SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. SECTION 1. When officers shall qualify. AN ACT To amend section twenty-eight of chapter twenty, of the revised statutes of Nebraska. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: shall qualify, SECTION 1. That section twenty-eight of chapter When officers twenty, of the revised statutes of the State of Nebraska, Gen. Stat., 360. be SO amended as to read as follows: Sec. 28. All county and precinct officers shall qualify and enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of January, or within twenty days thereafter; and all state officers on or before the second Monday of January succeeding their election; and all officers shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. 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 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.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 To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 2, 1875. Qualifications and appoint tendent of SECTION 1. Superintendent of insane hospital, how appointed, etc. AN ACT To amend section eleven, chapter thirty-one of general statutes. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: He SECTION 1. That section eleven, chapter thirty-one, of ment of superin- the general statutes be, and the same is hereby amended to insane hospital. read as follows: Sec. 11. The superintendent of said Gen. Stat., 412. institution shall be a physician of acknowledged skill and ability in his profession, and be a graduate of a regular medical college. He shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital, and shall hold his office for the term of six years, unless sooner removed by the governor for malfeasance in office, or other good and sufficient cause. or the assistant physician must be in daily attendance at the hospital, and in no instance must both be absent at the same time. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation for the faithful and diligent discharge of the duties required by law. He shall have the entire control of the medical, moral, and dietetic treatment of the patients, and shall see that the several officers of the institution faithfully and diligently discharge their respective duties. He shall employ attendants, nurses, servants, and such other persons as he may deem necessary for the efficient and economical administration of the government of the hospital. To take effect. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 16, 1875. SECTION 1. Two-thirds vote required in issuance of bonds. AN ACT To amend section four of chapter thirty-five of the general statutes being section four of an act entitled "An act to enable counties, cities and precincts to borrow money on their bonds, or to issue bonds to aid in the construction or completion of works of internal improvement in this state, and to legalize bonds already issued for such purpose." Approved, February 15, 1869. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: vote required bonds. Gen. Stat. 448. SECTION 1. That section four of chapter thirty-five of Two-thirds the general statutes be amended to read as follows: Sec. in issuance of 4. If two-thirds of the votes cast at any such election for the purposes herein set forth, be in favor of the propositions submitted, the county commissioners in the case of a county, and the city council, in the case of a city, shall cause the proposition and result of the vote to be entered upon the records of said county or city, and a notice of its adoption to be published for two successive weeks in any newspaper in said county or city, if there be one, and shall thereupon issue said bonds which shall be and continue a subsisting debt against such county or city, until they are paid and discharged. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after the first day of December, A. D. 1875. Approved, February 17, 1875. Property of married women not liable for husband's debts. 1871 1,68. SECTION 1. Property of married women not liable for husbands' AN ACT To amend section one of an act relating to the rights of married Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That section one of an act entitled "An act relating to the rights of married women," be amended so as to read as follows; to-wit: The property, real and per sonal, which any woman in this state may own at the time Gen. Stat., 465. of her marriage, and the rents, issues, profits, or proceeds Act repealed. thereof, and any real, personal, or mixed property, which SEC. 2. Section five hundred and twenty of the code To take effect. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. 印 SECTION 1. Justices of the peace to be overseers of the poor. AN ACT To amend section four of chapter fifty-four of the geueral statutes, entitled "Paupers." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : peace to be poor. SECTION 1. That section four of chapter fifty-four, of the Justices of the general statutes, entitled "Paupers," be amended to read as overseers of the follows: Sec. 4. The justices of the peace in each precinct shall be and they are hereby made overseers of the poor and are vested with the entire and exclusive superintendence of the poor in their respective precincts, excepting in cases of corporate towns or cities to which superintendence and jurisdiction shall be by law granted: Provided, That the county commissioners of the several counties may employ a physician by the year to furnish such medical service as may be required by the poor of their county, excepting incorporate towns or cities as herein provided: Provided also, That the salary of such county physician shall not exceed two hundred dollars in any one year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. |