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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Twelfth Session, 1885

CONTENTS

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No.

Title

Page

1

An Act to create a Legislative Fund.

11

2

An Act for the payment of the mileage of John A. Palmer, contestant member of the Assembly from Elko county.

12

3

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to restrict gaming, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto,” approved March 8, 1879.

12

4

An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act forbidding certain county officers and their deputies from acting as Notaries, and to prevent Notaries from acting as such in the offices of certain county officers,” approved March 7, 1883.

13

5

An Act in relation to the salaries of County Assessors.

13

6

An Act to provide for the destruction of noxious animals within this State.

14

7

An Act for the relief of S. B. Hinds, late Assessor of Esmeralda county.

15

8

An Act to authorize Lander county to issue Six Per Cent. Bonds for the purpose of redeeming the outstanding Ten Per Cent. Railroad Bonds.

15

9

An Act for the relief of John D. Abel.

17

10

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of the outstanding and other indebtedness of Humboldt county,” approved February 27, 1869.

18

11

An Act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Churchill county, Nevada, to transfer certain moneys to the Court House Fund.

18

12

An Act to appropriate five thousand dollars for the immediate relief of White Pine county, Nevada.

19

13

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning Justices of the Peace,” approved March 4, 1881.

20

14

An Act for the protection of jewelers, watchmakers and watch repairers.

20

15

An Act to regulate the issuance of court orders.

21

16

An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act relating to elections,” approved March 12, 1873; approved February 12, 1875.

21

17

An Act granting aid to veterans of the late Mexican and Civil Wars, in indigent circumstances.

23

18

An Act to protect and to encourage the construction of sidewalks in the towns and villages of this State.

25

19

An Act to amend an Act 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.

25

20

An Act to determine the order in which the reports of State officers and others shall be printed, and defining the number of copies thereof.

26

21

An Act to provide for the better preservation of the mining records of this State, and to repeal all other Acts in conflict with this Act.

27

22

An Act to properly provide for the reception of bodies of United States and volunteer soldiers, who died while in defense of the lives and property of citizens of Nevada, now being disinterred at Fort Churchill, and to be interred in the cemetery at Carson, Ormsby county, Nevada, and other matters relating thereto.

28

23

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors and protection of creditors,” approved March 3, 1881.

29

24

An Act to provide for the adoption of children.

29

25

An Act regulating the manner of drawing juries in the District Courts of this State.

32

26

An Act relating to the unpaid salaries of county officers.

33

27

An Act supplemental to 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.

33

28

An Act to pay the claim of W. T. Hanford, for services rendered in the State Land Office.

34

29

An Act extending the criminal laws of this State to and over the Indians therein.

34

30

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize and require the payment of rewards in certain cases,” approved February 26, 1877.

35

31

An Act providing for the licensing of traveling merchants, and merchants doing business through soliciting agents, commonly known as drummers.

36

32

An Act for the relief of Charles E. Laughton, Lieutenant Governor and ex-officio State Librarian.

38

33

An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the better observance of the first day of the week, commonly known as Sunday,” which became a law on the 14th day of February, 1883.

39

34

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning crimes and punishments,” approved November 26, 1861.

39

35

An Act ceding the jurisdiction of this State over certain lands to be acquired by the United States.

40

36

An Act to provide for the appointment of Deputy County Assessors and to provide for their compensation.

40

37

An Act for the relief of Angus McLeod, approved February 25, 1885.

41

38

An Act to prohibit the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians.

41

39

An Act concerning certain crimes and punishments.

42

40

An Act to promote the propagation of bob white quail.

44

41

An Act to regulate proceedings in certain criminal cases.

44

42

An Act to amend “An Act providing for the publication of bills allowed by the Boards of County Commissioners in this State,” approved March 1, 1883.

45

43

An Act fixing the compensation of the County Recorder of White Pine county, in certain cases.

45

44

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, A. D. 1861.

46

45

An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act amendatory of and supplementary to 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; approved March 8, 1879.

47

46

An Act relative to the proving of Indian war claims.

47

47

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act in relation to highways,” approved March 15, 1875; approved March 2, 1877.

49

48

An Act to amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act providing for the taxation of the net proceeds of mines,” approved February 28, 1871.

49

49

An Act to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for stationery, fuel, and lights for the nineteenth and twentieth fiscal years.

50

50

An Act to prohibit swine from running at large and being free commoners.

50

51

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons by minors,” approved March 4, 1881.

51

52

An Act for the relief of William C. Ross.

51

53

An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of public schools,” approved March 6, 1869.

52

54

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning conveyances,” approved November 5, 1861.

53

55

An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of White Pine county to issue Six Per Cent. Bonds to redeem the Ten Per Cent. Bonds of said county, and other purposes.

55

56

An Act to redistrict the State of Nevada, prescribe the number and salaries of District Judges, and fix the places of holding courts.

60

57

An Act authorizing commissions on the collections from personal property tax, poll-tax and the tax on the proceeds of mines, and defining the manner in which said commissions shall be appropriated.

62

58

An Act to provide for the publication of the names of taxpayers, and the total valuations upon which said taxpayers pay taxes, appearing in the assessment rolls in the respective counties of the State of Nevada.

62

59

An Act supplementary to “An Act relating to elections,” approved March 12, 1873.

63

60

An Act in relation to heating the Senate and Assembly Chambers.

63

61

An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to provide firemen for the furnaces of the Capitol building during the session of the Legislature,” approved February 4, 1873.

64

62

An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of fish in the waters of this State,” approved March 5, 1877.

64

63

An Act to refund to Notaries Public, who were legislated out of office, the fees they have paid for their commissions.

65

64

An Act to provide for the better preservation of public roads and highways.

65

65

An Act to authorize the appointment of State Detectives.

66

66

An Act relating to trespass of swine, sheep and goats.

67

67

An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to amend sections one, three, four, five and twenty-two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the government of the State Prison of the State of Nevada,” approved March 7, 1873; approved February 8, 1877.

69

68

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the licensing of traveling merchants, and merchants doing business through soliciting agents, commonly known as drummers,” approved February 23, 1885.

69

69

An Act making appropriations for the support of the Civil Government of the State of Nevada for the twenty-first and twenty-second fiscal years.

70

70

An Act to provide for the proper care of live stock by transportation companies.

73

71

An Act to authorize the issuance of certain bonds by Washoe county, and to provide for the payment of the same.

74

72

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to locate the State University, and to provide for the control and maintenance of the same,” approved March 7, 1873.

75

73

An Act authorizing the taxation of dogs.

77

74

An Act to provide for the management and control of the State Agricultural Society by the State.

77

75

An Act to form agricultural districts, to provide for the organization of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the State.

79

76

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning sureties on official bonds,” approved January 31, 1883.

81

77

An Act to provide for the compiling of the laws of the State of Nevada.

82

78

An Act making an additional appropriation for printing during the twenty-first and twenty-second fiscal years.

85

79

An Act regulating the compensations of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto.

85

80

An Act authorizing County Treasurers to place county funds in bank, on open account, under certain restrictions.

93

81

An Act to amend section five of an Act to regulate fees and compensations for official and other services in the State of Nevada, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto, approved February 27, 1883.

94

82

An Act relating to County Assessors.

96

83

An Act consolidating certain county and township officers in the State of Nevada, and fixing the salaries of the officers thereof, and all other matters relating thereto.

96

84

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act reducing and regulating the salaries and compensation of certain State officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, and attaches of the State Government of Nevada,” approved February 21, 1881.

99

85

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.

101

86

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of public schools,” approved March 20, 1865.

108

87

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of public schools,” approved March 20, 1865.

109

88

An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of public schools,” approved March 20, 1865; approved March 8, 1867; approved March 5, 1869; approved March 7, 1873; approved March 5, 1877; approved February 24, 1879; approved February 28, 1881.

111

89

An Act to amend an Act entitled “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; approved February 28, 1881.

114

90

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of the public schools,” approved March 20, 1865.

115

91

An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the maintenance of public schools in the State of Nevada,” approved March 7, 1881.

116

92

An Act to provide for the purchase of grounds at Carson City, Nevada, and the erection thereon of a State building, to be used for a State printing office, armory, committee rooms and storage purposes.

116

93

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, and supplementary thereto.

117

94

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; approved February 8, 1883.

122

95

An Act to amend section five hundred and eleven 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; approved March 2, 1871.

123

96

An Act fixing the salaries of county officers.

124

97

An Act fixing the salaries of certain county officers in the county of Eureka in this State, and other matters relating thereto.

126

98

An Act relating to county certificates of indebtedness, or warrants.

128

99

An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate fees and compensations for official and other services in the State of Nevada, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto,” approved February 27, 1883.

129

100

An Act to provide for the preservation of the records of the Secretary of State and State Land Offices of the State of Nevada.

131

101

An Act to promote habits of temperance, and to prohibit the practice of treating.

132