Stallion Registration Board License Certificate of Pure-Bred Stallion No........... The pedigree of stallion (name). Owned by.... Described as follows: Color. Breed.. Foaled in the year has been examined by the stallion registration board of Nevada, and is hereby certified that the said stallion is of pure breeding and is registered in a studbook recognized by the United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. Signature). secretary stallion registration board. The license certificate issued for a stallion whose sire and dam are pure-bred, but of different breeds, shall be as follows: Stallion Registration Board License Certificate of Cross-Bred Stallion No......... The pedigree of stallion (name) For purebred stallion For cross bred stallion Owned by. Described. Color.. Foaled in the year and his dam in Breed. has been examined by the stallion registration board, and it is found that his sire is registered in Such being the case, the said stallion is not eligible for registration in any stud-book recognized by the United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. License certificate issued for a stallion whose sire or dam is not of pure breeding shall be in the following form: Stallion Registration Board License Certificate of Grade Stallion No......... The pedigree of stallion (name) For grade stallion Owned by Described as follows:. Color...... Foaled in the year Breed.. has been examined by the stallion registration board and it is found that the said stallion is not of pure breeding and is, therefore, not eligible for registration in any stud-book recognized by the United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. License certificate issued for a stallion whose sire and dam are neither of them pure-bred shall be in the following form: Stallion Registration Board License Certificate for Mongrel or Scrub Stallion No..... For mongrel Name of the stallion... Owned by...... Color,....... Foaled in the year Has been exam ined by the stallion registration board and is found to be of mongrel breeding and is, therefore, not eligible to registry in or scrub stallion Fees for registration Annual fee Examinations License transferred any stud-book recognized by the United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. Signature.. secretary stallion registration board. SEC. 10. A fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid the secretary of the stallion registration board for the veterinary examination and enrollment of each pedigree of the stallion as above provided. A fee not exceeding two dollars ($2) shall be paid annually for the renewal of the pedigree certificate and service license. Stallions and jacks shall be examined every four years, until ten years of age, and after the first examination shall be exempt from examination at ten years of age and over. SEC. 11. Upon the transfer of ownership of any stallion or jack licensed under the provisions of this act, the license with animal certificate may be transferred by the secretary of the board to the transferee upon the submittal of satisfactory proof of such transfer of ownership and upon the payment of one dollar ($1). Violation, how punished Disposal of accruing funds Annual report of board to animals SEC. 12. Any person or persons knowingly or wilfully violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days or more than six months, or by fine and imprisonment for each offense. SEC. 13. The funds accruing from the above-named fees shall be used by the stallion registration board to defray the expenses of veterinary examination, of enrollment of pedigrees and issuance of licenses. Any funds not so used shall be used to publish reports or bulletins, containing lists of stallions examined; to encourage the horse- and mule-breeding . interests of this state; to disseminate information pertaining to horse-breeding, and for any other such purposes as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this act. SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of this board to make annual report, including financial statement, to the governor of the state, and all financial records of said board shall be subject to inspection at any time by the public examiner. SEC. 15. No part of this act shall apply to stallions turned Not to apply upon the open range, and the term "standing for public service," is hereby defined as the service of a stallion for a fee when said stallion is stood at one or more places for public use, where in all more than five mares are served in one running at large Common carriers inhibited season. SEC. 16. No railroad company, transportation company or common carrier shall transport into the State of Nevada any stallion or jack unless accompanied by a state or federal veterinary certificate as provided in section 6 of this act. Violation of this provision shall be punished as provided in section 12 of this act. SEC. 17. The superintendent of state printing is hereby Printing authorized and directed to furnish to the stallion registration board all blanks and other printing necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act. exempt until SEC. 18. Stallions and jacks which have been in service in Certain this state more than a year preceding the passage of this act animals shall not come under the provisions of this act until January 1914 1, 1914. SEC. 19. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this Repeal act are hereby repealed. SEC. 20. This act shall take effect from and after the date In effect of its passage and approval. CHAP. 209—An Act providing for the prosecution and punishment of crimes, misdemeanors and offenses by information. [Approved March 24, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and act upon offenses and SECTION 1. The several courts of this state shall have and Courts may may exercise the same power and jurisdiction, to try and information determine prosecutions upon information for crimes, misde- for all meanors and offenses, to issue writs and process and do all crimes other acts therein as in cases of like prosecution under indictment. deputy must informant SEC. 2. All information shall be filed in the court having District jurisdiction of the offenses specified therein, by the district attorney or attorney of the proper county as informant, and his name be the shall be subscribed thereto by himself or by his deputy. He shall endorse thereon the names of such witnesses as are known to him at the time of filing the same, and shall also endorse upon such information the names of such other witnesses as may become known to him before the trial at such time as the court may, by rule or otherwise prescribe; but this shall not preclude the calling of witnesses whose names, or the materiality of whose testimony are first learned by the district attorney upon the trial. In all cases in which the defendant has not had or waived a preliminary examination there shall be filed with the information the affidavit of some credible person verifying the information upon the personal knowledge of affiant that the offense was committed. stated in SEC. 3. The offense charged in any information shall be Offense stated in plain, concise language without prolixity or unnec- plain essary repetition. Different offenses and the different language degrees of the same offense may be joined in one information in all cases where the same might be joined by different counts in one indictment; and in all cases the defendant shall have the same rights as to all proceedings therein as he would have if prosecuted for the same offense under indictment. SEC. 4. The information shall be sufficient if it can be Information understood therefrom: sufficient, when Form of information sufficient, when First-That it is entitled in a court having authority to receive it, though the name of the court be not accurately set forth. Second-That the defendant is named; or if his name cannot be discovered, that he be described by a fictitious name, with a statement that he has refused to discover his real name. Third-That the offense was committed at some place within the jurisdiction of the court. Fourth-That the offense was committed at some time prior to the finding of the indictment. Fifth-That the act or omission charged as the offense is clearly and distinctly set forth in ordinary and concise language, without repetition, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. Seventh-That the act or omission charged as the offense is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment upon a conviction according to the right of the case. The information may be in the following form: court. ཏ SS. In the The State of Nevada against A. B. C. D., district attorney within and for county of.. in the state aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the State of Nevada, informs the court that A. B. on the day of ......................, A. D. 19...., at the said county of.. did (here state offense) against the peace and dignity of the State of Nevada. C. D., district attorney. or C. D., district attorney, by H. M., deputy. SEC. 5. No information shall be deemed insufficient, nor Information shall the trial, judgment, or other proceedings thereon be affected by reason of any defect or imperfection in matters of form which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant; and the court may, on application, direct the information to be amended to supply the deficiency or omission when, by such amendments, the nature of the charge shall not be changed and the defendant's defense to the action on the merits will not be prejudiced thereby; provided, the court may in its discretion allow a postponement of the trial. Proviso Laws shall as upon indictment SEC. 6. All provisions of law applying to prosecutions. upon indictments, to writs and process therein, and the issuapply same ing and service thereof, to motions, pleadings, trials and punishments, or the passing or execution of any sentence, and to all other proceedings in cases of indictment, whether in a court of original or appellate jurisdiction, shall to the same extent and in the same manner as near as may be, apply to informations and to all prosecutions and proceedings thereon. SEC. 7. Any person who may, according to law, be committed to jail, or become recognized or held to bail, with be jailed sureties for his appearance in court, to answer to any indict- Accused may ment, may in like manner be so committed to jail or become m recognized and held to bail for his appearance to answer to upout any information or indictment, as the case may be. indictment district ments and SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the district attorney of the Duty of proper district to inquire into all cases of preliminary attorney as examinations as provided by law, touching the commission of to commitany offense, whether the offenders shall be committed to jail, bail or be recognized or held to bail; and if the district attorney shall determine in any such case that an information ought not to be filed, he shall file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of such supposed offense a written statement containing his reasons, in fact and in law, for not filing any information in such case; and such statement shall be filed within ten days after the holding of such preliminary examination. how made forth facts SEC. 9. An information may be filed against any person Information. for any offense when such person has had a preliminary examination as provided by law, before a justice of the peace, or other examining magistrate or officer, and has been bound over to appear at the court having jurisdiction, or shall have waived his right to such examination; such information shall Shall set set forth the crime committed according to the facts. But if a preliminary examination has been waived, or when upon such examination the accused has been discharged, or when the affidavit or complaint upon which the examination has been held has not been delivered to the clerk of the proper court, the district attorney may, upon affidavit of any person who has knowledge of the commission of an offense, and who is a competent witness to testify in the case setting forth the offense and the name of the person or persons charged with the commission thereof, upon being furnished with the names of the witnesses for the prosecution, by leave of the court first had, file an information, and process shall forthwith issue thereon. require prosecute SEC. 10. The judge of the court having jurisdiction may Judge may in extreme cases, upon affidavit filed with him of the com- district mission of a crime, require the district attorney to prosecute attorney to any person for such crime, and may compel by attachment, fine or imprisonment a compliance by the district attorney with the provisions of this section. preliminary clerk SEC. 11. Whenever any preliminary examination has been Transcript of had and the defendant held to appear before a court having examination jurisdiction of the offense, it shall be the duty of the magis- filed with trate or other officer holding such examination to deliver to the clerk of said court within ten days after the holding of such examination the complaint, bonds, affidavits, warrants and a full transcript of the proceedings of such examination. SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the district attorney of the proper county, by himself or deputy, to be present at |