Locomotive headlights must be 1,500-candle power Certain other light deemed equivalent CHAP. 128-An Act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to promote the public safety by requiring commoncarrier railroads to provide and equip all locomotives in road service with headlights of lighting capacity of 1,500candle power, and prescribing penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof," approved February 28, 1913, and to repeal section 2 of said act. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. Every company, corporational lessee, manager, or receiver, owning or operating a railroad in this state, is hereby required to equip, maintain, use, and display at night upon each and every locomotive being operated in road service in this state, an electric or other headlight of at least 1,500candle power, measured without the aid of a reflector; provided, that any electric headlight, which will pick up and distinguish an object the size of a man dressed in dark clothes upon a dark, clear night at a distance of 1,000 feet, shall be deemed the equivalent of a 1,500-candle power headlight measured without the aid of a reflector; provided further, that this act shall not apply to locomotive engines regularly used in switchExceptions ing cars or trains; and provided further, that this act shall not apply to railroads not maintaining regular night-train schedules nor to locomotives going to or returning from repair shops when ordered in for repairs. Repeal SEC. 2. Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby repealed. Inspectors of hides to be appointed, when CHAP. 129-An Act to provide for the appointment of inspectors of hides, defining their duties and mode of compensation, and repealing a certain act. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of any board of county commissioners of any county of this state, upon the application. in writing of three or more property owners in any township of any county of the state, to appoint in and for said township and for such length of time as may be deemed necessary, not exceeding two years, an inspector of hides, whose duty it shall be to examine, when requested so to do by any three taxpayers of said township, the hides of any or all cattle killed in said township, and to mark such hide inspected in such a to search manner as may be indicated by the said board of county commissioners, and shall, upon the request of said taxpayers aforesaid, have the right, and it shall be his duty, to go upon the premises of any resident of such township and make search for any hides concealed, or which such inspector or said taxpayers Inspectors may have reason to believe are concealed upon said premises, premises, and shall report in writing, to the district attorney of the county when in which he has been appointed, at such time as may be designated by the said board of county commissioners making the appointment, giving the number of hides inspected, the brands. or other marks upon such hides, the names of the persons in whose possession they were found, and whether the persons having them in possession had killed the cattle from which the hides were taken, or had obtained them from other persons, and the names of such persons. inspectors SEC. 2. The rate of compensation of such inspectors shall Pay of be fixed by the said board of county commissioners at the time the appointments are made, and shall be paid by the parties on whose petitions they are appointed, or by the taxpayers upon whose request they act, as provided in section one of this act. SEC. 3. An act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled Repeal 'An act to provide for the appointment of inspectors of hides, defining their duties and mode of compensation,' approved March 3, 1881, approved March 10, 1897, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 130-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled 'An act to regulate the settlement of estates of deceased persons,' approved March 23, 1897, and as amended and approved March 16, 1899, approved March 6, 1901," and as amended March 11, 1913. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 259 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: intestate, Section 259. When any person having title to any estate, not Estate of otherwise limited by marriage contract, shall die intestate as to how such estate, it shall descend and be distributed, subject to the distributed payment of his or her debts, in the following manner: First-If there be a surviving husband or wife, and only one child, or the lawful issue of one child, one-half to the surviving husband or wife, and one-half to such child or issue of such child. If there be a surviving husband or wife and more than one child living, or one child living and the lawful issue of one or more deceased children, one-third to the surviving husband Estate of intestate, how distributed or wife, and the remainder in equal shares to his or her children, and to the lawful issue of any deceased child by right of representation. If there be no child of the intestate living at his or her death, the remainder shall go to all of his or her lineal descendants, and if all of the said descendants are in the same degree of kindred to the intestate, they shall share equally, otherwise they shall take according to the right of representation. Second-If he or she shall leave no issue, the estate shall go, one-half to the surviving husband or wife, one-fourth to the intestate's father and one-fourth to the intestate's mother, if both are living; if not, one-half to either the father or mother then living. If he or she shall have no issue, nor father, nor mother, the whole community property of the intestate shall go to the surviving husband or wife, and one-half of the separate property of the intestate shall go the surviving husband or wife, and the other half thereof shall go in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, and to the children of any deceased brother. or sister by right of representation. If he or she shall leave no issue, or husband, or wife, the estate shall go, one-half to the intestate's father and one-half to the intestate's mother, if both are living, if not, the whole estate shall go to either the father or mother then living. If he or she shall leave no issue, father, mother, brother, or sister, or children of any issue, brother or sister, all of the property, both community and separate, of the intestate shall go to the surviving husband or wife. Third-If there be no issue, nor husband, nor wife, nor father, nor mother, then in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister by right of representation. Fourth-If the intestate shall leave no issue, nor husband, nor wife, nor father, nor mother, and no brother or sister living at his or her death, the estate shall go to the next of kin in equal degree, excepting that when there are two or more collateral kindred in equal degree, but claiming through different ancestors, those who claim through the nearest ancestors shall be preferred to those who claim through ancestors more remote; provided, however, if any person shall die leaving several children, or leaving one child and issue of one or more children, and any such surviving child shall die under age and not having been married, all of the estate that came to such deceased parent shall descend in equal shares to the other children of the same parent, and to the issue of any such other children who may have died, by right of representation. Fifth-If at the death of such child, who shall die under age and not having been married, all the other children of this said parent being also dead, and any of them shall have left issue, the estate that came to such child by inheritance from his or her said parent shall descend to all the issue of the other children of the same parent, and if all the said issue are in the intestate, same degree of kindred to said child they shall share the said Estate of estate equally; otherwise they shall take according to the right how of representation. Sixth-If there be no surviving husband, or wife, or kindred, except a child or children, the estate shall, if there be only one child, all go to that child; and if there be more than one child, the estate shall descend and be distributed to all the intestate's children, share and share alike. Seventh-If there be no surviving husband, or wife, or kindred, except a child or children and the lawful issue of a child or children, the estate shall descend and be distributed to such child or children and lawful issue of such child or children by right of representation, as follows: To such child or children each a child's part, and to the lawful issue of each deceased child, by right of representation, the same part and proportion that its parent would have received in case such parent had been living at the time of the intestate's death; that is, the lawful issue of any deceased child shall receive the part and proportion that its parent would have received had such parent been living at the time of the intestate's death. Eighth-If there be no surviving husband, or wife, or kindred, except the lawful issue of a child or children, all of the estate shall descend and be distributed to the lawful issue of such child or children by right of representation, and this rule shall apply to the lawful issue of all such children and to their lawful issue ad infinitum. Ninth-If the intestate shall leave no husband, nor wife, nor kindred, the estate shall escheat to the state for the support of the common schools. distributed CHAP. 131—An Act to provide for the partial support of mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children, and giving county commissioners of the State of Nevada jurisdiction in such matters, and prescribing penalties for those who fraudulently obtain the benefit thereof. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and receive SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners Indigent of each county in this state, and they are hereby empowered mothers to and authorized, to provide funds in an amount sufficient to county help meet the purposes and requirements of this law, for the support of women whose husbands are dead or are inmates of a penal institution or an insane asylum, or who are abandoned by their husbands, and such abandonment has continued for more than one year, or because of the total disability of their Allowance limited husbands, and who are unable to support their children, when such women are destitute or are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children and are mothers of children under the age of fifteen years, and such mothers and children reside in such counties in the state. SEC. 2. The allowance to each of such mothers shall not exceed the sum of fifteen dollars per month when she has but one child under the age of fifteen years, and if she has more than one child under the age of fifteen years, it shall not exceed the sum of fifteen dollars a month for the first child and five dollars a month for each of the other children under the age of fifteen years. SEC. 3. Such allowance shall be made and fixed by the Allowance, board of county commissioners for their respective counties upon the following conditions: conditions of When child reaches 15 years of age allowance ceases Fraud punished Order to be recorded Appeal to district court First-The child or children for whose benefit the allowance is made must be living with the mother of such child or children. Second-When by means of such allowance the mother will be able to maintain a home for her child or children. Third-The mother must, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners, be a proper person, morally, physically, and mentally, for the bringing up of her children. Fourth-No person shall receive the benefit of this act who shall not have been a resident of the county in which such application is made for at least one year next before the making of such application for such allowance. SEC. 4. Whenever any child shall reach the age of fifteen years, any allowance made to the mother of such child, for the benefit of such child, shall cease. The board of county commissioners may, in their discretion, at any time before such child reaches the age of fifteen years, discontinue or modify the allowance to any mother or for any child. SEC. 5. Any person procuring fraudulently any allowance for a person not entitled thereto shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor. SEC. 6. In each case where an allowance is made to any woman under the provisions of this act, an order to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the board of county commissioners making such allowance. Proceedings to obtain the benefits of this act shall be instituted by the applicant for allowance by filing an application before the board of county commissioners, same being properly verified under oath. SEC. 7. In each case where an allowance is made or refused to any mother under the provisions of this act by the board of county commissioners, an appeal may be taken to the district court from such decision, by the applicant or by any taxpaying citizen, and such appeal shall be subject to the rules of procedure as in the case of appeals from the justice court. SEC. 8. The district attorney shall render all necessary |