LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA PASSED AT THE TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE 1913 CHAPTER 1-An Act to create a legislative fund. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and appropria SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying the mileage and Legislative the per diem of members of the present legislature, the sal- tion, $30,000 aries of the attachés 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 thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars, which shall constitute the legislative fund. controller treasurer SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and Duties of required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the and members and attachés of the senate and assembly, for per diem, mileage, stationery allowance, 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. revert SEC. 3. All moneys remaining in said fund, at the Residue to adjournment of the legislature, shall revert to the general fund. CHAP. 2-An Act to repeal section three of an act entitled "An act providing for the printing of legislative bills and resolutions, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 14, 1911. [Approved January 31, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tive to SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act entitled "An act pro- Repeal relaviding for the printing of legislative bills and resolutions, printing and other matters relating thereto," be, and the same is, legislative hereby repealed. Bonds for school CHAP. 3.An Act to provide for a county high school in the city of Ely, Nevada, for the purchase of a site and the erection, furnishing and equipment of a building for such school, for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the purchase of such site, the erection, furnishing and equipment of such building and the establishing and maintaining of such a school. [Approved February 8, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of White Pine County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to County high prepare and issue bonds of said county for an amount not to exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the purchase of a site for a county high-school building in the city of Ely, and for constructing a high-school building on said site, and for equipping and furnishing the said building. Denomina tion of bonds SEC. 2. The bonds authorized under the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be issued in the sum of five hundred dollars each. They shall be numbered from 1 to 100, consecutively. They shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, 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 the board of county commissioners and the county treasurer. SEC. 3. The clerk of the board of county commissioners Record to be 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. kept of bonds Provisos SEC. 4. The board of county commissioners of White Negotiation Pine County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sale, or 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 their par value, and that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States; and provided further, that the said board shall sell the bonds to the highest and best bidder or bidders in the event that they elect not to sell the same at private sale or sales. Interest limited to 6 per cent SEC. 5. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed 6 per cent per annum, and shall be payable semiannually on the first Monday in January and July each year after the year 1912, at the office of the county treasurer of said White Pine County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than fifteen years, and provided that the interest on said bonds shall cease upon the maturity thereof, as hereinafter provided. of bonds SEC. 6. On the first Monday of January of the year 1918, Redemption and annually thereafter, ten of such bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed by the county treasurer of White Pine County. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of their issuance, the lowest bond to be the first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been paid and redeemed. The interest coupons shall be paid semiannually. School SEC. 7. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds "White Pine shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the County High said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep Fund" the same in a fund hereby created and known as the "White Pine County High School Building Fund," and to pay out said moneys in the manner now provided by law for the payment of the "County High School Fund," and for the purposes provided for in this act. board of equip SEC. 8. The county board of education of White Pine County County is hereby authorized and directed to use such money education to derived from the sale of said bonds, or such portion thereof erect and as they may deem necessary, for the purchasing of a site and building for the establishing, constructing, equipping and furnishing of a county high-school building in the city of Ely, Nevada, and any balance remaining in such 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 the law pertaining to the establishment, maintenance and management of high schools. in the various counties of this state. letting SEC. 9. Said county board of education shall determine as Duties of to the character of said building, materials to be used there- board as to for, and plans therefor, and when such determination is contract, etc. 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 responsible bidder; said county board of education to have authority to reject any and all bids and to readvertise until a satisfactory bid is obtained. The laws in force governing the letting of 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 in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid in the manner now provided by law for paying claims against the "County High School Fund"; provided, Proviso that no such bills shall be allowed until plans for the said Board to Ely county high-school building shall have been approved by the state [of] superintendent of public instruction. SEC. 10. As soon as possible after the passage and approval of this act, the county board of education shall proselect site in ceed to select an appropriate site for the said county highschool building in the city of Ely, county of White Pine, State of Nevada, and the board of county commissioners of said county shall, upon receiving written notice of said selection of such site, with all expedient dispatch, proceed to the execution of its duties and powers as prescribed in this act. SEC. 11. The county treasurer of the said White Pine County shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the money which shall come into his hands under the safe keeping provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto. County treasurer liable for of bonds ment of bonds and interest SEC. 12. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payTax for payment of the bonds authorized by this Act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of said White Pine County is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect annually a special tax on all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines, within the boundary of said White Pine 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 the same as hereinabove provided. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are levied and collected and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as "White Pine County High School Bond Redemption Fund." When tax shall cease SEC. 13. 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 said bond fund shall by order of the board of county commisioners of said county be transferred to the fund used for paying the contingent expenses of said county high school. SEC. 14. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any Treasurer to of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel bonds cancel the same by writing across the face thereof "Paid,' when redeemed Interest ceases, when 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 sum so paid. SEC. 15. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bond to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on said bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. SEC. 16. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby Faith of state pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons. pledged issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act specified. CHAP. 4.-An Act to create a legislative fund. [Approved February 14, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and appropria SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying the mileage and Legislative the per diem of members of the present legislature, the sal- tion, $10,000 aries of the attachés 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 ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, which shall constitute the legislative fund. controller treasurer SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and Duties of required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the and members and attachés of the senate and assembly for per diem, mileage, stationery allowance, 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. revert SEC. 3. All moneys remaining in said fund, at the Residue to adjournment of the legislature, shall revert to the general fund. CHAP. 5-An Act authorizing the secretary of state to furnish certain printed documents to certain persons therein named. [Approved February 14, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: state to tain printed SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized Secretary of and directed to deliver to the library of congress and to "The deliver cerAssociation of the Bar of the City of New York," one com- documents plete set to each, so far as the same can be furnished, of the free appendices of the senate and house journals of this state, commencing with the first territorial session of the legislature and extending down to the present time; provided, he shall deliver the said books to said parties in Carson City, or so as to incur no expense for freight thereon. |