purpose of providing funds for erecting, furnishing, and equipping a high-school building in the city of Sparks, which building shall be adaptable, among other things, for instruction in manual training and domestic science, purchasing grounds. upon which to erect the same, and purchasing and installing a heating plant therein. vote SEC. 2. Said board of trustees shall, by resolution entered Referendum upon its records, submit the question of contracting a bonded indebtedness for the purpose mentioned in this act to a vote of the qualified electors of said district at the next general election of the school trustees, or at a special election which said board of trustees is hereby authorized to call for such purpose. notice to be SEC. 3. The election provided for in this act shall be called Election and held and the vote canvassed and returned in all respects published as nearly as may be in accordance with the provisions of law now governing the election of school trustees; provided, that notice of such election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks preceding said election in a newspaper published in said district. The election notice must contain: First-The time and place of holding such election. open. Fourth-The amount and denomination of the bonds, the rate of interest, the number of years the bonds are to run, and the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued. All persons voting on the question submitted at such election shall vote by separate ballot whereon is placed the words "For the Bonds" and "Against the Bonds" The ballots shall be deposited in a separate box provided by the board of trustees for that purpose. What to contain issued if SEC. 4. If, upon the determination of the result of such Bonds to be election, it shall appear that a majority of all the votes cast is election "For the Bonds" the board of trustees shall, as soon as practi- favorable cable, issue the negotiable coupon bonds of the district in such form as the board of trustees shall direct. Said bonds shall be thirty-five in number, numbered consecutively from one to thirty-five, both inclusive, of the denomination of $1,000 each, bearing date of the day of the resolution of said board of trustees finally adopting the form of said bonds, and redeemable as hereinafter provided. If it shall appear that a majority of all the votes cast is "Against the Bonds" the power of the board of trustees to issue bonds under this act shall not thereby be lost, but said board of trustees shall thereafter, at the next succeeding general election of the school trustees, submit the question of contracting said bonded indebtedness to a vote of the qualified electors of said district in the manner specified in section 3 of this act. to exceed SEC. 5. Said bonds shall bear interest from their date until Interest not paid at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum, pay- 6 per cent able semiannually. Each installment of interest to the date Notice of sale of bonds to be published Bonds signed by school officers Register of bonds kept by county treasurer "Sparks High School "Sparks High School of maturity of the principal shall be evidenced by appropriate coupons attached to each bond, and both the principal and interest shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of America at the office of the county treasurer of Washoe County, and said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value and accrued interest, except as hereinafter provided. Before said sale is made, notice thereof must be given by publication in a newspaper published in said district for at least one week before said bonds are sold, inviting sealed bids to be made for said bonds, and said bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder therefor; the board of trustees, however, may reserve the right to reject any and all bids and may, if it deems it for the best interest of said district, sell the bonds at private sale at one time, or from time to time, as funds are required for the purpose mentioned in this act, at not less than their par value and accrued interest; provided, that if said bonds are issued after the board of county commissioners shall have levied the state and county taxes for that year, said bonds may be sold at par value, less one year's interest thereon, at the rate specified therein, and thereupon the interest coupons upon said bonds for the first year of the term thereof shall be removed and canceled by the county treasurer. SEC. 6. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be signed by the president of the board of trustees, attested by the clerk thereof, sealed with the district seal, and countersigned by the county treasurer; and the interest coupons to be attached thereto shall be signed by the original or engraved facsimile signature of said president, clerk, and treasurer. SEC. 7. All such bonds shall, before being issued, be registered by the county treasurer in a book kept for that purpose in his office, which registry shall show the school district, the amount and time of payment, and rate of interest, and all such bonds shall bear the certificate of the county treasurer to the effect that they are issued and registered under the provisions of this act. After such registry, the county treasurer shall cause said bonds to be delivered to the purchasers of the same, upon payment being made therefor. SEC. 8. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as "Sparks High School Building Fund, and to pay out the same upon the warrants of said board of trustees, and for the purpose for which the same were received. SEC. 9. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Washoe County is hereby authorized and Redemption required at the time of making the annual levy of taxes for state and county purposes for the year following the issue of said bonds, and annually thereafter, to levy a sufficient tax on Fund" all taxable property of said district to pay and retire one of said bonds each year beginning with the second year after their issue, and to pay the interest on all of said bonds as and when the same shall become payable. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be paid into the county treasurer and set apart as a fund, which is hereby created, to be known as "Sparks High School Bond Redemption and Interest Fund" shall be SEC. 10. On the first day of July of the second year fol- When bonds lowing the issue of said bonds, and every year thereafter, one redeemed of said bonds, together with the accrued interest thereon, shall be paid, and the payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of their issuance, the lowest numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be paid and redeemed. The coupons thereon shall be paid semiannually as provided in said bonds. If the tax for the interest on the bonds for the first year after their date of issue is not collected in time for use in paying the interest coupons maturing during that year, the county treasurer shall pay the interest accruing on said bonds in said year out of the general county fund, and return to said county fund the sum so advanced out of the first money in said school fund collected from said tax levy. The county treasurer shall cancel said bonds as paid and certify his action to said board of trustees. of district, release SEC. 11. No change in the boundary lines of said district Boundaries shall release the taxable real property thereof from assessment change of, and levy of the taxes to pay the interest and principal of such not to bonds, and if there shall be any change in the boundary lines property of such school district so as to leave out any portion of the tax- from taxes able real property of the district which was subject to taxation in the district at the time of the issue of such bonds, the assessment and levy of taxes for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds shall be made on such property as if it were still within the district, and if there shall be any change of the boundary lines of such school district so as to annex or include any taxable property, after the issue of such bonds, the property so included or annexed shall thereafter be subject to the assessment and levy of a tax for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds. SEC. 12. All taxes levied and assessed as in this act pro- Tax lien vided shall constitute a lien on the property charged therewith on property from the date of the levy thereof by the county commissioners, until the same are paid, and thereafter, if allowed to become delinquent, shall be enforced in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes. No additional allowance, fee, or compensation whatever shall be paid to any officer for carrying out the provisions of this act. SEC. 13. Said board of trustees is hereby authorized and Trustees to directed to use the money derived from the sale of said bonds, site and erect or such portion thereof as it may deem necessary, for the pur- building purchase high-school Interest ceases, when Surplus reverts to general chase of a site in the city of Sparks, Nevada, for said highschool building, for the erection thereon of a high-school building, for furnishing and equipping the same, and installing a heating plant therein; and said board shall determine the character of said building, plans, site, materials, furnishings, equipment, and heating plant therefor, and shall advertise for bids for the construction of said building and the furnishings, equipment, and heating plant therefor, either under one contract or under separate contracts, as it shall deem for the best interest of said district, and shall let such contract or contracts to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders as the case may be; and may reject any and all bids and readvertise until a bid or bids satisfactory to it are obtained. SEC. 14. If the holder of any of said bonds shall, for any cause, fail to present the same for redemption at maturity, all interest on such bond or bonds which have matured shall thereafter cease. SEC. 15. If there shall be any surplus in said "Sparks High School Building Fund, after the completion of said high-school building, furnishings, equipment, and heating plant, such surschool fund plus shall without delay be passed by the county treasurer to the credit of the general school fund of said district. district Election expenses to be paid SEC. 16. Said board of trustees is hereby authorized to pay out of said "Sparks High School Building Fund, or out of the general fund of said district, all expenses involved in or connected with the holding of an election or elections under this act, and the preparation and issuance of bonds hereunder, and the preparation of plans for said building. Preamble CHAP. 85-An Act for the relief of Mrs. A. R. Shewalter. [Approved March 11, 1915] WHEREAS, Mrs. A. R. Shewalter of Reno, Nevada, in the year 1913, at the special instance and request of and for the use of the state board of pardons, transcribed the testimony of Nimrod Urie taken by her in the trial of the case of the State of Nevada v. J. Frank Trammer and Nimrod Urie, her charges for said transcript being the sum of forty-one ($41.10) dollars; and WHEREAS, The said claim was duly allowed by the board of examiners of the State of Nevada on the seventh day of July, 1913, for the above-mentioned sum; and WHEREAS, No warrant was issued on the said claim in favor of the said claimant by the state controller for the reason that in his opinion there was no appropriation out of which the same could be paid; and WHEREAS, The said claim is a just and legal claim against said state: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tion, $41.10 SECTION 1. The controller of the State of Nevada is hereby Appropriadirected to draw and deliver his warrant in favor of the said Mrs. A. R. Shewalter for said sum of forty-one and 6% ($41.10) dollars and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. 100 CHAP. 86-An Act amending section five of an act entitled "An act to promote the public safety by requiring commoncarrier railroads to provide adequate train crews, and defining such crews, and prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof," approved March 12, 1913. [Approved March 11, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and law not to SECTION 1. Section 5 of an act entitled "An act to promote Full-crew the public safety by requiring common-carrier railroads to apply to provide adequate train crews, and defining such crews, and railroads less prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof, miles in approved March 12, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply to or include any railroad company, or receiver, or manager thereof, of any line of railroad in this state less than 95 miles in length, nor of any line of railroad in this state on which but one train a day is operated each way; neither shall they apply to the operation of light engines and tenders when running as such outside the yard limits. CHAP. 87-An Act to appropriate five thousand dollars for the estate of T. F. Richardson. [Approved March 11, 1915] than 95 or one-train length, a-day railroads WHEREAS, T. F. Richardson was specially appointed veter- Preamble inary quarantine officer by a proclamation of Governor Oddie, dated August 14, 1914; and WHEREAS, Said T. F. Richardson, while acting as said state quarantine officer and while in the performance of his duties. as such officer, was accidentally inoculated with anthrax, from which he died on the 25th day of August, 1914; and WHEREAS, It is the policy of the state to compensate for death or injury to those engaged in hazardous undertakings or employments; and |