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NEVADA. 



oned on Dec. 31, 1885, at 57,132 persons, of 

 whom 29,431 were of the male and 27,701 of 

 the female sex. The expenses of the Govern- 

 ment in 1887 were estimated in the budget at 

 1,614,232 guilders, and the revenue at 1,307,- 

 143 guilders. 



The colony of Curacao or the Dutch An- 

 tilles comprises the islands of Curasao, Bonaire, 

 Aruba, part of St. Martin, St. Eustatius, and 

 Saba. Their combined area is 1,130 square 

 kilometres, and their population 44,734. On 

 Dec. 31, 1885, the sedentary population was 

 computed to be 44,410 persons, comprising 

 20,090 males and 24,320 females. The number 

 of marriages in 1885 was 142 ; of births, 1,640 ; 

 of deaths, 1,014. The revenue for 1887 is es- 

 timated at 635,051 guilders, and the expendi- 

 ture at the same figure. 



NEVADA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Christopher C. Stevenson, Republican ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Henry 0. Davis ; Secre- 

 tary of State, John M. Dormer; Treasurer, 

 George Tufly ; Comptroller, J. F. Hallock ; At- 

 torney-General, John F. Alexander; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, W. C. Dovey ; 

 Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, O. R. 

 Leonard ; Associate Justices, C. H. Belknap 

 and Thomas P. Hawley. 



Legislative Session. The thirteenth biennial 

 Legislature met on the 3d of January, and con- 

 tinued in session sixty days. Ex-United States 

 Senator William M. Stewart, Republican, was 

 chosen to succeed United States Senator James 

 G. Fair, receiving 43 votes in both houses, to 

 14 for George W. Cassidy, the Democratic 

 nominee. Stewart was nominated by the Re- 

 publican caucus without a contest. The legis- 

 lation of the session embraces an act requiring 

 all voters to take an oath against polygamy, an 

 act authorizing the issue of 4-per-cent. bonds 

 to the amount of $161,000 for the benefit of 

 the general State fund, and the following acts 

 and resolutions : 



Providing for the manner of submitting constitu- 

 tional amendments to the voters of the State. 



For the better preservation of titles to mining- 

 claims. 



Authorizing county commissioners to bring suit 

 against persons or corporations depositing sawdust in 

 the waters of the State. 



Prohibiting and punishing the manufacture and use 

 of dynamite machines or other devices, in destruction 

 of human life and property. 



Protecting deer, antelope, mountain-sheep, and elk, 

 from January 1 to September 1. 



Releasing insolvent debtors on payment of 50 per 

 cent, of indebtedness. 



Providing for a State Immigration Bureau. 



Forbidding houses of prostitution within 400 yards 

 of public-school houses, or upon the public thorough- 

 fare of any village. 



Changing the legal rate of interest from 10 per cent, 

 to 7 per cent. 



Prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, cigars, and to- 

 bacco to minors under 18 years. 



Fixing the poll-tax at $3. 



Constituting the Governor, State Comptroller, and 

 State Treasurer a board of commissioners for the care 

 and maintenance of the State indigent insane. 



Prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits to Indians. 



To establish a State weather-service station. 



To punish false pretenses in obtaining registration 

 of cattle and other animals. 



Providing for the observance of Arbor Day in the 

 State. 



Authorizing the county of Lincoln to issue bonds 

 to aid in railroad construction. 



To establish and provide for an Indian school in 

 Ormsby County. 



Granting the consent of the State to the annexation 

 of southern Idaho. 



Offering a bounty for the destruction of coyotes, 

 lynxes, and California lions. 



Creating a new Capitol Commission. 



Providing for the proof of Indian war-claims against 

 the State. 



Requiring partners in business to file a certificate of 

 partnership, with the names of each partner. 



To prevent the importation and sale of diseased ani- 

 mals. 



To encourage the construction of the Nevada and 

 Southwestern Railroad. 



To prevent drunkenness in office, and to punish it. 



For the preservation offish in Humboldt river and 

 its tributaries. 



Repealing the tax on dogs. 



Providing a penalty for driving diseased live-stock, 

 or allowing it to run at large. 



Consolidating the offices of county superintendent 

 of schools and district attorney. 



To encourage the construction of the Nevada, Idaho, 

 and Montana Railroad. 



Consolidating the offices of sheriff and county asses- 

 sor, and providing for the appointment of assistant 

 assessors. 



Enabling the owners of irrigating ditches to con- 

 struct and maintain waste-ditches or flumes through 

 the land of others, if necessary, in order to carry off 

 surplus waters. 



To regulate and license mutual life associations. 



Consolidating the offices of county clerk and county 

 treasurer. 



Providing for the acceptance of surety companies as 

 sureties on bonds required by law. 



To provide for the recording of births and deaths 

 in each county. 



Licensing hurdy-gurdy houses and dance-houses or 

 concert-saloons . 



Granting convicts six days' commutation of sen- 

 tence in every month for good behavior, at the dis- 

 cretion of the prison authorities. 



Abolishing the office of road supervisor. 



Providing a bounty for the sinking of artesian wells. 



Giving every person who shall contract to purchase 

 land from the State, and has paid money under such 

 contract, the right to exclusive possesion, if no actual 

 adverse possession existed in another at the time of 

 such contract, and the right to defend such possession 

 at law or in equity as if an owner in fee. 



Requiring all doors in public buildings to open out- 

 ward. 



Repealing the law making the practice of treating 

 with intoxicating liquors in public places unlawful. 



An act to encourage mining declares that " every 

 contract, patent, or deed hereafter made by the State 

 or the authorized agents thereof shall contain a pro- 

 vision expressly reserving all mines of gold, silver, 

 copper, lead, cinnabar, or other valuable minerals ; 

 and the State, for itself and its grantees, hereby dis- 

 claims any interest in mineral lands selected by the 

 State on account of any grant from the United States. 

 Ail persons desiring titles to mines upon lands which 

 have been selected by the State must obtain such title 

 from the United States, notwithstanding such selec- 

 tion." It further declares that any citizen may enter 

 upon these selected lands, whether sold or unsold by 

 the State, and explore for minerals and mine them 

 when found, under the laws of miners and of the 

 United States. If improvements have been made upon 



