judiciously school funds thereupon make due and diligent inquiry as to the financial Board to standing and responsibility of the state or states, county or invest state counties whose bonds or securities it proposes to purchase and for which the state treasurer shall have negotiated, and shall also require of the attorney-general his legal opinion in writing as to the validity of any act or acts of any state or county under which such bonds or securities are issued and in which the said state board of investment is about to make an investment; and if the said state board of investment shall be satisfied as to the financial standing and responsibility of the state or states, county or counties whose bonds or securities it proposes to purchase, and the attorney-general shall have given his opinion in writing that the act or acts under which said bonds or securities are issued are valid, the board may approve of such investment and by a majority vote of the board shall order the state controller to draw his warrant in favor of the state treasurer for the amount to be invested; the state controller shall thereupon draw his warrant as directed, and the state treasurer shall complete the purchase of the securities authorized by the board. SEC. 3. The state board of investment shall keep a per- Record to be manent record of all of its meetings, with which there shall kept be filed all opinions of the attorney-general as required in section 2 of this act, and the record of the yea and nay vote of members of the board. cash, when SEC. 4. The state investment board is authorized in its Board to discretion to convert any of the bonds or securities in which convert into any part of the state permanent school fund is now or at any time hereafter may be invested, into cash, by selling the same in the open market to the highest bidder or bidders; the proceeds thereof to be placed by the state treasurer in the state permanent school fund, and the board shall reinvest the same in the manner provided in section 2 of this act. SEC. 5. No part of the state permanent school fund shall Restrictions be invested in the bonds of any county whose entire bonded indebtedness for all purposes shall exceed ten (10) per cent of its assessed valuation; and the amount of bonds of any county purchased or invested in by the state investment board shall in the aggregate not exceed three (3) per cent of the assessed valuation; and the rate of interest of such county bonds shall not be less than five (5) per cent. as to investment SEC. 6. Section 148 of an act entitled "An act concerning Certain acts public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," repealed approved March 20, 1911, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Repairs to labor or CHAP. 168-An Act to provide for an appropriation for the purpose of making improvements and repairs to the gov ernor's mansion in the city of Carson, Ormsby County, Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money of the general fund in the Nevada state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making improvements, alterations and repairs to, in and upon the governor's mansion in Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada. SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered Done by day to initiate and cause to be made such improvements, alterations and repairs as by him are deemed necessary, and he may have the work performed by day's labor or contract, as in his judgment is most efficient to the state. contract SEC. 3. All claims or demands for such improvements, Claims paid alterations and repairs shall be certified to by the governor and upon such certification audited and paid as other claims against the state. In effect $150 for vacuum cleaner Duties of controller and treasurer SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval. CHAP. 169-An Act appropriating money for the purchase of a vacuum cleaner to be used in the state capitol. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be used for the purchase of a vacuum cleaner for the use of the state capitol. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant for the sum named in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same. CHAP. 170-An Act providing for additional assistance to the county clerk of Washoe County. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the approval of this act, the county clerk of Washoe County is authorized and empowered clerk may to employ, from time to time, as emergency arises, additional Washoe clerical assistants, at a sum not to exceed twelve hundred have ($1,200) dollars in any one year. assistants: restriction ers to certify SEC. 2. All payments hereunder shall be made only upon Commissionorder of the board of county commissioners after the filing bills for with the clerk of the board of a voucher or vouchers for the salaries expenditure, with a written statement by the county clerk showing the necessity for the expenditure and the correctness of the amount or amounts. CHAP. 171-An Act to abolish the office of justice of the peace [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: justice court SECTION 1. The offices of justice of the peace and of con- Olinghouse stable of Olinghouse Township, Washoe County, State of abolished; Nevada, are hereby abolished and said township for such pur- wadsworth poses, is hereby attached to Wadsworth Township in said county. attached to to turn over SEC. 2. The justice of the peace and the constable of said Incumbents township shall turn over respectively, to the justice of the records peace and to the constable of Wadsworth Township of said county, all books, records and files of their respective offices upon the passage of this act, and all proceedings pending in the justice's court of said Olinghouse Township shall not be affected by the provisions hereof and the same shall be prosecuted to final determination in the justice's court of said Wadsworth Township, and all writs and other processes in the hands of the constable of said Olinghouse Township shall be executed by the constable of said Wadsworth Township. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force on and In effect after the first day of April, 1913. CHAP. 172-An Act for the relief of Mrs. M. E. Johnson in payment for hay furnished to state prison, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents ($39.60) is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state Relief of Mrs. M. E. Johnson, $39.60 Duties of controller and treasurer Relief of D. P. Randall, $103.40 Duties of controller and treasurer Regarding permits for point of diversion is outside of state, or lands to be treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Mrs. M. E. Johnson in payment for hay furnished to the state prison during the month of April, 1912. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of Mrs. M. E. Johnson in the foregoing sum, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 173—An Act for the relief of D. P. Randall for expenses incurred in the transportation of insane patients from Lyon County to the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $103.40, to be paid to D. P. Randall for the transportation of insane patients and expenses incurred while transporting such insane patients from Lyon County to the Nevada hospital for mental diseases during the months of March, May, June and July, 1912, the said insane patients being Jarvis, Finney, Tognetti, and Rosini. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw a warrant in the sum of $103.40, payable to D. P. Randall, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 174-An Act relating to the issuance of permits for the appropriation of water, where the works or any part thereof to be constructed under such permits or the point of diversion or place of intended use, or any part thereof are situated without the State of Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That no permit for the appropriation of water shall be denied because of the fact that the point of diversion water when described in the application for such permit, or any portion of the works in such application described and to be constructed for the purpose of storing, conserving, diverting or distributing such water, or because the place of intended use, or the lands irrigated are to be irrigated by such water, or any part thereof, may be situated in any other state, when such state authorizes the diversion of water from such state for use in Nevada, but in all such cases where either the point of diversion or any of such works or the place of intended use, or the lands, or part of the lands to be irrigated by means of such water, are situated within the State of Nevada, the permit shall issue as in outside of state mit, when, other cases. Except that it shall not purport to authorize the Regular perdoing or refraining from any act or thing, in connection with exceptions the system of appropriation, not properly within the scope of the jurisdiction of the State of Nevada, and the state engineer thereof, to grant. CHAP. 175-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to form agricultural districts, to provide for the organization of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the state," approved March 7, 1885. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: tion of districts Section 1. The counties of Ormsby, Douglas and Storey shall Reorganizaconstitute Agricultural District No. 1; the counties of Esme- agricultural ralda and Nye shall constitute Agricultural District No. 2; the county of Humboldt shall constitute Agricultural District No. 3; the county of Elko shall constitute Agricultural District No. 4; the counties of Lyon and Mineral shall constitute Agricultural District No. 5; the counties of Eureka, Lander and White Pine shall constitute Agricultural District No. 6; the county of Churchill shall constitute Agricultural District No.. 7; and the counties of Lincoln and Clark shall constitute Agricultural District No. 8. CHAP. 176-An Act to provide for the measurement of water used on irrigated areas, the determination of the losses from irrigating ditches and the remedies therefor, and a study of the evaporation losses and the remedies therefor, and a study of the best methods of distributing and applying water in growing crops in the State of Nevada, in cooperation with the United States department of agriculture, the Nevada agricultural experiment station, and the state engineer. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and ment of lands SECTION 1. For the measurement of water used on irrigated Measureareas, the determination of the losses from irrigating ditches water on and the remedies therefor, and a study of the evaporation irrigated losses and the remedies therefor, and a study of the best methods of distributing and applying water in growing crops in the State of Nevada during the years 1913 and 1914, the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state. This sum shall be credited to the investigations carried on by the officer or representative $4.000 to be US. uses used when like sum |