Occupants of any premises may conveyances, shall be audited by the auditor, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 8. Any person or persons who has erected dwelling-house or tenement on any of said lots at any time purchase lots at prior to the passage of this act, shall have the privilege of purchasing said lots at the appraised value thereof, at any time before the sale provided for in this act. appraised value, SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Acts repealed. provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875. AN ACT To provide for the further distribution of the statutes. Whereas, There is now on hand in the archives of the Preamble. secretary of state's office over three thousand copies of the revised statutes of Nebraska; and, Whereas, The present law gives only one copy of said statutes to each board of county commisioners, to be held by the chairman thereof; therefore, Be it enacted by the Legislature of [the State of] Nebraska : Copies of sta the tutes to be dis SECTION 1. That each county commissioner shall be entitled to receive one copy of the revised statutes, same to be delivered to his successor in office when term shall have expired. his SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 25, 1875.. tributed among county commissioners. To take effect. Proceedings of city council of ized. AN ACT Legalizing certain action of the city council of the city of Omaha. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That all the proceedings of the city counOmaha legal- cil of the city of Omaha, in this state, in vacating Market street in said city, and in disposing of, and conveying the same to sundry persons, be, and the same are hereby ratified, legalized and confirmed in all respects whatever. To take effect. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 22, 1875. Acts concerning schools in repealed. AN ACT To repeal an act entitled "An act regulating the public schools of Nebraska City, and to provide means for their support," approv ed, January 15, 1872; and also to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act," entitled "An act for regulating the public schools of Nebraska City, and to provide means for their support," approved, February 18 1873. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act regulating Nebraska City the public schools of Nebraska City, and to provide means for their support," approved, January 15, 1872; and also an act to amend an act, entitled "An act for regulating the public schools of Nebraska City, and to provide means for their support," approved, February 18, 1873, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage. 1 Approved, February 25, 1875. AN ACT To amend an act declaring section lines roads in certain counties in the State of Nebraska, so far as the same applies to the county of Seward. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : Act section lines as to Seward sectime SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act declaring roads et declaring in certain counties in the State of Nebraska," approved roads repealed February 24, A. D. 1873, be, and the same is hereby re- county. pealed so far as the same applies to the county of Seward. Gen Stat., 959. SEC. 2. That in the county of Seward section lines shall lines in Seward county roads. be, and remain public roads and highways as provided by Certain section the act to which this is amendatory, on all such section county to be lines where no damages have been claimed under the provision of said act, and the county commissioners shal] declare the same open public roads. lines to be pub SEC. 3. That any section line in said county where other section damages has been claimed under the act to which this is lic roads, when. amendatory, may become a public road as contemplated by said act, provided all claims for damages on such section lines shall be withdrawn on or before the first day of July, A. D. 1875; such withdrawal to be in writing signed by the owner of the land taken, his agent or attorney and filed with the county clerk. SEC. 4. When the county commissioners are satisfied that all claims for damages on any one mile or more continous section line or lines as contemplated in the preced Same. No other sec- Vacation of section line roads. ing section have been withdrawn as therein provided, they shall declare the same an open public road. SEC. 5. No other section lines in said county shall be public roads, by virtue of this act, or the act to which this is amendatory: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to allow any claim for damages by reason of the location of any road, by this act, or to which this act is amendatory. SEC. 6. When any portion of any section line in said county, that may become a road by virtue of this act, or the act to which this is amendatory, shall be impracticable, it shall be lawful for the county commissioners of said county to vacate such portion of said section line road upon the petition of not less than five resident householders of vacated <the road district in which said road, so sought to be created is situated. Acts repealed. To take effect. SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 9, 1875. Certain lots in sold. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to quiet title to certain portions of the city of Beatrice. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That section twelve of an act entitled Beatrice to be An act to quiet title to certain portions of the city of Beatrice," be so amended as to read as follows: "That any person or persons claiming a conveyance under the provisions of this act, shall make application therefor as heretofore provided, within two years from the first day of May, 1873, and after the expiration of said two years all lots which remain unconveyed within the meaning of this act, shall be sold by the corporate authorities of said city of Beatrice, at public auction, to the highest bidder, after one month's notice of said sale by publication in some newspaper printed in said city, and the proceeds of said sale shall be paid into the treasury of said city, and be applied and belong to the street improvement fund thereof, after paying the owner of any tax title, if any, the amount of the taxes he may have paid thereon with interest. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 2, 1875. To take effect. AN ACT To build the south wing to the hospital for the insane. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: insane hospital SECTION 1. That the trustees of the Nebraska hospital South wing of for the insane are hereby authorized and required, and it is to be built. made their duty as soon as possible to proceed with the construction of the south wing of the hospital for the insane, according to the plans and specifications heretofore adopted, with such modification of detail as they may find necessary, not interfering with the external symmetry and plan of the building. sals to erect SEC. 2. Within thirty days after the passage and ap- Sealed propo proval of this act they shall publish notice for at least four same. weeks or more in two papers in this state, and two in |