By-laws

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Austin Cemetery Association formed to provide water to the Austin, Nevada cemetery, and to buy, hold, and sell land for burial plots. Included are minutes of meetings, articles of incorporation, and bylaws from 1869-1910.

Abstract Campaign for Choice was organized in Reno, Nevada in August 1989 to ensure passage of Question 7 on the November 6, 1990 ballot. In essence, Question 7 affirmed an existing Nevada statute (NRS 442.250 based on Roe vs. Wade) and prohibited its modification or repeal except by a direct vote of the people. If Question 7 failed, the Nevada statute would be void, enabling the legislature to regulate, modify, and even prohibit reproductive rights for women. The campaign was successful, however,...

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Crown Point Gold and Silver Mining Company was one of the richest mines of the Comsotck Lode. Collection contains records including Board of Directors' minutes, 1861-1874; by-laws; agreements; deeds; reports of mining operations, 1887-1894; and letters, 1875-1877.

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Friends of Nevada Wilderness is dedicated to preserving all qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting all present and potential wilderness from ongoing threats, educating the public about the values of and need for wilderness, and improving the management and restoration of wild lands. The collection includes bylaws, correspondence, membership lists, budgets, newsletters, speeches, newspaper clippings, and material from anti-wilderness groups.

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Literary club based out of Gardnerville, Nevada and founded in 1916 for “the education of the members, the bettering of the home, the uplifting of the community, and the betterment of all things which lie in womans [sic] sphere of life, liberty and the enjoyment of happiness.” Collection includes constitutions, bylaws, minutes, programs, scrapbook of clippings about the club, and club history in the form of member biographies, obituaries, and programs and photographs of special events.

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The High Sierra Prime Timers-Reno was the local branch of the Prime Timers World Wide, an international organization that provides support for mature bisexual or gay men. It was founded in 2000 and active until August 2022; Ken Zeising was a founding member and first president of the organization. The collection contains a history of the organization, the final newsletter, the Constitution and bylaws, Chapter Charter, and a certificateof incorporation by the State of Nevada.

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One volume contains minutes of meetings (1872) of the Washoe Tribe, Washoe City. A second volume is the Records of the Great Council Improved Order of Red Men of the State of Nevada, minutes of annual meetings from 1897-1902. The third volume contains the Constitution and bylaws of the Pocahontas Tribe No. 2 (Virginia City) and includes membership lists, 1871-1892.

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Includes lodge history, constitution, bylaws, list of members, order of business, rules of order, code of procedure, decisions up to 1875, and an index. The collection contains material from 1872-1876 created by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Pioche Lodge no. 23.

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Isabel Kimble was active in Nevada committees that worked to gain approval of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from 1973-1977. The collection includes correspondence, minutes of board meetings, bylaws, reports, mailing lists, newsletters, publicity, and newspaper clippings about groups that Kimble worked with in her support of women's political issues in Nevada.

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The Nevada Artists' Association was incorporated in 1950 in Carson City, Nevada, with the purpose of raising the standards of art for the viewing public through juried art shows. The collection includes minutes; agendas, treasurers' reports; newsletters; membership rolls and applications; programs and lists of participants in art shows; newspaper clippings about events; and report, programs, and announcements.