SEC. 200. [Annual statement.]-On the first day of January, of each year, or within fifteen days thereafter, such society or association shall, by its presiding or recording officer, or both of them, file with the auditor of public accounts a sworn statement, setting forth the total number of members in good standing on the first day of January of that year; the total number of members who have been suspended for non payment of dues or assessments for the twelve months next preceding the date of the report, the name of each member deceased during the year next preceding the date of the report, together with the amount of money paid to each, the number of claims resisted and the reasons for resisting the payment thereof; the total amount collected for the payment of certificates of indemnity herein before provided for; the amount due and unpaid upon certificates of deceased members, the total amount on hand in such fund, and the amount paid out in such fund. If the auditor shall be satisfied that such society or association has a sufficient membership to pay its certificate in full in case of the death of any of its members, by its usual method of assessment, he shall issue his certificate authorizing such society or association to transact its business for the term of one year from the first day of January next preceding the date of the report. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 201. [Revocation of certificate.]-If, at any time, the auditor shall be credibly informed that the membership of such society or association has fallen below a number sufficient to produce the amount required to pay a certificate of membership in full, in case of the death of any of its members, he shall cause an investigation to be made of the affairs of such society or association, at the expense of such society or association, and if he shall become satisfied that its membership has fallen below the number required as aforesaid, he shall revoke the certificate provided for in section three of this chapter, and it shall be unlawful for such society or association to further transact any business within the state of Nebraska. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 202. [Change in by-laws.]--Before any change in the constitution or by-laws of any such society or association shall take effect, a copy of the same shall be filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts. [Id. § 5.]

SEC. 203. [Money]-All moneys collected by any such society or association for the payment of its certificates of indemnity, shall be used for that purpose, and none other. [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 204. [Penalty.]-Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than five nor less than one year. [Id. § 7.]

SEC. 205. [Applicability of act.]-This act shall only apply to secret, benevolent, fraternal societies. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 206. [Penalty.]-Any officer of any such society or association, who shall embezzle or appropriate any of the moneys or property of any such society or association to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished accordingly. [Id. § 9.]

CHANGE OF NAME OF CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

SEC. 207. [Authority.]-That any church, religious or charitable association or corporation existing now, or hereafter coming into existence, by virtue of any special charter from the legislature of this state or of the territory of Nebraska, or by virtue of the general statutes of the state, may and hereby is authorized to change its name at any regular annual meeting of said association by a two-thirds affirmative vote of the members present at said meeting. [1887, chap. 19.]

SEC. 208. [Notice.]-Public notice of such action by said church or association shall be given by publishing the same in some newspaper in general cir

SEC. 207. "An act authorizing churches, religious and charitable associations to change their names and declaring the effect thereof" Laws 1887. chap 19. Took effect July 1, 1887.

culation in the county where said church or association is located for three weeks successively next after said meeting, and by recording the minutes of said meeting in the same place as articles of incorporation are now by law required to be recorded. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 209. [Vested rights.]-The change of the name of any church or religious or charitable association under this act shall not in any manner impair the right, title or interest in or to any property held by said association whose name becomes changed, and any incumbrance or liability created before said change shall remain unimpaired thereby. [Id. § 3.]

INCORPORATION OF UNION DEPOT COMPANIES.

SEC. 210. [Authority.]-Any number of persons not less than five may as sociate themselves together and become incorporated for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating union freight and passenger depots, and the tracks, structures, appliances and appurtenances incident and necessary to the use of the same, in like manner and by like proceedings as are now provided in chapter 16, of the Revised Statutes of 1885, for the organization of railway companies, including the exercise of the power of eminent domain. [1887, chap. 20.]

SEC. 211. [Powers.]-Such union depot companies shall be authorized and empowered to locate, establish, construct, furnish, maintain, operate and enjoy union freight and passenger railway depots at such points as may be determined upon, with such tracks, side-tracks, turn-outs, switches, offices, and structures as may be deemed necessary; and shall have power to acquire, take and hold all real, personal and mixed property necessary or convenient for the execution of the powers herein granted, and the accomplishment of the objects and purposes of this act. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 212. [Same-Mortgages, etc.]-Every union depot company shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to mortgage or execute deeds of trust of the whole or any part of its property and franchises, including all lands owned or to be acquired by said company to secure money borrowed by it for the construction and equipment of such union depots and appurtenances; and may issue its corporate bonds in sums of not less than one thousand ($1,000) dollars each, secured by said mortgages or deeds of trust, payable to bearer or otherwise; and, if payable to bearer, negotiable by delivery, and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed seven per centum per annum and convertible into stock or not as shall be expressed on the face of each and every bond so issued by said company; and may sell such bonds at such rates or prices as they may deem proper; and, if said bonds shall be sold below the nominal or par value, they shall be binding upon said company, and no plea of usury shall be put in or allowed by said company upon any suit or proceedings upon the same. The principal and interest on said bonds, or either of them, may be made payable within or without the state; and such bonds may be issued to the amount deemed necessary by the board of directors of said company, for the construction and completion of said union depot and appurtenances. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 213. [Same-Lien.]-Any mortgage or deed of trust made upon the real or personal property of such union depot company shall bind and be a valid lien upon all the property mentioned in such deed or mortgage, and the purchase[r] under foreclosure of said mortgage or deed of trust, shall have and enjoy all the rights of a purchaser on execution sale. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 214. [Mortgages-Property.]-Said mortgages or deeds of trust may, by their terms, include and cover not only the property of the companies making them at the time of their date, but property both real and personal which may thereafter be acquired by them, together with all the material and property

SEC. 210. "An act authorizing the incorporation of union depot companies." Laws 1887, Chap. 20. Took effect July 1, 1887.

necessary for the use and operation of said union depots, and shall be as valid and effectual as if the property were in possession at the time of the execution thereof. [Id. § 5.]

CHAPTER 17.-COUNTIES, COUNTY BOUNDARIES AND COUNTY SEATS.
ARTICLE I.--BOUNDARIES.*

SECTION 1. That the counties hereinafter named shall be bounded by boundary lines as set forth in this act. [G. S. § 1, 212.]

SEC. 2. [Adams.]-The county of Adams is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township five, north, of range twelve, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range nine, west; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight, north, of range nine, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township eight, north, of range twelve, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 3. [Antelope.]-The county of Antelope is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-three, north, of range eight, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-three, north, of range five, west; thence north to the north east corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 3a. [Arthur.]-That all that portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at the southeast corner of township seventeen (17), north of range thirty-six (36), west of the sixth principal meridian; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty (20), north of range thirty-six (36) west; thence west along said township line to the east line of Cheyenne county, thence south along the east line of Cheyenne county to the north line of Keith county, thence east along the north line of Keith county to the place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Arthur. [1887, chap. 21.]

SEC. 4. [Blaine.]—That all that portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at the south-east corner of township twenty-one (21), range twenty-one (21), running thence north to the north-east corner of township twenty-four (24), range twenty-one (21), township twenty-four (24); thence west to the north-west corner of township twenty-four (24), range twenty-five (25); thence south to the southwest corner of township twenty-one, (21), range twenty-five (25); thence east to the south east corner of township twenty-one (21), range (21), to the place of beginning; that the territory within said boundary may be set apart and hereafter known as Blaine county, subject to the organization as such at the will of her people at some future time. [1885, chap. 31.]

SEC. 5. [Boone.]-The county of Boone is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township eighteen, north of range eight, west; thence east along the northern boundary of the Pawnee reservation, to a point

NOTE-ART I. "An act defining the boundaries of certain counties." G. S. 212. Took effect Mar. 3, 1873. Secs. 12-13 of "An act to correct clerical errors in and to amend an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties'" [Gen. Stat. 225, 226,] are re-enacted by act of 1879, p. 353, secs. 2 and 3, chap, 18. NOTE, also, that at the 10th session of the legislature called to correct errors in the county boundaries act of the 9th session, two acts were passed for the purposes set forth in their titles which were: 1. "An act to extend the time for making assessments in newly organized counties, and in portions of the state affected by changes in county boundaries by an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties. Approved March 3, 1873." 2. "An act to make valid and legalize the acts of public officers acting in good faith, and to prevent the failure of justice, or the abatement of actions commenced, owing to any change in county boundaries by an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties,' approved March 3, 1873." These acts [Gen. Stat. 226, 227] are omitted from this volume.

where the dividing line between ranges four and five, west, intersect the same; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-two, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-two, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 4, 218.]

SEC. 5 a. [Box Butte.]-The county of Box Butte is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of township 24 north, range 47 west; thence north to the northeast corner of township 28 north, range 47 west; thence west to the northwest corner of township 28 north, range 52 west; thence south to the southwest corner of township 24 north, range 52 west; thence east to the place of beginning.

SEC. 6. [Brown.]-That all of that portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at the southeast corner of township twenty-five, (25) north, of range seventeen (17) west of the sixth principal meridian; thence west to the southwest corner of township twenty-five (25) range (24), twenty-four; thence north to the northern boundary of the state; thence east to the range line between ranges sixteen (16) and seventeen (17), thence south to the place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Brown. [1883, chap. XXXI.]

SEC. 7. [Burt.]-The territory bounded as follows: Commencing at the state boundary at the southeast corner of the Omaha Indian reservation, thence northwestwardly along said state boundary to the center line of town twenty-five, north; thence due west to the line dividing ranges seven and eight, east; thence south by said line to the south line of township twenty-one, north, of range eight, east; thence east by said line to the northwest corner of section six, in township twenty, north, of range nine, east; thence south by section lines, one mile east of the guide meridian to the southwest corner of section twenty, in township twenty, north, of range nine, east; thence east by section lines to the state boundary; thence northwardly up said boundary to the place of beginning, shall constitute the county of Burt. [Amended 1879, 77.]

SEC. 8. [Butler.]-The county of Butler is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of township thirteen north, of range four, east; thence north to the south bank of the main channel of Platte river, thence along the south bank of the main channel of the Platte river to the northwest corner of township sixteen, north, of range one, east; thence south to the southwest corner of township thirteen north, of range one, east; thence east to the place of beginning. [1875, 70. Amended 1879, 109.]

SEC. 9. [Buffalo.]-The county of Buffalo is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the dividing line between ranges twelve and thirteen crosses the southern channel of the Platte river; thence up said channel to a point where the dividing line between ranges eighteen and nineteen intersect the same; thence north along said line to the third standard parallel; thence east along said parallel to the northeast corner of township twelve, north, of range thirteen, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 7, 213.]

SEC. 10. [Cass.]-The county of Cass is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township ten, north, of range nine, east; thence east to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel until it intersects the Platte river; thence up said Platte river until it intersects the line dividing townships twelve and thirteen, north, the last time; thence west to the northwest corner of township twelve, north, of range ten, east; thence south two miles; thence west six miles; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 11. [Cedar.]-The county of Cedar is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river, at which the line dividing ranges one and two, west, crosses said river; thence south to the southwest corner of township twenty-nine, north, of range one, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-nine, north, of range one, west; thence south to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range one, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range

SEC. 5 a. Erected out of Dawes county by vote of electors. Nov. 2, 1886.

SEC. 6. County divided by vote of electors Nov. 4, 1884, and Keyapaha county organized from it by proclamation of governor Dec. 17, 1884.

three, east; thence north to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel to the place of beginning. [Amended 1875, 73.1

SEC. 12. [Chase.]-That the following portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at a point where the first standard parallel intersects the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range thirty-six; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight, north, of range thirty-six; thence west to the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence south to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known as the county of Chase. [G. S. § 5, 225.]

SEC. 13. [Cherry.]—That all that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township twenty-five (25) north, of range twentytive (25) west of the 6th principal meridian; thence west to the south-west corner of township twenty-five (25) north, of range forty (40); thence north on the east line of Sioux county to the northern boundary line of the state of Nebraska ; thence east along said boundary line to the range line between ranges twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25); thence south on said range line to the point of beginning, be, and the same shall constitute the county of Cherry. [1883, chap. XXXII.]

SEC. 14. [Cheyenne.]-The county of Cheyenne is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the forty-first degree of north latitude with the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington; thence north along said twenty-seventh degree of west longitude to a point formed by its intersection with the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence east along said forty-second degree of north latitude to a point formed by the intersection with the twenty-fifth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence south to the northeast corner of Colorado territory; thence west to the place of beginning. [G. S. §10,214.] SEC. 15. [Clay.]—The county of Clay is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township five, north, of range eight, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range five, west; thence north to the north corner of township eight, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township eight, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 11.]

SEC. 16. [Colfax.]-The county of Colfax is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the dividing line between ranges one and two, east, intersects the south bank of the Platte river; thence along said south bank to a point where the dividing line between ranges four and five, east, intersects the same; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty, north, of range four, east; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty, north, of range two, east; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 12.]

SEC. 17. [Cuming.]-The county of Cuming is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-one, north, of range four, east; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-one, north, or [of] range seven, east; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-four, north, of range seven, east; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-four, north, or [of] range four, east; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 13.]

SEC. 18. [Custer.]-That all of that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township thirteen (13), north, of range seventeen (17), west of the sixth principal meridian, thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty, north, of range seventeen (17), west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty (20), north, of range twenty-five (25), west; thence south to the southwest corner of township thirteen (13), north, of range twenty-five (25), west; thence east to place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Custer. [1877 § 1, 211.]

SEC. 19. [Dakota.]-The territory bounded as follows: Commencing at the most westerly point where the township line between townships twenty-nine and