proceedings of the commissioners to secure purchasers the right of ingress and egress to the sub-division of said lands, as the same now appear by the records of said county of Buffalo, and by plats and copies on file in the office of the land commissioner, are in all things ratified and confirmed. tion. SEC. 2. The south west quarter of said section, shall Name of secbe known as school section addition to the city of Kearney. Kearney City SEC. 3. The ordinances of the city of Kearney, open- Ordinances of ing streets and alleys, through said south west quarter, is confirmed. hereby ratified and confirmed; and all claims for damages, or for value of lands so appropriated, as public ways, is hereby released. SEC. 4. That the sale of said school lands in accord- Sale legalized. ance with the sub-divisions heretofore mentioned, is hereby legalized. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. SECTION 1. Meetings of state's prison inspectors, and proceedings thereat. AN ACT To amend section twenty-two of an act entitled an act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary and for the care and custody of state convicts, approved, March 4, 1870. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That section twenty-two of an act entitled an act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary, Meetings of state prison in proceedings thereat. and for the care and custody of state convicts, approved, spectors, and March 4, 1870, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 22. That the board of inspectors shall meet at their office Gen. Stat., 1036. on the first Wednesday of each month for the transaction of such business as may regularly come before it. That no order or orders shall be drawn and no account or accounts shall be allowed, nor any contracts awarded except at such regular meetings. That they shall keep a full record of their proceedings and meetings, which shall be signed by the board of inspectors and attested by the clerk, and that the said proceedings shall be read and approved at the next regular meeting of the board; also, that any one of the inspectors who may dissent from the action of the majority shall have the privilege to have his negative vote placed on the record with his reasons therefor. To take effect, SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 20, 1875. Section. 1. Tax for penitentiary fund, Section. 2. Duties of auditor. AN ACT Supplemental to an act entitled "An act supplemental to an act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary, and for the care and custody of state prisoners." Approved, February 24, 1873. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : SECTION 1. That there shall be levied and collected a tax of one mill on the dollar valuation, upon the grand as tentiary fund, Gen. Stat., 1045. 1875 and 1876. sessment roll of the state for the years 1875 and 1876, and Tax for penithe fund so created shall be placed to the credit of the penitentiary fund. The sum so to be levied and collected is hereby appropriated, and shall be expended in such manner as is now provided by law for the disbursement of said fund. tor. SEC. 2. The auditor is hereby authorized and directed, Duties of audiupon presentation of the proper application and vouchers therefor, to draw his warrants upon the state treasury for the unexpended balance of the amount levied and appropriated for the years 1873 and 1874; and at any time after the levy of the tax for the year 1875, the auditor may draw warrants upon the fund so levied upon the grand assessment roll of that year, and at any time after the levy of the tax for the year 1876, the auditor may draw warrants upon the fund so levied to the amount of thirty per cent. thereof only, and the remaining seventy per cent. of the tax levied for the year 1876 shall be withheld from liability to be drawn upon by warrants of the auditor, as a contingency to meet the deficiency arising from uncollected taxes, and the interest upon warrants drawn in advance of the collection of the sums hereby levied and appropriated. SEC. 3. Any balances remaining in the state treasury Balance, how to the credit of this fund, after the warrants drawn against said fund shall have been paid, may be disbursed in the manner now provided by law. drawn. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 9, 1875. Funds due for be withheld from prison contractor. Section. 1. Certain funds to be with- Section. 2. Monthly estimates of prison labor to be transferred to penitentiary fund. AN ACT Authorizing the auditor of state to transfer certain funds now due the State of Nebraska from the state prison contractor to the penitentiary fund; and authorizing the future auditing of monthly estimates becoming due on account of prison labor, and the transfer of such funds to the penitentiary fund. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That the auditor of state be, and is hereby prison labor to directed to withhold from any moneys appropriated to the contractor of the state penitentiary the sum of three thousand, four hundred and eighteen dollars and fortyfive cents ($3,418.45), being the amount reported due the State of Nebraska from said contractor, December 1st, 1874, for prison labor; and that the said sum of three thousand, four hundred and eighteen dollars and fortyfive cents (3,418.45), be transferred to the penitentiary fund. Monthly esti mate of prison labor to be transferred to penitentiary fund. SEC. 2. That hereafter the auditor of state shall retain from the fund appropriated to the contractor of the state penitentiary to the amount of each monthly estimate due for prison labor to the State of Nebraska from said contractor, which said monthly estimates shall be transferred by the auditor of state to the penitentiary fund. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. Sectio 1. Certificate of indebtedness to issue to permanent Section. 2. Warrants to be cancelled. 3. Further certificates of in- AN ACT Supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the relief of the state treasurer,” approved, February 27, 1873. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : Certificate>: indebtedness to permanent SECTION 1. That the State of Nebraska be, and is hereby required to issue a certificate of indebtedness, be issued to signed by the auditor for the total amount, one hundred school fund. and eighty-four thousand, one hundred and nineteen dol- Gen. Stat., 102; lars and sixty-seven cents, of the several fund warrants now held by the permanent school fund as an instrument; said certificate shall be made payable to the permanent school fund on demand at the option of the legislature with interest payable semi-annually at the rate of ten per cent per annum, said certificate shall be deposited with the state treasurer, and the interest when due shall be paid by warrant of the auditor, drawn upon the sinking fund. SEC. 2. After the certificate of indebtedness shall warrants to be have been issued and filed as provided in section one of this act, the said warrants now held by the permanent school fund shall be cancelled. cancelled. ficate of indebt SEC. 3. That whenever the board for the investment of the permanent school fund shall have invested in said edness to issue. fund, in general fund, and in state warrants in the amount of one hundred and eighty-four thousand, one hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-seven cents ($184,119.67), a certificate of indebtedness shall 'issue in lieu therefor |