CHAP. 146-An Act to regulate the fees of the county clerk of Humboldt County, State of Nevada, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. [Approved March 16, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and clerk of SECTION 1. The county clerk of Humboldt County, State of Fees of Nevada, as county clerk and ex officio clerk of the district Humboldt court of the Sixth judicial district of the State of Nevada, in County and for Humboldt County, shall, from and after the passage of this act, charge and collect the following fees in civil, probate, and guardianship proceedings; provided, that said clerk shall neither charge nor collect, any fees for services by him rendered to the State of Nevada, or to the county of Humboldt: On the commencement of any action or proceedings in the district court, except probate proceedings, to be paid by the party commencing such action or proceeding, seven dollars; said fee to be paid in addition to the court fee of three dollars now provided by law. specified On an appeal to the district court, to be paid by the party Fees taking such appeal, seven dollars; said fee to be paid in addition to the court fee of one dollar now provided by law. On the appearance of any defendant, or any number of defendants answering jointly, to be paid upon the filing of the first paper in the action by him or them, five dollars. For every additional defendant, or intervener, appearing separately, two dollars and fifty cents.. The foregoing fees shall be in full for all services rendered by such clerk in the case, to and including the making of the judgment roll. On the filing of a petition for letters testamentary, or of administration, or guardianship, eight dollars and fifty cents, to be paid by the petitioner; provided, that at the time of filing the inventory and appraisement in any such proceedings there shall be an additional deposit of fifty cents for each additional one thousand dollars of the appraised value in excess of two thousand dollars; said fee to be paid in addition to the court fee of one dollar and fifty cents now provided for by law. On filing a petition to contest any will or codicil, five dollars, to be paid by the petitioner. On the filing of any notice of motion to move for a new trial of any civil action or proceeding, the party filing same shall pay to the clerk in full for all services to be rendered in connection with said motion, two dollars and fifty cents. No fee shall be charged by the clerk for any services rendered in any criminal case. In all proceedings begun, or for acts performed, previous to this act becoming a law, such fees Repeal Mortgage deemed interest in real or personal property Proviso and charges as were provided by law at the time such action or proceeding was begun or act performed. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 147-An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,' approved March 23, 1891," approved April 1, 1913. [Approved March 16, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,' approved March 23, 1891, approved April 1, 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. A mortgage, deed of trust, contract, or other obligation by which a debt is secured and which is a lien or incumbrance on real or personal property shall, for the purposes of assessment and taxation, be deemed, considered, and treated as an interest in said real or personal property thereby affected, except as to railroads and other quasi-public corporations, and the several assessors, in their respective counties in the state shall, in assessing and fixing the value of the real or personal property affected by any such mortgage or other instrument herein mentioned, treat, consider, and deem such instrument as an interest in the real or personal property, and the assessment of the real or personal property affected thereby for the purpose of taxation shall be deemed and taken as the assessment of such mortgage or other instrument; provided, that in no case shall the valuation for taxation fixed exceed the value of said property. CHAP. 148-An Act to amend section 2 of an act entitled “An act regulating the assessment and taxation of banks, and of the shares of stock therein," approved March 20, 1907. [Approved March 16, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 2 of an act entitled "An act regulating the assessment and taxation of banks and of the shares of stock therein, approved March 20, 1907, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. All shares of stock in banks, whether of issue or bank stock value not, existing by authority of the United States, or of the State Shares of of Nevada, or of any other state, territory, or foreign govern- assessed at ment, and located within the State of Nevada, shall be assessed full cash to the owners thereof in the county, city, town, or district where such banks are located, and not elsewhere, in the assessment of all state, county, town, or special taxes, imposed and levied in such place, whether such owner is a resident of said county, city, town, or district, or not. All such shares shall be assessed at their full cash value on the first day of May, first deducting therefrom the proportionate value of the real estate belonging to the bank and the amount or value of such mortgages or trust deeds owned by the bank and on which the bank has paid the taxes or authorized the assessment thereof in its name, at the same rate and no greater than that at which other moneyed capital in the hands of citizens and subject to taxation is by law assessed. And the persons or corporations who appear from Who the records of the banks to be the owners of shares at the close owners of the business day next preceding the first day of May in each year shall be taken and deemed to be the owners thereof for the purposes of this section. CHAP. 149—An Act to provide for the union of certain school districts for the purpose of securing instruction in manual training and domestic science, and matters properly related thereto. [Approved March 16, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: deemed school union, SECTION 1. Any group of not to exceed six school districts Industrial in the state may form an industrial school union for the pur- how formed pose of giving instruction in manual training or domestic science, or both manual training and domestic science. Such industrial school union shall be organized in the following manner: Whenever each of the boards of trustees of any number of school districts not exceeding six shall certify to the county commissioners of any county that by a resolution passed at a regularly called meeting of such board it was ordered that the school district become a part of. industrial school union, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to designate such districts as constituting the industrial school union. If the trustees of more than six such school districts shall certify to the commissioners that they desire to join such industrial school union, the county commissioners shall decide which six districts of those applying shall constitute the industrial school union. SEC. 2. Whenever any industrial school union shall be thus Directors of organized by the county commissioners, the board of trustees of each of the districts constituting such industrial school union shall elect one of its members to become a member of the board said school union duties of directors of directors of the industrial school union, and the board of directors thus constituted shall have power, and it shall be their duty: 1. To meet at some place agreed upon by a majority of the Powers and board of directors on the second Saturday following the organization of the industrial school union by the county commissioners, at which meeting they shall elect a president and secretary of the board, and adopt such rules of procedure as they shall deem necessary. Trustees to decide regarding subjects taught Tools, etc., must be provided 2. To designate a time at which they will elect a teacher of manual training and domestic science for the industrial school union, and determine the salary to be paid. 3. To determine the amount of money each district constituting the industrial school union shall raise and contribute toward the salary of the manual training and domestic science teacher. The amounts to be raised by such districts shall be proportional to the property valuations of the several districts constituting the industrial school union. 4. To certify to the county commissioners the amount of money to be raised by each of the districts constituting the industrial school union, and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to levy and cause to be collected in each of the districts constituting the industrial school union a special tax sufficient to raise the amount of money determined by the board of directors as the necessary amount to be raised by such district. Such taxes shall be levied, equalized, and collected in the same manner as other school district taxes are levied, equalized, and collected, and the money thus paid to the county treasurer shall constitute the teachers' salary fund of________industrial school union, and shall be used for no other purpose than for paying the salary of the manual training and domestic science teacher of that industrial school union. To make rules and regulations governing the schedule of time the manual training and domestic science teacher shall give to each district constituting the industrial school union. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees of each of the districts constituting the industrial school union to decide whether manual training or domestic science, or both such subjects, shall be taught in such district, and to provide a suitable room in which the same shall be taught, and to equip such room with sufficient tools, apparatus, and material for the proper instruction in the subject selected. SEC. 4. If any district constituting the industrial school union shall fail to provide the necessary tools, apparatus, or material for the proper instruction in the subjects selected as provided in section 3 of this act, the board of directors shall authorize the manual training and domestic science teacher to purchase such necessary tools, apparatus, or material, and upon presentation of the bill for such supplies the board of directors shall order the county auditor to pay the same from the county school fund of the delinquent district, and the county auditor and the county treasurer shall pay such order in the same manner as other school orders are paid; provided, that no such Proviso purchases by the manual training and domestic science teacher shall exceed in value one hundred fifty dollars. directors SEC. 5. Meetings of the board of directors of the industrial Meetings of school union shall be held at the call of the president, or at the request of any two members of the board. Such meetings shall be governed by the same rules governing other school boards of the state; provided, that a quorum for the trans- Quorum action of business shall consist of not less than half of all the members of the board, except that the president and secretary may make legal orders for the salary of the teacher; and provided further, that members of the board of directors may Proxies, vote by written proxy upon all questions except those involving teachers' contracts or change of schedule of the teacher. when to govern SEC. 6. The industrial school union shall be under the same School law laws, rules, and regulations as the public schools of the state in so far as such laws, rules, and regulations are not in conflict with the provisions of this act. undissolved SEC. 7. The organization of the industrial school union Organization shall remain undissolved for a period of two years from the for two thirtieth of June following the organization of the industrial years school union by the county commissioners. At the end of the aforesaid two-year period the county commissioners shall renew the organization of the union upon receipt of the same kind of certified statements as provided in section 1 of this act. SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 150-An Act to regulate the salaries of certain county officials of Clark County. [Approved March 16, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. From and after April 1, 1915, the sheriff of Salaries of Clark County Clark County shall receive a salary of twenty-four hundred officers ($2,400) dollars per annum, payable in twelve equal installments of two hundred ($200) dollars each month, and such Sheriff commissions as are now allowed by law, not to exceed in the aggregate the total compensation of three thousand dollars per annum, including actual traveling expenses necessarily incurred in civil and criminal cases when it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than ten miles from the county-seat. He shall appoint a deputy sheriff, who shall also act as jailer, at a compensation not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month. The sheriff may, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners, appoint necessary deputy sheriffs at a compensation not exceeding one hundred dollars each per month, each of said so appointed deputy sheriffs to |