Chapter 1–An act to create a legislative fund.

[Approved January 23, 1911]

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 the per diem of 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 money now in the general fund not otherwise especially appropriated, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000), which shall constitute the legislative fund.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the members and attaches of the senate and assembly, for per diem, mileage, stationery allowances, compensation and incidental expenses of the respective houses, when properly certified to, in accordance with 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.

Legislative fund created

Controller and treasurer, duties of

Chap. 2–An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to require the acceptance and collection of grants, devises, bequests, donations and assignments to the State of Nevada,” approved February 26, 1901.

[Approved January 27, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the act entitled “An act to require the acceptance and collection of grants, devises, bequests, dona

Repeal

tions and assignments to the State of Nevada,” approved February 26, 1901, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Chaplains for legislature

Duties of controller and treasurer

Chap. 3–An act to provide chaplains for the legislature of the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 1, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The senate and assembly of the State of Nevada may invite ministers of the different religious denominations to officiate alternately as chaplains of their respective houses, at a compensation of five dollars per day, to be paid out of the legislative fund at the same time and in the same manner as other payment for services to said houses are made.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the payment of the compensation provided herein and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same.

      Sec. 3.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Gerlach Township, justice of peace and constable, salaries of

Retain certain fees

Chap. 4–An act fixing and regulating the salaries and fees of the justice of the peace and constable of Gerlach Township, Washoe County, Nevada, and providing for the payment of the same.

[Approved February 1, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the approval of this act, the justice of the peace of Gerlach Township, Washoe County, Nevada, and the constable of said township shall each be allowed a salary and fees as follows: The justice of said township, nine hundred dollars per annum, payable in twelve monthly installments of seventy-five dollars each; and the constable of said township, nine hundred dollars per annum, payable in twelve monthly installments of seventy-five dollars each.

      Sec. 2.  In addition to the salaries specified in the preceding section, the said officers shall be entitled to collect and retain the fees, in civil cases only, as are now provided by law.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners of Washoe County, Nevada, shall allow the salaries named in section 1 of this act, as other salaries are allowed, and the county auditor shall draw his warrants for the same, and the county treasurer shall pay the same.

Commissioners to allow salaries

Chap. 5–An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act to amend article V of an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the town of Reno, and to establish a city government therefor,’ approved March 16, 1903,” as amended March 13, 1905, and further amended March 28, 1907, and further amended March 31, 1909.

[Approved February 1, 1911]

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 to read as follows:

      Section 1.  There shall be a city attorney, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city at each general city election and he shall hold office for the term of two years and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. No person not a licensed and practicing attorney of the supreme court of this state, in good standing at the bar, a bona fide resident of the city and a taxpayer therein, shall be eligible to the office of the city attorney.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

Reno city attorney, salary of

Repeal

In effect

Chap. 6–An act to amend an act entitled “An act fixing the number of officers and attaches of the legislature of the State of Nevada, and to define their duties and specify their pay and repeal all acts in conflict therewith,” approved January 27, 1909.

[Approved February 2, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section one of said act, approved January 27, 1909, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The officers and attaches of the senate shall consist of one secretary, one assistant secretary, one sergeant-at-arms, one assistant sergeant-at-arms, one minute clerk, one assistant minute clerk, one journal clerk, one assistant journal clerk, one engrossing clerk, one assistant engrossing clerk, one enrolling clerk, one assistant enrolling clerk, one copying clerk, one assistant copying clerk, one bill clerk, five committee clerks, one stenographer, one messenger, two pages, and one porter.

Officers and attaches of legislature

Salaries of same

one assistant copying clerk, one bill clerk, five committee clerks, one stenographer, one messenger, two pages, and one porter.

      Sec. 2.  Section three is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  There shall be paid to the several officers and attaches named in this act, for all services rendered by them under the provisions of this act, the following sums of money and no more:

      The secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the assembly shall each receive seven dollars per day; the assistant secretary of the senate and the assistant clerk of the assembly shall each receive six dollars per day; the minute clerk, the assistant minute clerk, the journal clerk, the assistant journal clerk, the engrossing clerk, the assistant engrossing clerk, the enrolling clerk, the assistant enrolling clerk of the senate and assembly shall each receive six dollars per day; the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and of the assembly shall each receive six dollars per day; the assistant sergeant-at-arms, the copying clerk, the assistant copying clerk of the senate and assembly, the committee clerks of the senate and assembly, the bill clerk and stenographer shall each receive six dollars per day; the messenger of the senate and of the assembly shall each receive five dollars per day; the pages of the senate and assembly shall each receive two dollars per day; the porter of the senate and of the assembly, and assistant porter of the assembly shall each receive three dollars per day; provided, however, that in case either the senate or the assembly shall organize or act with a less number of attaches than herein provided, such organization or action shall be legal; and, provided further, that either the senate or the assembly may, by resolution, increase or diminish the number of its attaches any time during the session, within the limits hereinbefore provided.

Copying senate journal

Secretary of state to certify

Chap. 7–An act to provide for copying the journal of the senate for the twenty-fifth session.

[Approved February 6, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the legislative fund to be paid to Mrs. W. D. McNeilly for copying the journal of the senate of the twenty-fifth session of the Nevada State Legislature for the state printer.

      Sec. 2.  Upon a receipt of a certificate from the Honorable George W. Brodigan, secretary of state, that the journal of the senate of the twenty-fifth session of the Nevada State Legislature has been correctly copied and delivered to the secretary of state, the controller shall draw his warrant in favor of the said Mrs.

said Mrs. W. D. McNeilly, named in section one of this act, for the sum of two hundred dollars, and the state treasurer shall pay the same.

Chap. 8–An act to provide for the removal of the county-seat of Lyon County from the town of Dayton to the city of Yerington.

[Approved February 9, 1911]

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 May, nineteen hundred and eleven, the county-seat of Lyon County shall be located at the city of Yerington, 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 the said city of Yerington one week preceding the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eleven.

      Sec. 3.  The county commissioners of Lyon County shall provide for the removal of the archives, and all other movable property belonging to said county, and now located at the town of Dayton, to the said city of Yerington; and the said county commissioners are hereby authorized to sell and convey any real or immovable property situated in said town of Dayton, and belonging to said Lyon County. The proceeds from all such sales shall be paid into the county treasury of said county.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of said Lyon County are hereby authorized and directed to provide for the use of the various officers such buildings, rooms or offices as are required by law.

Yerington county-seat of Lyon County

Duties of county officers

Records to be moved

Offices

Chap. 9–An act to pay the deficiencies in the appropriation for the State Orphans’ Home for the years 1909-1910.

[Approved February 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty-nine cents ($4,775.59) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state for the payment of deficiencies in the appropriation for the State Orphans’ home for the years 1909 and 1910, as follows:

      Employees, $967.50; S. Phelan, nurse, $38; Joe Josephs, $3.40; Meyers Mercantile Co., $1,310.01; W. H. Chedic, $239.50; Otto T. Schulz, $13.25; Nevada Consolidated Telegraph and Telephone Co., $3.50; Ed. J. Walsh, $80.85; The Emporium, $159.95; T. G. Farrer, $29.70; C. W. Von Radesky, $32.50; Burlington Shoe Store, $348.90; M.

Orphans’ home deficiencies

Orphans’ home deficiencies

Duties of controller and treasurer

$32.50; Burlington Shoe Store, $348.90; M. Buchianeri, $43.90; Truckee River General Electric Light Co., $162.55; W. H. James, $64.75; Gray, Reid, Wright Co., $154.41; F. W. Day, $87.25; J. Hagerty, $25.75; Mrs. K. A. Raftice, $31.25; Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Co., $6.19; J. S. Burlingame, 75 cents; C. F. Cutts, $87.47; Frank Lopez, $26.60; J. A. Muller, $21.55; J. C. Tranter, $50.60; John Muldoon, $75; Nick Zimmer, $18; Palace Dry Goods House, $173.16; E. J. Dwyer, $52.30; Kitzmeyer Drug Store, $9; Joseph Smyth, $45.50; H. Millard, $13.40; F. M. Baker, $3.75; Davey & Maish, $38.25; Andrew Todd, $7; J. A. Raycraft, $5; D. G. Kitzmeyer, $4.50; Virginia and Truckee Railway, fifty cents; Appeal Publishing Co., $6.90; Carson City News, $12; F. E. Meder, $16.25; Ross Lewers, $21; De Remer Hardware Co., $7.50; Chris Hanson, $63.30; American Tea Co., $4.60; H. A. Brown, $50; Steve Belli, $32.50; A. J. Millard, $2.50; Charles Winter, $1.50; Carson Bakery, $7.80; John Catton, $4.50; T. R. Hofer, Jr., $1.50; W. H. Cavell, $104; W. Kayser, $4; J. R. Bradley Co., 75 cents.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the persons above named for the several amounts specified in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

White Pine County officers

District attorney’s salary

Chap. 10–An act to amend “An act to segregate certain county offices in White Pine County, State of Nevada, and fixing the salaries, to take effect on the first Monday in January, 1909,” approved March 29, 1907.

[Approved February 9, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section seven of “An act to segregate certain county offices in White Pine County, State of Nevada, and fixing the salaries, to take effect on the first Monday in January, 1909,” approved March 29, 1907, the same being chapter CCIII of the laws of 1907, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 7.  The district attorney of White Pine County shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, payable in twelve equal monthly installments, and in the attendance of justices’ courts, within the county, for the prosecution of criminal cases, he shall be allowed mileage at the rate of twenty cents for each mile actually traveled, one way only.

Chap. 11–An act to amend “An act to segregate certain county offices in White Pine County, State of Nevada, and fixing the salaries, to take effect on the first Monday in January, 1909,” approved March 29, 1907.

[Approved February 8, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section five of “An act to segregate certain county offices in White Pine County, State of Nevada, and fixing the salaries, to take effect on the first Monday in January, 1909,” approved March 29, 1907, the same being chapter CCIII of the laws of 1907, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The county treasurer shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars in twelve equal monthly payments. He shall have authority to appoint a deputy, whose salary shall be eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and such salary shall be paid in the same manner as the salary of the county treasurer.

White Pine County officers

County treasurer’s salary

Chap. 12–An act to fix a salary for the constable of the first township, White Pine County, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 9, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county commissioners of White Pine County, State of Nevada, from and after the passage of this act, shall pay to the constable of the first township, of said county, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, monthly, as a salary, as compensation in full for all services rendered, or performed, by said constable and they are hereby authorized, and directed, to make an appropriation from the funds of said county to pay said salary.

      Sec. 2.  Said constable shall turn into the treasury of said county, at least once in each month, and on or before, the second Monday of each month, all fees collected by him, and said fees shall become a part of the general funds of said county, subject to appropriation and use by the board of county commissioners thereof.

Constable, first township, White Pine County, salary of

All fees turned into treasury

Mineral County created

Boundaries

Hawthorne county-seat

Governor to appoint county commissioners

Commissioners to organize and appoint clerk

Duties of clerk

Chap. 13–An act creating and organizing the county of Mineral out of a portion of Esmeralda County, and providing for its government, and to regulate the affairs of Esmeralda County and Mineral County.

[Approved February 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county of Mineral is hereby erected out of the following territory, to wit: All that portion of Esmeralda County lying northerly of a line drawn, commencing at the intersection of the Mount Diablo base line with the Von Schmidt’s survey of the boundary line between Nevada and California, running thence east to the southeast corner of township one north, range thirty-two east on said Mount Diablo base line; thence northeasterly to the southwest corner of township seven north, range thirty-eight east, Mount Diablo base and meridian; thence continuing in the same direction intersecting the boundary line between the counties of Nye and Esmeralda, which said territory is hereby detached and set aside from Esmeralda County, and the county of Mineral erected therefrom.

      Sec. 2.  The place known officially as Hawthorne, being the town and postoffice of Hawthorne, is hereby designated and made the county-seat of Mineral County, at which place shall be maintained the county judicial offices, and the necessary county buildings.

      Sec. 3.  It shall be the duty of the governor, within ten days after this act shall have taken effect, to appoint three citizens of the United States, who are also citizens of the State of Nevada, and residents of Mineral County, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political faith, to serve as a board of county commissioners for said Mineral County, the same as if duly elected to such office until their successors are chosen, and until said successors shall enter upon the duties of their office.

      Sec. 4.  Such board of commissioners of Mineral County shall, within ten days after their appointment, meet at the court-house building at Hawthorne, and, after severally taking the official oath, duly organize by electing one of their number as chairman, and by appointing a clerk, who shall not be one of their number.

      Sec. 5.  Such clerk so appointed shall take an oath to faithfully perform his duties, and shall immediately proceed to make and keep official record of all proceedings of said board of county commissioners of Mineral County; shall receive and file all papers and instruments intended for the consideration of said board, shall countersign all orders and proceedings of the board, and shall serve or cause to be served all orders of the board. He shall retain his position until a duly appointed, or elected county clerk of Mineral County shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his office.

or elected county clerk of Mineral County shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his office. He shall deliver to his successor all books and papers held by him as such clerk, and shall receive such compensation as may be allowed to him by said board of county commissioners of Mineral County.

      Sec. 6.  Said board of county commissioners shall, within ten days after their organization, as aforesaid, appoint from the legal citizens of Mineral County, to be officers of said Mineral County until their respective successors shall enter regularly upon their duties, namely:

      A sheriff, who shall be ex officio county assessor; a county recorder, who shall be ex officio county auditor; a county clerk, who shall be ex officio county treasurer, clerk of the district court, and clerk of the board of county commissioners; a district attorney; a county surveyor, and a public administrator. And the said officers so appointed shall, within ten days, qualify and enter upon the duties of their respective offices.

      Sec. 7.  Said board of county commissioners is hereby required to make provision for such furniture, appliances, books, stationery and supplies as are suitable and necessary for the use of said county officers and for the proper conduct of all county business, which said business shall be transacted at the court-house in Hawthorne.

      Sec. 8.  All fees collected by each of the aforesaid county officers of Mineral County, except the county surveyor and public administrator, shall be by them paid into the county treasurer each month.

      Sec. 9.  The said officers of Mineral County shall receive the following compensation, to wit:

      The sheriff and ex officio assessor shall receive four thousand dollars per annum; he shall be allowed to appoint one deputy who shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and he shall also have the right and authority to appoint such additional deputies as may be necessary; provided, that the compensation of each such additional deputy shall not exceed four dollars per day, such compensation to be paid by and with the approval of the board of county commissioners only.

      The county recorder and ex officio auditor shall receive two thousand dollars per annum, and whenever fees of his office shall exceed two hundred dollars per month he may appoint a deputy at a salary not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month; provided, that whenever the fees of his office are less than two hundred dollars per month the salary of the deputy shall cease.

      The county clerk and ex officio treasurer, clerk of the district court and clerk of the board of county commissioners shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and may, during such periods as the district court and the board of county commissioners are both in session, appoint a deputy at a salary not to exceed five dollars per day for such period.

Commissioners to appoint first county officers

Duties of commissioners

What fees paid to county treasurer

Salaries of officers and deputies

Salaries of officers

Pay of assistants

Boundaries of election precincts, school districts, etc., not changed

Proviso

Tax levy for 1910

of county commissioners are both in session, appoint a deputy at a salary not to exceed five dollars per day for such period.

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

      Each member of the board of county commissioners shall receive nine hundred dollars per annum, and such mileage as is now allowed by law in Esmeralda County.

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

      The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to allow such compensation as may be necessary for the payment of such additional clerks and assistants as may be needed in the offices of the county clerk and ex officio treasurer and county recorder and ex officio auditor, respectively, as herein provided, and such compensation shall be allowed and paid as other claims against the county.

      Sec. 10.  The election precincts, school districts, road districts, cities, towns and townships, embraced within the territory comprising the county of Mineral, shall be as heretofore fixed and established during the time the same composed a part of Esmeralda County, until otherwise changed by the board of county commissioners of Mineral County, and the officers heretofore elected, or appointed to office in said precincts, districts, cities, towns and townships shall hold their respective offices in the county of Mineral until their successors are appointed, or elected and qualified. And the registration lists, school censuses and the records of said officers respectively are hereby made the same in the county of Mineral that they were heretofore in the county of Esmeralda. And the county treasurer of the county of Esmeralda is hereby directed to pay to the county treasurer of the county of Mineral on demand all sums of money held by him as custodian for said precincts, districts, cities, towns and townships, rendering proper accounts with each of said funds; provided, that all county officers of Esmeralda County, elected at the general election in 1910, who have qualified and entered on the performance of their official duties, may continue to hold office, regardless of their present places of residence and county boundaries in the county of Esmeralda until the expiration of their several terms of office.

      Sec. 11.  At the first meeting of the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County all necessary tax levies for reasonable provision, for needs of county, roads, school, city and town, for all purposes for the year 1911 shall be made.

      Sec. 12.  Said Mineral County shall be attached to and become a part of the seventh judicial district, in which said Mineral County court shall be held at least twice in each calendar year, at dates to be fixed by the judge of said district court; and the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County are hereby authorized and directed to pay the necessary traveling expenses of the judge of said district court from the county-seat of Esmeralda County to the county-seat of Mineral County and return.

become a part of the seventh judicial district, in which said Mineral County court shall be held at least twice in each calendar year, at dates to be fixed by the judge of said district court; and the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County are hereby authorized and directed to pay the necessary traveling expenses of the judge of said district court from the county-seat of Esmeralda County to the county-seat of Mineral County and return. Said Mineral County shall be attached to and become a part of the fourth educational (supervision) district.

      Sec. 13.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Mineral shall, as soon as practicable after said county be organized, receive bids for making transcripts of all the records of said county of Esmeralda of all properties situate in the county of Mineral, or rights affecting the status of persons, residents thereof, as said board of county commissioners may deem necessary, and transcribing the same as provided by law in the proper record books to be provided by said county of Mineral for that purpose. And the said board of county commissioners of the county of Mineral shall award such contract to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, and for the faithful performance of said contract said board of county commissioners shall receive a good and sufficient bond in the sum of not less than five thousand dollars, to be approved by said board of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners may reject any and all bids for transcribing the said records in case the lowest bid is deemed by the county commissioners to be too high. And the compensation so allowed by the board of county commissioners of Mineral County for the transcribing of such records shall be payment in full for such transcription, and the officials of Esmeralda County are hereby directed to certify to the correctness of such transcriptions without compensation. The county clerk and the county recorder of the said county of Esmeralda shall afford every reasonable opportunity and facility for transcribing such record, and said transcribed records when accepted by the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County, shall become, for all legal purposes, the same as original records and files.

      Sec. 14.  All suits determined and judgments remaining unsatisfied, relating to any person residing or property situate wholly in the territory hereby detached from Esmeralda County, all suits, proceedings and estates pending and undetermined which may appertain wholly to property, real, personal or mixed, in said detached territory, all actions for the recovery of money in which the defendant resides in said detached territory, and all pending criminal cases which arose in said detached territory in the district court in and for Esmeralda County, shall, within forty days from the taking effect of this act be, by the county clerk of said Esmeralda County duly and legally certified, transferred and delivered to the county clerk of Mineral County, together with all papers and documents, and certified copies of all court and judicial orders pertaining to the same, and all of said papers, documents and judicial and court orders shall be by said clerk of Mineral County filed in his office and thereafter proceeded with in the same manner as if commenced or heard or determined in Mineral County; the county clerk of Esmeralda County and the county clerk of Mineral County shall perform this service without compensation.

Part of seventh judicial district and fourth educational district

Records to be transcribed

Regarding pending litigation

Apportionment of floating indebtedness of Esmeralda County

Method of ascertaining

Apportionment of funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County

to the same, and all of said papers, documents and judicial and court orders shall be by said clerk of Mineral County filed in his office and thereafter proceeded with in the same manner as if commenced or heard or determined in Mineral County; the county clerk of Esmeralda County and the county clerk of Mineral County shall perform this service without compensation.

      Sec. 15.  At the regular meeting on the first Monday in July, 1911, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall ascertain the total amount of money on hand in the county treasury of Esmeralda County, excepting funds of the various precincts, districts, cities, town and townships as shown by the sworn statement of the various officers of said county, and the total amount of the floating indebtedness of Esmeralda County; then deduct the amount of the floating indebtedness from the total amount of the money in the county treasury and apportion the amount of the difference thus obtained to Esmeralda County and Mineral County in the following manner:

      (a) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for taxation in Esmeralda County, including the proceeds of mines, for the year 1910;

      (b) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for taxation in the territory set off for Mineral County, including the proceeds of mines, in the same year;

      (c) As the total valuation of the property assessed, including the proceeds of mines, for taxation in Esmeralda County in 1910 is to the total valuation of the property in the same year assessed, for taxation, including proceeds of mines, in the territory set off as Mineral County, so is the difference before found to the amount to be paid by Esmeralda County to Mineral County as Mineral County’s due proportion of money in the county treasury of Esmeralda County.

      The said commissioners shall thereupon order the county treasurer of Esmeralda County to pay to the treasurer of Mineral County on or before the fifteenth day of July, 1911, the said amount so found to be Mineral County’s proportion of said money, and thereafter any moneys collected by any officer of Esmeralda County on account of city, town, or county license, taxes, or poll taxes levied for the year 1910 upon persons, property and business situate in the territory hereinbefore set off as Mineral County shall be the property of Mineral County and immediately forwarded to the treasurer thereof.

      Sec. 16.  Mineral County shall pay its due proportion of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County, as covered by all acts authorizing Esmeralda County to fund and refund its existing indebtedness, and in the manner and form following, to wit:

      At the regular meeting on the first Monday in July, 1911, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall ascertain the total funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County, deducting therefrom all moneys set aside for the payment thereof, and apportion the amount thus obtained to Esmeralda County and Mineral County in the following manner:

payment thereof, and apportion the amount thus obtained to Esmeralda County and Mineral County in the following manner:

      (a) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for taxation in Esmeralda County, including the proceeds of mines, for the year 1910;

      (b) Ascertain the total valuation of the property assessed for taxation in the territory set off for Mineral County, including the proceeds of mines, in the same year;

      (c) As the total valuation of the property assessed, including proceeds of mines, for taxation in Esmeralda County, in 1910, is to the total valuation of the property in the same year assessed for taxation, including proceeds from mines, in the territory set off as Mineral County, so is the total of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County to the proportion of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County, due from Mineral County to Esmeralda County.

      For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the amount apportioned to Mineral County of said funded and refunded indebtedness, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Mineral County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property (subject to taxation), both real and personal, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Mineral County, and the amount so collected shall be paid by Mineral County to Esmeralda County at the times and in the amounts as the same shall become due under the law authorizing and the contract or contracts creating said bonded indebtedness.

      Sec. 17.  The title to all property situate in the county of Mineral on which taxes have become, or may become delinquent, and which said property has been or may be forfeited to Esmeralda County shall vest in and become the property of Mineral County and on demand of its commissioners for a tax deed to said property, or any part thereof, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall cause its proper officers to forthwith make, execute and deliver to said county of Mineral a good and sufficient tax deed therefor, without compensation for such service. And all county property situated within the boundaries of Mineral County shall be and remain the property of Mineral County, and all the county property situated within the boundaries of Esmeralda County shall be and remain the property of Esmeralda County.

      Sec. 18.  This act shall take effect immediately.

      Sec. 19.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Method of ascertaining

Special tax, when levied

Title to property to vest in Mineral County

In effect

Repeal

Reward for apprehension of murderers

$5,000

Chap. 14–An act authorizing the governor to offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the murder of Harry Cambron and three associates in Washoe County.

[Approved February 17, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the governor is hereby authorized to offer a reward of one thousand dollars in each instance, and not exceeding five thousand dollars in all, for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the murder of Harry Cambron and three associates in Washoe County.

      Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to carry out the provisions of this act.

Support of governor’s mansion

Appropriation of $6,000

Chap. 15–An act for the support and maintenance of the governor’s mansion, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved February 17, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The governor of the State of Nevada is hereby allowed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month for the support and maintenance of the governor’s mansion, payable on the first of every month for the preceding month, on the requisition of the governor for such amount; and the state controller is hereby directed to draw warrants, and the state treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys in the state treasury appropriated for such purpose.

      Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the state treasury the sum of six thousand dollars for the support and maintenance of the governor’s mansion for the years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve.

Relief of Dr. T. F. Richardson

Chap. 16–An act for the relief of Dr. T. F. Richardson for legal expenses incurred while acting as state veterinarian of the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 17, 1911]

      Whereas, During the month of April, 1909, Dr. T. F. Richardson was duly appointed to the office of state veterinarian for the State of Nevada, and while engaged in the legal discharge of his duties as such officer did incur certain expenses during the months of July and December, 1910, but owing to inadvertence he failed to present his claim while money was appropriated for such purposes; and

tence he failed to present his claim while money was appropriated for such purposes; and

      Whereas, The amount of expenses so incurred by said Dr. T. F. Richardson was the sum of forty dollars; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of forty dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund of the state not otherwise appropriated for the relief of Dr. T. F. Richardson.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of Dr. T. F. Richardson for the amount specified in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

$40 appropriated

Chap. 17–An act to extend the tenure of office of inspector of mines for the State of Nevada, to conform with other state officers.

[Approved February 20, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the term of office of inspector of mines for the State of Nevada, that would expire on the first Monday of January, 1913, be and the same is hereby extended to the first Monday of January, 1915, and that said officer be elected every four years thereafter, as are other officers of the executive department of the state.

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

Term of office of inspector of mines increased to four years

Chap. 18–An act to promote the public safety by requiring railroad companies to provide adequate train crews, and defining such crews, and prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof.

[Approved February 21, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any railroad company or receiver of any railroad company, doing business in the State of Nevada, to run over its road or part of its road outside the yard limits, any passenger train consisting of five cars or less, exclusive of engine and tenders, with less than a crew consisting of four persons, one engineer, one fireman, one conductor and one brakeman, who will act in the capacity of flagman.

Certain train crews must consist of four persons

When must be five persons

Freight crews, etc., must be five persons

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ductor and one brakeman, who will act in the capacity of flagman.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, or receiver of any railroad company, doing business in the State of Nevada, to run over its road or parts of its road outside of the yard limits, any passenger train consisting of six cars or more, exclusive of engine and tenders, with less than a crew consisting of five persons, one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, one brakeman, and one flagman.

      Sec. 3.  It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, or receiver of any railroad company, doing business in the State of Nevada, to run over its road or part of its road outside of the yard limits, any freight, gravel, or construction train, regularly, of more than eight cars, exclusive of engine and tender, with less than a crew consisting of five persons, one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, and two brakemen.

      Sec. 4.  Any railroad company or receiver of any railroad company doing business in the State of Nevada, which shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to the State of Nevada for a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars for each offense; and such penalty shall be recovered and suit brought in the name of the State of Nevada in a court of proper jurisdiction in any county in or through which such line of railroad may run, by the attorney-general, or under his direction, or by the district attorney in any county through which such lines of railroad may be operated.

      Sec. 5.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to or include any railroad company, or receiver or manager thereof, or any line of railroad in this state less than twenty miles in length; neither shall they apply to the operations of light engines and tenders when running as such, outside the yard limits.

      Sec. 6.  This act shall not be deemed to be in conflict with, or to repeal, but supplementary to “An act to promote the public safety by requiring common carrier railroads to provide adequate train crews and defining such crews, and prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof,” approved March 8, 1909.

Support of experiment farm in Clark County

Chap. 19–An act providing for the maintenance, operation, and necessary equipments for the state agricultural farm situated at Logan, Clark County, Nevada, for the years 1911 and 1912, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved February 21, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of maintaining and operating the state agricultural experiment farm, located at Logan, Clark County, Nevada, for the years 1911 and 1912, and providing necessary equipments therefor, the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

necessary equipments therefor, the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise appropriated. The state controller is directed to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer in favor of the claimants under the appropriation. When their claims have been approved by the board of control and by the state board of examiners, the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Chap. 20–An act providing for leave of absence for all state employees, the length of time of such leave, and providing for their salary during such time.

[Approved February 21, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Each and every state employee who has been in the service of the state for six months or more, in whatever capacity, shall be allowed, in each calendar year, a leave of absence of fifteen days, with full pay, providing the head of each department shall fix the date of such leave of absence.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

Leave of absence for state employees

Chap. 21–An act authorizing and directing the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County, State of Nevada, to regulate the compensation of the justices of the peace and constables of National Township and Paradise Township, Humboldt County, Nevada.

[Approved February 21, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  At their first meeting in March, 1911, and every six months thereafter, the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County, shall fix the respective salaries of the justices of the peace and constables of National Township, and of Paradise Township of Humboldt County, which salaries shall be in lieu of all criminal fees as are now allowed said officers by law; provided, that each of the said justices of the peace and constables shall be entitled to retain, in addition to the salary as fixed by said board as aforesaid, all civil and coroners’ fees as are now provided by law; and provided further, that in no case shall the salary of any of said justices of the peace or constables be fixed at an amount exceeding the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month.

      Sec. 2.  All criminal fees received by the said justices of the peace and said constables in the performance of their official duties shall be paid into the county treasury of Humboldt County, by said officers, within ten days after the receipt thereof.

Salaries of justices of the peace and constables of National and Paradise Townships, Humboldt County

Criminal fees to go to county

Salaries, how allowed

Expenses allowed, when

Repeal

In effect

duties shall be paid into the county treasury of Humboldt County, by said officers, within ten days after the receipt thereof.

      Sec. 3.  The said salaries as fixed shall be allowed to each of the said justices of the peace and constables as other just claims against the county.

      Sec. 4.  In addition to the said salary and fees, each of the said constables shall be allowed his actual expenses when necessarily performing his official duties under criminal process without the boundaries of his respective township.

      Sec. 5.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 6.  This act shall take effect on March 1, 1911.

Salary of justice of the peace of Austin Township, Lander County

What fees retained

Criminal fees to go to county

Repeal

Chap. 22–An act fixing the salary and compensation for official services of the justice of the peace of Austin Township, Lander County, Nevada.

[Approved February 21, 1911]

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, the board of county commissioners of Lander County are hereby authorized and directed to appropriate from the treasury of said county, and pay to the regularly elected or appointed justice of the peace of Austin Township of said county, the sum of one hundred dollars monthly as a salary, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered in criminal proceedings or cases, either as coroner or committing magistrate; provided, however, that said justice of the the peace shall be allowed to retain all fees and commissions allowed by law in civil actions, and shall be allowed his necessary expenses while acting as coroner in cases wherein it is necessary to hire a conveyance.

      Sec. 2.  The regularly elected or appointed justice of the peace of said township shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees and fines, and shall file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners a sworn statement in writing of all fees and fines collected by him in all criminal cases during the month for which said salary is asked.

      Sec. 3.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Chap. 23–An act fixing the salary of the justice of the peace in and for first township (sometimes known as Ely Township Number One), in White Pine County, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 27, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On and after the first day of April, A. D. 1911, the justice of the peace in and for the first township (sometimes known as Ely Township Number One), in White Pine County, State of Nevada, shall receive a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).

      Sec. 2.  The salary named in section 1 of this act shall be the only salary, compensation or fee that shall be allowed by the board of county commissioners or county auditor, or paid by the treasurer of said county for any and all services that may be rendered by said justice of the peace in criminal cases, and as ex officio coroner and registry agent.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners of said county shall at their regular monthly meetings allow the salary named in this act as other county salaries are allowed, the county auditor shall draw his warrant therefor, and the county treasurer shall pay the same.

Salary of justice of the peace, Ely Township, White Pine County

Salary sole compensation

Salary allowed monthly

Chap. 24–An act to repeal section three and section nine of an act entitled “An act to facilitate the giving of bonds and undertakings in certain cases and prescribing conditions upon which surety companies may become liable thereon in this state; fixing penalties for the violation thereof, repealing conflicting acts, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 26, 1909, and being chapter CCXXI of the laws of Nevada for the session of 1909.

[Approved February 27, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section three and section nine of an act entitled “An act to facilitate the giving of bonds and undertakings in certain cases and prescribing conditions upon which surety companies may become liable thereon in this state; fixing penalties for the violation thereon, repealing conflicting acts, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 26, 1909, being chapter CCXXI of the laws of the State of Nevada, for the session of 1909, are hereby repealed.

Certain sections concerning surety companies repealed

Nonjudicial days enumerated

What business allowed

Falling on Sunday, Monday following observed

Chap. 25–An act to amend “An act to amend an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to amend an act concerning the courts of justice of this state and judicial officers,’ approved January 26, 1865,” approved January 31, 1866, approved March 1, 1883, approved March 2, 1891, approved March 12, 1903.

[Approved February 27, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section 50.  No court shall be open, nor shall any judicial business be transacted on Sunday, on the 1st day of January (New Year Day), on the 12th day of February (Lincoln’s Birthday), on the 22d day of February (Washington’s Birthday), on the 30th day of May, commonly known as Memorial Day, on the 4th day of July, on the 1st Monday of September of each year (Labor Day), on the 31st day of October, to be known as Admission Day, on Thanksgiving Day, on the 25th day of December (Christmas Day), on a day which the primary election is held throughout the State, on a day on which the general election is held, or on any day that may be appointed by the president of the United States, or by the governor of this state, for public fast, thanksgiving or holiday, except for the following purposes:

      First-To give, upon their request, instructions to a jury then deliberating on their verdict.

      Second-To receive a verdict or discharge a jury.

      Third-For the exercise of the powers of a magistrate in a criminal action, or in a proceeding of a criminal nature.

      Fourth-For the issue of a writ of attachment, which may be issued on each and all of the days above enumerated upon the plaintiff, of some person in his behalf, setting forth in the affidavit required by law for obtaining said writ, the additional averment as follows: That the affiant has good reason to believe, and does believe, that it will be too late for the purpose of acquiring a lien by said writ to wait till a subsequent day for the issuance of the same. And all proceedings instituted, and all writs issued and all official acts done on any of the days above specified, under and by virtue of this section, shall have all the validity, force and effect of proceedings commenced on other days, whether a lien be obtained or a levy made, under and by virtue of said writ.

      If the 1st day of January, 12th day February, 22d day of February, 30th day of May, 4th day of July, 31st day of October, or the 25th day of December fall upon Sunday, all business transactions shall be suspended on the following Monday.

Chap. 26–An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Fallon and to establish a government therefor,” approved March 27, 1907.

[Approved February 27, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Fallon and to establish a government therefor,” approved March 27, 1907, is hereby repealed.

      Se.c 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Incorporation of Fallon repealed

Chap. 27–An act for the relief of P. Newgard, Frank Buck, T. E. O’Brien and H. A. Fravel for expenses incurred while rendering services to the State of Nevada under instructions from the governor.

[Approved February 28, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of seven hundred and ninety-five dollars to be paid as follows: Two hundred and forty dollars to P. Newgard; one hundred and forty-six dollars to Frank Buck; one hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents to T. E. O’Brien; two hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents to H. A. Fravel, for expenses incurred while rendering services to the State of Nevada under instructions from the late governor of Nevada, John Sparks, as members of the Nevada State Police during the year nineteen hundred and eight.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for the several amounts, payable to the several parties named in section one of this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Relief of state police members

Controller and treasurer, duties of

Chap. 28–An act to pay the deficiencies in the appropriation for the years 1909 and 1910.

[Approved February 28, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of three thousand two hundred thirteen dollars and eighty-nine cents ($3,213.89) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state for the payment of deficiencies in the appropriation for the years 1909 and 1910, as follows:

Deficiencies of 1909 and 1910

Relief of parties named

Duties of controller and treasurer

payment of deficiencies in the appropriation for the years 1909 and 1910, as follows:

      Nevada State Fish Commissioners, $1,319.76; Carson City News, $540; Carson Daily Appeal, $360; Jennie Emmitt, $100; Ed. Regan, $216; Nevada Consolidated Telegraph and Telephone Co., $109.10; Postal Telegraph Co., $4.81; Truckee River General Electric Light Co., $59.45; Carson City Coal Gas Co., $138.15; Meyers Mercantile Co., $7.24; E. J. Walsh, $12.85; J. M. Benton, $18.30; C. F. Cutts, $1.30; Carson Furniture Co., $1; C. L. Kitzmeyer, $4.65; Mrs. J. M. Davis, $95.85; Virginia and Gold Hill Water Co., $49.88; Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Co., $6.55; F. E. Meder, $2.75; Nevada Press Co., $5.25; A. J. Millard, $3; J. A. Muller, $7.50; J. S. Burlingame, $11.60; Postal Telegraph Co., Reno, $2.78; Edward T. Patrick, $10; Frank Golden Jewelry Co., $6; Western Union Telegraph Co., Reno, $23.06; Matthew Bender Co., $7.50; Charles H. Crippen, $15; Western Union Telegraph Co., $9.81; Wm. Kayser, $64.75.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants in favor of the persons above named for the several amounts specified in this act, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same.

Relief for labor in adjutant-general’s department

Appropriation

Chap. 29–An act for the relief of W. E. Lear, P. J. McMahon, M. G. Cecil and Wm. Kayser.

[Approved February 28, 1911]

      Whereas, The above-named persons have performed certain necessary labor for the state in and about the state armory at the instance of the adjutant-general during the year 1910, which said services have not been paid for, and are a just demand against the state; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50) is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise specifically appropriated, for the payment of the amounts following: W. E. Lear, $9; P. J. McMahon, $42; M. G. Cecil, $9; Wm. Kayser, $2.50.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants in favor of the persons above named for the several amounts, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Chap. 30–An act for the relief of Peter J. Somers for legal expenses incurred while acting as district judge of the State of Nevada.

[Approved February 28, 1911]

      Whereas, During the month of December, 1910, Peter J. Somers was the duly elected, qualified and acting district judge of the seventh judicial district of the State of Nevada, and while engaged in the legal discharge of his duties as such judicial officer did incur certain expenses during the said month of December 1910, but owing to inadvertence he failed to present his claim while money was appropriated for such purposes; and

      Whereas, The amount of expenses so incurred by said Peter J. Somers was the sum of thirty-seven dollars and ten cents; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of thirty-seven dollars and ten cents is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the general fund of the state not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of Peter J. Somers.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants in favor of Peter J. Somers for the amount specified in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Relief of Judge P. J. Somers

Appropriation

Duties of controller and treasurer

Chap. 31–An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Douglas County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, including the expenses of building and equipping a county court-house, other than bonded indebtedness, for purchasing and equipping a county poor farm, for building and maintaining public roads and bridges, and for paying current expenses of Douglas County, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 28, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Douglas County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue bonds of said county, after the first day of February, 1911, for an amount not exceeding the sum of thirty thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, other than bonded indebtedness, including expenses of building and equipping a county court-house, for purchasing and equipping a county poor farm, for building and maintaining public roads and bridges, and for paying current expenses in Douglas County, State of Nevada.

Bonds for Douglas County

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Denomination of bonds

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and equipping a county poor farm, for building and maintaining public roads and bridges, and for paying current expenses in Douglas County, State of Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  The board of county commissioners of said Douglas County may cause said bonds to be prepared and made ready for issuance. Such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, 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 bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer.

      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 and the date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Douglas County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, or such number thereof as they may deem necessary, by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sales, as they may deem for the best interests of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than par value; and provided further, that all bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be each for the sum of five hundred dollars. They shall be numbered from one to sixty, consecutively, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in July of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Douglas County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than eighteen years.

      Sec. 6.  All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as the “Douglas County Improvement Fund No. 1,” and pay out said moneys only in the manner now required by law for the payment of the same, and for the purposes for which the same were received.

      Sec. 7.  The said board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to use the money accruing from the sale of said bonds for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of Douglas County, other than bonded indebtedness, including the expenses of building and equipping a county court-house, for purchasing and equipping a county poor farm, for building and maintaining public roads and bridges, and for paying current expenses of said Douglas County.

      Sec. 8.  The said county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto.

official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 9.  For the purpose of creating a fund of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Douglas County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Douglas County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire, beginning with bond number one, and consecutively thereafter, two of said bonds annually beginning with the first Monday in July, 1912, until twelve of said bonds are redeemed, and retired, and thereafter to levy and collect a like special tax in an amount sufficient to pay the interest and to pay and retire, consecutively, four of said bonds, annually until all of said bonds are fully redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Douglas County Improvement Fund No. 1.”

      Sec. 10.  It shall be obligatory on said county and its proper officers annually, beginning on the first Monday in July, 1912, to fully pay the accrued interest on said bonds, and to fully pay and retire two of said bonds, beginning with the first number thereof, until twelve of said bonds are redeemed and retired, and to fully pay and retire four of them annually thereafter in their consecutive numbers, until all of said bonds are redeemed and retired.

      Sec. 11.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of said county, be transferred to the general fund of said county.

      Sec. 12.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof, “paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid.

      Sec. 13.  Should the holder of said bonds or of any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 14.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby

Treasurer liable for bond money

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imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Lawful to increase tax rate in certain counties

Repeal

Chap. 32–An act to fix the rate of county taxation in counties of this state, and repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.

[Approved March 1, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  In all counties whose tax rate for county purposes for the year 1910, exclusive of tax to pay the interest and maintain the sinking fund of the bonded indebtedness of such counties, did not exceed one dollar and five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, it shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners of such counties to fix the tax rate for such county purposes for the year 1911 at not exceeding one dollar and thirty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, and such board of county commissioners shall thereafter, during each subsequent year, fix such tax rate at a sum not to exceed one dollar and thirty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation.

      Sec. 2.  That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and they are hereby repealed.

Estate under $500 not administered upon; may be set apart for minor children

Chap. 33–An act to amend section one hundred and five of an act entitled “An act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons,” approved March 23, 1897.

[Approved March 1, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section 105.  When a person shall die, leaving an estate the whole value of which does not exceed five hundred dollars, and there be a surviving husband or wife, or a minor child or children, such estate shall not be administered upon, but the whole thereof shall be by the court or judge, by an order for that purpose, assigned and set apart for the support of the surviving husband or wife, or minor children of deceased, or for the support of the minor child or children if there be no surviving husband or wife; provided, that the whole of such estate even though there be a surviving husband or wife, may in the discretion of the court be set aside to the minor child or children of the deceased according to the subserviency of the best interests of such minor child or children.

the best interests of such minor child or children. Such order may be made by the court or judge on motion made by or on behalf of the surviving husband or wife, or next friend of any minor child or children upon an affidavit setting forth the necessary facts, and the court or judge being satisfied that the value of the whole of such estate does not exceed five hundred dollars.

Chap. 34–An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Lyon County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for the erection and furnishing of county buildings in the city of Yerington.

[Approved March 1, 1911]

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 directed, within thirty days after the approval of this act, to prepare and issue bonds of said county, for the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the obtaining of premises and the erection and furnishing of a court-house and jail for said county.

      Sec. 2.  The bonds authorized under the provisions of this act shall be issued in the sum of one thousand dollars each, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum. Said bonds shall be numbered from one to thirty-five inclusive, and shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, 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 bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer.

      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 and date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Lyon County are hereby authorized and directed to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sales, they may deem best; provided, that all the bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall run for a period of not less than four nor more than twenty years. The interest on the same shall be payable annually on the first Monday of January of each year at the office of the county treasurer of Lyon County. It shall be obligatory on said county and its proper officers to fully pay the interest on said bonds annually, and to fully pay and retire three of said bonds on the first Monday of January, 1915, beginning with the first number thereof, and so on consecutively, and on the first Monday of January of each year thereafter until said bonds and the interest thereon are fully paid, canceled and retired, to pay and retire three of said bonds in such manner.

Bonds for county buildings at Yerington

Denomination of bonds

Record of bonds to be kept

How negotiated

Term of bond, interest, etc.

Special tax ceases, when

Interest and bonds, how paid and canceled

Bond fund, how created

Faith of State of Nevada pledged

and retire three of said bonds on the first Monday of January, 1915, beginning with the first number thereof, and so on consecutively, and on the first Monday of January of each year thereafter until said bonds and the interest thereon are fully paid, canceled and retired, to pay and retire three of said bonds in such manner.

      Sec. 6.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in the bond fund hereinafter created shall, by order of the board of county commissioners, be transferred to the general fund of the county.

      Sec. 7.  Whenever the county treasurer shall pay anything on the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “paid,” together with the date of such payment, and sign his name thereto and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipts therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books with the amount so paid.

      Sec. 8.  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 directed to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, within the boundaries of said Lyon County, until such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire said bonds in the manner provided in this act. 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 “Court-house Bond Fund.”

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

Bonds for indebtedness of Lander County

Chap. 35–An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Lander County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county and for paying current expenses of Lander County, State of Nevada.

[Approved March 1, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Lander County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue bonds of said county, after the first day of March, 1911, for an amount not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, and for paying the current expense in said Lander County, State of Nevada.

1911, for an amount not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, and for paying the current expense in said Lander County, State of Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  The board of county commissioners of said Lander County may cause said bonds to be prepared and made ready for issuance. Such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, 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 bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board, and by the county treasurer.

      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 numbers and date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Lander County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, or such number thereof as they may deem necessary, by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sales, as they may deem for the best interests of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than the par value; and provided further, that all bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be each for the sum of five hundred dollars. They shall be numbered from one to thirty, consecutively, and the interest on the same shall not exceed five per cent per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in July of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Lander County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than eight years.

      Sec. 6.  All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as the “Lander County Bond Redemption Fund,” and to pay out said moneys only in the manner now required by law for the payment of the same, and for the purposes for which the same were received.

      Sec. 7.  The said board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to use the money accruing from the sale of said bonds for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of Lander County, and for paying current expenses of said Lander County.

      Sec. 8.  The said county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all duties in relation thereto.

How prepared and issued

Record to be kept

Negotiation of bonds

Denomination

Proceeds of sale of bonds, how kept

Commissioners, how to use proceeds

Treasurer liable for safe keeping

Fund for payment of interest and bonds, how created

Bonds and interest, how liquidated

Special tax to cease, when

Treasurer to cancel bonds, how

Interest ceases, when

Faith of State of Nevada pledged

      Sec. 9.  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 Lander County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property both real and personal subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Lander County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire beginning with bond number one, and consecutively thereafter four of said bonds annually beginning with the first Monday in July, 1913, until thirty of said bonds are redeemed and retired.

      Sec. 10.  It shall be obligatory on said county and its proper officers annually beginning on the first Monday in July, 1913, to fully pay the accrued interest on said bonds, and to fully pay and retire four of said bonds, beginning with the first number thereof, until all of said bonds are redeemed and retired, and to fully pay and retire four of them annually thereafter in their consecutive numbers, until all of said bonds are redeemed and retired.

      Sec. 11.  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 fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of said county, be transferred to the general fund of said county.

      Sec. 12.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid.

      Sec. 13.  Should the holder of said bonds or of any of them for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 14.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Preamble

Chap. 36–An act for the relief of Douglas County Farmers Bank, for the payment twice of one hundred dollars for a banking license.

[Approved March 2, 1911]

      Whereas, In March, 1909, Douglas County Bank paid to D. M. Ryan, state treasurer and member of state banking board, the sum of one hundred dollars and received therefor banking license number sixty-eight, for the term beginning April 1, 1909; and

board, the sum of one hundred dollars and received therefor banking license number sixty-eight, for the term beginning April 1, 1909; and

      Whereas, In July, 1909, under the amended banking laws of Nevada, requiring all banks to incorporate, Douglas County Farmers Bank, being the incorporated Bank of Douglas County, paid to the state banking board of Nevada the sum of one hundred dollars and received therefor banking license number twenty-nine for the term beginning April 1, 1909; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund of the state, not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of Douglas County Farmers Bank.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of Douglas County Farmers Bank for the sum of one hundred dollars, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Refund of overpaid license to Douglas County Farmers Bank

Appropriation of $100

Duties of controller and treasurer

Chap. 37–An act appropriating three hundred dollars for the watering and care of the Grand Army cemetery at Carson City, Nevada.

[Approved March 2, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of watering and caring for the Grand Army cemetery at Carson City, Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  Annually on the first Monday in September, nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve, the state board of examiners shall audit and allow the post quartermaster of the Grand Army at Carson City, Nevada, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, on the filing with said board of examiners, by the said post quartermaster, the claim and sworn statement that the amount had been expended as provided in section one of this act.

      Sec. 3.  The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants in favor of said post quartermaster for the sum named in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

Appropriation for G. A. R. cemetery

Board of examiners to allow claim upon proper proof

Duties of controller and treasurer

Concrete floor for basement of library building

Chap. 38–An act authorizing the state board of capitol commissioners to cause to be laid a concrete floor in the basement of the state library building and to provide for the payment of the cost of the same.

[Approved March 2, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state board of capitol commissioners are hereby authorized to be caused to be laid a concrete floor in the basement of the state library building, and for the purpose of paying the cost of said floor the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Town or city tax for fire department

Repeal

Chap. 39–An act to amend an act entitled “An act to create a fire department fund,” approved March 9, 1865, approved March 1, 1881.

[Approved March 2, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section 1.  The county commissioners of the various counties of the State of Nevada are hereby empowered to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding one per cent, upon the assessed value of property within any unincorporated town for the benefit of the fire department in such town.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Board of control of Elko County dry farm, how constituted

Chap. 40–An act providing for certain changes in the control and management of the state agricultural experiment dry farm, located at Pleasant Valley, Elko County, Nevada, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 3, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of control of the state agricultural experiment dry farm located at Pleasant Valley, Elko County, Nevada, shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the governor of the state, within thirty days after the approval of this act. Two members of said board of control shall be practical farmers, residing within the county in which said state agricultural experiment dry farm is located, and the third member of said board shall be a professor in the agricultural department of the state university and a member of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station.

tical farmers, residing within the county in which said state agricultural experiment dry farm is located, and the third member of said board shall be a professor in the agricultural department of the state university and a member of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. The two resident members of said board of control shall receive for their services a compensation of ten dollars per month, and the member of said board who is connected with the state university and Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station shall receive his actual traveling expenses, and the same shall be paid when approved by the state board of examiners. They shall hold their office for a term of two years from the date of their appointment, and their successors shall be appointed in like manner. The governor may make, from time to time, such changes in the personnel of said board of control as he may deem necessary.

      Sec. 2.  The members of said board of control, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall qualify by taking the oath of office before some officer authorized to administer such oath. They shall hold meetings at said state agricultural experiment dry farm on the first Monday of each month, or oftener, if deemed expedient, and two members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

      Sec. 3.  For the purpose of maintaining said state agricultural experimental dry farm for the years 1911 and 1912, and the erection of such buildings as may be necessary, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer in favor of the claimants under this appropriation, when their claims have been approved by the board of control, and by the state board of examiners, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

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

Members to take official oath

Meetings

Appropriation for farm

Repeal

Chap. 41–An act authorizing and directing the state controller and the state treasurer to transfer certain moneys.

[Approved March 4, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state controller and the state treasurer are hereby authorized and directed to transfer eight thousand nine seventy-six one-hundredths ($8,009.76) dollars from the territorial interest fund to the state orphans’ home interest and sinking fund; also to transfer two thousand one hundred twenty-four seventy-four one-hundredths ($2,124.74) dollars

Transfer of certain state money authorized

Transfers between certain state funds

from the state university interest and sinking fund to the state interest and sinking fund; also to transfer one thousand three hundred twenty-seven eighty-eight one-hundredths ($1,327.88) dollars from the contingent university interest and sinking fund, laboratory bond account, to the state interest and sinking fund; also to transfer five hundred thirty-one eighteen one-hundredths ($531.18) dollars from the contingent university fund, hospital bond account, to the state interest and sinking fund, the said transfers to be used to redeem Nevada state bonds.

Kindergarten school in Sparks authorized

Special tax for said school

Under regular school management

Chap. 42–An act providing for the establishment of a free public kindergarten in Sparks School District No. 29, Washoe County, Nevada, and to provide a tax levy for the purpose of maintaining the same.

[Approved March 4, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of school trustees of Sparks School District No. 29 of Washoe County, Nevada, shall, on or before the first day of March, A. D. 1911, and each year thereafter, certify to the board of county commissioners of Washoe County, Nevada, the amount of money which will be required to support and maintain a free public kindergarten (school) in said school district for the same period the other public schools of said school district are kept open for public instruction, and affording sufficient accommodations for all of the children of kindergarten age residing within the said school district, as may be prescribed by the regulations of the said board of school trustees.

      Sec. 2.  Upon the receipt of said certification, the board of county commissioners of Washoe County, Nevada, shall levy a special tax rate upon all of the taxable property within the said school district sufficient to raise the amount of money certified to by the said board of school trustees, and the tax thereby raised shall be used solely for the support and maintenance of a public kindergarten (school) within said school district.

      Sec. 3.  The said free public kindergarten (school), the premises and building upon which and within which the same is supported and maintained, and the funds by which the same is sustained, shall all be as fully and completely under the supervision, control and management of the board of school trustees of Sparks School District No. 29, Washoe County, Nevada, as are the other free public schools within the said district.

Chap. 43–An act concerning and fixing standard weights and measures and to regulate the sale of commodities or articles of merchandise according to such standards, and to provide fines, penalties and damages for the violation thereof, and for rules of evidence relating thereto; and to provide for the inspection of weights, measures and weighing and measuring devices, and for the enforcement thereof, and making an appropriation for the carrying out of this act.

[Approved March 8, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The standard weights and measures as have been adopted by the Government of the United States of America, and such weights, measures, balances and measuring devices as heretofore have been, or hereafter may be, furnished this state by the United States, as standard weights, measures, balances and measuring devices, shall be the legal standard of weights and measures throughout the State of Nevada. This section shall not prevent the use of the weights and measures of the metric system, authorized by congress of the United States, as it appears in the revised statutes of the United States.

      Sec. 2.  The unit of standard measure of length and surface, from which all other measures of extension, whether lineal, superficial or solid, shall be derived and ascertained, is the standard yard, adopted by the Government of the United States. The yard shall be divided into three equal parts, called feet, and each foot into twelve equal parts, called inches. For the measure of cloth and other commodities commonly sold by the yard, it may be divided into halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths.

      Sec. 3.  The rod, pole or perch shall contain five and a half standard yards, and the mile, one thousand seven hundred and sixty such yards. The chain for measuring land shall be twenty-two standard yards long, and be divided into one hundred equal parts, called links.

      Sec. 4.  The acre for land measure shall be measured horizontally, and contain ten square chains, and be equivalent in area to a rectangle sixteen rods in length and ten rods in breadth. Six hundred and forty acres shall be contained in a square mile.

      Sec. 5.  The perch of mason work or stone shall consist of twenty-five cubic feet.

      Sec. 6.  The units of standards of weights from which all other weights shall be derived and ascertained shall be the standard avoirdupois and troy weights adopted by the Government of the United States.

      Sec. 7.  The avoirdupois pound which bears to the troy pound the ratio of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty, shall be divided into sixteen equal parts called ounces.

Government standards of weights, measures, etc., adopted

Defining yard and fractions

Defining rod, etc.

Acre and square mile defined

Perch

Units of weight

Pound

Ton

Ounce

Units of measure

Gallon and fractions

Barrel

Bushel, etc.

Barrel and bushel of certain commodities

dred and sixty, shall be divided into sixteen equal parts called ounces. The hundredweight, except of pig iron and iron ore, shall consist of one hundred avoirdupois pounds, and twenty hundredweight shall constitute a ton. The troy ounce shall be equal to the twelfth part of a troy pound. Whenever hereafter in this act the word pound is used it shall mean the avoirdupois pound unless otherwise distinctly specified.

      Sec. 8.  The unit of standard measure of capacity for liquids from which all other measures of liquid shall be derived and ascertained shall be the standard gallon, adopted by the Government of the United States. The half-gallon, quart, pint, half-pint and gill measures for measuring liquids shall be derived from the gallon by dividing it and each successive measure by two.

      Sec. 9.  The barrel shall contain thirty-one and one-half gallons and two barrels shall constitute a hogshead.

      Sec. 10.  The unit of standard measure of capacity for commodities other than liquids, from which all other measures of such commodities shall be derived and ascertained, shall be the standard bushel measure adopted by the Government of the United States. The half-bushel, peck, half-peck, quarter-peck, quart, and pint measures for measuring commodities other than liquids shall be derived from the bushel by dividing it and each successive measure by two.

      Sec. 11.  Whenever any of the following articles shall be contracted for, or sold, or delivered, and no special contract or agreement shall be made to the contrary, such sale and computations for payment or settlement thereof shall be by weight. The net weight per barrel or bushel, or divisible merchantable quantities of a barrel or bushel, shall be as follows: Wheat flour, per barrel, one hundred and ninety-six pounds; per half-barrel, ninety-eight pounds; per quarter-barrel sack, forty-nine pounds; per one-eighth-barrel sack, twenty-four pounds; per one-sixteenth-barrel sack, twelve pounds; corn meal, per bushel sack, forty-eight pounds; per half-bushel sack, twenty-four pounds; per quarter-bushel sack, twelve pounds; and the following commodities per bushel: wheat, sixty pounds; rye, fifty-six pounds; Indian corn on the ear, seventy pounds; Kaffir corn, fifty-six pounds; rice corn, fifty-six pounds; corn, shelled, fifty-six pounds; sorghum seed, fifty pounds; buckwheat, fifty pounds; barley, forty-eight pounds; malt, thirty-two pounds; bran, twenty pounds; beans, sixty pounds; clover seed, sixty pounds; Hungarian and millet seed, fifty pounds; potatoes, sixty pounds; sweet potatoes, fifty pounds; turnips, fifty-six pounds; flax seed, fifty-six pounds; onions, fifty-seven pounds; salt, eighty pounds; castor beans, forty-six pounds; hemp seed, forty-eight pounds; native blue grass seed, fourteen pounds; English blue grass seed, twenty-two pounds; timothy seed, forty-five pounds; dried peaches, thirty-three pounds; dried apples, twenty-four pounds; green apples, forty-eight pounds; parsnips, fifty pounds; carrots, fifty pounds; beets, fifty-six pounds; tomatoes, fifty-six pounds; peaches, forty-eight pounds; shelled dried peas, sixty pounds, and alfalfa seed, sixty pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds.

pounds; tomatoes, fifty-six pounds; peaches, forty-eight pounds; shelled dried peas, sixty pounds, and alfalfa seed, sixty pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds.

      Sec. 12.  A standard loaf of bread sold or offered for sale in this state shall weigh one pound and a standard loaf of bread need not be labeled with a statement of its weight. Whenever a loaf of bread sold or offered for sale weighs more or less than a pound, it shall be labeled in plain, intelligible English words and figures with its correct weight, together with the name of its manufacturer.

      Sec. 13.  Butter in a standard package or container, sold or offered for sale in this state, shall weigh one pound and a standard package or container of butter need have no statement of the net weight of its contents thereon. Whenever butter is sold or offered for sale in a package or container, the net weight of which is more or less than one pound, such package or container shall be labeled in plain intelligible English words and figures with the correct net weight of its contents, together with the name of the manufacturer or jobber.

      Sec. 14.  All milk or cream that is sold or offered for sale in this state in bottles shall be sold or offered for sale only in bottles containing standard gallons, half-gallons, quarts, pints or half-pints. All other liquid commodities shall be sold only by standard liquid measure or standard weight, except where parties otherwise agree.

      Sec. 15.  Berries and small fruits whenever sold or offered for sale in this state in boxes, shall be sold or offered for sale in boxes containing a standard dry quart or dry pint, and if said boxes contain more or less than this amount the information must be given the purchaser, or such boxes must be labeled in plain, intelligible English words and figures with a correct statement of the quantity of its contents.

      Sec. 16.  A standard cord of firewood sold or offered for sale in this state shall be and contain one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet, well stowed and packed. And when delivering firewood to a purchaser the vender shall give, or cause to be given therewith to such purchaser, a written statement of the quantity, in terms of the standard cord, of the firewood so delivered.

      Sec. 17.  A standard ton of coal sold or offered for sale in this state shall weigh two thousand pounds. And when delivering coal to a purchaser the vender shall give, or cause to be given, therewith to such purchaser a written statement of the weight, in terms of the standard ton, of the coal so delivered. When coal is sold by the sack the contents of such sack shall weigh one hundred pounds.

      Sec. 18.  It shall be unlawful for any person to put up any commodity or article of merchandise into a package or container and sell or offer for sale in this state such commodity or article of merchandise in that form without having such package or container labeled in plain, intelligible English words and figures with a correct statement of the net weight, measure or numerical count of its contents; provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the putting up of commodities or articles of merchandise, which have been previously sold by net weight, measure or numerical count, into packages or containers for the purpose of delivering or transporting such commodities or articles of merchandise.

Standard bread loaf

Butter

Milk or cream

Berries, etc.

Firewood

Ton of coal

All packages to bear correct statement of weight, number, etc.

Proviso

Mutual agreement, when

False or short weight or measure unlawful

Penalties

Treble damages to sufferer

and figures with a correct statement of the net weight, measure or numerical count of its contents; provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the putting up of commodities or articles of merchandise, which have been previously sold by net weight, measure or numerical count, into packages or containers for the purpose of delivering or transporting such commodities or articles of merchandise.

      Sec. 19.  It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale in this state any commodity or article of merchandise, except by true net weight, measure or numerical count, except where the parties otherwise agree. Contracts for work to be done, or for anything to be sold by weight or measure, shall be construed according to the standards hereby adopted as the standards of this state, except where the parties have agreed upon any other calculations or measurement, and all statements and representations of any kind referring to the weight or measure of commodities or articles of merchandise shall be understood in the terms of the standards of weights or measures aforesaid.

      Sec. 20.  It shall be unlawful for any person, in buying or selling any commodity or article of merchandise, to make or give false or short weight or measure, or to sell or offer for sale any commodity or article of merchandise less in weight or measure than he represents, or to use a weight, measure, balance or measuring device that is false and does not conform to the authorized standard for determining the quantity of any commodity or article of merchandise, or to have a weight, measure, balance or measuring device adjusted for the purpose of giving false or short weight or measure, or to use in buying or selling of any commodity or article of merchandise a computing scale or device indicating the weight and price of such commodity or article of merchandise upon which scale or device the graduations or indications are falsely or inaccurately placed, either as to weight or price.

      Sec. 21.  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before the justice of the peace having jurisdiction of the offense, shall be fined in a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and any weight, measure, balance or measuring device which shall have been used by him in such violation shall be ordered confiscated and destroyed. He shall also be liable in damages to the party injured by his violation in treble the amount of the property wrongfully taken or not given and twenty dollars in addition thereto, to be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction. The selling and delivery of any commodity or article of merchandise shall be prima facie evidence of the representation on the part of the vender, that the quantity sold and delivered was the quantity bought by the vendee. There shall be taken into consideration the usual and ordinary leakage, evaporation or waste that there may be from the time a package or container is filled by the vender until he sells the same.

and ordinary leakage, evaporation or waste that there may be from the time a package or container is filled by the vender until he sells the same. A slight variation from the stated weight, measure or quantity for individual packages in permissible; provided, that variation is as often above as below the weight, measure or quantity stated.

      Sec. 22.  It shall be the duty of the district attorney to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this act occurring within his county.

      Sec. 23.  The director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station is hereby designated and constituted ex officio sealer of weights and measures and shall be charged with the proper enforcement of the provisions of this act, and he may appoint such deputy or deputies as he may deem necessary therefor. He shall have the care and custody of the authorized public standards of weights and measures and of balances and other apparatus of all kinds owned by the state under section one of this act. He shall maintain the state standards in good order and submit them at least once in every ten years to the National Bureau of Standards for verification. He shall at once, after the approval of this act, obtain from the Government of the United States all standard weights and measures mentioned in this act which this state does not at that time own.

      Sec. 24.  It shall be the duty of the sealer and his duly authorized deputy to test and prove all weights, measures, balances and measuring devices, when requested so to do by any person, without expense to such person, and when the same are found or made to conform to the authorized standards he shall seal and mark such weights, measures, balances and measuring devices with a seal to be kept by him for that purpose. It shall be the duty of the sealer and his deputy to inspect and test all weights, measures, balances and measuring devices and when any weight, measure, balance or measuring device is found by the sealer or his deputy or deputies to be false or untrue or not of the approved type, or which does not conform to the standards, or which cannot be made to conform to the standards by such means as the sealer or his deputy may have at his disposal he shall condemn the same and mark it condemned in a conspicuous manner, and such condemnation mark shall not be removed or defaced except by authorization of the said sealer or his deputy. It shall be the duty of the sealer and his deputy to inspect packages or containers of commodities or articles of merchandise, put up and sold or offered for sale in this state, and he shall mark in a conspicuous manner any package or container which does not have a statement of the net weight, measure or numerical count of its contents on it, and such mark shall not be removed or defaced except by authorization of the said sealer or his deputy. Whenever the sealer or his deputy has reason to believe that there has been a violation of any of the provisions of this act he shall swear to, or cause to be sworn to, a complaint before the justice of the peace having jurisdiction, charging the suspected person with a misdemeanor, and shall take charge of, pending the trial of the accused person, the weight, measure, balance or measuring device used in such suspected violation.

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Neglect of duty by sealer or deputies, how punished

Sealer to keep record

visions of this act he shall swear to, or cause to be sworn to, a complaint before the justice of the peace having jurisdiction, charging the suspected person with a misdemeanor, and shall take charge of, pending the trial of the accused person, the weight, measure, balance or measuring device used in such suspected violation.

      Sec. 25.  The sealer and his duly authorized deputy shall have full power to enter any premises in or on which any weights, measures, balances or measuring devices may be located or used for the purpose of trade, or any premises in or on which any commodities or articles of merchandise are put up into packages or containers for the purposes of trade, for the purpose of inspecting, adjusting, sealing, condemning or marking such weights, measures, balances or measuring devices and such packages or containers.

      Sec. 26.  It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, obstruct or in any way interfere with the sealer or his duly authorized deputy while in the performance of said inspection, and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail to produce upon demand by the sealer or his deputy all weights, measures, balances or measuring devices and all packages or containers of commodities or articles of merchandise, in or upon his place of business or in his possession, for use in manufacture or trade. Any such person so violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,

      Sec. 27.  If the sealer or any one of his deputies shall seal any weight, measure, balance or measuring device before first testing and making the same conform to the authorized standard or if he shall condemn or take charge of any weight, measure, balance or measuring device without first testing the same, the one so doing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

      Sec. 28.  If the sealer or any of his deputies neglects to keep the standards under his charge in good order or repair, or suffers any of them through his neglect to be lost, damaged or destroyed, or fails to perform any of the duties imposed upon him by this act, the one so doing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars.

      Sec. 29.  The sealer shall keep a record of all the weights, measures, balances or other measuring devices sealed, and of all convictions had and confiscations made under this act and shall make an annual report to the governor on or before January first of each year, a copy of which shall be filed with the National Bureau of Standards.

National Bureau of Standards. He shall issue from time to time regulations for the guidance of his deputies and the said regulations shall govern the procedure to be followed by the aforesaid deputies in the discharge of their duties.

      Sec. 30.  The terms “package” and “container” as used in this act shall include any carton, box, barrel, bag, keg, drum, bundle, jar, jug, crock, demijohn, bottle, crate, basket, hamper, pail, can, parcel, package or paper wrapper.

      Sec. 31.  The term “person” as used in this act shall be construed to impart both singular and plural as the case demands and shall include corporation, company, society and association. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act omission or failure of any officer, agent or other person acting for or employed by any corporation, company, society or association within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed omission or failure of such corporation, company, society or association, as well as that of the person.

      Sec. 32.  The sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the compensation of sealer, deputy or deputies, office supplies and for apparatus necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the sum herein appropriated in favor of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

      Sec. 33.  This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

      Sec. 34.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with or inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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Person defined

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Repeal

Chap. 44–An act granting to the Tonopah Sewer and Drainage Company the right, privilege and franchise to supply and furnish to the town of Tonopah and additions to said town sewage and sewer service, and to charge rentals therefor; and ratifying and confirming with certain amendments a certain grant of sewer franchise made to the Tonopah Sewer and Drainage Company on the first day of May, 1905, by the board of county commissioners of Nye County, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

      Whereas, The board of county commissioners of Nye County, State of Nevada, did on the first day of May, 1905, duly authorize, enter into, and execute a certain contract and grant in words and figures as follows, to wit:

      Know All Men by These Present:  That we, the undersigned county commissioners of Nye County, Nevada, hereby grant unto F.

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unto F. S. Lack of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, and to his assigns, successors, executors, and administrators the following rights, privileges, franchises and charters:

      Of laying down, continuing, and maintaining sewer pipes and all apparatus and appliances for the construction of a sewerage system in, upon, along and through all the streets, avenues, alleys and public places now in the town of Tonopah, or which may hereafter be laid out or dedicated, subject to the following conditions:

      If the said F. S. Lack, his successors, assigns, executors or administrators shall open or cause to be opened any street, avenue, alley, or other public place for the laying of any pipe, manhole, or other apparatus or appliance, he shall forthwith restore the same to as good condition as the same was before such opening, at his own expense.

      The said F. S. Lack shall permit connections to be made with said sewerage system by parties desiring the same for the premises abutting on the streets, avenues or alleys in which he may have a pipe laid, upon application of the owners of the premises, under such reasonable rules as the said F. S. Lack shall prescribe.

      The said F. S. Lack or his assigns is hereby granted the right to charge such persons as may connect their premises with the said sewer system the following monthly rates payable at the office of said F. S. Lack monthly, in advance, on the first day of each month:

             Residence, one to three rooms............................................ $3.00 per month

             Residence, four to six rooms..............................................    4.00 per month

             Residence, seven to nine rooms........................................    5.00 per month

             Residence...........................................................................................................

             Bakery........................................................................................................ $5.00

             Barber shop............................................................................................... 10.00

             Billiard room.............................................................................................     5.00

             Boarding-houses...................................................................................... 10.00

             Brewery...................................................................................................... 10.00

             Butcher shop...........................................................................................     5.00

             Candy factory..........................................................................................     5.00

             Cigar manufactory..................................................................................     5.00

             Club rooms...............................................................................................     5.00

             Confectionery..........................................................................................     5.00

             Saloon........................................................................................................ 10.00

             Halls..........................................................................................................     5.00

             Hotels......................................................................................................... 25.00

             Ice cream parlors.....................................................................................     5.00

             Laboratory...............................................................................................     5.00

             Livery stable.............................................................................................. 10.00

             Offices......................................................................................................     2.00

             Photograph gallery.................................................................................     5.00

             Restaurants............................................................................................... 10.00

             Rooming-houses, one to ten rooms, 75 cents per room per month.

             Schoolhouses and public buildings, free use given.

             Soap factory.............................................................................................. 10.00

             Store..........................................................................................................     5.00

      If payment thereof be made in advance for one party paying said rental in advance to receive a discount of ten per cent on the rate charged.

      The right and privileges herein granted are for a period of fifty years from and after the passage of this franchise.

      At any time after the expiration of ten years from and after the passage and granting of this franchise, in case the town shall elect to do so, the said sewerage system may be purchased by said town, and in case the parties cannot agree on a price to be paid for the same, after such election to purchase, its cash value shall be determined by arbitration by five disinterested persons, none of whom shall be residents of the town of Tonopah, two of them to be chosen by the town, two by the said F. S. Lack or his successors or assigns, and the fifty by the four so chosen; and the decision of the majority of said board shall be binding and final, and upon the payment by the said town of the amount awarded or agreed upon, the said F. S. Lack or his successors or assigns shall convey to said town all the said sewerage system, together with all easements, rights of way and privileges appertaining thereto.

      The town of Tonopah shall have the right to connect with and use the sewerage system for its public buildings free of charge, but under the same regulations as are required from private users.

      That said users of said sewerage system shall not be permitted to connect with said sewerage system until a proper grease trap is constructed upon the premises through which all water containing grease or oil shall be discharged before entering said sewer, and the said F. S. Lack or his successors or assigns shall have the privilege of inspecting such premises before and after connection is permitted with the said sewerage system.

      Upon the failure of the owner of any premises to pay the rate as herein specified the said Lack or his successors or assigns may disconnect the said premises from the said sewerage system.

      The county commissioners of the county of Nye shall pass such resolutions and ordinances from time to time as are necessary to protect said Lack or his successors or assigns against any person using said sewerage system without the consent of the said Lack.

      All pipes and other apparatus composing said sewerage system shall be and remain the sole and absolute property of said Lack and his assigns or successors until the same shall be purchased as hereinbefore provided, and the said Lack his successors or assigns shall forever be considered and entitled to be in the possession thereof, except in the case of purchase by the said town.

      The said F. S. Lack or his assigns shall complete at least two miles of said sewerage system within six months after the granting of this franchise.

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two miles of said sewerage system within six months after the granting of this franchise.

                                                                                                              W. T. CUDDY,

                                                                                                              EUGENE LOCKE,

                                                                                                              WILLIAM ROGERS.

      Whereas, The Tonopah Sewer and Drainage Company, a corporation, is the successor in interest by deed of conveyances, of all the rights, privileges and franchises, of the said F. S. Lack under and by virtue of said franchise and grant above set out; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That said contract and grant hereinbefore set forth and the action of the board of county commissioners of said Nye County in authorizing, entering into, and executing the same are hereby ratified, sanctioned, approved, confirmed and declared valid; and the said Tonopah Sewer and Drainage Company is hereby granted the right, privilege, and franchise to supply and furnish the town of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, sewage and a sewer system and to conduct the same therein, according to the terms of said franchise and grant, and to any and all additions that may be made to said town, and to charge rental therefor according to the terms of said franchise; and to excavate for, install and maintain all such mains, laterals, pipes, connections and manholes, and other appliances and apparatus as may be necessary, along any and all streets, public highways, avenues, and alleys of said town; which said privileges, rights and franchise shall be held and enjoyed and exercised in the said town of Tonopah subject to, in accordance with, and for the length of time prescribed by the terms, covenants, provisions, agreement and conditions of said grant and franchise; provided, that charges for and character of services rendered by said Tonopah Sewer and Drainage Company, its successors and assigns, shall always be subject to regulation and control by any public service commission or similar body in the State of Nevada invested with power to regulate and control charges and service of public utilities, and no court shall be deemed to be deprived of any powers or jurisdiction now existing with respect to rates.

Chap. 45–An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Mineral County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for the repairing and furnishing of county buildings, in the town of Hawthorne, the payment for transcribing of records and the payment of current expenses.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Mineral County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue bonds of said county, after the first of April, 1911, for an amount not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the repairing and the furnishing of county buildings in the town of Hawthorne, the payment for transcribing of records and payment of current expenses of the county of Mineral.

      Sec. 2.  Prior to the first Monday in May, 1911, the board of county commissioners of said county shall cause said bonds to be prepared and ready for issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, 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 bonds, and each of such coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer.

      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 and date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Mineral County are hereby authorized and directed to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sales, as they may deem for the best interest of the county; provided, that all bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be numbered from one to sixteen consecutively; fourteen of said bonds shall be for the sum of one thousand dollars each, and two for the sum of five hundred dollars each; and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in January in each year at the office of the county treasurer of said Mineral County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than ten 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 Mineral County are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, including proceeds of mines within the boundaries of said Mineral County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire one-half of the bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1916, and to pay and retire the balance of said bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1921.

Bonds of Mineral County for repairs, etc.

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Bond fund, how created

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Interest paid annually

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Treasurer to cancel paid bonds

Faith of the State of Nevada pledged

a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, including proceeds of mines within the boundaries of said Mineral County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire one-half of the bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1916, and to pay and retire the balance of said bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1921. 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 thereon shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “County Buildings Bond Fund.”

      Sec. 7.  It shall be obligatory on said county and its proper officers to fully pay the interest on said bonds annually, and to fully pay and retire one-half of the bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1916, and to fully pay and retire the balance of said bonds actually issued on the first Monday in January, 1921, beginning with the first number thereof and so on consecutively.

      Sec. 8.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond 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 anything on the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof, “paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books with the amount so paid.

      Sec. 10.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Additional legislative fund

Chap. 46–An act to create a legislative fund.

[Approved March 11, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of paying the per diem of 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 the moneys now in the general fund not otherwise specially appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which shall constitute the additional 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, compensation and incidental expense of the respective houses, when properly certified to him, in accordance with 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.

Duties of controller and treasurer

Balance to revert

Chap. 47–An act authorizing the county commissioners of Elko County to reestablish the boundaries of school districts, voting precincts, and townships within Elko County, and matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved March 11, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county commissioners of Elko County are hereby empowered to reestablish the boundaries of any or all of the several school districts, voting precincts, or townships within that county, whenever the said county commissioners shall decide that the boundaries of any such voting precinct, school district, or township are indefinite, or faulty, or illegal for any reason; provided, that the county commissioners shall, in reestablishing the boundaries of any school district, voting precinct, or township, for the purposes mentioned herein, establish the boundaries of the said school district, voting precinct, or township so that the said boundaries shall conform as closely as possible to such former boundaries of the school district, voting precinct, or township as the county commissioners shall decide are most nearly correct at the time of reestablishing the said boundaries.

      Sec. 2.  In reestablishing the boundaries of any school district, voting precinct, or township for the purposes mentioned in section one of this act, the commissioners shall, as far as practicable, make use of the corners of the United States land subdivisions for the corners and turning points of the reestablished boundaries of such school district, voting precinct or township.

      Sec. 3.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Elko commissioners empowered to reestablish various district boundaries

To conform to U. S. survey lines

Repeal

Relief of clerk of Douglas County

County to pay

Chap. 48–An act to provide for the relief of H. C. Jepson, clerk and treasurer of Douglas County.

[Approved March 11, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of seventy-four dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the game and fish preservation fund of Douglas County, to be paid to H. C. Jepson, clerk and treasurer of Douglas County, for extra labor performed in the years 1909 and 1910, in the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses and in keeping record thereof, his compensation consisting solely of fees.

      Sec. 2.  The county auditor of said Douglas County is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said H. C. Jepson for seventy-four dollars, and the county treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Bonds for telegraph and telephone building in Fallon

Bonds, how prepared

Record kept

Chap. 49–An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Churchill County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for the obtaining of premises and erection and furnishing of a county telegraph and telephone building in the city of Fallon in said county.

[Approved March 11, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Churchill County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to prepare and issue bonds of said county for an amount not exceeding the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the obtaining of premises and erection and furnishing of a county telegraph and telephone building in the city of Fallon, in said county.

      Sec. 2.  Prior to the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred and eleven, the board of county commissioners of said county shall cause said bonds to be prepared and ready for issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, and each of such coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer.

      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 and date of each bond, and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Churchill County are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sales as they may deem for the best interests of the county; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that all bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall each be in the sum of five hundred dollars, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six (6) per cent per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in January of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Churchill County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than fifteen 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 Churchill County are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax of not exceeding fifteen cents upon each one hundred dollars of assessed value of all property, both real and personal, within the boundaries of said Churchill County, until such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been fully 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 “Churchill County Telegraph and Telephone Fund.”

      Sec. 7.  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 Churchill County telegraph and telephone fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners, be transferred to the general fund of said county.

      Sec. 8.  Should the holder of said bonds or any part thereof, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the county treasurer for payment as they become due, all interest shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 9.  Whenever the county treasurer shall pay any coupons on bonds, issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof, the word “paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books with the amount so paid.

      Sec. 10.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full.

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Chap. 50–An act concerning certain county officers of the county of Churchill, State of Nevada, fixing their salaries and compensation, allowing certain deputies; providing for their salaries and compensation, and other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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 April, 1911, the county officers of Churchill County, named in this act, shall receive the following salaries and fees in full compensation for their services:

      Sec. 2.  The sheriff shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum and such fees as are allowed by law in civil cases; he shall have authority to appoint a deputy with an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars.

      Sec. 3.  The county recorder and ex officio auditor shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum. All fees authorized by law shall be collected by him and paid to the county treasurer on the first Monday of each and every month, and he shall, at the same time, prepare and file with the county treasurer a full and accurate itemized statement, under oath, of all such fees collected by him in his official capacity during the month previous, and also a duplicate copy thereof with the board of county commissioners. He is authorized to appoint deputies, the salaries of such deputies to be fixed by the board of county commissioners and for such time as said board may deem necessary.

      Sec. 4.  The county clerk and ex officio clerk of the board of County Commissioners shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; he shall have authority to appoint a deputy with an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars. All fees authorized by law shall be collected by said county clerk and paid to the county treasurer on the first Monday of each and every month, and he shall at the same time prepare and file with the county treasurer a full and accurate itemized statement, under oath, of all such fees collected by him in his official capacity during the month previous, and also a duplicate copy thereof with the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 5.  The county treasurer shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services rendered.

      Sec. 6.  The county assessor shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services rendered.

      Sec. 7.  The district attorney shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and shall also be allowed his actual expenses when called from the county-seat in discharge of the official duties of the office of district attorney. The above salary and expenses shall be in full for all services rendered.

salary and expenses shall be in full for all services rendered.

      Sec. 8.  The county commissioners shall each receive the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered.

      Sec. 9.  All salaries herein provided for shall be payable in twelve equal installments. The county auditor shall on the first Monday of each month draw his warrant on the salary fund in favor of each of the officers named hereinfor the salary due said officer for the last preceding month andthe county treasurer shall pay said warrant out of said fund.

      Sec. 10.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Commissioners

Salaries payable monthly

Repeal

Chap. 51–An act to amend section ninety-nine of an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada,” and to repeal certain acts relating thereto, approved March 23, 1891.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section ninety-nine of an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 99.  Each male resident of this state, over twenty-one and under sixty years of age (uncivilized American Indians excepted), and not by law exempt, shall pay an annual poll tax, for the use of the state and county, of three dollars; and for the purposes 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; provided, that any person who has paid a poll tax in any other state or territory and has in his possession a receipt therefor, shall not be required to pay a poll tax in this state for the year represented by such poll-tax receipt issuing in another state or territory.

Disposition of poll tax

Proviso

Chap. 52–An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled “An act to segregate certain county offices in Elko County, State of Nevada, and fixing their salaries,” approved March 27, 1907, approved March 6, 1909.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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 to read as follows:

      Section 3.  The county recorder, and as ex officio auditor, shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum; he shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees.

Salary of recorder of Elko County

shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum; he shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees. The county recorder, and as ex officio auditor, may appoint one deputy, who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and one recording clerk, who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

Preamble

Florence Crittenton Mission, support of

$4,800 appropriated

Paid monthly

Chap. 53–An act appropriating four thousand eight hundred dollars for the support and maintenance of the Florence Crittenton Mission of Nevada, Incorporated, located at Reno, Washoe County, Nevada.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

      Whereas, A number of the citizens of the State of Nevada have incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada the Florence Crittenton Mission, Incorporated, and a branch of the National Crittenton Mission; and

      Whereas, Among other things, the purposes for which said corporation is formed are: To aid and encourage destitute, homeless, and friendless women to lead lives of respect and to reach positions of honorable self-support; to provide a temporary home and employment for women and girls who have been led from the path of virtue and who sincerely desire to reform, and to aid and encourage them to seek respectability and reformation of character; to provide shelter for young and unprotected mothers with their children, and to encourage and assist young mothers in caring for their children, etc.; and

      Whereas, Said corporation has had no capital stock nor shares of stock; and its members consist of men and women who are in sympathy with, and who voluntarily contribute to its purposes, and the contributions of said corporation since its organization have been very small; and

      Whereas, Said corporation has cared for many who have sought shelter, and the demands of said corporation are continually increasing, and it is without funds to properly care for those seeking its protection and carrying out the great objects and purposes for which it is organized; now, therefore,

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of four thousand eight hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of assisting the Florence Crittenton Mission of Nevada, Incorporated, in carrying out the objects and purposes for which it was organized.

      Sec. 2.  Said four thousand eight hundred dollars thus appropriated shall be paid to the treasurer of said corporation in installments of two hundred dollars per month for a period of twenty-four (24) months.

in installments of two hundred dollars per month for a period of twenty-four (24) months.

      Sec. 3.  The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant in favor of the treasurer of said corporation for the sums named in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

Duties of controller and treasurer

Chap. 54–An act to amend an act entitled “An act to segregate certain county officers in Elko County, State of Nevada, and fixing their salaries, to take effect on the first day of April, 1911,” approved March 27, 1907.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section 5.  The county treasurer, and as ex officio tax receiver, shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services rendered by him, and he shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees, including the amount received and paid by the State of Nevada for the state’s pro rata of said county treasurer’s salary.

Salary of treasurer of Elko County

Chap. 55–An act to provide for the erection of buildings and for the maintenance and improvement of the property of the state at the state fish hatchery, at Verdi, Washoe County, Nevada, and to appropriate money therefor.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state board of fish commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to construct upon state property at Verdi, Nevada, suitable buildings for use as dwelling-house, stable and store-house, and make such other improvements as it may deem necessary for the maintenance of all state property under its control.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of complying with and carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of eight thousand (8,000) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the state board of fish commissioners, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasury for the above said amount in favor of the state board of fish commissioners, at such times and in such amounts as may be approved by the state board of examiners, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Buildings for fish hatchery at Verdi

$8,000 appropriated

In effect

above said amount in favor of the state board of fish commissioners, at such times and in such amounts as may be approved by the state board of examiners, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force immediately after its passage and approval.

Unlawful to pollute any stream

Provisos

Chap. 56–An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to prevent pollution or contamination of the waters of the lakes, rivers, streams and ditches in the State of Nevada, prescribing penalties, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act,’ approved March 20, 1903,” and further approved March 12, 1907, approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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 1.  Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association in this state, or the managing agent of any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association in this state, or any duly elected, appointed or lawfully created state officer of this state, or any duly elected, appointed or lawfully created officer of any county, city, town, municipality, or municipal government in this state, who shall deposit, or who shall permit or allow any person or persons in their employ or under their control, management or direction to deposit in any of the waters of the lakes, rivers, streams and ditches in this state any sawdust, rubbish, filth, or poisonous, or deleterious substance or substances, liable to affect the health of persons, fish, or live stock, or place or deposit any such deleterious substance or substances in any place where the same may be washed or infiltered into any of the waters herein named, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, exclusive of court costs; provided, that in cases of state institutions, municipalities, towns, incorporated towns or cities, when, owing to the magnitude of the work, immediate correction of the evil is impracticable, then in such cases the authorities shall adopt all new work, and as rapidly as possible reconstruct the old systems of drainage sewerage so as to conform with the provisions of this act; and provided further, that all such new reconstructed systems shall be completed before March 20, 1915; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to permit mining or milling companies to dump tailings directly into any stream in this state so as to prevent or impede the natural flow of such stream.

directly into any stream in this state so as to prevent or impede the natural flow of such stream. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to apply to any quartz mill or ore reduction works in this state.

Exceptions

Chap. 57–An act to regulate the salary and compensation of the justices of the peace of Wells Township and Carlin Township, of Elko County, State of Nevada.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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 March, A. D. 1911, the board of county commissioners of Elko County are hereby empowered and directed to appropriate from the treasury of said county and to pay to the justice of the peace of Wells Township, and to the justice of the peace of Carlin Township of said county the sum of fifty dollars ($50) monthly as a salary; provided, that said justices of the peace shall be allowed to retain all fees in civil cases as now provided by law. The regularly elected or appointed justice of the peace shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees, save as hereinabove provided.

Salary of justices of the peace in Elko County

May return civil fees

Chap. 58–An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Reno, and to establish a city government therefor,” approved March 16, 1903, approved March 13, 1905.

[Approved March 10, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Subdivision third of section 10, article XII, of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 10.  Subdivision third-To levy and collect annually for general purposes a tax of not to exceed one per cent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the city, and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes; and in addition thereto to levy and collect annually a tax of not to exceed one-quarter of one per cent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the city which is by law taxable for state and county purposes; to provide a fund for the payment of the interest on the bonds of the city outstanding, and that may be lawfully issued and sold

Amending Reno charter

Tax for certain purposes

hereafter, and to provide a fund for the payment of the principal of such bonds and the redemption thereof as they shall mature, and for no other purpose.

Salary of constable of Jarbidge, Elko County

Restrictions as to payment of salary

Chap. 59–An act fixing and regulating the salary of the constable of Jarbidge Township, county of Elko, State of Nevada, authorizing actual traveling expenses of said constable, appropriating money therefor, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 13, 1911]

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 April, 1911, the board of county commissioners of Elko County are hereby empowered and directed to appropriate from the treasury of said county, and to pay to the elected or appointed constable of Jarbidge Township of said county, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) monthly as a salary; provided, that said constable shall be allowed to retain all fees in civil cases as now provided by law, and in criminal cases performed outside of said county he shall be allowed his necessary expenses, but in no event shall said constable charge or collect any fees for services by him rendered to the State of Nevada, or to Elko County.

      Sec. 2.  The regularly elected or appointed constable shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees, save as hereinabove provided. It is further provided that no salary shall be allowed to said constable until after he shall have filed with the clerk of said board of county commissioners a sworn statement in writing of all fees collected by him in criminal cases during the month for which said salary is asked.

Chap. 60–An act to amend section two of an act entitled “An act creating coroner districts, making the justices of the peace ex officio coroners, prescribing their duties and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act,” approved March 16, 1909.

[Approved March 13, 1911]

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 to read as follows:

      Section 2.  All justices of the peace in this state are hereby made ex officio coroners; provided, said ex officio coroners may appoint a deputy or deputies, who shall have power to transact all official business appertaining to said officers to the same extent as their principal; provided, further, said ex officio coroners shall be responsible for the compensation of said deputy or deputies, and shall be responsible on their official bonds for all official malfeasance or nonfeasance of the same.

made ex officio coroners; provided, said ex officio coroners may appoint a deputy or deputies, who shall have power to transact all official business appertaining to said officers to the same extent as their principal; provided, further, said ex officio coroners shall be responsible for the compensation of said deputy or deputies, and shall be responsible on their official bonds for all official malfeasance or nonfeasance of the same. All appointments of deputies shall be made in writing, and shall, with the oath of office, be filed in the office of the recorder of the county within which the principal holds and exercises his office.

Justices of the peace as coroners may appoint deputies

Chap. 61–An act to amend section 14 of an act entitled “An act creating coroner districts, making the justices of the peace ex officio coroners, prescribing their duties and compensations, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act,” approved March 16, 1909.

[Approved March 13, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section fourteen of said act, approved March 16, 1909, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 14.  If the money be demanded within six years, the treasurer shall pay the same to the person legally authorized to receive it, but the same may be paid at any subsequent time to the representatives of the deceased upon an order from the tribunal invested with the power to allow claims against the county.

Regarding payment of money of deceased

Chap. 62–An act to fix the salary of the justice of the peace of Caliente Township, Lincoln County, State of Nevada.

[Approved March 13, 1911]

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 the board of county commissioners of Lincoln County are hereby authorized and directed to appropriate from the treasury of said county, and pay to the regularly elected or appointed justice of the peace of Caliente Township of said county, the sum of seventy-five ($75) dollars monthly, as a salary, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered in criminal cases; provided, that said justice of the peace shall retain all fees in civil cases now allowed by law.

      Sec. 2.  The regularly elected or appointed justice of the peace of said township shall pay into the county treasury each month all money collected by him as fees in criminal cases.

Salary of justice of the peace of Caliente, Lincoln County

Criminal fees go to county

Repeal

month all money collected by him as fees in criminal cases.

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

Printer authorized to correct palpable errors

Duties of engrossing committee

Same

Printed bill becomes official copy, when

Bills reprinted, when

Chap. 63–An act providing for the printing of legislative bills and resolutions, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 14, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state printer shall print as many copies of every bill and resolution introduced in either house in the state legislature as shall be authorized by resolution of the branch of the legislature in which said bill or resolution is introduced, and in printing such bills and resolutions the state printer is hereby authorized to correct in said printed copies, all errors in spelling, punctuation and grammatical construction as may appear in the original copy thereof, and to supply the enacting clause, if omitted; provided, that no change shall be made which shall in any way, vary the apparent meaning of said bill or resolution.

      Sec. 2.  All bills and resolutions shall be introduced in triplicate, and one copy of each bill or resolution shall be marked “original”; one shall be marked “duplicate”; one shall be marked “triplicate.” The copy marked “duplicate” shall be sent to the state printer for the purpose of printing and the copy marked “triplicate” shall be referred to the engrossing committee of the house in which such bill or resolution was introduced.

      Sec. 3.  The engrossing committee of the house in which any bill or resolution originates shall immediately after the printing of said bill, carefully compare a printed copy thereof with the triplicate copy of said bill, and if said printed bill is found to be in all respects correct save such errors in spelling and punctuation as shall have been corrected by the printer as in this act provided, said engrossing committee shall cause a printed copy of said bill to be securely bound with a substantial cover on which the further history of said bill may be endorsed; the chairman of the engrossing committee of the house in which said bill or resolution originated, shall then certify to the correctness of said bound copy and deliver same to the chief clerk of the assembly or secretary of the senate, as the case may be; whereupon said bound copy so compared and certified to, shall be substituted for the original and official copy as introduced and thereafter be deemed the official copy of said bill or resolution.

      Sec. 4.  When any bill or resolution is ordered engrossed the house ordering such engrossment, may as a part of such resolution, if deemed advisable, order such bill or resolution to be reprinted for engrossment as amended before being transmitted to the other house.

to be reprinted for engrossment as amended before being transmitted to the other house.

      Sec. 5.  Hereafter, either house, may, by resolution, if it be deemed advisable order that any bill or resolution, originating in such house, and which has passed both houses shall be printed for enrollment; provided, all bills and resolutions which shall be printed for enrollment, shall be securely bound with a substantial flexible cover; on the last page shall be printed a blank form and space for the signatures of the proper officers of the senate and assembly and for the approval and signature of the governor; provided, further, that in other respects, the style, dimensions of the printed matter and type used in the printing of bills and resolutions for enrollment shall be as decided by the state printer and shall be uniform throughout the session.

Printed for enrollment, when

Style of printing uniform

Chap. 64–An act to provide for the protection and the preservation of trout and other fish in the waters of the State of Nevada and other matters pertaining thereto, and to state in part what shall be evidence of its violation, and to prescribe penalties for its violation, and to provide for its enforcement, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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, firm, company, or corporation to take, catch, or kill, or to attempt to take, catch, or kill, any river trout, lake trout, or brook trout, white-fish, land-locked salmon, royal chinook salmon, or large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, in or from any of the streams, lakes, rivers, or other waters of the State of Nevada, between the sixteenth day of October of each year and the thirtieth day of April of the succeeding year, both dates being included.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, or corporation in the State of Nevada to buy, sell, or offer or expose for sale or to have in his, their, or its possession, any river trout, lake trout, or brook trout, salmon, whitefish, or large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass taken or caught from any of the waters of this state within the closed season specified in this act.

      Sec. 3.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, or corporation to take, catch, or kill, or to attempt to take, catch, or kill, in or from any stream, lake, or river, or any other waters of the State of Nevada, any trout, salmon, white-fish, bass, perch, or any other fish of any species whatever with any seine, net, spear, set-line, set-hooks, grab-hook, trot-line or snag-line, or in the manner known as snagging, or with any weir-fence, trap, giant powder, or other explosive, or explosive compound, or with or by means of any bait constituted or prepared in whole or in part of or from the spawn, eggs or ova of trout, salmon, or of any other species of fish whatever; or with or by any means whatever except with hook and line attached to a rod held in the hands and in the manner known as angling; that is, with baited hook, fly-hook, spoon-hook, or other anglers’ lure.

Closed season for fish

Unlawful to sell fish or have in possession during closed season

Certain methods of taking fish prohibited

Regulations concerning hotels and dealers

Fish less than certain lengths must not be caught

Transportation companies prohibited from carrying more than certain weight of fish

Proviso

whatever with any seine, net, spear, set-line, set-hooks, grab-hook, trot-line or snag-line, or in the manner known as snagging, or with any weir-fence, trap, giant powder, or other explosive, or explosive compound, or with or by means of any bait constituted or prepared in whole or in part of or from the spawn, eggs or ova of trout, salmon, or of any other species of fish whatever; or with or by any means whatever except with hook and line attached to a rod held in the hands and in the manner known as angling; that is, with baited hook, fly-hook, spoon-hook, or other anglers’ lure.

      Sec. 4.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, or corporation, cold-storage company, tavern, or hotel keeper, restaurant, or eating-house keeper, butcher, or market man, in this state to buy, sell, or offer or expose for sale, or to have in his, their, or its possession, any trout, salmon, white-fish, or fish of any species whatever taken from any of the waters of the State of Nevada by or with any of the means specified as unlawful in this act or in any preceding act.

      Sec. 5.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company or corporation, to kill, or to retain in his, their, or its possession any lake trout, river trout, land-locked salmon, or royal chinook salmon, taken from the waters of this state less than seven inches in length; or any large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, or Sacramento perch, less than eight inches in length, or any red-spotted eastern brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) less than six inches in length.

      Sec. 6.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, railroad, railway company or corporation, express company, stage line, transportation company, or any common carrier in the State of Nevada to accept or to receive for shipment or for transportation from any one person or in the name of any one firm, company, or association, in any one calendar day, more than ten pounds of trout, land-locked salmon, or royal chinook salmon, or of large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, taken or caught in or from any of the waters of the State of Nevada; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the shipment, or receipt or acceptance, of ten trout on one calendar day from any single consignor, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, association, or corporation, transportation company, or common carrier to offer or present or to receive or accept for shipment, carriage, or transportation any box, bundle, package, basket, or other container whatsoever in which are enclosed any of the fishes herein specified, unless the box, bundle, basket, package, or other container aforesaid shall be so wrapped, tied, or constructed that it shall be easily opened for inspection or examination, and unless it shall bear a conspicuous label, easily read, which shall state the contents thereof, together with the name and address of the consignor thereof and the name and address of the consignee; and false statement on the aforesaid label either as to the contents enclosed or as to the true name or address of the consignor thereof or of the consignee shall be construed as a violation of this act.

address of the consignor thereof or of the consignee shall be construed as a violation of this act.

      Sec. 7.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, or corporation to take, catch, or kill from any of the waters of the State of Nevada or to have in his, their, or its possession on any one calendar day, more than ten pounds of trout, or of land-locked salmon, or royal chinook salmon, or large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, or Sacramento perch, or white-fish caught in the waters of this State; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so interpreted as to prevent or to prohibit the taking of ten trout or salmon, or other fish specified in this act.

      Sec. 8.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in the State of Nevada at any time or season to take, catch, or kill, or to attempt so to take, catch, or kill, any lake trout, river trout, brook trout, land-locked salmon, royal chinook salmon, large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, Sacramento perch, or any other species of fish whatever, within a distance of one hundred feet above or below any dam in this state containing a fishway or fish-ladder.

      Sec. 9.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company or corporation in the State of Nevada to take, catch, or kill, or to attempt to take, catch, or kill, and lake trout, river trout, brook trout, land-locked salmon, royal chinook salmon, white-fish, large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, Sacramento perch, or any other fish of any species whatever, at any time or season, whatever, within a distance of one mile below any dam of the United States reclamation service containing a fishway or fish-ladder, and lying within the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 10.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm company or corporation, in the State of Nevada, to take, catch, or kill, or attempt to take, catch, or kill, any lake trout, river trout, or brook trout, land-locked salmon, royal chinook salmon, large-mouthed or small-mouthed black bass, Sacramento perch, or any other fish of any species whatever from any of the waters of the State of Nevada, on any calendar day after two hours after sunset, and on any calendar day before one hour before sunrise.

      Sec. 11.  The fish commissioners of the State of Nevada, the members of the Nevada State Police, and every fish or game warden throughout the state, and every sheriff and constable in his respective county is and are hereby authorized and required to enforce this act and to seize any game or fish taken or held in possession in violation of this act, and he or they shall have full power and authority and it shall be the duty of every such officer with or without a warrant, to open, enter, or examine all camps, wagons, cars, automobiles, stages, tents, packs, warehouses, stores, outhouses, stables, barns, and other places, boxes, barrels, baskets, and packages, where he has reason to believe any fish taken or held in violation of any of the provisions of this act is or are to be found, and to seize the same; provided, that a dwelling house actually occupied can be entered for examination only in pursuance of a warrant.

Ten pounds limit of catch for one day; but ten fish may be taken

Unlawful to fish within 100 feet of dam

Same applying to irrigation works

Night fishing defined and prohibited

Fish commission and peace officers required to enforce this act

Reasonable search allowed

Proviso

Officers may call for extra assistance in making arrests

Penalties

Evidence, what declared to be

Does not apply to private fish ponds or streams

the provisions of this act is or are to be found, and to seize the same; provided, that a dwelling house actually occupied can be entered for examination only in pursuance of a warrant.

      Sec. 12.  In case Indians or any other persons in the State of Nevada shall engage in the killing of trout or other fishes in violation of any of the provisions of this act, and shall be in such numbers as to be beyond the reasonable power of any fish or game warden of the state fish commission to control, or in case of forcible resistance to the enforcement thereof, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or sheriffs of the county or counties where such violation exists, upon the demand of such commissioners or any warden to aid him in the enforcement of this act, and to call to his assistance at once a sufficient number of persons to enforce the same promptly and effectually; or if by him deemed necessary, said commissioners or said warden may call such assistance without the intervention of the sheriff. The failure without good cause of any person or persons to respond and to render such assistance shall be deemed a violation of this act.

      Sec. 13.  Any person or persons, firm, company, or corporation, association, or common carrier in this state who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail in the county where the conviction is had for any term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be no defense in a prosecution for violation of any of the provisions of this act that the trout or other fish in question were taken or killed outside the State of Nevada; nor shall it be any defense in any prosecution for violation of any of the provisions of this act that the trout or fish were taken or killed by one other than he in whose possession said trout or other fish were found. The act of passing a line into or on any of the waters of the State of Nevada as though in the act of fishing, shall be in itself sufficient evidence of an attempt to take or to catch fish within the meaning of this act. The presence in or on the body in flank, back, or belly of any of the fishes herein specified of deep incised wounds or cuts such as are made by spears, grab-hooks, trout-hooks, or snag-hooks, shall be construed as in itself sufficient evidence that the said fish were taken in violation of the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 14.  Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the taking of trout or other fish, by the rightful owners thereof or by their agents in any manner, at any season whatever, from the waters of private ponds by them constructed or maintained for the purpose of raising trout or other fishes; nor to prohibit the sale of trout or other fishes or of their fry or ova from private hatcheries lying wholly or in part within the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 15.  Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to hinder or to prevent or prohibit the taking of trout or of other fishes, or of their fry, eggs or ova, at any time, in any manner or by any means or in any suitable place or location by the Nevada fish commission or by their agents or by anyone whom they may authorize, for the purposes of breeding or propagation, or of scientific study or investigation.

      Sec. 16.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 17.  If in connection with any prosecution for violation of any of the provisions of this act, or in any other way, any section of this act shall be hereafter adjudged unconstitutional, or inoperative, or invalid and of no force and effect, then the unconstitutionality, invalidity, or inefficiency of said section shall not extend to any other section or sections of this act which are not so adjudged unconstitutional, inoperative, invalid, or inefficient, nor to the constitutionality, validity, or the force and effect of the entire act.

Fish and eggs may be taken for scientific purposes

Repeal

Unconstitutionality of any portion of this act not to affect other portions

Chap. 65–An act to protect the Grand Army of the Republic, benevolent, humane, fraternal, charitable or other organizations in the use of their names and emblems, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  No person, society, association, or corporation shall assume, adopt or use the name of a military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable organization, incorporated under the laws of this or any other state, or of the United States, or a name so nearly resembling the name of such incorporated organization as to be a colorable imitation thereof, or calculated to deceive persons not members, with respect to such corporation. In all cases where two or more such societies, associations, or corporations claim the right to the same name, or to names substantially similar, as above provided, the organization which was first organized and used the name, and first became incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any state in the Union, shall be entitled in this state to the prior and exclusive use of such name, and the rights of such societies, associations or corporations, and of their individual members shall be fixed and determined accordingly.

      Sec. 2.  No person shall wear or exhibit the badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia, or charm, or shall assume or use the name of any military, ex-military, patriotic, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation, incorporated under the laws of this or any other state, or of the United States, or shall assume or claim to be a member thereof, or of a military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation, the name of which shall so nearly resemble the name of any other corporation existing prior to the organization of the corporation or association of which such person may claim to be a member, the name whereof may be calculated to deceive the people with respect to any such prior corporation, unless he shall be authorized under the laws, statutes, rules, regulations and by-laws of such former corporation, to wear such badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm or to use and assume such name as a member thereof.

Unlawful to fraudulently use name of any benevolent society

Illegal wearing of insignia prohibited

Injunction to restrain violation of this act, when

Penalties

or claim to be a member thereof, or of a military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation, the name of which shall so nearly resemble the name of any other corporation existing prior to the organization of the corporation or association of which such person may claim to be a member, the name whereof may be calculated to deceive the people with respect to any such prior corporation, unless he shall be authorized under the laws, statutes, rules, regulations and by-laws of such former corporation, to wear such badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm or to use and assume such name as a member thereof.

      Sec. 3.  Whenever there shall be an actual or threatened violation of the above act, an application may be made to the court or judge having jurisdiction, to issue an injunction upon notice to the defendant of not less than five days, for an injunction so restraining such actual or threatened violation, or if it shall appear to such court or justice that the defendant is in fact using the name of a military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation, incorporated as aforesaid, or a name so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive the public, or is wearing or exhibiting the badge, insignia or emblem of such corporation without authority thereof, and in violation of the above act, an injunction may be issued by said court or justice enjoining or restraining such actual or threatened violation, without requiring proof that any person has in fact been misled or deceived thereby.

      Sec. 4.  Any person wilfully violating the provisions of sections one and two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Employers when paying employees by check, etc., must make same negotiable

Chap. 66–An act to prohibit the issuance of non-negotiable acknowledgments of indebtedness in payment for wages due employees, and providing a punishment for the violation of the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  No person or corporation engaged in any business or enterprise of any kind in this state shall issue, in payment, or as evidence of, any indebtedness for wages due an employee, any order, check, memorandum, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness unless the same is a negotiable instrument payable without discount, in cash on demand, at some bank or other established place of business; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall in any way limit or interfere with the right of any such employee, by agreement, to accept from any such person or corporation, as an evidence or acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages due him, a negotiable instrument, payable at some future date with interest.

fere with the right of any such employee, by agreement, to accept from any such person or corporation, as an evidence or acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages due him, a negotiable instrument, payable at some future date with interest.

      Sec. 2.  Any violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor or punishable by a fine of not exceeding $500.

Penalty

Chap. 67–An act making an appropriation to pay for reporting the proceedings of the state board of assessors, session of 1911.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to pay James D. Finch for reporting, transcribing and indexing the minutes and proceedings of the state board of assessors, session of 1911.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said James D. Finch for the amount named in section one of this act and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same.

Pay for reporting minutes of board of assessors

Chap. 68–An act to amend section fifty-two, section seventy-three, section eighty-nine, and section ninety of an act entitled “An act to provide for a reorganization of the system of school supervision and maintenance, to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 29, 1907, and introducing a new section therein.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section fifty-two of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 52.  The superintendent of public instruction shall apportion the county school fund to any such joint school district as follows: In apportioning sixty per cent of the county school fund of any county, he shall apportion to a joint school district the regular amount per census child residing in that county. In apportioning forty per cent of the county school fund of any county, he shall consider the teacher as belonging in part to each county, part of which lies in the joint school district, and the part belonging to any county will be in proportion to the number of school census children in that county.

Amending school law

Funds, how apportioned

Interest on state school funds, how apportioned

Duties of state superintendent

Methods of apportioning

      In apportioning thirty per cent of the state distributive school fund within any county, he shall apportion to a joint school district the regular amount per census child residing in that county. In apportioning seventy per cent of the state distributive school fund within any county, he shall consider the teacher as belonging in part to each county, part of which lies in the joint school district, and the part belonging to any county will be in proportion to the number of school census children in that county.

      Sec. 2.  Section seventy-three of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 73.  All moneys derived from interest on the state permanent school fund, together will all moneys derived from the state school tax, shall be placed in and constitute a fund to be known as the state distributive school fund, and be apportioned semi-annually among the several school districts of the state in the manner provided in this act for the apportionment of the state distributive school fund to the several school districts of the state.

      Sec. 3.  Section eighty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 89.  It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction immediately after the state controller shall have made his semi-annual report, as provided in section eighty-four of this act, to apportion to the several school districts in the state the moneys in the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at such time. He shall apportion the moneys of said fund among the several school districts of the state in the following manner:

      First-He must ascertain the number of teachers to which each school district is entitled by calculating one teacher for every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census.

      Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers in the state by adding together the number of teachers assigned to the several school districts upon the basis of one teacher to each thirty school census children or fraction thereof.

      Third-He must apportion seventy per cent of the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at that time, among the several school districts of the state in proportion to the number of teachers in each school district, upon the basis of one teacher to each thirty school census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding school census.

      Fourth-He must apportion thirty per cent of the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at that time, among the several school districts of the state in proportion to the number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years in each school district as shown by the last preceding school census.

      Immediately after making the apportionment of the state distributive school fund in the manner described in this act, the superintendent of public instruction shall, by means of a printed report, notify the state controller, the county treasurer, the county auditor, and the clerk of each board of school trustees of the apportionment in detail.

distributive school fund in the manner described in this act, the superintendent of public instruction shall, by means of a printed report, notify the state controller, the county treasurer, the county auditor, and the clerk of each board of school trustees of the apportionment in detail. He shall also furnish to each county treasurer, under seal of the state board of education, an order on the state controller for an amount of money equal to the full amount of school moneys apportioned to the several school districts of that county from the state distributive school fund, and he shall take such county treasurer’s receipt for the said order.

      Sec. 4.  Section ninety of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 90.  The superintendent of public instruction shall, immediately after he has apportioned the state distributive school fund, as provided in this act, proceed to apportion the county school fund of each county among its several school districts. He shall apportion the county school fund as follows:

      First-He must ascertain the number of teachers to which each district is entitled by calculating one teacher for every seventy-five census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding census report.

      Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers for the county by adding together the number of teachers assigned to the several school districts upon the basis of one teacher to each seventy-five school census children or fraction thereof.

      Third-Forty per cent of the amount of the county school fund shall be apportioned equally to each school district for every teacher assigned to it upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof.

      Fourth-All school moneys remaining on hand in the county school fund after apportioning forty per cent of the county school fund equally to each school district for every teacher assigned it upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof, must be apportioned to the several school districts in proportion to the number of school census children between the ages of six and eighteen years as shown by the last preceding school census.

      The superintendent of public instruction shall by means of a printed report notify the county treasurer, the county auditor, and the clerk of each board of school trustees of such apportionment in detail.

      Sec. 5.  A new section shall be added to the said act, which shall be numbered Section 90 1/2 and shall read as follows:

      Section 90 1/2.  On the first Tuesday of July of each school year the county auditor in each county shall report to the superintendent of public instruction the amount of moneys in the state and the county funds to the credit of each school district in his county.

State superintendent to notify school officers

Superintendent of public instruction to apportion county school funds

Methods of apportioning

School officers to be notified

County auditor to notify superintendent

Further duties of superintendent

Proviso

Proviso

Proviso

New buildings or repairs, how made

      The superintendent of public instruction shall, upon receipt of such report, deduct from the total amount of money to the credit of each of the school districts, all amounts over and above two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to said district upon the basis of one teacher for every thirty census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census; provided, that if the county auditor shall have his accounts so arranged that the state school fund account is entirely separate from the county school fund account, then he shall notify the superintendent of public instruction of the amount in each fund to the credit of each school district, and the superintendent of public instruction shall deduct from the state school fund all amounts in excess of one hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to such school district on the basis of one teacher to every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census, and he shall also deduct from the county school fund all the amounts in excess of one hundred dollars for each teacher assigned to the district on the basis of one teacher for each thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census; provided, further, that if the sum of the balances in the state school fund and the county school fund of any school district on the said first Tuesday of July does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to the district, on the basis of one teacher to each thirty census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last census, the superintendent of public instruction shall not make the deductions as provided in this section, and in no case shall the superintendent of public instruction deduct such amounts from the school funds of any district as will make the balance in the funds of the district less than two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to the district upon the basis of one teacher to every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census.

      The amounts deducted from the several school funds of each county as provided in the above paragraph shall be placed to the credit of the unapportioned county school fund of the county, and be apportioned with the said county fund.

      The superintendent of public instruction shall, at the time of making the deductions in accordance with this act, notify each county auditor and county treasurer of his action, and the county auditor and the county treasurer shall make such entries in their accounts as will show that such deductions have been made; provided, that this section shall not apply so as to remove from the funds of any school district any moneys derived from any source other than by apportionments from the state fund or the county fund.

      If the trustees of any school district shall certify to the superintendent of public instruction that a new school building, or repairs on an old school building are necessary in the district, and that the trustees have been authorized by vote of the district, if a vote is required, to build such new school building or to make such needed repairs, or that the balance in the funds of the district are necessary for the maintenance of school in the district, and that the trustees have estimated that the cost of such new school building, needed repairs, or school maintenance is to be .........

and that the trustees have been authorized by vote of the district, if a vote is required, to build such new school building or to make such needed repairs, or that the balance in the funds of the district are necessary for the maintenance of school in the district, and that the trustees have estimated that the cost of such new school building, needed repairs, or school maintenance is to be ......... dollars, the superintendent of public instruction shall make whatever investigation he may deem best and if he shall become satisfied that such new building or repairs are necessary in the district, or that the balance in the funds of the district are necessary for the maintenance of school, and that the amount estimated to be spent for such new building, repairs, or maintenance of school is a reasonable amount to be set aside for the purpose mentioned, he shall not make the deductions as provided in this section, but he shall make such deductions as will leave in the funds of the district an amount equal to the estimated amount to be spent for such new buildings, repairs, or maintenance of school, together with two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to that district, upon the basis of one teacher for every thirty census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding school census.

      This section shall not be construed to mean that the portion of the excess in any school fund, as provided herein, that has come to such fund from apportionments from the state school fund shall be returned to the state school fund, but all of such excess, whether of state or county moneys, shall be placed to the credit of the unapportioned county school fund of the county and shall be apportioned with the regular county school fund.

      Sec. 6.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

New buildings or repairs, how made

Residue to remain in county school funds

Chap. 69–An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of guardians and to prescribe their duties,” approved March 11, 1899.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section seventeen of an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of guardians and to prescribe their duties,” approved March 11, 1899, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 17.  Every guardian appointed under the provisions of this act, whether for a minor or any other person, shall pay all just debts due from the ward out of the personal estate and the income from the real estate of the ward, if sufficient, and if not, then from the proceeds of a sale of the personal or real estate, upon obtaining an order for such sale according to law;

Debts of minor to be paid by guardian from estate

Proviso

Letters of guardianship for nonresident minor

Bond of guardian

provided, that if, upon petition of the guardian, it shall appear for the best interest of the ward to mortgage any of his real estate, instead of making a sale of any of his property, the court may authorize the guardian to execute such a mortgage upon such terms and conditions as the court shall deem prudent, upon the guardian filing a bond in favor of the ward in such sum as the court shall fix, to be approved by the court or a judge thereof; and notice of the petition and hearing shall be given as prescribed by sections twenty-five and twenty-six of this act.

      Sec. 2.  Section thirty-nine of an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of guardians and to prescribe their duties,” approved March 11, 1899, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 39.  When any minor, or other person liable to be placed under guardianship, according to the provisions of this act, shall reside out of this state, and shall have estate therein, any friend of such person, or anyone interested in his or her estate, in expectancy or otherwise, may apply to the district court of any county in which there may be any estate of such absent person in expectancy or otherwise for letters of guardianship of such estate, as in case of a resident ward, and the court may proceed in like manner and appoint a guardian. If a guardian of the estate of such absent person has been appointed in the state of his or her residence by a court there having jurisdiction, said guardian may be appointed as such guardian in this state upon giving a bond and qualifying as prescribed by section seven of this act, and no citation need be issued or served. In such case the production of duly authenticated copies of the order appointing guardian and of the letters of guardianship shall be prima facie proof of the necessity of the appointment of such guardian in this state.

Deputy for clerk of supreme court

Salary

Chap. 70–An act giving the clerk of the supreme court authority to appoint a deputy in his office.

[Approved March 15, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The clerk of the supreme court shall have power, under his hand and seal, to appoint one deputy in his office; the deputy so appointed may, during the absence or inability of the clerk of the supreme court, perform all the duties of a ministerial nature requisite and pertaining to the office. The salary of such deputy shall be $1,800 per annum. Said salary shall be payable as the salaries of other state officers are paid.

Chap. 71–An act authorizing and relating to the employment of convicts on the public roads and highways, providing a general road fund in the state treasury to defray the expenses thereof, and for other purposes.

[Approved March 16, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated which shall constitute a fund to be known as the general road fund.

      Sec. 2.  The board of state prison commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to detail for work on the public highways of the state any male convict in the state prison who, on the recommendation of the warden, and in the opinion of said board, may be properly so detailed, excepting prisoners under a sentence of death; provided, that such detail shall be voluntary on the part of the convict and shall not be caused by any form of compulsion.

      Sec. 3.  Convicts detailed to road work under the provisions of this act shall, while so engaged, and without the confines of the state prison, shall be under the general direction of the warden, and guards appointed by him and shall be subject to such rules and regulations with respect to their hours of labor, conduct and control as said board shall establish. They shall not be required to wear stripes, and for infractions of the rules the maximum punishment of any convict shall be his summary return to confinement in the penitentiary and forfeiture of credits.

      Sec. 4.  In addition to the time-off for good behavior from the term of sentence now allowed by law, convicts so detailed for work upon the public roads shall be allowed ten days’ time-off for each month’s faithful work and compliance with such rules and regulations; and in addition thereto, each convict so detailed shall be allowed the sum of twenty-five cents for each day’s labor, and which shall accumulate as a fund to be paid the convict on the termination of his sentence, or on his release by pardon or parole, and which shall be in addition to the sum of money ordinarily given discharged convicts; provided, that on petition of any such convict, said board, in its discretion, may pay out from any sum so to the credit of any convict a portion or all thereof in support of the dependent wife, children or parent of such convict, in distress.

      Sec. 5.  Said board on the recommendation of the state engineer, or the county surveyor of each county, is hereby authorized and empowered to determine upon what public roads convicts so detailed shall be employed; whether in the improvement of existing roads or the construction of new roads, and shall pass upon and approve or reject the plans and specifications of the state engineer or the respective county surveyors in respect thereto.

Appropriation for general road fund

Convicts detailed for road work

Regulations concerning same

Pay and additional time-off for convicts on public road work

Prison board to specify public roads upon which convicts shall work

Duties of state engineer

Preliminary agreement with county

Disbursements from fund, how regulated

and specifications of the state engineer or the respective county surveyors in respect thereto. The state engineer shall have general supervision and direction of all road work so approved. No road work, under the provisions of this act, shall be instituted in any county prior to an agreement with the county commissioners of such county with respect to the survey and character and construction of such road, and an agreement by such county to construct, at its own expense, all bridges or other structures of wood, iron, concrete or stone, requiring skilled labor, and no convict shall be employed thereon; and such county may be required by said board to contribute in part toward the expense of the maintenance of convicts on such road work.

      Sec. 6.  All disbursements for expenditures arising under the provisions of this act, including for road-making tools and implements, horses, wagons, tents, bedding, clothing, tobacco, medicine, and commissary utensils and supplies, shall be on warrants certified to by the officer or engineer in charge of said road work, and by the chairman of said board, and which, on approval by the state board of examiners, shall be paid on warrants drawn by the state controller, by the state treasurer from the following funds, respectively, in the state treasury, to wit: From said general road fund in every instance, except for part payment for clothing and commissary supplies, an amount not exceeding fifty cents per day per convict, for the total number of days detailed, which shall be paid from any appropriation hereafter made for the support and maintenance of the state prison.

Relief of Miss N. B. Milligan

Chap. 72–An act to pay Miss N. B. Milligan ten dollars for taking and transcribing the report of the commission of three assemblymen and two senators to report to the board of pardons recommending as to prisoners confined in the state prison.

[Approved March 16, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the legislative fund the sum of ten dollars to pay to Miss N. B. Milligan for taking and transcribing the report of the commission.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the person above named and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Chap. 73–An act empowering the state board of capitol commissioners to purchase additional grounds for the governor’s mansion.

[Approved March 16, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the state board of capitol commissioners, in their discretion, are hereby authorized to purchase additional lands to enlarge the grounds of the governor’s mansion, not exceeding in cost the sum of one thousand dollars.

      Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the state treasury, the sum of one thousand dollars to carry out the provisions of this act.

Additional land for governor’s mansion

$1,000 appropriation

Chap. 74–An act creating and establishing a Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, providing for a commission in charge thereof; creating the office of commissioner of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and fixing his compensation; defining the objects and purposes of said bureau; prescribing the powers and duties of said commission; appropriating funds for its support and maintenance and to carry out its objects and purposes, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 17, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That there is hereby created and established a Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation. Said bureau shall be governed and controlled by a commission which shall be designated as state commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and shall be composed of five members, four of whom shall be ex officio members, namely: The governor, the surveyor-general, the attorney-general, and the state engineer, and one other member, to be appointed by the governor, the office of which is hereby created, who shall be entitled commissioner of industry, agriculture and irrigation; and hereafter, wherever in this act the word “commissioner” appears it shall be understood to mean and refer to said last-named official. The governor shall be ex officio chairman of said commission and said commissioner the secretary.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect April first, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the term of office of said commissioner shall begin on that date. He shall qualify by taking and subscribing to the official oath and shall hold office at the pleasure of the governor.

Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation

State commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation

In effect April 1, 1911

To acquire office rooms

Office hours

Duties of commission

To advertise the State of Nevada

To conduct correspondence

To study industrial problems of the state

Restrictions

      Sec. 3.  Said commission, on its organization, may rent, unless otherwise provided therewith by the board of capitol commissioners, suitable offices for its headquarters, which shall be known as Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, may furnish and equip the same according to its practical requirements, and may employ necessary clerical and other assistance. The commissioner shall keep his office in said bureau and the same shall be kept open the usual hours that other state offices are kept open. Said commission shall meet from time to time at the call of the governor for the transaction of business, and no expenditure shall be made or expense contracted without it be authorized by a majority vote at such meeting and the minutes thereof entered of record.

      Sec. 4.  The general and special powers, duties and functions of said commission are hereby specifically defined as follows, namely:

      First-It shall establish, conduct and control said Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, which shall, as rapidly as its organization may be perfected, be made a practical bureau of information for the use and benefit of the people of this state, and outside inquirers, concerning avenues, openings and opportunities for industrial, agricultural, irrigation and reclamation enterprises in Nevada, and it shall be so conducted as to meet such purpose in the highest practicable degree. Said bureau shall be the place of filing and keeping for ready reference, books, periodicals, reports, maps, charts, correspondence, exhibits and special and general information on all subjects appertaining to the arts, industries, agricultural, irrigation and reclamation conditions, resources, opportunities, projects and possibilities within the state, and which shall be classified, catalogued and indexed in such manner as to make information on any subject easily available for the study and investigation of visitors and the use of the commission.

      Second-Said commission shall, under direction of the commissioner, have personal charge of said bureau, and as truly and accurately as may be, answer all reasonable inquiries of visitors and correspondents, and through written and printed letters, bulletins, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles, make such information serve in every way possible the upbuilding of the state.

      Third-Said commission shall initiate an exhaustive study of industrial, agricultural, irrigation and reclamation problems within the state, may designate any of its members to visit any section of the state to gather information and conduct inquiries; may lend its support, encouragement and advice in aid of all legitimate enterprises within the scope of its work, and may assist in organizing cooperative enterprises of benefit to the public or to any community; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing or permitting said commission to advertise, organize, promote, furnish special information, issue any opinion concerning any particular mine or mining property or mining enterprise; but all information issued relative to the mining industry shall be general in terms and restricted to the character of ores and actual production of the state and of the several mining districts.

property or mining enterprise; but all information issued relative to the mining industry shall be general in terms and restricted to the character of ores and actual production of the state and of the several mining districts.

      Fourth-Said commission may undertake and conduct reasonable and practicable explorations and experiments to determine the feasibility of reclaiming favorable portions of the state by utilizing the subsurface waters, may lease or purchase well-drilling machinery and equipment; drill, or cause to be drilled, test wells, equip the same with pumping machinery and determine the cost of pumping water for irrigation. But no exploration or experiments, authorized by this paragraph, shall be conducted on any land temporarily withdrawn from the public domain, or segregated by the selection of this state and the approval of the secretary of the interior from the public domain, under the provisions of the Carey act, unless the state itself be exclusively interested in and conducting the project for the public benefit and the state’s profit, and which is hereby authorized.

      Fifth-Said commission shall have control of the selection, management and disposal of all lands granted the state under the provisions of the act of congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (28 U. S. Stat. 372-422), known as the Carey act, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and of all additional grants which may hereafter be made the state in accordance therewith, subject to the provisions of any statute governing the commission which may hereafter be enacted; and

      Sixth-Said commission shall assist in the gathering and preparation of a suitable exhibit of the state’s agricultural, industrial and mining resources for the Panama-Pacific Exposition to be held in the city of San Francisco, California, in 1915.

      Sec. 5.  The commission is authorized to exact fees when proper, and to solicit and receive transportation, and may enter into agreements whereby the work, efforts and accomplishments of the commission of special value or benefit to any individual, corporation, community, municipality, or county may be rewarded by cash contributions direct or contingent to a special fund which is hereby established in the state treasury for such purpose, to be called industrial commission fund; provided, however, that all fees, gifts, or contributions to said fund or in aid of the work of the commission shall be paid by the contributor or donor to the state treasurer direct, who shall issue to the donor or contributor his receipt therefor, countersigned by the state controller, and it shall be unlawful for said commission, any member or employee thereof, to personally receive any such fees, gifts or contributions other than transportation, office room, or ground space to be used in carrying on the work of the commission. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to make an appropriation from the county treasury of such county to meet in part the cost or expense of any exploration or experimental work conducted in such county under the provisions of this act.

To conduct experiments in reclamation, etc.

Restrictions

To have control of Carey act lands

To assist in exhibit at Panama-Pacific Exposition

May exact fees, when

Contributions paid direct to state treasurer

County contributions

Salary of commissioner

Actual expenses of other members

Appropriation, $25,000

Work to be done at State Printing Office, when

Certain inhibitions

Penalty

authorized, in its discretion, to make an appropriation from the county treasury of such county to meet in part the cost or expense of any exploration or experimental work conducted in such county under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 6.  Said commissioner shall receive a salary of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly installments by the state treasurer on warrants drawn by the state controller. The members of said commission when engaged in field work or delegated to special duty, shall be entitled to actual traveling, living, and other necessary expenses, which shall be audited by the commission and on the certificate of the commissioner, approved by the state board of examiners, shall be paid by the state treasurer, on warrant of the state controller, our of any moneys in the treasury available therefor.

      Sec. 7.  There is hereby appropriated to carry out the purposes of this act, the sum of $25,000, and all disbursements from which, as well as from the said industrial commission fund, shall be on certificates of the commissioner, approved by the state board of examiners, when the state controller shall draw his warrant and the state treasurer pay the same.

      Sec. 8.  All forms, blanks, envelopes, letterheads, circulars, pamphlets, bulletins and reports required to be printed by said commission, may, in its discretion, be printed at the state printing office under the general provisions of the act entitled “An act to designate and authorize the work to be done in the state printing office,” approved March 5, 1909; provided, that when printed at the state printing office, if more than fifteen hundred copies of any bulletin or report be required, the cost of the excess number shall be paid for out of any appropriation to carry out the purposes of this act.

      Sec. 9.  Any person distributing any literature under the provisions of this act which is not correct or thoroughly reliable, or any member of said commission who shall receive or accept any contribution, fee, emolument or thing of value, either directly or indirectly, for his services as a member of said commission, other than that provided by law, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars, and imprisonment for not less than six months or more than one year in the state penitentiary.

General appropriations for 1911 and 1912

Chap. 75–An act making appropriation for the support of the civil government of the State of Nevada for the years 1911 and 1912.

[Approved March 17, 1911]

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The following sums of money are hereby appropriated for the purpose hereinafter expressed, and for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, for the years 1911 and 1912: