SEC. 17. The members of the said commission, and such Members to expert assistants as may be employed, shall be entitled to receive from the state their actual and necessary expenses while traveling on the business of said commission. receive actual expenses tion, $10,000 SEC. 18. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is hereby Appropria- annually appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this act, and which shall be available for necessary clerical hire, office furniture and fixtures, advertising, rental, and traveling and other expenses. All such expenditures shall be certified to by the chairman of said commission, and, when approved by the state board of examiners, shall be paid by the treasurer from such appropriation on warrants drawn by the controller. SEC. 19. The commission shall make and publish an annual report for each calendar year, showing its transactions and proceedings for the year. Annual report Printing to be done at state printing office Other act repealed Meetings continuation of old commission Expires by limitation Branch SEC. 20. All forms, blanks, envelopes, letterheads, circulars, and reports required to be printed by said commission may, in its discretion, be printed at the state printing office under the general provisions of the act entitled "An act to designate and authorize the work to be done in the state printing office," approved March 5, 1909. SEC. 21. An act entitled "An act in relation to the public revenues, creating the Nevada tax commission, defining its powers and duties, and matters relating thereto, and repealing all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved March 20, 1913, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed; provided, however, that all meetings of this commission shall be deemed, and shall be, continuation of such meetings as are now being held, or in session, of the Nevada tax commission, created under and by virtue of "An act in relation to the public revenues, creating the Nevada tax commission, defining its powers and duties, and matters relating thereto, and repealing all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 20, 1913. SEC. 22. This act shall expire by limitation on March 15, 1917, unless revived by future legislation. CHAP. 154-An Act to provide for the establishment of branch county high schools under certain conditions, in counties having a county high school, and other matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 17, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of any county high county in the state having a county high school or schools may establish a branch county high school, and it shall be the schools authorized how secured duty of the county commissioners to do so whenever the county board of education of such county shall certify that the conditions named in section 2 of this act exist and are complied with. SEC. 2. Whenever a school district in a county having a County aid, county high school or county high schools is in need of and desires county aid for securing or maintaining full high-school instruction and privileges for its children, it may, through its board of trustees, petition the county commissioners to estab- Petition lish in the district a branch county high school. The petition shall set forth the following facts: forth 1. That said district has already in attendance in its high Facts set school twenty or more properly qualified high-school pupils and full high-school work is being done; 2. That the income of the district from county and state apportionments is insufficient for giving such pupils necessary high-school instruction, and that its assessed valuation is too small for it to raise the needed funds from special district taxation; 3. That the district is situated forty miles or more from the county high school, and the parents are unable to send their children to the county high school; 4. That the district is able to and will provide the necessary rooms or buildings for all the high-school work; 5. That the district asks for the establishment therein of a branch county high school under the management and the control of the county board of education. control of education SEC. 3. Any branch county high school that may be Under established under the provisions of this act shall be under county the full control and management of the county board of edu- board of cation, and it shall be governed in its powers and duties in reference to the said branch county high school by the provisions contained in the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, sections 3419, 3420, 3421, 3422, and 3423 (School Code, sections 179, 180, 181, 182, and 183). conflict with SEC. 4. None of the provisions of this act shall in any wise Not to impair or abrogate the provisions of "An act authorizing boards certain act of county commissioners to transfer certain funds to the county school fund of school districts, or to levy a special county tax in certain cases, and other matters properly connected therewith, as found in the Statutes of Nevada, 1913, pages 166 and 167 (School Code, 1913, pages 73 and 74). School of mines at Tonopah under control of university authorized CHAP. 155-An Act creating a school of mines to be located at Tonopah, Nevada. [Approved March 17, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There is hereby created a school of mines, to be known as the Tonopah school of mines, to be located at Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, to be under the direction and control of the board of regents of the University of Nevada. The principal in charge of said school of mines shall receive a salary of twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments on the first day of each and every month during the time this act and the provisions thereof shall remain in force and effect. SEC. 2. The said board of regents of the University of Nevada Expenditure is hereby authorized and empowered to expend for the support and maintenance of the Tonopah school of mines for the years 1915 and 1916, in addition to the salary of the principal in charge of said school of mines, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars. Qualifica tions of bank examiner CHAP. 156-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate banking and other matters relating thereto," approved March 22, 1911. [Approved March 17, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 50 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 50. The governor shall appoint a bank examiner who shall be a person who has had practical banking experience; he shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per year, payable in equal monthly installments out of the general fund of the state; he may be removed from office at any time by a majority vote of the whole banking board. During his term of office the examiner shall not be permitted to examine the affairs of any bank in which he has an interest nor in which he is or, within one year next preceding his appointment, was an officer or employee. Until further action by the banking board, the present bank examiner shall be continued in office with all the powers and duties thereby conferred and imposed. In every case where the examiner shall be called upon to settle up the affairs of a bank, in accordance with the provisions of this act, he may, if the circumstances in his judgment warrant such action, appoint a deputy bank examiner to aid him in carrying out the provisions of this act; the be appointed with examiner shall fix the salary of such deputy, which shall not Deputy may exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month, payable in connection monthly out of the general fund of the state. Such deputy liquidation shall perform such duties as the examiner shall direct (but no of banks deputy shall be appointed except in connection with the liquidation of the business of a bank, nor shall his employment continue longer than may be required for that purpose, and he shall be subject to removal at any time at the pleasure of the examiner or of the state banking board. The bank examiner shall occupy the offices of the state banking board and shall act as secretary of the board). The seal of the state banking Seal of board shall be as heretofore prescribed, and all licenses and orders issued by the board and by its authority shall be attested by the seal of the state banking board and by the signature of the bank examiner. SEC. 2. Section 55 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: board from Section 55. The examiner shall require from the clerks and Security assistants, including a deputy examiner, if any, employed in assistants the settling up of the affairs of any bank, in accordance with this act, such security for the faithful performance of their duties as he may deem proper. SEC. 3. Section 66 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 66. The deputy bank examiners, if any, shall, Official oath before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. CHAP. 157-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 17, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three hundred and ten of an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto, approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: deemed himself Section 310. In the trial of all indictments, complaints, Defendant and other proceedings against persons charged with the com- competent mission of crimes or offenses, the person so charged shall, at his witness for own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness, the credit to be given his testimony being left solely to the jury, under the instructions of the court; provided, that no special instruction shall be given relating exclusively to the testimony of the defendant, or particularly directing the attention of the jury to the defendant's testimony. Defendant not testify SEC. 2. Section three hundred and eleven of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 311. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as compelling any such person to testify. No instruction shall compelled to be given relative to the failure of the person charged with the commission of crime or offense to testify, except, upon the request of the person so charged, the court shall instruct the jury that, in accordance with a right guaranteed by the constitution, no person can be compelled, in a criminal action, to be a witness against himself. ate sentence, how fixed SEC. 3. Section four hundred and ten of said act, as amended by act approved March 24, 1913 (Statutes, 1913, page 274), is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 410. Whenever any person shall be convicted of any Indetermin- felony for which no fixed period of confinement is imposed by law, the court shall, in addition to any fine or forfeiture which he may impose, direct that such person be confined in the state prison, for an indeterminate term limited only by the minimum and maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the offense of which such person shall be convicted; and where no minimum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix the minimum term in his discretion at not less than one year nor more than five years, and where no maximum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix such maximum term of imprisonment. Immediately after the rendition of judgment in such case the district judge who presided at the trial and the district attorney who prosecuted the case shall transmit to the secretary of the board of pardons and parole commissioners a written statement of facts within their knowledge which may aid said board in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 411 of this act, and may include in such statement such comments as they may deem pertinent. Judge and district attorney In effect SEC. 4. This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. CHAP. 158-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911, as amended March 24, 1913, and to repeal certain sections of said amendatory act of March 24, 1913. [Approved March 18, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 104 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 104. The answer of the defendant shall contain: |