Circus licenses Provide advertising fund Salaries, etc.. ordinances general city election, and in no event oftener than once every two years. Forty-ninth-To suppress or regulate and collect a license tax on circus or other public parades through the streets of the city. Fiftieth-In its discretion, to provide and set aside yearly a reasonable fund, which once so provided and set aside shall not be increased, but may be diminished, during the year, for purposes of publicity. SEC. 9. Section 1 of article XVI of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The fees, salaries or other compensation of officers or other persons shall be regulated by regularly regulated by enacted ordinances as to salaries and by resolution as to compensation for persons not regularly employed by the city. All claims for fees, salaries and all expenses necessarily incurred in carrying on the legitimate purposes and duties of the city government and all claims against the city, wherever the nature of such claims will permit, shall be filed with the city clerk and acted upon by the city council at the first regular meeting thereafter, and the city council shall consider and allow or reject the same in the order as presented and filed, and the record of their action shall be entered upon the journal. Upon allowance in whole or in part of any claim, by a majority of all the members elected to the city council, the city clerk shall certify all such claims or portions allowed as the case may be after the same is signed by the mayor to the city auditor, who shall, if such claim is approved by him, draw a warrant upon the treasurer for the amount so allowed and shall state in general terms the nature of the claim, and when so presented to the treasurer, the same shall be paid by him. Salaries of Repeal In effect CHAP. 39-An Act to enable the board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, to fix the salaries and authorize the appointment of certain deputies. [Approved February 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, is hereby authorized to fix the salaries of any and all deputies and assistants appointed by the county clerk, recorder and auditor, treasurer, sheriff and assessor of White Pine County, Nevada, and shall fix the number of any and all such deputies and assistants and the term of their employment. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on March 1, 1915. CHAP. 40-An Act to amend section 197 of an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing_certain acts relating thereto," approved March 11, 1911, and adding thereto a new section to be known as section 197a. [Approved February 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 197 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: bonds Section 197. Whenever any school district shall issue any Concerning bonds under the provisions of this act, or shall have any bonds School outstanding, it shall be the duty of the board of county com- generally missioners of the county in which such district may be situated to levy and assess a special tax on all the taxable property of the district, including the net proceeds of mines, in an amount sufficient to pay the interest accruing thereon promptly when and as the same becomes due according to the tenor and effect of said bonds, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as other taxes are collected, in cash only, keeping the same separate from other funds received by him, and shall cause said interest to be promptly paid at the place of payment specified in the bonds; and if there shall be any surplus after paying said interest and the expenses of collecting such special tax, the treasurer shall, without delay, pass the same to the credit of such school district, and such funds so passed to the credit of the district shall be subject to the disposal of the board of trustees; and in the calendar year following the year in which the bonds are issued, and annually thereafter, until the full payment of said bonds has been made, the board of county commissioners of the county in which said school district is situated shall levy and assess a special tax, and shall Special tax cause said special tax to be collected, on all the taxable property of the school district, including the net proceeds of mines, sufficient to raise annually a proportion of the principal amount of the said bonds equal to a sum produced by taking the whole amount of said bonds outstanding and dividing it by the number of years said bonds then have to run, which amount shall be levied, assessed, and collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as the tax for the payment of the interest coupons and when collected shall be known as the" -- --- School District Bond Sinking Fund" and shall be used only in the payment of such bonds. The sinking fund thus provided may be applied to the purchase and cancelation of the outstanding bonds of the district. At the maturity of such bonds (or prior to the maturity thereof as hereinafter in section 2 hereof provided) and at their place of payment, the county treasurer shall cause such bonds and accrued interest thereon to be paid, and duly cancel the same, and certify his action to the board of trustees of the school district; and the Interest paid out of general fund, when of school bonds said county treasurer shall, if the tax for interest on the bonds for the first year after their date of issue is not collected in time for use in paying the interest coupons maturing during that year, pay the interest accruing on said bonds in said year out of the general county fund and return, as soon as the funds are realized from the taxes for interest on said bonds, and from said interest fund, the amount so borrowed from said general county fund. SEC. 2. There shall be added to the said act a new section to be known as section 197a, which said section shall be as follows: १९ Section 197a. In the event that there shall be in the hands Redemption of the county treasurer in such school district bond sinking fund, a sufficient sum to redeem one or more of such bonds, and to pay the accrued interest thereon, although before the maturity of such bonds and interest, he shall, if requested by the board of trustees of such school district so to do, post a notice in a conspicuous place in the main entrance to his office or the main entrance to the building in which his office may be situated, which notice shall state that the said county treasurer has on hand in the School District Bond Sinking Fund" sufficient funds to redeem - bonds of said issue, and that there is in the said bond interest fund sufficient funds to pay the accrued interest on such number of bonds, and that he will on a certain day and hour (which shall not be sooner than thirty days from the date of posting such notice), at his office, receive proposals for the purchase of such number of bonds and paying the accrued interest thereon; upon the opening of said proposals the bid of the person offering the requisite number of bonds at the lowest rate shall be accepted by such treasurer; provided, that such offer to sell said bonds shall not involve a premium on the same of more than per cent; if the entire issue of such bonds are provided to mature serially at different times, the treasurer shall redeem such bond or bonds at the lowest regular premium which matures first. If the entire issue of such bonds is provided to mature at one time, among equal offers for the sale of said bonds at the same rate of premium, the treasurer shall redeem such bond or bonds presented bearing the lowest serial number. The said treasurer shall certify all his actions hereunder to the board of trustees of said school district as in section 197 of this act provided. CHAP. 41-An Act providing that any person, firm, association, or corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof employing special agents, detectives, or so-called spotters shall, before disciplining or discharging any employee upon a report by such special agent, detective, or so-called spotters, give notice and accord a hearing to such employee upon his request therefor, and providing that such accused employee shall have the opportunity to be confronted with the person making such report, and providing for the punishment for the violation thereof. [Approved February 27, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and "spotters" SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, Concerning association, or corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as "spotter" for the purpose of investigating, obtaining and reporting to the employer, his agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning his employees, to discipline or discharge any employee in his service, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by such special agent, detective, or spotter, which report involves a question of integrity, honesty, or a breach of rules of the employer, unless such employer, his agent, superintendent, or Employee manager shall give notice and accord a hearing to the employee has thus accused, when requested by the said employee, at which confronted hearing said accused employee shall have opportunity to be accuser confronted with the person making such report and shall have the right to furnish testimony in his defense. has right with his SEC. 2. Any person, corporation, firm, association, or Penalty-fine employer violating any provision of this act shall be liable. to the State of Nevada for a penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense; and such penalty shall be recovered and suit brought in the name of the State of Nevada in a court of proper jurisdiction by the attorney-general, or under his directions by the district attorney in any county having proper jurisdiction. CHAP. 42-An Act to establish a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved February 27, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Commission for SECTION 1. That within thirty days after the approval of this act, the governor shall appoint three suitable persons, and promotion they and their successors are hereby constituted a board of legislation of uniform commission commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. Said commissioners shall hold their office for a term of three years, and until their successors are appointed. Any vacancy in said board shall be filled by appointment by the governor. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of said board to examine Duty of said the subjects upon which uniformity of legislation in the various states of the union is desirable, but which are outside the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States; to confer upon these matters with the commissioners appointed by the other states for the same purpose; to consider and draft uniform laws to be submitted for approval and adoption by the several states, and to generally devise and recommend such other or further course of action as shall accomplish the purposes of this act. To keep record and report to legislature SEC. 3. That the said board of commissioners shall keep a record of all its transactions, and shall at each session of the legislature, and may at any other time, make a report of its doings and of its recommendations to the legislature. SEC. 4. That no member of said board shall receive any No compen compensation for his services. sation Counties may purchase or construct railroads Title vests in county Petition, action upon CHAP. 43--An Act to authorize the county commissioners of any of the counties of the State of Nevada to purchase or construct railway lines, and to issue bonds for that purpose. [Approved February 27, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The county commissioners of any of the counties of this state are hereby authorized, upon there being filed with them a petition signed by two-thirds of the taxpayers of the county, requesting them so to do, to purchase or construct a railway line, or lines, within the limits of the county, if in their judgment it would be to the interest of the county so to do, and to pay for the same out of the general fund of the county, or from a fund to be created for that purpose by the sale of bonds as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The title to any railway line or lines constructed or acquired by or under the authority of any board of county commissioners in this state, as provided in this act, shall be vested in said county, and under its control and management. SEC. 3. Upon the filing of the petition provided for in section 1, if the county commissioners shall adjudge it to be to the interest of the county to build or construct the railway line specified in such petition, and if in the opinion of the said county commissioners it is advisable that funds for that purpose should be acquired by the sale of bonds, the county |