ALL LAWS OF A GENERAL NATURE IN FORCE ELECTROTYPED, PRINTED AND BOUND BY GIBSON, MILLER & RICHARDSON. 1884. Neb 132 881.1 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by in the office of the Librarian of Congress. JUL 6 1938 716138 HIS EXCELLENCY ALBINUS NANCE, Governor, Osceola, Polk County. EDMUND C. CARNS, Lieutenant-Governor, SAMUEL J. ALEXANDER, Secretary of State, JOHN WALLICHS, Auditor Public Accounts, Grand Island, Hall County. GEORGE M. BARTLETT, Treasurer of State, A. G. KENDALL, Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, St. Paul, Howard County. W. W. W. JONES, Superintendent of Public Instruction, SEC. 4. The said statutes when published shall be accompanied by a certificate of the compiler that the same are true and accurate copies of the said original rolls, and thereupon the said statutes shall be competent evidence of the several acts and resolutions therein contained, in all courts of this state, without further proof or authentication. ** LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, July 1, 1881. I, Guy A. Brown, appointed by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, to compile the general laws of said State, do hereby certify that the several acts and resolutions contained in this volume are, with the exception of words contained in [], true and accurate copies of the original rolls on file in the office of the Secretary of State of said State. GUY A. BROWN, COMPILER. PREFACE. Under territorial government twelve sessions of the legislature of Nebraska. sat and enacted laws which were published and bound in as many different volumes. The eleventh session of the territorial legislature passed as one act what has ever since been known as "THE REVISED STATUTES OF 1866." This is the only work entitled to be called a revision in the proper sense of the word. It was the result of the labors of E. ESTABROOK, assisted in the legislature by B. E. B. KENNEDY, SAMUEL MAXWELL, LORENZO CROUNSE, CHARLES H. BROWN, THOMAS L. GRIFFEY, GEORGE B. LAKE, JAMES THORN, JOHN CADMAN, E. H. CLARK, and others who had held prominent positions in the government of the territory and of whom many have held and still hold offices in the government of the state. It is one of the highest tributes to the labors of these gentlemen to say that though changed in many particulars, changed as the state has grown and enlarged, yet the body of their work, comprising the important chapters of Corporations, Decedents, and the Civil Code, has remained nearly intact from the legislation of sixteen sessions of the state legislature. Two attempts at revision have since been made, one in 1872-1873 by the appointment of the compiler of the present edition, and the other in 1877 by the appointment of S. H. CALHOUN, of Оtoe, JOHN H. AMES, of Lancaster, and A. H. CONNER, of Buffalo. The first appointment resulted in the publication of what has since been known as "THE GENERAL STATUTES OF 1873." That volume was a compilation merely of the acts then in force, including the general laws passed that same year, which were not published separately. Although some mistakes occurred in its printing, yet without any act authorizing its admission as evidence, it has been generally received by the people as a correct statement of the law; used by the bar, and construed by the bench in its decisions. The second appointment made in 1877, resulted only in the passage by the legislature of 1879 of a few acts, the work of the gentlemen referred to, notably those in reference to Cities of the Second Class and Villages, Revenue and Roads, which, with amendments made in 1881 form chapters of this present work. No further attempt was made at revision during the year 1881, but the passage of the various enactments of 1875, 1877, 1879 and 1881, changing, altering and repealing the statutes of 1866 and 1873, gave rise to this present edition published under the provisions of the act of 1881, chap. 79, p. 388, and found on pages 529 and 530 of this volume. In preparing this edition for the press, it has been the aim of the compiler to faithfully follow the enrolled laws, mistakes and errors of enrollment included; but while giving such mistakes, he has also discovered errors in the publication of "The General Statutes of 1873," as well as the various session laws since 1873. and corrected them in this edition. Yet with all possible care, typographical and other errors will occur in the publication of any work, unknown till the book is |