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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Tenth Session, 1881

CONTENTS

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No.

Title

Page

1

An Act to Create a Legislative Fund.

9

2

An Act to Provide for Procuring a Tablet to Represent the State of Nevada in the Washington Monument.

10

3

An Act to Pay the Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Fiscal Years.

10

4

An Act to Refund a Portion of the Bonded Debt of Elko County.

13

5

An Act Fixing the Number of Officers and Employes of the Senate and Assembly, to Define Their Duties and to Establish Their Pay.

16

6

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Various County Officers in the Several Counties in this State, and Other Matters Relating Thereto,” approved March 11, 1879.

19

7

An Act to Prohibit the Use of Firearms in Public Places.

19

8

An Act to Provide Payment for Services Rendered by James Buckner in Enrolling the Militia in Humboldt County.

20

9

An Act Creating Boards of Examiners in the Several Counties of this State.

21

10

An Act to Amend “An Act Relating to Officers, Their Qualifications, Time of Election, Terms of Office, Official Duties, Resignations, Removals, Vacancies in Office and the Mode of Supplying the Same, Misconduct in Office and to Enforce Official Duty,” approved March 9, 1866.

22

11

An Act to Provide for the Payment of the Claim of Z. S. Eldredge.

22

12

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Conveyances,” approved November 5, 1861.

23

13

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Juries,” approved March 5, 1873.

23

14

An Act to Punish and Prevent Deception in the Manufacture and Sale of Butter.

24

15

An Act Concerning the Allowance and Payment of Demands Against the Several Counties of This State and Barring the Payment Thereof in Certain Cases.

25

16

An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act Concerning Juries,’ approved March 5, 1873;” approved February 14, 1879.

26

17

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Relating to the Burial of the Dead of Incorporated Cities in the State of Nevada,” approved March 8, 1879.

28

18

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of This State, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 8, 1869.

29

19

An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine of an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments,” approved November 26, 1861.

30

20

An Act to Prevent the Unauthorized Expenditure of State Money.

31

21

An Act to Authorize the County Commissioners in the Several Counties in This State to Loan or Transfer Surplus Money From One Fund to the Other.

32

22

An Act Defining the Duties of Certain Attaches of the State Government.

32

23

An Act Amendatory of and Supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Better Preservation of the Mining Records in Certain Districts in This State,” approved March 6, 1879.

33

24

An Act Authorizing Boards of County Commissioners to Transfer Surplus Money in the Several Funds of Unincorporated Towns from One to the Other.

34

25

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Provide for the Formation of Corporations for Certain Purposes,’ ” approved March 10, 1865; approved February 17, 1875.

34

26

An Act Amendatory of and Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to Create a Board of County Commissioners in the Several Counties of This State and to Define Their Duties and Powers.”

37

27

An Act to Restore Lost Records.

38

28

An Act to Amend Section Five Hundred and Eighty-three of an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice in This State, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 8, 1869.

40

29

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Relating to Elections,” approved March 12, 1873.

40

30

An Act for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Breaking of the Little Valley Dam.

42

31

An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada.

43

32

An Act Reducing and Regulating the Salaries and Compensation of Certain State Officers and Attaches of the State Government of Nevada.

43

33

An Act Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments,” approved November 26, 1861, and Acts Amendatory Thereto and Supplemental Thereto.

45

34

An Act to Fund the Court House Bonds of Nye County.

46

35

An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act in Relation to Public Highways,” approved March 15, 1875.

48

36

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Secure Liens to Mechanics and Others, and Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 2, 1875.

49

37

An Act to License and Regulate Insurance Business in This State.

50

38

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Registration of the Names of Electors and to Prevent Fraud at Elections,” approved March 5, 1869.

55

39

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Protect the Wages of Labor,” approved February 21, 1873.

56

40

An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Criminal Cases in the Courts of Justice in the Territory of Nevada,” approved November 26, 1861.

58

41

An Act Concerning Convict Labor.

58

42

An Act to Provide for the Taking Care of the Insane of the State of Nevada.

59

43

An Act to Amend an Act entitled an Act to Amend an Act entitled an Act to Amend Section One of an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled “An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Notaries Public and Defining Their Duties,” approved February 9, 1864; approved March 20, 1865; approved February 9, 1866; approved March 13, 1867; approved January 27, 1879.

63

44

An Act Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to Authorize the School Trustees of School District No. 10, in Washoe County, to Issue Bonds for School Purposes,” approved February 18, 1879.

64

45

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Further Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of the State of Nevada,’ ” approved March 9, 1865; approved March 1, 1866.

64

46

An Act to Disincorporate the City of Austin, and to Repeal All Other Acts Touching Its Incorporation.

66

47

An Act to Disincorporate the Town of Gold Hill, and to Repeal All Other Acts Touching Its Incorporation.

67

48

An Act Providing for the Government of the Towns and Cities of This State.

68

49

An Act to Disincorporate the City of Virginia, and to Repeal All Laws Touching Its Incorporation.

79

50

An Act Supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to Prevent the Adulteration of Milk, and Prevent Traffic in Impure and Unwholesome Milk,” approved February 17, 1879.

79

51

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of This State, and Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,’ ” approved March 8, 1869; approved March 5, 1877; approved February 26, 1879.

80

52

An Act for the Relief of Kimball and Swallow.

81

53

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Election of the Board of Regents, to Fix Their Term of Office, and Prescribe Their Duties,” approved March 5, 1869.

81

54

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Relating to Officers, Their Qualifications, Times of Election, Terms of Office, Official Duties, Resignations, Removals, Vacancies in Office and the Mode of Supplying the Same, Misconduct in Office and to Enforce Official Duty,” approved March 9, 1866.

82

55

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments,” approved November 26, 1861.

83

56

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Criminal Cases in the Courts of Justice in the Territory of Nevada,” approved November 26, 1861.

84

57

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of This State, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 8, 1869.

85

58

An Act Providing for the Payment of Such Portion of the Expenses Incurred in the Suppression of the So-called Italian Coal Burners’ Outbreak in Eureka County During the Year 1879, as is Justly Chargeable to the State.

86

59

An Act Fixing the Compensation of the Various County Officers (Deputies) and of Jailors in the Several Counties of This State.

86

60

An Act Authorizing a State Loan.

87

61

An Act Authorizing the Board of Examiners of This State to Employ Attorneys at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, to Prosecute Claims of This State Against the General Government, and Defining the Mode and Manner of Paying the Said Attorneys.

89

62

An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Commissioners of Eureka County.

90

63

An Act to Amend Section Thirty-nine of an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Maintenance and Supervision of Public Schools,” approved March 20, 1865; approved March 6, 1869.

90

64

An Act for the Relief of Sureties on Official Bonds.

91

65

An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and Twenty-eight of an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate the Settlement of the Estates of Deceased Persons,” approved November 29, 1861.

92

66

An Act to Provide for a Certain Claim Against the State of Nevada.

93

67

An Act to Encourage the Construction of a Railroad from the Town of Eureka, State of Nevada, to the Colorado River.

94

68

An Act to Prevent Minors from Gambling.

102

69

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Defining the Rights of Husband and Wife,” approved March 10, 1873.

103

70

An Act to Detach a Portion of the Territory of White Pine County from Said County and Attach the Same to Eureka County.

104

71

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Various County Officers in the Several Counties of This State and Other Matters Relating Thereto,” approved March 11, 1879.

105

72

An Act to Pay a Deficiency in the Appropriation for State Printing and Official Advertisements.

106

73

An Act to Fix the Rate of State Taxation.

106

74

An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine of an Act entitled “An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments,” approved November 26, 1861.

107

75

An Act Concerning Marriages.

107

76

An Act Fixing the Rates for Official Advertising.

108

77

An Act for the Relief of S. H. Marlette.

108

78

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Government of the State Prison of the State of Nevada,” approved March 7, 1873.

109

79

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Create a Fire Department Fund,” approved March 9, 1865.

110

80

An Act to Provide for Certain Legislative Expenses, approved February 24, 1879.

110

81

An Act for the Relief of W. M. Little.

110

82

An Act in Relation to the Manufacturing Industries Carried On at the State Prison.

111

83

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of the State of Nevada,” approved March 9, 1865.

112

84

An Act to Redistrict the State of Nevada.

113

85

An Act for the Reapportionment of Senators and Assemblymen in the Several Counties of This State.

115

86

An Act Fixing the Price of Lands Within the Limits of the Central Pacific Railroad Grant, and Requiring Applicants to Pay U. S. Land Office Fees; also, Defining the Amount of Land Allowed to Each Applicant, and in Relation to Issuing Patents and the Purchase of Township Plats, and Authorizing the State Land Register to Perform Certain Duties.

115

87

An Act in Relation to the Message of the Governor and the Reports of Certain State Officers.

117

88

An Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act in Relation to the State Library,’ ” approved February 14, 1865; approved March 5, 1877.

117

89

An Act Authorizing the Allowance by the Board of County Commissioners of Eureka County of a Certain Claim Against the Town of Eureka.

118

90

An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Inspectors of Hides, Defining Their Duties, and Mode of Compensation.

118

91

An Act to Pay the Claim of E. H. Griswold, Ex-County Assessor of Elko County, Nevada.

119

92

An Act Concerning Petitions of Taxpayers in Aid of the Construction of Railroads in the Several Counties of This State.

120

93

An Act to Authorize the Repayment of Certain Money to G. H. Hatch, Late Assessor of Esmeralda County.

120

94

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in Courts of Justice of This State, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 8, 1869.

121

95

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Drinks to Minors,” approved March 7, 1873.

121

96

An Act to Appropriate Funds for the Relief of the Several Orphan Asylums of This State.

122

97

An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors and Protection of Creditors.

124

98

An Act Making Appropriations for the Support of the Civil Government of the State of Nevada for the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Fiscal Years.

136

99

An Act to Reimburse the Sheriffs of Humboldt and Elko Counties for Expenses Incurred in Certain Cases.

139

100

An Act to Create the Austin Gas Company.

140

101

An Act Concerning Justices of the Peace.

141

102

An Act to Grant the Right of Way for a Street Railroad Track in the Town of Eureka, State of Nevada.

141

103

An Act to Repeal an Act entitled “An Act to Authorize the Publication of the Laws Enacted in the Legislature of the State of Nevada,” approved March 2, 1877.

143

104

An Act to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons by Minors.

143

105

An Act Fixing the Salaries of the District Judges in the Several Judicial Districts and Matters Relating Thereto.

144

106

An Act to Amend Sections 2, 4 and 5 of an Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Preserve Wild Game, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,’ ” approved February 23, 1877; approved March 6, 1879.

145

107

An Act to Appropriate Money for the Payment of Certain Claims Against the State of Nevada.

146

108

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Establish a State Printing Office and to Create the Office of Superintendent of State Printing,” approved March 11, 1879, and to Add Certain Sections to Said Act.

146

109

Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 94, An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Various County Officers of This State, and Other Matters Relating Thereto,” approved March 11, 1879.

150

110

An Act to Amend Section Five of an Act entitled “An Act Fixing the Salaries of the Various County Officers in the Several Counties of This State, and Other Matters Relating Thereto,” approved March 11, 1879.

152

111

An Act Transferring the Amount in the State Building Fund and Apportioning the Amount that May Hereafter Come In to Its Credit to the General Fund of the State.

153

112

An Act Transferring the Amount in the Soldiers’ Fund to the General Fund of the State.

153

113

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate the Sale or Disposal of Opium, and to Prohibit the Keeping of Places of Resort for Smoking, or Otherwise Using That Drug,” approved February 9, 1877.

153

114

An Act to Procure Meteorological Reports for the State of Nevada, and to Provide for the Payment of the Same.

154

115

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled An Act Concerning Juries,’ ” approved March 5, 1873; approved March 5, 1875; approved March 5, 1877.

155

116

An Act to Authorize the Commissioners of Lyon County to Issue Certain Bonds, and to Provide for the Payment of the Same.

157

117

An Act to Authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Nye County to Negotiate a Loan and to Provide for the Payment Thereof.

159

118

An Act to Amend Section (31) Thirty-one of an Act entitled “An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of This State, and to Repeal All Other Acts in Relation Thereto,” approved March 8, 1869.

161

119

An Act Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to Provide for the Selection and Sale of Lands that Have Been or May Hereafter be Granted by the United States to the State of Nevada,” approved March 5, 1873, and Repealing the Act in Reference Thereto, approved February 29, 1879.

162

120

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act to Provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of the State of Nevada,” approved March 9, 1865.

164

121

An Act to Pay the Deficiencies in the Appropriation for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Fiscal Years.

164

122

An Act to Provide for the Maintenance of Public Schools in the State of Nevada.

165

123

An Act to Amend an Act entitled “An Act Concerning the Courts of Justice of This State, and Judicial Officers,” approved January 26, 1865.

165

124

An Act to Repeal an Act entitled “An Act Concerning the Office of Public Administrators and the Estates of Deceased Persons,” approved April 4, 1867.

166

125

An Act to Aid the Nevada Benevolent Association in Aiding in Providing Means for the Care and Maintenance of the Insane of Nevada, and for Other Charitable Purposes.

166