To take effect.

or otherwise, are hereby declared to be legal and valid.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.

Approved, February 23, 1875.

Revente arising from internal improvements,

Setting aside the revenue arising from the taxation of works of
internal improvement to pay the bonds issued to construct or
complete the same.

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

SECTION 1. That if any township, precinct, incorporated city, or village in this state shall issue any bonds to aid in how se: apart. the construction or completion of any works of internal improvement, the revenues arising from the taxation of such internal improvements shall be set apart forever to pay the interest and principal upon said bonds until the same shall be fully paid; and in the event that such revenues shall not be sufficient to pay such bonds at their maturity, such revenues shall still be set apart and shall be credited to the general fund required from such township, precinct, incorporated city, or village, before such tax list is extended, until the same shall be fully reimbursed.

Assessment of certain pro

tion.

SEC. 2. That at the time the county commissioners perty for taxa furnish the assessors with blank forms and notices necessary for the proper assessment of the property in the several precincts, they shall also furnish the assessor of each

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township, precinct, incorporated city, or village with a list of all the property in such township, precinct, incorporated city, or village for which such bonds have been issued; and the assessor shall assess such property separately, and enter the same in a separate book, provided for that purpose: Provided, however, That railroads shall be assessed as now provided in section seventeen of chapter sixty-six of the general statutes, entitled "Revenue.” SEC. 3. The treasurer having control of such revenues Revenues to be shall keep the same in a separate fund for the purpose rate fund. aforesaid.

kept in a sepa

SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this Acts repealed. act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5.

This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage.

Approved, February 20, 1875.

SECTION 1. Width of roads.

AN ACT

To amend section three of chapter sixty-seven of the revised statutes, entitled, "Roads."

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

Gen. Stat., 951.

SECTION 1. That section three of chapter sixty-seven width of roads, of the revised statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3. All county, state, and other public roads shall have a width of sixty-six feet, and the staked line marking such road shall be on the northern edge of the said sixty-six feet, if the road is running east or west, and

To take effect.

on the western edge, if the course of the road is north and
south Provided, That roads located on the state line,
where the adjoining state locates similar roads, may
have a width of thirty-three feet.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

Section.

1. What shall constitute county
road fund.

Section.

2. Amendment applicable to
certain counties only.

AN ACT

What shall constitute county road fund.

To amend section fifteen of chapter sixty-seven, entitled

"Roads."

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

SECTION 1. That section fifteen (15) of chapter sixtyseven (67), be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 15. Gen. Stat., 953. All moneys paid into the county treasury in discharge of road tax, shall constitute a county road fund, which shall be at the disposal of the county commissioners, and shall be expended only for the following purposes: First, for the repair of bridges and culverts; Second, for the payment of damages of the right of way of any county road; Third, for the payment of wages of supervisors, and for the expense of procuring the necessary guide-boards; Fourth, for the payment of the wages of commissioners of roads, surveyors, chainmen, and other persons engaged in locating or changing any county road; Fifth, for the purchase of plows, scrapers, or any necessary implements of supervisors: Provided, That the county commissioners may levy an additional cash tax for bridge purposes, not

to exceed five mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all taxable property, to be levied and collected as other taxes, which special tax, when so collected, shall be exclusively applied to building or repairing permanent and substantial culverts or bridges, under the direction of the county commissioners: Provided further, That the county commissioners of the several counties in this state, be, and they are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to build or repair any bridge or bridges within the limits of any incorporated town or city within the limits of their respective counties.

Amendment applicable o

only.

SEC. 2. This amendment of section fifteen (15) of chapter sixty-seven (67), shall only be in force and special Prtain counties effect in Richardson, Douglas, Gage, Colfax, Dodge, Washington, Nemaha, Butler, Pierce, and Madison counties in this state.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its To take effect passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

SECTION 1. Road supervisors to make fire guards along the line of public roads.

AN ACT

Prescribing additional duties of supervisors.

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

Road supervi sors to make

re-guards

along the line

SECTION 1. That the road supervisors of each district in the several counties of this state, shall cause fire-guards to be made along the line of the roads in their districts, of public ro: ds. whenever the same are practicable, by plowing on each side of the road and on the outer edge thereof, and bur

To take effect.

ning off the grass between the lines so plowed. Such plowing and burning to be done in the fall of each year.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

Roads to be vacated, whe

1o take effect

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

SECTION 1. All roads, or parts of roads, located and established in this state, except such as are located on section lines, that shall not be worked or traveled for a period of six years from the location [of] said road or roads, the same shall be, and are hereby, declared vacated.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.