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Interest

"County

High School
Fund"

County treasurer

secutively, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the first Monday of July and January of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Mineral County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than eighteen months.

SEC. 6. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund known as "County High School Fund, and to pay out said moneys only in the manner now provided by law for payment of the "County High School Fund" and for the purposes for which the same were received.

SEC. 7. The county treasurer of said Mineral County shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys responsible which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto.

SEC. 8. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment "Mineral of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, County High the board of county commissioners of the said Mineral County

School

Bond
Redemption

Fund"

Treasurer

to cancel

redeemed

is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect, during the year of 1915, a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Mineral County, sufficient to pay such bonds and interest thereon and to pay and retire two of such bonds on the first Monday of January, 1916, and to pay and retire the remaining bonds on the first Monday of July, 1916. 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 special fund to be known as the "Mineral County High School Bond Redemption Fund"

SEC. 9. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall bonds when cancel the same by writing across the face thereof "Paid, together with the date of such payment, 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.

Interest ceases, when

pledged

SEC. 10. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment, when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

SEC. 11. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged State's faith and this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

CHAP. 8-An Act to amend "An act creating the office of inspector of mines, fixing his duties and powers; providing for the appointment of a deputy, and fixing the compensation for both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines," approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved February 8, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. Section 4 of an act creating the office of inspector State of mines; fixing his duties and powers; providing for the appoint- mines inspector of ment of a deputy and fixing the compensation of both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines, approved March 24, 1909, being section 4201 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby amended to read as follows:

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Section 4. It shall be the duty of the inspector of mines at To post least once a year, to visit in person each mining county in the notices of State of Nevada and examine all such mines therein as, in his mendations judgment, may require the examination for the purpose of hours determining the condition of such mines as to safety, and said inspector of mines shall post or cause to be posted, in a prominent place upon the gallows-frame or other superstructure at the collar of the main workings of such mine, a copy of his recommendations within twenty-four hours from the date of such examination, and it shall be the duty of the inspector of Statistics of mines to collect information and statistics relative to mines and resources mining and the mineral resources of the state, and to collect, arrange, and classify mineral and geological specimens found in To establish this state and to forward the same to the state school of mines, signals and it shall be the duty of the inspector of mines to establish a uniform code of signals.

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code of

Preamble

CHAP. 9-An Act authorizing and empowering the regents of the University of Nevada to receive grants of money appropriated under that certain act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled "An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture"; and to organize and conduct agricultural extension work in connection with the college of agriculture of the University of Nevada, in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in said act of Congress.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has passed an act approved by the president May 8, 1914, entitled "An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture"; and

WHEREAS, It is provided in section 3 of the act aforesaid Money from that the grants of money authorized by this act shall be paid annually to "each state which shall by action of its legislature assent to the provisions of this act": now, therefore,

U. S. government

University authorized

to receive United States

money

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

SECTION 1. That the assent of the State of Nevada, by its legislature, be, and it is, hereby given to the provisions and requirements of said act, and that the regents of the University of Nevada be, and they are, hereby authorized and empowered to receive the grants of money appropriated under said act, and to organize and conduct agricultural extension work which shall be carried on in connection with the college of agriculture of the University of Nevada, in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in the act of Congress aforesaid.

CHAP. 10-An Act fixing and establishing the fees to be charged in certain cases by the county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial district court, in the State of Nevada, and providing for the disposition of such fees.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. The county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial district court of the State of Nevada shall charge and collect fees as follows:

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For all services performed by him in any action or proceeding Fees of (except a probate or guardianship proceeding) to and includ- county clerk ing the making up of the judgment roll, five dollars, to be Pine County collected in advance from the party commencing the action or proceeding; provided, that in cases where an injunction or an attachment or a receiver is asked for, an additional advance fee of two dollars and fifty cents shall be charged and collected. For filing cross-complaint, counter-claim, or a complaint in intervention, two dollars and fifty cents.

For entering judgment by confession, three dollars.

For services performed in an action appealed from a justice's court, four dollars.

For filing and indexing papers on transfer of a cause from the district court of another county, two dollars and fifty cents. For transmission of files and papers on the granting of change of venue to the district court of another county or to the United States court, exclusive of express charges or postage, two dollars and fifty cents.

For issuing a commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents. For filing notice and undertaking and all services, including indexing, on appeal to the supreme court, three dollars and fifty cents.

For all services after judgment roll is made up, pending appeal to the supreme court (not including the making of copies), two dollars and fifty cents, to be paid by the party moving for a new trial or to set aside judgment.

For services performed in proceedings to perpetuate testimony, one dollar.

For services performed in an adoption case, five dollars.

For certificates for dismissal of appeal, when prepared by the clerk, two dollars and fifty cents, and when prepared and furnished by the attorney, one dollar.

For filing remittitur from supreme court, one dollar, and for recording judgment entered thereon, ten cents per folio. For issuing execution or order of sale, one dollar, and for copying decree and return, ten cents per folio.

For filing any papers in any cause after judgment, not otherwise provided for, twenty-five cents.

For issuing transcript of judgment and certifying thereto, one dollar.

For taking and certifying depositions, for each folio, twenty cents, besides four dollars for each day's attendance.

For services in probate and guardianship proceedings, up to and including the final settlement of the case: (a) in which the value of the estate does not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, fifteen dollars; (b) in which the value of the estate exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars and does not exceed ten thousand dollars, twenty dollars; (c) in which the value of the estate exceeds ten thousand dollars, twenty-five dollars; the valuation herein mentioned to be ascertained from the inventory filed, and the fees above provided to be collected as fol

Fees of

county clerk of White

lows, to wit, the sum of fifteen dollars at the time of filing petition for letters testamentary or of administration or guarPine County dianship, and the balance, if any, at the time of filing such inventory.

For filing objections or cross-petitions to the appointment of an executor, administrator, or guardian, or objections to the settlement of accounts or any other proceedings in an estate or guardianship matter, five dollars, to be paid by the moving or objecting party.

For any copy of any record, proceeding, or paper on file in the office of the clerk relating to any civil action or proceeding theretofore tried or pending in said court, when such copy is made by him, per folio, fifteen cents, and when such copy is not made by him, per folio, ten cents, and for each certificate thereto, twenty-five cents.

For all services not herein enumerated, such fees as are now or may hereafter be fixed by law; provided, that no fee shall be allowed to or charged by the clerk for any services rendered in any criminal case.

SEC. 2.

The foregoing fees shall be collected in addition to Additional to the fees provided for and known as "special court fees” in sections 2030 and 2031 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

"special

court fees"

SEC. 3. The clerk shall on the first Monday of each and Clerk to pay every month pay to the county treasurer the amount of all fees charged by the said clerk during the next preceding month.

all fees to

treasurer

In effectproviso

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on May 1, 1915; provided, that in all proceedings begun, or for acts performed, previous to this act becoming a law, such fees and charges as were provided by law at the time such action or proceeding was begun or acts performed shall be charged and collected until the termination thereof.

Relief of
Wellington
Bowen

CHAP. 11-An Act for the relief of Wellington Bowen.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

WHEREAS, On the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, Wellington Bowen displayed marvelous heroism in the defense of the state prison and, at the imminent peril of his own life, defended the officers from the infuriated convicts, thereby preventing a general outbreak of the prisoners, received a wound upon the head from a slungshot in the hands of a prisoner, which disabled him for life; and

WHEREAS, Said Bowen from the effects of said wound, now, and for a long time past, has been unable to labor for his own support and is utterly helpless and indigent; and

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