Article VIII. MISCELLANEOUS

Section 1[43]. The inhabitants of the Town of Silver City are hereby exempted from working on any road beyond the limits of the town, or from paying any tax to procure laborers for working on the same, to exceed two days in any one year; and the town council shall by ordinance declare what are public roads, and open and keep the same in good travelling repair, and have exclusive jurisdiction over the same within the limits of the town; and to require every male inhabitant between the age of eighteen and fifty years, to labor on said streets, lanes, avenues, alleys and roads not to exceed three days in each and every year, and every person failing to perform such labor when duly notified by the supervisor, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each and every day so neglected and refused.

Section 2[44]. The town council shall have power to levy and collect a special tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent, on all real estate within the limits of the corporation and belonging to persons nonresident therein, for the purposes of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues, alleys and roads of said town in repair.

Section 3[45]. The town council shall cause to be published annually a full and complete statement of all moneys had and received and expended by the corporation during the preceding year, and on what account received and expended.

Section 4[46]. Any justice of the peace residing within the limits of said town is hereby authorized, empowered and required to inquire into, hear and determine all offenses committed within the limits of said town, against any of the ordinances of said council, and to punish the offender or offenders as prescribed by such ordinances; provided, that any person charged with violating any of said ordinances may have a trial by jury as in other cases. The fees and commissions of the justice of the peace to be prescribed and regulated by ordinance of the council in all cases under this act.

Section 5[47]. In actions, suits and proceedings wherein said town shall be a party, no citizen thereof shall be deemed an incompetent witness or juror, on account of the interest of such citizen in the event of such action, suit or proceeding; provided, that such interest be only such as is held in common with the citizens of said town.

Section 6[48]. The council shall have power to levy and collect a tax not to exceed one-half of one per cent within any one year upon all taxable property within the limits of said town for general purposes and shall declare what property shall be taxed and determine the value thereof.

Section 7[49]. The town council of Silver City shall have power to regulate the disposal of all lands belonging to said town, and particularly those lands embraced within the limits of the town site of Silver City, New Mexico, and conveyed to the inhabitants of said town site of Silver City by deed from J. F. Bennett, probate judge of the County of Grant, dated March 15, 1876, which have not heretofore been disposed of, and to authorize and empower the mayor to make a good and sufficient deed to the same, to be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk of the council with the corporate seal or scroll.

Section 8[50]. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read without further proof in all courts of law and equity in this Territory.

Section 9[51]. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately after its passage; and an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Town of Silver City in the County of Grant", approved January 14, 1876, be and same is hereby repealed; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby also repealed.