TERRITORY OF NEBRASKA, Į I. ALGERNON S. PADDOCK, Secretary of Nebraska, do hereby certify that I have this day delivered to TAYLOR & MCCLURE. Public Printers, true and correct copies of all Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials now on file in this office, passed at the Tenth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska, begun and held at Omaha City, on the fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. GENERAL LAWS. AN ACT To provide for the payment of the Militia of Nebraska, called into service to repel hostile Indians, by Proclamation of the Governor, August 11th, 1864. sue bonds bear ten per cent., SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the Secretary of the Territory of Nebraska is hereby authorized and required to issue bonds of the Territory of Nebraska, to be signed by the Governor and Secretary of the Territory, Secretary to iscountersigned by the Territorial Auditor, and under the ing interest at seal of the Territory, in amounts of not less than fifty dol- pay able semi-anlars, nor exceeding five hundred dollars, bearing interest at nually. the rate of ten per cent. per annum; interest payable semiannually, with coupons attached, to be signed by the Territorial Treasurer, to an amount not exceeding thirty-six thousand dollars; the same, or as much thereof as is necessary, to be applied in payment of the militia of Nebraska, called into service by His Excellency, Governor A. Saunders, on the eleventh day of Angust, A. D. 1864, by proclamation. The principal of said bonds to become due and payable on the 1st day of January, A. D. 1870, and shall be made payable at such place as may be designated in the bond, and said bonds shall be handed over to the agent hereinafter provided, who shall be and is hereby authorized to sell and negotiate the same. Governor authorized to sell SECTION 2. That whenever said bonds shall be issued, the Governor shall be and is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds on the best terms practicable; and the Governor is further authorized to employ such agent or agents as he may appoint to assist in the negotiation and bonds sale of said bonds. The funds arising from such sale shall be exclusively applied, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose, to the payment of the organised militia companies called out as aforesaid, and for services of horses of the said militia-men, and for horses actually killed in the service or lost in said service, or so damaged as to be valueless for service, to be paid at the same rates of Paymaster to be appointed. Troops to be paid upon muster-out roll. compensation as now allowed by the Government of the United States to soldiers and horses engaged in similar service as Volunteers, (except bounty,) and the Governor shall report the amount of bonds by him sold, and to whom sold, and the amount realized from such sale, to the Territorial Auditor, as soon after the sale of said bonds as may be, and return any bonds in his hands remaining unsold, to the Territorial Treasurer. SECTION 3. The payment of said militia for service and for service of horses, and for horses lost, killed and damaged as aforesaid, shall be made by such person or persons as the Governor shall appoint paymaster or paymasters, Provided, That not more than two persons shall be designated to make such payments-one for the 1st and one for the 2d brigade. SECTION 4. The Governor shall appoint such paymaster or paymasters as soon as the amount of money realized from the sale of said bonds, shall in his judgment justify the same; and the person or persons so appointed paymasters as aforesaid, shall pay said militia upon the muster-out roll of the respective militia companies, which said musterout roll shall show the term for which each man and horse served; the amount due to the inan for his services, the amount due for the services of the horse, the amount of clothing drawn from the United States, and all stoppages for any cause. The amount of clothing drawn and stoppages in each individual case shall be deducted from the gross amount due. And the said paymaster shall require each commandant of a company, to make out and furnish him with a muster-out roll of such company, and with all such rolls as are required by the Government of the United States, which said rolls, together with a pay-roll of each company respectively, shall be filed by such paymaster, in the Adjutant General's office of the Territory, which said pay-roll must show the exact amount paid each man, and for what paid. SECTION 5. The said paymaster or paymasters shall each of them, before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such officers, give a bond to the Territory of Nebraska, in a sum not less than double the amount of money to be received by such paymaster, with sureties to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty as such paymaster; that he will pay out said monies only to those entitled to the same, and to each only the amount due for services actually rendered in a regularly organized militia company, called out as aforesaid; and to those losing horses in the service, no greater amount than the actual cash value of the horse lost, and pay over any balance remaining in his hands, to the Territorial Treasurer;-the said payment in all cases to be |