with the number thereof, in a book to be kept in his office, and he shall give copies of such record, with his certificate thereto, on demand, as other public records. SEC. 3. [Certificate-Exhibition.]-Any person to whom such certificate be issued shall exhibit the same to any person, on demand.

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SEC. 4. [Notes.]-Any person who may take any note, or other obligation in writing, for which any patent right or right claimed by him or her to be patent right, shall form the whole or any part of the consideration, shall, at the time of the taking thereof, insert therein, in the body of the instrument, and above the signature thereof, in prominent and legible writing or print, the words, given for a patent right, and all such obligations or promises, if transferred, shall be subject to all defense, as if owned y the original promisee.

SEC. 5. [Violation of act-Penalty.]-Any person who shall sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, within this state, or who shall take any note, or other obligation, or promise in writing, for which any patent right shall form the whole or any part of the consideration, without complying with the requirements of this act, or who shall refuse to exhibit the certificate as required hereby, shall be deemed guilty of a criminal offense, and on conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of the proper county, not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court, and shall, moreover, be liable to the party injured, in a civil action for any damages sustained.

SEC. 6. [Took effect July 1, 1873.]

CHAPTER 67.-PAUPERS.*

SECTION. 1. [Support.]-Every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other unavoidable cause, shall be supported by the father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, children, grandchildren, brothers or sisters of such poor person, if they, or either of them be of sufficient ability. And every person who shall refuse to support his or her father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, child or grandchild, sister or brother, when directed by the county commissioners of the county where such poor person shall be found, whether such relative shall reside in the same county or not, shall forfeit and pay to the county commissioners, for the use of the poor of their county, the sum of ten dollars for each and every month for which they or either of them shall fail or refuse, to be recovered in the name of the county commissioners, for the use of the poor aforesaid, before a justice of the peace or any other court having jurisdiction; Provided, That whenever any persons become paupers from intemperance or other bad conduct, they shall not be entitled to support from any relative except parent or child. [R. S. 274. G. S. 510.]

SEC. 2. [Relatives to support.]-The children shall first be called upon to support parents, if there be children of sufficient ability, and if there be none of sufficient ability, the parents of such poor person shall be next called upon, and if there be no parents nor children, the brothers and sistors shall be next called on, and if there be no brothers nor sisters, the grandchildren of such poor person shall next be called on, and then the grand parents; Provided, Married fcmales, while their husbands live, shall not be liable to a suit.

SEC. 3. [County relief.]—When any such poor person shall not have any such relatives in any county in this state as are named in the preceding sections, or if such relatives shall not be of sufficient ability, or shall refuse to maintain such pauper, then the said pauper shall receive such relief as his or her case may require, out of the county treasury, in the manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 4. Justices-Overseers-Physician.]-The justices of the peace in each precinct shall be and they are hereby made overseers of the poor and SEC. 4. If a note given for a patent right be executed in the ordinary form, omitting the words prescribed -a bona fide purchaser before maturity, etc., takes the same free from all equities between the original parties. 4 Neb. 517. *NOTE.-Chap. XL, R. S. 274. Chap. 54, G. S. 510.

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 such 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 dol lars in any one year. [Amended 1875, 89.]

SEC. 5. [Overseer's duties-Custodian-Bond.-It shall be the duty of said overseers of the poor, within their respective precincts, to provide for all such persons as are unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, or other unavoidable cause, the necessaries of life, and in their discretion may confide such poor persons to some moral and discreet householder or householders in the county, of sufficient ability to provide for them. Every person to whom the care of any such poor person shall be entrusted, shall execute a bond to the county in which such poor person shall reside, conditioned that he or she will treat such poor person with humanity, and afford to him or her the necessary comforts of life fitted to his or her condition; said bond shall set forth the sum to be paid by said county for keeping such poor person.

SEC. 6. [Overseer's report.]-Said overseers shall, at each regular session of the board of county commissioners, make a full report of their actings and doings under this chapter, and return a list of all the poor within their respective precincts, specifying the age, sex, and infirmities of each.

SEC. 7. [Overseer's expenses.-Upon making such report, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to issue their warrants or drafts on the treasurer, for the payment of the expense necessarily incurred by the overseers of the poor in supporting such poor person.

SEC. 8. [Custodian-Bond increased.-Any sum set forth in the bond executed to any county as aforesaid, may be lessened or increased at the discretion of the commissioners of said county, without affecting the validity of said bond.

SEC. 9. [Custodian-Removal.-The county commissioners may, at any regular meeting, remove any poor person from the custody of any person or persons to whose care the overseers may have committed the keeping of such poor persons, without subjecting the overseers, or the county, to any claim for damages.

SEC. 10. [Same-Labor.]-The overseers, in fixing the amount to be paid for the keeping of any poor person, shall take into consideration the ability of the poor person to labor.

SEC. 11. [Pauper-Where chargeable.—Any person becoming chargeable as a pauper, in this state, shall be chargeable as such pauper in the county in which he or she resided at the commencement of the thirty days immediately preceding such person becoming so chargeable.

SEC. 12. Non-resident.-If any person shall become chargeable in any county in which he or she did not reside at the commencement of the thirty days immediately preceding his or her becoming so chargeable, he or she shall be duly taken care of by the proper authority of the county where he or she may be found; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commissioners to send a notice by mail to the clerk of the county commissioners of the county in which such pauper resided, as before stated, that such person has become chargeable as a pauper, and requesting the authorities of said county to remove the said pauper forthwith, and to pay the expense accrued in taking care of him or her.

SEC. 13. Same.-If said pauper, by reason of sickness or disease, or by neglect of the authorities of the county in which he or she resides, or for any other sufficient cause, cannot be removed, then the county taking charge of such individual may sue for, and recover from the county to which said individual belongs, the amount expended for and in behalf of such pauper, and in taking care of the same.

SEC. 14. Non-resident taken sick. Whenever any non-resident, or

any other person not coming within the definition of a pauper, shall fall sick in any county in this state, not having money or property to pay his or her board, nursing, and medical aid, it shall be the duty of the overeers of the poor of the precinct where such person shall be, to furnish such assistance to such person as they shall deem necessary; and if any such person shall die, said overseers shall provide all necessary means for a decent burial of such person.

SEC. 15. [Residence explained.]-The term "residence," mentioned in this chapter, shall be taken and considered to mean the actual residence of the party or the place where he or she was employed; or in case he or she was in no employment, then it shall be considered and held the place where he or she made it his or her home.

SEC. 16. [Importing paupers-Penalty.]-If any person shall bring or leave any pauper or paupers in any county in this state, wherein such pauper is not lawfully settled, knowing him or them to be paupers, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recov ered by and to the use of such county, before any justice of the peace, in the proper county.

SEC. 17. [Poor houses-Establishment.]-The county commissioners in each county are authorized, whenever they shall see fit so to do, to establish a poor house.

SEC. 18. [Site.]-The county commissioners are hereby authorized to take to the county, by grant, devise, or purchase, any tract of land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, for the purposes of said poor house.

SEC. 19. [Donations Taxes.]-Said commissioners are hereby empowered to receive donations to aid in the establishment of such poor house, and also empowered from time to time, as they shall see fit, to levy and collect a tax, not exceeding one per cent. on the taxable property in the county, and to appropriate the same to the purchase of land, not exceeding the aforesaid six hundred and forty acres, and to erect and furnish buildings suitable for a poor house, and to put in operation and to defray the actual expenses of said poor house, should the labor of the inmates be inadequate thereto.

SEC. 20. [Agents.]-Said county commissioners are hereby authorized to appoint and employ such agents and other persons as may be necessary to establish and put into operation such poor house.

SEC. 21. [Overseers discontinued.]- Whenever the county commissioners of any county shall enter upon their records, that they have established a poor house, and that said poor house is ready for the reception of the poor of said county then the authority conferred upon the overseers of the poor shall cease to be in force in said county: Provided, however, That if there be any particular case or cases which the court should deem prudent to put out under the provisions of this chapter, they may do so, making a proper entry of the circumstances upon their records.

SEC. 22. [Title to poor house.]-The title of the property authorized to be acquired by this chapter, for the purpose of said poor house shall be made to the county.

SEC. 23. [Poor house and farm-Appropriations.]—The county commissioners of any county in this state may, at any regular meeting, if they, at any time, shall deem it to the interest of said county, appropriate, out of any fund appropriated to said county for any purpose, or other money belonging to said county, any sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, for the purpose of purchasing a farm, and erecting thereon suitable buildings for a poor house for said county, as contemplated in sections seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen of this chapter.

SEC. 24. [Clothing for inmates of institutions.]-That whenever any

SEC. 23. In the execution of this power the commissioners cannot give promissory notes secured by mortgage in payment of the poor farm. 2 Neb. 183. SEC. 24. "An act providing for furnishing clothing to certain inmates of public charitable institutions." Laws 1875, 177. Took effect Feb. 24, 1875.

person who may be an inmate of the Nebraska state institute for the deaf and dumb or any other public charitable institution shall be unable to provide suitable clothing for himself or herself, and shall have no parent or legal guardian able and legally bound so to do, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county where such person last resided before entering or applying for admission into such institution, to adjudge and declare such person a pauper, and thereupon the proper officers of such institution shall provide suitable clothing for such person, and send the bill thereof to the aforesaid county commissioners, who shall forthwith audit and allow the same and cause a warrant therefor to be drawn upon the general fund of such county in favor of said officers of such institution. [1875 § 1, 177.]

CHAPTER 68.-PRINTING.

SECTION 1. [State printing-Proposals-Advertisement.]-The aud itor, treasurer, and secretary of state, shall, during the first week in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and every second year thereafter, give notice in four different newspapers, published in different sections of the state, that sealed proposals indorsed, "proposals for state printing," will be received at the office of the secretary of state until the thirtieth day after the first publication of said notice, for the execution of the several branches of the state printing, in separate contracts, as hereinafter specified, for the term of two years from the fourth Tuesday in December, next thereafter. [1867 § 1, 64.]

SEC. 2. [Proposals how made.]-The proposals hereinbefore provided for, shall state, distinctly and specifically, the price per thousand ems for the composition of all bills, resolutions, and other matter that may be ordered to be printed in bill form; all pamphlets or reports ordered to be printed in pamphlet form; the journals of the senate and house of representatives; the general laws; the local laws; and volumes of legislative documents; the price per thousand ems for composition, and the price per quire for press work of all blanks and circulars for the executive offices; and the price per quire of the paper to be furnished by the bidder for each of the kinds of work provided for, at which the bidder is willing to take the contract bid for; and in such notice as is prescribed in this act, the secretary, auditor, and treasurer shall publish an abstract of this law, stating distinctly each item to be bid for, the character of the work, and the mode of allowing compensation for the same; and the said secretary, auditor and treasurer, or any two of them, shall within two days after the expiration of said notice, proceed to open all such proposals by them received, and they shall, on careful examination and strict computation, give the contract for each of the hereinafter named branches of the state printing, to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, who will comply with all the provisions of this act; Provided, That if two or more bidders shall propose for the same contract, and the proposals of one be lower on composition, and the proposals of another be lower on presswork or paper, then the secretary, auditor, and treasurer, or any two of them, taking to their assistance a disinterested practical printer, shall proceed to compute the same, by taking as a basis, the aggregate number of ems, the aggregate numbers of tokens of press work, and the aggregate number of quires of paper, of the same kind of printing for the last session of the legislature preceding, and they shall give the contract to the lowest bidder under the computation aforesaid; And provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent the same person from becoming contractor for two or more branches of the public printing, if he shall be the lowest bidder therefor; but the said secretary, auditor, and treasurer shall in no case whatever receive or take into consideration the bid of an irresponsible person; Provided, however, No person shall be deemed irresponsible, who shall tender to the executive officers aforesaid, along with his bid, satisfactory assurance, subscribed by his proposed surety, that he will execute the bonds required by the eleventh section of this act.

NOTE.-"An act to provide for state printing." Laws 1867, 64. Chap. 56, G. S. 515. Took effect June 18, 1867.

SEC. 3. Separate contracts.-The printing of all bills for the two houses of the legislature, together with such resolutions and other matters as may be ordered by the two houses, or either of them, to be printed in bill form, shall be let in one contract. The printing of the journals of the senate and house of representatives, and of such reports, communications and other documents as enter into and make a part of the journals, shall be let in another contract. The printing of all reports, communications, and other documents, that may be ordered to be printed in pamphlet form by the legislature, or either branch thereof, except such as enter into and make a part of the journals, together with the volume of public documents, shall be let in another separate contract. The printing of the general and local public laws, and such joint resolutions as may be directed by the legislature to be printed therewith, shall be let in another separate contract. And the printing of all blanks and circulars necessary for the use of the executive officers of state, shall be let in another separate contract.

SEC. 4. [Legislative bills.]-The bills shall be printed in folio foolscap form, in small pica type, each page to contain not less than twenty-five lines of solid matter of the usual length, and the lines shall be successively numbered, with a blank only in each space between the lines; and in counting the composition upon bills, the same shall be measured as solid matter, and every necessary fraction of a page shall be counted as a full page, but no entire blank page shall be counted or charged for.

SEC. 5. [Legislative journals.]-The journals of the senate and house of representatives shall be printed in super royal octavo form, on neat long primer type, and in as close and compact order as is consistent with good workmanship, without unnecessary blanks or broken pages, the pages to be of the same size as those of the journals of the territorial legislature.

SEC. 6. Public documents.-The volumes of public documents and all reports, communications and other documents ordered to be printed in pamphlet form, shall be printed on the same kind of type, and the pages to be of the same size as specified for the journals in the preceding section, said documents to be printed in pamphlet form, shall be printed in close compact order, without title pages, unnecessary blanks, or open spaces; the volumes of public documents shall contain nothing that shall have been inserted in the laws or journals of the same year except the annual report of the auditor and treasurer; and the various reports, communications, and other documents proper to be inserted therein shall follow each other in as close compact order as is consistent with good workmanship, without the intervention of unnecessary blanks, or separate title, or half title pages; and the paging thereof shall be consecutive, and at the conclusion, there shall be an index, to be made out by the printer, referring to the particular page at which each separate document commences. In all cases where any document is printed in pamphlet form by order of the legislature, or either branch thereof, by the contractor for the printing of the volumes of public documents, which shall also be inserted in the volumes of public documents, and in all cases where any document is printed in pamphlet form by the contractor for the printing of the journals, which shall also be printed in the journals, but one charge shall be made or allowed for the compensation thereof.

SEC. 7. [Laws.]-The laws shall be printed in royal octavo form, on good small pica type, the pages to be of the same size and form as those in the laws of the session of the tenth session of the territorial legislature of Nebraska, with similar marginal notes, and index to the general laws.

SEC. 8. [Composition- Measurement. In the composition of all pamphlets, laws, journals, and volumes of public documents, every necessary

SEC. 7. Under a contract to furnish " paper super royal, forty pounds to the ream, sheets folded octavo, (four times,) and sheets stitched," where the paper furnished was of the kind known as royal, in sheets 19 by 21 inches, and weighing 20 pounds to the ream, held, that the contract required paper 24 by 38 inches in size, weighing 40 pounds to the ream and should contain sixteen leaves and thirty-two pages of printed matter to he sheet printed on both sides, and that each sheet for folding and stitching should contain sixteen pages. 3 Neb. 310.