designated, to be by him kept until the trial or final discharge of the offender, and shall send a copy of such order, without delay, to the district attorney of the county. The officer or person so named and designated in such order shall immediately thereupon assume such custody, and shall retain the same for the purpose of evidence upon such trial, subject to the order of the court before which such offender may be required to appear, until his final discharge or conviction. Upon the conviction of such offender, the animals, implements, or other property, shall be adjudged by the court to be forfeited. In the event of the acquittal or final discharge, without conviction, of such offender, said court shall, on demand, direct the delivery of the property so held in custody to the owner thereof.

      Sec. 6.  Overdriving, Torturing and Injuring Animals; Failing to Provide Proper Sustenance.  A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or kills any animal, and whether belonging to himself or to another, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or causes, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who wilfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers an act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with any properly conducted scientific experiments or investigations, which experiments shall be performed only under the authority of the faculty of some regularly incorporated medical college or university of this state.

      Sec. 7.  Abandonment of Disabled Animal.  A person being the owner or possessor, or having charge or custody of a maimed, diseased, disabled or infirm animal, who abandons such animal or leaves it to die in a public street, road or public place, or who allows it to lie in a public street, road or public place more than three hours after he receives notice that it is left disabled, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any agent or officer of any society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or of any society duly incorporated for that purpose, or any police officer, may lawfully destroy or cause to be destroyed any animal found abandoned and not properly cared for, appearing, in the judgment of two reputable citizens called by him to view the same in his presence, to be glandered, injured or diseased past recovery for any useful purpose; or after such agent or officer has obtained in writing from the owner of such animal his consent to such destruction. When any person arrested is, at the time of such arrest, in charge of any animal or of any vehicle drawn by or containing any animal, any agent or officer of said society or societies or any police officer may take charge of such animal and of such vehicle and its contents and deposit the same in a safe place of custody, or deliver the same into the possession of the police or sheriff of the county or place wherein such arrest was made, who shall thereupon assume the custody thereof; and all necessary expenses incurred in taking charge of such property shall be a charge thereon.

Disposition of such animals and property

Torture, etc., of animals a misdemeanor

Abandonment of disabled animal a misdemeanor

Starvation of impounded animals a misdemeanor

Selling, etc., of diseased animal a misdemeanor

Unlawful to sell diseased horse

Distribution of poison a felony

society or societies or any police officer may take charge of such animal and of such vehicle and its contents and deposit the same in a safe place of custody, or deliver the same into the possession of the police or sheriff of the county or place wherein such arrest was made, who shall thereupon assume the custody thereof; and all necessary expenses incurred in taking charge of such property shall be a charge thereon.

      Sec. 8.  Failure to Provide Proper Food and Drink to Impounded Animal.  A person who, having impounded or confined any animal, refuses or neglects to supply to such animal during its confinement a sufficient supply of good and wholesome air, food, shelter and water, is guilty of a misdemeanor. In case any animal shall be at any time impounded as aforesaid, and shall continue to be without necessary food and water for more than twelve successive hours, it shall be lawful for any person from time to time, and as often as it shall be necessary, to enter into and upon any pound in which any such animal shall be so confined and to supply it with necessary food and water, so long as it shall remain so confined; such person shall not be liable to any action for such entry, and the reasonable cost of such food and water may be collected by him of the owner of such animal, and the said animal shall not be exempt from levy and sale upon execution issued upon a judgment therefor.

      Sec. 9.  Selling or Offering to Sell or Exposing Diseased Animal.  A person who wilfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of human beings, or animals, or which is diseased past recovery, or who refuses upon demand to deprive of life an animal affected with any such disease, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 10.  Selling Disabled Horses.  It shall be unlawful for any person to sell any horse which, by reason of disease, could not be worked in this state without violating the law against cruelty to animals.

      Sec. 11.  Poisoning or Attempting to Poison Animals.  A person who unjustifiably administers any poisonous or noxious drug or substance to a horse, mule or domestic cattle, or unjustifiably exposes any such drug or substance with intent that the same shall be taken by a horse, mule or by domestic cattle, whether such horse, mule or domestic cattle be the property of himself or another, is guilty of a felony. A person who unjustifiably administers any poisonous or noxious drug or substance to any animal other than a horse, mule or domestic cattle, or unjustifiably exposes any such drug or substance with intent that the same shall be taken by an animal other than a horse, mule or domestic cattle, whether such animal be the property of himself or another, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent the destruction of noxious animals.

of a misdemeanor; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent the destruction of noxious animals.

      Sec. 12.  Throwing Substance Injurious to Animals in Public Place.  A person who wilfully throws, drops or places, or causes to be thrown, dropped or placed upon any road, highway, street or public place, any glass, nails, pieces of metal, or other substance which might wound, disable or injure any animal, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 13.  Keeping Milch Cows in Unhealthy Places and Feeding Them with Food Producing Unwholesome Milk.  A person who keeps a cow or any animal for the production of milk, in a crowded or unhealthy place, or in a diseased condition, or feeds such cow or animal upon any food that produces impure or unwholesome milk, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 14.  Transporting Animals for More Than Twenty-Eight Consecutive Hours Without Unloading.  A railway corporation, or an owner, agent, consignee, or person in charge of any horses, sheep, cattle or swine, in the course of or for transportation, who confines, or causes or suffers the same to be confined, in cars for a longer period than twenty-eight consecutive hours, without unloading for rest, water and feeding during five consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm or inevitable accident, is guilty of a misdemeanor. In estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined without rest on connecting roads from which they are received, must be computed; provided, the time of confinement prescribed in this act may be extended to thirty-six hours upon the written request of the owner or the person in custody of a particular shipment of live stock, which written request shall be separate and apart from any printed bill of lading, or other railroad form, which request for extension of time shall be made to the conductor of train, agent, or other authorized agent of the railroad company over which said stock is being transported.

      Sec. 15.  Running Horses on Highway.  A person driving any vehicle upon any plank road, turnpike or public highway, who unjustifiably runs the horses drawing the same, or causes or permits them to run, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 16.  Carrying Animal in Cruel Manner.  A person who carries or causes to be carried in or upon any vessel or vehicle or otherwise any animal in a cruel or inhuman manner, or so as to produce torture, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 17.  Sections numbered 482 and 550 of that certain act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, being sections numbered 6747 and 6815, respectively, of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, are hereby repealed.

Exception as to noxious animals

Misdemeanor to distribute glass, etc., in public places

Misdemeanor to feed milch cows improper food

Animals in transit to be fed and watered

Proviso

Fast driving of horses a misdemeanor

Misdemeanor to carry animal cruelly

Certain sections of act named repealed

Salaries of Douglas County officers

Sheriff

Salary includes expenses

Salary as assessor

Clerk

Chap. 179–An Act fixing the salaries and compensation of certain officers of Douglas County, State of Nevada, and matters properly relating thereto and repealing all acts in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after April 1, 1919, the county officers of Douglas County, State of Nevada, named in this act, shall receive the following salaries in full compensation for all services rendered by them:

      The sheriff, for services as sheriff, shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, payable in twelve monthly installments, which shall be in full and for all services rendered. The sheriff shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees in civil and criminal cases and all other fees and commissions collected by him, with a statement certified under oath, and no salary shall be allowed or paid to said officer for any month unless said statement has been so made and filed with the county clerk; said sheriff may appoint a deputy or deputies at his own expense to assist him in the duties of the office; provided further, that said salary includes all traveling and other expenses in the county, and said sheriff shall personally pay all traveling and other expenses of himself and deputies when traveling on official business in Douglas County; said sum being in full compensation for all services now imposed or to be imposed by law on said sheriff, and all fees and commissions collected or due him for services rendered as such officer shall be paid into the county treasury for the county. The sheriff, as ex officio county assessor, shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments. All fees, commissions, or moneys due and payable said officer shall be collected by him and paid into the county treasury monthly; said sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) being full and complete compensation for all services rendered and for all traveling expenses as such officer.

      The county clerk for services as county clerk shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, and for services as ex officio county treasurer the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments, which shall be full and complete compensation for all services rendered as such county clerk and ex officio county treasurer. The said clerk and ex officio treasurer shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees in civil and criminal cases, and all other fees and commissions collected by him, with a statement certified under oath, and no salary shall be allowed or paid to said officer for any month unless said statement has been so made and filed with the board of county commissioners; said sums to be full and complete compensation for all services rendered as such officer, ex officio and otherwise, and all fees, commissions, and moneys due and collected by him shall be paid into the county treasury.

or paid to said officer for any month unless said statement has been so made and filed with the board of county commissioners; said sums to be full and complete compensation for all services rendered as such officer, ex officio and otherwise, and all fees, commissions, and moneys due and collected by him shall be paid into the county treasury.

      The district attorney for services as district attorney shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments, in full and complete compensation for all services as district attorney, and all fees and commissions due and collected by him shall be paid into the county treasury; provided further, that said district attorney shall prosecute all criminal cases and attend the trials of the same at any place in said county, and also attend to and be the legal adviser for said county; said salary to be in full compensation for all services and traveling expenses within said county while on official business.

      The above salaries shall be in full compensation for all services and ex officio services to be performed by the above-named officers, both civil and criminal, and said officers shall collect all money and moneys due as fees, commissions, or otherwise and pay the same into the county treasury, said salaries so fixed being in full for all services, and said officers shall receive no further or other compensation for such services.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect from and after April 1, 1919.

District attorney

All salaries full compensation

In effect April 1, 1919

Chap. 180–An Act providing for the purchase by the board of county commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, of the buildings and real estate of the Nevada school of industry, upon certain terms and conditions.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of government of the Nevada school of industry is hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate with the county commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, for the purchase, by said board of county commissioners, of the real estate and buildings belonging to the said Nevada school of industry.

      Sec. 2.  The basis for such negotiation shall be the providing by said board of county commissioners for said Nevada school of industry of buildings, and site therefor, and farm, of not less than forty acres, with good water rights, in some other portion of said Elko County, which building and farm shall be mutually agreeable to the contracting boards.

Buildings of Nevada school of industry may be sold to Elko County

Basis for said purchase

Governor to execute proper deed

      Sec. 3.  Upon coming to an agreement in the premises, and upon the execution of the same on the part of said board of county commissioners, the governor of the State of Nevada is hereby authorized and empowered to execute the necessary deed or deeds to vest title to the real estate and buildings thereon, belonging to said Nevada school of industry now resting in the State of Nevada, to Elko County.

Bonds of town of Wells, Elko County, for water and electric-light system

Denomination of bonds, interest, redemption, etc.

Engineer of public service commission to estimate cost of proposed system

Chap. 181–An Act authorizing the acquisition of a public service system for the town of Wells and the sale of bonds therefor.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Elko is authorized and directed to prepare, issue, and sell negotiable coupon bonds of the town of Wells in said county for an amount not exceeding $50,000 exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition of a water and electric-lighting system for said town of Wells. Said bonds shall be named “Town of Wells Public Service System Bonds.”

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall be prepared in denominations of $500 and shall be numbered consecutively. They shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States and they shall have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon the payment of the installments of interest without injury to the bonds. Each coupon shall be consecutively numbered and shall bear the number of the bond to which it is attached. Said bonds and coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners acting as a town board and countersigned by the clerk of said board. Lithographed facsimile signatures may be used on the coupons. Said bonds shall bear interest in like gold coin at a rate not exceeding 6 per centum per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in July. They shall be redeemed and retired consecutively in the order of their issuance annually thereafter, according to the time specified therein from the date of their issue respectively and in no case shall any bond run for a longer period than 20 years.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Elko shall be entitled to have the advice of the expert engineer of the public service commission of Nevada or his successor, who shall make a detailed estimate of the reasonable cost of the proposed system. After receiving such advice and estimate the board shall be guided by the provisions of an act entitled “An act to enable the unincorporated cities and towns of the State of Nevada to acquire by construction, purchase or otherwise, sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, or combined water and light systems, or combined water, light and sewerage systems, and to issue bonds for the construction or purchase of the same, and to provide for the fixing and collections of rates for the service thereof and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 23, 1911, as it stands amended, except as otherwise provided in this act.

systems, or combined water and light systems, or combined water, light and sewerage systems, and to issue bonds for the construction or purchase of the same, and to provide for the fixing and collections of rates for the service thereof and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 23, 1911, as it stands amended, except as otherwise provided in this act.

      Sec. 4.  If a majority of all the votes cast are in favor of the issue of the bonds, the board of county commissioners acting as a town board shall proceed at once to execute and issue them as rapidly as needed.

      Sec. 5.  The board of county commissioners acting as aforesaid is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds or such number thereof as they may deem necessary, to the highest and best bidder, giving preference to the State of Nevada, or by private sales, as they may deem best, and may reject any or all bids; provided, that no bond shall be sold for less than par value.

      Sec. 6.  The said board of county commissioners, acting as aforesaid, shall pay the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to the county treasurer, who shall keep a detailed record of the same and assign the same to a fund to be known as the “Town of Wells Public Service System Fund,” and who shall pay out the same for the acquisition, installment, management and control of any plant or plants acquired under the provisions of this act, in all respects as prescribed for such payments by the board of county commissioners acting as a town board. All moneys acquired by the sale of service such as water service and electric lighting and other operating revenues shall be paid by the officer collecting the same to the county treasurer who shall assign the same to the town of Wells public service system fund for use as such fund is used, and at the first meeting of the board of county commissioners in January of each year, any surplus remaining shall be assigned by the treasurer on order of the said board to the town of Wells public service system bond interest and redemption fund.

      Sec. 7.  To provide for the payment of the said bonds and the interest thereon the board of county commissioners shall levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessment value of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of the said town of Wells, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire, beginning with bond number one, and consecutively thereafter, five of said bonds annually, beginning with the first Monday in July, 1920, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Town of Wells Public Service System Bond Interest and Redemption Fund.”

General act to govern

Bond issue decided by popular vote

County commissioners to sell such bonds

“Town of Wells Public Service System Fund”

Special tax on Wells town property

Tax ceases, when

Redemption of said bonds

Interest ceases, when

Faith of state pledged

Provisions of existing law to be observed

Time limit

Service System Bond Interest and Redemption Fund.” Said bonds and interest shall be paid from this fund. Said bonds and interest thereon shall be a lien on all property subject to taxation within said town of Wells.

      Sec. 8.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond interest and redemption fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of the said county, be transferred to the town of Wells public service system fund. If at any time there are sufficient funds in the said bond interest and redemption fund to care for the obligations of the current year in full or in part, the board of county commissioners shall fix the tax rate correspondingly lower.

      Sec. 9.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued hereunder and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

      Sec. 10.  The provisions of the existing law respecting the manner of acquisition of utilities, advertising notice of intention to issue bonds, bond elections, the duty of commissioners to act on a proper petition, the collection and enforcement of collection of rates for service and all other provisions not expressly superseded by this act shall apply to the acquisition, management and financing of the system mentioned in this act. The commissioners shall act as soon as they conveniently may and the bonds shall be prepared not later than June 1, 1919. The plant or plants and the works herein provided for shall be deemed public uses authorized by the legislature such as are assisted by the principle of eminent domain.

Chap. 182–An Act to accept the benefits of any act that may be passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry, approved 1919.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the State of Nevada does hereby accept the benefits of any act that may be passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and their return to safe employment, and will observe and comply with all of the requirements of said act.

      Sec. 2.  That the state board of education is hereby designated as the state board for the purposes of the said act, and is hereby given all the necessary power to cooperate with the federal board for vocational education in the administration of the provisions of the act.

      Sec. 3.  It shall be the duty of the state board of education to act jointly with the industrial commission in the administration, supervision, designation and support of the courses in vocational rehabilitation to be provided in carrying out the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 4.  Said joint board shall have the power to provide courses in this state or other states, in their discretion, for vocational rehabilitation of injured persons; provided, however, that such arrangements shall be approved by the governor in writing.

      Sec. 5.  That the state treasurer is hereby designated and appointed as custodian of the funds for vocational rehabilitation, and shall receive and provide for the proper custody and disbursement of moneys paid to the state from the appropriations made by said act, and of moneys hereinafter appropriated by the state for this purpose.

      Sec. 6.  That the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a vocational rehabilitation fund, to be available in the biennial period, beginning July 1, 1919.

Benefits of any act of Congress for vocational rehabilitation accepted

State board of education authorized to act

Joint action of said board with industrial commission

Powers of joint board; governor’s approval necessary

State treasurer custodian of funds

Appropriation, $10,000, available July 1, 1919

Salary of sheriff of Nye County

Deputies

Fees paid over monthly

Proviso as to expenses

Ex officio assessor

Chap. 183–An Act to amend section 5 of an act entitled “An act fixing the compensation of county officers in Nye County, and matters pertaining to the collection and disposition of fees arising from such offices, regulating the conduct thereof, and abolishing certain offices, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 14, 1917.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 5 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The sheriff of said county shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum in full compensation for his services to said county as sheriff or in any ex officio capacity of any kind whatsoever, and shall have one undersheriff, to be selected by him, at a compensation not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars per annum, said compensation to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, and such other deputies, to be named by him, as the board of county commissioners, by unanimous consent, may deem necessary, and for such time and compensation as they may fix. Any such deputy, except the undersheriff, shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month, to be fixed by the board of county commissioners. He shall be allowed all his actual traveling expenses, to consist of actual cost of his transportation and living expenses while absent from the county-seat in the performance of his official duties; provided, said expenses shall be first audited and allowed by the board of county commissioners; provided, however, that the sheriff shall collect for all services in his office, and pay over monthly into the county treasury of said county, such fees as are provided for in an act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act to regulate fees and compensation for official and other services in the State of Nevada and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto,” approved February 27, 1883, or any other fee or license as are provided for in any act of the legislature of the State of Nevada; provided, that in lieu of the mileage provided in said act the sheriff shall charge and collect as mileage the actual and necessary traveling expenses of himself or deputy in the service of any summons and complaints, or other process issuing out of the district court; provided, further, that where there is a deputy or other officer competent to perform said service, without the sheriff actually incurring any traveling expenses, no mileage shall be charged. Said sheriff shall continue to act as ex officio assessor of said county without additional compensation, and shall have such deputies, to be named by him, as the county commissioners may, by unanimous consent, deem necessary, and at such compensation and for such time as they may direct.

may, by unanimous consent, deem necessary, and at such compensation and for such time as they may direct. Any such deputy shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month, to be fixed by the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Repeal

Chap. 184–An Act to promote uniformity in accounting of county treasurers and county auditors and providing a penalty for the violation of same.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county treasurer of each county in the state shall issue a receipt in triplicate for all moneys received by him. The original shall be delivered to the payee, the duplicate immediately filed by the treasurer with the county auditor, and the triplicate retained by the treasurer. The duplicate and triplicate receipts shall, in addition to showing the amount and source of revenue, contain an apportionment to the proper funds as follows:

      All revenue collected for general, administrative, current expense, salary, indigent, and contingent purposes shall be apportioned to the general fund.

      All revenue collected for special purposes shall be apportioned to special funds that are at present or may hereafter be created, the purpose of which shall be indicated in the title of each.

      Sec. 2.  The county treasurer shall keep a complete record of the source and amount of all receipts, apportionments to, payments from, and balances in all funds, and shall submit to the board of county commissioners, at its first regular meeting each month, a statement containing the above information for the previous month, giving the balance in each county, state and special fund, the total amount in all district school funds, and the total thereof at the close of business on the last day of each month, together with a statement of all moneys on deposit, outstanding checks against same, and cash on hand. This statement shall be supported by certified statements from each county depository showing the amount on deposit to the credit of such county treasurer on said date, and shall be subscribed and sworn to before the county auditor before being submitted to the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 3.  The county auditor of each county shall audit all apportionments made by the treasurer, keep a complete record of all such apportionments to and disbursements from funds, and in addition thereto shall keep accounts showing the amount of revenue received from each of the various sources, the amount of expenditures of the various departments and the object of such expenditures, and shall submit to the board of county commissioners, at its first regular meeting in January, April, July and October of each year, a statement containing the above information in such detail as may be required, but which shall in any event show the amount of outstanding warrants against and the available balance in each county, state and special fund, the total amount in all district school funds, and the total thereof, together with the following analysis of receipts and disbursements for the previous quarter:

Uniformity in accounts of county treasurers

Apportionment of revenue

Revenue for special purposes

Duties of county treasurers

Duties of county auditors

Duties of county auditors

Form of report

funds, and in addition thereto shall keep accounts showing the amount of revenue received from each of the various sources, the amount of expenditures of the various departments and the object of such expenditures, and shall submit to the board of county commissioners, at its first regular meeting in January, April, July and October of each year, a statement containing the above information in such detail as may be required, but which shall in any event show the amount of outstanding warrants against and the available balance in each county, state and special fund, the total amount in all district school funds, and the total thereof, together with the following analysis of receipts and disbursements for the previous quarter:

             Receipts:                                             County            State                 Total

Taxes, General Property.................................. $                     $                        $

Taxes, Personal Property...............................

Taxes, Proceeds of Mines.............................

Delinquent Tax Penalties...............................

Inheritance Taxes ...........................................

Corporation Tax..............................................

Poll Tax (Assessor)........................................

District Court Fines........................................

Justice Court Fines.........................................

Escheated Estates...........................................

Fees, Recorder.................................................

Fees, Clerk........................................................

Fees, Sheriff.....................................................

Fees, Treasurer................................................

Fees, Justice Court.........................................

Fees, Constables.............................................

Licenses...........................................................

Interest on County Deposits........................

State School Moneys.....................................

State Nomination Fees...................................

State Vocational Educational Aid................

Forest Reserve Receipts................................

Miscellaneous.................................................

Bond Sales.......................................................

Loans................................................................

                                                                                                                                 _________

Total Receipts.................................................

             Expenditures:

Offices, Departments and Accounts:

      County Commissioners............................................................................. $

      Clerk..............................................................................................................

      Treasurer......................................................................................................

      Recorder and Auditor................................................................................

      Assessor......................................................................................................

      Sheriff...........................................................................................................

      Game Warden..............................................................................................

      District Attorney........................................................................................

      District Court............................................................................................... $

      Justice Courts.............................................................................................

      Constables...................................................................................................

      Grand Juries.................................................................................................

      Trial Juries...................................................................................................

      Courthouse Maintenance.........................................................................

      Courthouse Furniture and Equipment.....................................................

      County Jails.................................................................................................

      Books and Records....................................................................................

      Telephone and Telegraph.........................................................................

      Publishing and Advertising......................................................................

      Elections......................................................................................................

      Insurance.....................................................................................................

      Bounties.......................................................................................................

      Miscellaneous.............................................................................................

      County Hospital Maintenance.................................................................

      County Hospital Furniture and Equipment............................................

      Dependent Mothers...................................................................................

      Dependent Orphans...................................................................................

      Indigent Allowances..................................................................................

      Probation Department................................................................................

      Health Department..................................................................................... ___________

      Total Expenditures from General Fund.................................................... $

      Roads and Bridges................................... $

      Road and Bridge Equipment...................

                                                                            _____________________

      Total Expenditures from Road Fund........................................................ $

      County-State Highway Fund, Total Expenditures................................ $

      County Bonds Redeemed....................... $

      Interest Paid..............................................

                                                                            _____________________

      Total Expenditures from Redemption Fund............................................ $

      Special Fund Expenditures........................................................................ $

      High-School Fund Expenditures............ $

      County School Fund Expenditures........

      District School Fund Expenditures........ _____________________

      Total Educational Fund Expenditures..................................................... $

      State Settlements........................................................................................ $

                                                                                                                              ___________

Total Expenditures............................................................................................ $

      Sec. 4.  This act shall be considered mandatory, and any county treasurer or county auditor failing to comply with the provisions thereof shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office.

Form of report

This act mandatory

Salary of justice of peace of Luning, Mineral County

Fees, how disposed of

Chap. 185–An Act fixing and regulating the salary and fees of the justice of the peace of Luning township, Mineral County, Nevada.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the approval of this act the justice of the peace of Luning township, Mineral County, Nevada, shall receive a salary of twenty-five dollars per month, payable on the first Monday of each month, and the county commissioners shall order a warrant drawn for the same at their first monthly meeting of each month.

      Sec. 2.  The legal fees in this office from all criminal cases shall be paid to the county treasurer for the county, and all legal fees in the civil cases shall be given to the justice of the peace.

Attendance of certain government wards at certain U. S. schools made compulsory

Proviso

Superintendent of said school to make demand on persons having charge of said children

Chap. 186–An Act compelling attendance of children at schools where tuition, lodging, food and clothing are furnished at the expense of the United States, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That whenever the government of the United States erects, or causes to be erected and maintained, a school for general educational purposes, within the State of Nevada, and the expense of the tuition, lodging, food and clothing of the pupils therein is borne by the United States, it shall be compulsory on the part of every parent, guardian or other person in the State of Nevada having control of a child or children between the ages of eight and twenty years, eligible to attend said school, to send such child or children to said school for a period of ten months in each year, or during the entire annual term; provided, that in case the government of the United States does not make provision for the free transportation of said child or children from their homes to said school, then he, she or they shall not be liable to the provisions of this act, unless they reside less than ten miles from such school.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of all principals or superintendents of the school or schools mentioned in this act, before attempting to enforce the provisions of this act, hereinafter mentioned, to serve, or cause to be served, a demand for the attendance of certain children, naming or otherwise identifying them, and also designating the school to which their attendance is required, upon the parent, guardian, or other person having charge of said child or children as may be eligible to attend said school over which he has charge, and such parent, guardian or other person having charge of said child or children shall have two days to either deliver said child or children at said school, or to the accredited representative of said school if more than ten miles distant from the residence of said child or children, or to furnish satisfactory proof that the bodily or mental condition of such child or children is such as to prevent his attendance, or cause him or them to be ineligible for enrollment.

person having charge of said child or children as may be eligible to attend said school over which he has charge, and such parent, guardian or other person having charge of said child or children shall have two days to either deliver said child or children at said school, or to the accredited representative of said school if more than ten miles distant from the residence of said child or children, or to furnish satisfactory proof that the bodily or mental condition of such child or children is such as to prevent his attendance, or cause him or them to be ineligible for enrollment.

      Sec. 3.  If, at the expiration of two days after such notice or demand, the parents, guardian, or other person having charge of said child or children shall have failed or refused to comply with said notice, the principal or superintendent shall take action to compel compliance with this act.

      Sec. 4.  Any parent or guardian, or other person having control or charge of any child or children, failing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or imprisonment in the county jail not less than five days nor more than twenty-five days for the first offense; and for each subsequent offense said parent, guardian or other person shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) or more than fifty dollars ($50), or to imprisonment in the county jail not less than twelve days or more than twenty-five days; provided, that another proceeding may be begun at the expiration of three days after each refusal of said parent, guardian or other person to comply with the demand of said principal or superintendent.

      Sec. 5.  It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, policemen, town and city marshals in the state to assist principals and superintendents of schools in carrying out the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 6.  Any person or persons who shall directly or indirectly persuade, advise or intimidate in any manner the parent or guardian of any child or children coming under the provisions of this act from complying with the demand of a principal or superintendent of a school who is endeavoring to carry out the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of the same offense and shall be subject to the same fines and punishments as the parent or guardian; provided, that this section shall not apply to the attorney or legal adviser of any parent or guardian giving advice in his legal capacity.

      Sec. 7.  Any inmate of any such school who runs away therefrom shall be deemed a truant therefor and may be committed to the Nevada school of industry upon application to the district court of the county within which such school is located.

      Sec. 8.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Legal action, when

Penalty for guilty parent or guardian

Peace officers to assist

Penalty for interference

Proviso

Runaways may be sent to school of industry

Repeal

Salaries of officers of Mineral County

Sheriff and assessor

Undersheriff

Additional deputies

Criminal fees paid to county

County clerk

Chap. 187–An Act to amend section 9 of an act entitled “An act creating and organizing the county of Mineral, out of a portion of Esmeralda County, and providing for its government, and to regulate the affairs of Esmeralda County and Mineral County,” approved February 10, 1911.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 9 of an act entitled “An act creating and organizing the county of Mineral out of a portion of Esmeralda County, and providing for its government, and to regulate the affairs of Esmeralda County and Mineral County,” approved February 10, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  The following-named officers of Mineral County, State of Nevada, shall receive, in full payment for all services and ex officio services rendered by them, the following salaries:

      The sheriff, for services as sheriff, shall receive the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum, and for his services as ex officio county assessor and ex officio collector of licenses, the sum of two thousand four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum.

      The sheriff is hereby authorized to appoint not more than one undersheriff, and said undersheriff (who shall also be deputy county assessor and deputy collector of licenses), shall receive a salary of two thousand ($2,000) dollars per annum.

      In case of emergency the sheriff may also appoint as many deputy sheriffs (who shall also be deputy assessors and deputy collectors of licenses), as may be authorized by the board of county commissioners, and said board of commissioners shall fix the compensation of the deputy sheriffs so authorized by them to be appointed, but in no case shall the compensation exceed the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars per month, together with all fees in civil cases to which such peace officers are allowed by law. All fees in criminal cases shall be paid to the county. No such deputy shall act as constable or jailer.

      The county clerk, for services as county clerk, shall receive the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum, and for his services as ex officio county treasurer, the sum of one thousand eight hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum.

      The county clerk is hereby authorized to appoint one deputy county clerk (who shall also be deputy county treasurer), at a salary of five ($5) dollars per day, for a period not to exceed ten days in any one month, unless with the consent of the board of county commissioners; provided, however, during the months of September and October preceding any general election, said county clerk is authorized to appoint a deputy county clerk (who shall also be deputy county treasurer), for such period in said months as shall be necessary, at a salary of not to exceed five ($5) dollars per day.

ceding any general election, said county clerk is authorized to appoint a deputy county clerk (who shall also be deputy county treasurer), for such period in said months as shall be necessary, at a salary of not to exceed five ($5) dollars per day.

      The county clerk shall also be authorized to appoint a deputy clerk to act as clerk of the district court for each day the district court shall be in session and for such additional time as may be necessary to write out the permanent record of the court minutes, at a salary of not to exceed five ($5) dollars per day, and the claim for such services, when approved by the district judge, shall be allowed, audited and paid as are other claims against the county.

      The county recorder, for services as county recorder, shall receive the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum, and for his services as ex officio county auditor shall receive the sum of one thousand eight hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum.

      The county recorder is hereby authorized to appoint one deputy county recorder (who shall also be deputy county auditor), at a salary of five ($5) dollars per day, for a necessary period in any one month, whenever the receipts of said office for the previous month shall have been not less than two hundred ($200) dollars.

      The district attorney shall receive the sum of two thousand four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum, which shall be his compensation in full, except that he shall be allowed such additional sum for necessary expenses incurred as the board of county commissioners shall authorize and approve, and he may employ such deputies as may be necessary; the compensation for such deputies to be fixed and approved by the board of county commissioners.

      On and after the first Monday of January, 1921, each member of the board of county commissioners, except the member elected at the general election of 1918 for a four-year term, shall receive the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum. Upon the expiration of the term of said last-mentioned commissioner by death, resignation or limitation of time, each member of the board of county commissioners shall receive the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum. In addition thereto, each member of the board of county commissioners shall be entitled to mileage at the rate of forty (40) cents per mile, one way only, over the shortest practicable route from their place of residence when attending a session of said board.

      The public administrator and county surveyor shall receive the same compensation as is now allowed by law to these officers.

      The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to allow such compensation as may be necessary, but not to exceed four ($4) dollars per day, for the payment of such additional clerks and assistants as may be needed in the office of the county clerk and ex officio county treasurer,

Deputy

Deputy for district court

Recorder and auditor

Deputy, when

District attorney

Deputies, when

County commissioners

Mileage

Public administrator, and county surveyor

Additional clerks; maximum salary, $4

payment of such additional clerks and assistants as may be needed in the office of the county clerk and ex officio county treasurer, sheriff and ex officio assessor and ex officio collector of licenses, and county recorder and ex officio county auditor, respectively, as herein provided, and such claims, when approved by the officer in whose office the work is performed, shall be allowed, audited and paid as are other claims against the county.

Nevada irrigation districts may make agreements with districts of adjoining states

What contracts shall contain

Joint or several ownership, when

Joint meetings of directors

Chap. 188–An Act to provide for cooperation in acquisition, construction and management of irrigation and drainage works between irrigation districts organized or existing under or by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada, and contiguous or adjoining districts organized under the laws of other states.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be lawful for irrigation districts organized or existing under or by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada to enter into agreements with contiguous adjoining irrigation districts in other states for the joint construction, acquisition, management and control of diverting, impounding or distributing works for the irrigation or drainage of the lands within the boundaries of their respective districts.

      Sec. 2.  Such agreements may be evidenced by written contracts executed on behalf of their respective boards of directors or trustees, or by resolutions entered upon their respective minutes. Such contracts or certified copies thereof and certified copies of such resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the lands of said districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property owned by said districts or acquired under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 3.  Such agreements may provide for joint or several ownership or ownership in common of the property necessary or convenient for the purposes of this act, and may provide for the terms and conditions under which, or the respective proportions in which, such property shall be held. Any rights or disputes arising out of or from said agreements may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in the state.

      Sec. 4.  Any meeting of the board of directors of any such district, held in conjunction with the board of directors of the cooperating district, in the office of such district in the adjoining state, if duly and regularly called as required by law or if regularly adjourned to, shall be as lawful and valid as if held at the office of the board of directors of such district in this state.

      Sec. 5.  It shall be lawful for the purposes of such cooperative action to divert water from this state for impounding in the adjoining state or otherwise for distribution to the lands of the cooperating districts regardless of the state in which such lands are situated or to divert water from such adjoining state for impounding or otherwise for distribution to the lands of such cooperating districts in this or the adjoining state.

      Sec. 6.  So far as may be necessary for fully carrying out the purposes of this act such cooperating district in the adjoining state may hold title to property in this state, and such cooperating district in this state may hold title to property in the adjoining state.

Certain proceedings made lawful

Cooperating districts may hold property in either state

Chap. 189–An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Washoe County, Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the improvement of a highway across the county of Washoe.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of aiding the department of highways of the State of Nevada in constructing a highway across the county of Washoe along the line designated as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by an act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada, chapter 169, Statutes 1917, or as it may hereafter be designated, the board of county commissioners of Washoe County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to issue bonds in the name of said Washoe County in the aggregate sum of one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars. The said bonds, which shall be known as the “Washoe County Highway Bonds, Issue of 1919,” shall be issued and sold at such times as may be necessary to take advantage of equal amounts tendered to the department of highways of the State of Nevada, or to Washoe County, from such sources as hereinafter provided. It is provided, however, that the first issuance and sale shall be for not less than fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, and that any bonds which are issued and not sold within eighteen (18) months after the passage of this act shall be canceled. All money derived from the sale of said bonds is to be expended by the county commissioners of said Washoe County, and within the bounds of the said county, and under the direction of the department of highways. It is provided, however, that the said county commissioners shall not issue said bonds, or any part thereof, except upon one of the following express conditions:

      (1) That if a new county be not created by the present legislature out of the territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law an act or acts which shall provide that the counties of Humboldt and Elko shall each be bonded for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for the expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

Washoe County to issue state highway bonds

Conditions on formation of Pershing County

Humboldt and Pershing Counties must issue bonds, $75,000 each; Elko County, $150,000

Washoe County commissioners to prepare bonds

Negotiation and sale of bonds after advertising

Denomination of bonds; annual interest; redemption

County, that there shall be enacted as a law an act or acts which shall provide that the counties of Humboldt and Elko shall each be bonded for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for the expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      (2) That if a new county be created by the present legislature out of territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law an act or acts which shall provide that the county so created and Humboldt County shall each be bonded for the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and Elko County in the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provision of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      Sec. 2.  The said board of county commissioners shall cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by its members and its clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated with the official seal of the said county. Coupons representing the several installments of interest to fall due thereon shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bonds, numbered consecutively and signed by the county treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The said board of county commissioners is authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder at not less than their par value, after advertising for sealed bids for the same in one or more papers published in Washoe County for a period of not less than two weeks preceding the date of the opening of said bids; the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in what shall be known as “The Washoe County Highway Fund,” which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn by the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations contracted under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 4.  The said bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars ($500) each; they shall be numbered consecutively and they shall bear interest at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum; said interest payable on the second Monday of January of the second succeeding year in which said bonds or any of them shall have been issued, and every twelve months thereafter; and on the second Monday of January, 1922, and every twelve months thereafter, fifteen or more of said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied until all of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and satisfied.

January, 1922, and every twelve months thereafter, fifteen or more of said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied until all of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and satisfied. Said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied as aforesaid, in the order of their issuance, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of said bonds shall have been redeemed and satisfied.

      Sec. 5.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the redemption of the said bonds and the payment of the interest thereon, the said board of county commissioners of Washoe County shall in the year 1919, and annually thereafter at the time of levying taxes for state and county purposes and in the same manner, levy and collect a special and additional tax upon all property within Washoe County sufficient in its judgment to provide for the payment of the interest annually due on said bonds, and the redemption and satisfaction of the bonds, as hereinbefore provided. The said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in the county treasury. At the maturity of said bonds and the coupons thereon, they shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the said Washoe County highway fund, and shall thereupon be canceled and marked paid by the county treasurer; no interest shall be allowed or paid on any of said bonds after they have become due and payable, and shall have been called in for redemption.

      Sec. 6.  The board of county commissioners shall consult with the board of directors of the department of highways and the state highway engineer, and by and with the advice of said board of directors and the state highway engineer, select for construction and improvement, sections of the route which is hereinbefore specified as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as route 1 may hereafter be designated. By and with the advice of the department of highways, a type and manner of improvement shall be adopted for each section of said route so selected.

      Sec. 7.  Upon the request of the board of county commissioners the department of highways shall cause surveys, plans and specifications to be made of each and every section selected as hereinbefore provided, and the board of county commissioners shall cause to be paid by Washoe County, out of funds in the Washoe County highway fund, the entire expense thereof upon vouchers certified to by the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 8.  All necessary rights of way shall be acquired by the board of county commissioners in the name of the State of Nevada, and all expense in connection therewith shall be paid out of the Washoe County highway fund.

      Sec. 9.  It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to advertise for all work provided for in this act, according to the plans and specifications prepared by the state highway engineer.

Special annual tax

Interest ceases, when

Cooperation of state highway department

Department of highways to make surveys, etc., at expense of Washoe County

Rights of way in name of state

Bids for all work to be advertised for

Certified checks with bids

Contracts; bonds on same

Work to be to satisfaction of highway department

Payments provided for

according to the plans and specifications prepared by the state highway engineer. The advertisement shall be inserted at least once each week for a period of two weeks in two newspapers, one of which shall be published in Washoe County and the other having general circulation throughout the state. Such advertisement shall state the place where the plans and specifications may be examined, the time and place where bids will be received, and the time of their opening.

      The board of county commissioners may make such rules and regulations as they may deem best for the requirement of certified checks with the bids, and for the acceptance of bids and for partial payments to the contractor.

      The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to enter into a contract in the name of Washoe County with the successful bidder, and require such bond as they may deem necessary of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work.

      Sec. 10.  A clause shall be inserted in each and every contract that the work is to be done to the satisfaction of the department of highways and the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 11.  The board of county commissioners shall cause to be made progress and final estimates of the work, which shall be the basis for progress and final payments to the contractor. It is provided, however, that before any payments are made to the contractor that such progress and final estimates shall first be approved and certified to by the state highways engineer.

Liability of banks on forged or raised checks

Notice by mail

Chap. 190–An Act fixing the liability of a bank to its depositors for payment of forged or raised checks.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  No bank which has paid and charged to the account of a depositor any money on a forged or raised check issued in the name of said depositor shall be liable to said depositor for the amount paid thereon unless either (1) within ninety days after notice to said depositor that the vouchers representing payments charged to the account of said depositor for the period during which such payment was made are ready for delivery, or (2) in case no such notice has been given, within ninety days after the return to said depositor of the voucher representing such payment, said depositor shall notify the bank that the check so paid is forged or raised.

      Sec. 2.  The notice referred to in the preceding section may be given by mail to said depositor at his last known address, with postage prepaid.

Chap. 191–An Act providing for the reclamation, improvement and equipment of lands within the state for rural homes for soldiers, sailors, marines and other loyal citizens; providing for federal and other cooperation in the same, and for the reimbursement of moneys so expended; creating a reclamation and settlement board; defining its powers and duties; empowering the board to appropriate unappropriated public waters; providing a procedure for the temporary withdrawal of unappropriated waters from appropriation by other persons; declaring the use of water for reclamation and settlement projects a more necessary public use than for any other project or purpose and authorizing the exercise of the right of eminent domain for the acquisition thereof; providing a procedure for determining the value of unperfected permits to appropriate waters; making an appropriation therefor; creating a reclamation and settlement fund; providing for a state loan; levying a state tax; authorizing the establishment of reclamation and settlement districts for assessment purposes; creating a reclamation loan interest and redemption fund, and for other purposes.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

Statement of the Objects of the Act.

      Section 1.  The objects of this act are: first, in recognition of military service, to provide, improve and equip rural homes for soldiers, sailors, marines, and others who have served with the armed forces of the United States in the European war and other wars of the United States, including former American citizens who have served in Allied armies against the Central Powers and have been repatriated, and who have been honorably discharged; and, second, to provide and improve rural homes for other loyal citizens; and to accomplish such purposes by cooperation with the agencies of the United States engaged in work of a similar character as herein provided. The act may be cited as “The Nevada Reclamation and Settlement Act.”

Creating a Reclamation and Settlement Board-Membership-Attorney-General To Be Legal Advisor of Board.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of this act a reclamation and settlement board is hereby created composed of the governor and state engineer as ex officio members and three other members to be appointed by the governor, each for the term of four years. Each appointed member shall receive $10 the day while actually engaged on work of the board, as other state officers are paid, and necessary expenses. The governor shall be the chairman of the board and the attorney-general shall be its legal advisor and represent the board in any suits or action which may arise out of the discharge of its duties.

To provide rural homes for veterans of the world war

“Nevada Reclamation and Settlement Act”

Reclamation and settlement board

“Reclamation and Settlement Fund,” $1,000,000

Provisions for reimbursement

Practicability of all projects to be proven

Appropriating One Million Dollars to Carry Out the Provisions of the Act.

      Sec. 3.  There is hereby created the “Reclamation and Settlement Fund” in the state treasury, and for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated the sum of one million dollars which shall in part be transferred from any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated and in part provided by a state loan and which shall be covered into said reclamation and settlement fund as follows: Not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the first year, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars total during the first two years, not exceeding seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars total during the first three years and not exceeding one million dollars total during the first four years from and after the date of the passage of this act; provided, none of said fund or funds shall be expended except in cooperation with the United States, the latter to furnish and expend on any project at least an equal sum to the state and in cooperation with the state; and provided further, that contracts with irrigation districts can only be made in cooperation with the United States and when the United States expends under such contracts an amount at least equal to that by the state and the amount furnished and expended by the board for the state to be fully secured by duly authorized and issued bonds of said irrigation district.

Board Shall Satisfy Itself of the Practicability of Projects Undertaken-May Employ Expert Assistance-May Cooperate with the United States or with Irrigation or Drainage Associations or Districts.

      Sec. 4.  The board shall satisfy itself of the practicability of each project to be undertaken hereunder, and for such purpose may employ expert assistance and make necessary investigations. Projects may be undertaken in cooperation with the United States or with duly organized irrigation or drainage associations or districts in cooperation with the United States, involving the reclamation and settlement of lands within the state by water storage, irrigation or drainage systems, development of underground waters and land leveling. The board may acquire in the name of the state by purchase, gift, or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, all lands and other property needed for the purposes hereof, and may take title in trust. The board may sell any land or other property acquired hereunder found not to be required for any project. The board may also utilize any lands of the state not under contract of sale or that hereafter may be granted the state for the purposes of this act.

Authorizing Contracts with the United States and Others for Land Reclamation and Settlement.

      Sec. 5.  The board is authorized to contract with the United States pursuant to acts of Congress and the rules and regulations thereunder for land reclamation, settlement and related purposes. For the purposes of general cooperation with the federal government hereunder, the board may also contract with other states, and with municipal and quasi-municipal corporations, irrigation and drainage associations or districts and private corporations and individuals.

Further Contractual Powers and Duties of the Board.

      Sec. 6.  For the purposes of this act, the board may also, in cooperation with the United States, or with duly organized irrigation or drainage associations or districts in cooperation with the United States as hereinbefore provided, undertake subdivision of land, supervision of settlement, the selection of settlers, the supervision of loans, the rejection of applicants for allotments, the collection of moneys, the operation and maintenance of the projects undertaken, and may perform such other acts as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.

Board May Lease Lands-Dedicate Lands for Certain Public Purposes-Establish, Develop and Open for Sale Townsites.

      Sec. 7.  The board may also lease or assent to the lease of any lands pending receipt of application for the purchase thereof, may dedicate lands for schools, churches, roads, cemeteries, and other public purposes, and may establish, develop and open for sale such townsites as may be desirable or authorized by contract with the United States.

Providing for Reimbursement of Moneys Expended Under this Act.

      Sec. 8.  The board, in cooperation with the United States, is authorized and required to and shall obtain security by lien, contract or otherwise for the reimbursement of moneys expended hereunder by the state, or by the state and the United States jointly, upon such plan of amortization or other method of reimbursement as the board may determine or agree to. The proceeds of all operations under this act shall be covered into the state reclamation and settlement fund and shall be subject to disbursement for administration and for the payment of defaulting taxes and assessments as provided in section nine, and not otherwise, and all said proceeds in excess thereof shall be transferred semiannually by the controller to the general fund.

Contract Lands Subject to Taxation-Board May Establish Projects as Reclamation and Settlement Districts.

      Sec. 9.  State lands utilized and other lands acquired pursuant to this act shall be subject to state, county and local taxation and to assessment for reclamation and improvement purposes from the date of the execution of the contract for the purchase thereof by settlers upon any project undertaken hereunder.

Contracts with national government

Further authority of board

Board may lease lands, and dedicate townsites, etc.

Board to obtain security for reimbursement of public moneys

All lands subject to regular taxation

Official designation of title of projects to be filed with county officers

Taxes for special fund, when

Annual report of board

suant to this act shall be subject to state, county and local taxation and to assessment for reclamation and improvement purposes from the date of the execution of the contract for the purchase thereof by settlers upon any project undertaken hereunder. The board, in its discretion, may establish any project as a reclamation and settlement district by filing with the county recorder of the county in which situated, or if situated in more than one county, with the county recorders in all counties in which in part situated, the title by which such project is to be officially known and designated and a certified map showing the boundaries and legal subdivisions thereof. Thereafter the board may annually file with the board of county commissioners of each such county on or before the first Monday in March a certified statement of the names of all contract purchasers of lands within said district in each county with the legal subdivisions of lands severally under contract to each and the amount of any special assessment for reclamation and improvement purposes to be severally assessed against each, whereupon it shall be the duty of the said board of county commissioners to order such special assessments to be levied, assessed and collected at the time and in the manner that other taxes are levied, assessed and collected. The proceeds thereof shall be covered into a special fund in the county treasury and shall be subject to transfer to the state treasury on the order of the state controller in like manner as other state moneys collected by the county are transferred, and any portion thereof not so ordered to be transferred to the state treasury shall be kept in such county fund and shall be subject to disbursement on certificates of the reclamation and settlement board, approved by the board of county commissioners, when the county auditor shall draw his warrant and the county treasurer pay the same. If the contracting purchaser shall fail to pay such tax or special assessment, the same may be paid from the reclamation and settlement fund and charged to the purchaser with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, subject to forfeiture of contract for nonpayment in accordance with such terms and conditions as the board may impose.

Board Must Make Annual Report.

      Sec. 10.  The board shall make and publish an annual report with a full statement of its operations and the results of its investigations and experience resulting from operations under this act, together with recommendations for legislation, and shall furnish a copy of its report to the secretary of the interior.

General Authority and Powers Granted-May Appropriate Public Waters-May Cause Same To Be Withdrawn from Appropriation-Right of Eminent Domain May Be Exercised-Procedure for Determining Value of Unperfected Permits.

      Sec. 11.  The board is hereby authorized to adopt a seal and to perform such further acts, not specifically mentioned herein, as may be necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this act and said board is empowered to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations governing the performance of its duties and the administration of the provisions of this act as may be necessary or proper and such rules and regulations where not inconsistent with the provisions of law shall have the force and effect of law.

      For the purpose of effectuating the objects of this act the said board shall have the power to appropriate, in its name and in the manner provided by law for the appropriation of water by others, any of the unappropriated waters of this state. Said board is further empowered in the interest of public welfare to withdraw from appropriation by others, including appropriation for power purposes, and to reserve for appropriation by itself in behalf of the State of Nevada, the unappropriated waters of any surface or underground stream, lake, spring or other source of water supply. Such withdrawal and reservation shall be made in the following manner: When the board has considered and has in contemplation any reclamation project which in the judgment of the board will require the use of the unappropriated waters of any such source of water supply, the board may cause to be entered on its minutes an order reciting such facts and directing its proper officers to take the necessary action to withdraw from appropriation by others and reserve for appropriation by the board, the unappropriated waters of said source of water supply. Thereupon the proper officers of said boards shall file in the office of the state engineer the proclamation of the said board signed by its proper officers and bearing an impression of its seal, reciting the said order of the board and proclaiming such withdrawal and reservation of the unappropriated waters of said source of water supply. After the filing of such proclamation in the office of the state engineer, and while such proclamation remains effectual, all applications for the use of water from such source of supply not previously approved by the state engineer, except such as may be made by the board for the purposes of such reclamation project, or made by others with the written consent of the board, shall be deemed detrimental to the public welfare and the public interests and shall be rejected by the state engineer.

General authority and powers of board

Proviso

Use of water for these projects declared the most necessary public use

Right to use water transferred by board, when

rejected by the state engineer. No such proclamation shall remain effectual for a longer period than three years from the date of filing, nor shall it be renewed for one year after the expiration thereof; provided, that the board, as soon after filing such proclamation as its other plans and its facilities and finances will admit, shall investigate the project for which said proclamation was filed, and if it determines to abandon the same shall immediately cause to be executed by its proper officers and over its seal and to be filed with the state engineer a withdrawal of such proclamation and thereupon the withdrawal and reservation of the right to appropriate such waters shall cease to be effectual.

      The use of water for reclamation and settlement projects under this act, whether for power, irrigation or other purposes, is hereby declared to be a more necessary public use than the use of water for any other project or purpose, and whenever any water the right to the use of which is now vested in any person or for which any person now holds a permit from the state engineer, may be needed for the purposes of this act, the said reclamation and settlement board may acquire the right to the use of such water by purchase or the exercise of the right of eminent domain in accordance with the provisions of law concerning the exercise of such right. If it shall appear in any action brought by said board to condemn the rights of any person under an unperfected permit issued by the state engineer, that the water covered by said permit has not been actually applied to a beneficial use, or a reasonable sum expended in contemplation of such purpose, then on the question of the value of the rights under said permit the burden shall be on the permittee to prove, if he so claims, that he intends to apply said water to a beneficial use, that said permit is not held merely for the purpose of sale or speculation, that the permittee has the financial ability and means to construct the proposed works or has made an actual contract to sell his rights under such permit to a vendee who has the financial ability and the bona-fide intent to complete said contract and construct said works. In all cases the possibility of making or procuring an advantageous sale of the rights of such permittee is hereby declared to be too remote to be considered as an element in determining the value of such rights.

      The said board after acquiring the right to use any water in connection with any project may, in the course of the development or administration thereof or after its completion, assign and transfer such right or any part thereof to any applicant complying with the rules of the board or otherwise satisfying it that the water will be put to a beneficial use.

Disbursements from the Reclamation and Settlement Fund-How Made-Administration and Investigational Expenditures Limited.

      Sec. 12.  Disbursements from the reclamation and settlement fund shall be on certificates of its chairman or acting chairman and secretary, approved by the state board of examiners, when the state controller shall draw his warrant and the state treasurer pay the same; provided, that all such claims shall have first been duly authorized and approved by the board at a regular or special session; and provided further, that not exceeding ten per cent (10%) of the amount appropriated in any one year shall be available for administration expenses, inclusive of investigational work in determining the practicability of projects; and provided further, such amounts so expended to be charged up to the respective projects as expense of development. No funds shall be disbursed except in cooperation with the United States as herein provided.

Providing for a State Loan and for the Payment of the Interest and Principal Thereof.

      Sec. 13.  For the purpose of providing the funds appropriated in section three of this act the sum of one million dollars is hereby authorized to be borrowed, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be borrowed the first year, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars total shall be borrowed during the first two years, not exceeding seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars total shall be borrowed during the first three years and not exceeding one million dollars total shall be borrowed during the first four years from and after the date of passage of this act, less any moneys in the general fund transferred to the state reclamation and settlement fund as provided in section three. Said loan shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed five per cent per annum payable semiannually on the first days of January and July of each year and the principal shall be payable at any time within twenty years from the date of passage of this act, and for the regular and prompt payment of said interest and principal the faith and credit of the state is hereby pledged. The provisions of this act in respect to the issuance of bonds shall be executed under the direction of a commission consisting of the governor, state controller and state treasurer. On certification by the reclamation and settlement board that the whole or any part of the appropriation provided for in section three of this act is required, accompanied by a statement of the estimated amount and purposes of the proposed expenditures, and if the same be within the provisions of this act, said commission shall provide immediately for a state loan in the amount so required, less any part thereof which may be transferred from the general fund, and shall deposit the proceeds of such loan into the reclamation and settlement fund.

Disbursements, how made

Expenditures limited

State loan provided for; interest and payment of same

Issuance of state bonds; state tax therefor

Redemption of bonds

Fund in state treasury created

Moneys transferred, when

Duties of state controller and state treasurer

the same be within the provisions of this act, said commission shall provide immediately for a state loan in the amount so required, less any part thereof which may be transferred from the general fund, and shall deposit the proceeds of such loan into the reclamation and settlement fund.

Providing for the Issuance of Bonds and Levying a Tax for Bond Interest and Redemption-Creating the Reclamation Loan Interest and Redemption Fund-Authorizing Transfer of Excess Moneys Therefrom to the General Fund.

      Sec. 14.  Said commission shall cause to be prepared the bonds used in pursuance of this act, and each bond shall state in substance that the State of Nevada will pay to the holder thereof the amount of the bond within twenty years from the date of the passage of this act with interest at the rate of not to exceed five per cent per annum. Said bonds shall be of the denominations as the commission may prescribe, shall be payable in gold coin of the United States, shall be numbered in sequence, each bond bearing a different number, and when retired shall be retired in such sequence. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor, endorsed by the state treasurer, countersigned by the state controller and authenticated by the great seal of the state. Beginning January 1, 1924, one-fortieth (1/40) of the total amount of said bonds issued shall be retired and each year thereafter the amount of bonds retired shall be increased by five thousand dollars over the amount of bonds retired the year previous, for sixteen years, or until the total issue of bonds shall have been retired. There shall be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1919, an ad valorem tax of one-half of one cent, for the fiscal year 1920 an ad valorem tax of one cent, for the fiscal year 1921 an ad valorem tax of one and one-half cents, for the fiscal year 1922 an ad valorem tax of two cents and for the fiscal year 1923, and annually thereafter, an ad valorem tax of three and one-half cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in the state, including the net proceeds of mines, and all moneys derived from said taxes shall be covered into the reclamation loan interest and redemption fund in the state treasury, hereby created for such purpose, and are hereby specifically appropriated for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of the bonds authorized by this act; provided, that any accumulation of moneys in such fund in excess of the full amount required to satisfy the interest and redemption of said bonds as the same currently become due and payable, on order of the commission may be transferred by the state controller to the general fund. It shall be the duty of the state controller to draw his warrant for the payment of the interest on said bonds and for their redemption at maturity as herein provided, and the state treasurer shall pay the same, and when so retired said bonds shall be canceled and made void by said commission.

vided, and the state treasurer shall pay the same, and when so retired said bonds shall be canceled and made void by said commission.

Chap. 192–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act providing a salary for the county surveyor of Washoe County, in lieu of all fees, and providing for the payment of the same,” approved February 27, 1909.

[Approved March 28, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An act entitled “An act providing a salary for the county surveyor of Washoe County, in lieu of all fees, and providing for the payment of the same,” approved February 27, 1909, is hereby repealed; provided, that this act shall not be effective until January 1, 1921.

Repealing certain act

Effective Jan. 1, 1921

Chap. 193–An Act to provide for the erection of the Nevada heroes memorial building in Carson City, Nevada, defining the duties of the board of capitol commissioners in respect thereto, providing for the issuance of bonds therefor and the manner of their sale and redemption, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Provision is hereby made for the erection of the Nevada heroes memorial building on the main street of Carson City, adjacent to the capitol, on a site to be deeded to the State of Nevada in fee simple by the board of county commissioners of Ormsby County, Nevada. Said building shall be designed to be a fitting memorial to Nevada soldiers who gave their lives in the service of the United States in the European war. The board of capitol commissioners is charged with the duty of carrying out the provisions of this act, and in the erection of said building the needs and requirements of the Nevada industrial commission, the department of highways, the state engineer’s office, and of various other offices shall be kept in mind and provided for.

      Sec. 2.  The cost of said building, and the construction thereof, together with the heating and lighting systems and all equipment thereof, shall not exceed the sum of eighty thousand dollars; provided, that not more than ten dollars shall be paid for acquiring the site for said building. Said board of capitol commissioners, on or before the first day of June, 1919, shall employ a competent architect to prepare and submit plans and specifications to said board for the construction work and the heating and lighting systems herein provided for,

Providing for a Nevada heroes building in Carson City, Nevada

Capitol commissioners to act

Cost limited to $80,000

Not more than $10 for site

Bids advertised for

Nevadans given preference

Time payments to be provided for

Contractors to give bonds

Commission named to issue bonds, $80,000

Interest, 5%

Life, 20 years

Bonds sold to certain funds

and submit plans and specifications to said board for the construction work and the heating and lighting systems herein provided for, and when said plans and specifications are approved by the board, said board shall advertise for a period of three weeks for sealed bids for the construction of said building and the heating and lighting systems thereof in accordance with the plans and specifications, which shall be on file subject to inspection. Said board shall let the contract or contracts for the construction of said building, and the heating and lighting systems thereof, to the best responsible bidder of bidders; provided, that any and all bids may, for sufficient reason, be rejected. In the awarding of contracts, preference shall be given to Nevada contractors, Nevada labor and returning Nevada soldiers.

      Sec. 3.  The board of capitol commissioners shall provide in all contracts for time and amounts of payments thereon, as the work progresses, a reasonable stated proportion of moneys earned to be withheld until the completion and acceptance of the work by said board. Good and sufficient bonds to protect the state shall be required from all contractors. All bills for the employment of an architect and for the erection and the heating and lighting systems of said building and equipment thereof shall be paid out of the Nevada heroes memorial building fund in the state treasury, herein provided for, upon claims approved by the board of capitol commissioners, and audited and approved by the board of examiners of the State of Nevada as other claims against the state are paid.

      Sec. 4.  To provide the Nevada heroes memorial building fund in the state treasury, the governor, state controller and the state treasurer are hereby constituted a commission, and are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to issue bonds of the State of Nevada in the sum of eighty thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be in denominations of one thousand dollars each, payable in gold coin of the United States, and shall be numbered serially, and when retired shall be retired in the order of their issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor, and endorsed by the state treasurer, and countersigned by the state controller, and authenticated by the great seal of the State of Nevada. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable semiannually, and shall be paid within twenty years from the date of issuance.

      Sec. 5.  Upon the issuance and execution of said bonds the same shall be sold and delivered to the state permanent school fund, university ninety-thousand-acre grant fund, the university seventy-two-section grant fund, or the state insurance fund of the Nevada industrial commission, as money may be available and in the state treasury in said funds, and when so sold the state controller shall draw his warrant against said fund or funds in the case of the first three, and by the Nevada industrial commission, if any of said bonds be sold to said commission, for the amount of said bonds.

three, and by the Nevada industrial commission, if any of said bonds be sold to said commission, for the amount of said bonds. If sufficient money be not available in any of the funds heretofore mentioned, the bonds herein provided for shall be sold at public or private sale. Said bonds shall be sold at par, and the proceeds thereof shall be placed in a fund to be known as the Nevada heroes memorial building fund. At least four of said bonds of one thousand dollars each shall be redeemed each year, commencing June 1, 1920, and annually thereafter on the same date.

      Sec. 6.  There shall be levied annually an ad valorem tax of five-tenths of one cent on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in the State of Nevada, including the net proceeds of mines, and all moneys derived therefrom shall be paid into the Nevada heroes memorial building interest and redemption fund, which shall be used for the purpose of paying interest and the annual redemption of the bonds authorized by this act. If after the payment of interest and the number of bonds as herein provided for there shall remain a surplus in said fund, such surplus shall be used for the retirement and cancelation of additional bonds provided in this act to the amount of such surplus.

When bonds sold at public or private sale

State tax for said bonds

Chap. 194–An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the improvement of a highway across the county of Elko.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of aiding the department of highways of the State of Nevada, in constructing a highway across the county of Elko along the line designated as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by an act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada, chapter 169, Statutes 1917, or as it may hereafter be designated, the board of county commissioners of Elko County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to issue bonds in the name of said Elko County in the aggregate sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars. The said bonds, which shall be known as the “Elko County Highway Bonds, Issue of 1919,” shall be issued and sold at such times as may be necessary to take advantage of equal amounts tendered to the department of highways of the State of Nevada, or to Elko County, from such sources as hereinafter provided. It is provided, however, that the first issuance and sale shall be for not less than fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, and that any bonds which are issued and not sold within eighteen (18) months after the passage of this act shall be canceled.

Bonds of Elko County for state highway, $150,000

First issue to be $50,000

Conditions of issue; Humboldt and Washoe must each be bonded for $150,000, when

Humboldt and Pershing County to be bonded for $75,000 each

County commissioners to prepare bonds

“Elko County Highway Fund”

within eighteen (18) months after the passage of this act shall be canceled. All money derived from the sale of the said bonds is to be expended by the county commissioners of said Elko County, and within the bounds of the said county, and under the direction of the department of highways. It is provided, however, that the said county commissioners shall not issue said bonds, or any part thereof, except upon one of the following express conditions:

      (1) That if a new county be not created by the present legislature out of the territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law, an act or acts which shall provide that the counties of Humboldt and Washoe shall each be bonded for the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      (2) That if a new county be created by the present legislature out of territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law an act or acts which shall provide that the county so created and Humboldt County shall each be bonded for the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars, and Washoe County in the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      Sec. 2.  The said board of county commissioners shall cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by its members and its clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated with the official seal of the said county. Coupons representing the several installments of interest to fall due thereon shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bonds, numbered consecutively and signed by the county treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The said board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder at not less than their par value, after advertising for sealed bids for the same in one or more papers published in Elko County for a period of not less than two weeks preceding the date of the opening of said bids; the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in what shall be known as “The Elko County Highway Fund,” which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

visions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn by the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations contracted under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 4.  The said bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars ($500) each; they shall be numbered consecutively and they shall bear interest at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum, said interest payable on the second Monday of January of the second succeeding year in which said bonds or any of them shall have been issued, and every twelve months thereafter; and on the second Monday of January, 1922, and every twelve months thereafter, fifteen or more of said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied until all of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and satisfied. Said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied as aforesaid, in the order of their issuance, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of said bonds shall have been redeemed and satisfied.

      Sec. 5.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the redemption of the said bonds and the payments of the interest thereon, the said board of county commissioners of Elko County shall in the year 1919, and annually thereafter at the time of levying taxes for state and county purposes and in the same manner, levy and collect a special and additional tax upon all property within Elko County sufficient in its judgment to provide for the payment of the interest annually due on said bonds, and the redemption and satisfaction of the bonds, as hereinbefore provided. The said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in the county treasury. At the maturity of said bonds and the coupons thereon, they shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the said Elko County highway fund, and shall thereupon be canceled and marked paid by the county treasurer; no interest shall be allowed or paid on any of said bonds after they have become due and payable, and shall have been called in for redemption.

      Sec. 6.  The board of county commissioners shall consult with the board of directors of the department of highways and the state highway engineer, and by and with the advice of said board of directors and the state highway engineer, select for construction and improvement, sections of the route which is hereinbefore specified as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as route 1 may hereinafter be designated. By and with the advice of the department of highways, a type and manner of improvement shall be adopted for each section of said route so selected.

      Sec. 7.  Upon the request of the board of county commissioners the department of highways shall cause surveys, plans and specifications to be made of each and every section selected as hereinbefore provided, and the board of county commissioners shall cause to be paid by Elko County, out of funds in the Elko County highway fund, the entire expense thereof upon vouchers certified to by the state highway engineer.

Denomination of bonds; annual interest; redemption

Special county tax

Cooperation with state department of highways

Expense of survey by state highway department paid by Elko County

Rights of way in name of state

Bids for work to be advertised for

Certified checks from bidders

Bond from contractor

Construction must satisfy state highway authorities

Progress payments on construction

sioners the department of highways shall cause surveys, plans and specifications to be made of each and every section selected as hereinbefore provided, and the board of county commissioners shall cause to be paid by Elko County, out of funds in the Elko County highway fund, the entire expense thereof upon vouchers certified to by the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 8.  All necessary rights of way shall be acquired by the board of county commissioners in the name of the State of Nevada, and all expense in connection therewith shall be paid out of the Elko County highway fund.

      Sec. 9.  It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to advertise for all work provided for in this act, according to the plans and specifications prepared by the state highway engineer. The advertisement shall be inserted at least once each week for a period of two weeks in two newspapers, one of which shall be published in Elko County and the other having general circulation throughout the state. Such advertisement shall state the place where the plans and specifications may be examined, the time and place where bids will be received, and the time of their opening.

      The board of county commissioners may make such rules and regulations as they may deem best for the requirement of certified checks with the bids, and for the acceptance of bids and for partial payments to the contractor.

      The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to enter into a contract in the name of Elko County with the successful bidder, and require such bond as they may deem necessary of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work.

      Sec. 10.  A clause shall be inserted in each and every contract that the work is to be done to the satisfaction of the department of highways and the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 11.  The board of county commissioners shall cause to be made progress and final estimates of the work, which shall be the basis for progress and final payments to the contractor. It is provided, however, that before any payments are made to the contractor that such progress and final estimates shall first be approved and certified to by the state highway engineer.

Chap. 195–An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County, Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the improvement of a highway across the county of Humboldt.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of aiding the department of highways of the State of Nevada, in constructing a highway across the county of Humboldt along the line designated as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by an act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada, chapter 169, Statutes 1917, or as it may hereafter be designated, the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to issue bonds in the name of said Humboldt County in the aggregate sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars. The said bonds, which shall be known as the “Humboldt County Highway Bonds, Issue of 1919,” shall be issued and sold at such times as may be necessary to take advantage of equal amounts tendered to the department of highways of the State of Nevada, or to Humboldt County, from such sources as hereinafter provided. It is provided, however, that the first issuance and sale shall be for not less than fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, and that any bonds which are issued and not sold within eighteen (18) months after the passage of this act shall be canceled. All money derived from the sale of the said bonds is to be expended by the county commissioners of said Humboldt County, and within the bounds of the said county, and under the direction of the department of highways. It is provided, however, that the said county commissioners shall not issue said bonds, or any part thereof, except upon one of the following express conditions:

      (1) That if a new county be not created by the present legislature out of the territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law, an act or acts which shall provide that the counties of Washoe and Elko shall be bonded for the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      (2) That if a new county be created by the present legislature out of territory now a portion of Humboldt County, that there shall be enacted as a law an act or acts which shall provide that the county so created and Humboldt County shall each be bonded for the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars, and Elko County in the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

Authorizing bonds of Humboldt County, $150,000, for state highways

Name of bonds

First issue, $50,000

Washoe County and Elko County to be bonded for like amount

Pershing County to be bonded for $75,000; the same for Humboldt County

County commissioners to prepare said bonds

Negotiation and sale of bonds

Must be advertised

Denomination of bonds; annual interest; redemption

Special county tax

shall each be bonded for the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars, and Elko County in the sum of one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars, and that the provisions of said act or acts shall be similar in all other respects to this act, said money to be available for expenditure upon any portion of “Route 1” of the system of state highways as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as said route 1 may be hereafter designated between the Utah and California lines.

      Sec. 2.  The said board of county commissioners shall cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by its members and its clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated with the official seal of the said county. Coupons representing the several installments of interest to fall due thereon shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bonds, numbered consecutively and signed by the county treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The said board of county commissioners is authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder at not less than their par value, after advertising for sealed bids for the same in one or more papers published in Humboldt County for a period of not less than two weeks preceding the date of the opening of said bids; the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in what shall be known as “The Humboldt County Highway Fund,” which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn by the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations contracted under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 4.  The said bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars ($500) each; they shall be numbered consecutively and they shall bear interest at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum, said interest payable on the second Monday of January of the second succeeding year in which said bonds or any of them shall have been issued, and every twelve months thereafter; and on the second Monday of January, 1922, and every twelve months thereafter, fifteen or more of said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied until all of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and satisfied. Said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied as aforesaid, in the order of their issuance, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of said bonds shall have been redeemed and satisfied.

      Sec. 5.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the redemption of the said bonds and the payment of the interest thereon, the said board of county commissioners of Humboldt County shall in the year 1919, and annually thereafter at the time of levying taxes for state and county purposes and in the same manner, levy and collect a special and additional tax upon all property within Humboldt County sufficient in its judgment to provide for the payment of the interest annually due on said bonds, and the redemption and satisfaction of the bonds, as hereinbefore provided.

due on said bonds, and the redemption and satisfaction of the bonds, as hereinbefore provided. The said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in the county treasury. At the maturity of said bonds and the coupons thereon, they shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the said Humboldt County highway fund, and shall thereupon be canceled and marked paid by the county treasurer; no interest shall be allowed or paid on any of said bonds after they have become due and payable, and shall have been called in for redemption.

      Sec. 6.  The board of county commissioners shall consult with the board of directors of the department of highways and the state highway engineer, and by and with the advice of said board of directors and the state highway engineer, select for construction and improvement, sections of the route which is hereinbefore specified as “Route 1” of the system of state highways, as defined by “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” or as route 1 may hereinafter be designated. By and with the advice of the department of highways, a type and manner of improvement shall be adopted for each section of said route so selected.

      Sec. 7.  Upon the request of the board of county commissioners the department of highways shall cause surveys, plans and specifications to be made of each and every section selected as hereinbefore provided, and the board of county commissioners shall cause to be paid by Humboldt County, out of funds in the Humboldt County highway fund, the entire expense thereof upon vouchers certified to by the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 8.  All necessary rights of way shall be acquired by the board of county commissioners in the name of the State of Nevada, and all expense in connection therewith shall be paid out of the Humboldt County highway fund.

      Sec. 9.  It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to advertise for all work provided for in this act, according to the plans and specifications prepared by the state highway engineer. The advertisement shall be inserted at least once each week for a period of two weeks in two newspapers, one of which shall be published in Humboldt County and the other having general circulation throughout the state. Such advertisement shall state the place where the plans and specifications may be examined, the time and place where bids will be received, and the time of their opening.

      The board of county commissioners may make such rules and regulations as they may deem best for the requirement of certified checks with the bids, and for the acceptance of bids and for partial payments to the contractor.

      The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to enter into a contract in the name of Humboldt County with the successful bidder, and require such bond as they may deem necessary of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work.

Cooperation with state highway department

Surveys by state highway department paid for by county

Rights of way in name of state

Bids to be advertised for

Certified checks with bids

Bonds from contractors

Work to satisfy state highway department

Progress payments

deem necessary of the contractor for the faithful performance of the work.

      Sec. 10.  A clause shall be inserted in each and every contract that the work is to be done to the satisfaction of the department of highways and the state highway engineer.

      Sec. 11.  The board of county commissioners shall cause to be made progress and final estimates of the work, which shall be the basis for progress and final payments to the contractor. It is provided, however, that before any payments are made to the contractor that such progress and final estimates shall first be approved and certified to by the state highway engineer.

Regarding inheritance tax

Compromise, with approval of court

Chap. 196–An Act to amend section 26 of an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, to establish a tax on gifts, legacies, inheritances, bequests, devises, successions and transfers, to provide for its collection and to direct the disposition of its proceeds, to provide for the enforcement of liens created by this act, and for suits to quiet title against claims of lien arising hereunder,” approved March 26, 1913.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 26 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 26.  Whenever an estate charged, or sought to be charged, with the payment of an inheritance tax, is of such a nature or so disposed that the liability of the estate is doubtful, or the value thereon cannot with reasonable certainty be ascertained in the manner provided by this act, the state controller may with the approval of the attorney-general, which approval shall set forth the reasons therefor, compromise with the beneficiaries or representatives of such estate and compound the tax, but all such settlements, compromises, and compositions shall be approved by the district court of the proper county, and after such approval the payment of the amount of the tax so agreed upon shall discharge the lien against the property of the estate.

Chap. 197–An Act to authorize the board of school trustees of Elko school district No. 1, in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of building and equipping a schoolhouse in said district.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of providing funds with which to pay for the erection of a suitable school building for said district, and the equipment of the same, the board of trustees of Elko school district No. 1, in Elko County, State of Nevada, is hereby authorized and directed under the provisions of this act to issue interest-bearing bonds of said district in such form and for such period as the board of trustees may direct, for a sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars in United States gold coin, exclusive of interest, said bonds to run for a period not to exceed twenty (20) years from the date of issue.

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall be issued in a sum not less than five hundred ($500) dollars each, in gold coin of the United States, and shall be payable to bearer; they shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, and the interest thereon shall be paid semiannually. Coupons for each of such installments of interest shall be attached to each of said bonds so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond. The bonds and coupons herein provided for shall be numbered consecutively. Said bonds shall be signed by the president of said board of trustees, attested by the clerk thereof, sealed with the district seal and countersigned by the county treasurer of said Elko County, State of Nevada, and the interest coupons to be attached thereto shall be signed by the original or engraved facsimile signatures of said president, clerk, and treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  Any and all bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be registered by the county treasurer of Elko County, in a book kept in his office for that purpose, which registry shall show the name of the school district, the amount, the time of payment, and rate of interest. All such bonds shall bear the certificate of the county treasurer to the effect that they are issued and registered under the provisions of this act. After such registry, the county treasurer, on order of the board of school trustees of said district shall cause all bonds to be delivered to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, upon payment being made him therefor.

      Sec. 4.  The principal of said bonds shall be payable annually in such sum as said board of trustees may direct, commencing with the first day of July, 1920.

      Sec. 5.  The board of trustees of said Elko school district No. 1 is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sale, as they may deem for the best interest of the school district; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and the bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

Bonds for schoolhouse in Elko school district No. 1, Elko County; $75,000

Denomination and interest

Bonds to be registered by county treasurer

Redemption begins July 1, 1920

School trustees to negotiate bonds

County treasurer custodian of moneys

School trustees to authorize auditor’s warrant

Special annual tax on property in school district for interest

Same for redemption of bonds

by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sale, as they may deem for the best interest of the school district; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and the bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 6.  All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of Elko County, and the county treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as Elko school district No. 1 building fund, and to pay out the money only on warrant issued by the county auditor. The county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe-keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 7.  The auditor’s warrant on the treasurer referred to in section 6 hereof, shall be drawn only after and upon order drawn and signed by the board of trustees of said Elko school district No. 1, upon the county auditor of Elko County.

      Sec. 8.  For the purpose of providing for the payment of the interest upon said bonds, the board of county commissioners of said Elko County are hereby authorized and required at the time of the annual levy of taxes for state and county purposes for the year 1919, and annually thereafter, to levy and assess a special tax on all the taxable property in said Elko district No. 1, in an amount sufficient to pay the interest upon said bonds promptly when and as the same becomes due according to the tenor and effect of said bonds. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected in the manner of the assessment and collection of other taxes, shall be paid into the county treasury, and shall be kept by said county treasurer in a fund to be known as Elko school district No. 1 bond interest fund, and the money in said fund shall be disbursed by said treasurer in payment of the interest upon said bonds as the same becomes due, upon presentation and surrender by the holder of the coupon therefor; and if there shall be any surplus after paying said interest and the expenses of collecting such special tax, the treasurer shall, without delay, pass the same to the credit of said Elko school district No. 1, and such funds so passed to the credit of said district shall be subject to the disposal of the board of school trustees thereof.

      Sec. 9.  To provide for the payment of the bonds herein authorized to be issued, the said board of county commissioners of Elko County, shall in the year 1919, and annually thereafter, levy a special and additional tax, and shall cause said special tax to be collected, on all the taxable property situate in said Elko school district No. 1, sufficient to raise the sum necessary to pay, redeem and discharge, according to the tenor and effect thereof, the bonds that year falling due, which said tax shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer and by him assigned to a fund known as the Elko school district No.

to the tenor and effect thereof, the bonds that year falling due, which said tax shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer and by him assigned to a fund known as the Elko school district No. 1 bond sinking fund, and shall be used only in the payment of such bonds. At the maturity of such bonds and at their place of payment, the county treasurer shall cause such bonds and accrued interest thereon to be paid and duly cancel the same, and certify his actions to the board of trustees of said Elko school district No. 1.

      Sec. 10.  No bond or coupon herein provided for shall draw interest after the date the same shall become due and payable. Said bonds shall mature in their numerical order and beginning the first day of July, 1920, according to the tenor and effect of said bonds, until all are paid.

      Sec. 11.  As, and when the bonds herein provided for shall be redeemed, the county treasurer shall mark the same “Paid” across the face thereof, with his signature and the date of payment, turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid.

      Sec. 12.  All bonds and the interest coupons issued hereunder, shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer of Elko County, at Elko, Nevada.

      Sec. 13.  Whenever, at the end of any fiscal year there shall remain any money in said bond interest fund, after paying the interest on said bonds, as provided for in section 8 of this act, the money so remaining shall be transferred by the county treasurer from the bond interest fund to Elko school district No. 1 general fund.

      Sec. 14.  Whenever the bonds and interest herein provided for shall have been paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease and all moneys remaining in said bond sinking fund shall be transferred to Elko school district No. 1 general fund.

      Sec. 15.  If the amount of the tax levied upon the property within the said Elko school district No. 1, shall at any time be insufficient to pay the interest on said bonds, and provide for their retirement as hereinbefore provided, the board of county commissioners of said Elko County is hereby required to levy and collect annually, a special tax on the assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, subject to taxation within the boundary of said Elko County, and continue such levy from year to year, to meet any deficit which may occur in said Elko school district No. 1 bond sinking fund, and the faith and credit of Elko County is hereby obligated to the prompt and ready payment of said bonds and the interest thereon, according to the terms, conditions, and tenor thereof.

      Sec. 16.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed omitted until all the bonds and coupons issued thereunder shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Interest ceases, when

County treasurer to cancel paid bonds

Payable at office of county treasurer

Residue reverts to district school fund

Same

Additional special county tax, when

Faith of state pledged

thereby imposed omitted until all the bonds and coupons issued thereunder shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

State board of professional engineers; military engineers excepted

Five members appointed by governor; oath; terms of office

Vacancies, how filled

Different professions specified

Professional engineering defined

Office in Reno

Powers and duties of board

Chap. 198–An Act to provide for a state board of registered professional engineers.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  By June 1, 1919, the governor shall appoint five (5) persons, all of whom shall be engaged in the practice or teaching of professional engineering in any of its branches except military, and who shall constitute a board of registered professional engineers.

      The members of such board shall, within thirty (30) days after their appointment, take and subscribe to the oath of office as prescribed by the laws of Nevada, and file the same with the secretary of state. They shall hold office for four (4) years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified; save and except that the members of the board first to be appointed under this act shall hold office one for one (1) year, one for two (2) years, one for three (3) years and two for four (4) years.

      Any vacancies that may occur from any cause shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term; provided, that all appointments made after the first year must be made from the roll of certificates issued and on file in the office of the secretary of state. The members of the board shall, as far as practical, consist of one (1) member of the following engineering professions: Mining, hydraulic, electric, civil or highway and mechanical.

      Sec. 2.  A person practices professional engineering within the meaning of this act who practices any branch of the profession other than military engineering. The practice of professional engineering involves the control of forces of nature and the utilization of materials and these forces for the benefit of man.

      Sec. 3.  The state board of registered professional engineers shall have its principal office in the city of Reno, and its powers and duties shall be as follows:

      1.  To formulate rules for the government of the board and for the examination of and granting of certificates of qualification to persons applying therefor.

      2.  To hold written examinations of applicants for such certificates, at least every six months, at such places as circumstances and applications may warrant.

      3.  To grant certificates of qualification to such applicants as may, upon examination, be found qualified in the theory and practice of the special line of engineering that application is made for, to practice as registered professional engineers.

as may, upon examination, be found qualified in the theory and practice of the special line of engineering that application is made for, to practice as registered professional engineers.

      4.  To charge and collect from all applicants such fee, not exceeding $15, as may be necessary to meet the expense of examination, issuance of certificates and conducting its office; provided, that all such expenses, including traveling and hotel expenses of its members while attending the sessions of the board or conducting examinations, must be paid from the current receipts, and no portion thereof shall be paid from the state treasury.

      5.  To require the annual renewal of all certificates, and to collect therefor a renewal fee of not exceeding $2.50.

      6.  To revoke for cause any such certificate, after written notice to the holder, and a hearing being held thereon.

      7.  To report annually to the secretary of state, on or before December 1, all such certificates issued or renewed, together with a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements; provided, that any balance remaining in excess of the expenses incurred, may be retained by the board and used in defraying the future expense thereof.

      8.  All persons who have been actively engaged in the profession of engineering for six years, or who have a diploma from some recognized college or university and have had four (4) years active practice in engineering and who have in either case been two (2) years in charge of important engineering work as principal or assistant shall not require an examination, if application is made in writing within six months after the passage of this act.

      Sec. 4.  The board shall appoint one of its members as chairman, who shall serve without pay, and one of its members as secretary and treasurer, who shall be paid a salary out of the funds of the board not to exceed $200 per year. The chairman and secretary shall each serve two years, but the secretary first appointed shall serve only one year. At any meeting three (3) members shall constitute a quorum.

      Sec. 5.  Any citizen of the United States or any person who has duly declared his intention of becoming such citizen, being over the age of 21 years, and of good moral character, may apply to the state board of registered professional engineers for examination under its rules. The examinations shall be in English and its scope as prescribed by the board. Upon the passing of a satisfactory examination, a certificate shall be issued, signed by the chairman and secretary, and during the period of its existence, or any renewal thereof, he shall be styled and known as a registered professional engineer, and no other person shall be permitted to assume and use such title or to use any words, letters, or figures to indicate that the person using the same, is a certified engineer.

      Sec. 6.  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,

Powers and duties of board of professional engineers

Officers

Quorum

Examination of applicants for certificate

Penalty for violation of act

this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, for the first offense and not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars for each subsequent offense.

Amending Reno charter

Assistant chief of fire department; duties; salary

Chap. 199–An Act to amend section 7 of article 10 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Reno and to establish a city government therefor,” approved March 16, 1903, as amended March 13, 1905, and further amended March 24, 1913.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 7 of article 10 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Reno and to establish a city government therefor,” approved March 16, 1903, as amended March 13, 1905, and as further amended March 24, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 7.  The chief of the fire department may, with the consent of and subject to the confirmation of the city council, appoint an assistant chief of the fire department, who shall have all the powers and duties of the chief, during the absence or inability of such chief to act. The salary of such assistant and all firemen shall be fixed by ordinance. The chief of the fire department shall receive a salary in the sum of twenty-one hundred ($2,100) dollars per annum.

Commission form of government for towns and cities

Chap. 200–An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the commission form of government for cities and towns,” approved March 22, 1915.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  Any city or town in the State of Nevada may adopt the commission form of government and frame its own charter therefor. By a “commission form of government,” as used in this act, is meant any form of municipal government not contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States, under which both legislative and administrative authority is exercised by the same governing body, members of which are elected by the qualified electors of such city or town.

Chap. 201–An Act to amend certain sections of an act entitled “An act fixing the compensation of the county officers of Elko County, Nevada, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 23, 1917.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 5 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The county recorder in and for the county of Elko, State of Nevada, and as ex officio auditor, shall receive the sum of twenty-seven hundred ($2,700) dollars per annum as compensation for all his services as such officer; he shall pay into the county treasury of said county all moneys collected by him as fees. The county recorder and ex officio auditor may appoint one deputy, who shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum, and one deputy who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum, and shall have such other deputies as the board of county commissioners deem necessary.

      Sec. 2.  Section 8 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 8.  Each of the county commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, shall receive a salary of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum, and mileage as now allowed by law, for all his services as such officer.

      Sec. 3.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 9.  All salaries herein provided for shall be payable monthly in twelve (12) equal installments. This act shall be effective on the first Monday in January, 1921.

Certain salaries of Elko County officers

Recorder and auditor

Deputies

County commissioners

Salaries paid monthly

Effective Jan. 1921

Chap. 202–An Act authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds of the county of Humboldt, State of Nevada, for the purpose of the construction of a courthouse at the county-seat of said county and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Humboldt County, Nevada, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue negotiable coupons bonds of said county for an amount not to exceed $150,000, exclusive of interest, and to cause said bonds to be prepared and issued.

      Sec. 2.  Such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and by the county clerk of Humboldt County, and be countersigned by the county treasurer of Humboldt County.

Bonds of Humboldt County, $150,000, authorized

Preparation of bonds

County clerk to keep record

Courthouse to be built by money from said bond sale

Denomination; interest; life; redemption

County treasurer custodian of moneys

County treasurer liable

treasurer of Humboldt County. Interest coupons shall be attached to each bond so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds. Said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, signed by the chairman of the said board of county commissioners and by the county clerk of said county and the county treasurer of said county, or their facsimile signatures lithographed thereon.

      Sec. 3.  The clerk of said board of county commissioners shall keep an accurate and full record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act and shall keep a record showing the number, amount, and date of each bond and to whom sold. The county treasurer of Humboldt County shall, in like manner and form, keep a record of such bonds.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of said Humboldt County is hereby authorized and directed to negotiate the sale of said bonds, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, and particularly for the purpose of preparing ground for the construction of, and constructing and completing a county courthouse, in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada; said bonds shall be sold at public sale after notice for sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds has been advertised for not less than three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Humboldt County. Said board may reject any and all bids and no bonds shall be sold for less than par.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be known as the Humboldt County courthouse bonds, and shall be in denomination of $1,000 each. They shall be consecutively numbered, commencing with number 1, and shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum. Said interest shall be payable semiannually on the first day of July and January of each year. Said bonds shall run for a period of not to exceed fifteen years and ten of said bonds shall be redeemed annually, commencing on the first day of July, 1921, until all of said bonds shall have been redeemed and retired. Said redemption and cancelation of bonds shall be in order of their issuance and number.

      Sec. 6.  All money derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said Humboldt County, who shall receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the Humboldt County courthouse fund, and moneys shall be paid out of said fund to pay for the preparation of the ground for the construction and the construction and completion of the said courthouse and for the other purposes provided for in this act.

      Sec. 7.  The county treasurer of Humboldt County shall be liable upon his official bond for the safe-keeping of all moneys that shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act and for the faithful discharge of all of his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 8.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds to be issued under this act and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County is hereby authorized and directed to levy and collect, or cause to be collected, annually until all said bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, a special tax on all property, real and personal, including net proceeds of mines, subject to taxation, within the boundaries of said county, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and redeem ten of said bonds annually as provided herein, and to continue so to do until all of said bonds have been fully paid and redeemed. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed, levied and collected and the proceeds thereof shall be kept in a special fund to be known as Humboldt County courthouse bond, interest and redemption fund.

      Sec. 9.  It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to use the money in said fund mentioned in section 8 of this act to pay the interest on said bonds and to redeem said bonds as they severally become due. Whenever any bonds or interest coupons shall be redeemed or paid, the county treasurer shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “Paid,” together with the date of payment, and sign his name thereto and deliver the same to the auditor of Humboldt County, taking his receipt therefor.

      Sec. 10.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for by this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized hereby shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said fund shall be by order of the board of county commissioners, transferred to the general fund of Humboldt County for the payment of legal claims.

      Sec. 11.  Interest on all bonds issued under this act shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer of Humboldt County, Nevada, at Winnemucca, Nevada, and should any holder of any bond or bonds fail to present said bonds to the county treasurer of Humboldt County for payment as the same become due, all interest on said bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 12.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and interest coupons issued under and by virtue of this act shall have been paid in full as in this act specified.

Special annual county tax

County treasurer to pay and cancel bonds

Tax ceases, when

Interest ceases, when

Faith of state pledged

Eight-hour day for all employees of state or its political subdivisions; also for all employees on public works

Public officials and certain others excepted

All contracts must contain provision for eight-hour day

Chap. 203–An Act to limit the hours of labor of persons employed by the state, county and municipal governments, and of persons employed by contractors, subcontractors or other persons in the performance of a public work; requiring a condition limiting the hours of labor in all contracts for public work; fixing penalties for the violations of this act, and other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The services and employment of all persons, except as otherwise provided herein, who are now, or may hereafter, be employed by the State of Nevada, or by any county, city, town, township, or any other political subdivision thereof, or by any contractor, subcontractor or other person having a contract with the State of Nevada, or with any county, city, town, township, or any other political subdivision thereof, for the performance of public work, is hereby limited and restricted to not more than eight hours in any one calendar day and not more than fifty-six hours in any one week; and it shall be unlawful for any officer or agent of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, or any contractor, subcontractor or other person having a contract as herein provided, whose duty it shall be to employ, direct or control the services of such employees, to require or permit such employees to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day or more than fifty-six hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger; provided, nothing in this act shall apply to officials of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, or to employees thereof who are engaged as employees of a fire department, or to nurses in training or working in hospitals, or to deputy sheriffs or jailers.

      Sec. 2.  Every contract made with the State of Nevada or with any county, city, town, township, or any other political subdivision thereof, shall contain a condition that no person shall be employed for more than eight hours in any one day or more than fifty-six hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger, and in such emergency cases the person required to work over eight hours per day or fifty-six hours per week shall be paid regular wages for all overtime; every such contract herein referred to shall also contain a condition that the contract may be canceled at the election of the State of Nevada or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, which is concerned, for any failure or refusal on the part of the contractor to faith fully perform the contract according to its terms as herein provided.

fully perform the contract according to its terms as herein provided.

      Sec. 3.  Any officer or agent of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, or any contractor, subcontractor or other person, whose duty it shall be to employ, direct or control the services of an employee covered by this act, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act as to the hours of employment of labor as herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every such offense shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed three hundred ($300) dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction thereof.

      Sec. 4.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Penalty for violation

Repeal

Chap. 204–An Act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Churchill County, State of Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of assisting owners and entrymen of agricultural lands in said county in the leveling of such lands and in placing the same under cultivation; providing for the sale of such bonds; providing for the disbursement, reimbursement, collection and disposition of the moneys received from the sale of such bonds and other moneys; and providing for the payment of such bonds.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Churchill County, State of Nevada, is hereby authorized, under the provisions of this act, to prepare and issue bonds of said county bearing interest at the rate of three per centum per annum from the date thereof, in the sum of two hundred forty thousand dollars, payable in gold coin of the United States. The said bonds shall be issued in the sum of one thousand dollars each; they shall be numbered from 1 to 240, consecutively; they shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, attested by its clerk, sealed with the seal of the county and countersigned by the county treasurer; and each of the interest coupons attached to said bonds shall be signed by the original or engraved facsimile signature of the county treasurer. The interest on said bonds shall be payable semiannually.

      Sec. 2.  On the first day of July, 1924, and annually thereafter until all bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been paid and redeemed, fifteen of such bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed by the county treasurer of Churchill County;

Churchill County bonds, $240,000, authorized

Semiannual interest

Redemption of said bonds

Proviso

County commissioners to negotiate sale of said bonds

Register of bonds kept by county treasurer

County treasurer custodian of moneys

by the county treasurer of Churchill County; provided, that said bonds shall severally be subject to redemption in their numerical order on any interest-payment date prior to maturity, at the option of the board of county commissioners of said county, as follows, to wit: Whenever there shall be sufficient moneys available therefor, as provided in section 10 of this act, the said board of county commissioners may by resolution declare its intention to pay and redeem one or more of said bonds, specifying the same by number, at the interest-payment date thence next succeeding, and the said board shall thereupon cause notice of its declared intention so to do to be mailed to the holder or holders of the bonds so to be redeemed, if the identity and whereabouts of such holder or holders be known, not less than thirty days prior to the date of such intended redemption, otherwise such notice shall be published at least once a week for a period of four weeks prior to such date in a newspaper of general circulation published in said Churchill County, if there be one, otherwise in a similar newspaper published elsewhere in the State of Nevada; and should the holders or holder of any bond or bonds issued under this act, for any cause whatever, fail to present the same to the county treasurer of said county for payment in accordance with any such resolution and notice, or at maturity in the absence of such resolution and notice, all interest thereon shall thereupon immediately cease.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners of said county is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, and to sell the same, in such amount or amounts and at such time or times, either with or without notice, as it shall deem for the best interests of the county and as the moneys derived from the sale thereof may be required in order to carry out the purposes of this act; provided, that no bond shall be sold for less than its par value plus the amount of accrued interest thereon at the time of sale.

      Sec. 4.  Before delivery thereof said bonds shall be registered by the county treasurer in a book kept for that purpose in his office, which shall show the amount, the place and time of payment, and the rate of interest; and said bonds shall bear the certificate of the county treasurer to the effect that they are issued and registered under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 5.  All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer, who is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created, to be known as the “Reclamation Fund,” and to pay out said moneys upon the order of the board of county commissioners for the purposes specified in this act.

      Sec. 6.  The board of county commissioners of said county is hereby authorized to use the moneys derived from the sale of said bonds, or such portion thereof as they may deem advisable, in assisting bona-fide owners and entrymen of agricultural lands in said county in the leveling of such lands and in placing the same under cultivation, under such regulations as said board may adopt in conformity with the spirit of this act.

agricultural lands in said county in the leveling of such lands and in placing the same under cultivation, under such regulations as said board may adopt in conformity with the spirit of this act. Such assistance shall be in the nature of loans made to such owners and entrymen from said “Reclamation Fund,” and the said board is hereby authorized and required in every case where such loan is made to secure the repayment thereof by a first lien for the amount of such loan upon the land embraced within the farm unit or legal subdivision in which the land so to be leveled and placed under cultivation, as specified in the application for such loan, is situated; provided, that such loans may be made upon lands against which there may exist unpaid “construction” charges for irrigation or drainage under a United States reclamation project or an irrigation or drainage district, in case the lien of Churchill County therefor upon such premises shall be coextensive and coincident with the lien for such unpaid “construction” charges, to the end that neither shall have precedence or priority over the other.

      Sec. 7.  No loan shall be made from said “Reclamation Fund” except for the purpose of placing under cultivation lands not leveled at the time of making application for such loan, nor shall any loan be made in an amount exceeding the cost of leveling such lands, and the amount which may be loaned for leveling any one acre shall not exceed fifty dollars; provided, that upon the unanimous vote of the members of the board of county commissioners, in the case of lands unusually difficult to level and which, when leveled and placed under cultivation, will in the judgment of the board be of exceptional value, such loans may be made in an amount not to exceed seventy-five dollars per acre. No money shall be advanced upon any application for a loan hereunder until the land specified therein shall have been leveled and seeded nor until it shall have been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the board that it can be properly irrigated and that all work in connection with the land has been performed in conformity with the general scheme of reclamation, irrigation and drainage obtaining in the district in which such land is situated.

      Sec. 8.  In making loans under the provisions of this act, and in providing for the repayment of the same, the board of county commissioners may proceed independently or in cooperation with the United States or the State of Nevada, and reimbursement of all loans shall be upon such plan or by such method as the board may adopt, and at such time or times as the board may require. The moneys so loaned shall be repaid in annual installments, commencing at a time to be fixed by the board, but not later than July 1, 1923, and the whole amount thereof shall mature and be paid as the board may direct, but in any event prior to July 1, 1938.

Purpose of said bonds to assist entrymen in leveling and placing land under cultivation

Loans secured by first lien

Proviso

Loans limited to $50 per acre

Exception; $75 maximum

Further conditions

Method of procedure; all loans must be repaid by July 1, 1938

Annual special assessments and taxes

Certain funds established

Duties of county commissioners regarding loans

      Sec. 9.  Whenever any bonds shall be issued in pursuance of the provisions of this act, such bonds shall constitute a lien upon all the taxable property of the said county of Churchill, and the board of county commissioners shall annually order special assessments to be levied, assessed and collected against each and every tract and parcel of land upon the security of which any loan or loans hereunder shall have been made, at the time and in the manner that other taxes are levied, assessed and collected, sufficient to cover the annual installments of principal or interest or both due on all outstanding loans theretofore made thereon under the provisions of this act as they become due and payable until such loans shall have been fully paid; and for a failure to pay the same the property against which any such special assessment shall have been so levied or assessed shall be subject to sale at the same time, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as for failure to pay other county taxes. No property shall be discharged from any lien imposed upon the same by virtue of any loan made under the provisions of this act until such loan shall have been fully paid.

      Sec. 10.  All moneys received by the county in the course of the repayment of loans made or of the collection of taxes assessed under the provisions of this act shall be by the county treasurer kept in a fund hereby created, to be known as the “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund,” and the county treasurer shall cause the interest on said bonds to be always promptly paid from said fund upon the surrender of the interest coupons to him as they severally become due, and shall pass to the credit of the “Reclamation Expense Fund” the moneys belonging therein as provided in section 11 of this act; and whenever there shall be a surplus then remaining in said fund in excess of the amount required for the payment of interest on said bonds, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to order the redemption and payment of so many of said bonds as the amount of the surplus in said fund shall permit, in the manner provided in section 2 of this act.

      Sec. 11.  For the purpose of securing moneys for the payment of the necessary expenses in connection with said loans and for other things which in the judgment of the board may be required in carrying out the purposes of this act, as well as for the reimbursement of said county for the amount of any interest which it may be required to pay on said bonds at times when any part of the proceeds of such bonds shall not have been drawing interest, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to charge and collect on said loans a rate of interest not in excess of five per centum per annum; and a sum equal to the difference between the amount of interest paid and accrued upon the bonds issued and sold hereunder, on the one hand, and the amount of interest earned by said loans, taking into consideration the amount of such loans, the time which the same shall have run and the rate of interest charged thereupon, on the other hand, shall be available for the purposes aforesaid.

such loans, the time which the same shall have run and the rate of interest charged thereupon, on the other hand, shall be available for the purposes aforesaid. The board of county commissioners may also require every applicant for a loan hereunder to pay an application fee of not to exceed two per centum of the amount of the loan for which application is made, and may retain from such fee two per centum of the amount of any loan made thereunder or in any event one-half of the amount of such application fee; and the amount of all such application fees so retained shall likewise be available for the purposes in this section above mentioned. For the purpose of paying the initial expenses of carrying this act into effect, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to appropriate not to exceed five hundred dollars from the general fund of said county, which shall be repaid to said general county fund as soon as there shall be sufficient moneys therefor which may be available for the payment of the expenses aforesaid and not otherwise required. The board shall require the moneys available for the purposes aforesaid to be kept in a fund separate and distinct from other county moneys, to be known as the “Reclamation Expense Fund,” and no such expenses shall be paid or incurred in excess of the amounts authorized by this section or of the amount of the balance which may be on hand in said “Reclamation Expense Fund”; and should there at any time be a surplus remaining in said fund it shall be transferred to the “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund” and in such event subsequent special assessments as provided for in section 9 of this act may be proportionately reduced in amount by virtue thereof.

      Sec. 12.  It shall be the duty of all public officers of Churchill County to perform such services in connection with the carrying out of the purposes of this act as the board of county commissioners may direct, without further compensation than is now or may hereafter be provided by law in connection with their respective offices; and, subject to the provisions of section 11 of this act, the board of county commissioners may appoint and fix the compensation of such additional engineers, appraisers and other employees, and may incur such other expenses as in their judgment may be required to carry out the purposes of this act, all of which shall be payable only out of said “Reclamation Expense Fund.”

      Sec. 13.  The board of county commissioners is hereby further authorized, in connection with its procedure under section 9 of this act, and to the same extent, in the same manner and with like effect at the request of the United States or of the State of Nevada, to undertake the collection of any and all unpaid “construction” charges referred to in section 6 hereof, or of the amount of any and all loans made in cooperation with said board under the provisions of this act, under such regulations as the board may adopt governing the same.

Duties of county commissioners regarding loans

Duties of Churchill County officers

To collect for U. S., when

State boards and commissions may purchase said bonds

General authority of county commissioners

Special annual ad valorem tax

Proviso

County treasurer liable

Faith of state pledged

Transfers authorized

of this act, under such regulations as the board may adopt governing the same.

      Sec. 14.  Any and every board and commission of the State of Nevada now existing or which may hereafter be created, charged with authority to loan or invest public moneys, is hereby authorized to purchase at par plus accrued interest all or any part of the said bonds, using therefor any of such moneys not otherwise appropriated or reserved.

      Sec. 15.  The board of county commissioners of said county is hereby authorized to perform such acts and make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or proper to carry this act into full force and effect.

      Sec. 16.  The board of county commissioners shall annually levy and assess on all the taxable property of said county, including net proceeds of mines, a special ad valorem tax for such amount as shall be necessary or sufficient to pay the interest semiannually as it shall accrue on each and every bond issued under the provisions of this act and also to pay the principal of such bonds as they severally become due, until all of said bonds with the interest shall have been fully paid. Such tax shall be levied, assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied, assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in the said “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund” and the same shall be paid out as hereinbefore provided in this act for payment from said fund; provided, however, that all money in said “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund” shall first be appropriated and used for paying and discharging the principal and interest on said bonds and that no such ad valorem tax shall be so levied in any year when, at the time of levying taxes in such year, there shall be in said “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund” sufficient moneys available for the payment of all principal and interest which may become due before taxes for a future year would be due and payable.

      Sec. 17.  The county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe-keeping of the moneys which shall come into his possession under the provisions of this act and for the faithful discharge of all his duties hereunder.

      Sec. 18.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act provided.

      Sec. 19.  The board of county commissioners may at any time and from time to time transfer such moneys as they may see fit from the “Reclamation Fund” to the “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund”; and should any moneys remain in said “Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund” after payment of all of said bonds, the county treasurer shall without delay pass the same to the credit of the general fund of said county.

out delay pass the same to the credit of the general fund of said county.

      Sec. 20.  The board of county commissioners may make such arrangements as may be proper for the payment of interest which may become payable on said bonds prior to the time when the same may be collected by taxes levied and assessed as hereinbefore provided, and in the absence of other arrangements may pay the same or any part thereof out of the general county fund.

Payment of interest provided for

Chap. 205–An Act to amend section 8 of an act entitled “An act concerning juries,” approved March 5, 1873, and as amended and approved March 14, 1879, and February 8, 1881, and March 16, 1915, being section 4931 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 8 of the above-entitled act, being section 4931 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 8.  It shall be the duty of the district judge and any one of the county commissioners of the county, as often as the public interest may require, to select from the qualified jurors of the county (whether their names are or are not upon the list selected by the board of county commissioners) twenty-four persons who shall be summoned to appear as grand jurors at such time as the judge may order; provided, that if the district judge deems proper he may direct any one of the county commissioners of the county and the clerk to select the grand jurors, and such county commissioner and clerk, if the judge so directs, shall select from the said qualified jurors twenty-four persons as grand jurors. If the judge directs the grand jurors to be selected by one of the county commissioners and the clerk, the judge must make and file with the clerk an order designating the name of such county commissioner, and the judge shall in said order fix the time when said grand jurors shall be required to appear; and if from any cause such county commissioner and clerk should fail to select the grand jurors, the judge and any one of the county commissioners may, at any time, select the same. A list of the names so selected as grand jurors shall be made out and certified by the officers making such selection and be filed in the clerk’s office, and the clerk shall immediately issue a venire, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon the persons so drawn as grand jurors to attend in court at such time as the judge may have directed; and the sheriff shall summon such grand jurors, and out of the number so summoned the court shall select seventeen persons to constitute the grand jury.

Amending jury law

Mode of selecting grand jury

County clerk and county commissioner selects 24 names for grand jurors

District judge selects 17 for grand jury

Legal service of summons defined

jurors to attend in court at such time as the judge may have directed; and the sheriff shall summon such grand jurors, and out of the number so summoned the court shall select seventeen persons to constitute the grand jury. If from any cause a sufficient number do not appear, or those who appear are excused or discharged, an additional number, sufficient to complete the grand jury, shall be selected from the said qualified jurors by the judge and clerk and summoned to appear in court at such time as the court may direct. Any person named in such venire, who resides elsewhere than at the place at which the court is held, shall be served by the sheriff mailing a summons to such person commanding him to attend as a juror at a time and place designated therein, which summons shall be registered and deposited in the postoffice, addressed to such person at his usual postoffice address. And the receipt of the person so addressed for such registered summons shall be regarded as personal service of such summons upon such person and no mileage shall be allowed for the service of such person. The postage and registry fee shall be paid by the sheriff and allowed him as other claims against the county.

Directors of state orphans’ home may discharge or apprentice children

Chap. 206–An Act to amend sections nine, eleven, twelve, and thirteen of an act entitled “An act for the government and maintenance of the state orphans’ home,” approved March 1, 1873, as amended March 3, 1887, as amended March 9, 1903, as amended March 25, 1913, as amended March 26, 1915.

[Approved March 29, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Sec. 1.  Section eleven of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Whenever said board shall deem it for the best interests of any child in said home, or of the state, they may discharge any child therein; and they are hereby empowered, whenever they may deem it meet and proper, to apprentice any child in said home to the head of any family, or to any person carrying on a useful and proper business; but in all such indentures of apprenticeship the board shall reserve the power to themselves at any time to cancel the same, and reclaim said child to the home whenever, in their judgment, the best interest of said child and the state shall demand.

      Sec. 2.  Section twelve of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 12.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the board of directors, at their discretion, from receiving any dependent or neglected child or children, when committed to the state orphans’ home as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that the state orphans’ home is hereby organized as a home for dependent and neglected children, who shall be subject to all the conditions of the act of March 24, 1909, relating to dependent and neglected children in addition to the other purposes for which the institution is established; and the board of directors are authorized and required to receive such dependent and neglected children as may be committed to the care of said institution.

any dependent or neglected child or children, when committed to the state orphans’ home as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that the state orphans’ home is hereby organized as a home for dependent and neglected children, who shall be subject to all the conditions of the act of March 24, 1909, relating to dependent and neglected children in addition to the other purposes for which the institution is established; and the board of directors are authorized and required to receive such dependent and neglected children as may be committed to the care of said institution.

      Sec. 3.  Section thirteen of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 13.  Children admitted to the state orphans’ home under the provisions of section twelve of this act, as amended, are hereby declared and adjudged to be wards of the state as fully as whole orphans; provided, that no child shall be received by the board of directors unless committed by the district court of the county in which such child resides; provided further, that if the district judge is absent from the county, or from any cause is unable to act when an application is made for the commitment of any dependent or neglected child to the orphans’ home, the county commissioners are hereby authorized to commit such child to said orphans’ home; but any such commitment by any board of county commissioners is subject to review by the district court of the county from which such children were committed; provided further, that the expenses, transportation, and maintenance of such children, when committed to this institution by any district court or board of county commissioners of the state, shall become a charge against the county from which such children are committed, such charge for maintenance to be a reasonable rate to be fixed from time to time by the board of directors of said orphans’ home; provided, that such rate shall not be less than one-half of the cost of such maintenance by the state; provided, that the district court, in its discretion, may order the parent, parents, guardian or guardians to reimburse the said county for the amount of the maintenance of such child or children in said orphans’ home as fixed by the board of directors thereof; and provided further, that no child who is idiotic or who has any contagious disease shall be committed or received by the board of directors of said institution, but all children must be subject to a mental and physical examination under the direction of the board of directors.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect from and after its approval.

Any dependent or neglected child may be admitted to home by directors

State’s wards

Must be committed by district judge

County commissioners may act, when

Certain expenses charge against the county

County to pay, when

Parents or guardians to reimburse county, when

Certain children denied entrance

In effect

Ormsby County bonds, $15,000, to acquire site for Nevada heroes memorial building

Denomination of bonds; interest; redemption

County commissioners to prepare bonds

Special county tax

Chap. 207–An Act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Ormsby County to issue negotiable coupon bonds for the purpose of purchasing a site on the main street of Carson City adjacent to the capitol, and to deed such site to the State of Nevada for the erection thereon of a building to be known as Nevada heroes memorial building, and providing for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonded indebtedness, and other matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county commissioners of Ormsby County are hereby authorized and empowered to issue negotiable coupon bonds of such county to the extent of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of purchasing a site on the main street of Carson City adjacent to the capitol, and to thereafter, upon payment of ten dollars, deed said site to the State of Nevada, free and clear of all incumbrances, for the erection of a building to be known as Nevada heroes memorial building.

      Sec. 2.  Such bonds shall be issued in denominations of five hundred dollars each, and each and every bond so issued shall promise in substance that the county of Ormsby, State of Nevada, owes to and will pay at the maturity of such bond to the holder thereof the sum expressed therein, and each of said bonds shall bear interest at the rate not exceeding six per cent per annum. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States, except as hereinafter provided, six years from and after the date of the issuance of said bonds, and shall be payable upon presentation thereof and of said interest coupons at the office of the county treasurer of said Ormsby County, Nevada.

      Sec. 3.  The county commissioners of said Ormsby County shall prepare the bonds authorized to be issued under this act, which shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county auditor, and authenticated with the seal of the county clerk. There shall be attached to each of said bonds interest coupons numbered consecutively and bearing interest at the rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable annually on the first Monday of January of each year from and after the year of the issuance of said bonds; and said coupons shall express the promise of said county to pay the amount specified in the coupon at the date of the maturity thereof, in lawful money of the United States.

      Sec. 4.  In addition to the other taxes which shall be levied, the county commissioners of Ormsby County shall, for the year 1919, and annually thereafter until the principal and interest of said bonds shall be fully paid, cause to be levied and collected at the time and in the manner provided by law for the levying and collection of taxes for county purposes, a special tax upon all of the taxable property in said county, in an amount sufficient to enable the treasurer of said county to pay annually two thousand five hundred dollars of said bonds, and said bonds shall be retired in the order in which the same shall be issued.

be levied and collected at the time and in the manner provided by law for the levying and collection of taxes for county purposes, a special tax upon all of the taxable property in said county, in an amount sufficient to enable the treasurer of said county to pay annually two thousand five hundred dollars of said bonds, and said bonds shall be retired in the order in which the same shall be issued. Such special tax as herein provided for shall also be levied and collected in an amount sufficient to pay the interest due upon the bonds issued under the terms and provisions of this act, and to pay the interest upon the bonds to be retired annually as herein provided. Each of said bonds issued hereunder shall be consecutively numbered and shall bear date July 1, 1919.

      Sec. 5.  The board of county commissioners of Ormsby County may, in the discretion of such board, sell any of the bonds herein provided for, for cash, by causing a notice of the sale of said bonds to be published once each week for a period of four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation, published in said Ormsby County; such notice shall describe the bonds proposed to be sold and shall call for sealed bids to be filed with such board of county commissioners on or before the day specified in said notice, at which time said bids, if any, shall be received, shall be opened and the bonds sold to the highest and best bidder therefor, for cash; provided, that none of said bonds shall be sold at less than the par value thereof; and provided further, that in the event said bonds, or any thereof, are not sold at public sale, as hereinabove provided, then the board of county commissioners is authorized to sell said bonds or so much thereof in amount as it deems best at private sale, for not less than the par value thereof. Said board is hereby authorized to reject any or all bids filed for the purchase of said bonds, and to require a deposit to be made in the manner provided for by it as a part of, and accompanying, each bid.

      Sec. 6.  Upon the payment of the bonds authorized to be issued under the terms and provisions of this act, the county treasurer of Ormsby County shall cancel all of said bonds paid or retired, and shall write or stamp across the face thereof, and across the face of each of the interest coupons thereto attached and paid, the word “Canceled,” and said county treasurer is further directed to write or stamp across any of the coupons paid the said word.

      Sec. 7.  The proceeds of any sale of any of the bonds authorized to be issued shall be used exclusively for the purchase of a site on the main street of Carson City adjacent to the capitol, and the board of county commissioners of Ormsby County shall not use any part of the proceeds thereof for any other purpose or purposes whatsoever; provided, that the said board is authorized to pay the cost of the preparation, sale or issuance of the said bonds out of the general county fund, if the cost thereof does not exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars.

Bonds dated July 1, 1919

Sale of bonds to be advertised

Provisos

All bids may be rejected

County treasurer to pay and cancel bonds

Site to be on main street of Carson City

“Site” defined

County treasurer to register bonds

Faith of state pledged

the general county fund, if the cost thereof does not exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars. The word “site,” as used herein, includes not only the vacant ground but also any building or buildings thereon; and for the purpose of acquiring such site the county commissioners of Ormsby County may, if necessary in their judgment, resort to condemnation proceedings.

      Sec. 8.  The county treasurer of Ormsby County shall provide and keep a suitable book in his office in which shall be registered the number and amount of the bonds issued under this act, the date of the sale of said bonds, the number and amount of bonds sold, and to whom said sale was made, the date of maturity of said bonds and the date of their payment and cancelation.

      Sec. 9.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed omitted, until the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Concerning marriage licenses

Chap. 208–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act relating to marriage and divorce,” approved November 28, 1861.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 5 of “An act relating to marriage and divorce,” approved November 28, 1861, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 5.  Previous to persons being joined in marriage, a license shall be obtained for that purpose from the county clerk of the county where the persons, or one of them, intending to be married, reside (or in case the persons intending to be married do not reside in this state, then from any county clerk in the state). The county clerk may inquire of the party applying for marriage license upon oath or affirmation relative to the legality of such contemplated marriage; and if the clerk shall be satisfied that there is no legal impediment thereto, then he shall grant such marriage license and if any of the persons intending to marry shall be under age and shall not have been previously married, the consent of the parent or guardian shall be personally given before the clerk, or certified under the hand of such parent or guardian, attested by two witnesses, one of whom shall appear before said clerk and make oath that he saw the parent or guardian, whose name is annexed to such certificate subscribed, or heard him or her acknowledge the same, whereupon the clerk is authorized to issue and sign such license, affixing thereto the seal of the county.

county. The clerk shall be entitled to receive as his fee for issuing the license the sum of one dollar, and if any clerk shall in any other manner issue or sign any marriage license he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars to and for the use of the party aggrieved. The clerk shall also at the time of issuing such license collect the sum of one dollar and pay the same over to the county recorder as his fee for recording the certificate named in section 8.

      And said license shall be substantially in the following form:

                                                        MARRIAGE LICENSE

      These presents are to authorize any licensed clergyman within this state, or any district judge or justice of the peace within his district, to join in marriage.................. ....................................................................................., of .............................................

in the county of ......................................................., State of ........................................

Previously married? .............................................. Wife deceased? ..............................

Divorced? ...................... When? .................................... Where? .................................

On what grounds? ..........................................................................................................

And ...................................................................................... of .....................................

in the county of .........................................................., State of .....................................

Previously married? .............................................Husband deceased? .........................

Divorced? ...................... When? .................................... Where? .................................

On what grounds? ..........................................................................................................

and to certify the same according to law.

Witness my hand and the seal of the district court of the ...............judicial district of the State of Nevada, in and for the county of................., this.........day of.................., A. D. 19......

                                                                                             ........................................, Clerk.

        (Seal)                                                                          ..........................., Deputy Clerk.

      And it shall be the duty of the clerk, when issuing said license, to require the party applying therefor to answer under oath each of the questions contained in the said form of license, and if the party applying therefor cannot answer positively any questions with reference to the other party named in the license, it shall be the duty of the clerk to require both parties named in the license to appear before him and to answer, under oath, the questions contained in said form of license, and any person who shall make a false statement in procuring a marriage license with reference to any matter required by this section to be stated under oath shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor and punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than one year, or by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Fee for marriage licenses

Form of marriage license

Applicants to answer questions under oath

False answers perjury; penalty

Amending water law

Governor to appoint water commissioners

Duties of water commissioners

Chap. 209–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide a water law for the State of Nevada; providing a system of state control; creating the office of state engineer and other offices connected with the appropriation, distribution, and use of water; prescribing the duties and powers of the state engineer and other officers, and fixing their compensation; prescribing the duties of water users, and providing penalties for failure to perform such duties; providing for the appointment of water commissioners, defining their duties, and fixing their compensation; providing for a fee system, for the certification of records, and an official seal for the state engineer’s office; providing for an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act; and other matters properly connected therewith; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act; repealing an act to provide for the appropriation, distribution, and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer, and assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners and defining their duties,’ approved February 26, 1907; also repealing an act amendatory of a certain act entitled ‘An act to provide for the appropriation, distribution, and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer and assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties, and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners, and defining their duties,’ approved February 26, 1907, and to provide a fee system for the certification of the records of, and an official seal for, the state engineer’s office, and other matters relating thereto,” approved February 20, 1909, approved March 22, 1913, approved March 25, 1915.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 52 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 52.  There shall be appointed by the governor one or more water commissioners for each water district, who shall receive a salary, including all expenses, of not more than five dollars ($5) per day for each day actually employed on the duties herein mentioned. Such water commissioner shall execute the laws prescribed in sections 53 to 88, inclusive, of this act under the general direction of the state engineer. The salary of such water commissioner shall be paid by the water users in the district in which they shall serve. The charge against each water user shall be based upon the proportion which his water right bears to the aggregate water rights in such district as determined by the state engineer or the court; provided, however, that the minimum charge to each water user shall be one dollar.

upon the proportion which his water right bears to the aggregate water rights in such district as determined by the state engineer or the court; provided, however, that the minimum charge to each water user shall be one dollar. The state engineer shall prepare and certify a list of the owners and areas of land served by such water commissioners, together with the addresses taken from the tax-roll of said county, and transmit the same to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such water commissioners serve, and upon receipt thereof the said board shall transmit to each and every such owner a statement showing the amount due for the services so rendered. Should such property owner fail to make payment to the county treasurer within thirty days from the receipt of such statement, then such amount shall constitute a lien upon the property served by such water commissioner, and be collectible in the same manner as taxes levied against said property. Such board of county commissioners may establish a special fund for each water district within such county which shall be known as “.................... Water District Salary Fund,” and all moneys collected from the water users in any such district shall be placed in such fund so established for such district. Upon a receipt of a certified statement from the state engineer showing the number of days such commissioners were actually employed, and the amount due, the board of county commissioners shall approve such statement and authorize the auditor of such county to draw his warrant therefor against such special water district salary fund; provided, however, that no such statement shall be so approved by the board of county commissioners unless there shall be sufficient money in such fund to meet the amount thereof.

Charges, how based

Minimum charge

Defaulted payments lien on property

Water commissioners paid by county

Chap. 210–An Act to amend section two of an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of bailiffs for the district courts of the several judicial districts of this state in the counties polling forty-five hundred or more votes; defining the powers and duties of such bailiffs; fixing their compensation and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act,” approved February 24, 1909.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section two of an act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of bailiffs for the district courts of the several judicial districts of this state in the counties polling forty-five hundred or more votes; defining the powers and duties of such bailiffs; fixing their compensation and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act,” approved February 24, 1909, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Amending act providing for bailiffs in certain district courts

But one bailiff appointed by judges

When appointment made by county commissioners

parts of acts in conflict with this act,” approved February 24, 1909, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  In all judicial districts where there are more than one judge, there shall be but one bailiff to attend both divisions of the court, said bailiff to be appointed by the joint action of the two judges; provided, if the two judges cannot agree upon the appointment of the same within thirty days after the approval of this act, then the appointment shall be made by a majority of the board of county commissioners.

Citizen or prospective citizen of U. S. A. may locate claim, how

What notice of location shall contain

Chap. 211–An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act relating to the location, relocation, manner of recording lode and placer claims, millsite, tunnel rights, amount of work necessary to hold possession of mining claims and the rights of coowners therein,” approved March 16, 1897, and all subsequent amendments thereof; said section being section 2422 of the Revised Laws of Nevada of 1912.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the act specified in the title hereof is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  Any person who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become such, who discovers a vein or lode, may locate lode mining claim thereon by defining the boundaries of the claim in the manner and within the time hereinafter prescribed, and by erecting or constructing at the point of such discovery a monument of the size and character of any of the several monuments prescribed in section 2 of this act and by posting in or upon such discovery monument a notice of such location, which must contain:

      First-The name of the claim;

      Second-The name of the locator or locators;

      Third-The date of the location;

      Fourth-The number of linear feet claimed in the length along the course of the vein, each way from the point of discovery, with the width claimed on each side of the center of the vein and the general course of the lode or vein, as near as may be.

Chap. 212–An Act to provide for the transfer of certain state funds, and repealing all acts in conflict therewith.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state controller and the state treasurer are hereby directed to transfer from the Panama-Pacific exposition fund and the Panama-California exposition fund all present balances and future receipts in said funds to the general fund.

are hereby directed to transfer from the Panama-Pacific exposition fund and the Panama-California exposition fund all present balances and future receipts in said funds to the general fund.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller and state treasurer are hereby directed to transfer from the “Contingent Emergency Bond Interest and Redemption Fund” all present balances and future receipts of said fund to the state loan interest and redemption fund.

      Sec. 3.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Certain state funds transferred

Controller and treasurer to transfer certain funds

Repeal

Chap. 213–An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural and home economics extension work in the several counties in accordance with the Smith-Lever act of Congress, approved May 8, 1914; providing for the organization of county farm bureaus; for county and state cooperation in support of such work; making an annual appropriation therefor, levying a tax and for other purposes.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the State of Nevada useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture, home economics and rural welfare and to encourage the application of the same, there may be inaugurated in each of the several counties of the state extension work which shall be carried on in cooperation with the agricultural extension division, University of Nevada, established under the provisions of the Smith-Lever act of Congress, approved May 8, 1914, in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the board of directors of the county farm bureau provided for in section two of this act, and the director of agricultural extension.

      Sec. 2.  That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there may be organized in each county within the State of Nevada a corporation to be known as the county farm bureau, in the following manner: Whenever one hundred and fifty or more adult residents in any county, at least two-thirds of whom shall be certified as engaged in agriculture as owners, lessees, operators or managers of farm property or live stock, or as farm housewives, shall have effected temporary organization for doing extension work in agriculture and home economics, and shall have adopted articles of incorporation acceptable to the director of agricultural extension, they may make application to the secretary of state for incorporation under the laws of Nevada as a corporation not for profit, and when such corporation shall have been effected it shall be known as the ................... county farm bureau and shall be recognized as the official body within said county for carrying on extension work in agriculture and home economics in cooperation with said agricultural extension division; provided, that in any county wherein the total number of farms is less than one hundred as certified by the county assessor, it shall be sufficient for the purposes of this act if the number of persons required to be certified as engaged in agriculture as aforesaid shall be ten per cent greater than such total number of farms; provided further, that not more than one such bureau shall be incorporated in any county.

Promotive of cooperative and home economics extension work

Smith-Lever act

County farm bureaus authorized

How formed

Proviso

Only one bureau in each county

Financial budget for cooperative extension work

Proviso

County tax for bureau

State appropriation equal to county appropriations; limited

Conditions

within said county for carrying on extension work in agriculture and home economics in cooperation with said agricultural extension division; provided, that in any county wherein the total number of farms is less than one hundred as certified by the county assessor, it shall be sufficient for the purposes of this act if the number of persons required to be certified as engaged in agriculture as aforesaid shall be ten per cent greater than such total number of farms; provided further, that not more than one such bureau shall be incorporated in any county.

      Sec. 3.  The board of directors of the county farm bureau and the director of agricultural extension shall prepare an annual financial budget covering the county’s share of the cost of carrying on the cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics provided for in this act, together with the share of each of all other cooperating agencies; provided, that the county’s share shall not exceed a sum equal to the proceeds of one cent of the county tax rate, which, if adopted by a majority vote of said bureau at a regularly called meeting, shall be filed with the board of county commissioners of such county, which said board shall include the county’s share thereof in the budget of county expenditures for such year and shall annually, at the time of levying taxes for county purposes, levy a county tax, at a rate not exceeding one cent on each hundred dollars of taxable property, to provide such fund. The proceeds of such tax rate shall be placed in the county treasury in a fund to be known as the farm bureau fund and shall be subject to disbursement in accordance with such budget on certificates of the president and secretary of the county farm bureau approved by the board of county commissioners and paid in like manner as other county claims are paid.

      Sec. 4.  That for the purposes of state cooperation in the support of county agricultural and home economics extension work there is hereby annually appropriated, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to the total appropriations of the several counties for the support of county agricultural and home economics extension work as provided in section three of this act, but shall not be greater in any year than the proceeds of one cent of the state tax rate, and which said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be subject to disbursement in accordance with the state’s share of the cost of cooperative agricultural and home economics extension work in each of the several counties as stated in the annual financial budget mentioned in section three of this act, and not exceeding in any county the amount of county funds so appropriated, on certificates of the president and secretary of such farm bureau and the board of regents, University of Nevada, approved by the state board of examiners, when the state controller shall draw his warrant and the state treasurer pay the same; provided, that a certified copy of each such cooperative county budget shall be filed with the board of regents, the state board of examiners and the state controller within ten days after date of filing with the board of county commissioners.

the same; provided, that a certified copy of each such cooperative county budget shall be filed with the board of regents, the state board of examiners and the state controller within ten days after date of filing with the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 5.  Necessary modification of any annual budget provided in section three of this act, involving county or state funds, due to leave of absence without pay, resignation, dismissal or employment of any cooperative agent or appointee, or to other causes, not involving increase in the total of expenditures provided from state or county funds, and consistent with the purposes of this act, may be made by filing with the board of county commissioners and the county auditor, when affecting county funds, and with the state board of examiners and the state controller when affecting state funds, a revised budget approved and certified to by the executive committee of the county farm bureau and the director of agricultural extension.

      Sec. 6.  It shall be the duty of each said county farm bureau annually on or before January 1, to present its plans for extension work for the ensuing year and to render to both the agricultural extension division and the board of county commissioners a full and detailed report of its extension activities for the preceding fiscal year, including a detailed report of its receipts and expenditures from all sources, on such forms as may be prescribed by the agricultural extension division; provided, that for the year 1919 any farm bureau duly organized as provided in section two of this act may submit its cooperative budget for such year to the board of county commissioners not later than the third Monday in March.

      Sec. 7.  Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting any appropriation made in support of agricultural extension as a part of the public service division of the University of Nevada, in respect to the cost of administration, employment of state leaders and specialists and other purposes incident to state-wide and county supervision and cooperation in extension work.

Proviso

Revised budget, when

Farm bureaus to report and present plans annually

Proviso

Act not to affect university public service appropriation

Chap. 214–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate the herding or grazing of the live stock of certain nonresidents and of certain corporations upon unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, and fixing a penalty for any violation of any provision of this act,” approved ..........................................................

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of an act entitled “An act to regulate the herding or grazing of the live stock of certain nonresidents and of certain corporations upon unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, and fixing a penalty for any violation of any provision of this act,”

Concerning live stock of nonresidents

Nonresident owning no land to procure license from sheriff for grazing in Nevada

Proviso

Conditions precedent to granting of license

late the herding or grazing of the live stock of certain nonresidents and of certain corporations upon unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, and fixing a penalty for any violation of any provision of this act,” approved......................................, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person or for any corporation who or which does not have his or its principal home ranch and livestock headquarters in the State of Nevada, except as herein provided, to herd or graze, or cause to be herded or grazed, upon any unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, any sheep or bovine cattle without having first obtained from the sheriff of a county in which such herding or grazing, or some portion thereof is done, a valid license authorizing such herding and grazing in the State of Nevada. Such license shall be issued by said sheriff to and in the name of such person or corporation upon compliance by him or it with the provisions of section 2 of this act and shall be valid only for the calendar year in which it is dated; provided, that any person or any corporation which does not have its principal home ranch and livestock headquarters in the State of Nevada, owning in fee simple land in the State of Nevada, shall be exempt from any license or the payment of any license for five (5) head of sheep for each acre so owned and three (3) head of bovine cattle for each acre so owned.

      Sec. 2.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 2.  As conditions precedent to the issuance of said license, the applicant therefor shall:

      1.  File with said sheriff an affidavit which shall explicitly and truly state the following facts:

      (a) If the applicant is a nonresident person, his name and place of residence; or, if the applicant is a corporation, its name, the state and date of its incorporation, its principal place of business, and the names and addresses of its officers.

      (b) The location of his or its principal home ranch and livestock headquarters.

      (c) The number of acres of land owned in fee simple in the State of Nevada, together with a description thereof.

      2.  Pay to said sheriff the sum of fifty cents a head for each of the sheep and the sum of two dollars a head for each of the bovine cattle proposed to be herded or grazed in the State of Nevada, after deducting the number of sheep and bovine cattle as exempt from payment of said tax.

Chap. 215–An Act to purchase a lot for the use of the Nevada historical society, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

      Whereas, The Nevada historical society has outgrown the building provided for by appropriation of $5,000 by legislative act of March 28, 1911; and

building provided for by appropriation of $5,000 by legislative act of March 28, 1911; and

      Whereas, The Nevada historical society has accumulated a large quantity of priceless historical documents and other material for the safe-keeping of which a fireproof and waterproof building is necessary; and

      Whereas, The Nevada historical society proposes to obtain from private sources money with which to erect a fireproof and waterproof building on said lot; now, therefore,

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The State of Nevada shall purchase for the use of Nevada historical society, at a price not to exceed twenty-six hundred dollars ($2,600), the property adjoining the Nevada historical society building in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, and described as follows:

      Commencing at the point of intersection of the easterly line of North Center street with the southerly line of Ninth street, running thence easterly along southerly line of Ninth street one hundred feet; thence southerly and parallel with the easterly line of North Center street seventy feet; thence westerly and parallel with the southerly line of Ninth street one hundred feet more or less to the easterly line of North Center street; thence northerly along the easterly line of North Center street seventy feet more or less to the point of beginning.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of twenty-six hundred dollars ($2,600) is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys of the general fund in the Nevada state treasury not otherwise appropriated; provided, that under no circumstances shall the State of Nevada reimburse or be requested to reimburse any person or persons for any contribution or expense connected with the erection of the building so to be erected on said lot.

      Sec. 3.  All claims or demands upon this fund shall be audited and paid as other claims against the state.

Preamble

New historical building necessary

Private donations to erect building

Lot for extension of Nevada historical society building

Description of lot

Appropriation, $2,600

Proviso

Claims paid

Chap. 216–An Act to amend sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled “An act regulating the use of marks and brands of stock, and the recording thereof, and providing penalties for the violation thereof and repealing all acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 20, 1909.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association, copartnership or corporation to have a brand and mark stock therewith, which brand is similar in form and design to, or a modification of, any brand or mark recorded prior thereto, in accordance with the laws now in effect regulating the recording of marks and brands of stock.

Unlawful to imitate brand of stock owner

Same

firm, association, copartnership or corporation to have a brand and mark stock therewith, which brand is similar in form and design to, or a modification of, any brand or mark recorded prior thereto, in accordance with the laws now in effect regulating the recording of marks and brands of stock.

      Sec. 2.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association, copartnership or corporation to mark and brand stock with a brand similar in form and design to, or a modification of, any prior recorded brand.

All insurance business to be transacted with resident agents

Provisos

Railroads and property in transit exempt

Chap. 217–An Act further regulating fire insurance companies, and providing a penalty for violation of the provisions of section 1a of this act and to amend an act entitled “An act relative to reinsurance and the transaction of business by fire insurance companies or associations otherwise than through resident agents,” approved March 6, 1901.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act, being section 1304, Revised Laws, 1912, shall be amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any insurance company admitted to do business in this state to write, place, or cause to be written or placed, any policy of insurance covering property located in this state except through or by a duly authorized licensed agent of such company, residing and doing business in this state; provided, that where the insured calls at the principal office of the company and requests a policy, the risk may be covered, and the policy procured through the duly authorized agent in the territory wherein the risk is located; and provided further, that a nonresident special agent, representing a company licensed by this state, may work with and assist local agents in this state in writing business, but in all cases the local agent is to retain his full commission; provided, that nothing in this act shall be considered as prohibiting duly licensed resident agents from exchanging with each other, any lines of insurance business for which such agent is licensed, and paying or dividing commissions on business so exchanged. The license of any insurance company or agent, who violates the provisions of this section, shall be revoked and no license shall be issued to such company or agent for one year from the date of the revocation of the license; provided, that this section shall not apply to direct insurance covering rolling stock of railroad corporations, or property in transit, while in the possession and custody of railroad corporations or other common carriers.

in the possession and custody of railroad corporations or other common carriers.

      Section 1a.  Every fire insurance company, before it shall receive a license or a renewal of a license to transact the business of making insurance as an insurer in this state, must file or cause to be filed in the office of the insurance commissioner its special, specific and tariff rates. Every such company and its agents shall observe its rates so filed, and shall not deviate therefrom when making insurance until amended or corrected rates shall have been filed in the office of the insurance commissioner. Any fire insurance company knowingly failing to observe and follow its said rate may be precluded from transacting any business in this state for a period of one year by the revocation of its license by the insurance commissioner; provided, that any insurance company charged with a violation of this section shall, before any fine is imposed or its license revoked, be notified in writing by the insurance commissioner of the charges in detail preferred against it, and said notice shall provide a reasonable time, not less than five nor more than twenty days, within which such company may appear before the insurance commissioner and present evidence and be heard in its own behalf; provided further, that such company may appeal to a court of competent jurisdiction from the order of the insurance commissioner revoking its license, and pending the determination of such appeal such revocation shall be suspended.

Fire insurance company must file rates with insurance commissioner

Said rates must be observed

Provisos

Chap. 218–An Act to amend section 6 of an act entitled “An act providing for the incorporation of domestic building and loan associations, the licensing of foreign building and loan associations, the examination and regulation of all building and loan associations doing business in this state by the state bank examiner, and other matters properly connected therewith, and repealing a certain act,” approved March 24, 1915.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 6 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 6.  It shall be unlawful for any building and loan association, not organized under the laws of this state, to transact business in this state unless such association or company shall have first complied with the statutes of this state relating to foreign corporations, and shall have submitted a statement of its condition and affairs, subscribed and sworn to by the manager or an officer of the company, showing:

Foreign building and loan association to file sworn statement

What statement must show

What constitutes doing business in this state

Certificate to issue, when

      1.  The amount of authorized capital, and the par value of each share;

      2.  The number of shares sold during the year;

      3.  The number of shares canceled and withdrawn during the preceding year;

      4.  A statement of receipts and disbursements during the preceding year;

      5.  Salaries paid each of its officers;

      6.  A statement of its assets and liabilities at the end of the year, and the nature thereof in general terms;

      7.  Any other fact which the bank examiner may require.

      Any building and loan association not organized under the laws of this state which sells stock or certificates, bonds, debentures, contracts, or other securities within this state, or receives from persons residing within this state payments upon stock, certificates or other securities heretofore sold, shall be construed as doing business within this state and shall come under the provisions of this act.

      Upon receipt of all such instruments as are required, and the filing thereof, the secretary of state, upon the recommendation of the state bank examiner, shall issue a certificate authorizing such corporation to do business in this state.

Banks to make at least four reports each year

What reports shall show

Bank’s report published in newspaper

Special reports, when

Chap. 219–An Act to amend section 21 of an act entitled “An act to regulate banking and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 22, 1911.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 21 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 21.  Every bank shall make at least four reports each year, and oftener if called upon, to the bank examiner, according to the forms which may be prescribed by him verified by the oath or affirmation of its president, vice-president, or cashier, and attested by the signatures of at least two of the directors. Each report shall exhibit in detail and under the appropriate heads, the resources and liabilities of such bank at the close of business on any past day specified by the bank examiner, and shall be transmitted to him within ten days after the receipt of a request or requisition therefor by him, and shall be published in condensed form according to his requirements, within ten days after same is made, in a newspaper published in the county in which such bank is established, for one insertion at the expense of the bank, and such proof of publication shall be furnished within five days after the date of publication, as may be required by the bank examiner. The bank examiner shall also have power to call for special reports, which need not be published, from any bank, whenever, in his judgment, the same is necessary, in order to gain a full and complete knowledge of its condition; provided, the reports authorized and required by this section, to be called for by the bank examiner, shall relate to a date prior to the date of such call to be specified therein; and provided further, the prior date specified by the bank examiner for reports, other than special reports, shall be the day designated by the comptroller of the currency of the United States for reports of national banking associations.

bank, whenever, in his judgment, the same is necessary, in order to gain a full and complete knowledge of its condition; provided, the reports authorized and required by this section, to be called for by the bank examiner, shall relate to a date prior to the date of such call to be specified therein; and provided further, the prior date specified by the bank examiner for reports, other than special reports, shall be the day designated by the comptroller of the currency of the United States for reports of national banking associations.

Provisos

Chap. 220–An Act to provide compensation of township officers and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of each county, during the month of July of any year in which an election of township officers is held, shall fix the compensation of such officers for the ensuing term, and which shall be a salary or the fees as now allowed to such officers by existing enactments or as shall be fixed by subsequent enactments, and in case of failure of said boards to fix such compensation as above provided, then the compensation of such officers shall be the same as received by their immediate predecessors in office.

      Sec. 2.  All acts or parts of acts, either general or special, in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

County commissioners to fix compensation of township officers

Conflicting act repealed

Chap. 221–An Act to provide for the erection, furnishing and equipment of a manual-training building for the White Pine County high school in the city of Ely, State of Nevada, and for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the erection, furnishing and equipment of said building.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, for the purpose of creating a fund for the erection, furnishing and equipping of a building, to be known as the “Manual-Training Building of the White Pine County High School,” in the city of Ely, in said county, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to issue and sell negotiable coupon high-school manual-training building bonds of said county to an amount aggregating the principal sum of thirty thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be sixty in number, numbered consecutively from one to sixty, both inclusive, of the denomination of five hundred dollars each.

Bonds of White Pine County, $30,000, for manual-training building for county high school

Semiannual interest

Form of bond

sixty in number, numbered consecutively from one to sixty, both inclusive, of the denomination of five hundred dollars each. They shall bear interest from their date until paid at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the first days of January and July, respectively, in each year, and each semiannual installment of interest on each bond shall be evidenced upon appropriate coupon, so attached to said bond that it may be removed without injury to the bond. Each of said bonds and coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and countersigned by the county treasurer, and each bond shall be authenticated by having the seal of the county impressed thereon. Both the interest on and the principal of said bonds shall be payable at a place to be designated in said bonds, in gold coin of the United States of America, of or equal to the present standard of weight and fineness.

      Sec. 2.  Each of said bonds, and each of the interest coupons to be attached thereto, shall be substantially in the following forms, respectively, to wit:

(Form of Bond)

                                                   United States of America                                 No..........

State of Nevada, County of White Pine

COUNTY HIGH-SCHOOL MANUAL-TRAINING

BUILDING BOND

      The County of White Pine, in the State of Nevada, acknowledges itself to owe, and for value received hereby promises to pay, to the bearer hereof, the principal sum of five hundred dollars, on the ............ day of .................................., 19......, with interest thereon from the date hereof until paid, at the rate of six per centum per annum, such interest payable semiannually on the first days of January and July, respectively, in each year, as evidenced by and upon presentation and surrender of the interest coupon hereto attached as they severally become due; and both the interest and principal of this bond are hereby made payable in gold coin of the United States of America, of or equal to the present standard of weight and fineness, at ..........................., in the city of ..............................., State of ................................, U. S. A.; and for the prompt payment of this bond, with interest thereon as aforesaid, when due, the full faith, credit and resources, and all the taxable property of said county are hereby irrevocably pledged.

      This bond is one of a series of sixty bonds of like date, tenor and amount issued by said county under and in compliance with the constitution of the State of Nevada and of an act of the legislature of said state passed at its twenty-ninth session, entitled “An act to provide for the erection, furnishing and equipment of a manual-training building for the White Pine County high school in the city of Ely, State of Nevada, and for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the erection, furnishing and equipment of said building,”

Nevada, and for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the erection, furnishing and equipment of said building,” approved March ........., 1919, and all other laws and authority thereunto enabling.

      And it is hereby certified and warranted that said county is duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the constitution and laws of the State of Nevada, and that the board of county commissioners thereof is the duly constituted corporate authority of said county; that said county is duly authorized to issue this bond, and every other bond of this series, and that all conditions precedent to render the same valid and binding obligations of said county have been duly and strictly complied with and performed; that the total indebtedness of said county, including this bond and the other bonds of this series, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation, and that due provision has been made for the levy and collection of a direct annual ad valorem tax on all the taxable property of said county, in addition to all other taxes, sufficient to pay the interest accruing hereon as the same falls due, and also to discharge the principal hereof at maturity.

      In Witness Whereof, The said board of county commissioners, has caused this bond to be sealed with its seal, and together with the interest bonds hereto attached, to be signed by its chairman and countersigned by the county treasurer of said county.

                                                                                                .....................................................

                                                                   As Chairman of Board of County Commissioners.

                                                                  Countersigned by ..................................................

             (Seal)                                                                                                 County Treasurer.

No........                                                 (Form of Coupon)

      On ...................................., 19...., the county of White Pine, State of Nevada, for value received, will pay to the bearer hereof the sum of .............................. dollars, in gold coin of the United States of America, of or equal to the present standard of weight and fineness, at........................, being............... months interest then due on its county high-school manual-training building bond No........, dated ..................., 19.....

                                                                   As Chairman of Board of County Commissioners.

                                                                  Countersigned by ..................................................

County Treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The said board of county commissioners and said county treasurer shall cause the said bonds and coupons to be prepared in substantially the respective forms above set forth, and shall cause the same to be executed for and in behalf of said county in the manner aforesaid, and when so executed and sold, their legality shall not be open to contest by said county, or by any person or corporation for it or in its behalf, for any reason whatsoever.

      Sec. 4.  The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall keep a detailed and accurate record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, which record must show the number and date of each bond and to whom issued.

Form of bond

Form of coupon

Legality of bonds not to be questioned

Clerk to keep record

Bonds sold highest bidder after advertising; private sale, when

In 1920 and thereafter, four bonds redeemed annually

White Pine County high-school manual-training building fund

County commissioners to erect and equip said building

General laws to govern contracts

shall keep a detailed and accurate record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, which record must show the number and date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 5.  The board of county commissioners of White Pine County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sale or sales, as they may deem for the best interest of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States; and provided further, that the said board shall sell the bonds to the highest and best bidder or bidders in the event that they elect not to sell the same at private sale or sales.

      Sec. 6.  On the first day of January, 1920, and annually thereafter, four of such bonds, together with the interest thereon then due and unpaid, shall be paid and redeemed by said county treasurer. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of their numbers, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, then the next lowest, and so on until the whole amount of said bonds shall have been so paid and redeemed, which shall not be later than January 1, 1935.

      Sec. 7.  All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and designated as the “White Pine High-School Manual-Training Building Fund,” and to pay out said moneys in the manner now provided by law for the payment of money from the “County High-School Fund,” and only for the purposes provided for in this act.

      Sec. 8.  The county board of education of White Pine County is hereby authorized and directed to use the money derived from the sale of such bonds, or such portion thereof as they may deem necessary, for the erection, equipment and furnishing of a manual-training building for the White Pine County High School in the city of Ely, and any balance remaining in such fund after the completion, equipment and furnishing of said building shall be turned over an converted into the appropriate fund provided for the running and maintaining of said high school, in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of the law pertaining to the establishment, maintenance and management of high schools in the various counties of this state.

      Sec. 9.  Said county board of education shall determine the character of said building, the materials to be used therefor, and the plans therefor. The laws in force governing the letting of contracts by boards of county commissioners are hereby made applicable to, and the same shall govern, the action of the county board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act.

provisions of this act. All demands and bills contracted by said county board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid in the manner now provided by law for paying claims against the “County High-School Fund.”

      Sec. 10.  The county treasurer of said White Pine County shall be liable on his official bond for the safe-keeping of the money which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 11.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of said White Pine County is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect annually a special tax on all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation within the boundaries of said White Pine County, until such bonds, and the interest thereon, shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire the same as hereinabove provided, and the amount of money to be raised by such tax shall be included in the annual estimate or budget for said county for each year for which said tax is hereby required to be levied. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are levied and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund, to be known as the “White Pine County Manual-Training Building Redemption Fund.”

      Sec. 12.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in the said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of said county, be transferred to the fund for paying the contingent expenses of said county high school.

      Sec. 13.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the sum so paid.

      Sec. 14.  Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on said bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 15.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act specified.

County treasurer liable

Annual tax

Tax ceases, when

Treasurer to redeem and cancel bonds

Interest ceases, when

Faith of state pledged

Citizen stock owner exempt from grazing license to certain number of stock

Per capita grazing license for other stock owners

Provisos

Chap. 222–An Act to amend section 16 of an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 22, 1915, being chapter 178, Statutes of Nevada, 1915.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 16 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 16.  Every citizen of the State of Nevada, who may be engaged in or who may be hereafter engaged in the business of owning, raising, grazing, herding, or pasturing sheep or cattle as owner of said sheep or cattle shall be exempt from the payment of the license hereinafter provided for, to the number of one thousand (1,000) head of sheep or five hundred (500) cattle, or five hundred cattle and sheep. Subject to the above exemption, every person or citizen of the State of Nevada who may be engaged in or who may hereinafter be engaged in the business of owning, raising, grazing, herding or pasturing cattle or sheep as either owner, lessee or manager of said cattle or sheep in any county in the State of Nevada must annually procure a license therefor from the sheriff as collector of licenses of the said county and make payment therefor as follows, in advance, for each band, flock or bunch of sheep or herd of cattle as follows: Thirty-five cents (35c) per head for each sheep and one dollar ($1) on each head of cattle; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any person, persons, firm, company, association, or corporation who owns one or more acres of lands in fee simple in the State of Nevada, for each five (5) sheep or three (3) head of cattle so owned, raised, grazed, or pastured; and provided further, that the lessee of lands shall not be deemed or taken as the owner and holder of lands within the meaning of this section; and provided further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to require the procurement of more than one license for the same sheep or cattle in the State of Nevada during the same calendar year.

Chap. 223–An Act to provide for the purchase, publication and sale of a compilation of certain Nevada statutes and digest of Nevada supreme court reports, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The justices of the supreme court of this state are hereby authorized to contract with Edward T. Patrick and George B. Thatcher for the compilation of the Statutes of Nevada,

state are hereby authorized to contract with Edward T. Patrick and George B. Thatcher for the compilation of the Statutes of Nevada, other than local statutes, embodied in the session laws of Nevada for the years 1913, 1915, 1917, and 1919, to be fully annotated by reference to all decisions of the supreme court of the State of Nevada and of the federal courts in cases originating in Nevada, construing or referring to any such statute, together with a digest of all decisions of the supreme court of Nevada contained in the Nevada Reports subsequent to volume 32 thereof, at and for a price not exceeding the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars.

      Sec. 2.  Said compilation and digest shall be full and complete, containing all necessary references to the Pacific Reporter, American State Reports, American and English Annotated Cases, Lawyers’ Reports Annotated, and all series of selected cases so far as any Nevada decisions appear therein. Said compilation and digest shall also contain a complete table of cases, reference to all citations of Nevada cases in the Nevada Reports, after volume 30, and full-scope notes, and shall be completed, with proper indexes, to the satisfaction of said justices.

      Sec. 3.  Upon the completion and purchase of the manuscript of said compilation and digest, the same shall be deposited with the state printer, who shall, in as expeditious and economical manner as practicable, proceed to print, in good style, and subject to the approval of said justices, upon good book paper, one thousand copies of said compilation and digest, and shall have bound in good, workmanlike manner, in law sheep or buckram, three hundred copies thereof; and upon the completion of the printing and binding of said number of copies he shall deliver the same to the secretary of state. The secretary of state, on the approval of the state board of examiners, may order the state printer to bind and redeliver to the secretary of state such additional copies of said compilation and digest as may be required.

      Sec. 4.  The secretary of state shall sell said bound copies to any one applying therefor for the sum of fifteen dollars for each volume; none of said copies shall be distributed free to any public official, or to any library, anything in the laws of Nevada to the contrary notwithstanding. All moneys received by him for the sale of said copies shall be paid into the general fund of the state.

      Sec. 5.  The sum of sixty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing said manuscript and of binding and publishing said compilation and digest as hereinbefore provided.

      Sec. 6.  Upon the approval of claims against said fund by the state board of examiners, the state controller is hereby directed to issue his warrants therefor, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Digest of recent statutes and supreme court reports authorized

What said digest shall embrace

State printer to print 1,000 copies; to bind 300 copies

Additional copies bound, when

Price, $15

No free copies

Appropriation, $6,500

Board of examiners to audit claims

Concerning grazing licenses

License from sheriff for nonresident or non-owner of lands

Conditions precedent to issue of license

Stock per capita basis

No larger number allowed than named in license

Sheriff to retain percentage of collections

Penalty for violation of act

Chap. 224–An Act to regulate the herding or grazing of the live stock of certain nonresidents and of certain corporations upon unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, and fixing a penalty for any violation of any provision of this act.

[Approved April 1, 1919, at 4:40 p. m.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person not a resident of the State of Nevada, or for any corporation who or which does not have his or its principal home ranch and livestock headquarters in the State of Nevada, to herd or graze, or caused to be herded or grazed, upon any unenclosed lands in the State of Nevada, any sheep or bovine cattle without having first obtained from the sheriff of a county in which such herding or grazing, or some portion thereof is done, a valid license authorizing such herding and grazing in the State of Nevada. Such license shall be issued by said sheriff to and in the name of such person or corporation upon compliance by him or it with the provisions of section 2 of this act and shall be valid only for the calendar year in which it is dated.

      Sec. 2.  As conditions precedent to the issuance of said license, the applicant therefor shall:

      1.  File with said sheriff an affidavit which shall explicitly and truly state the following facts:

      (a) If the applicant is a nonresident person, his name and place of residence; or, if the applicant is a corporation, its name, the state and date of its incorporation, its principal place of business, and the names and addresses of its officers.

      (b) The location of his or its principal home ranch and livestock headquarters.

      2.  Pay to said sheriff the sum of fifty cents a head for each of the sheep and the sum of two dollars a head for each of the bovine cattle proposed to be herded or grazed in the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 3.  No such person or corporation shall herd, graze, or cause to be herded or grazed, upon any unenclosed land in any county in Nevada, any greater number of live stock than that for which he or it has previously obtained such license.

      Sec. 4.  The sheriff collecting such license moneys shall be allowed to retain as his individual compensation and in addition to his salary or other fees, six per centum of the said license moneys by him collected and shall quarterly pay the remainder of such moneys to the county road fund.

      Sec. 5.  Any person or persons violating any provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and if any such corporation shall herd, graze, or cause to be herded or grazed, any live stock in violation of any provision of this act it shall be fined in any sum not less than one thousand dollars or more than ten thousand dollars, and shall be prohibited from herding, grazing, or causing to be herded or grazed, any live stock in the State of Nevada until such fine is paid.

act it shall be fined in any sum not less than one thousand dollars or more than ten thousand dollars, and shall be prohibited from herding, grazing, or causing to be herded or grazed, any live stock in the State of Nevada until such fine is paid.

Chap. 225–An Act relating to the protection and health of employees and providing penalties for the violation of its provisions and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The following terms, as used in this act, shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, be construed as follows:

      (1) The phrase “place of employment” shall mean and include every place, whether indoors or out, or elsewhere, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where, either temporarily or permanently, any industry, trade, work or business, is carried on, or where any process or operation directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade, work or business, is carried on, including all construction work, and where any person is directly or indirectly employed by another for direct or indirect gain or profit, but shall not include any place where persons are employed solely in household domestic service, or any place of employment, concerning the safety of which jurisdiction may have been vested by law heretofore or hereafter in any other commission or public authority.

      (2) The term “employment” shall mean and include any trade, work, business, occupation or process of manufacture, or any method of carrying on such trade, work, business, occupation or process of manufacture, including construction work, in which any person may be engaged, except where persons are employed solely in household domestic service.

      (3) The term “employer” shall mean and include every person, firm, voluntary association, corporation, officer, agent, manager, representative or other person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or of any employee.

      (4) The term “employee” shall mean and include every person who may be required or directed by any employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment, or to go to work or be at any time in any place of employment.

      (5) The term “order” shall mean and include any decision, rule, regulation, direction, requirement or standard of the commission or any other determination arrived at or decision made by such commission under the safety provisions of this act.

Protection of workmen

Phrases and terms defined

Terms defined

Employer to further safety of employees

Same

Unsafe construction prohibited

Employee not to remove any safety device

      (6) The term “general order” shall mean and include such order, made under the safety provisions of this act, as applies generally throughout the state to all persons, employments or places of employment, or all persons, employments or places of employment of a class under the jurisdiction of the commission. All other orders of the commission shall be considered special orders.

      (7) The term “local order” shall mean and include any ordinance, order, rule or determination of any board of supervisors, city council, board of trustees or other governing body of any county, city and county, city, or any school district or other public corporation, or an order or direction of any other public official or board or department upon any matter over which the industrial accident commission has jurisdiction.

      (8) The terms “safe” and “safety” as applied to an employment or a place of employment shall mean such freedom from danger to the life or safety of employees as the nature of the employment will reasonably permit.

      (9) The terms “safety device” and “safeguard” shall be given a broad interpretation so as to include any practicable method of mitigating or preventing a specific danger.

      Sec. 2.  Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be safe for the employees therein and shall furnish a place of employment which shall be safe for employees therein, and shall furnish and use such safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use such practices, means, methods, operation and processes as are reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees.

      Sec. 3.  No employer shall require, permit or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no such employer shall fail to furnish, provide and use safety devices and safeguards or fail to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe, and no such employer shall fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees, and no such employer shall maintain any place of employment that is not safe.

      Sec. 4.  No employer, owner or lessee of any real property in this state shall construct or cause to be constructed any place of employment that is not safe.

      Sec. 5.  No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person, or interfere with the use of any method of process adopted for the protection of any employee, including himself, in such employment, or place of employment, or fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees.

or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees.

      Sec. 6.  It shall be the duty of the Nevada industrial commission and they shall have full power, jurisdiction and authority over all employments not within the jurisdiction of the department of the mining inspector, labor commissioner, and railroad and public service commissions:

      (1) To declare and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards or other means or methods of protection are well adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment safe as required by law or lawful order.

      (2) To fix such reasonable standards and to prescribe, modify and enforce such reasonable orders for the adoption, installation, use, maintenance and operation of safety devices, safeguards and other means or methods of protection, to be as nearly uniform as practical, as may be necessary to carry out all laws and lawful orders relative to the protection of the life and safety of employees in orders employments and places of employment.

      (3) To fix and order such reasonable standards for the construction, repair and maintenance of places of employment as shall render them safe.

      (4) To require the performance of any other act which the protection of the life and safety of employees in employments and places of employment may reasonably demand.

      (5) The commission may, upon application of any employer, or other person affected thereby, grant such time as may reasonably be necessary for compliance with any order, and any person affected by such order may petition the commission for an extension of time, which the commission shall grant if it finds such an extension of time necessary.

      (6) Whenever the commission shall learn or have reason to believe that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee, it may, of its own motion, or upon complaint, summarily investigate the same, with or without notice or hearings, and after a hearing upon such notice as it may prescribe, the commission may enter and serve such order as may be necessary relative thereto.

      (7) To appoint advisers who shall, without compensation, assist the commission in establishing standards of safety, and the commission may adopt and incorporate in its general orders such safety recommendations as it may receive from such advisers.

      Sec. 7.  Every employer, employee and other person shall obey and comply with each and every requirement of every order, decision, direction, rule or regulation made or prescribed by the commission in connection with the matters herein specified, or in any way relating to or affecting safety of employments or places of employment, or to protect the life and safety of employees in such employments or places of employment, and shall do everything necessary or proper in order to secure compliance with and observance of every such order, decision, direction, rule or regulation.

Duties of industrial commission

Duties specified

Employers and employees to cooperate in “safety first”

Order of commission to be evidence in any prosecution

Any person violating safety provisions guilty of misdemeanor

Each violation separate and distinct offense

Not to deprive county or municipal board of jurisdiction

life and safety of employees in such employments or places of employment, and shall do everything necessary or proper in order to secure compliance with and observance of every such order, decision, direction, rule or regulation.

      Sec. 8.  Every order of the commission, general or special, its rules and regulations, findings and decisions, made and entered under the safety provisions of this act, shall be admissible as evidence in any prosecution for the violation of any of the said provisions and shall, in every such prosecution, be presumed to be reasonable and lawful and to fix a reasonable and proper standard and requirement of safety, unless, prior to the institution of the prosecution of such violation or violations, proceedings for a rehearing thereon or a review thereof shall have been instituted and not then finally determined.

      Sec. 9.  Every employer, employee or other person who, either individually or acting as an officer, agent or employee of a corporation or other person, violates any safety provision contained in sections two, three, four or five of this act, or any part of any such provision, or who shall fail or refuse to comply with any such provision or any part thereof, or who, directly or indirectly, knowingly induces another so to do is guilty of a misdemeanor. In any prosecution under this section it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of any such safety provision, that the accused has failed or refused to comply with any order, rule, regulation or requirement of the commission relative thereto.

      Sec. 10.  Every violation of the provisions contained in sections two, three, four, or five of this act, or any part or portion thereof, by any person or corporation is a separate and distinct offense, and, in the case of a continuing violation thereof, each day’s continuance thereof shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

      Sec. 11.  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to deprive the board of county commissioners of any county, or city and county, the board of trustees of any city, or any other public corporations or board or department, of any power or jurisdiction over or relative to any place of employment.

Chap. 226–An Act to amend an act and to repeal section 15 of an act entitled “An act regulating the fiscal management of counties, cities, towns, school districts and other governmental agencies,” approved March 22, 1917.

[Approved April 1, 1919]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section five of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 5.  In case of great necessity or emergency, the board of county commissioners by unanimous vote, by resolution reciting the character and nature of such necessity or emergency, may authorize a temporary loan for the purpose of meeting such necessity or emergency; provided, however, that before the adoption of any such emergency resolution by the board of county commissioners they shall publish notice of their intention to act thereon in a newspaper of the county for at least two publications at least one week apart, and no vote may be taken upon such emergency resolution until fifteen days after the first publication of said notice. Upon the unanimous adoption of any emergency resolution a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board of finance, for its approval, and no such resolution shall be effective until approved by the said state board of finance, and the resolution of the said state board of finance shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 2.  Section eleven of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  In case of great necessity or emergency the governing board of any city, town, school district, high-school district, or irrigation district organized according to law, by unanimous vote, by resolution reciting the character of such necessity or emergency, may authorize a temporary loan for the purpose of meeting such necessity or emergency; provided, however, that before the adoption of any such emergency resolution the governing board shall publish notice of their intention to act thereon in a newspaper of general circulation for at least two publications, one week apart, and no vote may be taken upon such emergency resolution until fifteen days after the first publication of said notice. Upon the unanimous adoption of any governing board of any emergency resolution, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board of finance, for its approval, and no such resolution shall be effective until approved by the state board of finance, and the resolution of the said state board of finance recorded in the minutes of the board. Interest accounts come within the jurisdiction of the state board of finance and may be approved or disapproved in whole or in part by said board.

      Sec. 3.  Section 15 of the above-entitled act is hereby repealed.

County commissioners to authorize temporary loans, when and how

Intention to be published

State board of finance to approve