constituted an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 30. [Supervisor-Neglect of duty.]—If any supervisor of registration, or revision of registration, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect of his duty, under this act, or of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of the same, he shall on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or by fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars, or both.

SEC. 31. [Same-Stealing records.]-Every supervisor of registration, clerk, or other officer, having the custody of any records, registers, or copy thereof, oaths, certificates, or any paper, document, or evidence of any description in this act directed to be made, filed, or preserved, who is guilty of stealing, wilfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying, or fraudulently removing or secreting the whole or any part thereof, or who shall fraudulently make an entry, erasure, or alteration therein, except as allowed and directed by the provisions of this act, or who permits any other person so to do, shall upon the conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished for each and every such offense by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than sixty days and shall, in addition thereto, forfeit his office.

SEC. 32. [Records-Stealing and destroying.]-Every person not an officer, such as is mentioned in the last preceding section, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in the preceding section, or who advises, procures, or abets the commission of the same, or any of them, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and for each and every such offense shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than sixty, or by fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or both.

SEC. 33. [False swearing.]-Any person who shall be convicted of wilfull or corrupt false swearing or affirming in taking an oath or affirmation prescribed by or upon any examination provided for in this act, or upon being challenged as unqualified upon offering to register, shall be adjudged guilty of wilfull and corrupt perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

SEC. 34. [Same-Subornation.]-Every person who shall wilfully and corruptly instigate, advise, induce, or procure any person to swear or affirm falsely, as aforesaid, or attempt or offer so to do, shall be adjudged guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer the punishment directed by law in cases of wilfull and corrupt perjury.

SEC. 35. [Hindering registration.]-If at any general registration of voters, or revision thereof, any person shall cause any breach of the peace, or use any disorderly violence, or threats of violence, whereby any such registration or revision shall be impeded or hindered, or whereby the lawful proceedings of any supervisor of registration or challenger are interfered with, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or both.

SEC. 36. [Same.]—If any person shall knowingly or wilfully obstruct, hinder, assault, or by bribery, solicitation, or otherwise interfere with any supervisor of regis tration or other person designated as provided in this act to be present at any registration, in the performance of any duty required of him, or which he may by law be authorized and permitted to perform; or if any person, by any of the means before mentioned or otherwise unlawfully shall on the day of registration or revision of registration hinder or prevent any supervisor of registration, or any person designated as

provided in this act to be present at such registration, in his free attendance and presence at the place of registration in and for, which he is appointed or designated to serve, or in his full and free access and egress to and from any such place of registration or revision of registration, or to and from any room in which any such registration or revision of registration may be had, or shall unlawfully molest, interfere with, remove, or eject from any such place of registration or revision of registration any such supervisor of registration or person designated, as provided in this act, or shall unlawfully threaten, or attempt, or offer so to do, every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than thirty days, nor more than six months, or shall be fined not less than two hundred ($200) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1000) dollars, or both, and shall stand committed until the fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 37. [Neglect by supervisors.]-Any supervisor of registration who shall wilfully neglect, or when called upon, shall wilfully decline to exercise the powers conferred on him in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 38. [Same.]-If in any election precinct at any general registration of vot ers, or revision thereof, in any city governed by the provisions of this act, any supervisor of registration shall knowingly or wilfully admit any person to registration, or make any entry upon any register of voters, or shall consent thereto, unless a majority of all supervisors of registration in said election precinct are present and concur, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, or be fined not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1000.00) dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. And if any supervisor of registration in any election district shall, without urgent necessity, absent himself from the place of registration in said precinct upon any day of registration, whereby less than a majority of all the supervisors in such election precinct shall be present during the hours of registration, or revision of registration he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or shall be fined not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or both.

SEC. 39. [Duties of county attorney.]-It is hereby made the special duty of the county attorney of any county in this state to immediately prosecute all complaints which may be made of violations of any of the provisions of this act to final judgment; and the court before which any conviction for such violation shall be had shall not in any case suspend sentence or judgment for more than twenty days; but no indictment or information for such violation shall be brought to trial unless the complainant, if any, if he shall be found, shall have at least two days notice, in writing, from the said county attorney, of the day when he intends to try the same.

SEC. 40. [Liquors.]-Whoever during the sitting of any board of supervisors of registration in any election precinct in any city governed by the provisions of this act, whether held for the purpose of registration, or reversion of registration, shall bring take, order, or send into, or shall cause to be taken, brought, ordered, or sent into or shall attempt to bring, take, or send into any place of registration, or revision of registration, any intoxicating liquors whatever, or shall at any such time or place drink or partake of any such liquor shall be deemed and held guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, or both, and shall stand committed until the fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 41. [Irregularities.]—Irregularities or defects in the mode of noticing,

convening, holding, or conducting any registration, or revision of registration, authorized by law, shall constitute no defense to a prosecution for the violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 42. [Boundaries of precincts.]-The boundaries of all election precincts and the location of all places of registration, or revision of registration, shall be publicly advertised in at least one newspaper published and of general circulation in said city in the last issue of the paper selected preceding the first day of any general registration, or revision of registration, and one notice in the last issue of the paper so selected prior to each day of registration, or revision of registration, and on such day or days only. All advertising provided for in this section shall be done in one newspaper only published in the city, to be designated by the city council; and all matters advertised shall be prepared and furnished the journals in which it is to be inserted free from unnecessary verbiage or repetition; Provided, The boundaries of all election precincts, and the location of all places of registration, or revision of registration, shall be publicly advertised in at least two newspapers published and of general circulation in said city, in the last issue of each of the papers selected preceding the first day of any general registration, or revision of registration, and one notice in the last issue of each of the papers so selected prior to each day of registration or revision of registration, and on such days only.

SEC. 43. [Costs and expenses, how paid.]-The legal compensation of all supervisors of registration, the costs and expenses of all necessary notices, posters, maps, advertisements, registers and books, blanks and stationery, the rent and cost of fitting up, warming, lighting, cleaning, and safe keeping of all places of registration, or revision of registration, and of all supplies of all kinds and nature for all registration in such city shall be a charge, and shall, upon proper certificates and vouchers, be paid out of the general fund of such city, in the same manner as by law provided for the payment of other city expenses out of such fund,

CHAPTER 76 a.-RELIEF FOR SUFFERERS.

ARTICLE I.-STATE AID.

[Preamble.]-Whereas, the dry weather and hot winds of last summer, and the Indian disturbances of the last few weeks, have reduced thousands of people in this state to a condition of absolute want and dependence for fuel, food and clothing until such time as another harvest may be secured; and,

Whereas, it is the duty of the state to provide for its suffering and dependent citizens at the earliest possible time; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska :

SECTION 1. [Appropriation.]-That for the purposes set forth in the foregoing preamble, and to defray the necessary expenses thereof, there be, and is hereby appropriated from the state treasury, from the funds not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be found necessary for the immediate relief of the people in the drouth stricken counties of the state of Nebraska. [1891, chap. 38, § 1.]

SEC. 2. [Relief commission.]-For the purpose of carrying into effect this act, and to the end that the aid thereby appropriated may reach those in destitution and want in the drouth stricken portion of the state, there is hereby created a "Relief Commission," consisting of Samuel M. Elder, Luther P. Ludden, R. R. Greer, Louis Meyer, George W. Martin, John Fitzgerald, A. J. Sawyer, C. W. Mosher, J. W. Hartley and W. N. Nason, who shall elect from their number, a president, treasurer and secretary, and into the hands of said commission shall be paid the funds hereby appropriated from the state treasury; and they shall, and are hereby required to purchase and distribute the necessaries of life, for the relief of the suffering inhabitants of the drouth stricken district, and to distribute them to the people through channels hereinafter provided. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 3. [Warrant on state treasury.]-Be it further enacted that it is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public accounts to draw his warrant on the state treasurer, upon the requisition of the commissioner herein before named, filed in his office, as the same shall be necessary to furnish the supplies and necessaries of life to carry out the provisions of this act. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 4. [Requisition for supplies--Articles purchased.]--It is hereby made the duty of said commission, in the requisition for the funds set forth therein, to state the purpose for which said money, to be paid by the treasurer, is to be used with an itemized statement of the several articles and kind of supplies to be purchased, and on the purchase of the same, to file with the secretary of state, an itemized list of all articles by them purchased for the relief of the wet rn sufferers. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 5. [Distribution by commission-Vouchers.]-It shall be and it is hereby made the duty of said relief commission through the agency of the county commissioners or board of supervisors together with the county clerk and sheriff of the respective counties whose inhabitants require aid, to distribute the supplies by them purchased as herein before contemplated to the county commissioners, clerk and sheriff, of the several counties requiring aid, and take the receipt of the commissioners and county clerk for said supplies thus furnished to the several counties through the commissioners, clerk and sheriff of said counties, and from time to time file said receipts together with all vouchers for supplies furnished, with the secretary of state. [Id. § 5.]

ART. I. SECS. 1-10. "An act for the relief of the people in the drouth stricken districts of Nebraska, and to aid in feeding and clothing said people, and to provide a method for the distribution of the aid herein provided for to the drouth stricken inhabitants." Laws, 1891, chap. 38. Took effect Feb. 6, 1891.

SEC. 6. [Distribution by county officers-Vouchers.]-Be it further enacted, That the several commissioners and county clerks of the respective counties in the drouth stricken districts, or the boards of supervisors of the counties in case any of said counties are under township organization; to receive said supplies, and to distribute the same to the needy or suffering of their respective counties. That said county commissioners, county clerks, or the several boards of supervisors shall be, and are hereby made responsible on their official bonds for the faithful and proper distribution of all funds and supplies coming into their hands through the agency of the state relief commission herein created, or by donation through private sources. And it is further made the duty of said several boards of county commissioners and clerk of the respective counties, or of the township organizations in counties under township organization to keep a full, complete and itemized record of all supplies, funds, merchandize and articles of every kind, name or nature; distributed by them to the suffering poor, and to whom distributed, and in what quantity, and the date of such distribution. And be it further enacted, That it is hereby made the duty of said county commissioners and boards of supervisors herein referred to, to report at least once a week by an itemized and detailed statement of all the funds by them received, and of the merchandise and articles of every kind for the relief of the suffering, to the state relief commission hereby created. Said report shall set forth in detail, an itemized statement of all supplies distributed, to whom distributed, the date when delivered, and when they are distributed to families, to give the number in the family receiving relief, which statement shall be filed with the secretary of state by the state relief commission hereby created, and by said state relief commission reported in their monthly reports which they are hereafter required to make to the secretary of state. [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 7. [Expenses of commission.]-Said state relief commission hereby created is authorized to use in paying the actual expenses for the carrying into effect the provisions of this act not to exceed two and one half per cent of the amount of money drawn by them from the treasury and hereby appropriated for the relief of the sufferers herein before referred to. [Id. § 7.]

SEC. 8. [Reports-Statements.]-It is hereby made the duty of said state relief commission thus created, to keep an itemized and accurate account of all funds and moneys by them received from the state, or from any other source, or by private donation for the relief of the sufferers herein before mentioned, which record shall at all reasonable hours be open for the inspection of the public and it be further enacted; That said state relief commission hereby created shall keep an itemized account, and a full, correct and accurate record of all supplies by them disbursed, to whom disbursed, and file the proper vouchers therefor in their report hereafter required to be made. They shall also report the disposition made of all moneys by them received, whether from the state or from private individuals. They shall also keep and report all supplies, provisions, food, clothing of every kind, name and nature by them received from private sources, and also what distribution was made of the same, and they shall from month to month, or as near as may be practicable, file a full itemized report of their actings and doings under the provisions of this bill with the secretary of state. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 9. [Responsibility of officers.]--All officers mentioned in this bill shall be and are hereby held responsible upon their official bonds for all items of property, money or anything of value coming to their hands for the relief of the sufferers provided for in this bill. [Id. § 9.]

SEC. 10. [Bonds of Commissioners.]-Be it further enacted that the treasurer of the state relief commission, hereby created, shall give bond in the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to the state of Nebraska for the faithful performance of his duty under the provisions of this act, and for the distribution of all funds, property and moneys coming into his hands to the sufferers in accordance with the provisions of this act; said bond to be approved by the president and secretary of the commission. [Id. § 10.]