Support Lincoln County CHAP. 153-An Act to provide for the maintenance and operating of the state agricultural experiment farm, situated at Logan, Clark County, Nevada, for the years 1913 and 1914. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of maintaining and operating the state agricultural experiment farm, located at Logan, Clark County, Nevada, for the years 1913 and 1914, the sum of six experiment thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated. farm, $6,000 Duties of controller and treasurer SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants 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. governor's CHAP. 154 An Act for the support and maintenance of the The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The governor of the State of Nevada is hereby Maintenance allowed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month mansion for for the support and maintenance of the governor's mansion, 1913 and 1914 payable on the requisition of the governor for such amount, Appropria tion, $6,000 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 1913 and 1914. CHAP. 155-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better preservation of public roads and highways," approved March 5, 1885, by adding a new section thereto to be known as section 1a. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 1a, which shall provide as follows: repair public stock Section 1a. Any person, party or corporation driving Owner to sheep, goats, swine, horses or cattle along or across any pub- road injured lic road or highway, or along or across any street or alley in by driving any unincorporated town in this state for any purpose whatever, who by so doing damages or impairs said public road or highway or street or alley, as the case may be, shall be and he is hereby required, at his own expense, to make any and all repairs necessary to put said road, highway, street or alley in as good condition as it was before said damage was done. CHAP. 156-An Act to create the office of road supervisor in the county of Eureka. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: visor for SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Eureka Road superCounty is hereby authorized and empowered and directed to Eureka appoint some suitable person, an elector of said county, as County road supervisor in such county, who shall hold office until the next general election, when there shall be elected in such county a road supervisor for the county of Eureka, and at every general election thereafter such road supervisor shall be elected in the same manner and at the same time as other county officers are elected, and his term of office shall be for two years. supervisor SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said road supervisor to Duties of examine and inspect all county roads and public highways in road the county of Eureka, outside of any incorporated town or city, to report the condition thereof to the board of county commissioners, to supervise the repairs made on any such road or highway or the opening or building of any new roads, to keep the same free of obstruction and to perform such other duties in relation thereto as said board of county commissioners shall prescribe. The county commissioners of said. Eureka County shall have power to order or stop work on any such road or highway as they may deem necessary. SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of Eureka Salary County shall pay to said road supervisor a sum of three dollars and fifty cents per day for each and every day said road supervisor is employed by the board of county commissioners of Eureka County in inspecting roads and highways, and also three dollars and fifty cents per day for each day said road supervisor shall himself actually work on said roads and highways. SEC. 4. All men employed by the said road supervisor to Legal wages work and working on said roads or highways shall each for labor receive therefor the pay and compensation now provided by law for such work. other act SEC. 5. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or conNot to affect strued so as to impair or change anything contained in “An act to amend sections three and five of an act entitled 'An act in relation to erection and maintenance of bridges,' approved February 21, 1877," approved March 24, 1911. Bonds for county high school at Elko ers to prepare bonds CHAP. 157-An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for the construction, equipment and furnishing of a high-school building, in the town of Wells, Nevada, and authorizing the county board of education of said county to construct, equip and furnish said building. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Elko County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to prepare and issue bonds in said county, such bonds to be issued on or before the first day of February, 1914, for an amount not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the construction of a county high-school building in the town of Wells in said county (upon a site to be chosen by the county board of education) and for equipping and furnishing said building. SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners of said Elko Commission- county shall cause said bonds to be prepared and made ready for issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated by the seal of the county; coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer. kept of bonds SEC. 3. The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall Record to be 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 Elko County Negotiation 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. tion limited to 6 per cent SEC. 5. Said bonds shall be each for the sum of five hun- Denominadred dollars. They shall be numbered consecutively from one to forty, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per Interest cent per annum payable annually on the first Monday in July of each year at the office of the county treasurer of said Elko County, and in no case shall said bonds run for a longer period than twenty years. १९ County High ing Fund" SEC. 6. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall Elko be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said School Buildtreasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as "The Elko County High School Building Fund, and to pay out said moneys only in the manner now provided by law for the payment of the "County High School Fund" and for the purposes for which the same were received. board of school SEC. 7. The county board of education of Elko County is County hereby authorized and directed to use said moneys arising from education to the sale of said bonds, or such number thereof as they may construct deem necessary for the construction, equipment and furnishing of a county high-school building in the town of Wells, Nevada, and any balance remaining in said fund, after the completion, equipment and furnishing of said building, shall be turned over and converted into the proper fund provided for running and maintaining said high school, in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of law pertaining to the establishment, maintenance and management of high schools in the various counties of this state. advertised SEC. 8. Said county board of education shall determine as Bids to be to the character of said building, the materials to be used for therefor and the plans therefor, and when such determination is made said board shall advertise for bids for the construction of said county high-school building and let the construction thereof by contract to the lowest and most responsible bidder. The laws in force governing contracts by boards of county commissioners are hereby made applicable to, and the same shall govern the action of the county board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act. All demands and bills contracted by said county board of education shall be paid in the manner now provided by law for paying claims against the "County High School Fund"; provided, that no such bills shall be allowed until the plans for said high-school building shall have been approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. school SEC. 9. As soon as possible after the passage and approval Site for said of this act, or after this act shall become a law, the county board of education of Elko County shall proceed to select an appropriate site for said county high-school building in the town of Wells, in said county, and the county board of education of said county and the county commissioners of said county shall thereafter with all expedient dispatch proceed to the execution of the purposes of this act. County treasurer liable for bonds SEC. 10. The county treasurer of said Elko County 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. SEC. 11. For the purposes of creating a fund for the paySpecial tax ment of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of said Elko County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessment value of all property both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Elko 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, beginning with bond number one, and consecutively thereafter, four of said bonds annually, beginning with the first Monday in July, 1914, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the "Elko County High School Fund" able semi SEC. 12. It shall be obligatory on the said county and on Interest pay its proper officers to pay in full the accrued interest on said bonds, beginning on the first day of July, 1914, and thereafter on the first day of July in each and every year, until all of said bonds shall have been redeemed and retired. annually when SEC. 13. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in Tax ceases, 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 fund used for paying the contingent expenses of said Wells county high school. cancel bonds SEC. 14. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any Treasurer to 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. Interest ceases, when pledged SEC. 15. Should the holder of said bonds or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment, when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. SEC. 16. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of state that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued hereunder and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified. |