SPECIAL LAWS. AN ACT To apportion one member of the House of Representatives to Hall, Buffalo, and Merrick counties, and to disconnect said counties from Platte county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Hall, Buffalo, and Merrick counties are hereby constituted one election district, and entitled to elect one member of the House of Representatives of this Territory, and that so much of an act, entitled "An Act to apportion the members of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska," approved February Ist, A. D. 1864, as constitutes Platte, Hall, Buffalo, and Merrick counties, jointly entitled to one member, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, January 31, 1865. AN ACT To confer the Elective Franchise on citizens residing temporarily on the Iowa, Missouri, and Otoe, and Sac and Fox Reservations. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That every citizen being a qualified voter of any county of this Territory, who has gone, or who shall go upon the Iowa, Missouri, and Otoe and Sac and Fox Indian Reservations for temporary purposes, there to work, or labor in pursuit of his law ful trade or occupation, with intention to return on completion of such work, or labor, and reside in the county from which he departed, or may depart with such intentions, shall be deemed an inhabitant of the county from which he departed, or may depart with such intention, and shall be entitled to vote at all elections in said county, the same as if never absent therefrom. SECTION 2. That every citizen being a qualified voter of any county of this Territory, who has removed, or who shall hereafter remove for temporary purposes to the Iowa, Missouri, and Otoe and Sac and Fox Indian Reservations, with intention there to reside while under employ of the United States, or any officer thereof, on said reservation authorized to employ persons thereon to work, labor, or serve, and with intention to return on the expiration of said term of employment or service, and reside in the county from which he departed, or may depart with such intention, shall be entitled to vote for Delegate to Congress and Territorial officers in the precinct next adjoining said reservation, nearest to their said place of employment, or temporary residence. SECTION 3. If at any election any member of the board of election, or citizen having voted at such election shall challenge the elector proposing to vote under the provisions of this act, the said board shall tender to the elector challenged, an oath in the following form: "I, (A. B.,) do solemnly swear that I am twenty-one years of age, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that I am a citizen of the United States; or have declared my intentions to become such, (as the case may be,) and taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of the Organic Act of the Territory of Nebraska, that I am residing upon lands reserved to the Iowa, Missouri and Otoe and Sac and Eox Indians, or while uuder employ of the United States, or while under employ of an officer of the United States authorized to employ persons to work, labor, or serve on said resevation, (as the case may be,) that I did reside in the Territory of Nebras ka six months, and in the county of - twenty days next preceding my removal to the said reservation; that I did, at the time of removing, and do now, intend to return to the said county and reside therein, on the expiration of my term of employment, or service; that I did not vote, and do not intend to vote, at any other precinct on this day;" and if the elector challenged shall take such oath, his ballot shall be received. SECTION 4. That if any person shall taks the oath herein contained, knowing the same to be false, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury. SECTION 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1865. AN ACT To empower the Board of Education of Louisville township, Cass county, to levy a tax for School purposes for the years A. D. 1865 and 1866. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the Board of Education of Louisville township, in the county of Cass, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make the annual estimate as provided in section twenty-one of an act entitled "An Act for the better regulation of Schools in Nebraska," approved, November the 4th, 1858, for the years 1865 and 1866. And the county clerk of the said county is hereby authorized and empowered to assess the entire amount of such estimate on all taxable property of the said township the same as though the said estimate had been made to him within the time prescribed by the said section twenty-one of the aforesaid act. SECTION 2. That the said Board of Education be, and are hereby empowered and authorized to estimate and require to be levied for the years 1865 and 1866 and no longer, for the purpose of building school houses in said township, any amount upon all taxable property of said township, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar valuation in any one. year, of said taxable property, and the county clerk shall assess the entire amount of such estimate in manner prescribed in the preceding section. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 7, 1865. AN ACT To empower the Board of Education of Forest City School District in Sarpy county, to levy a tax for school purposes, for the year 1865. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the Board of Education of Forest City School District in the county of Sarpy be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make the annual estimate, as provided in section twenty-one of an act entitled "An Act for the better regulation of schools in Nebraska," approved, November the 4th, 1858, for the year 1865. And the county clerk of the said county is hereby authorized and empowered to asses the entire amount of such estimate on all taxable property of said school district the same as though the said estimate had been made to him within the time prescribed by the said section twenty-one of the aforesaid act. SECTION 2. That the Board of Education be, and are hereby authorized and empowered to estimate and require to be levied for the year 1865 and no longer, for the purpose of sustaining teachers and building school houses any amount upon all the taxable property of said school district not exceeding ten mills on the dollar valuation of said taxable proporty, and the county clerk shall assess the entire amount of such estimate in the manner prescribed in the preceding section. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Ppproved, February 4, 1865. AN ACT Relating to Schools in Wyoning city, Otoe county, Nebraska Territory. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That hereafter Wyoming city, together with the Territory annexed thereto for school purposes inOtoe county, Territory of Nebraska, shall be governed and be under the control of the Board of Education of the township in which the same is situated, for school purposes. SECTION 2. its passage. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after Approved, February 1, 1865. AN ACT To vacate the Alley in block sivty-four (64) in the town of Salem, in Richardson county, Nebraska. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the alley running through block sixty-four in the town of Salem in Richardson county be, and the same is hereby vacated. ats SECTION 2. passage. This act to take effect and be in force from and after Approved February 13, 1865. AN ACT To provide for a Special Election in the county of Kearney. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska: That on the second Monday in March next, there shall be a special election held in Kearney City, in the county of Kearney, in this Territory, for the election of three judges of election, one probate judge, three county commissioners, one sheriff, one Coroner, one county treasurer, one county clerk, one county surveyor, one prosecuting attorney, one assessor, two justices of the peace, two constables and two clerks of election for said county, who shall hold their offices until the next general election, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. SECTION 2. There shall be a notice of said election in the usual form, posted up in three of the most public places in said county at least ten days before said election takes place; said notice to be signed by James M. Pyper, County Clerk of Kearney county. SECTION 3. Ón the morning of election the electors present shall select from their number three persons to act as judges of election and two to act as clerks, who shall each be sworn before some officer authorized to administer oaths, well, faithfully impartially to perform their duties as such officers. Said election shall be held at the store of William D. Thomas, in said Kearney City. The person receiving the highest number of votes for said offices respectively, shall be declared elected and receive a certificate to that effect to be signed by the clerks of said election. SECTION 4. The officers elected at said election shall be qualified before Merrick Cummings, a notary public, in and for said county, and such of said officers as are required by law to give bonds, shall do so before said notary public, and the said bonds shall be approved by him. SECTION 5 The general election law of this Territory shall be followed in conducting said special election and qualifying said officers as far as practicable, except as herein otherwise provided. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1865. |