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states, and publish two thousand copies in book form as a roster of the ex-soldiers, sailors, and marines now residents of Nebraska, three copies of which shall be furnished each post of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state of Nebraska, one hundred copies to the state library for exchange with other libraries, fifty copies to the commissioner of pensions, the remaining books to be retained by the secretary of state for distribution. [Id.]

SEC. 12. [Payment.]-All expenses attending the publication of the foregoing roster shall be paid from the fund for printing laws, journals, and such other printing as is required under contract. [Id.]

BURIAL OF HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS.

SEC. 13. [Duty of county board.]—It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners or board of supervisors in counties under township organization of this state to designate some suitable person in each precinct or township, whose duty it shall be to cause to be decently interred, the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late war, who may hereafter die without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses. Such burial should not be made in any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead; Provided, The expenses of such burial shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five dollars; And provided further, That in case that surviving relatives of the deceased shall desire to conduct the funeral, and are unable to pay the charges therefor, they shall be permitted so to do, and the expenses shall be paid as herein provided. [1885, § 1, chap. 39.]

SEC. 14. [Tombstones.]-The grave of any such deceased soldier, sailor, or marine shall be marked by a head-stone, containing the name of the deceased, and the organization to which he belonged or in which he served; Provided, It shall be the duty of the county commissioners or supervisors in counties under township organization, upon the death and burial of any such soldier, sailor, or marine residing within such county at the time of his death, to make application to the proper authorities under the general government for a suitable head-stone as provided by act of congress, and cause the same to be placed at the head of such deceased soldier's grave. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 15. [Expenses paid by county.]-The expenses of such burial shall be paid by the county in which such soldier, sailor, or marine shall have died. And the board of county commissioners or supervisors of such county are hereby authorized and directed to audit the account and pay the said expenses in similar manner as other accounts against such county are audited and paid. [Id. § 3.]

ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS.

SEC. 16. [Quota of arms and equipments.]—WHEREAS, by act of congress, the state of Nebraska is entitled to receive from the government arms and equipments for the use of the state militia, and that there is now the sum of six thousand six hundred dollars to the credit of this state on account of said act; Therefor, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring: That it is the sense of this legislature, that in the drawing of Nebraska's quota of said arms and equipments, that as a portion thereof two hundred hospital tents for the use of the militia of this state be drawn by the governor, and that the governor may allow the use of such tents at encampments of such militia and at reunions of old soldiers in this state. [1885, chap. 126.]

SECS. 13-15. "An act to provide for the burial of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines who may hereafter die withont leaving means sufficient to defray funeral expenses and to provide head-stones to mark their graves." Took effect June 5, 1885. See also chap. 1. ; 8, post

SEC. 16. "Joint resolution relative to drawing Nebraska's quota of arms and equipments from the government of the United States."

COUNTY RELIEF FUND.

SEC. 17. [Levy of taxes.]—That the county board of the several counties of this state are hereby authorized to levy in addition to the taxes now levied by law, a tax not exceeding three-tenths of one mill upon the taxable property of their respective counties, to be levied and collected as now provided by law for the assessment and collection of taxes, for the purpose of creating a fund for the relief and for funeral expenses of honorably discharged indigent union soldiers, sailors, and marines, and the indigent wives, widows, and minor children not over 14 years of age in the case of boys, and not over 16 years of age in the case of girls, of such indigent or deceased union soldiers, sailors, and marines, having a legal residence in said county to be dispersed as hereinafter provided. [1889, chap. 72.]

SEC. 19. [Commission.]-The county board in each county of this state shall on second Tuesday in January 1890, appoint three persons who are residents of such county, at least two of whom shall be honorably discharged union soldiers, one to serve three years, one to serve two years, and one to serve one year from date of appointment, and each year thereafter one person to serve for three years, such persons so appointed, when organized by the selection of one of their number as chairman and one as secretary, shall be designated and known as "The Soldiers Relief Commission." The members of said commission shall qualify by taking the usual oath of office and shall each give bonds in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for faithful performance of their duties. In the event of a vacancy in said commission occuring from any cause, the county board shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 19. [Same-Duties.]-The Soldiers Relief Commission shall meet at the clerk's office on the second Monday in February of each year, and at such other times as is deemed necessary, and shall examine and determine who are entitled to relief under the provisions of this act, and shall make lists of such persons, and at the February meeting such commission, after determining the probable amount necessary, for the purpose provided herein, shall certify the amount to the county board and the county board of each county at its regular meeting in June of each year, shall make such levies as shall be necessary to raise the required relief fund, not exceeding three-tenths of a mill on the taxable property of such county. The Soldiers Relief Commission shall fix the amount to be paid in each case, the aggregate not to exceed the levy of said tax for any one year and shall certify the lists to the county clerk. The clerks shall within twenty days thereafter, transmit to the justices of the peace in his county a list of the names of the persons in the respective townships or precincts to whom relief has been awarded and the amount thereof. The county clerk on the first Monday of each month after said fund is ready for distribution, shall issue his warrant to the Soldiers Relief Commission, upon the county treasurer for the several amounts awarded. Such commission shall disburse the same to the person or persons named in the lists, taking receipts therefor; or such fund may be disbursed in any other manner directed by the commission; Provided however, That when said commission is satisfied that any person entitled to relief under this act will not properly expend the amount allowed, the commission may pay the amount to some suitable person who shall expend the same for such person in such manner as the commission may direct; And provided further, That said commission, at any meeting may decrease, increase, or discontinue any amount before awarded, and may add new names to the lists, which shall be certified to the county clerk. The Soldiers Relief Commission shall, at the end of each year, make to the county board a detailed report of the transactions of such commission; such reports shall be accompanied with vouchers for all moneys disbursed. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 20. [Removal from office.]-The county board may at any time remove any member of the commission for neglect of duty or mal-administration and appoint others in the place of members thus removed. [Id. § 4.]

SECS. 17-20. "An act to provide for the relief of union soldiers, sailors, and marines, and the indigent wives, widows, and minor children of indigent or deceased union soldiers, sailors, and marines." Laws 1889, chap. 72. Took effect July 1, 1889.

CHAPTER 83.-STATE AND STATE OFFICERS.

ARTICLE I.-GOVERNOR.

SECTION 1. [Powers.]—The governor is hereby constituted the legal custodian of all the property of the state, not specially entrusted to other officers by law; and he is hereby authorized and empowered to take summary possession of such property of the state, without any process of law, and to adopt such measures as he may deem proper to preserve it from injury or deterioration. 1867, § 1, 100.]

SEC. 2. [Report of executive officers.]-It shall be the duty of the sev eral officers of the executive department, to make a written report to the governor of the state of the public business entrusted to their charge, whenever required by him so to do. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 3. [Commissions.]-All commissions to civil officers in this state, shall be issued and signed by the governor, and countersigned by the secretary of state, and a record thereof kept in the office of the secretary of state. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 4. [Thanksgiving day.]-The governor shall by proclamation set apart one day in each year as a day of solemn and public thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his blessings to us as a state and a nation, and no business shall be transacted on that day at any departments of state. [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 5. [Private secretary.]-The governor shall appoint a private secretary to serve during the continuance of his term of office, who shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as the salaries of state officers. [Id. § 7. Amended 1879, 103.]

SEC. 6. [Insurance on public buildings.]-That the governor be and is hereby authorized and empowered to insure the public buildings and other property belonging to the state, liable to destruction or injury by fire, with some good and responsible insurance company or companies, for the benefit of and in the name of the state. [1869, § 1, 87.]

SEC. 7. [Same.]-That the governor shall deposit the insurance policies, taken out in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing section, with the treasurer of the state, and shall certify to the auditor the amount of the premiums and the date they become due, and the auditor shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the respective amounts of said premiums from time to time as they shall be due, in favor of the proper officer or agent of said insurance compaay or companies. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 8. [Janitor.]-The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to employ some suitable person as janitor of the capitol building, who shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, in like manner as the salaries of state officers, and whose duty shall be to take care of and keep in good order the said capitol building and the grounds belonging thereto. [Id. § 3.]

ARTICLE II.-SECRETARY OF STATE.

SECTION 1. [Custodian of public records.]-All public acts, laws, and resolutions passed by the legislature of the state shall be carefully deposited in the office of the secretary of state, and the secretary of state is charged with the safe keeping of said office and all laws, acts, resolutions, bonds, papers, and records which now are or

ART. I. "An act prescribing and defining the powers and duties of the governor of the state," [Laws 1867, 100, except Secs. 4 and 5, which were superseded by Secs. 10, 11, and 13, Art. V. Const. The act took effect June 24, 1867.]

SEC. 1. Governor has discretion in the use of contingent fund appropriated by legislature. 53 N. W. R., 1116. SECS. 6-8. "An act to provide for the care of the capitol building and other state property." Laws 1869, 87. G. S. 1047. Took effect Feb. 15, 1869. ART. II. "An act to define the duties of secretary of state." Laws 1877, 195. Took effect June 1, 1877. Seca. 1-2 of original act repealed 1881. 102.

shall hereafter be deposited therein. He shall not permit any original rolls, papers, or public documents filed in his office to be taken out of it unless called for by a resolution of either or both houses of the legislature, or for the examination by the executive. [1877, § 3, 195.]

SEC. 2. [Legislative documents.]-The secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives, at the close of each session of the legislature, shall deliver to the secretary of state all books, bills, documents, and papers in the possession of either branch of the legislature, correctly labeled, folded, and classified, according to the subject matter of such documents, respectively; and the secretary of state is hereby required to preserve the same in his office. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 3. [Fees of office.]-There shall be paid to the secretaty of state the following fees: For a certificate without seal, fifty cents. For each commission to any officer or other person, except military commissions, one dollar. For copies of exemplification of records, with seal, for each one hundred words, ten (10) cents. For copies of bills or other papers, with certificate under seal, for each one hundred words, ten cents. For receiving and filing articles of association, corporations, or consolidations, bonds, oath of office, each, one dollar. For recording the same, for each one hundred words, ten cents. For issuing each license, one dollar. For taking acknowledgment of a deed, mortgage, power of attorney, or other writing with certificate under seal, fifty cents. For administering oath to an affiant, fifty cents.

SEC. 4. [General duties.]—It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, 1st. To countersign and affix the seal of state to all commissions required by law to be issued by the governor. 2nd. To keep a register of all such commissions, specifying the person to whom granted, the office conferred, the date of signing the commission, and when bond is taken, the date and amount thereof, and the names of the sureties. 3rd. To make and keep proper indexes to the records and all public acts, resolutions, papers, and documents in his office. 4th. To give any person requiring the same, and paying the lawful fees therefor, a copy of any laws, act, resolution, record, or paper in his office, and attach thereto his certificate under the seal of the state. 5th. To take charge at the close of each session of the legislature of all tables, chairs, desks, and other furniture of the two houses thereof, and not permit the same to be wasted or used for other than public purposes during the recess of the legislature. 6th. To take charge of and keep in repair and replenish the furniture of the state house, except as otherwise provided. 7th. To furnish the legislature and the officers thereof all necessary fuel and stationery when so directed by resolution of the legislature, or either branch thereof. 8th. To print and supervise the distribution of the laws and journals, and keep an account thereof. 9th. To make out and present to the governor, at least ten days before each regular session of the legislature, a report showing the amount of all fees received by him and paid over to the treasurer, the expenditures of his office, the contracts let by the state for fuel, stationery, and printing, and for copying, printing, binding, and distributing the laws and journals, and for all other printing ordered by the legis lature, and stating particularly the manner in which the same have been fulfilled and such general accounts of the business of his office as may be necessary for the information of the legislature. 10th. In the publication of the laws of this state, or the resolution or journals of the legislature, the secretary of state shall cause to be published in each volume a general certificate to the effect that the same as contained in such volume are true copies of the laws and resolutions of the legislature, as the case may be, on file in his office. 11th. Whenever any bill which shall have passed both houses of the legislature shall be returned by the governor with his objections thereto, and upon a reconsideration shall pass both houses by the constitutional majority, it shall be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate thereon to the following effect, viz: This bill having been returned by the governor, with his objections thereto, and after reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, it has become a law this.........day of........., A.D.........................., which being signed by

the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, shall be deemed a sufficient authentication thereof, and the bill shall be deposited with the laws in the office of the secretary of state. 12th. Whenever any bill which shall have passed both houses of the legislature, and shall not be returned by the governor or filed with his objections in the office of the secretary of state, as required by section fifteen (15) of article five (5) of the constitution, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to authenticate the same by a certificate thereon to the following effect, as the case may be, viz: This bill having remained with the governor five (5) days, Sundays excepted, the legislature being in session, the governor having failed to return this bill to the legislature during its session, and having failed to file it in my office with his objections within five (5) days after adjournment of the legislature, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this.........day of..........................., A.D....................... [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 5. [Deputy.]-The secretary of state shall have power to appoint a deputy, and when so appointed the deputy shall do and perform in case of the absence or disability of the secretary of state, all the duties herein authorized and required of the secretary of state, and the secretary of state shall be responsible for all the official acts of his deputy. [Id. § 7.]

SEC. 6. [Same-Salary.]-Said deputy shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred (1,500) dollars per annum, to be paid by warrant of the auditor of public accounts on the treasurer, said warrant to be drawn monthly. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 7. [Administer oaths-Acknowledgments.]-The secretary of the state shall have power to administer oaths and affirmation, acknowledgments, and proof of the execution of deeds, mortgages, power of attorney, and other instruments in writing, to be used or recorded in this state. He shall be allowed such fee as is provided for notary public in such cases made and provided. [Id. § 9.]

ARTICLE III.—AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

SECTION 1. [Residence-Office.]-The auditor shall reside and keep his office at the seat of government. [R. S. § 1, 19. G. S. § 20, 1011.]

SEC. 2. [General accountant of state.] The auditor is declared to be the general accountant of the state, and the keeper of all public account books, accounts, vouchers, documents, and all papers relating to the accounts and contracts of the state, and its revenue, debt, and fiscal affairs, not required by law to be placed in some other office, or kept by some other officer or person.

SEC. 3. [Report to governor.]-It shall be the duty of the auditor to digest, prepare, and report to the governor of the state, at least twenty days before the commencement of each regular session of the legislative assembly: First-A full and detailed statement of the condition of the treasury, and the amount of the expenditures for the last fiscal year. Second-A full and detailed statement of the public debt, showing fully all liabilities and resources of the state. Third-Estimates of the revenue and expenditures for the next succeeding year. Fourth-Such plans as he may deem expedient for the support of public credit, for lessening the public expenses, for using the public money to the best advantage, for promoting frugality and economy in public offices, and generally for the better management and more perfect understanding of the fiscal affairs of the state, and for securing uniformity and efficiency in the levying and collection of taxes, and systematizing the work to be done by officers having duties to perform under the revenue law. Fifth-A tabular statement, showing separately the whole amount of each appropriation of money made by law, the amount paid under the same, and the balance unexpended. Sixth-A tabular statement showing separately the amount of money received into the state treasury, from all sources in the preceding fiscal year, the amount received from each county, and for what years paid, the amount of penalties and interest reported collected on delinquent taxes, and the balance due from each county on account of taxes for each year for which such balances may be due

ART. III. Chap. IV, R. S. 19. G. S. 1011.

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