Chapter I–An Act to create a Legislative Fund.

[Approved January 6, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of paying the mileage and per diem of the members of the present Legislature, the salaries of the attaches and the incidental expenses of the respective houses thereof, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart from any moneys now in the General Fund not otherwise specially appropriated, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, which shall constitute the Legislative Fund.

      Sec. 2.  The State Controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on said fund in favor of the members and attaches of the Senate and Assembly for per diem, mileage, stationery allowance, compensation and incidental expenses of the respective houses, when properly certified to him in accordance to law, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

      Sec. 3.  All moneys remaining in said fund at the adjournment of the Legislature shall revert to the General Fund.

State Legislative Fund created.

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County Commissioners authorized to issue bonds.

When bonds are null and void.

How bonds shall be printed on face.

Chap. II.–An Act to encourage the construction of railways.

[Approved January 15, 1887.]

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 Lincoln are hereby authorized and directed, whenever, within five years after the passage of this Act, any person or company shall have completed the construction of a first-class iron railway, of either broad or narrow gauge, fully equipped with rolling stock and provided with the necessary shops for repairs, in or through said county, a distance of not less than one hundred (100) miles, to issue bonds of said county in any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000) per mile in length of said road (not counting fractions of a mile) lying within said county, subject to the terms and conditions of this Act.

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall be for the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) each. They shall bear no interest. They shall be payable out of the railway fund, hereinafter to be created, of Lincoln county, and from no other source. At the end of seven years from the date of issuance they shall, if not already paid, become null and void, and shall be the property of the county, and their live or validity shall not be prolonged beyond that time by judgment of court nor by any other means. They shall not be negotiable or transferable, except to the heirs or assigns to the railway to encourage the construction of which they may be issued, and the person or authorized agent of the company as such who receives said bonds, having complied with the terms herein prescribed, shall agree in writing or print on the face of the bond to return the same to the Treasurer of the county if it be not paid at the end of seven years, unless it be lost or destroyed, in which case he shall give to said Treasurer a sworn certificate that said bond has been lost or destroyed, and that the debt represented by said bond is then wholly discharged by lapse of time according to agreement. He shall sign said agreement, which shall also include in default of returning the bond or certificate a payment to the County Treasurer of one hundred dollars, and his successor or his successors shall be held for the same. There shall be printed upon the face of each bond, in conspicuous plain black letters, the words “Without value after seven years,” and in smaller type the words “This bond is not negotiable, it becomes null and void after seven years from [here insert date of issuance]. In the meantime it is payable in the order of issue from the Railway Fund of Lincoln county and from no other source. It bears no interest. The party accepting it agrees to these conditions, and further agrees, if unpaid at the end of seven years, that this bond shall be returned to the Treasurer of Lincoln county, or if it be lost or destroyed to give to the said Treasurer a certificate to that effect,

to give to the said Treasurer a certificate to that effect, which certificate shall also acknowledge the nullity or death of this bond, or, in default thereof, pay to said Treasurer one hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States,” at the end of which shall follow the signature of the accepting party.

      Sec. 3.  The bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners under seal, and shall also be subscribed by the Clerk of said board. The Treasurer shall pay them in the order in which they are drawn, paying one bond, on presentation, and cancelling the same whenever there shall be two thousand dollars or more in the Railway Fund. And in case at the end of seven years, the bonds be not all paid, and a sum less than two thousand dollars remain in said fund, he shall pay said sum less than two thousand dollars for the bond next in order to be paid, receiving and cancelling the same.

      Sec. 4.  The Railway Fund of Lincoln county is hereby created. It shall consist of all the money paid into the county treasury for taxes by the person or company receiving the bonds hereinbefore described (after receiving said bonds) upon aforesaid railway rolling stock and repair shops, except the proportion of said money applicable for school purposes and the State tax, and shall remain in existence for seven years from the time of the issuance of said bonds, at the end of which time it shall cease to exist, the surplus after paying the bonds, if any remain, to be immediately turned over to the General County Fund. No money shall ever be paid into said Railway Fund from any other fund of the county, nor from any other source than the one source of taxes herein described. It shall be reserved for the payment of aforesaid bonds, except that in case of resistance or delay in the payment of taxes by the party receiving them, or the parties to whom said railway rolling stock and repair shops are assessed, the legal and other necessary and actual expenses of the county in collecting said taxes shall be drawn by a warrant of the County Auditor on the County Treasurer, which warrant the County Auditor is hereby authorized to draw on the order of the Board of County Commissioners.

      Sec. 5.  This Act shall not have effect except upon the following conditions: First-A petition clearly setting forth that a railway is about to be built, and by whom it is to be built, in the county, as hereinbefore provided, praying the Board of County Commissioners to act as herein authorized, must be read and signed by more than one-half the taxpayers, representing more than one-half the taxable property of the county, according to the last preceding tax roll, and presented to said board at a regular meeting, after at least one month’s public notice to the effect that such a petition will at that time be presented. Second-The Board of County Commissioners shall, upon presentation of said petition, notify through the mails each subscriber thereto of the receipt of the same with his name appended, requesting him to report immediately, in case the signature be not genuine. Third-The Board shall then, at its next regular meeting,

How the Treasurer shall pay.

Creation of railway fund.

Duties of Board of County Commissioners.

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its next regular meeting, provided no irregularities shall have appeared, sign an agreement to the following effect: “We, the Board of County Commissioners of Lincoln county, hereby bind ourselves and our successors, as the representatives of said county to issue to [here name the party building the railway] his or their successors bonds as provided in an Act entitled ‘An Act to promote the construction of railways,’ approved [here give date of approval of Act] or in default thereof to pay to said [here give name again] his or their successors, the full amount that said bonds would aggregate, on completion of a railway in the county of Lincoln according to the provisions of said Act.”

      Sec. 6.  The provisions of this Act shall apply to as many persons or companies as may comply with them.

      Sec. 7.  All Acts and parts of Acts in so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Transfer of money.

Chap. III.–An Act to transfer money from the General Fund of the State to the Soldiers’ Fund, to meet payment of an outstanding warrant.

[Approved January 17, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.   The State Controller and State Treasurer are hereby authorized and directed to transfer eleven dollars and thirty-three cents ($11 33-100) from the General Fund of the State to the Soldiers’ Fund, for warrant regularly drawn on said fund August seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in favor of James Williams, Company B, Cavalry, and now presented for payment.

Act repealed.

Chap. IV.–An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to promote habits of temperance, and to prohibit the practice of treating,” approved March 18, 1885.

[Approved January 17, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Act entitled “An Act to promote habits of temperance, and to prohibit the practice of treating,” approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby repealed.

Chap. V.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the safe keeping of the securities of the State School Fund,” approved February 21, 1871.

[Approved January 18, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section four of said above mentioned Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section four.  It is hereby made the duty of the State Controller quarterly, to notify the State Board of Education of the amount of money in the State School Fund, and whenever there shall be a sum in said fund sufficient for investment said board shall direct the State Treasurer to negotiate for investment of the same in United States securities, or in the bonds of this State, or in the bonds of other States, at the lowest purchasable rates and the board shall then draw their order upon the Controller in favor of the State Treasurer for the amount to be invested. Said Controller shall thereupon draw his warrant as directed and the State Treasurer shall complete the purchase of the securities negotiated for him in pursuance of this Act.

Investment of securities

Chap. VI.–An Act to provide for the payment of certain indebtedness accrued and to accrue, of Nye county.

[Approved January 19, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Board of Commissioners of Nye county are hereby authorized and directed to create in the treasury of said county a fund, to be known as the “Redemption Fund.”

      Sec. 2.  The said fund shall be created in the following manner: Immediately after the approval of this Act the said board, by their order duly made and entered upon the record of their proceedings, shall cause the Treasurer of said county to set apart as the basis of such fund, twenty-five per cent. of all moneys in the General Fund of the county at the date of such approval; and to this fund they shall, in like manner, cause the said Treasurer to transfer twenty-five per cent. of all moneys thereafter paid into said General Fund as rapidly as the same shall be received. The Treasurer of said county is hereby expressly prohibited from paying out any portion of the moneys hereby directed to be set apart and transferred, except in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter provide.

Commissioners authorized.

Fund created.

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the moneys hereby directed to be set apart and transferred, except in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter provide.

      Sec. 3.  Whenever at any time there shall be in said Redemption Fund the sum of five hundred dollars or more, it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to give twenty days notice by advertising, in a newspaper published at the county seat of said county, and by posting at the door of the court house thereof, that sealed proposals directed to him, will be received for the surrender of county certificates of indebtedness on the General Fund of said county, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and that said sealed proposals will be so received by him until the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of said county to be held next, after the expiration of said twenty days.

      Sec. 4.  On the first day of such regular meeting of said board at the office of said County Treasurer, and in the presence of said Treasurer and the Auditor of said county, the said Commissioners shall open all sealed proposals theretofore received under the provisions of the preceding section, and they shall then and there accept the lowest bid or bids for the surrender of county certificates of indebtedness as in said section defined; provided, that no bid for more that the par value of any certificate offered shall be accepted, nor any bid whatever, unless accompanied by the certificate or certificates proposed to be surrendered; and provided further, that the said board may, if they deem it for the best interests of the county, reject any or all bids, and when necessary, direct the Treasurer to re-advertise; and provided still further, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to relieve the County Treasurer from the obligation to advertise as provided in Section three of this Act.

      Sec. 5.  When any bid or bids are accepted, the County Treasurer and County Auditor shall each take a description of the certificate or certificates of indebtedness to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each certificate surrendered, the date, number and amount thereof, and make a record of the same in their respective offices; and the Board of County Commissioners shall, by an order entered upon their minutes, direct the County Treasurer to purchase the certificate or certificates of indebtedness designated in the accepted bid or bids, and pay for the same out of the Redemption Fund aforesaid. All certificates of indebtedness so redeemed shall be cancelled by the County Treasurer, who shall write across the face thereof in red ink “purchased and redeemed,” adding thereto the time when, and the amount paid therefor, and signing the same officially. The order of the Board of Commissioners aforesaid, together with the record made by the County Auditor as herein required, shall be sufficient vouchers for the County Treasurer in the settlement of his accounts. The bids specified in this Act being equal, preference shall be given to priority of date of allowance, and to the smallest amount. That shall be deemed the lowest bid which offers the largest amount of indebtedness for the least sum of money.

amount of indebtedness for the least sum of money. The bids and amounts of certificates of indebtedness being equal, each shall be accepted and paid pro rata as nearly as possible. The County Treasurer shall keep a separate account under the heading of Redemption Fund, of all moneys received into the said fund, and of all moneys paid out of said fund, and when and to whom paid. The County Treasurer shall also on the register of county certificates of indebtedness kept by him, write opposite each certificate redeemed under the provisions of this Act, the word “purchased,” when, and the amount paid therefor.

      Sec. 6.  All officers of said county who shall render any service under the provisions of this Act, shall do so free of charge or fee.

      Sec. 7.  All Acts or parts of Acts in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

No Fee

Repeal

Chap. VII.–An Act to amend Section thirteen of an Act entitled “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; approved March 12, 1885.

[Approved January 20, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section thirteen.  No school district shall be entitled to receive moneys from the county funds unless there shall be residing in the district at least five school census children.

Five children to reside.

Regulates fees.

Chap. VIII.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the compensation of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1885.

[Approved January 20, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section twelve. The Sheriff of Douglas county shall receive such fees as are allowed by law under the provisions of an “Act to regulate fees and compensations for official and other services in the State of Nevada,” approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; the County clerk shall receive the fees allowed under said Act of March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; The Recorder, as ex-officio Auditor, shall receive the fees allowed under said Act of March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and such other compensation as is allowed by law, except that from and after December, A. D. 1888, he shall receive as salary only fifty dollars per month, instead of one hundred dollars as heretofore; the Treasurer shall receive eight hundred dollars per annum; the Assessor shall receive seven hundred dollars per annum; the District Attorney shall receive eight hundred dollars per annum, and such other fees and compensation as is provided by law; the Superintendent of Schools shall receive two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; the County Commissioners shall each receive two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and such mileage as is now allowed by law.

District Judges to reside.

Chap. IX.–An Act to amend Section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to redistrict the State of Nevada, prescribe the number and salaries of District Judges, and to fix the places of holding courts,” approved March 4, 1885.

[Approved January 21, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section eight.  One of the District Judges shall reside, during his term of office, at Eureka, Eureka county, or at Austin, Lander county. One of the District Judges shall reside at Reno, Washoe county, or at Winnemucca, Humboldt county, or at Elko, Elko county, and one at Carson City, Ormsby county, or at Virginia City, Storey county.

at Reno, Washoe county, or at Winnemucca, Humboldt county, or at Elko, Elko county, and one at Carson City, Ormsby county, or at Virginia City, Storey county. Unless the Judges can otherwise agree, it shall be annually determined by lot which of them shall reside at the places designated in this Act.

Chap. X.–An Act to pay the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886.

[Approved January 21, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of twelve thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-three cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund of the State for the payment of the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886, as follows: To George T. Davis $922 95; to Carson & Tahoe Lumber and Flume Company, $489 43; to H. M. Yerington, $466 50; to Mrs. M. D. Hatch, $450 10; to John Rosser, $663 10; to Bullion and Exchange Bank, $669 50; to Jacob Tobriner, $445 75; to H. S. Mason, $220 75; to S. L. Lee, $462 60; to Muller, Schmitt & Company, $946 95; to Charles E. Bray, $49; to Herbert C. Dunn, $29 40; to E. B. Rail, $672 81; to Virginia and Truckee Railroad, $210 59; to M. J. Curtis, $569 50; to D. H. Lentz, $270 74; to John Heritage, $728; to Ouilette & Macabi, $40; to C. Ouilette, $34 50; to Thomas Kieley, $46 50; to Pat McCarthy, $225 75; to V. B. Cross, $354 24; to Hall & Catlin, $795; to C. D. Meder, $40; to M. A, Downey, $37 50; to Olcovich Brothers, $73 80; to H. B. Millard, $111 50; to T. J. Tennant, $50; to Jeff J. Work, $100; to J. M. Benton, $18 60; to C. S. Preble, $49 50; to C. S. Young, $90 10; to William Hall, $44 60; to LeCount Brothers, $135 15; to Cagwin & Noteware, $15 20; to L. H. Bell, $18 10; to W. H. Chedic & Company, $14; to A. C. Hofer & Brother, $9 52; to J. Guion, $10; to D. H. Peterson, $5 88; to M. Cohn, $32; to Joseph Jones, $68 10; to J. W. Robinson, $118 14; to Zehner & Schmidt, $25 25; to Otto T. Schultz, $82 95; to Dies & Leonhard, $113 80; to W. D. Torreyson, $5; to G. C. Thaxter, $19 45; to E. Burlington, $69 15; to Peter Cavanaugh, $8 80; to A. Bergman, $7 50; to Thomas Smith, $52; to Mrs. M. Moran, $45; to John Robertson, $50; to Mrs. D. T. Welkin, $45; to Mrs. M. E. Jones, $75; to Mrs. M. R. Jones, $50; to T. W. Burke, $63 75; to Kersey & Yerington, $193 38; to Carson Daily Index, $360; to California Institute for Deaf, Dumb and Blind, $304 85; to Manning & Jaques, $150; to Alfred Chartz, $133 20.

      Sec. 2.  The sum of $68 80 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Contingent University Fund of the State for the payment of the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886, as follows:

Appropriations for deficiencies.

any money in the Contingent University Fund of the State for the payment of the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886, as follows: To L. G. Kendall, $50; to C. W. Clark, $7; to J. F. Aitken, $11 80.

      Sec. 3.  The sum of $10 65 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Interest Account-90,000-acre grant-of the State for the payment of the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886, as follows: To John Taylor & Co., $10 65.

      Sec. 4.  The Sum of $400 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State School Fund of the State for the payment of the deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1885 and 1886, as follows: To W. T. Hanford, $125; to H. K. Brown, $150; to W. C. Noteware, $125.

      Sec. 5.  The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the persons named for the several amounts specified in this Act, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

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Chap. XI.–An Act providing for the appointment of a janitor for the committee rooms of the Legislature.

[Approved January 25, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed on the organization of the Legislature at each session thereof, to appoint a janitor for the committee rooms of the Senate and Assembly committees, whose duties shall expire upon the adjournment of each Legislature.

      Sec. 2.  The duties of janitor shall include those of porter.

      Sec. 3.  The compensation shall be four dollars per day, and it shall be payable out of the Legislative Fund, on certificate of service performed, signed by the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.

      Sec. 4.  The State Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on said fund for the compensation of said janitor, and the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the same.

Chap. XII.–An Act to establish and provide for an Indian school.

[Approved January 25, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An Indian school, for the purpose of training and educating Indian children, is hereby established in Ormsby county, and H. M. Yerington, Jewett W. Adams and S. L. Lee are hereby appointed a commission for the purposes hereinafter named, to be known as “The Indian School Commission.”

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of Ormsby county to issue the bonds of said county, in amount not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, in the manner and form hereinafter provided. Said bonds shall be issued at such times and in such amounts as may be required by said commission, and shall be consecutively numbered.

      Sec. 3.  Said bonds shall be payable to bearer at the office of the County Treasurer, in said county, not more than ten years from their date; they shall be prepared in proper form under the direction of the Board of County Commissioners; they shall be signed by the Chairman of the board and countersigned by the Clerk, who shall attach thereto the county seal. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable annually on the tenth day of December of each year. They shall have proper interest coupons attached thereto, which shall be signed by the Chairman of the board. The first coupon upon each of the bonds shall represent the fractional part of one year’s interest from the date of its issue to the tenth day of December next ensuing. Said bonds shall be payable in not less than five nor more than ten years from their date, and each bond shall express upon its face that the county of Ormsby may redeem it at its option on the tenth day of any December after five years from its date.

      Sec. 4.  Whenever the County Commissioners shall elect to redeem any bond or bonds, issued in pursuance of this Act, after the same shall have run five years, they shall so notify the County Treasurer, and the County Treasurer shall so notify the party presenting the interest coupon of such bond or bonds for payment, and such notice shall operate to stop the accruing of further interest on such bond, and if the coupon upon any bond or bonds next falling due after such election to redeem, shall not be presented for payment, the interest upon such bond or bonds shall cease without notice; provided, there be funds in the county treasury set apart for the payment of the same. Any such money so set apart shall remain in the treasury for the redemption of such bond or bonds when presented. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars, and shall be redeemed in the order of their number.

Indian school established.

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Redemption of bonds.

Sale of bonds.

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Jurisdiction ceded.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be sold by the County Commissioners for not less than their par value, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid over to “The Indian School Commission,” to be by them expended as hereinafter directed.

      Sec. 6.  The Board of County Commissioners of Ormsby county are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually until all the bonds and coupons, issued under the provisions of this Act, have been fully paid or provided for, a tax sufficient to pay the accruing interest and to redeem such of said bonds, after five years from their date, as they may elect to redeem, not exceeding twenty cents in any one year upon each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of Ormsby county, the proceeds of which tax shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds; provided, that after five years from the first issue of bonds issued under the provisions of this Act at least two thousand dollars of said bonds shall be redeemed annually until all of the bonds are redeemed. The County Treasurer of said county is hereby authorized and directed to pay all said interest coupons as the same fall due, and to redeem said bonds after five years from their date as directed by the Board of County Commissioners. In case there is any surplus of the proceeds of the above mentioned tax, after the payment of interest coupons and the redemption of the bonds as provided, the same shall be paid into the General Fund of the county.

      Sec. 7.  It shall be the duty of said Indian School Commission to expend the proceeds of the sale of the bonds provided for in this Act, for the establishment of a school in Ormsby county for the education of Indian children, and they are hereby authorized and directed to invest all, or any portion thereof that may be necessary, in land and improvements, upon the same, for the use of said school, and for such other purposes as they may deem necessary for said school.

      Sec. 8.  All lands purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be conveyed to said Indian Scholl Commission in trust for the benefit of such school, and in case the United States will accept of the lands so purchased and make appropriations for the support of such school, it shall be the duty of said commission to convey all lands purchased by them under the provisions of this Act to the United States, and turn over all property acquired under the provisions of this Act to the proper officers of the United States.

      Sec. 9.  The jurisdiction of this State is hereby ceded to the United States over all parts and parcels of land conveyed to the United States under the provisions of this Act, or selected by the United States for the purposes of the Indian school herein provided for, and all property used for the purposes of such school, whether the same be conveyed to the United States or not, shall forever be and remain free from taxation by this State; provided, that the jurisdiction over said land is hereby retained by the State of Nevada for the purpose of the service of all writs and process thereon.

      Sec. 10.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby solemnly pledged that this Act shall never be repealed, or so modified in any way as to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase the bonds herein provided for.

solemnly pledged that this Act shall never be repealed, or so modified in any way as to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase the bonds herein provided for.

Faith pledged.

Chap. XIII.–An Act to provide for the destruction of certain noxious animals.

[Approved January 26, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  If any person shall take and kill within this State any of the following named noxious animals he shall be entitled to receive out of the treasury of the county within which such noxious animal or animals shall have been taken, the following bounties, to-wit: For every gopher or ground squirrel, one and one-half cents; for every rabbit, five cents; provided, no person shall be entitled to apply for or receive bounty money for any number of scalps less than one hundred at any one time, and all bounties to be paid for the objects herein set forth shall be subject to the provisions of this Act.

      Sec. 2.  The person intending to apply for such bounty shall take the scalps, with the ears connected thereto, of the noxious animals killed by him, to some Justice of the Peace of the county within which such noxious animals shall have been taken.

      Sec. 3.  The person claiming such bounty shall then be sworn by such Justice of the Peace, and state on oath the time and place when and where said noxious animals, for which a bounty is claimed by him, were taken and killed, and shall also submit to such further examination on oath, concerning the killing and taking of such noxious animals, as the Justice of the Peace may require.

      Sec. 4.  If it shall appear to the Justice of the Peace that the noxious animal or animals have been taken and killed within the county, he shall cut off the ears from the scalp and destroy the said ears, and give to the person so sworn a certificate stating the number and kind of scalps deposited with and destroyed by him. The said Justice of the Peace shall receive for each oath administered twenty-five cents, and for each certificate twenty-five cents, to be paid by the party applying for such bounty, and in no case to be a charge against the county.

      Sec. 5.  Upon the presentation to the Board of County Commissioners of the proper county of any such certificate, they are hereby authorized and directed to allow the amount due under the provisions of this Act, to the person therein named, out of the General Fund of such county.

Bounties.

Proof of destruction.

Justice of Peace, fees.

Commissioners to allow.

Preamble.

Treasurer to refund.

Chap. XIV.–An Act to authorize and direct the Treasurer of Esmeralda county to refund certain moneys paid to him under protest, and collected as school tax, in School District No. 13, Esmeralda county, Nevada.

[Approved January 27, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Whereas, At a meeting of the Board of School Trustees, held in the year 1884, in and for School District No. 13, Hawthorne, Esmeralda county, Nevada, an order was passed calling an election of the voters of said district, and submitting to them the question of levying a special tax for the purpose of building a school house in said school district; and

      Whereas, Said election was held, and the Board of County Commissioners levied said tax on the property of said district; and

      Whereas, After the said order of the Board of School Trustees was made, and the levying the tax by the Board of County Commissioners as aforesaid, it was discovered that there were certain informalities in the said order as made by the said Board of School Trustees, and in the election held thereunder, and in the said levy of the tax as made by the Board of County Commissioners, rendering said tax invalid and non-collectible; and

      Whereas, There was the sum of seven hundred and twenty-eight 51-100 ($728 51-100) dollars paid into the hands of the County Treasurer under protest, which sum still remains in his hands, and has not been apportioned to the funds belonging to said school district; and

      Whereas, The greater number of taxpayers, owing the largest amount of the taxes to said school district have failed and refuse and still fail and refuse to pay the same or any part thereof; and

      Whereas, It has been held that the collection of said tax cannot be enforced in a court law, and in consideration of the foregoing facts, be it enacted:

      Section 1.  The Treasurer of Esmeralda county is authorized and empowered and it is hereby made his duty, to refund to the several persons, companies and corporations the several sums of money paid by them, as appears by the list now on file in his office, not exceeding the sum of seven hundred and twenty-eight 51-00 ($728 51-100) dollars, out of the money now in his hands and not apportioned to the said School District No. 13 Fund. And the said Treasurer shall take duplicate receipts from each person, company or corporation for the amount so refunded, specifying in said receipts why the money has been refunded. He shall file one of said receipts in the office of the County Auditor, the other shall remain in the Treasurer’s office.

      Sec. 2.  On filing the receipts with the Auditor, the Treasurer will be entitled to have his account credited with the amount specified in said receipts, and the Board of County Commissioners in and for the county of Esmeralda, are hereby authorized and directed to strike from the assessment roll of said county, all special school taxes levied in the year 1884 for school purposes, in School District No. 13.

Chap. XV.–An Act to remove the county seat of White Pine county from the town of Hamilton to the town of Ely.

[Approved January 28, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the county seat of White Pine county shall be located at the town of Ely, in said county.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of the officers of said county, who are required by law to keep their offices at the county seat, to remove the same to said town of Ely on the week next preceding the first of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eighty hundred and eighty-seven.

      Sec. 3.  The County Commissioners of White Pine county shall provide for the removal of the archives and other movable property belonging to said county to said town of Ely.

      Sec. 4.  It shall be lawful for the Board of County Commissioners of said White Pine county, and it is hereby made their duty, to provide for the use of the various officers such buildings, rooms or offices as are required by law.

County seat located.

Offices kept

Removal of archives.

Offices provided.

Chap. XVI.–An Act to provide for purchasing a portrait of ex-Governor J. W. Adams.

[Approved January 31, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of a portrait of ex-Governor J. W. Adams, to be painted by some competent artist after the style and manner of the other portraits of other ex-Governors, now deposited in the Governor’s office, and to be uniform in size therewith.

Purchase of portrait.

Contract and acceptance.

style and manner of the other portraits of other ex-Governors, now deposited in the Governor’s office, and to be uniform in size therewith.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of the Board of Examiners to contract with some competent artist for the painting of this portrait in oil colors, and upon its delivery to the Secretary of State and its acceptance by the Board of Examiners, the claim for the same shall be allowed by the Board of Examiners, and shall be paid as other claims against the State are paid.

Commissioners to accept cabinet.

Removal.

Appropriation.

Chap. XVII.–An Act authorizing the acceptance of the cabinet or cabinets of minerals, rare coins, curiosities, library, museum and all other property offered by the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers as a donation to the State of Nevada, and to appropriate money for the removal thereof.

[Approved January 31, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Board of State Capitol Commissioners are hereby authorized and instructed to accept from the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers, at Virginia, the cabinet or cabinets of minerals, curiosities, rare coins, pictures, library, museum and other property now owned by said Society, and which is tendered by the Society as a donation to the State of Nevada, the same to be accepted for and in the name of the State, to be suitably placed in the State Capitol, and be known, designated and distinctively marked as the property donated by the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers.

      Sec. 2.  The packing, removal and rehabilitating of the said property shall be done under the personal direction of the Librarian and Mineralogist of the Society within three months, or as soon as practicable after the approval of this Act, and all expenses incurred shall be paid out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise specially appropriated.

      Sec. 3.  The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act, and the State Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners upon proper vouchers being submitted for said removal.

Chap. XVIII.–An Act for the relief of C. S. Young for traveling expenses incurred as Superintendent of Public Instruction.

[Approved January 31, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of four hundred forty-one dollars and fifteen cents is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to C. S. Young for traveling expenses incurred as Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the years 1883 and 1884.

      Sec. 2.  The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of C. S. Young for the sum of four hundred forty-one dollars and fifteen cents, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Money appropriated.

Controller directed.

Chap. XIX.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the compensation of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1885.

[Approved January 31, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section thirteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section thirteen.  The Sheriff of Lander county shall receive fifty dollars per month, and such fees as are allowed by law under the provisions of “An Act to regulate fees and compensations for official and other services in the State of Nevada,” approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five; the County Clerk shall receive the fees allowed under said Act of March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; the Recorder shall receive the fees allowed under said Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; the Auditor shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month; the Treasurer shall receive fifteen hundred dollars per annum; the Assessor shall receive two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; the District Attorney shall receive two thousand dollars per annum; the Superintendent of Public Schools shall receive six hundred dollars per annum; the County Commissioners shall each receive six hundred dollars per annum.

Fees and Salaries.

Appropriation, how expended.

Further appropriation and expenditure.

Chap. XX.–An Act making appropriations for the State University.

[Approved January 31, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of eight thousand, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-five ($8,164 25) cents, now in the Contingent Fund of the University, and also the further sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars from the General Fund, are hereby appropriated to be expended by the Board of Regents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction, completion and improvement of buildings and grounds for the University. The sum of two thousand eight hundred ($2,800) dollars per annum from the interest hereafter accruing from the University Fund shall be applied from time to time, as it accrues, to the teaching of such branches of learning as relates to the theory and practice of mining, agriculture and the mechanic arts. And the Board of Regents may, in their discretion, provide for the testing, assaying and sampling of ores, charging therefor such rates as they may deem proper.

      Sec. 2.  The further sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to be expended by the Board of Regents of the University for the salaries, supplies and other expenses of said institution during the fiscal years one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. Fifteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-two ($15,349 22) of said seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars hereby appropriated shall be taken from the accrued interest in the University Fund, and the balance of said seventeen thousand dollars, to-wit: one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-eight ($1,650 78) [cents] shall be taken from the General Fund; provided, that if for any cause the said fifteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-two ($15,349 22) cents, or any part thereof, shall not be used for the purposes aforesaid, the State Controller shall transfer an equal sum from the General Fund to be used for such purpose.

Chap. XXI.–An Act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic in this State.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section. 1.  Any person who shall willfully wear the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, or who shall use or wear the same to obtain aid or assistance thereby, within this State, unless he shall be a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty days in the county jail or a fine not to exceed twenty dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Misdemeanor.

Chap. XXII.–An Act granting leave of absence to John Roeder, Assessor of Lincoln county.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Leave of absence from Lincoln county and from the State of Nevada, is hereby granted to John Roeder, Assessor of said county, for a period of four months, to be taken during either one of the years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven or eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

Leave of absence.

Chap. XXIII.–An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons,” approved November 29, 1861.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  All notices required to be given by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons,

Order not required.

May file objections.

deceased persons,” approved November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, may hereafter be given by the County Clerk without an order from the Judge for the same; and when so given for the time and in the manner required by law, they shall be as legal and valid as though made upon an order from such Judge.

      Sec. 2.  If the court is not in session at the time set for the hearing of any matter concerning the settlement of the estate of deceased persons, any one opposing the application therein made may file objections thereto with the Clerk, and thereafter the matter shall be heard upon the first day when the court is in session, unless such hearing is continued to some future day.

Price of Lands.

Chap. XXIV.–An Act to amend Section three of 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 12, 1885.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section three.  The price of all agricultural and grazing lands applied for after the approval of this Act, whether within or without the limits of the Central Pacific Railroad grant, is hereby fixed at one dollar and twenty-five ($1 25) cents per acre; provided, that nothing in this Act shall invalidate or change the condition of any completed sale or any contract which may have been entered into between the State and individual purchasers for the sale of any land; and the price of all lands within the limits of the Central Pacific Railroad grant, which have heretofore been or may hereafter be approved to the State as double minimum lands, shall remain fixed at two dollars and fifty ($2 50) cents per acre, notwithstanding such lands have been or may hereafter be forfeited to the State.

Chap. XXV.–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.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That Section seventy of the above entitled Act be amended so as to read as follows:

      Section seventy.  The County Auditor shall from time to time, deliver to the Sheriff as many of such licenses as may be required, and shall sign the same and charge them to the Sheriff; provided, that before signing or delivering any license to the Sheriff, the Auditor shall fill out the license in full, stating therein to whom said license is issued, the kind of business authorized to be carried on under the license, the room, building and place where the business is to be carried on, the dates when said license begins and expires, and the amount of money to be paid therefor, and shall at the same time make entries upon the stubs in the license book. Whenever any license is returned by the Sheriff unsold, the Auditor shall cancel and file the license, and note the fact and date of such return and cancellation upon the stub thereof. No Board of County Commissioners shall audit or allow any claim in favor of a Sheriff until there shall be filed with said board the certified statement of the Auditor that all settlements required by the seventy-first section of the Act of which this is amendatory, have been made by said Sheriff. The amount of all licenses issued to the Sheriff and not accounted for shall be deducted before any claim shall be allowed to a Sheriff. No county shall be liable to the Auditor, other than for his official salary, for any fees or for any services required of him under this Act.

      Sec. 2.  This Act shall take effect on the first day of April, A. D, 1887, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Licenses.

Repeal.

Chap. XXVI.–An Act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of White Pine county to construct a court house and county hospital, and to issue bonds to pay for the same.

[Approved February 1, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  At the first meeting of the Board of Commissioners of White Pine county,

Bonds to issue.

Payment and redemption.

Tax levy.

Commissioners.

Plans and specifications.

missioners of White Pine county, held after the passage of this Act, said board shall cause to be prepared, and as soon thereafter as practicable, to issue bonds of said county to the amount of not less than six thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be issued for the amount of five hundred dollars each, and shall be numbered consecutively one, two, three and so on. They shall express upon their face, that said county owes the holder thereof, the sum for which the same is issued; they shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the date on which they are issued, and said interest shall be paid by the Treasurer of said county upon the first Monday in January of each year after their issuance, upon the presentation of said bonds or the proper interest coupons, in the manner, and for and to the extent herein provided for.

      Sec. 2.  Said Treasurer of White Pine county, shall, on the first Monday in January of each and every year after the issuance of said bonds, in addition to the payment of all interest due on any of said bonds, pay off and redeem said bonds to the extent, as near as may be, of one-fifth part of the total amount for which they shall be issued, said payment and redemption to be made commencing with the bonds bearing the smallest numbers and so continuing until the whole thereof are paid. It shall be the duty of the holders of said bonds to present them for payment and redemption as herein provided, and no bonds for which money shall be in the Treasurer’s hands at the date or dates herein indicated for the presentation and redemption of the same, shall bear any interest after said date.

      Sec. 3.  At the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of each year, at which meeting they levy the tax rate for that year, they shall, in addition to the tax rate now authorized, or hereafter authorized by the law to levied for State and county purposes, levy a tax sufficient to pay the bonds to become due in that year and interest thereon, and interest on the outstanding bonds, until all said bonds are fully paid and cancelled. All moneys received from this special tax shall be kept in a separate fund, to be known as the “Court House Bonds Fund,” and shall be used for no other purpose but to pay said bonds and the interest thereon.

      Sec. 4.  The money derived from the sale of the aforesaid bonds shall be used and appropriated for the use and purpose of building a court house and county hospital for the county of White Pine, and there is hereby created a commission to be known as the “White Pine Court House Commission,” to consist of five members, namely, the County Commissioners and H. A. Comins and Sol Hilp, the two latter to serve without pay.

      Sec. 5.  The said Board of Court House Commissioners, as soon as they shall have organized according to the provisions of this Act, shall proceed to draw, or cause to be drawn, plans and specifications for said court house, and after such plans and specifications are prepared and adopted they must immediately begin the construction of said court house and county hospital, either by advertising to have it constructed by contract, by the lowest bidder, or by day’s labor, under the direction of a competent superintendent.

lowest bidder, or by day’s labor, under the direction of a competent superintendent. The size and plans of said court house and county hospital, and the material of which they shall be built, shall be determined by the said Court House Commission or a majority of them.

      Sec. 6.  It shall be the duty of said “Board of Court House Commissioners” to meet at the court house in Hamilton, in said county, on the first Monday in March next, at twelve o’clock, noon, and then and there at once take such action (not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) as to them, or a majority of them, may seem most expedient, to secure the construction of said court house and hospital in the shortest possible time, and for the least amount of money. Said board shall thereafter meet at such times and places as a majority thereof shall be resolution direct.

      Sec. 7.  Said “Court House Commissioners,” or a majority of them, shall be entitled to sell and dispose of the bonds hereinbefore provided for. It shall be their duty to deposit all money realized from the sale thereof in the county treasury, and the same shall be paid out by the County Treasurer of said county upon presentation of warrants therefor drawn by the County Auditor upon orders which may be given upon him signed by said Board of Court House Commissioners, or a majority of them.

      Sec. 8.  Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to allow additional compensation to any county officer for carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Commissioners to meet.

May sell and dispose.

No additional compensation.

Chap. XXVII.–An Act to grant aid to the Nevada State Agricultural Society.

[Approved February 2, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of aiding the Nevada State Agricultural Society in carrying out successfully the purpose for which it was organized as a State institution, under the laws of this State, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund of the State treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

      Sec. 2.  The moneys hereby appropriated shall be used for the purpose of purchasing and improving fair grounds, and for the payment of such premiums as may be offered to competitors; provided, that all property acquired or improved by authority of this Act shall have the title thereof vested in the State of Nevada, and shall be for the sole use and benefit of the State.

Money appropriated.

Improving grounds and paying premiums.

Expenditures made

Bills allowed.

State of Nevada, and shall be for the sole use and benefit of the State.

      Sec. 3.  All expenditures authorized by this Act shall be made under the immediate direction and supervision of the Board of Directors of the Nevada State Agricultural Society.

      Sec. 4.  The said Board of Directors shall present bills and vouchers to the State Board of Examiners for all moneys expended under the provisions of this Act, and if the Board of Examiners be satisfied that such expenditures were properly made in accordance with law, said Board of Examiners shall allow said bills, and the same shall be paid as other bills against the State are paid. Warrants drawn pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be payable to the order of the President of the Board of Directors of the Nevada State Agricultural Society, or, in the event of his absence or inability to serve, then such warrants shall be made payable to some other member of said Board, to be designated by a majority vote thereof.

Preamble.

Consent to annexation.

Chap. XXVIII.–An Act to give the consent of the State of Nevada to the annexation of additional territory.

[Approved February 2, 1887.]

      Whereas, The States and Territories of the “Great Northwest” are traversed northerly and southerly by mountain ranges, and are connected by immense valleys of virgin soil capable of cultivation; and

      Whereas, This natural conformation creates a similarity of population independent in spirit and action, but united in business relations and prompted by a community of sentiment in connection with western interests and federal legislation in relation thereto; and

      Whereas, That part of Idaho Territory commonly called “Southern Idaho,” which will remain, should the northern counties thereof be united with Washington and Montana Territories, as is now proposed, has a community of interest with Nevada, not only geographically, but in natural resources and productions, and if united with this State would afford sufficient arable land and natural resources to support a State which would rank in wealth and population with the other new States of the west, now therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The consent of the State of Nevada is hereby given to the annexation to this State of any part of the territory of the United States which Congress may deem proper, upon such terms and conditions as Congress shall prescribe.

Chap. XXIX.–An Act to amend “An Act regulating the compensation of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1885.

[Approved February 2, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section nineteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section nineteen.  No salaried officer, named in this Act, except Justices of the Peace and Constables, in any township of this State wherein the number of legal votes cast at the general election held in eighteen hundred and eighty-six equaled or exceeded the number of seventeen hundred, shall perform any service until the fees prescribed by law are paid; provided, that if any officer, except Justices of the Peace and Constables, elected as above, shall neglect or refuse to collect the legal fees for his services, he and his bondsmen shall be liable to pay double the amount of such fees not collected, to be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction; and, also provided, that the first moneys collected by the Justices of the Peace and Constables, elected as above, and the first moneys collected in suits before justices so elected, shall be applied to the costs of the suit.

Payment of fees.

Bondsmen liable.

Chap. XXX.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the sale of ardent spirits to Indians,” approved February 25, 1885.

[Approved February 3, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section one.  Any person who shall after the passage of this Act, sell, barter, give, or in any manner dispose of any spirituous or malt liquor, wine or cider of any description, to any Indian within this State, upon due conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment as the courts shall adjudge, and if the imprisonment shall be for a period exceeding six months, the same shall be in the State’s Prison.

Penalty.

Disposition of fines.

Repeal.

Immediate effect.

      Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section two.  All fines imposed and collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the School Fund and the court before whom the conviction is had, is hereby authorized and empowered to tax as part of the costs, the sum of one hundred dollars against the defendant, which last named sum shall go to the informer; and in the event of the failure or refusal of the defendant to pay or cause to be paid the said costs of one hundred dollars, the same shall remain as a judgment against the defendant until his or her full term of imprisonment shall have expired; provided, that in no case shall the informer have any claim or demand against the county or State.

      Section four of said Act is hereby repealed.

      Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section five.  This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Bounties.

Ears connected.

Claimant sworn.

Certificate.

Chap. XXXI.–An Act to provide for the destruction of noxious animals and to repeal an Act relating thereto.

[Approved February 3, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  If any person shall take and kill within this State any of the following noxious animals, he shall be entitled to receive out of the treasury of the county within which such noxious animals shall have been taken, the following bounties, to-wit: For every coyote or prairie wolf, fifty cents; for every lynx or wild cat, one dollar; for every California lion, one dollar; all of which bounties shall be subject to the provisions of this Act; provided, that no person shall be entitled to apply for or receive bounty money for any number of scalps less than ten at any one time.

      Sec. 2.  The person intending to apply for such bounty shall take the scalps with the ears connected thereto of the noxious animals killed by him, to some Justice of the Peace of the county within which such noxious animals shall have been taken.

      Sec. 3.  The person claiming such bounty shall then be sworn by such Justice, and state on oath the time and place when and where said noxious animals for which a bounty is claimed by him, were taken and killed, and shall also submit to such further examination on oath concerning the taking and killing of such noxious animals as the Justice may require.

      Sec. 4.  If it shall appear to the Justice, that the noxious animals have been taken and killed within the county, he shall cut off the ears from the scalp and destroy said ears, and give to the person so sworn, a certificate, stating the number and kind of scalps deposited and destroyed by him.

cut off the ears from the scalp and destroy said ears, and give to the person so sworn, a certificate, stating the number and kind of scalps deposited and destroyed by him. The Justice shall receive for each oath administered twenty-five cents, and for each certificate twenty-five cents, to be paid by the party applying for such bounty, and in no case to be a charge against the county.

      Sec. 5.  Upon the presentation to the Board of County Commissioners of the proper county of any such certificate, they are hereby authorized and directed to allow the amount due under the provisions of this Act, to the person therein named, out of the General Fund of the county.

      Sec. 6.  An Act entitled “An Act to provide for the destruction of noxious animals within this State is hereby repealed.

Amount allowed.

Repeal.

Chap. XXXII.–An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act concerning convict labor,” approved February 24, 1881.

[Approved February 3, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An Act entitled “An Act concerning convict labor,” approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

Chap. XXXIII.–An Act creating a Board of Commissioners for the care of the indigent insane of the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 4, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Governor, State Controller and State Treasurer are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners for the purpose of providing for the care and maintenance of the indigent insane of the State.

      Sec. 2.  A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

      Sec. 3.  All Act and parts of Act in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Board created.

Quorum.

Repeal.

Board created

Supervision

Control expenditure.

Repeal.

Chap. XXXIV.–An Act to create a Board of Capitol Commissioners and to define its duties and to repeal Sections ten and eleven af “An Act concerning the office of Secretary of State.”

[Approved February 8, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  A Board of Capitol Commissioners is hereby created, to consist of the Lieutenant-Governor, State Controller and State Treasurer.

      Sec. 2.  Said board shall have the supervision over and control of the State Capitol building, the Capitol grounds and water works, the State Printing Office building and grounds, and all other State buildings, grounds and property not otherwise provided for by law.

      Sec. 3.  Said board shall control the expenditure of all appropriations for furnishing, repairing and maintaining said buildings and grounds, offices and property connected therewith; for defraying the telegraphic, postal and contingent expenses of the State officers, Supreme Court and State Library; for transportation of books and documents; storage and transportation of State property, and for salaries of porters, watchmen and laborers about said buildings and property, unless otherwise provided.

      Sec. 4.  Sections ten and eleven of an Act entitled “An Act concerning the office of Secretary of State,” approved February 14, 1865, are hereby repealed.

State Board of Examiners to investigate.

Chap. XXXV.–An Act relative to the proving of Indian war claims.

[Approved February 8, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The State Board of Examiners are hereby authorized and directed to examine into all claims for services rendered, money expended, indebtedness incurred and supplies and necessaries furnished between the first day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and the date of the approval of this Act, in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian outbreaks and hostilities within the territorial limits of the present State of Nevada. Said board shall also examine into all claims for horses, equipments and wagons actually lost by those engaged, as aforesaid, while in the line of duty in active service.

      Sec. 2.  Immediately after the approval of this Act the board shall give notice,

shall give notice, by publication in some newspaper published at Carson City, to all persons having such claims, to present them by petition, showing the amounts and items thereof, to the board, on or before the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, which notice shall be published once a week for four weeks. Any and all claims, presented in accordance with the requirements of said notice, shall be examined and final action thereon shall be taken by the board as soon as practicable thereafter.

      Sec. 3.  That all persons having such claims shall be permitted to appear personally before the board and produce such evidence as they may have in support of their respective demands, and all the provisions of Sections eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the Board of Examiners, to define their duties and powers, and to impose certain duties upon the Controller and Treasurer,” approved February seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, are hereby made applicable to the examination of claims presented under this Act.

      Sec. 4  That the evidence presented to the board in support of any such claims shall be reduced to writing, and immediately after the approval or disapproval of the claim, the petition and evidence shall be filed in the office of the Governor of the State. If the claim be entirely disapproved, the board shall indorse their disapproval upon the petition, and such claim shall not be reconsidered, unless upon presentation by the claimant, within thirty days thereafter, of new and material testimony in its support. If the claim be approved, either in whole or part, the board shall indorse such approval upon the petition, which indorsement shall show the items and amounts for which the claim is approved and a certificate of like tenor and effect shall also be given to the claimant whose claim shall have been so approved.

      Sec. 5.  That as soon as all the claims presented under the provisions of this Act shall have been finally acted upon by the board, it shall be the duty of the Governor to transmit the claims that have been approved for any amount, together with the evidence in support of them, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or other proper officer, and to urge the payment thereof by the United States Government, at the earliest practicable day.

      Sec. 6.  Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to make the State of Nevada liable for the amount of any approved claim or any amount of money whatever, except as the same may be received from the treasury of the United States for the payment of such claims, and then only for the particular claims allowed by the United States Government, and to the extent of such allowance.

      Sec. 7.  All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Notice given by publication

Claimants to appear personally.

Evidence reduced to writing.

Claims approved with evidence to be transmitted.

State of Nevada not liable.

Repeal.

Authorization to build hospital.

Levy and collect tax.

Made applicable.

Chap. XXXVI.–An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of Esmeralda county to erect a county hospital at the town of Hawthorne, and to levy a tax for the payment of the same.

[Approved February 8, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The County Commissioners of Esmeralda county are hereby authorized and empowered, when in their judgment and discretion they may deem the same necessary and for the best interest of the county, [to] erect a building at Hawthorne, to be used as a county hospital, not to exceed in cost three thousand dollars for the building and furnishing the same.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the building and furniture hereby authorized, the Board of County Commissioners of Esmeralda county is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to levy and collect a tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent. upon the assessed value of all the property, real and personal, within the boundaries of Esmeralda county; such tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time as the other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the County Treasurer in a fund to be known as the County Hospital Fund.

      Sec. 3.  The provisions of an Act of the Legislature of this State entitled “An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of County Commissioners in the several counties of the State and to define their duties and powers,” approved March 8, 1865; approved February 19, 1867, are hereby made applicable to this Act.

Normal school.

Chap. XXXVII.–An Act relating to the State University and matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved February 7, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  There shall be established in the State University a school for the instruction of teachers, at which shall be taught all branches of instruction which are taught in the common schools of this State. There shall also be taught in said University chemistry, geology and mineralogy, so far as they relate to the theory and practice of mining, agriculture and the mechanic arts.

      Sec. 2.  The Governor, Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall constitute the Board of Regents of the State University until the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and until their successors are elected and qualified. There shall be elected at the next general election, in the same manner as other State officers are elected, three qualified electors, who shall constitute the Board of Regents of the State University. The term of office of two of the Regents so elected shall be four years from the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The term of office of one of the Regents so elected shall be two years from and after the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and until his successor is elected and qualified. And thereafter at each general election preceding the expiration of the term of office of any member of the Board of Regents a successor shall be elected in the same manner as other State officers are elected. The persons elected as Regents under the provisions of this Act, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe [to] the official oath and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State. In case of vacancy in said Board of Regents after the same shall have been filled by election as herein provided, the Governor shall fill the same by appointment until the next general election, when such vacancy shall be filled by election, as herein provided.

      Sec. 3.  The powers and duties of the Board of Regents are as follows:

      First-To prescribe rules for their own government, and for the government of the University.

      Second-To prescribe rules for the reports of officers and teachers of the University.

      Third-To Prescribe the course of study, the time and standard of graduation and the commencement and duration of the terms, and the length of the vacations of the University.

      Fourth-To prescribe the text-books, and provide apparatus and furniture for the use of pupils.

      Fifth-To appoint a President of the University, who shall have a diploma from some recognized college of learning of good standing, or some State Normal School, who has had at least five years of practical experience as an instructor; who is familiar with the modern methods of imparting instruction generally approved in the United States, and who shall be indorsed as to moral character and qualifications as an instructor by the President and Faculty of three institutions of learning authorized by law to confer degrees.

      Sixth-To prescribe the duties of the President, and fix his salary, and the salaries of all other teachers in the University.

      Seventh-To require the President, under their direction, to establish and maintain training or model schools, and require the pupils of the University to teach and instruct classes therein.

      Eighth-To control the expenditures of all moneys appropriated for the support and maintenance of the University, and all moneys received from any source whatsoever.

Board of Regents.

Term of office, and how elected

Powers and duties of Board of Regents.

Chairman and Clerk.

Meetings.

Annual report.

Diplomas and certificates.

President to manage.

priated for the support and maintenance of the University, and all moneys received from any source whatsoever.

      Ninth-To keep open to public inspection an account of receipts and expenditures.

      Tenth-To annually report to the Governor a statement of all their transactions, and of all other matters pertaining to the University.

      Eleventh-To transmit with such report a copy of the President’s annual report.

      Twelfth-To revoke any diploma by them granted, on receiving satisfactory evidence that the holder thereof is addicted to drunkenness, is guilty of gross immorality, or is reputably dishonest in his or her dealings; provided, that such person shall have at least thirty days’ previous notice of such contemplated action, and shall, if he or she asks it, be heard in his or her own defense.

      Sec. 4.  The Board of Regents shall have the power to appoint a Chairman, who shall receive no compensation therefor, nor shall any member of the Board of Regents receive any compensation for his services, except necessary expenses in attending meetings of the board. The Board of Regents may employ a clerk of said board, who shall receive a salary of twenty-five dollars per month, and who shall keep a full record of all proceedings of the board, which shall at all times be open to public inspection, and said clerk shall not be a teacher in said University.

      Sec. 5.  The board must hold four regular meetings in each year, and may hold special meetings at the call of the Chairman of the board.

      Sec. 6.  The President of the University must make a detailed annual report to the Board of Regents, with a catalogue of pupils, and such other particulars as the board may require or he may think useful.

      Sec. 7.  Upon the recommendation of the President of the University, the Board of Regents may issue to those who worthily complete the full course of study and training prescribed, a diploma of graduation. To the persons receiving this diploma the State Board of Education shall grant a first-grade State certificate for life; and the Board of Regents may, at their discretion, issue an elementary diploma to those who worthily complete such part of the course of study and training as may be prescribed. To the persons receiving this diploma the State Board of Education shall grant a second-grade State certificate, to be effectual for such period as they, in their discretion, may think proper.

      Sec. 8.  It shall be the duty of the President of the University to instruct in the University, and, under the direction of the Board of Regents, to manage all matters connected with the institution, to employ assistant teachers and servants, purchase supplies and make monthly statements to the Board of Regents of all receipts and expenditures, supported by vouchers.

      Sec. 9.  There shall be no discrimination in the admission of pupils on account of sex,

pupils on account of sex, race or color; but no person shall be admitted who is not of good moral character, and who has not arrived at the age of fifteen years, and passed such an examination as shall be prescribed by the Board of Regents, and no person under said age shall hereafter be taught in said institution.

      Sec. 10.  Tuition shall be free.

      Sec. 11.  The State Superintendent of Public Instruction must visit the University at least every three months, inquire into its condition and management, and report to the Board of Regents quarter-yearly the condition of the institution, with such suggestions as he may deem proper.

      Sec. 12.  All expenses incurred, of every name and nature, involving the payment of money by or under the direction of the Board of Regents of the University, shall be passed upon by the Board of Examiners, as other accounts against the State, and be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the University.

      Sec. 13.  Sections one, two, three and five, of the Act of March fifth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the election of the Board of Regents, to fix their term of office and prescribe their duties;” Sections two, three, five and six of the Act of March seventh, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, entitled “An Act to locate the State University, and to provide for the control and maintenance of the same;” Section three of the Act of March seventh, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled “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 seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

No discrimination.

Must visit.

Board of Examiners to pass upon expenses.

Repeal.

Chap. XXXVIII.–An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to preserve wild game, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto,” approved February 23, 1877; and to prevent the killing of beaver and otter in this State for a limited period.

[Approved February 8, 1887.]

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 to trap or kill any beaver or otter within this State before the first day of April in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

      Sec. 2.  Any person convicted of a violation of Section one of this Act, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Unlawful to trap otter or beaver.

Penalty.

Register to withdraw.

Secretary of State to attest.

Deduct acres.

Chap. XXXIX.–An Act to amend 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 12, 1885.

[Approved February 9, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section eighteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section eighteen.  The State Land Register is hereby authorized to withdraw from the local and general land offices of the United States, all selections of land that have been or may be erroneously made, at any time before such lands have been listed and approved to the State by the Department of the Interior. And the Governor is hereby authorized to reconvey, by deeds of relinquishment, all lands that have been or may hereafter be erroneously listed or approved to the State, in such form as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Such deeds of relinquishment shall be duly attested by the Secretary of State, under the seal of his office, and be countersigned by the Register of the State land office; provided, that in no case shall any selections of land be withdrawn, or deed of relinquishment executed, so long as there shall be any existing contract or patent for the same, or any pending litigation respecting the right of title of the State to such lands. Nor in any case shall such lands be conveyed or relinquished, when the same was subject to selection, or where the State’s title to such lands is valid. When such deeds shall have been executed they shall be forwarded to the Commissioner of the general land office at Washington, D. C. The State Land Register shall, immediately after forwarding said deeds to the general land office, deduct the number of acres thus reconveyed from the lands charged to the State under her grants from the United States.

File with County Clerk.

Chap. XL.–An Act requiring partners transacting business in this State to file certificate of partnership with names of each individual comprising the same.

[Approved February 9, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Every partnership transacting business in this State under a fictitious name or a designation not showing the names of the persons interested as partners in such business,

names of the persons interested as partners in such business, must file with the Clerk of the county in which the said partnership is carrying on business, a certificate, stating the names in full of the members of such partnership and their places of residence, and publish the same once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, if there be one, and if there be none in such county, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.

      Sec. 2.  The certificate filed with the Clerk as provided in Section one of this Act, must be signed by the partners and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of conveyances of real property. Where the partnership is hereafter formed, the certificate must be filed, and the publication designated in that section must be made within one month after the formation of the partnership, or within one month from the time designated in the agreement of its members for the commencement of the partnership; where the partnership has been heretofore formed, the certificate must be filed and the publication made within two months after the passage of this Act. Persons doing business as partners contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall not maintain any action upon, or on account of any contracts made or transactions had in their partnership name, in any court of this State, until they have first filed the certificate and made the publication herein required.

      Sec. 3.  On every change in the members of a partnership transacting business in this State under a fictitious name or a designation which does not show the names of the persons interested as partners in its business, a new certificate must be filed with the County Clerk, and a new publication made, as required in this Act, on the formation of such partnership.

      Sec. 4.  Every County Clerk must keep a register of the names of firms and persons mentioned in the certificates filed with him, pursuant to this Act, entering in alphabetical order the name of every such partnership and of each partner therein, and he shall charge for each name so entered the sum of twenty-five cents, to be collected as other fees, which shall be full compensation for filing and registration.

      Sec. 5.  Copies of the entries of a County Clerk, as herein directed, when certified by him and affidavits of publication as herein directed made by the printer, publisher or chief clerk of a newspaper, are prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated; provided, that this Act shall not apply to any incorporation duly created and existing under and by virtue of the laws governing and providing for the creation of incorporations in this State and now engaged or hereafter to be engaged in doing business in this State.

Publication

Certificate must be filed.

New certificate.

Clerk to keep register.

Evidence of fact.

Empowered to issue bonds.

How authenticated.

Negotiate sale.

Denomination of bonds.

Tax levy.

When negotiated.

Chap. XLI.–An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of Washoe county to issue bonds to pay for the construction of bridges across the Truckee river in said county, and for the maintenance of such bridges and of roads connecting therewith, and for the payment of the bonds.

[Approved February 9, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The County Commissioners of Washoe county are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the name of the county, not to exceed in amount ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying for the construction of two bridges across the Truckee river, one at Mayberry’s ranch and the other below the Virginia and Truckee Railroad bridge, and for the approaches thereto, and for the purpose of maintaining such bridges and the roads connecting therewith.

      Sec. 2.  The Commissioners shall cause said bonds to be prepared, to be signed by the Chairman of the Board, indorsed by the County Treasurer and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bond, consecutively numbered and signed by the County Treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The County Commissioners are duly authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, the proceeds of which shall be placed in the county treasury to the credit of the General Road Fund of the county, for the purposes mentioned in this Act.

      Sec. 4.  The bonds shall be of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, consecutively numbered, with interest thereon not to exceed seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. Commencing on the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and on the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and every twelve months thereafter, one bond of one thousand dollars shall be paid and taken up.

      Sec. 5.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds hereby authorized, the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe county, after such bonds shall have been sold, is hereby empowered and directed to include in the levy in each year for general road purposes, a tax upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within said county of Washoe, sufficient to pay all of such bonds and interest until the same shall have been fully paid, and such additional tax shall be kept by the County Treasurer for such purpose, and shall not be diverted to any other purpose whatever.

      Sec. 6.  The bonds provided for in this Act shall be issued and negotiated prior to the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

Chap. XLII–An Act to provide for the issuance of bonds by the county of Lyon, in order to provide for the payment of twenty-five thousand dollars of the bonds of said county heretofore issued and now outstanding.

[Approved February 9, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Lyon county, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue the bonds of said county, to the amount of not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in the manner and form hereinafter specified, for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of twenty-five thousand dollars of the bonds of said county, issued under and pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Lyon county to issue certain bonds and to provide for the payment of the same,” approved March 7, 1881, or so much thereof as may remain unpaid when the bonds herein provided for shall have been issued and sold.

      Sec. 2.  The Board of County Commissioners of said county shall cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by the chairman of the board and countersigned by the clerk thereof, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond, and coupons consecutively numbered shall be signed by the chairman of said Board of County Commissioners.

      Sec. 3.  The clerk of the Board of County Commissioners shall keep a record of all proceedings under the provisions of this Act, showing the number, date and amount of each, and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The Board of County Commissioners of said Lyon county are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, either by advertising for sealed proposals for the same or otherwise, as they may deem proper, the proceeds of which shall be applied to the payment of the bonds then outstanding, heretofore specified; provided, that none of the bonds, the issuance of which is herein provided for, shall be disposed of for less than their par value, and that all sales of said bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States of America, and with the interest thereon shall be payable in such gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  The said bonds shall be in sums of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and the interest on the same shall not exceed more than six and one-half (6 1/2%) per cent per annum, payable annually, namely, on the first Monday of December of each year, at the office of the County Treasurer of said Lyon County, and in no case shall any of said bonds issued by virtue of this Act run a longer period than fifteen (15) years.

Bonds prepared and issued.

Authenticated with seal.

Record kept.

Negotiate sale of bonds.

Amount, interest and time.

Special tax Levy.

Shall advertise.

Time and place for accepting proposals.

Determined by lot.

of said bonds issued by virtue of this Act run a longer period than fifteen (15) years.

      Sec. 6.  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 Lyon county are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax of note exceeding fifty (50) cents upon each one hundred ($100) dollars of the assessed value of all property, real and personal, including the proceeds of mines and mining claims within the boundaries of said Lyon county, until such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been paid. 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 Redemption and Interest Fund of Lyon county.

      Sec. 7.  Whenever, on the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and nine-two, and any year thereafter, after the payment of the interest then accrued on said bonds, there shall remain a surplus in said Redemption and Interest Fund of five hundred dollars or upwards, the County Treasurer of said Lyon county shall proceed to advertise for not less than three weeks consecutively, in some newspaper published in Storey county, Nevada, and in San Francisco, California, a notice inviting proposals for the surrender of the bonds provided for by this Act. Such advertisements, shall state the time and place for receiving such bids, the amount of money on hand applicable to the redemption of such bonds, and that no bid will be received at a rate exceeding the par value thereof. The County Treasurer, together with County Commissioners, shall proceed to open and consider such proposals at the time and place specified in such advertisement, and shall accept such proposals, at a rate not exceeding the par value, as may redeem the greatest amount of bonds, until the amount of money on hand is exhausted; provided, that in case more bonds are offered for redemption than can be paid for by the money is said fund, said County Treasurer and said Commissioners shall determine by lot which of said bonds so offered shall be paid first; and, provided further, that in case any bonds shall be offered at a discount, the lowest bids shall be accepted, and in case, on the day named for reception of proposals, no bids for the surrender of bonds have been filed with the County Treasurer, or there be remaining in the Redemption and Interest Fund, after redeeming all bonds offered for redemption, a sufficient amount of money to redeem additional bonds, the County Treasurer and County Commissioners shall determine by lot which of said bonds shall be redeemed, and the County Treasurer shall then give notice, by publication in some newspaper, as hereinbefore provided in this section, that the bonds specified in said notice, if not presented for payment, shall cease to bear interest from and after twenty (20) days from the first publication of said notice.

      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 Redemption and Interest Fund shall, by order of the Board of County Commissioners, be transferred to the General Fund of said county.

this Act, shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this Act shall cease and all moneys remaining in said Redemption and Interest Fund shall, by order of the Board of County Commissioners, be transferred to the General Fund of said county.

      Sec. 9.  Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay any coupons on bonds under the provisions of this Act, he shall cancel the same in the usual manner, and turn the same over to the County Auditor, who shall give him credit therefor on his books.

Tax to cease

Treasurer to cancel.

Chap. XLIII.–An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the government of unincorporated towns in this State,” approved March 8, 1879.

[Approved February 10, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An Act entitled “An Act to provide for the government of unincorporated towns in this State,” approved March 8, 1879, is hereby repealed.

Chap. XLIV–An Act establishing Arbor Day.

[Approved February 10, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Arbor Day is hereby established in the State of Nevada, and shall be fixed each year by proclamation of the Governor, at least one month before the fixing of such date, and it shall be observed as a holiday by the public schools of the State; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as making this a legal holiday, so far as the courts and civil contracts are concerned.

      Sec. 2.  His Excellency the Governor is requested to make proclamation setting forth the provisions of the first section of this statute, and recommending that Arbor Day so established be observed by the people of the State in the planting of trees, shrubs and vines, in the promotion of forest growth and culture, in the adornment of public and private grounds, places and ways, and in such other efforts and undertakings as shall be in harmony with the character of the day so established.

Proclamation by the Governor.

Planting trees, shrubs and vines.

Importation of diseased animals a misdemeanor.

Punished by fine and imprisonment.

Chap. XLV.–An Act to prevent the importation or selling of any domestic animal or animals affected with any infectious or contagious disease.

[Approved February 10, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall not be lawful for the owner or owners of any domestic animal or animals, or any person having them in charge, to knowingly import or drive into this State, or into any county within this State, any animal or animals having any infectious or contagious disease, and any person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than twenty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every such diseased animal so imported or driven into this State, or into any county within this State.

      Sec. 2.  Any person who shall sell or dispose of any domestic animal, knowing the same to be affected with any infectious or contagious disease, without fully disclosing the fact to the purchaser, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 3.  Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, in addition to the penalties herein provided, shall be liable for all damages that may accrue to the party damaged by reasons of said diseased animal or animals, so driven or imported by said person or persons into this State or into any county of the same, imparting to any domestic animal or animals therein any such contagious or infectious disease.

Chap. XLVI.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning District Attorneys,” approved March 11, 1865.

[Approved February 10, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section eleven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section eleven.  The District Attorney shall, without fees, give his legal opinion to any Assessor, Collector, Auditor, or County Treasurer, and to all other county, township or district officers, within his county, in any matter relating to the duties of their respective offices.

give his legal opinion to any Assessor, Collector, Auditor, or County Treasurer, and to all other county, township or district officers, within his county, in any matter relating to the duties of their respective offices.

Legal opinion without fees.

Chap. XLVII–An Act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Elko county to reimburse the paid-up subscribers to the State University Building Company at Elko, Nevada, and to audit and allow certain other claims.

[Approved February 11, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Whereas, 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 seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and the amendatory Act thereto, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, which provided for the removal of the State University from Elko to Reno, Washoe county, Nevada; and

      Whereas, Section seven of said original Act provided that if said State University shall be removed, for any cause, the title to the property, therein named, shall revert to the people donating the same; and

      Whereas, Said State University has been removed from the town and county of Elko pursuant to the provisions of the amendatory Act, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and is now permanently established at the town of Reno, Washoe county, State of Nevada, and that said Washoe county did pay, through its Board of County Commissioners, to Elko county, as compensation by reason of said removal, pursuant to the above-mentioned amendatory Act, the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, and that the said above-mentioned sum, together with all the buildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging; that said Elko county is now in full possession of all the University property erected and donated by the people of Elko county; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage of this Act it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of Elko county, and they are hereby directed to set apart the sum of twenty thousand dollars, received from the County Commissioners of Washoe county as compensation for the removal of the State University from Elko to Reno, together with all other sums that they may have received by reason of sale, rents or profits from any of the University property or buildings, into a separate fund, to be known and designated as the State University Fund, and to be disbursed as herein provided.

Preamble.

Board of Commissioners to set apart fund.

Pay into the General Fund.

Board of Commissioners to pass upon.

Surplus to revert to General Fund.

Must be presented before July 4, 1888.

Thirty days’ notice in newspapers.

Auditor to draw warrant.

Repeal.

sums that they may have received by reason of sale, rents or profits from any of the University property or buildings, into a separate fund, to be known and designated as the State University Fund, and to be disbursed as herein provided.

      Sec. 2.  Said Board of County Commissioners of Elko county, are hereby authorized and directed to set apart and cause to be paid into the General Fund of Elko county by resolution, the sum of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars out of said State University Fund created by the first section of this Act, the same being the sum subscribed by the said Elko county for the erection of primary department buildings to the State University at Elko.

      Sec. 3.  It is hereby further made the duty of said Board of County Commissioners, or a majority thereof, to pass upon and allow all of such sum or sums from time to time to all persons who shall show clearly to the satisfaction of a majority of said board that the several sums claimed by the parties respectively presenting the same, or their legal representatives, were by them subscribed and thereafter fully or partially paid up to the State University Building Company at Elko for the purpose of erecting said University building.

      Sec. 4.  After all of the subscribers who have fully or partially paid their subscriptions toward the erection of said University building at Elko as provided for in this Act, any and all surplus moneys remaining in said fund shall revert to the General Fund of the county, for county purposes. All claims against said fund by reason of having subscribed thereto for the State University, that shall not be presented to said Board of County Commissioners on or before the fourth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall be deemed to waive their rights to the payment of said subscription and on and after that date no farther claim shall be considered. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby required to give thirty days’ notice in each of the newspapers published in Elko county, that all claims against the State University Fund of Elko county will be considered and acted upon at any meeting of the board from and after the first Monday in April, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to the fourth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive.

      Sec. 5.  The County Auditor of Elko county is hereby directed to audit, allow and draw his warrant upon the State University Fund of Elko county, Nevada, upon the County Treasurer of said Elko county for such sums as said Board of County Commissioners may pass upon and allow for the purposes mentioned in this Act, and the County Treasurer of said Elko county is hereby directed to pay all of said warrants upon presentation at his office.

      Sec. 6.  All Acts or parts of Acts that may conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as the same may relate to the county of Elko.

      Sec. 7.  This Act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage.

Chap. XLVIII.–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 14, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section one hundred and twenty-three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section one hundred and twenty-three.  The plaintiff, at the time of issuing the summons, or at any time afterwards, may have the property of the defendant attached as security for the satisfaction of any judgment that may be recovered, unless the defendant give security to pay such judgment as hereinafter provided in the following cases:

      First-In an action upon contract for the direct payment of money made or by the terms thereof payable in this State, which is not secured by mortgage, lien or pledge upon real or personal property situated or being in this State, and if so secured when such security has been rendered nugatory by the act of the defendant.

      Second-In an action against a defendant not residing in this State.

      Third-In an action by a resident of this State for the recovery of the value of property, where such property has been converted by a defendant without the consent of the owner.

      Fourth-Where a defendant has absconded, or is about to abscond, with the intent to defraud his creditors.

      Fifth-Where a defendant conceals himself so that service of summons cannot be made upon him.

      Sixth-Where a defendant is about to remove his property, or any part thereof, beyond the jurisdiction of the court, with the intent to defraud his creditors.

      Seventh-Where a defendant is about to convert his property, or any part thereof, into money, with the intent to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.

      Eighth-Where a defendant has assigned, removed, disposed of, or is about to dispose of his property, or any part thereof, with the intent to defraud his creditors.

      Ninth-Where a defendant has fraudulently or criminally contracted the debt or incurred the obligation for which suit has been commenced.

      Sec. 2.  Section one hundred and twenty-four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section one hundred and twenty-four.  The Clerk of the court shall issue the writ of attachment upon receiving and filing an affidavit by or on behalf of the plaintiff showing the nature of the plaintiff’s claim, that same is just, the amount which the affiant believes the plaintiff is entitled to recover, and the existence of any one of the grounds for an attachment enumerated in the preceding section.

Security attachment.

Writ of issue.

which the affiant believes the plaintiff is entitled to recover, and the existence of any one of the grounds for an attachment enumerated in the preceding section.

Official fees.

Chap. XLIX.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the compensations of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto;” Act approved March 11, 1885.

[Approved February 14, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section four.  The Sheriff of Nye county shall receive such fees as are allowed under the provisions of an Act to regulate fees and compensation for official and other services in the State of Nevada, approved March 6, 1875. The Deputy Sheriff as Jailor shall receive twelve hundred dollars per annum. The County Clerk and the Recorder and ex-officio Auditor shall receive such fees as are allowed in the Act of March 9, 1965, and such other compensation as is allowed by law. The Treasurer shall receive twelve hundred dollars per annum. The Assessor shall receive sixteen hundred dollars per annum. The District Attorney shall receive twelve hundred dollars per annum. The Superintendent of Schools shall receive three hundred dollars per annum. The County Commissioners shall each receive six hundred dollars per annum and such mileage as is now allowed by law; provided, that after the expiration of the terms of the present incumbents the County Commissioners shall each receive four hundred dollars per annum and such mileage as is now allowed by law; and, provided further, that for official services for which the county is liable, the Sheriff and County Clerk shall be paid out of the Salary Fund of the county. This Act Shall be in force and effect from and after its passage.

Chap. L.–An Act to amend Section five of an Act entitled “An Act in relation to public highways,” approved March 9, 1866.

[Approved February 14, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section five.  If twenty-four freeholders in any township of any county containing one hundred or more legal voters,

any county containing one hundred or more legal voters, or twelve freeholders of any county containing less than one hundred legal voters, shall petition the Board of County Commissioners of such county for the location, opening to the public use, re-establishment, change or vacation of any road or highway to connect with any highway heretofore established, or any street or alley in any unincorporated town in such county, setting forth in such petition the beginning, course and termination of such road, highway, street or alley proposed to be located, opened to public use, re-established, changed or vacated, together with the names of the owners or occupants of the land through which the same may pass; the Auditor of such county shall lay said petition before the Board of County Commissioners at their next session thereafter, and thereupon such Board of County Commissioners may, within twenty days thereafter, proceed to locate, open to public use, re-establish, change or vacate such road, highway, street or alley. Before opening any new road, street or alley through any property, it shall be condemned to public use as follows: The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint two disinterested persons to view out and locate such new road, street or alley, and such two persons in conjunction with two others, chosen by any owner or occupant, or by the several owners or occupants of property to be traversed by such road, street or alley, shall ascertain the damage done to any property so traversed, after deducting any advantage arising from such road, street or alley, to the owner or occupant of such property. If such four persons cannot agree as to such damages, then they shall choose a fifth, and the decision of a majority of them shall govern, and be reported to the Board of County Commissioners. If the owner, or owners or occupants of any property so condemned shall not acquiesce in the amount of damages so reported, an examination may be had before the board and witnesses be examined for the State and such owner or owners or occupants, and the decision of the board shall be final, unless such owner or owners or occupants appeal from the decision of the board within thirty days after such decision to the District Court, which he or they may do in the same manner that appeals are taken from the Justices to the District Court. Upon finally ascertaining such damages, the board shall provide for the payment of such damages, either by the person interested in such road, street or alley, or pay the same out of the county treasury as other claims are paid, and after such payment is made the board shall then cause such road, street or alley to be opened.

Petition to open highway.

Appoint viewers.

Appeal from decision.

Non-resident ward.

Non-resident guardian.

Must file certificate

Receipt filed.

Chap. LI.–An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment and prescribe the duties of guardians,” approved November 29, 1861.

[Approved February 14, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  If a ward be a non-resident of this State, and entitled to property in this State, and have a guardian by authority of the laws of the State, or Territory of the United States, or of a foreign country in which such ward resides, such property may be removed to such State or Territory or foreign country in which such ward resides, upon the application of such guardian to the District Court of this State in the county in which the property of such ward, or any part of such property is situated.

      Sec. 2.  The application must be made upon ten days’ notice to the resident executor, administrator or guardian, if there be such, and upon such application the non-resident guardian must produce and file a certificate under the hand of the Clerk and seal of the court from which his appointment was derived, showing:

      First-A transcript of the record of his appointment.

      Second-That he has entered upon the discharge of his duties.

      Third-That he is entitled by the laws of the State, Territory or country of his appointment to the possession of the estate of his ward, or must produce and file a certificate, under the hand and seal of the Clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the country of his residence, of the estates of persons under guardianship, or of the highest court of such country, attested by a Minister, Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States resident in such country, that by the laws of such country the applicant is entitled to the custody of the estate of his ward, without the appointment of any court. Upon such application, unless good cause to the contrary is shown, the court may in its discretion, upon satisfactory proof that the interests of such ward are fully protected by sufficient security, in the place of residence of such foreign guardian, make an order granting to such guardian leave to take and remove the property of his ward to the State or place of his residence, which is authority to him to sue for and receive the same in his own name for the use and benefit of his ward.

      Sec. 3.  Such order is a discharge of the executor, administrator, local guardian, or other person in whose possession the property may be at the time the order is made, on filing with the court the receipt therefor of the foreign guardian of such absent ward; said receipt shall be recorded in the records of said court, and the court shall make an order discharging said executor, administrator or local guardian from all further duties and responsibilities as such executor,

duties and responsibilities as such executor, administrator or guardian, and that his letters of administration or guardianship are vacated, and that the sureties upon the bond of such executor, administrator or guardian are released from any liability thereafter incurred.

Chap. LII.–An Act to provide for a county hospital in Churchill county, and matters pertaining thereto.

[Approved February 15, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Board of Commissioners of Churchill county are hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the purchase of a suitable piece, parcel or tract of land within a reasonable distance of the county seat of said county, and to cause to be erected thereon, and properly equipped, a county hospital; provided, that if the said Board of Commissioners think the best interest of the county will be subserved, they may purchase a suitable building or buildings, with a site, for such purpose; and, provided further, that the entire cost of the same shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars.

      Sec. 2.  Immediately after the completion and furnishing or purchase of a county hospital, the said Board of Commissioners shall cause the transfer of all persons receiving aid from the county to the said county hospital, where they shall be properly cared for.

      Sec. 3.  All persons applying for county aid, and refusing to enter the hospital herein provided for, after such refusal, shall not be cared for or treated elsewhere at the expense of the county.

      Sec. 4.  The said Board of County Commissioners, if in their discretion they deem it necessary, are hereby authorized and empowered to transfer five hundred dollars from the General or Contingent Fund of the county to the Indigent Sick Fund.

      Sec. 5.  The said Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to sell at public auction, after giving notice of the sale thereof, according to law, the building and lands connected therewith, which is now used for a county hospital, and to place the proceeds thereof into the General School Fund of said county.

Commissioners empowered.

Transfer indigents.

Transfer money.

Empowered to sell

Entitled to receive money.

Duty of Commissioners.

Bonds to bear interest, and how payable.

Amount applicable.

Chap. LIII.–An Act to encourage the construction of a railroad in the southern portion of the State of Nevada, and repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

[Approved February 15, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Whenever within five (5) years from the passage of this Act the Nevada and Southwestern Railway Company, a corporation heretofore organized and now existing under the general laws of the State of Nevada, shall have constructed a first-class iron railroad of either narrow or standard gauge, through the counties of White Pine, Lincoln, Nye and Esmeralda, or either of them, it shall be entitled to receive from such county through which it shall have completed such railroad the bonds of such county to the extent of two thousand ($2,000) dollars per mile, in case the road shall be a narrow gauge, and three thousand ($3,000) dollars per mile in case the road shall be a standard gauge, for each and every mile of the main track of such railroad completed within such county.

      Sec. 2.  Immediately upon receipt by the County Commissioners of either of said counties of a sworn certificate from the County Surveyor of their county, or of such a certificate from the Surveyor-General of the State of Nevada, setting forth that such railroad, as herein mentioned, has been completed, and the number of miles thereof within such county, it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of said county and they are hereby directed to immediately take such action as may be necessary to cause to be prepared, to issue and to deliver the bonds provided for in this Act to said company.

      Sec. 3.  Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of five (5) per cent. per annum, payable annually, and they shall be for the amount of five hundred ($500) dollars, one thousand ($1,000) dollars, and five thousand ($5,000) dollars respectively. They shall be printed with the necessary interest coupons attached to each, shall express upon the face of both bonds and coupons that they are payable in lawful money of the United States, subject to the provisions and conditions contained in this Act. Both bonds and coupons shall be payable to bearer, and the interest thereon shall be paid upon the first day of January subsequent to the issuance of such bonds, and upon the first day of each January thereafter until all interest payable upon the same shall have been fully extinguished. Both the interest and principal of said bonds shall only be paid by the Treasurer of the county from which they may have been issued, at the time and in accordance with the provision of this Act.

      Sec. 4.  In each of the counties from which bonds may be issued under and by virtue of this Act, there shall be annually applied from the revenue of such county,

applied from the revenue of such county, to the payment of the interest and the principal of said bonds, which shall have been issued by said county, a sum of money equal in amount to the sum which may be collected by said county from said Nevada and Southwestern Railway Company from the taxes levied upon the entire property of said company in said county, less the amount of taxes which may have been levied on and collected therefrom for State and school purposes; and the amount so applicable to the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of said bonds, shall be placed in a separate fund to be called the “ Railroad Interest and Sinking Fund,” which shall be applied, first, to the payment of the interest as herein directed, and, second, to the redemption of the principal of said bonds, as provided in this Act, it being the true intent and meaning of this section of this Act that the interest and principal of all of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall be paid only to the extent of the revenue derived by the respective counties from the taxes upon the property of said railroad company, less the amount realized by said counties, from the taxes levied for State and school purposes.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be payable at any time within twenty-five (25) years, at the option of the county issuing the same, and both the interest and principal shall be paid only as provided in this Act.

      Sec. 6.  The bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall be paid as follows: Whenever all interest due upon said bonds issued by the respective counties shall have been fully paid, and there shall remain in the Railroad Interest and Sinking Fund of either county which has issued bonds under the provisions of this Act a surplus of two thousand ($2,000) dollars or more, the Board of County Commissioners of such county shall insert an advertisement in at least one newspaper, deemed by such board as most likely to convey notice to the holders of such bonds, for a period of two weeks, stating the amount of money on hand applicable to the purchase of said bonds, and inviting sealed proposals to surrender the same to be made and filed with the Clerk of such board on or before a day certain to be therein named. At the next meeting of such board after the day named in said advertisement, the board shall open such sealed proposals as have been duly filed, and to the extent of the amount of money so advertised shall purchase the bonds so offered, giving the preference in all cases to the bidder who shall offer to surrender said bonds at the lowest price; provided, that no offer shall be accepted for more than the par value of said bonds, and if no offer be made to surrender any of such bonds, then the Board of Commissioners of said county shall immediately publish in such newspaper aforesaid notice of such fact, coupled with a notification to whomsoever may be the holder or owner of the bonds of said county, that such bonds or such portion thereof, commencing with the smallest numbered ones unredeemed, and so continuing, which numbers shall be specified in such published notice, will cease to bear interest after two weeks from the first publication of such latter notice.

Bonds payable at option.

How bonds shall be paid.

Preference given.

Will cease to bear interest.

Shall not constitute cause of action.

Shall apply to detached territory.

Faith of Nevada pledged.

Repeal.

such latter notice. After two weeks’ publication of the last-mentioned notice, the bonds, the numbers of which shall have been properly included in such notice, shall cease to bear interest, and the money referred to in the first publication mentioned in this section shall thereafter remain in the county treasury as a special deposit, subject to the surrender of the bonds, the numbers of which were advertised as aforesaid.

      Sec. 7.  The bonds to be issued under the provisions of this Act shall be delivered to said railroad company by the Board of County Commissioners of the respective counties named. They shall be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of the board, and shall bear the seal of such board. In case any of the bonds provided for in this Act shall remain unpaid at the end of twenty-five (25) years next after their issuance, they shall not constitute a cause of action against the county issuing them, but the same, with the interest thereon, shall continue to be paid by such county in the manner in this Act hereinbefore provided, and in no other way.

      Sec. 8.  In case any of the territory through which said railroad may be built shall hereafter be detached from the county within which it is now embraced, and such territory added to some other county, the provisions of this Act respecting the issuance of said bonds and their mode of payment shall apply to such county and the officers thereof the same as though such county was originally included within the provisions hereof.

      Sec. 9.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this Act shall never be repealed, nor so modified as in any way to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase any of the bonds in this Act provided, nor during the construction of said railroad after it has been in good faith commenced.

      Sec. 10.  All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Pay of jurors.

Chap. LIV.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “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,” approved February 12, 1885.

[Approved February 16, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section nine.  Each person summoned to attend as a grand or trial juror, unless he be excused by the Court at his own request, from serving on the day he is summoned to attend, shall receive three dollars per day for each day he may be in attendance, and fifteen cents per mile in traveling to and returning from court.

request, from serving on the day he is summoned to attend, shall receive three dollars per day for each day he may be in attendance, and fifteen cents per mile in traveling to and returning from court. In civil cases, the per diem of each juror engaged in the trial of the cause, to be paid by the party in whose favor the verdict is rendered, but to be recoverable as cost from the losing party. In every trial in a civil action before any court, if the jury be from any cause, discharged without finding a verdict, the fees of such jury shall be paid by the plaintiff, but may be recovered back as costs if he afterwards obtain judgment. Until they are paid, no further proceedings shall be had in the action. No person shall receive any fees for serving as a juror on a Coroner’s inquest, and jurors in Justices’ Courts shall receive but two dollars per day in civil cases; provided, that no fees shall be allowed trial jurors in criminal cases in Justices’ Courts. The fees paid to a juror by the parties in a civil case shall be deducted from the amount due him, and the balance only shall become a charge against the county.

No pay as Coroner’s juror.

Chap. LV.–An Act fixing the salaries of the county officers of Lincoln county, and providing for the compensation of a Deputy Sheriff therein.

[Approved February 17, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On and after the first Monday in January, 1889, the officers of Lincoln county shall receive the yearly salaries and compensations specified in this Act, and no more, to be paid in twelve equal payments to be made on the second Monday of each month.

      Sec. 2.  The Sheriff shall receive nine hundred dollars a year, and when it becomes necessary in criminal cases to travel a greater distance than twenty miles from the county seat, he shall make and present to the Board of County Commissioners a bill of items of expense necessarily and actually incurred and paid, certified under oath, and if all the items are shown to be correct they shall order the bill paid; but they shall not order it paid except for such items of expense as were actually and necessarily incurred, and for no greater amount than was so actually and necessarily incurred.

      Sec. 3.  The County Clerk shall receive five hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 4.  The County Treasurer shall receive eight hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 5.  The District Attorney shall receive eight hundred dollars a year.

Yearly salaries.

Expense incurred.

Duplicate copies to be filed.

Surplus to be paid.

Bondsmen liable.

Commissioners may transfer.

State to allow.

      Sec. 6.  The Recorder and Auditor shall receive fourteen hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 7.  The Assessor shall receive fourteen hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 8.  The County Commissioners shall each receive two hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 9.  The Superintendent of Public Schools shall receive two hundred dollars a year.

      Sec. 10.  The officers named shall collect and safely keep all the fees, percentages and compensations allowed by law for services rendered by them or their deputies, and on the first Monday of each month pay the same to the County Treasurer. They shall at the end of each month make out and file duplicate copies with the Board of County Commissioners and the County Treasurer of a full and accurate statement of such fees, percentages and compensations received by them during the month, and shall each keep a book in which shall be entered by items the services performed by them or their deputies, and the fees received therefor, which book shall at all times be open to the inspection of every citizen.

      Sec. 11.  Whenever during any quarter year ending March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, the fees, compensations and percentages allowed by law for the services rendered by the officers before mentioned, or any of them, and received by them, or any of them, and paid into the county treasury shall amount to more than his or their respective salaries, as herein specified, the Board of County Commissioners shall at their first meeting after the end of such quarter, order that one-half of the surplus over and above his or their salaries to be paid to such officer or officers who shall have paid in such greater amounts.

      Sec. 12.  No officer named in this Act shall perform any service, except for the county, until the legal fees for such service are paid, and if any officer shall refuse or neglect to collect such fees, he and his bondsmen shall be liable in double the amount of such fees, to recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

      Sec. 13.  All fees, percentages and compensations collected and paid to the County Treasurer as herein provided, shall be kept in a fund known as the Salary Fund. All warrants for the payments of salaries and compensations herein provided shall be drawn upon said fund. Whenever there shall be a surplus in the Salary Fund, the Board of County Commissioners may transfer said surplus to the General Fund; when there shall be a deficiency, they may transfer from the General Fund to the Salary Fund, a sum sufficient to meet warrants drawn against the latter.

      Sec. 14.  The State of Nevada shall allow the county of Lincoln, for the services named in the Revenue Act, for the Auditor a sum equal to the proportion of the State tax to the whole tax levied in the county on the basis of one hundred dollars per month for that officer; for the Assessor, a sum equal to the proportion of the State tax to the whole tax levied in the county, on the basis of the salary allowed by this Act; for the Treasurer, four per cent.

in the county, on the basis of the salary allowed by this Act; for the Treasurer, four per cent. on all moneys paid to the State after deducting school moneys. These allowances shall be made at the times of the semi-annual settlements provided by law, upon vouchers furnished the County Treasurer by the Board of County Commissioners.

      Sec. 15.  Immediately after the passage of this Act, the Board of County Commissioners may allow one of the deputies appointed by the Sheriff, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per month for services as such deputy, who shall also without further compensation act as jailer, the money to be paid out of the Salary Fund at the same times as other officers are paid.

      Sec. 16.  All Acts and parts of Acts in so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Deputy’s salary.

Repeal.

Chap. LVI.–An Act to prevent drunkenness in office, fixing the penalty thereof and providing for the enforcement of the same.

[Approved February 17, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Any civil officer in this State who shall, during his term of office, become intoxicated, or under the influence of alcoholic, malt or vinous liquors, so that he shall not at all times be in proper condition for the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, and shall be subject to removal from office by impeachment, if he be a State officer, and if a county or township officer, shall be removed from office by the judgment of the court in which the conviction is had, as a part of the penalty in such conviction.

      Sec. 2.  It Shall be the duty of the Sheriff and his deputies, Constable and his deputies, District Attorneys and all other peace officers in this State, upon receiving information from any person that the provisions of this Act have been violated, to immediately institute proceedings in the proper court against the person thus complained of, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment, and the provisions of this Act shall be specially charged to the grand juries of the several counties of the State at each sitting of the District Court.

      Sec. 3.  In case of the conviction of any State officer under the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the prosecuting officer obtaining such conviction to file a certified copy of the judgment roll with the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State shall lay the same before the Legislature at its next session after receiving said judgment roll.

Guilty of misdemeanor.

Institute proceedings

Judgment roll certified.

officer obtaining such conviction to file a certified copy of the judgment roll with the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State shall lay the same before the Legislature at its next session after receiving said judgment roll.

Possession of mortgaged property.

May be seized.

Chap. LVII.–An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning conveyances,” approved November 5, 1861; approved March 2, 1885.

[Approved February 17, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section sixty-six.  No mortgage of personal property shall be valid for any purpose against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to, and retained by, the mortgagee, or, unless the mortgage shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the county where the property is situated, and also in the county where the mortgageor resides. A mortgage upon personal property, including growing crops, executed, acknowledged and recorded, shall be valid against all third parties without such delivery of possession; provided, that no such mortgage shall be valid for any purpose as against other than the parties thereto, unless there be appended or annexed thereto the affidavits of the mortgageor and mortgagee, or some person in their behalf, setting forth that the mortgage is made in good faith, and given for a debt actually owing from the mortgageor, stating the amount and character of such debt, and that the same is not made to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of the mortgageor. Any personal property, mortgaged as aforesaid, may be seized under attachment or execution, and the surplus, over and above the mortgage debt, secured to any other creditor of the mortgageor by serving upon the mortgageor and mortgagee, or, in his absence from the county, upon his or their agent or other person in charge or possession of such personal property, a copy of the attachment or execution, or, in case no such person can be found in the county in charge or possession thereof, then by filing a copy of the writ of attachment or execution in the office of [the] County Recorder of the county where such property is situate, with a notice indorsed thereon by the officer executing the same, to the effect that such property is so attached. But the possession of mortgaged personal property shall not be taken from the mortgageor or mortgagee unless full payment of the mortgagee’s demand be first made, which, if done by the attaching or executing creditor of the mortgageor,

taching or executing creditor of the mortgageor, shall entitle him to hold such personal property and the possession thereof, under his levy for repayment to him of the amount so paid, in addition to his own individual demand; and any officer executing any execution, is hereby authorized to sell such property for the amount of such mortgage demand, in addition to the amount of the execution, and out of the proceeds of sale, to first satisfy such mortgage demand. In case of such levy of attachment or execution upon such mortgaged personal property, when the amount of the mortgage demand is not paid to the mortgagee, the officer may expose such property for sale, and may sell the same subject to the rights of the mortgagee under the mortgage, and the purchaser shall take the property subject to such rights and subject to the possession of the parties to the mortgage. The lien of a mortgagee upon a growing crop shall continue until after the crop shall be harvested and threshed or baled, or otherwise prepared for market, and delivered to the mortgagee or his order; provided, that a chattel mortgage upon a growing crop may be executed as well before as after the crop is planted, and when executed before the crop is planted, it shall be expressed in the mortgage that it is the intention of the parties that the same shall take effect upon the crops when planted. The several County Recorders of this State are hereby authorized and directed to procure for their respective offices, at the expense of the county, suitable books, properly indexed, for the recording of all chattel mortgages, which books shall be plainly labeled and marked “Records of Chattel Mortgages.” All chattel mortgages shall be recorded therein, and such books shall, at all times, be open to the public for inspection, and the mortgages therein recorded shall be canceled and discharged in the same manner as mortgages on real property are canceled and discharged. The Recorder of the several counties shall receive for recording chattel mortgages, indexing, and releasing the same, the same fees as are allowed them for mortgages on real estate; provided, that no chattel mortgage shall be given or be valid for a less sum than one hundred dollars.

Authorized to sell.

Lien to continue.

Chattel mortgages to be recorded.

Chap. LVIII.–An Act to provide for the preservation of fish in the Humboldt river and its tributaries.

[Approved February 18, 1887.]

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 or persons to catch or kill, in any manner whatever, or to induce, cause or employ any person or persons to catch or kill in any manner whatever, any of the fish within the waters of the Humboldt river, or within the waters of any of the tributaries thereof, from the first day of January to the first day of May following of each and every year.

Unlawful to catch or kill fish.

Unlawful to sell or expose.

Repeal.

whatever, any of the fish within the waters of the Humboldt river, or within the waters of any of the tributaries thereof, from the first day of January to the first day of May following of each and every year.

      Sec. 2.  It Shall be unlawful for any person or persons, from the first day of July to the first day of December following of each and every year, to sell or to expose for sale, or to buy, procure or accept for any consideration from any person or persons whatever any of the fish caught or killed in the Humboldt river, or in any of the tributaries thereof.

      Sec. 3.  Any violation of the provisions of this Act, or any of them, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any person so offending shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 4.  It shall be the duty of all District Attorneys, Sheriffs, Constables and all peace officers of the various counties in the State, containing part of the said Humboldt river, or any of the tributaries thereof, to enforce the provisions of this Act, and if any of the officers herein named shall, after receiving reliable information, or from their own observation of any violation of the provisions of this Act, or of any of them, wilfully neglect or refuse to arrest or prosecute any person or persons within their jurisdiction who may violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than two hundred dollars.

      Sec. 5.  All laws or parts of laws now in force in any way conflicting with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 6.  This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Repeal.

Chap. LIX.–An Act to repeal an Act authorizing the taxation of dogs.

[Approved February 18, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An Act authorizing the taxation of dogs, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby repealed.

Chap. LX.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the compensations of county officers in the several counties of this State, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1885.

[Approved February 19, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section two.  The Sheriff of Washoe County shall receive thirty-six hundred dollars per annum as the total compensation of said Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and Jailer; provided, said Sheriff shall be paid his actual necessary expenses incurred in traveling on official business, to be allowed and paid as other claims against the county are allowed and paid. The County Clerk shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the County Recorder and ex-officio Auditor shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum, of which sum twelve hundred dollars shall be for his salary as Auditor; the Treasurer shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the Assessor shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the Superintendent of Schools shall receive four hundred dollars per annum; the District Attorney shall receive fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be full compensation for all services; The Commissioners shall each receive six hundred dollars per annum.

Washoe county salaries of.

Chap. LXI.–An Act to provide for procuring meteorological reports for the State of Nevada, and appropriating money for the payment of the same.

[Approved February 19, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to contract with C. W. Friend, of Carson City, for the purchase of monthly meteorological reports for the years 1885 and 1886, the same to be uniform in style and matter with reports of like character heretofore supplied to the State of Nevada by said C. W. Friend.

      Sec. 2.  The price to be paid for said reports shall not exceed twelve dollars and a half a month for said monthly reports.

Monthly reports. 1885 and 1886.

Price paid.

Amount appropriated.

Librarian to preserve reports.

To be printed.

Controller to draw warrant.

      Sec. 3.  The sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund of the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of said reports, the claim to be passed upon by the Board of Examiners, and to be paid as other claims against the State are paid.

      Sec. 4.  Upon receiving the reports mentioned in the first section of this Act, the Secretary of State shall at once transfer the same to the State Librarian, together with all similar reports now on file in the office of the said Secretary of State. The State Librarian shall carefully preserve said reports, and he is hereby authorized and directed to have the same properly bound.

      Sec. 5.  Said C. W. Friend is hereby authorized to prepare a compendium of his reports for the years 1885 and 1886, similar to his compendium for the years 1883 and 1884, at a cost not to exceed two hundred dollars, and the Superintendent of State Printing is directed to print two thousand copies thereof for the use of the Legislature and the State officers.

      Sec. 6.  The sum of two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund of this State, not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of Section five of this Act, and the State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of C. W. Friend, for the sum of two hundred dollars when he has complied with the provisions of said Section five.

Central weather station established.

Volunteer stations.

Chap. LXII.–An Act to establish a weather service station in Nevada and to provide for the appointment of a Director thereof, and appropriating money to pay the expenses of the same.

[Approved February 19, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The establishment of a weather service station being necessary to secure as complete a history of the weather of Nevada as possible, in order to furnish trustworthy material for a study of its climate, to acquaint the people of the State and non-residents with the physical conditions of every locality, based upon reliable climatic data, thereby greatly benefitting agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and municipal interests, there is hereby established at Carson City, in this State, a central weather station, to be under the supervision of a competent Director, to be appointed as hereinafter provided.

      Sec. 2.  The duties of said Director shall be to establish volunteer weather stations throughout the State, at least one in each county, and to supervise the same; to receive reports from said volunteer weather stations;

said volunteer weather stations; reduce the same to tabular form, and prepare and have printed monthly reports, copies of which shall be, by said Director, sent to all colleges, high schools, hospitals, public libraries, agricultural societies and newspaper proprietors, who shall in writing request the same.

      Sec. 3.  Said Director shall also prepare an annual report of his labors, and of the work done by the volunteer weather service, and present the same to the Governor for publication. Fifteen hundred copies of said report shall be printed by the Superintendent of State Printing, of which five hundred shall be for the use of State officers, and one thousand shall be for the use of the Legislature. The Superintendent of State Printing shall do all the printing necessary to carry out the requirements of this Act, and the Secretary of State is authorized to furnish to said Director whatever stationery he may need in the proper performance of his duty.

      Sec. 4.  Said Director shall be appointed by the Governor, and in addition to other duties required under the provisions of this Act, he shall file with the State Librarian monthly reports of the meteorological observations provided for in the third section of this Act, and the same shall be carefully preserved by said Librarian and be open to inspection during office hours to any one applying therefor. For the performance of the duties prescribed by this Act, the Director hereinbefore mentioned, shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars a year, payable in monthly installments, upon the claims being allowed by the Board of Examiners, and said claims shall be paid as other claims against the State are paid, and shall be in full for all demands of said Director, including traveling expenses.

      Sec. 5.  Said Director is authorized to provide for the equipment of such volunteer weather stations as shall be established by him, of which there shall be at least one in each county, at a cost not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each station so established. Each station shall be supplied with the following instruments: One maximum thermometer, one minimum thermometer, one dry bulb thermometer, one wet bulb thermometer, one rain gauge, with overflow attachment, and such other instruments as may be necessary, of which the cost shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars for each station, as hereinbefore provided. Said Director shall apply to the United States Central Signal Office in Washington, D. C., to have the weather stations in this State recognized and registered as volunteer stations, auxiliary to the United States weather service, and shall also apply for and receive the printed blanks, franked envelopes and books of “Instructions for voluntary observers of the signal service of the United States Army,” and such other stationery as is usually supplied to the volunteer observers. All instruments purchased with State funds by said Director for use in any department of the weather service in this State, and all charts, maps, diagrams and tabulated forms made by him in his official capacity, shall be the property of the State solely.

Annual report.

Necessary printing and stationery.

Director appointed.

Monthly reports.

Salary of Director.

Instruments of stations, cost of.

Apply for blanks, etc.

Property the State.

Salary appropriated.

To purchase instruments.

County Auditors constituted reporters.

      Sec. 6.  For the purpose of paying the salary of the Director herein mentioned during the years 1887 and 1888, the sum of twelve hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated.

      Sec. 7.  The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied in purchasing the instruments provided for in the fifth section of this Act.

      Sec. 8.  The County Auditors of the respective counties of this State are hereby constituted volunteer reporters of meteorological observations, and shall keep and record such observations and reports as are required by the provisions of this Act, and report the same to the Director of the Nevada weather service station, and shall perform such duty without compensation additional to that now allowed by law for the performance of other duties of their office.

Infected with disease.

To be enclosed or herded.

A misdemeanor.

Chap. LXIII.–An Act to protect the live stock of this State from disease, and providing a penalty for driving or allowing diseased stock to run at large upon the public lands.

[Approved February 19, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful to drive any horse infected with glanders, or pink eye; any sheep infected with scab, or foot rot; any neat cattle infected with spanich or texes or splenic fever, or with pleuro-pneumonia; any hog infected with cholera or trichina, or any of said animals that are infected with or that have been exposed to any of the above diseases whatever, along any highway or traveled road in this State.

      Sec. 2.  The owner of any animal or animals so infected or diseased, as mentioned in Section one of this Act, or that has been exposed to any contagious disease, and the person or persons in charge thereof shall keep such animal or animals safely enclosed or securely herded upon lands owned by or held in actual possession by them under the laws of this State by the owner or person in charge of such animal or animals.

      Sec. 3.  Every person who may violate either of the preceding sections of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor by a fine not less than thirty nor exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in [the] county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and the owner or owners of any animal or animals injured or damaged by any act or omission in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to recover the amount of damages sustained from the owner or owners of the diseased live stock from which the contagion came, and shall also be entitled to recover the cost of prosecution.

in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to recover the amount of damages sustained from the owner or owners of the diseased live stock from which the contagion came, and shall also be entitled to recover the cost of prosecution.

Entitled to recover damages.

Chap. LXIV.–An Act relating to and consolidating certain county offices in the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On and after the first Monday in January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the District Attorneys, in addition to their respective duties, shall be ex-officio Superintendent of Schools within their respective counties, without additional compensation.

      Sec. 2.  There shall be no County Superintendent of Schools elected in this State except as provided in Section one of this Act.

      Sec. 3.  All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

District Attorneys, ex-officio Superintendent of Schools.

Chap. LXV.–An Act to encourage the construction of a railroad in the county of Humboldt, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Whenever, within five years from the passage of this Act, the Nevada, Idaho and Montana Railway Company, a corporation hertofore organized and now existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada, shall have constructed, a first-class iron railroad, of either standard or narrow gauge, from the Central Pacific Railroad, at or in the vicinity of the town of Winnemucca, to the northern boundary line of the State of Nevada, it shall be entitled to receive the bond of said county of Humboldt to the extent of three thousand dollars per mile, in case the road shall be a standard gauge, and two thousand dollars per mile in case the road shall be a narrow gauge, for each and every mile of the main track of said railroad completed in said county.

Entitled to receive money.

Duty of Commissioners.

Bonds to bear interest and how payable.

Amount applicable.

Bonds payable at option.

narrow gauge, for each and every mile of the main track of said railroad completed in said county.

      Sec. 2.  Immediately upon the receipt by the Board of County Commissioners of said county of Humboldt of a sworn certificate of the County Surveyor of said county, or of such a certificate from the Surveyor-General of the State of Nevada, setting forth that such railroad as herein mentioned, has been completed and the number of miles thereof within the county of Humboldt, it shall be the duty of said Board of County Commissioners, and they are hereby directed to take such action as may be necessary to cause to be prepared, to issue and to deliver the bonds provided for in this Act to said railroad company.

      Sec. 3.  Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four (4) per cent. per annum, payable annually, and they shall be for the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars, one thousand ($1,000) dollars, and five thousand ($5,000), respectively. They shall be printed with necessary interest coupons attached to each, and shall express upon the face of both bonds and coupons that they are payable in lawful money of the United States, subject to the provisions and conditions of this Act. Both bonds and coupons shall be payable to bearer, and the interest thereon shall be paid upon the first day of January subsequent to their issuance, and upon the first day of each January thereafter until the same shall have been fully extinguished. Both the interest and principal of said bonds shall only be paid by the Treasurer of said county of Humboldt at the time and in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

      Sec. 4.  There shall be annually applied from the revenue of said county of Humboldt to the payment of the interest of the bonds which may be issued under the provisions of this Act, and to the redemption of the principal thereof, a sum of money equal in amount to the sum which may be collected by said county from said Nevada, Idaho and Montana Railway Company from the taxes levied upon the entire property of said company in said county, less the amount of taxes which may have been levied for State and school purposes, and the amount so applicable to the payment of the interest and the redemption of principal of said bonds shall be placed in a separate fund, to be called the “Railroad Interest and Sinking Fund,” which said fund shall be applied: First-To the payment of the interest as herein directed; and Second-To the redemption of the principal of said bonds as provided in this Act, it being the true intent and meaning of this section of this Act, that the interest and principal of all of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, shall be paid only to the extent of the revenue derived by said county from the taxes upon all of the property of said company, less the amount realized by said county from the taxes levied and collected from said company for State and school purposes.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be payable at any time within twenty-five years from the date of their issuance, at the option of said county, and both the interest and principal shall be paid only as provided in this Act.

of said county, and both the interest and principal shall be paid only as provided in this Act.

      Sec. 6.  The bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall be paid as follows: Whenever all of the interest due upon said bonds issued by said county shall have been fully paid, and there shall remain in the Railroad Interest and Sinking Fund of said county a surplus of two thousand dollars or more, the Board of County Commissioners of said county shall insert an advertisement in at least one newspaper deemed by such board as most likely to convey notice to the holders of such bonds, for a period of two weeks, stating the amount of money on hand applicable to the purchase of said bonds, and inviting sealed proposals to surrender the same to be made and filed with the Clerk of said board on or before a day certain to be named therein. At the next meeting of said board after the day named in said advertisement, the board shall open such sealed proposals as shall have been duly filed, and to the extent of the amount of money so advertised shall purchase the bonds so offered, giving the preference in all cases to the bidder who shall offer to surrender the bonds at the lowest price; provided, that no offer shall be accepted for more than the par value of said bonds, and if no offer be made to surrender any of said bonds, then the Board of County Commissioners of said county shall immediately publish in such newspaper aforesaid notice of such fact, coupled with a notification to whomsoever may be the holder or owner of the bonds of said county, that such bonds or such portion thereof commencing with the smallest numbered ones unredeemed, and so continuing, which number shall be specified in such published notice, will cease to bear interest after two weeks from the first publication of such latter notice. After two weeks’ publication of the last mentioned notice the bonds, the numbers of which shall have been properly included in such notice, shall cease to bear interest, and the money referred to in the first publication mentioned in this section, shall thereafter remain in the county treasury as a special deposit, subject to the surrender of the bonds, the numbers of which were advertised as aforesaid.

      Sec. 7.  The bonds to be issued under the provisions of this Act shall be delivered to said railroad company by the Board of County Commissioners of said county of Humboldt. They shall be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said board, and under the seal of the board, and in case any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall remain unpaid at the end of twenty-five years, next after their issuance, they shall not constitute a cause of action against said county, but the same, together with the interest thereon, shall continue to be paid by said county in the manner in this Act hereinbefore provided and in no other way.

      Sec. 8.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this Act shall never be repealed nor so modified as in any way to impair the security of those who shall hold or purchase said bonds in this Act provided, nor during the construction of said railroad after it has been in good faith commenced.

How bonds shall be paid.

Preference given.

Shall be cease to bear interest.

Company to receive bonds.

Faith pledged.

Warden to construct line.

Chap. LXVI.–An Act to provide for constructing a telephone line between the office of the Warden of the State Prison and the office of the Sheriff of Ormsby county.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Warden of the State Prison is hereby authorized to construct or have constructed and equipped a telephone line, with proper connections, between the office of said Warden at the State prison and the office of the Sheriff of Ormsby county in Carson City, Nevada. The cost of constructing and maintaining said telephone line shall be paid out of the appropriation for the support of the Nevada State prison.

Where applied.

Chap. LXVII.–An Act amendatory of 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; amended March 18, 1885.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section three of this Act shall read as follows:

      Section three.  This Act shall apply to Ormsby, Humboldt, Elko and Eureka counties only.

To transfer maps.

Chap. LXVIII.–An Act relative to maps of State and county boundaries.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Secretary of State is directed to transfer from his office, to the office of the Surveyor-General, all maps of State and county boundaries now in his possession. All such maps shall hereafter be filed in the office of the Surveyor-General.

      Sec. 2.  All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Chap. LXIX.–An Act relating to and consolidating certain county offices in the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On and after the first Monday in January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, in all counties in the State of Nevada containing a voting population of from three hundred and fifty to six hundred and ninety inclusive, to be determined by the total vote cast therein at the last general election preceding the time when the officers hereinafter named are required to assume the duties of their respective offices, the Sheriffs in addition to their duties as Sheriffs, shall be ex-officio Assessors, and shall receive therefor one-half the compensation allowed by law to the present County Assessors, unless otherwise hereafter provided by law.

      Sec. 2.  At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday in November, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety, and at each subsequent general election there shall not be elected in the counties affected by this Act any County Assessor except as provided in Section one of this Act.

      Sec. 3.  All Acts and parts of Acts in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sheriffs, ex-officio Assessors.

Proviso.

Chap. LXX.–An Act to provide for the appointment of Deputy County Assessors, and to provide for their compensation.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The County Commissioners of each county, in their discretion, may authorize the County Assessor to appoint one or more deputies, who shall receive not to exceed five dollars for each day’s service actually performed, and said Commissioners shall not allow pay for such deputy for more than six months in each year, and may limit the time for which he is to be paid to any number of days less than six months, in their discretion.

      Sec. 2.  The compensation of Deputy Assessors shall be paid by the County Treasurer out of the same fund and in the same manner as the salary of the Assessor.

      Sec. 3.  The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any county in this State which polled eighteen hundred votes or more at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

May appoint deputies.

How paid.

When not applicable.

more at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

      Sec. 4.  All Act and parts of Acts, in so far as they may conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

Who liable.

Chap. LXXI.–An Act fixing the rate of poll tax in the State of Nevada, and to repeal all other Acts relating thereto.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Each male resident of this State, over twenty-one and under sixty years of age, uncivilized American Indians exempt, and not by law exempt, shall pay an annual poll tax, for the use of the State and county, of three ($3) dollars, and for the purpose of this Act any person shall be deemed to be a resident of this State who shall reside in this State or who shall be employed therein upon any public or private works for a period exceeding ten days.

      Sec. 2.  All Acts or parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

Property exempt from execution.

Chap. LXXII.–An Act to amend Section two hundred and twenty-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 February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section two hundred and twenty-one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section two hundred and twenty-one.  The following property shall be exempt from execution except as herein otherwise specially provided:

      First-Chairs, tables, desks and books, to the value of one hundred dollars, belonging to the judgment debtor.

      Second-Necessary household table and kitchen furniture belonging to the judgment debtor, including stove, stovepipe and stove furniture, wearing apparel, beds, bedding and bedsteads, and provisions and firewood actually provided for individual or family use sufficient for one month.

      Third-The farming utensils or implements of husbandry of the judgment debtor; also two oxen or two horses or two mules, and their harness, two cows and one cart or wagon, and food for such oxen, horses, cows or mules for one month; also all seed, grain or vegetables, actually provided, reserved or on hand for the purpose of planting or sowing at any time within the ensuing six months, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars.

      Fourth-The tools and implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the instruments and chests of a surgeon, physician, surveyor and dentist, necessary to the exercise of their profession, with their scientific and professional libraries, and the law libraries of an attorney or counselor, and the libraries of ministers of the gospel.

      Fifth-The cabin or dwelling of a miner, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred dollars, also his sluices, pipes, hose, windlass, whim, derrick, cars, pumps, tools, implements and appliances necessary for carrying on any kind of mining operations, not exceeding in value the aggregate sum of five hundred dollars, and two horses, mules or oxen, with their harness, and food for such horses, oxen or mules for one month, when necessary to be used for any whim, windlass, derrick, car, pump or hoisting apparatus.

      Sixth-Two oxen, two horses or two mules and their harness, and one cart or wagon, by the use of which a cartman, huckster, peddler, teamster or other laborer habitually earns his living; and one horse with vehicle and harness or other equipments used by a physician or surgeon or minister of the gospel in making his professional visits, and also food for such oxen, mules or horses for one month. For every livery stable keeper, two horses or mules, with vehicle and harness; provided, the whole shall not exceed in value five hundred dollars.

      Seventh-One sewing machine, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars, in actual use by the debtor or his family.

      Eighth-All fire engines, hooks and ladders, with the carts, trucks and carriages, hose, buckets, implements and apparatus thereto appertaining, and all furniture and uniforms of any fire company or department now existing, or which may be, under the laws of this State, hereafter organized.

      Ninth-All arms, uniforms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person.

      Tenth-All court houses, jails, public offices and buildings, lots, grounds and personal property, the fixtures, furniture, books, paper and appurtenances belonging and pertaining to the court house, jail and public offices, belonging to any county of this State; all cemeteries, public squares, parks and places, and public buildings, town halls, public markets, buildings for the use of the fire departments, and military organizations, and the lots and grounds thereto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or incorporated city or dedicated by such town or city to health, ornament or public use, or for the use of any fire or military company now existing, or which may be, under the laws of the State, hereafter organized.

Property exempt from execution.

Exception.

ing, or which may be, under the laws of the State, hereafter organized.

      Eleventh-No article or species of property mentioned in this section shall be exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price, or upon a mortgage thereon.

To minors, prohibited.

Misdemeanor.

Chap. LXXIII.–An Act to restrict the sale of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons within this State to sell or give to any minor under the age of eighteen years, any cigarette or cigarettes, cigar or cigars, or any tobacco of any kind or description, without a written order from one of the parents or guardians.

      Sec. 2.  Any person within this State who shall violate any of the provisions of Section one of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding two months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Commissioners authorized to pay.

Chap. LXXIV.–An Act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Elko county to pay J. B. Fitch for extra labor, expenses and material in building the State University at Elko.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Elko county, State of Nevada, are authorized by this Act to pay J. B. Fitch, from the General County Fund, one thousand dollars for extra labor, material and expenses incurred and paid by him in building the State University at Elko, during the years 1874 and 1875.

Chap. LXXV.–An Act to relating to District Attorneys and partners thereof.

[Approved February 23, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  No District Attorney, or partner thereof, shall appear within his county as attorney in, or directly or indirectly aid, counsel or assist in the defense in any criminal action began or prosecuted during his term; nor in any civil action began or prosecuted during his term, in behalf of any person suing or sued by the State or any county thereof.

      Sec. 2.  A violation of this Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, and in addition the offender shall be disbarred from practicing law in any of the courts of this State until restored by Supreme Court of the State.

      Sec. 3.  This Act shall apply with equal effect to any and all partners of said District Attorneys.

Not to engage as counsel against State or county.

Misdemeanor.

Chap. LXXVI.–An Act to further define and punish embezzlement.

[Approved February 24, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Any person, or any agent, manager or clerk of any person, corporation, association or partnership with whom any money, property or effects shall have been deposited or entrusted, who shall use or appropriate such money, property or effects or any part thereof in any manner or for any other purpose than that for which the same was deposited or entrusted, shall be guilty of embezzlement.

      Sec. 2.  Every person, agent, manager or clerk convicted under the provisions of this Act shall be imprisoned in the State prison not less than one nor more than fifteen years.

Defined.

Imprisonment.

Amount allowed.

Chap. LXXVII.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act in relation to money of account and interest,” approved November 28, 1861.

[Approved February 24, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section four of the above Act is amended so as to read as follows:

      Section four.  When there is no express contract, in writing, fixing a different rate of interest, interest shall be allowed at the rate of seven per cent. per annum for all moneys after they become due on any bond, bill or promissory note, or other instrument of writing, on any judgment recovered before any court in this State for money lent, for money due on the settlement of accounts from the day on which the balance is ascertained, and from money received to the use of another.

Time granted.

Chap. LXXVIII.–An Act to grant leave of absence to Geo. F. Talbot, District Attorney of Elko county.

[Approved February 25, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Geo. F. Talbot, District Attorney of Elko county, is granted a leave of absence from this State for the term of four months at any time during the years 1887 and 1888, which he may select; provided, that he shall have and leave a competent deputy to faithfully discharge the duties of his said office.

Chap. LXXIX.–An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act concerning crime and punishments,” approved November 26, 1861.

[Approved February 25, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section one hundred and ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section one hundred and ten.  If two or more persons shall conspire either to commit any offense or falsely and maliciously to indict another for any offense,

conspire either to commit any offense or falsely and maliciously to indict another for any offense, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any such offense, or falsely to move or maintain any suit, or to cheat or defraud any person of any property by any means which, if executed, would amount to a cheat, or to obtain money or property by false pretenses, or to cheat or defraud any person of any property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or to commit any acts injurious to the public health, to public morals or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice or due administration of the laws, they shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars; provided, that it shall not be necessary to procure conviction under this section, to prove any overt act done in pursuance of said conspiracy; and provided further, that no part of this Act shall be construed in any court of this State to restrict or prohibit the orderly and peaceably assembling or co-operation of persons employed in any profession, trade or handicraft for the purpose of securing an advance in the rate of wages, or compensation, or for the maintenance of such rate.

Conspire and defraud.

Penalty.

Chap. LXXX.–An Act to provide for any person or persons owning or controlling any ditches, diverting the waters of any river or stream in and on to lands for the purpose of irrigation; to construct and maintain waste ditches and flumes, and to provide the right of way through the lands of others.

[Approved February 26, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Any person or persons who have constructed, or who may construct any ditch or flume for the purpose of diverting the water of any river or stream in and on to their lands for the purpose irrigating and cultivating the same, or who owns or controls or may own and control any such ditch flume, and who have no natural or artificial ditch or way for conveying off any or all surplus water from such lands, shall have the right to enter upon private lands for the purpose of examining and surveying the same for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a waste ditch and the necessary flumes connected therewith, and when such lands cannot be obtained by the consent of the owner or owners thereof, so much of the same as may be necessary for the construction of the said waste ditch and flumes may be appropriated therefor in the same manner as is provided for the appropriation of lands of others in an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to allow any person or persons to divert the waters of any river or stream, and run the same through any ditch or flume, and to provide for the right of way through the lands of others,” approved March 3, 1866; approved March 5, 1869.

Right to enter private lands.

son or persons to divert the waters of any river or stream, and run the same through any ditch or flume, and to provide for the right of way through the lands of others,” approved March 3, 1866; approved March 5, 1869.

Unlawful to rent or keep

Penalty.

Competent evidence.

Duty of officers.

Chap. LXXXI.–An Act to regulate houses of prostitution, dance houses, and houses where beer, wine or spirituous liquors are sold.

[Approved February 26, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent of any owner, or any other person to keep any house of ill-fame, or to let or rent for any length of time whatever to any woman of ill-fame any house, room or structure situated within four hundred yards of any school house or school room used by any of the public schools in the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent of any owner or any other person to keep, let or rent for any length of time, or at all, any house fronting on the principal business street or thoroughfare of any of the towns of this State, for the purpose of prostitution or for the purpose of keeping any dance house or house commonly called a hurdy house, or house where wine, beer or spirituous liquors are sold or served by females or female waiters or attendants, or where females are used or employed to attract or solicit custom, nor shall any entrance or exit way to any house referred to in this section be made or used from the principal business street or thoroughfare of any of the towns of this State.

      Sec. 3.  Any person violating the provisions of Sections one or two of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than five nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

      Sec. 4.  The provisions of this Act shall not apply to towns and cities now incorporated.

      Sec. 5.  In the trial of all cases arising under the provisions of this Act, evidence of general reputation shall be deemed competent evidence as to the question of the ill-fame of any house alleged to be so kept, and to the question of the ill-fame of such woman.

      Sec. 6.  It shall be the duty of the District Attorney and Sheriff of each county in this State to see that the provisions of this Act are strictly enforced and carried into effect, and upon neglecting so to do they,

upon neglecting so to do they, or either of them, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in office, and may be proceeded against as provided in Sections sixty-three to seventy-two, inclusive, of an Act entitled “An Act relating to elections,” approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

      Sec. 7.  This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Chap. LXXXII.–An Act to regulate and license mutual life associations in this State.

[Approved February 26, 1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Mutual life assessment associations, duly incorporated and organized on the life plan only, and who only issue plain life certificates and none other, shall not be required to make a showing of capital stock, but shall be permitted to do business in this State upon the following conditions only: They shall each pay into the treasury of the State, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the State Controller, the sum of two hundred dollars per annum; upon the payment of said sum the State Controller shall issue to such life association a license duly verified under his hand and attested by his seal of office, authorizing such association to do business in this State for the period of one year from the date thereof, and subject to the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to license and regulate insurance business in this State,” approved February 23, 1881, except so far as in this Act special provision is made.

Payment of license.

Chap. LXXXIII.–An Act consolidating certain county offices in the State of Nevada, and fixing the compensation of the officers thereof.

[Approved February 26,1887.]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On an after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1889, in all counties of this State containing a voting population of not less than four hundred nor more than five hundred, to be determined by the total vote cast therein at the general election next preceding the election at which the officers hereinafter named shall be required to be elected,

Determined by total vote cast.

Not to be elected.

Fees and compensation.

Repeal.

election next preceding the election at which the officers hereinafter named shall be required to be elected, prior to assuming the duties of their respective offices, the County Clerks, in addition to their duties as County Clerks, shall be ex-officio County Treasurers. The District Attorneys, in addition to their duties as District Attorneys, shall be ex-officio County Superintendents of Public Schools.

      Sec. 2.  At the general election, to be held on the first Tuesday in November, A. D. 1888, and at each subsequent election, there shall not be elected, in the counties affected by this Act, any County Treasurer or County Superintendent of Public Schools.

      Sec. 3.  The following named officers, in the counties affected by this Act, shall receive in full payment for all services rendered by them, from and after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1889, the following compensation: The County Clerks, for services as County Clerks, the fees allowed to County Clerks under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate fees and compensation for official services in the State of Nevada,” approved March 9, 1865, and for services as ex-officio County Treasurers, the sum of five hundred dollars per annum. Said sum being full compensation for all services rendered as ex-officio County Treasurers. The District Attorneys, for services as District Attorneys and ex-officio County Superintendents of Public Schools, shall receive nine hundred dollars per annum and such fees as are now allowed by law.

      Sec. 4.  All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with or which are repugnant to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.