officers to assist board of regents Certain state hereby directed, authorized, and empowered to give to the board of regents of the University of Nevada, or their duly authorized agent, free and unlimited access to all the records, books, papers, and files of their respective offices, for the purpose of making said examination and abstract, and are further directed, authorized, and empowered to assist said board of regents in making said examination and abstract. Certain bonds and securities to be transferred to university funds May be transferred from state school fund All state officers and boards to cooperate Every assessor to taxpayers printed SEC. 3. When the principal sum derived by the State of Nevada from the sale of said public lands belonging to said "90,000-Acre Grant" and the said "72-Section Grant" shall have been ascertained by the board of regents as herein before provided for, the State of Nevada is hereby directed, authorized, and empowered, by and through its proper officers or boards established or created by law, to transfer and deliver to the "University Fund, 90,000-Acre Grant, and the "University Fund, 72-Section Grant, bonds or other securities in the respective amounts of the principal sums derived from the sale of lands from said respective grants; said bonds or other securities so transferred to be such bonds or securities as produce a net income of five per centum per annum. Said bonds so to be transferred may be transferred from the state school fund. SEC. 4. Every officer of the State of Nevada, and every board created by any law of the State of Nevada, are hereby directed, authorized, and empowered to do each and every thing necessary or appropriate to carry into effect the intent and purpose of this act. CHAP. 216-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, being section 3638 of the Revised Laws of 1912. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 16 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 16. It shall be the duty of the assessor in each of the respective counties of the state, on or before the third have list of Monday in July in each year, to prepare a printed list of all the taxpayers in the county and the total valuation of property on which they severally pay tax. A copy of said list shall be by the assessor delivered in person or mailed to each and every taxpayer in the county; provided, that the cost of printing the Limit of cost aforesaid list shall not exceed twenty cents for each name for as many copies as there are names on the list. The several boards of county commissioners in the state are authorized and empowered to allow the bill contracted by the assessor under this section and the several county auditors are authorized to draw their warrant in payment of the same. SEC. 2. Section 23 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: board of limited said board clerk regarding increased Section 23. The board of county commissioners of each County county shall constitute a board of equalization, of which board equalization the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall be the clerk. The board of equalization of each county shall meet on the fourth Monday of July in each year, and shall continue Meet in July in session from time to time until the business of equalization presented to them is disposed of; provided, however, that they Sitting shall not sit after the second Monday in August. The board shall have power to determine the valuation of any property Powers of assessed, and may change and correct any valuation, either by adding thereto or deducting therefrom such sum as shall be necessary to make it conform to the actual cash value of the property assessed, whether said valuation was fixed by the owner or assessor; except that in case where the person complaining of the assessment has refused to give the assessor his list under oath, as required by this act, no reduction shall be made by the board in the assessment made by the assessor. If the board finds it necessary to add to the assessed valuation of any property on the assessment roll, they shall direct the clerk Duty of to give notice to the person so interested, by letter, deposited in the postoffice, or express, or otherwise, naming the day when valuations they shall act in that case, and allowing a reasonable time to appear. As soon as possible after the adjournment of the board in August, its clerk shall make out a list of all persons who have not appeared before the board, the valuation of whose property has been added to on the assessment roll, and shall state the amount so added, and list of all property, the valuation on which has been added to on the assessment roll, with the amounts so added, the owners of which have not appeared before the board; and the board of county commissioners shall cause the same to be published in one newspaper Published in in the county, if there be any, and if not, then by posting one or by posting copy of the same in a public place in each election precinct in the county, and any person, to the assessed value of whose property there was an amount added, not appearing before the board of equalization, may appear before the state board of State board equalization at its next regular session, and upon making an tion affidavit that he had no knowledge of such increased valuation of his property, he shall be given a hearing and the final judgment of the state board, and the secretary of the state board shall note all changes made and certify them to the county auditor, who shall make the changes required on the assessment roll. The recorder of the county shall be present and attend all Recorder to meetings of the county board of equalization, with an abstract county of all unsatisfied mortgages and liens shown in the records of his office, arranged in alphabetical order, for which service he newspaper of equaliza attend on board Preamble Appropriation, $78.10 shall receive no compensation, and the county board of equalization shall make use of said abstract, and all other information that it can procure from the recorder or his office, or otherwise, in equalizing the assessment roll of the county, and may require the assessor to enter upon such assessment roll any other property which has not been assessed; and the assessment and equalizations so made shall have the same force and effect as if made by the assessor before the delivery of the assessment roll by him to the clerk of the board of county commissioners. CHAP. 217-An Act for the relief of the Raycraft Realty company. [Approved March 24, 1915] WHEREAS, The Raycraft Realty company, in the years 1912 and 1913, under the administration of George W. Cowing and D. S. Dickerson, as wardens of the state prison, rendered certain services on behalf of the state prison for said wardens, the claim therefor being in the sum of seventy-eight and 10% dollars; and WHEREAS, The said claim was not paid owing to failure to present the same in due time; and WHEREAS, The said claim has been duly approved by the said wardens, and has been examined and allowed by the board of examiners of the State of Nevada; and WHEREAS, The said claim is a just and legal claim against SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in the sum of seventy-eight and 70% dollars in favor of said Raycraft Realty company, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 218-An Act to grant the right of way to John McConnaghy, R. W. Hesson, J. A. McBride, and their associates, for the construction of a railroad, all in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, and matters pertaining thereto. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right of way to locate, construct, maintain, Right of way and operate, either by steam, gas, or electric motive power, a narrow- or broad-gage railroad, with iron or steel rails, by such route as they may deem most feasible and advantageous, from for railroad in Elko County a point at or near Moleen, county of Elko, State of Nevada, to a point in or near the town of Bullion, county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby granted to John McConnaghy, R. W. Hesson, J. A. McBride, and their associates, for the term of fifty years; provided, that the construction of said railroad shall be com- Proviso menced within two years from the date of the passage of this act, and shall be completed within four years thereafter. named SEC. 2. The said John McConnaghy, R. W. Hesson, J. A. Parties McBride, their associates and assigns, shall have all the rights, privileges, and franchises conferred upon railroad companies Railroad act incorporated in this state by the provisions of "An act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto, approved March 22, 1865, and the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, so far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this act; provided, however, that the legislature Legislature of the State of Nevada reserves the right to regulate fares and and revoke freights, and to revoke this franchise for what may be deemed by them good reasons. may regulate CHAP. 219-An Act for the relief of Paul Gaston. [Approved March 24, 1915] WHEREAS, Paul Gaston, under contract with the state board Preamble of examiners made in the year 1914, rendered services as expert accountant in the examination of accounts of state officers, institutions, etc., for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1914, at and for the contract price of twelve hundred dollars; and WHEREAS, Owing to the impossibility of completing the said work in the year 1914 the fund out of which said claim might have been paid reverted, and there is no fund for the payment. of said claim; and WHEREAS, The said claim has been examined and approved for relief by the state board of examiners, and is a just and legal claim against the state: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby directed to draw Appropriahis warrant in the sum of twelve hundred dollars in favor of tion, $1,200 said Paul Gaston, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. Interstate and intrastate quarantine on animals when CHAP. 220-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act providing for interstate and intrastate quarantine with respect to domestic animals and other live stock, poultry, bees, and agricultural and horticultural crops, products, seeds, plants, trees, or shrubs, or any article infected with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, or infested with parasites, or insect pests, or the eggs or larva thereof, dangerous to any industry in the state, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 31, 1913. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. Whenever it shall appear to the state quarantine officer, by petition of any three citizens, or otherwise, that any industry in the state is endangered by importations from any other state of any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this and produce, act; or by exportations from any county, portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the state, to other parts of the state, of any such commodity, he shall at once take steps to ascertain the facts thereof, as hereinafter provided, and if in his opinion the facts so warrant, he shall by proclamation declare such state, or any portion of such state, in the first instance, quarantined from further importations into Nevada of any such commodity; or, any such county, or portion of such county, farm, nursery, or apiary, in the second instance, quarantined from exportations of any such commodity to other parts of the state; which quarantine shall remain effective unless vacated by order of the governor of the state within forty-eight (48) hours, or until said quarantine is raised by proper authority. Repeal with federal authorities Powers of state quaran SEC. 2. Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. Section 7 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 7. In so far as practicable, the governor, or state To cooperate quarantine officer, in directing the enforcement of quarantine, shall cooperate with the federal authorities. The state quarantine officer is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise all needful authority required for the proper and efficient enforcetine officer ment of quarantine; to make arrests of persons violating the same, or suspected of such violation, and to examine any premises or any shipment or consignment suspected of containing any interdicted commodity within the meaning of this act, and may open any container thereof and inspect the same. If such shipment or consignment prove to be an interdicted commodity as aforesaid, he shall have power to require any railroad, express company, or other common carrier immediately to reship such consignment back to point of origin, if the |