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CHAPTER 149.

Preamble.

Appropriation
for the relief of
Edgar D.
Everett.

Warrant authorized.

AN ACT for the relief of Edgar D. Everett.

WHEREAS, On the 20th day of March, 1886, Edgar D. Everett, while acting under the orders of the sheriff of Burt county, Nebraska, and assisting said sheriff to arrest one Wright, who had, the day previous, killed one H. C. Steadman, living near Lyons, in said Burt county, said Everett, in the performing said duties, was wounded by a ball from the pistol in the hands of the murderer Wright, by which the said Edgar D. Everett was injured and physically incapacitated for life, and was damaged in the sum of three thousand dollars;

WHEREAS, Said injury was caused at a time when said Everett was acting under the orders of the sheriff and in compliance with the laws of the state;

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

SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the state of Nebraska, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars for the payment of said claim for damages.

SEC. 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the sum of three thousand dollars in favor of the said Edgar D. Everett for the payment of said claim.

Approved March 31, 1887.

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT for the relief of John Lanham, contractor for the erection of the chemical laboratory of the University of the State of Nebraska.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Ne

braska:

SECTION 1. That the sum of ten thousand six Appropriation

hundred and fifty ($10,650) dollars is hereby appropriated out of the state general fund, not otherwise appropriated, to John Lanham, contractor for the erection of the chemical laboratory of the University of Nebraska, for the balance due him on the contract and extra work on university and laboratory heating apparatus, for the erection of said laboratory building.

Approved March 31, 1887.

for the relief of John Lanham.

CHAPTER 151.

AN ACT for the relief of Sarah D. Gillespie.

WHEREAS, On the first day of November, 1870, Preamble. one John Gillespie borrowed from the permanent school fund of this state four thousand ($4,000) dollars, and secured the same by a mortgage executed by himself and Sarah D. Gillespie, his wife, upon the south half of block number one hundred

and fifty-three (153) in the city of Lincoln, in said state; and also south half of the southwest quarter of section No. 31, in township No. 10, north of range No. 6, east in Lancaster county; and

WHEREAS, Said mortgage was foreclosed for non-payment and a decree rendered therein on November 6th, 1873, for the sum of five thousand and forty-two and forty one-hundredths dollars ($5,042.40) and one hundred and seventy-six and seventy-three one-hundredths dollars ($176.73) costs of suits being the amount remaining due thereon at the date last aforesaid; and

WHEREAS, The state thereafter paid, to redeem said property from tax sale, the sum of four thousand and five hundred and seventy-nine and sixty one-hundredths dollars ($4,597.60) so that the total amount of moneys expended thereon by the State, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum to this date is sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-three and forty-eight onehundredths ($16,953.48) dollars; and

WHEREAS, The title of all said mortgaged property has been acquired by the state under a sale pursuant to said decree of foreclosure, and the state has sold lots numbered seven, eight, nine, eleven, and twelve, in said block, for the aggregate sum of seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars ($17,750) being a sum considerably in excess of the amount expended by the state, with interest thereon to date, as aforesaid. And also sold to said Sarah D. Gillespie lot ten in said block for the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, upon a contract

pursuant to the law for the sale of lands belonging to the state common school endowment, upon which contract she has paid the sum of six hundred and sixty-five ($665) dollars; and

WHEREAS, The said lot ten is and at all times since the execution of said mortgage has been, the homestead of said Sarah D. Gillespie, acquired principally by means of her own industry and frugality, and is the only property of which she is the owner; and

WHEREAS, It is unbecoming the dignity of the state to speculate upon the necessities of its citizens or to take advantage of the misfortuues of its debtors, but on the contrary it is the highest duty of government in the conduct of its business affairs to set an example of exact justice and fair dealing; therefore

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

complied with.

SECTION 1. That the said contract of purchase Contract by the said Sarah D. Gillespie of the said lot ten (10) in said block one hundred and fifty-three (153), be considered and treated in all respects as having been by her fully complied with, paid off, fulfilled and discharged, and that immediately upon the taking effect of this act the governor, land commissioner and secretary of state, make, execute and deliver to the said Sarah D. Gillespie a deed Deed shall for said lot and appurtenances in all respects as though the terms of said contract had been fully performed and complied with by her.

Approved March 31, 1887.

issue.

CHAPTER 152.

Preamble.

Appropriation for relief of Columbus.

Warrant authorized.

AN ACT for the relief of the city of Columbus.

WHEREAS, The city of Columbus did, on the first day of May, 1886, issue city bonds for the erection of waterworks for said city in the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, and

WHEREAS, The auditor of the state of Nebraska did enact from said city the payment of sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50) as registration fee for registering said bonds, and

WHEREAS, The attorney general of Nebraska and the supreme court of said state have since decided that no registration fee can be legally exacted from cities for the registration of their bonds, and said bonds must be registered by the auditor without any registration fee, therefore

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

SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state, the sum of sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50) for the said city of Columbus.

SEC. 2. The auditor of the state is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for said amount in favor of said city of Columbus.

Approved March 31, 1887.

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