clerk of the Board of Commissioners shall Clerk to keep record. keep a record of all their proceedings and of all bonds that may be issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the number, date and amount of each, and to whom issued. SEC. 4. The Board of County Commissioners of said Sale of Lyon County are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of advertisesaid bonds, either by advertising for sealed proposals for the purchase of the same, or otherwise, as they may deem proper, the proceeds of which shall be placed in the County Treasury; the amount so realized shall be applied to the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of said Lyon County and the current expenses of the same; provided, that none of said bonds shall be disposed of for less than Bonds to be their par value, and that all sales of said bonds shall be gold coin. made for gold coin of the United States of America, and with the interest thereon shall be payable in gold coin of the United States.

sold for

Denomination of

bonds limit interest and

ed; rate of

payment of

same.

Tax levy provided for

Interest and
Sinking
Fund.

Surplus to

be applied

SEC. 5. The said bonds shall be in sums of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and the interest on the same shall not exceed nine (9) per cent. per annum, payable annually, namely: on the first Monday in December of each year, at the office of the County Treasurer of said Lyon County; and in no case shall any of said bonds issued by virtue of this Act run a longer period than fifteen years.

SEC. 6. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds authorized by this Act, and the interest thereon, the Board of County Commissioners of Lyon County are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax, not to exceed fifty cents upon each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property, real and personal, within the boundaries of said Lyon County, until such bonds and the interest thereon have been paid. Such tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the County Treasurer in a special fund, to be known as the Interest and Sinking Fund of Lyon County.

SEC. 7. Whenever on the first Monday in December, to redemp- A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and any year there

tion of bonds;

manner of procedure.

Treasurer

after, after the payment of the interest then accrued on said bonds, there shall remain a surplus in said Interest and Sinking Fund of five hundred dollars or upwards, the County Treasurer of said Lyon County shall proceed to advertise for not less than three weeks, in some newspaper published in Lyon County, if there be one, and, in case there be none, then in some newspaper of general circulation published in Storey County, Nevada, a notice inviting proposals for the surrender of bonds issued under this Act. Such advertisement shall state the time and place of receiving such bids, the amount of money on hand applicable to the redemption of such bonds, and that no bid will be received at a rate exceeding the par value thereof. The County Treasurer, tomissioners gether with the County Commissioners, shall proceed to open and consider such proposals at the time and place named in such advertisement, and shall accept such proposals at a rate, not exceeding the par value, as may redeem the greatest amount of bonds, until the amount of money on hand is exhausted; provided, that in case more bonds are offered for redemption than can be paid for by the money in said fund, said County Treasurer and said Commissioners shall determine by lot which of said bonds so offered shall be paid first; and, provided further, that in case any bonds shall be offered at a discount, the lowest bids shall be accepted; and in case, on the day named for reception of proposals, no bids for the surrender of bonds have been filed with the

and Com

to open and consider bids.

County Treasurer, or there be remaining in the Interest and Sinking Fund, after redeeming all bonds offered for redemption, a sufficient amount of money to redeem additional bonds, the County Treasurer and County Commissioners shall determine by lot which of said bonds shall be redeemed; and the County Treasurer shall then give notice by publication, in some newspaper as heretofore provided in this Section, that the bonds specified in said notice, if not presented for payment, shall cease to bear interest from and after twenty days from the first publication of said notice.

SEC. 8. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for Tax to cease in this Act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this Act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said Interest and Sinking Fund shall, by order of the Board of Transfer of County Commissioners, be transferred to the General Fund of said county.

surplus.

Cancella

tion of

coupons.

SEC. 9. Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay any coupons or bonds under the provisions of this Act, he shall bonds and cancel the same in the usual manner and turn the same over to the County Auditor, who shall give him credit therefor in his books.

CHAP. CXVII.-An Act to Authorize the Board of County
Commissioners of Nye County to Negotiate a Loan and to
Provide for the Payment Thereof.

[Approved March 7, 1881.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Nye County to negotiate

authorized

a loan.

Limit of

SECTION 1. For the purpose of sustaining the credit of Nye County a loan not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars is hereby authorized to be negotiated on the faith and credit of said county, to be paid within seven years from the date of negotiation of said loan, to bear a rate of interest not exceeding eight (8) per cent. per interest. annum from the date of the bonds, payable semi-annually at such places in San Francisco as may be designated by the County Treasurer of Nye County, or at his office in the county of Nye, at the option of the party or parties to whom such bonds are issued.

prepared

SEC. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Nye Bonds to be County shall cause bonds to be prepared equal to the amount denominaof fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars; said bonds shall be of ton prethe denomination of five hundred ($500) dollars each, and purport,etc.

scribed,

to bonds.

each and every bond purport in substance that the county of Nye, State of Nevada, owes the holder thereof the sum expressed therein; also, the rate of interest; said bonds to be used for the payment of the loan authorized by this Act; Signatures which bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of said Board, countersigned by the County Auditor, and endorsed by the County Treasurer, and shall have the seal of the county affixed thereto. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond so that the coupons may be removed without injuring or mutilation to the bond; said coupons, consecutively numbered, shall be signed by the County Treasurer.

Coupons.

Bonds to be

sold for gold coin.

Sale of bonds; ap

proceeds.

SEC. 3. No bonds, issued under the provisions of this Act, shall be sold at less than par value nor for any currency except gold coin of the United States; and for the payment of said bonds, both principal and interest, in like gold coin, the faith and credit of the county is solemnly pledged.

SEC. 4. The Board of County Commissioners of Nye plication of County are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of the bonds herein provided to be issued, and the proceeds thereof shall be placed in the Treasury of Nye County, and the County Auditor and County Treasurer are hereby required to apportion the proceeds of such bonds among the several funds of said County Treasury as follows: To the Salary Fund, five thousand ($5,000) dollars, and to the several other county funds, excepting the School and Court House Bond Funds, ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, in proportion to the amount that each is in debt.

County

Treasurer

fund.

enues to be

placed in fund.

SEC. 5. After the negotiation and sale of the bonds proto set apart vided for in this Act, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of Nye County to set apart a fund for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of said bonds when they shall become due, which shall be called the County Certain rev. Interest and Sinking Funds, to create which ten (10) per cent. of all county revenues, excepting the School and Court House Bond and Interest Funds, shall be set apart and placed into the said County Interest and Sinking Fund by the County Treasurer, and the said Treasurer of Nye County is hereby expressly prohibited from paying out any portion of said (ten) per cent. of said revenues for any other purposes than the payment of the interest and bonds in this Act provided for.

Treasurer

not to pay

out money

except for

the payment

of interest and bonds.

Clerk to keep record.

Interest, payment of.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of Nye County to keep a record of all such bonds as may be issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the number, date, amount, and to whom issued.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of Nye County to promptly pay out of the County Interest and Sinking Fund, in this Act provided for, the interest coupons