be sold under the provisions of this Act; provided, that for the purposes of such sale, such baggage or property shall be considered as left at such hotel or lodging house at the date of the passage of this Act. An Act defining the rights of common carriers, as to disposition of unclaimed property. Approved February 25, 1875, 86. freight, etc. 4964. SECTION 1. When any goods, merchandise, or other storage of property has been received by any railroad or express company, unclaimed or other common carrier, commission, forwarding merchant, or warehouseman, for transportation or safe keeping, and are not delivered to the owner, consignee, or other authorized person, the carrier, commission, forwarding merchant, or warehouseman may hold or store the same with some responsible person until the freight and all just and reasonable charges on same are paid. 4965. SEC. 2. If a consignee does not accept and remove Responsibilfreight within twenty-four hours after notice has been served ity of carrier. on him by the carrier, the carrier is released from further liability, by placing the freight in a suitable warehouse on storage, or the carrier may hold the same upon his responsibility as a warehouseman. notice. 4966. SEC. 3. If the consignee's place of residence or Service of business be unknown, notice may be served on him through the postoffice, and the carrier may place the freight in a suitable warehouse on storage, and give notice thereof to the consignor. 4967. SEC. 4. If from any cause other than want of Perishable ordinary care and diligence on his part, a common carrier is unable to deliver perishable property transported by him, and collect his charges thereon, he may cause the property to be sold in open market to satisfy his lien of freightage. freight. freight. 4968. SEC. 5. SEC. 5. If no person calls for the freight or other Sale of propproperty received by such railroad, express company or other erty to pay common carrier, commission, forwarding merchant, or warehouseman, within sixty days from the receipt thereof, the carrier, forwarding, commission merchant, or warehouseman may sell such property, or so much thereof, at auction to the highest bidders, as will pay freight and other just and reasonable charges, first having given notice of the time and place of sale to the owner, consignee, or consignor, when known, and by advertisement in a daily paper ten days, or if a weekly paper, four weeks, published where such sale is to take place, or if there is no paper published at the place where such sale is to take place, by posting a notice of the sale conspicuously in at least three surplus propublic places; and if any surplus is left after paying freight, storage, cost of advertising, and other reasonable charges, the cecds, how disposed of. Sec. 4969. Unclaimed disposed of. same must be paid over to the owner of such property, at any 4969. SEC. 6. If the owner, or his agent, fails to demand proceeds, how such surplus within six months from the time of such sale, then it shall be paid over to the County Treasurer of the county in which the sale is made, to be held by him for a period of twelve months, subject to the order of the owner, after which time, if the same is not paid to the owner, or his authorized agent, or some person legally entitled to receive the same, it shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the county where such sale is made, who shall pay the same over to the State Treasurer for the benefit of the state school fund. Articles re one year. An Act for the protection of jewelers, watchmakers and watch repairers. Approved February 10, 1885, 20. 4970. SECTION 1. Watches, jewelry, or other articles, maining over after having been repaired and remaining over one year with any jeweler, watchmaker, or watch repairer in this state, shall be subject to sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, for charges due thereon for repairs and accrued interest. Notice to be posted. Disposal of Costs of sale 4971. SEC. 2. At least twenty days before offering any of the articles mentioned in this Act for sale, the holder or holders thereof shall post in front of his or their place of business the day and date of sale, and a particular description of the article to be sold, name of depositor, amount of charges thereon and accrued legal interest, which charges and interest shall become a lien on the article so posted for sale, which sale shall be by public auction to the highest bidder. 4972. SEC. 3. The excess, if any, after deducting charges for repairs and interest, shall be placed in the county treasury, subject to the laws governing escheats. 4973. SEC. 4. The cost of any sale of any such watch, watches, jewelry, or other article, shall in no event be more than ten per cent. on the whole amount realized from the sale of the same, and any watchmaker, watch repairer, or jeweler, who fails to pay the excess aforesaid into the county treasury, as provided in section three of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, and costs of suit, and on failure of defendant to pay such fine and costs he shall be imprisoned in the county jail, at the rate of one day for every two dollars of such fine and costs, until the whole thereof shall be fully satisfied. An Act to prevent the practice of medicine and surgery by unqualified persons. Approved January 28, 1875, 46. icine or 4974. SECTION 1. No person shall practice medicine or who may surgery in this state who has not received a medical education practice medand a diploma from some regularly chartered medical school; surgery. said school to have a bona fide existence at the time when said diploma was granted. record copy 4975. SEC. 2. Every physician or surgeon, when about To file and to take up his residence in this state, or who now resides here, of diploma. shall file for record with the County Recorder of the county in which he is about to practice his profession, or where he now practices it, a copy of his diploma, at the same time exhibiting the original, or a certificate from the Dean of the medical school of which he is a graduate, certifying to his graduation. 4976. SEC. 3. Every physician or surgeon, when filing a Affidavit to copy of his diploma or certificate of graduation, as required by be filed. section two of this Act, shall be identified as the person named in the papers about to be filed, either by the affidavit of two citizens of the county, or by his affidavit taken before a Notary Public or Commissioner of Deeds for this state, which affidavit shall be filed in the office of the County Recorder. Act, misdemeanor. 4977. SEC. 4. Any person practicing medicine or surgery Violation of in this state, without complying with sections one, two, and three of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by im- Penalty. prisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense; and any person filing, or attempting to file, as his own, the diploma or certificate of graduation of another, or a forged affidavit of identification, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be subject to such fine and imprisonment as is made and provided by the statutes of this state for said offense. arrest. 4978. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the police, Sheriff, Sheriff to or Constable, to arrest all persons practicing medicine or surgery in this state who have not complied with the provisions of this Act, and the officer making the arrest shall be entitled to one-half of the fine collected. 4979 SEC. 6. No portion of this Act shall apply to any Exceptions. person who, in an emergency, may prescribe or give advice in medicine or surgery in a township where no physician resides, or when no physician or surgeon resides within convenient distance; nor to those who have practiced medicine or surgery in this state for a period of ten years next preceding the passage of this Act, nor to persons prescribing in their own family. Sec. 4980. Take effect. 4980. SEC. 7. This Act shall go into force sixty (60) days after its final passage. Ex parte Spinney, 10 Nev. 323; State v. Ching Gang, 16 Nev. 62. Charcoal measurement Sealed mess ures to be kept. Surveyors, duties of. Fines. To take effect. An Act to regulate the measurement of charcoal. Approved February 26, 1879, 50. 4981. SECTION 1. The standard measure of a bushel of All persons, or corporations, purchasing 4983. SEC. 3. For the purpose of this Act, any County Surveyor is empowered to estimate the dimensions of any bin or measure, and he shall inscribe thereon, in plain letters, the number of standard bushels it will contain, together with his own name or signature; he shall receive for such services five dollars for each measure so inscribed; his fee to be paid by those required under the provisions of this Act, to maintain sealed measures. 4984. SEC. 4. Any person, or Superintendent, or manager of any corporation or company, violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars. 4985. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Exempt from An Act to encourage the collection of geological, paleontological, and mineral specimens in this state. Approved March 5, 1879, 64. 4986. SECTION 1. Any person who shall be the bona fide owner of a collection, or cabinet of metal-bearing ores, geological specimens, art curiosities, or paleontological remains, and who shall properly arrange, classify, number, and catalogue in a suitable book or books of reference, any such collection of ores, specimens, curiosities, or remains, whether the same shall be Sec. 4991. kept at a private residence or in a public hall, or in a place of public business or traffic, the said bona fide owner of such collection shall be entitled to hold the same exempt from execution, as other property is exempted from execution under the provisions of section two hundred and twenty-one of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice of this state, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto," approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 4987. SEC. 2. Nothing in section one of this Act shall be Not exempt. construed so as to exempt from execution any numismatic collection, such as gold and silver coins, paper currency, bank notes, legal tender currency, national or state bonds, or any negotiable note, or valuable copper, bronze, nickel, platinum, or other coin whatsoever. catalogues. 4988. SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the owner of Must keep any such collection or cabinet, as described in section one of this Act, to keep constantly at or near such collections or cabinet, for the free inspection of all visitors who may desire to examine the same, either written or printed catalogues, as provided in section one of this Act; and any person owning such collection or cabinet who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section of this Act, shall forfeit all right to hold such collections or cabinet as exempt from legal execution, as provided in section one of this Act. An Act to encourage the sinking of artesian wells. Approved March 6, 1879, 86. 4989. SECTION 1. Every person, firm, company, corpor- Artesian ation or association that shall from and after the Act, commence the sinking of artesian wells, within this state, passage of this wells. shall be entitled for sinking said artesian well, after the first five hundred feet shall have been sunk, the sum of two dollars per foot, to be paid in the manner provided for in section four of this Act. 4990. SEC. 2. Every person, firm, company, corporation statement to or association that proposes taking the benefit of this Act shall, be filed. prior to reaching the five hundred feet depth mentioned in section one, file with the County Recorder of the county in which said well is situated a sworn statement, setting forth (if on surveyed land) the range, township, section and subdivision of section, and if on unsurveyed lands, then the statement shall contain such description as will enable the Commissioner, hereinafter provided for, to ascertain its locality. 4991. SEC. 3. Whenever any person, firm, company, cor |