commissioners shall, not later than eight weeks before any general or special election, determine the amount of such bonds to be issued and make and enter in their minutes a certificate of such determination, and make and enter an order submitting the question of the issuance of such bonds to the qualified electors of said county. If such order of submission shall be made and entered more than six months prior to the time for holding a general election, the board of county commissioners may order a special election for said purpose, which said special Referendum election shall be conducted in the manner provided by law for conducting elections, and the ballots at such election shall have printed thereon the words: "For the County Railway Bonds, and the words: "Against the County Railway Bonds" The votes cast for and against the issuance of said bonds at any election therefor shall be counted and returns thereof made and canvassed in the manner provided by law for counting, making returns, and canvassing the votes of a general election. election of county sioners; SEC. 4. If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition to Majority issue such bonds shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the vote; duties duty of the board of county commissioners, as soon thereafter commisas practicable, to issue the negotiable coupon bonds of the said bonds, etc. county in such form and denomination as the board may direct, said bonds to run for a period of from one to twenty years from the date of issue, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six (6) per cent per annum, both principal and interest payable at the office of the county treasurer of such county, interest payable semiannually, and said bonds to be sold for not less than par and provided that such bonds shall be issued for such periods of time that there shall always be bonds redeemable by any funds in excess of one thousand dollars available in the county railway bond fund by this act hereinafter created. And before any sale is made of said bonds notice of such proposed sale shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the county, if there be one published in the county, and if not, then by publication in the newspaper published nearest to the county-seat of said county, for at least ten (10) days before such bonds are disposed of, inviting sealed bids to be made for said bonds; and said bonds shall be sold only to the highest and best bidder therefor. bonds SEC. 5. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act Concerning shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and by the county treasurer. SEC. 6. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds so issued, the board of county commissioners of such county so issuing such bonds Railway bond fund is authorized and directed to levy and collect annually thereprovided for after a special tax upon all the property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of such county, until such bonds and the interest thereupon have been fully paid and discharged, sufficient to pay the interest upon said bonds, and to provide a fund for the payment of the principal of the same according to their tenor and effect. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a fund known as the "County Railway Bond Fund, and paid out therefrom only in the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds; provided, that when the principal and interest of the said bonds shall have been fully paid, and all of said bonds retired, any and all moneys remaining on hand in said fund shall be transferred to the general fund of said county. SEC. 7. Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay and Redemption redeem any bond issued under the provisions of this act, he cancelation shall forthwith cancel the same by writing across the face thereof the word "Paid, together with the date of such payment, and sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid. and of bonds Interest ceases, when In effect advertising counties SEC. 8. Should the holder of such bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present such bonds to the said county treasurer when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 44-An Act authorizing and empowering the boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state to exploit and promote the agricultural, mining, and other resources, progress, and advantages of their respective counties; providing ways and means for this purpose, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. [Approved March 1, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The boards of county commissioners of the sevConcerning eral counties of this state are hereby authorized and empowresources of ered to, in their discretion, annually include in their respective county budgets items to cover the expense of exploiting, promoting, and publishing to homeseekers and the public at large, by any means in their judgment calculated to accomplish this purpose, the agricultural, mining, and other resources, progress, and advantages of their respective counties. same SEC. 2. Such expenditures as may by the board of county Tax levy for commissioners of any county in this state be decided upon shall be met by including the same in the annual tax levy of and for that county; provided, that the tax levy for this pur- Provisos pose shall not in any one year exceed one cent on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the property in that county; provided further, that, pending the accumulation and setting aside of the fund for the purposes authorized by this act, said boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to pledge their respective counties for said purposes to an amount not exceeding the sum to be raised as in this section provided, and to be paid out of the fund raised and set aside therefor as herein authorized. SEC. 3. Section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend an Limited repeal of act entitled 'An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act certain acts to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of the state and to define their duties and powers," approved March 8, 1865,' approved February 19, 1867" approved March 27, 1911, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed in so far as the same apply to or interfere with the provisions of this act, but in no other particular. CHAP. 45-An Act to repeal that certain act entitled "An act giving the clerk of the supreme court authority to appoint a deputy in his office," approved March 15, 1911. [Approved March 1, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: deputy SECTION 1. That certain act entitled "An act giving the clerk Repealof the supreme court authority to appoint a deputy in his clerk of office, approved March 15, 1911, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 46-An Act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act requiring nonresident joint-stock companies, associations, and corporations, doing a building and loan business, to furnish security before doing business in this state, and prescribing a penalty for a failure to do so," approved March 20, 1911, being section 1361 of the Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 1, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. From and after the passage of this act no joint supreme court companies must deposit securities with state treasurer Investment stock company, association, or corporation, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of any other state, territory, or foreign country, for the purpose of engaging in a building and loan business, or dealing in investment certificates, except a banking business, shall be allowed to continue or do business, without having first deposited with the state treasurer the sum of ten thousand dollars in money, or United States bonds, or municipal bonds, of this state, or in first mortgages upon real estate located within this state, and in addition thereto, when the amount due upon investment certificates issued to residents of this state shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars, an additional deposit equal to ten per cent of such excess over one hundred thousand dollars so issued; such security so deposited to be approved by the state treasurer as a guaranty fund for the protection and indemnity of residents of the State of Nevada, with whom such companies, associations, or corporations shall do business. The funds or securities so deposited shall be subject to attachment, garnishment, levy, and sale upon execution, as in other cases under the laws of this state. officers may be elected CHAP. 47-An Act to amend section thirty-six of an act entitled "An act providing for the incorporation of cities, their classification, the establishment and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 27, 1907, as amended by act approved March 25, 1911, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. [Approved March 1, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 36 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 36. In addition to the mayor and city council, there Certain city may be elected in each city of the first or second class a city clerk, a city treasurer, a judge of the municipal court, a city attorney. All elective officers shall hold their respective offices for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. In cities of the third class, the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the city council, may appoint any or all of such officers as may be deemed expedient, and such appointive officers shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the mayor and city council. When appointed Repeal SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 48-An Act to amend sections 120 and 121 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 1, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: crimes and SECTION 1. Section 120 of an act entitled "An act concern- Amending ing crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating punishments thereto, approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended so as to act read as follows: malice" Section 120. Express malice is that deliberate intention "Express unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is defined manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart. SEC. 2. Section 121 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: murder degree Section 121. All murder which shall be perpetrated by Defining means of poison, or lying in wait, or torture, or which shall of first be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any degree arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, or which shall be committed by a convict in the state prison serving a sentence of life imprisonment, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree; and the jury before whom any person indicted Second for murder shall be tried shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, designate by their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree; but, if such person shall be convicted on confession in open court, the court shall proceed, by Penalty, examination of witnesses, to determine the degree of crime, determined and give sentence accordingly. Every person convicted of murder in the first degree shall suffer death or confinement in the state prison for life, at the discretion of the jury trying the same; or upon a plea of guilty the court shall determine the same; and every person convicted of murder of the second degree shall suffer imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than ten years, and which may be extended to life. how |