SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Austin disincorporated. Offices abolished. Take effect May 2, 1881. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to Disincorporate the City of Austin, and to Repeal All Other Acts Touching Its Incorporation. [Approved February 26, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Austin," approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; an Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Austin," approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the City of Austin,'" approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; an Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled An Act to Incorporate the City of Austin,'" approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, are each and all hereby repealed. SEC. 2. All offices under any incorporation of the City of Austin are hereby abolished. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the second day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. CHAP. XLVII.-—An Act to Disincorporate the Town of Gold ration. [Approved February 26, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and disincor SECTION 1. An Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Gold Hill Town of Gold Hill," approved March seventh, eighteen porated. hundred and sixty-five; an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; an Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; an Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; an Act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved February' twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Gold Hill,''' approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, are each and all hereby repealed. SEC. 2. All offices under any incorporation of the Town offices of Gold Hill are hereby abolished. abolished. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the second day of Take effect May, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. May 2, 1881. Co. Com CHAP. XLVIII.—An Act Providing for the Government of the Towns and Cities of This State. [ Approved February 26, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction missioners, conferred by other laws, the Boards of County Commissioners of the counties of this State shall have the following with regard to the management of the affairs and business of any town or city in their respective counties: powers and jurisdictions conferred. Define the boundaries time of doing same. First-To fix and define the boundary of such town or of town and city within which the jurisdiction herein conferred shall be exercised; provided, that in the case of any disincorporated town or city the boundaries shall be fixed at the time of such disincorporation, but any change of such boundaries may be made by the Board upon petition of a majority of the taxpayers thereof. Suits to be etc. Second-To institute and maintain any suit or suits in any maintained, Court or Courts necessary in their judgment to enforce and maintain any right or rights of said town or city; all such suits shall be instituted and prosecuted, in the name of the Board of County Commissioners for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said town or city, and shall be entitled accordingly in all pleadings and proceedings. Tax levy. Streets, alleys, etc. Condemn property. Third-To levy a tax, not exceeding one and one-half per cent. per annum, upon the assessed value of all real and personal property (including proceeds of mines) situated in said town or city, made taxable by law for State and county purposes. Fourth-To lay out, extend and alter the streets and alleys in said town or city, and provide for the grading, draining, cleaning, widening, lighting or otherwise improving the same; also, to provide for the construction, repair and preservation of sidewalks, bridges, drains and sewers, and for the prevention and removal of obstructions from the streets and sidewalks of said town or city; provided, that said Board may, in its discretion, assess the cost of improving any street, or building or repairing a sidewalk, to the owner or owners of the property in front of which said street, or sidewalk, or proposed sidewalk may be, and may make such cost of improvement, repairs, or building, a lien upon such property. Fifth-To condemn property for the use of the inhabitants of said town or city, in the manner hereinafter provided. Department Assistant Sixth-To provide for the prevention and extinguishment Fire of fires, and organize, regulate, establish and disband fire companies or fire departments in said city or town and to provide for the payment thereof and the appointment and payment of officers thereto; provided, that all such payments shall be made from the separate fund of the city or town where service is performed or required; and provided further, that the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department Chief and shall receive compensation in a sum not to exceed one hun- Engineer's dred and fifty ($150) dollars per month; the Assistant Chief salary, etc. Engineer of the Fire Department not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month; and all other employés of the Fire Department not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars per month; and further provided, that a How majority of the Board of County Commissioners shall name appointed. and appoint two-thirds of all such officers and employés, and the minority thereof shall name and appoint one-third. etc. Seventh-To regulate the storage of gunpowder and other Gunpowder explosive or combustible materials within said town or city. Eighth-To determine what shall be deemed nuisances in Nuisances. such town or city, and provide for the punishment, prevention and removal of the same. and to issued. Ninth-To fix and collect a license tax on, and regulate all Licenses, places of business and amusement so licensed, as follows, to wit: whom Artisans, artists, assayers, auctioneers, bakers, bankers, barbers, billiard tables, boiler makers, boot and shoemakers and cobblers, bowling alleys, brokers, factors and general agents, commission merchants, circus, caravan or menagerie, concerts and other exhibitions, dance houses, saloons or cellars, express and freight companies, foundries, gaming, hawkers and peddlers, hay yards, wagon yards and corrals, hotels, boarding houses and lodging houses, illuminating gas, electric light, insurance agents, job wagons, carts and drays, laundries, livery and sale stables, lumber yards, manufac turers of liquors and other beverages, manufacturers of soap, soda, borax or glue, markets, merchants and traders, milliners and dressmakers, newspaper publishers, pawnbrokers, restaurants and refreshment saloons, bar rooms, shooting galleries, skating rinks, solicitors, drummers, mercantile agents, stages and omnibuses, stock brokers, tailors, clothes cleaners, telegraph companies, theaters, melodeons, undertakers, wood and coal dealers, having due regard to the amount of business done by each person or firm so licensed; to license, tax and regulate, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, public card tables, raffles, hawkers, peddlers and pawnbrokers, gambling houses, disorderly houses, and houses of ill fame; to levy and collect Dogs. an annual tax on all dogs owned or kept within the limits of said town or city, and to provide for the extermination of all Issuance of dogs for which such tax shall not have been paid, and to prohibit the keeping of hogs or the running at large of goats, cows or other animals within the limits of said town or city; to fix and collect a license tax upon all professions, trades or business within said town or city not heretofore specified. Tenth-To provide for the issuance of all licenses in this licenses. Act mentioned or authorized to be issued, and to fix the Punish for disorderly conduct. Board of Health. erty, sale of, etc. terms on which and the sums for which the same shall be issued. Eleventh-To prevent, punish and restrain any disorderly conduct within said town or city; to establish and maintain a Board of Health. Twelfth-To hold, manage, use and dispose of the real Town prop- and personal property of said town or city, and collect_all dues and demands belonging to or coming to the same; but no sale of any such property shall be made until after it be Appraisers. appraised by three appraisers, taxpayers of said town or city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than three-fourths of such appraised value. Breaches of ordinance fine and penalty. Thirteenth-To fix and prescribe the punishment for the punish ble, breach of any ordinance made or adopted by said Board of County Commissioners, to be enforced within said town or city; but no fines shall be imposed for one offense in a sum greater than five hundred ($500) dollars, and no term of imprisonment shall be more than six months, but in lieu of imprisonment any person committed for punishment may be Chain gang. made to work on any public work in said town or city, and to that end a chain-gang may be formed, continued and operated. Ordinances, rules and Fourteenth-To pass or adopt all ordinances, rules and regulations. regulations, and do and perform all other acts and things necessary for the execution of the powers and jurisdiction by this Act conferred; provided, that all ordinances of said town or city in force at the date of the assumption by said Board of County Commissioners of the powers and duties by this Act conferred or imposed, and not inconsistent therewith, shall remain in full force and be enforced until changed Publication or repealed by such Board; and provided further, that no ordinance passed by said Board shall be in force or effect until published for one week. Claims audited, etc Property condemned and appropriated. Referee, etc. Fifteenth-To audit and allow all claims properly payable out of the funds of said town or city. Any property, real or personal, necessary for the public use of said town or city, or the inhabitants thereof, may be condemned and appropriated in the following manner: The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint one referee and the claimant or claimants, or owner or owners of the property sought to be condemned, shall appoint one referee, and in the event the |