appropriations.

All moneys received for tuition shall be first applied to Miscellaneous the payment of the salaries of professors and teachers, and warrants on the treasury shall only be drawn to pay the balance of such salaries.

STATE PRISON INSPECTORS.

The per diem and mileage of state prison inspectors for the years 1875 and 1876, shall be paid out of the appropriation made to the penitentiary building fund, approved, February 19, 1875, upon sworn vouchers therefor in the manner provided by law.

The warden shall on the first Wednesday of each and every month report to the board of inspectors the expenses of the month preceding, together with sufficient vouchers for each item of expenditure, which report together with the vouchers, shall be certified to by the inspectors and forwarded to the state auditor whose duty it shall be to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the several amounts so specified, in favor of the person named in said voucher to be paid out of the general fund. The revenue accruing from convict labor and from charges for maintaining other than state prisoners, shall be collected by the warden and by him paid into the state treasury to be held as a separate fund, which is hereby appropriated for the care and support of state prisoners, and may be disbursed

keep itemized

account of expenses.

upon the requisition of the inspectors in the manner now provided by law.

State officers to SEC. 2. Each state officer shall keep an itemized account of the incidental expenses pertaining to his office and report the same with proper vouchers to the finance committee of the next general session of the legislature.

Auditor to draw warrants.

Salt fund transferred to

SEC. 3. The state auditor is hereby authorized and directed upon the presentation of the proper voucher, to draw his warrant on the state treasury, and upon the fund as designated, and against the appropriation as made in section one of this act, for the amount due, such warrant shall give the name of the person and nature of the service performed. All salaries of state officers to be paid quarterly.

SEC. 4. The balance in the state treasury to the credit general fund, of the salt (royalty) fund; to wit: One hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-nine cents ($166.59), be and the same is hereby transferred to the general fund.

To take effect.

SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 23, 1875.

AN ACT

Giving a lien in certain cases to secure the payment of the purchase price of seeds purchased in the year 1875.

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

SECTION 1. That any note or contract given for the purchase of seeds to be planted or sown in the year 1875,

and which note or contract shall recite the kind and qual- Note or con

tract given for

purchase of

chattel mort

from.

ity of seeds for which the note or contract is given, and seeds in 1875. shall describe the land on which the seeds are to be sown shall constitute or planted, shall have the same force and effect, and to all gage on crops intents and purposes shall constitute a chattel mortgage on the crop raised on said land in favor of the holder of said note or contract, and may be foreclosed in the same manner as an ordinary chattel mortgage: Provided, said note or contract is filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where the land described is situated, in the book for the recording of chattel mortgages, and before any other lien has attached to said crop. SEC. 2. The county clerk shall be entitled to a fee of thirty-five cents for each note or contract recorded by him as required by this act.

Fee of county cle k.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Acts repealed. this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect.

and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

SECTION 1. Appropriation for State Board of Agriculture.

AN ACT

Supplemental to an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current expenses of the years 1875 and 1876."

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

for state board

SECTION 1. That the appropriation under the head of Appropriation "Miscellaneous," in section one of said act, which reads: of agriculture. To encourage and develop the agricultural resources

of the State, $3,000..........

$6,000

To take effect,

Be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the following clause be substituted therefor, to-wit:

To the State Board of Agriculture, to be used in

the payment of outstanding indebtedness.......... $3,500 SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.