claim of Elko Automobile Company, for two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. M. Steninger, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Sutherland & McFarlane, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Engler Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. Dotta, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Thomas Hunter, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of First National Bank of Elko, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); and the claim of the Henderson Banking Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250). come from SEC. 2. After the approval and allowance of said amounts, Money to or any of them, by the said board of county commissioners of town fund the county of Elko, State of Nevada, acting as a town board, of Elko the auditor of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant in favor of the persons, firms, associations, and corporations above named, for the amounts specified in this act; and the treasurer of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to pay the same from the town fund. CHAP. 26-An Act to regulate the racing of horses in the State of Nevada, and to establish a state racing commission, and to define its powers and duties, and prescribing a penalty for violation thereof. [Approved February 20, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and under SECTION 1. Any association or corporation formed for the Horse-races purpose of racing and breeding or improving the breed of horses permitted and conducting races and contests of speed between horses shall restrictions have the right and power, subject to the provisions of this act, to hold one or more race meetings in each year and to hold, maintain and conduct horse-races at such meetings. At such meetings the corporation or association or the owners of the horses engaged in such races, or others who are not participants in the racing, may contribute purses, prizes, premiums, or stakes to be contested for; but no person or persons other than the owners of a horse or horses contesting in a race shall have any pecuniary interest in a purse, prize, premium, or stakes contested for in such races or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof after such races shall have been finished; and the whole of such purse, prize, premium, or stakes shall be allotted in accordance with the terms and conditions of such race. meetings SEC. 2. Such race meetings shall not exceed thirty days Term of racing, nor shall any meeting be given where bookmaking is limited; allowed, nor shall any person, association, or corporation fur- other nish to poolrooms or their agents any information whatever restrictions and information to poolrooms prohibited in regard to racing, or permit to be furnished from any course or premises any such information. Any person, association, or corporation who shall conduct any race meeting contrary to . Bookmaking the provisions of this act, or engage in bookmaking on horseraces, or furnish or allow to be furnished any information whatever to poolrooms contrary to this act, are hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person, association, or corporation acting or aiding them shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Penalty SEC. 3. No horse-races are authorized or shall be permitted No Sunday between sunset and sunrise or on Sundays. racing commission personnel of same to appoint secretary A state racing commission is hereby established to State racing consist of three persons to be appointed by the governor, within established; twenty days after this law shall be in force. The members of said commission shall hold their offices for a term of four years; provided, that the commissioners first appointed shall determine, by lot, one of themselves to go out of office at the end of each two years. The successor of each commissioner so going out of office shall hold office for the full term of four years. SEC. 5. Such commission shall appoint a secretary who shall Commission serve during its pleasure, whose duty it shall be to keep a full and faithful record of its proceedings, and preserve at its general office all books, maps, documents, and papers entrusted to its care, and perform such other duties as the commission shall prescribe. He shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the commission at a rate not exceeding eighteen hundred dollars per annum, which, together with other expenses of the commission, shall be paid by the racing corporations or associations who shall obtain licenses from said commission. The commission shall biennially make a full report to the governor of its proceedings for the two-year period ending with the first day of January preceding the meeting of the legislature, and shall embody therein such suggestions and recommendations as it shall deem desirable. Salary Biennial report to prescribe rules for horse-racing SEC. 6. Such commission shall have the power to prescribe Commission the rules, regulations, and conditions under which horse-races shall be conducted in this state, and no races shall be conducted except by an association or corporation duly licensed by said commission as herein provided. Any association or corporation desiring to conduct such racing may apply to the state racing commission for a license so to do. The commission may, in in its discretion, grant the same for not to exceed one year, and every such license shall contain a condition that all races or race meetings conducted thereunder shall be subjected to the rules, regulations, and conditions from time to time prescribed by the commission, and shall be revocable by the commission for any violation thereof, or whenever the continuance of such License for racing License revoked, when license shall be deemed by the commission not conducive to the interests of legitimate racing. But if said license is refused or revoked said commission shall cause its reasons for so doing to be written in full in the minute books of said commission, which books shall at all times be open to inspection by any Revocation one. The refusal of the commission to grant to any racing of license association or corporation a license, or to assign a racing associ- be reviewed ation or corporation at least sixty days in each year, if desired, for racing at such place as such association or corporation may desire and the decision of such commission revoking any license of any association or corporation shall be subject to review of the courts of this state. may be by courts ized race nuisance: SEC. 7. Every race meeting held or conducted, except as Unauthorallowed by this act, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, meetings and every person acting or aiding therein shall be deemed public guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less penalty and than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars restraining for each day of such meeting and racing; and a restraining order may issue against any proposed unauthorized race meeting at the suit of the state racing commission. order provisions county receiving SEC. 8. The provisions of this act relative to the payment Certain to the said state racing commission of proportionate moneys not to apply to pay the expenses of conducting said commission shall not to state and apply to race meetings conducted by any state fair association, associations agricultural society, county fair, or any other association to public aid which state or county aid is given; and no such state fair association shall hold a race meeting for a period of more than State and twelve days in any one year; and no such agricultural society, meetings county fair, or other association to which state or county aid is limited given shall hold a race meeting for a period of more than six days in any one year. county mutuals to pay percent treasuries highways SEC. 9. Any association or corporation conducting horse-races Paris in the State of Nevada where paris mutuals may be permitted shall take out such commissions from all moneys received age to public from the sale of paris mutuals as may be prescribed by the state for care of racing commission, not to exceed eight per cent; one-sixth of which shall be paid by said associations or corporations daily to the said state racing commission, and shall be paid by said. state racing commission to the county treasurer of the various counties of the State of Nevada, and shall be prorated among them in proportion to the total mileage of the county roads in said counties, to be used by said counties for the building, improvement, and care of their roads and highways. It is hereby made Racing the duty of the state racing commission, and they are hereby granted the power, to inspect the books of any such associations inspected or corporations and to revoke their licenses unless the said books are fully, accurately, and fairly kept. books may be bribe or SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to Unlawful to bribe, influence, or have any understanding or connivance with influence any jockey, owner, groom, or any one connected with any of the jockeys, etc. stables, horses, racing, or races at any race meeting, and any Penalty one violating this provision shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than three years or more than ten years. CHAP. 27—An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the management and control of the state agricultural society by the state," approved March 7, 1885, 77. [Approved February 20, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 5 of an act entitled "An act to provide State fair to for the management and control of the state agricultural society by the state, approved March 7, 1885, 77, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: be held at Fallon, Churchill County State not liable for premiums or debts Repeal Amending divorce law Section 5. The state board of agriculture shall be charged with the exclusive management and control of the state agricultural society as a state institution; shall have possession and care of its property, and be intrusted with the direction of its entire business and financial affairs. They shall define the duties of the secretary and treasurer, fix their bonds and compensation, and shall have power to make all necessary changes in the constitution and rules of the society to adapt the same to the provisions of this act, and to the management of the society, its meetings and exhibitions. They shall provide for an annual fair or exhibition by the society of all the industries and industrial products of the state at the city of Fallon, Churchill County, State of Nevada; provided, that in no event shall the state be liable for any premium awarded or debt created by said board of agriculture. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 28-An Act to amend section 22 of an act entitled "An act relating to marriage and divorce," approved November 28, 1861, as said section has heretofore been amended, and particularly as amended by act approved February 15, 1875, and by act approved February 20, 1913. [Approved February 23, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 22 of the said act of 1861, together with all amendments to and reenactments of said section, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 22. Divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be Divorce, how obtained, by complaint under oath, to the district court of the county in which the cause therefor shall have accrued, or in obtained which the defendant shall reside or be found, or in which the plaintiff shall reside, if the latter be either the county in which the parties last cohabited, or in which the plaintiff shall have resided six months before suit be brought, for the following six months causes: residence First-Impotency at the time of the marriage continuing to Causes for the time of the divorce. Second-Adultery, since the marriage, remaining unforgiven. Third-Wilful desertion, at any time, of either party by the other, for the period of one year. Fourth-Conviction of felony or infamous crime. Fifth-Habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage of either party, which shall incapacitate such party from contributing his or her share to the support of the family. Sixth-Extreme cruelty in either party. Seventh-Neglect of the husband, for the period of one year, to provide the common necessaries of life, when such neglect is not the result of poverty on the part of the husband, which he could not avoid by ordinary industry. divorce SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 29-An Act to provide for the consolidation of school districts, for the transportation of children to and from school, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved February 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and districts may SECTION 1. Any two or more adjacent school districts may School unite for the purpose of establishing a single consolidated consolidate district. consolida SEC. 2. The process of uniting two or more school districts Method of into a consolidated district shall be as follows: Upon receipt on of a petition signed by a majority of the voters who are entitled to a vote at school elections, from each of the districts to be affected by the consolidation, the county commissioners of the county in which such districts are located shall cause a notice to be published for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation throughout the county, which notice Notice to be shall state fully the names of the districts proposing to consol- published idate, the boundaries of the proposed consolidated district, and shall set forth a day and hour at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners when the said board will canvass the signatures on each petition and hear statements that any of the residents of any of the districts to be affected by the consolidation may wish to make either for or against the proposition of consolidation. At the time set forth in the |