Sec. 4992. of well. Examination poration or association shall report to the Board of County Commissioners the completion or sinking of a well, at a greater depth than five hundred feet, and demand the bounty provided for in this Act, the said Board of County Commissioners shall authorize and instruct their chairman, or a member of their body, or some other suitable person, to proceed to said well, measure and report under oath its depth to said board; provided, that the expense of said measurement, including report and traveling fees, to and from said well, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars, which amount shall be paid by the party making demand for bounty. Expense of examination. Warrant for same. Proviso. Persons entitled to benefits of Act. measurement, the Board of 4992. SEC. 4. If, upon County Commissioners find said well to exceed in depth five hundred feet, they shall allow, audit and instruct the County Auditor to draw his warrant on the general fund of the county, in favor of such person, firm, company, corporation or association, for the sum of two dollars per foot, for each and every foot sunk, after the first five hundred feet; provided, said well or wells shall flow water to be used for mining, manufacture, agriculture or domestic purposes. 4993. SEC. 5. Every person, firm, company, corporation or association, that shall have, prior to the passage of this Act, commenced to sink an artesian well, or wells, and shall have reached the depth of three hundred feet or more, shall be entitled to receive the benefit of the provisions of this Act for each and every foot sunk thereafter; provided, after the completion of said well or wells, they shall flow water as provided in section four of this Act. Official An Act fixing the rates for official advertising. Approved March 1, 1881, 108. 4994. SECTION 1. For all advertising required or ordered by the State of Nevada the state shall pay for each square of ten lines, nonpariel measurement, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents ($2 50) for the first insertion, and one dollar ($1) for each subsequent insertion, an insertion being held to be one publication per week. Appropria tenance of veterans. An Act granting aid to veterans of the late Mexican and civil wars in indigent circumstances. Approved February 12, 1885, 23. 4995. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Sec. 5002 support and maintenance of veterans of the late Mexican and civil wars, in indigent circumstances, residing in the veterans' home, under the auspices of the veterans' home association, a corporation duly created and existing under the laws of the State of California, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum for each veteran duly admitted to and residing in such home; provided, that in no one year shall a sum exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars be paid by virtue of such appropriation. annually. 4996. SEC. 2. The aid herein granted shall commence Paid semithe first day of the month after each such veteran shall commence bona fide to reside in and be supported in such home, and shall be paid by the State of Nevada in semi-annual installments. 4997. SEC. 3. The State Board of Examiners are author- Board of ized in behalf of the state at any time to inquire, either in make person or by authorized agents, into the management of such inquiries. institution, and upon refusal, after due demand, to permit such inquiry, such institution shall not thereafter receive any aid under this Act. Examiners to 4998. SEC. 4. Every claim for aid under this Act shall Claims. be presented to and acted upon by the State Board of Examiners. 4999. SEC. 5. If such claims be audited and allowed in If allowed whole or in part by said board, it shall be the duty of the Con- shall be paid. troller to draw his warrant for the amount thereof in favor of the President and Treasurer of said association, and it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to pay the same on due sentation. pre aid. 5000. SEC. 6. No person for whose specific support there Persons not is paid such institution the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents entitled to or more per month, shall be entitled to any aid under this Act; but if such sum be less than twelve dollars and fifty cents per month, aid shall be granted for such sum only as is necessary to make the full amount of support, including the state aid, twelve dollars and fifty cents per month. 5001. SEC. 7. No money appropriated by this state, under Not to be this Act, shall be expended either in improvements or in the provements. erection of new buildings for such institution. tled to admission to veter 5002. SEC. 8. To entitle an applicant to admission to the Persons entiveterans' home of California and to receive the benefit of state aid authorized by this Act, the applicant shall make application aus' home. under oath for such admission, reciting the following facts, to-wit: Name in full, residence, occupation, age, place of birth, married or single, date and place of enlistment, rank, company, regiment or vessel, or branch of naval service, name of commanding officer, date, place and cause of discharge, years resident of this state, name, relation and full address of nearest relative or friend, whether drawing pension from United States or not, and amount. Such application to be accompanied by a surgeon's certificate, setting forth that the applicant is unable to obtain his subsistence by manual labor, giving the reasons why, and the time, place and manner in which such disability Sec. 5003. was incurred, and such other matters as may be necessary to make the examination satisfactory to the surgeon that the applicant is fully entitled to the aid authorized by this Act. The application, with surgeon's certificate annexed, to be made to a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, when such exists in the county, otherwise to a District Judge, to be carefully examined and then certified by the Post Commander or District Judge, to the Board of County Commissioners of the county wherein the applicant resides, which board, after being satisfied of their correctness, shall certify said papers to the State Board of Examiners at Carson City, Nevada, together with a copy of the order of said Board of County Commissioners on the Treasurer of the county for expenses of transporting and placing in the veterans' home of California the said applicant. No person shall be entitled to receive any 5003. SEC. 9. naval services aid under this Act unless he has been admitted to and is kept in qualifications said home by reason of military or naval services, nor unless he has been continuously a resident of the State of Nevada for one year next prior to his admission to said home; nor unless he would have been entitled to receive aid from the state or county by virtue of the laws and constitution of this state. Before allowing a claim in behalf of any inmate of said home, the State Board of Examiners shall require proof of such facts. Military or necessary D. E. Baily and John D. Hammond make An Act to provide for the compiling of the laws of the State of Nerada. Approved March 7, 1885, 82. 5004. SECTION 1. Upon the compilation, arranging and filing with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of this state by authorized to David E. Baily and John D. Hammond, on or before the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of a thoroughly compiled and annotated copy of the laws of the State of Nevada, as the same shall exist and be in force on the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, setting forth and containing all the laws of this state of general and public interest, together with the constitution of the State of Nevada, and the laws of Congress in regard to naturalization, and the various Acts of Congress relating to the grants of land by the United States to the State of Nevada, with brief annotations or references to all the decisions of the supreme court of this state, construing any and all laws of this state in force on the said thirty-first day of March aforesaid (said compilation shall have a full and complete table of contents), the said Clerk approval of of the Supreme Court shall at once lay the same before the Justices of the Supreme Court, or a majority thereof, for their examination and approval. The said Justices, or a majority of Subject to supreme court. them, as soon as practicable, shall examine said work and shall approve or disapprove the same, or shall order such changes made therein as they, or a majority of them, may deem advisable. When approved by them, or a majority of them, the Justices shall direct said Clerk to certify their approval of said work, and deliver such certificate to the said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond. draw warrant. 5005. SEC. 2. Upon the presentation of said certificate, Controller to the State Controller is hereby authorized, directed, and required to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, payable out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated, and deliver said warrant to said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond. The State Treasurer is hereby directed and required to pay said warrant upon presentation thereof out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated. 5006. SEC. 3. After making the certificate aforesaid, the compilation Clerk of the Supreme Court shall deliver said compilation to the to be printed. Secretary of State, who shall immediately deliver the same to the State Printer, who shall proceed forthwith to print the same. to be 5007. SEC. 4. The State Printer shall furnish suitable Proof sheets proof sheets to the said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond furnished. and the said Baily and Hammond shall carefully examine and correct the same. They shall also make full and comprehensive marginal notes and headings for each section, together with a full, complete, and accurate index to said compilation. Said index shall not be made from the marginal notes and headings alone, but shall be from the subject matter treated of in each section. In all respects it shall be full, comprehensive, and complete, and to the approval of the Justices of the Supreme Court, or a majority thereof. When such marginal notes and index are fully completed, the said Justices, or a majority thereof, shall examine and approve or disapprove the same, or shall order such changes made therein as they, or a majority of them, shall deem advisable. notes and index. 5008. SEC. 5. When the said Justices, or a majority of Marginal them, shall approve said index and marginal notes, they shall direct said Clerk to certify their approval of the same, and deliver such certificate to the said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond. Upon the presentation of said last named certificate to the State Controller he is hereby authorized, directed and required to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the further sum of five hundred ($500) dollars, payable out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise specially appropriated, and deliver said warrant to said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond. The State Treasurer is hereby directed and required to pay the said warrant upon presentation thereof. The sum of two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars is hereby appro- Appropriat priated to pay the warrants mentioned in this Act. The payments of said warrants to said David E. Baily and John D. Hammond shall be full payment and compensation to said Baily ing $2,500. Sec. 5009. State officers to allord aid and information. State Printer, duties of. Secretary of of. and Hammond for their services so to be rendered as aforesaid. 5010. SEC. 7. Upon receiving said compilation the State Printer shall at once, in as expeditious and economical a manner as practicable, proceed to print, in good style, and to the approval of said Justices, or a majority of them-using long primer type and good book paper-fifteen hundred copies of said compilation, and shall have seven hundred and fifty copies bound, in a good and workmanlike manner, in law sheep, in either one or two volumes, as the said Justices, or a majority of them, may direct, and deliver them to the Secretary of State. 5011. SEC. 8. The Secretary of State shall deliver one State, duties bound copy to each of the persons, libraries, and associations now entitled to receive the laws of the State of Nevada as published biennially, said copies to be delivered subject to the rules and restrictions now governing the distribution of the statutes He shall deliver ten copies to the State Librarian of this state. of the state for the use of the state, and the remainder of said bound volumes he shall sell as they may be called for at a price not less than ten dollars per volume, if bound in one volume, or at a price not less than twelve dollars per set, if bound in two volumes, and he shall pay all moneys received from such sales into the state treasury. The remaining unbound sheets shall be bound in lots of not less than one hundred copies, as they may be required. Price of Certificate by State. 5012. SEC. 9. Upon the delivery of said compilation Secretary of ready for printing to the Secretary of State, he shall duly certify the same under the great seal of the State of Nevada, and when printed and distributed, the said compilation, as printed, shall be legal evidence of the law therein contained in all the courts of this state, but shall not preclude reference to, or control, in case of any difference, the force or effect of any original Act as passed by the legislature of this state. |