Ch. 108) County Attorneys, Salaries 279 shall act without any compensation from the county, to assist him in the discharge of his duties: Provided, the county attorney of any county may, under the direction of the district court, procure such assistance, in the trial of any person charged with the crime of felony, as he may deem necessary for the trial thereof, and such assistant or assistants shall be allowed such compensation as the county board shall determine for his services, to be paid by order on the county treasurer, upon presenting to said board the certificate of the district judge before whom said cause was tried certifying to services rendered by such assistant or assistants: Provided, further, in counties having a population of over sixty thousand inhabitants and less than one hundred and twentyfive thousand there is hereby created the office of deputy county attorney to be appointed by the county attorney at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, upon filing certificate of appointment and of service from the county attorney: Provided, further, such deputy county attorney shall file a bond in the same manner and for the same amount required of the county attorney, and such deputy county attorney shall be removable at pleasure by the county attorney: Provided, further in counties whose population exceeds one hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants there are hereby created the offices of five deputy county attorneys to be appointed by the county attorney of such county. Said deputies to be paid salaries as follows: One deputy at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and four deputies at a salary of two thousand dollars each per annum, to be paid by order on the county treasurer upon presenting to said county board the certificate of the county attorney certifying the amount of such salary: Provided, further, before entering upon the duties of their said offices said deputies shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of the same in an amount to be fixed and approved of by the said judges of the district court. Sec. 2. Repeal.-That said original Section 5599 Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. Emergency.-Whereas, an emergency exists, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved, April 11, 1917. CHAPTER 109. (House Roll No. 120.) [Introduced by Mr. Fries.] AN ACT to amend Section 5692 Revised Statutes of 1913 as amended by Chapter 102, Session Laws of Nebraska for 1915, relating to land surveys, to repeal said original Section and Chapter, and to declare an emergency. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment.-That Section 5692, Revised Statutes of 1913 as amended by Chapter 102, Session Laws of Nebraska for 1915, is hereby amended to read as follows: 5692 That the boundaries of the public lands established by the duly appointed government surveyors, when approved by the surveyor general and accepted by the government are unchangeable and the corners established thereon by them shall be held and considered as the true corners which they were intended to represent, and the restoration of lines and corners of said surveys and the division of sections into their legal subdivisions shall be in accordance with the laws of the United States, the "Circular of Instructions" of the commissioner of the general land office on the "Restoration of Lost and Obliterated Corners," and the "Circular of Instructions" to the county surveyors by the State Surveyor. The county surveyor is hereby authorized to restore "lost and obliterated corners" of original surveys and to establish the subdivisional corners of sections in accordance with the provisions of this Act. He is also authorized to establish corners in all other surveys he may be called upon to make. The original survey of sections into their legal subdivisions. shall be in accordance with the laws of the United States, by running straight lines from the original or legally established quarter section corners to the opposite corresponding corners: The point of intersection of the lines thus run shall be the corner common to the several quarter sections, or the legal center of the section. Quarter-quarter or one-sixteenth corners, not established by the Government surveyors, shall be established on straight lines between the section and quarter section corners and at one-half the actual measured distance, except on the last half mile section lines closing on township or other boundaries, when they shall be established at a proportional distance according to the Ch. 109) Boundaries-Official Bonds 281 notes of the government survey thereof. Quarter sections shall be subdivided by first establishing quarter-quarter or one-sixteenth corners, not established by the Government surveyors, on straight lines between the section and the quarter section corners, and the quarter section corners and the center of the section and at one-half their actual measured distances, except on the last half mile of lines closing on township or other boundaries, when they shall be established at proportional distances. From the corners thus established, straight lines shall be run to the opposite corresponding corners. The point of intersection of the lines thus run shall be the corner common to the several quarterquarter sections or the legal center of the quarter section. In fractional sections where an opposite side is a lake, river or reservation, and the corners have not or cannot be established, the quarter lines shall be run north, south, east or west, as the case may be, at a mean course to the adjacent section lines; but in fractional sections where there are no opposite section lines the subdivisional lines shall be run parallel to their respective section lines. The survey of the subdivisional lines of sections in violation of this act shall be absolutely void and not admissible to record. Sec. 2. Repeal. That said original Section 5692, Revised Statutes for 1913, and Chapter 102, Session Laws of Nebraska for 1915, are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. Emergency.-Whereas, an emergency exists this Act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved, March 28, 1917. CHAPTER 110. (Senate File No. 9.) [Introduced by Mr. Beal.] AN ACT to amend Section 5725 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 relating to official bonds and to repeal said section, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment.-That Section 5725 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 be amended to read as follows: 5725 Sec. 195. Official bonds-penalties.-The following named officers shall give bond with penalties of the following amounts, to wit: The governor, fifty thousand dollars; the lieutenant governor, fifty thousand dollars; the auditor of public. accounts, fifty thousand dollars; the secretary of state, fifty thousand dollars; the commissioner of public lands and buildings, fifty thousand dollars; the attorney general, fifty thousand dollars; the state treasurer not less than six hundred thousand dollars, and not less than double the amount of money that may come into his hands, to be fixed by the governor; the superintendent of public instruction, fifty thousand dollars; the reporter of the supreme court, ten thousand dollars; the private secretary of the governor, ten thousand dollars; the deputy auditor, ten thousand dollars; the deputy secretary of state, ten thousand dollars; the deputy state treasurer, fifty thousand dollars; the deputy commissioner of public lands and buildings, ten thousand dollars; the deputy attorney general, twenty-five thousand dollars; the deputy superintendent of public instruction, ten thousand dollars; the state librarian, ten thousand dollars; the warden of the penitentiary, ten thousand dollars; the deputy warden, five thou sand dollars; the superintendent of the hospital for insane, ten thousand dollars; the assistant superintendent, five thousand dollars; the steward, five thousand dollars; the principal of the blind asylum, ten thousand dollars; the principal of the deaf and dumb asylum, ten thousand dollars; the superintendent of each industrial school, ten thousand dollars; the secretary of the board of regents of the state university, ten thousand dollars; each county attorney in a sum not less than one thousand dollars to be fixed by the county board; each clerk of the district court, not less than five thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, to be determined by the county board; each county clerk not less than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, to be determined by the county board; each county treasurer not less than ten thousand dollars and not less than the amount of money that may come into his hands, to be determined by the county board; each county judge in counties having less than six thousand inhabitants, five thousand dollars; over six thousand inhabitants and less than twenty thousand inhabitants, ten thousand dollars; over twenty thousand inhabitants and less than fifty thousand inhabitants, twentyfive thousands dollars; over fifty thousand inhabitants, fifty thousand dollars; each sheriff in counties of less than six thou Ch. 110, 111) Official Bonds 283 sand inhabitants, five thousand dollars; over six thousand inhabitants, ten thousand dollars; each county superintendent of public instruction, one thousand dollars; each county surveyor, five hundred dollars; each county commissioner or supervisor when the population of the county does not exceed twenty-five thousand, one thousand dollars; when the population is over twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand inhabitants, two thousand dollars; when the county population exceeds fifty thousand, fifteen thousand dollars; each constable, three hundred dollars; each justice of the peace, five hundred dollars; each township clerk, two hundred fifty dollars; each township treasurer, two thousand dollars; each county assessor, not more than ten thousand dollars and not less than two thousand dollars; each precinct or township assessor, not less than five hundred dollars; each school district treasurer, five hundred dollars, or not less than the amount that may come into his hands, the amount to be fixed by the director and moderator of the district; each notary. public, two thousand dollars; each road overseer, five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. Repeal. That said Section 5725 as it now stands and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, April 14, 1917. CHAPTER 111. (House Roll No. 215.) [Introduced by Mr. Fuller.] AN ACT to repeal Section 5729 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Repeal.-That Section 5729 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 be and hereby is repealed. Approved, April 25, 1917. |