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Beaver protected until 1920

CHAP. 256-An Act to amend section 16 of an act entitled "An act providing for the protection and preservation of game, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved March 25, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 16 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association to catch, kill, destroy, trap, net, weir, or cage any beaver in this state on or before the first day of January, 1920.

CHAP. 257—An Act concerning Lincoln County officers, and fixing their salaries.

[Approved March 25, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. On and after the fifth day of January, 1917, Segregating the offices of sheriff and assessor of Lincoln County shall be segregated.

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Lincoln

County offices

Salaries

Commissioners

Sheriff

Assessor

Treasurer

Clerk

Recorder

District attorney

SEC. 2. On and after the fifth day of January, 1917, the offices of clerk and treasurer of Lincoln County shall be segregated.

SEC. 3. On and after the fifth day of January, 1917, the salaries of the following officers of Lincoln County shall be as follows:

The county commissioners shall each receive the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, and, in addition thereto, mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile necessarily traveled in attending regularly convened meetings of the board.

The sheriff shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

The assessor shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

The treasurer shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

The clerk shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

The recorder and ex officio auditor shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

The district attorney, who shall be ex officio public administrator, shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per

annum.

monthly

SEC. 4. The salaries of all the officers of Lincoln County, Paid and the mileage of the commissioners shall be allowed, audited, and paid monthly.

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SEC. 5. The sheriff of Lincoln County is hereby authorized Deputy and empowered to appoint a deputy or deputies, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, at a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars per month each, to be allowed and paid in the same manner and from the same funds as the salaries of other officers are paid.

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SEC. 6. The salaries herein before provided shall be payment Salaries full in full for all services and ex officio services performed by the tion; no respective officers mentioned, and the county commissioners any deputies will have no authority to allow bills for deputies or assistants except to any officer with the exception of the sheriff; provided, that sheriffs the sheriff, the assessor, and the district attorney may be allowed traveling expenses not in excess of five dollars per day, if away Traveling from the county-seat in the actual performance of their respective duties; provided further, however, that the assessor shall not be allowed to exceed $300 per year for traveling expenses for Limitation assessing the county.

expenses

Jan. 5, 1917

SEC. 7. This act shall be in full force and effect on and In effect after the fifth day of January, 1917, and all parts of acts in conflict herewith shall then be repealed.

CHAP. 258-An Act to make an appropriation for the reconstruction of the third floor of the main building of the Nevada hospital for mental diseases, and the rebuilding of the irrigation flume.

[Approved March 25, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

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hospital,

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) $20,000 for is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury ing third not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction floor of of the board of commissioners of the Nevada hospital for mental and flume diseases, to be used for the reconstruction of the third floor of the main building of said Nevada hospital for mental diseases, and the rebuilding of the irrigation flume belonging to said hospital.

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CHAP. 259-An Act to amend section eight of an act entitled "An act to facilitate the giving of bonds and undertakings in certain cases and prescribing conditions upon which surety companies may become liable thereon in this state; fixing penalties for the violation thereof, repealing conflicting acts, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 26, 1909.

[Approved March 25, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 8 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 8. No court or officer having authority so to do Surety bond shall approve any surety bond or undertaking given by any company surety company as surety thereon, unless the person offering has qualified the same or some one in his behalf, shall exhibit the certificate of the secretary of state showing that such company has duly qualified under this act to become such surety, which certificate shall have been issued during the current calendar year.

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Orphans' home to receive dependent and neglected children

same as

orphans

Such children full

wards of state

CHAP. 260-An Act to amend sections twelve, thirteen, sixteen, and seventeen of an act entitled "An act for the government and maintenance of the state orphans' home," approved March 1, 1873, as amended March 3, 1887, as amended March 9, 1903, as amended March 25, 1913.

[Approved March 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section twelve of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the board of directors, at their discretion, from receiving any child or children from its living resident parent, parents, guardian, or guardians, when committed to the state orphans' home as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that the state orphans' home is hereby organized as a home for dependent and neglected children in addition to the other purposes for which the institution is established; and the board of directors are authorized and required to receive such dependent and neglected children, or any other children, as may be committed to the care of said institution by any district court of the state. SEC. 2. Section thirteen of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 13. Children admitted to the state orphans' home under the provisions of section twelve of this act, as amended, are hereby declared and adjudged to be wards of the state as fully as whole orphans; provided, that no child shall be received

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by the board of directors unless committed by the district court of the county in which such child resides; provided further, that if the district judge is absent from the county, or from any cause is unable to act when an application is made for the commitment of any dependent, neglected, or any other child to said orphans' home, the county commissioners are hereby authorized Commisto commit such child to said orphans' home; but any such commit, commitment by any board of county commissioners is subject to review by the district court of the county from which such child was committed; provided further, that the expenses, trans- County to portation, and maintenance of such children, when committed and keep of to this institution by any district court or board of county certain chilcommissioners of the state, shall become a charge against the county from which such children are committed, such charge for maintenance to be a reasonable rate to be fixed from time to time by the board of directors of said orphans' home; provided, that the district attorney, in his discretion, may order the parent, parents, guardian or guardians to reimburse the said county for the amount of the maintenance of such child or children in said orphans' home as fixed by the board of directors thereof; and provided further, that no child who is Idiotic and idiotic or who has any contagious disease shall be committed children or received by the board of directors of said institution, but all excluded children must be subjected to a mental and physical examination under the direction of said board of directors.

SEC. 3. Section sixteen of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section 16. The board of directors, upon the receipt of said Directors to estimate, may, at their discretion, give notice by advertising supplies in one daily paper in Ormsby County for six days that sealed proposals will be received for furnishing to the state orphans' home all or any part of the quality and kind of stores, supplies, and fuel contained in the semiannual estimate then on file in the office of the secretary of the board of directors of said orphans' home.

SEC. 4. Section seventeen of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section 17. The board of directors are hereby directed to Bids opened meet at the office of the secretary, when bids have been called and for, and then and there open all the sealed proposals. The lowest sealed proposals in price shall be accepted and noted in the minutes of the secretary, and the secretary shall notify the person or persons of the acceptance of their proposal for furnishing the state orphans' home with stores, supplies, and fuel; provided, the board of directors shall have the right to reject Proviso any and all bids from persons not responsible.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its approval. In effect

added to act concerning town plats

CHAP. 261-An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an act entitled "An act authorizing owners of land to lay out and plat such lands into lots, streets, alleys, and public places, and providing for the approval and filing of maps or plats thereof," approved March 13, 1905.

[Approved March 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act authorizing owners of New section land to lay out and plat such lands into lots, streets, alleys, and public places, and providing for the approval and filing of maps or plats thereof, approved March 13, 1905 (sections 955 to 966, inclusive, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912), is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to follow section ten of said act, and to read as follows:

Certain

unoccupied

be vacated

Section 10a. Vacating Unoccupied Portion of Plat-Procedure. Where a portion of any plat has for five years remained portion may unoccupied, and the streets and alleys thereof are not necessary to the use and convenience of the residents of the occupied portions of such plats, and where such unoccupied portion is bounded on at least one side by a boundary of such plat, application in writing to vacate such unoccupied portion, setting forth such facts, may be made to the city council of the city wherein such land is situated and in all other cases to the board of county commissioners of the county wherein said land is contained, which petition shall be signed by all the owners of land in the portion of such plat proposed to be vacated. Copy of such petition shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation published in such town or city, and if none be published therein, then in some newspaper published nearest in the county, for at least once a week for four consecutive weeks which said publication shall be deemed due and sufficient notice to all parties in interest of nature and purpose of such petition. Upon the filing of such application and proof of publication, the city council or board of county commissioners, as the case may be, shall, at its next regular meeting proceed to hear, consider and dispose of the same as provided in section 10 of this act; provided, that any person claiming material injury by any order vacating any portion of a plat under the provisions of this section may at any time within six months after the date of such order commence an action in the district court to have such order set aside.

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