form, and to distribute the same gratuitously to all proper applicants therefor. SEC. 2. Said schedule shall be printed at the state printing Where office. printed SEC. 3. Not more than one thousand copies of said schedule 1,000 copies shall be printed. tion, $50 SEC. 4. To carry out the purposes of this act the sum of Appropriafifty dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for printing said schedule and postage on the distribution thereof, and to be disbursed in the same manner as claims against the state are paid. CHAP. 104-An Act for the relief of Jonathan Payne. [Approved March 12, 1915] WHEREAS, During the month of September, 1914, Jonathan Preamble Payne did render to the State of Nevada clerical and stenographic services in the office of adjutant-general, of the value of $35, for which he has not been paid because of the lack of funds applicable therefor; and WHEREAS, Such claim is a just and proper one against the state, being certified to by the adjutant-general, and approved by the board of examiners January 2, 1915: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion, $35 SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw Appropriaa warrant to Jonathan Payne in the sum of $35, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 105—An Act for the relief of Nellie B. Milligan. [Approved March 12, 1915] WHEREAS, During the year 1913, Nellie B. Milligan rendered Preamble to the State of Nevada services to the amount of $170 in making out table of contents and indexing statutes, senate and assembly journals of 1913, and other clerical work; and WHEREAS, Such claim is a just and proper one against the state, and is certified to by the secretary of state, and approved by the board of examiners on December 6, 1913, and January 25, 1915: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw Appropriaand deliver to Nellie B. Milligan a warrant for $170, and the tion, $170 state treasurer is directed to pay the same. sheriff for Humboldt County CHAP. 106-An Act authorizing the appointment of certain officers and fixing their compensation in Humboldt County. [Approved March 12, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sheriff of Humboldt County is hereby One deputy allowed and authorized to appoint one regular deputy or under-sheriff, and no more, for said county. Said deputy or under-sheriff shall receive the sum of one hundred and twentyfive ($125) dollars the month, which salary shall be allowed and paid as the salaries of other county officials are allowed and paid. Said officer shall perform the duties imposed by law and under the supervision of said sheriff. Janitor for courthouse Preamble Appropriation, $178.35 Preamble SEC. 2. The county commissioners of Humboldt County shall appoint one janitor to care for and look after the courthouse and lawn and adjacent county buildings at a salary of not to exceed the sum of seventy-five ($75) dollars the month. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 107-An Act for the relief of certain employees of the state engineer's office. [Approved March 12, 1915] WHEREAS, During the year 1914 there was a deficiency in the appropriations for the support of the state engineer's office in the amount of $178.35, the same being balance of salary for the following-named persons for the month of December, 1914, and for the amounts set opposite their names: Seymour Case, $30.17; C. C. Smith, $22.63; F. B. Stewart, $22.63; R. A. McKay, $22.63; Parvin Jones, $15.08; Harvey M. Payne, $12.06; Fred B. Stewart, $53.15-$178.35; and WHEREAS, Said claims are just and proper, having been approved by the state board of examiners on December 26, 1914: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to CHAP. 108-An Act for the relief of the Verdi lumber company. [Approved March 12, 1915] and WHEREAS, During the months of October and December, 1912, the Verdi lumber company furnished to the State of Nevada, for the use of the prison road camps, lumber and supplies to the amount of $125.99, the bills for which have not been paid owing to the prison road fund being exhausted; and WHEREAS, Such amount is a just claim against the state, and has been allowed by the board of examiners on January 25, 1915: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tion, $125.99 SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw Appropriaand deliver his warrant in favor of the Verdi lumber company for the sum of $125.99, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 109-An Act to amend section thirteen of an act entitled "An act making the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service commission for the regulation and control of certain public utilities, prescribing the manner in which such public utilities shall be regulated and controlled, requiring such public utilities to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities, prohibiting unjust and unreasonable charges for services rendered by such public utilities, providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, authorizing such public service commission to appoint an expert engineer, and to employ clerks and assistants, and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this act," approved March 23, 1911, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. [Approved March 12, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: public mission act SECTION 1. That section 13 of an act entitled "An act making Amending the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service service comcommission for the regulation and control of certain public utilities, prescribing the manner in which such public utilities. shall be regulated and controlled, requiring such public utilities to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities, prohibiting unjust and unreasonable charges for services rendered by such public utilities, providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, authorizing such public service commission to appoint an expert engineer and to employ clerks and assistants, and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1911, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. The commission may prescribe classifications May classify of the service of all public utilities, and in such classifications service, rules. prescribe penalties, and schedules, schedules may take into account the quantity used, the time when used, and any other reasonable consideration. And said commission may prescribe rules and regulations in relation to the and forms of installation of instruments of service of any public utility doing business in this state, and prescribe penalties for failure to comply therewith. Each public utility is required to conform its schedule of rates, tolls, and charges to such classification, for which schedules the commission may, when necessary, prescribe the forms. Repeal SEC. 2. All act and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Kindergartens may be upon petition of 25 parents CHAP. 110—An Act to provide for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of kindergarten departments in the public schools. [Approved March 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of school trustees of every school district in this state may, upon petition of the parents or established guardians of twenty-five or more children between the ages of four and six years, residing within such school district, establish, equip, and maintain a kindergarten or kindergartens. The board of school trustees of every school district in which a kindergarten is established under the provisions of this act shall, at least fifteen days before the month in which the board of county commissioners is required by law to levy the taxes required for county purposes, submit to the board of county commissioners an estimate of funds necessary for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of such a kindergarten or kindergartens in their districts; and, if sufficient funds for the same are not available in the school funds of such school district, the said board of county commissioners shall have power to direct that a special tax, not to exceed twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars of assessed valuation of such district, shall be levied; and upon notification by the clerk of the board of trustees of such school district that such action has been taken, the board of county commissioners shall levy and cause to be collected such tax upon the taxable property of the district. The fund so levied shall be known as the kindergarten fund of .school Special tax, when Kindergar ten fund district (as the case may be), and shall be available for the equipment and maintenance of the kindergarten or kindergartens established under the provisions of this section, and the moneys drawn from such fund shall be paid out in the same manner as moneys from the state and county school funds for the maintenance of the elementary schools are continued, drawn and paid out. If the average daily attendance in any School diskindergarten in any school district shall be ten or less for the when school year, the governing body for such school district shall, at the close of such school year, discontinue such kindergarten. In case a kindergarten shall be discontinued, as provided by this section, the property and funds of such kindergarten shall Fund immediately revert to the elementary schools of the school district in which said kindergarten has been located. reverts SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its In effect passage. CHAP. 111-An Act authorizing the expenditure of money by the state under certain conditions for the purpose of aiding counties in sinking artesian wells. [Approved March 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and for artesian SECTION 1. When any county of the state shall hereafter Bounties have expended in any year for the purposes set forth in sec- wells, how tion one of an act entitled "An act authorizing the board of paid county commissioners of the various counties in the state to acquire real estate, and to sink, or cause to be sunk thereon, artesian wells, and making the expense thereof a legal charge against the county," approved February 20, 1913, a sum amounting to four thousand dollars or more, upon the filing in the office of the state controller of a certificate to that effect made by the county auditor, stating the actual amount so expended, which certificate shall also be verified by the oath of a majority of the commissioners of such county, to the effect that such expenditure has been properly made for said purposes, the said controller shall draw a warrant upon the state treasury for a sum equivalent to that certified by the county auditor, not, however, in any instance to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and as often as any county of the state shall, from year to year, make a similar expenditure, upon a like certificate from the county auditor, said state controller is authorized, empowered, and directed to draw a like warrant upon the state treasury. controller and SEC. 2. Upon the presentation of such warrant to the state Duties of treasurer, he is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to pay out of any unappropriated money of the state and to the treasurer treasurer of the county from which any such auditor's certificate emanated the sum specified in the warrant of the state controller. county fund SEC. 3. Such sum or sums, when received by such county, Special shall be by the board of commissioners set apart in a special fund, and shall be used for the purposes mentioned in the aforesaid act, and for no other. |