dition of such company and the business transacted the preceding year, and present the same at the annual meeting. member. SEC. 16. Any member of such company may withdrawal of withdraw therefrom by surrendering his policy for cancellation at any time while the company continues the business for which it was organized, by giving notice in writing to the secretary thereof, and paying his or her share of all claims then existing against said company, and a cancellation fee not to exceed one dollar; Provided, That by the withdrawal of any such member, the number of members remaining in the company, shall not be reduced below twenty, or that the assets will not be reduced below twenty thousand dollars; Provided further, That the company shall have power to cancel or terminate any policy, by giving the Cancellation insured notice to that effect, and such cancellation of policy ends his or her membership in such com pany. of policy. Annual or. SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of the president, Ant to auditor vice president, and secretary of every such company, on the first day of January each year, or within a month thereafter, to prepare, under their own oath, and transmit to the auditor of public accounts, a statement of the condition of the company on the last day of the month preceding, in such form as the law may direct. If, upon examination, he is of the opinion that such company is doing business correctly, in accordance with the provisions of this act, he shall thereupon furnish the company a certificate, which shall be deemed authority to continue business the ensuing year. For such examination and certificate the company Existing companies. Assessments; dividends. shall pay one ($1) dollar; for agent's certificate of of authority, fifty (50) cents. Each company shall pay, at the time of organization, ten ($10) dollars to the auditor, all of which shall be paid into the state treasury and applied to the general fund. SEC. 18. Any mutual insurance company organized to insure against fire, lightning, or tornado, and now doing business in this state under the provisions of section forty (40) of chapter forty-three (43) of the Revised Statutes, may, with the written consent of two-thirds (3) of the members thereof, accept the provisions of this act, and shall thereupon be governed by its provisions. Before any such company shall be entitled to the benefits thereof, the directors, or a majority of them, shall file with the auditor of public accounts the declaration provided for in section two (2) of this act. SEC. 19. Such mutual insurance companies shall never make assessments upon their members, as provided in section twelve (12) of this act, until loss has first occurred, unless the directors by a two-thirds () vote order an assessment. They shall never make any dividends. Approved March 30, 1891. [Senate File No. 200.] CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to amend section one (1) of chapter fifty (50) of the Com- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 1, chap. 50, 1859. SECTION 1. That section one (1) of chapter Amending sec. fifty (50) of the Compiled Statutes of 1887, of Comp. Stats., Nebraska, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: intoxicating Section 1. The county board of each county License to sell may grant license for the sale of malt, spirituous, liquors. and vinous liquors, if deemed expedient, upon the application by petition of a majority of the resident freeholders of the town, if the county is under township organization, and if not under township organization, then a majority of the resident freeholders of the precinct where the sale of such liquors is proposed to take place, setting forth that the applicant is a man of respectable character and standing, and a resident of this state, and praying that license may be issued to him. Such application to be filed in the office of the county clerk, and upon payment into the county treasury of such sum as the board may require, not less than five hundred ($500) dollars for each license, and upon the compliance with the provisions of this act. Provided, Such board shall not have power to issue any license for the sale of any liquors in any Repealing clause. city or incorporated village, or within two (2) miles of the same. Provided, In counties having one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants, the county commissioners may also issue licenses within two (2) miles of any city in said county. SEC. 2. Section one (1), chapter fifty (50), Compiled Statutes, 1887, is hereby repealed. Approved April 7, 1891. CHAPTER 35. State board of health. Meetings. Secretaries. [Senate File No. 116.] AN ACT to establish a state board of health, to regulate the practice of medicine in the state of Nebraska, and to repeal sections one (1) to eleven (11), inclusive, of chapter fifty-five (55) of Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "An act to regulate the practice of medicine," approved March 3, 1881, and amended in 1883, and all other acts inconsistent herewith, and provide a penalty for the violation of this act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. There shall be established in the state of Nebraska a board to be styled the State Board of Health. Said board shall consist of the governor, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction, and the governor shall be exofficio chairman of said board. SEC. 2. Said board shall meet upon the call of the governor and within thirty days after the approval of this act, and shall meet thereafter as often and at such times as the governor may from time to time designate. SEC. 3. Said board shall, within sixty days af ter the approval of this act, appoint four secretaries, who shall be graduated physicians of at least seven years, consecutive practice and who shall be at the time of their appointment actually engaged in practice in the state of Nebraska: one of whom shall be appointed for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and one for the term of four years; and thereafter it shall be the duty of said board to appoint or reappoint one secretary every year as the term of those heretofore appointed shall expire, but each secretary shall continue in office until his successor shall have been so appointed. Said appointments shall be made so that of said secretaries two shall be physicians of the so-called regular school, one of the so-called eclectic school, and one of the so-called homeopathic school. secretarics. SEC. 4. Said secretaries shall have power, and Duties of it shall be their duty to assist and advise said board, in the performance of its duties as prescribed by this act, to summon witnesses and take testimony in the same manner as witnesses are summoned and depositions taken under the Code of Civil Procedure, and to report said testimony to the board, together with their findings of fact and recommendations on all matters coming before said board requiring evidence for their determination, except as hereinafter provided. duties of board; SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said board to Powers and see that all the provisions of this act are strictly enforced, to grant certificates as herein provided, and to cause to be prosecuted all violations of this act. Said board shall have and use a common seal and may make and adopt all necessary rules, |