Payment prohibited Misde meanor fine or imprisonment to disqualify any widow as an employee of any state or county officer. SEC. 2. No person employed contrary to the provisions of this act shall be entitled to or allowed compensation for such employment. SEC. 3. Any violation of this act shall constitute a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall subject the person found guilty to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Amending revenue act Fortune tellers, etc., must pay license CHAP. 20-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891. [Approved February 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding a section numbered 1232, as follows: Section 123%. Every fortune-teller, clairvoyant, palmist, or medium charging, collecting, or receiving any consideration, or any thing of value, for his or her services, directly or indirectly, shall pay a license of $25 the month, or $50 the quarter; provided, that the terms herein used include every person or persons who read or purport to read, or to tell fortunes, or to predict or to tell the future or past by cards, palmistry, clairvoyancy, or other methods. Penalty for school teachers repealed CHAP. 21-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved February 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 109 of the above-entitled act, being section 3348 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 22-An Act fixing the allowance for expenses of any state officer, commissioner, or other employee while traveling, or at destination, on official business. [Approved February 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and officials expenses SECTION 1. The maximum amount of expense money per Public day for personal uses, allowed to any individual officer or com- limited in missioner, or other employee of the state, while traveling, or at subsistence his destination, on official business for the State of Nevada, shall not exceed the sum of five dollars per day; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to include the cost of Exceptions seats or sleeping-berths in railway trains, railroad fare, stage fare, automobile hire or fare, team or horse hire, bus, or streetcar fare, or transportation charges of any kind whatsoever. required SEC. 2. Paid vouchers for each item must accompany each Vouchers expense account when presented to the board of examiners for approval. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. SEC. 4. approval. This act shall take effect upon its passage and Immediate effect CHAP. 23-An Act fixing the salaries and compensation of the officers of Eureka County, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act. [Approved February 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and County SECTION 1. From and after the approval of this act the Salaries of county officers of Eureka County, State of Nevada, named in Eureka this act, shall receive the following salaries and fees, in full officers compensation for their services: The sheriff shall receive a salary of one thousand eight Sheriff hundred dollars per annum, and such fees in civil cases, wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not party, as are provided for by law; provided, that when in criminal cases it becomes necessary for the sheriff to travel a greater distance than twenty miles from the county-seat, but within the State of Nevada, he shall be allowed his necessary traveling expenses. The sheriff shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other county expenses are audited and paid. He may appoint a deputy sheriff, who District attorney Clerk Recorder Assessor Commissioners shall act as jailer, at a compensation not exceeding ninety dollars per month. now The district attorney shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and such fees as are allowed by law; provided, that when in proper discharge of his duties as district attorney it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than twenty miles from the county-seat, he shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses. The district attorney shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other expenses are audited and allowed. The county clerk, who shall be ex officio county treasurer in and for said county and ex officio clerk of the district court and of the board of county commissioners of said county, shall receive as a salary as treasurer the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and as clerk a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, and such fees, in all cases wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not a party, as are now allowed by law to county clerks. The county recorder and ex officio county auditor shall receive for all such services a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and in addition thereto such fees, in all cases wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not a party, as are now allowed by law to the county recorder. The county assessor shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; provided, that when in the proper discharge of his duties as assessor it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than three miles from the countyseat, he shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses. The assessor shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other expenses are audited and allowed. The county commissioners shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum and ten cents per mile in going to and from the county-seat, when attending upon the regular monthly meetings, and when meeting as a board of equalization and board of canvassers, and when meeting to consider cases of extradition, as provided by law, and they shall meet regularly on the first Monday of each month for the transaction of all business that may come before them. SEC. 2. No allowance shall be made by the board of county Allowances commissioners for the compensation of any deputy or deputies for any officers except as herein expressly provided. restricted Salaries payable monthly SEC. 3. All salaries herein provided for and not otherwise payable shall be payable in twelve equal monthly installments. The county auditor shall, on the first Monday of each month, draw his warrant in favor of each of the officers herein named for the salary due each officer for the last preceding month, and the county treasurer shall pay such warrant out of the salary fund. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed. CHAP. 24-An Act to create a legislative fund. [Approved February 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and appropriation, $45,000 SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying the mileage and the Legislative per diem of members of the present legislature, the salaries of the officers and attachés, and the incidental expenses of the respective houses thereof, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart, from any money in the general fund not otherwise especially appropriated, the sum of fortyfive thousand 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, officers, 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. SEC. 3. All moneys remaining in said fund, at the adjourn- Residue to ment of the legislature, shall revert to the general fund. CHAP. 25-An Act for the relief of certain persons, firms, associations, and corporations, who advanced funds for the construction of the Nevada school of industry, in the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and authorizing the repayment of the same by the town of Elko, State of Nevada. [Approved February 17, 1915] revert WHEREAS, During the twenty-sixth session of the legislature Preamble of Nevada, an act entitled "An act establishing a state institution for delinquent boys, providing for the purchase of a site, erection of buildings, organizing the government of said school, and providing for the maintenance thereof, and creating a tax levy to raise funds for such purposes, approved March 26, 1913, was passed, creating a Nevada school of industry and a commission for the construction of said school and the government thereof, and conditioned that the Nevada school of industry, therein created, should be located in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, upon land deeded to the state, without charge, and upon the payment to the commission, by the citizens of Elko, of the sum of five thousand dollars; and Preamble Persons advancing money for Nevada school of industry Town of Elko to reimburse persons advancing money for Nevada school of industry sums named WHEREAS, The commission provided in said act was duly appointed, and the conditions set forth in said act were duly complied with, and said school has been constructed; and WHEREAS, No authority had been provided by which the said town of Elko could appropriate the said five thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, In order not to delay the construction of said building, the following-named persons, firms, associations, and corporations paid and advanced to the said commission the said sum of five thousand dollars, as is hereafter more particularly set forth, to wit: W. T. Smith Company, $250; Elko Lumber Company, $250; A. G. McBride, $250; R. H. Mallett, $250; Guy Saval, $250; A. W. Hesson Company, $250; Chris Eshleman, $250; Doctors Hood & West, $250; L. J. Wintermantel Company, $250; Elko Hide and Junk Company, $250; Mayer Hotel Company, $250; George Russell, $250; Elko Automobile Company, $250; E. M. Steninger, $250; Sutherland & McFarlane, $250; Engler Company, $250; E. Dotta, $250; Thomas Hunter, $250; First National Bank of Elko, $250; and Henderson Banking Company, $250; and WHEREAS, Said sums were so advanced and paid, with the understanding that the same would be a charge against the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and be repaid by said town, as soon as an enabling act should be enacted by the legislature of the State of Nevada: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, acting as the town board of Elko, be, and it is, hereby authorized, empowered and directed, as soon as there be sufficient funds in the town fund of the town of Elko, State of Nevada, upon presentation and proof that said sums have been paid to the commission for the establishment of the Nevada school of industry, to approve and allow on said Persons and fund, the claim of W. T. Smith Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Lumber Company, for two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. G. McBride, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of R. H. Mallett, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Guy Saval, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. W. Hesson Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Chris Eshleman, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Doctors Hood & West, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of L. J. Wintermantel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Hide and Junk Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Mayer Hotel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of George Russell, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the |