district assistance to applicants under this act, and shall appear in Duties of every such proceeding, and shall carefully investigate the attorney merits of every application, to the end that this act may be fairly administered and no person granted relief hereunder except those justly entitled thereto; and no officer of the court or county officer shall receive any fees for services rendered in No fees carrying out the provisions of this act. A certified copy of said order shall be filed with the county auditor of the county in which such child's mother is resident, and thereupon, and thereafter, and so long as such order remains in force and unmodified, it shall be the duty of the county auditor each month to draw on the general fund of the county in favor of the mother for the amount specified in such order, which warrant shall be by the auditor delivered to the mother upon her executing duplicate receipts therefor, one to be retained by the auditor, and the other to be filed by the clerk with the records in the proceeding relating to such child or children. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to pay such warrant out of the general funds of the county. SEC. 9. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 132—An Act to amend an act entitled "An act fixing the salary of the justice of the peace of Goldfield Township, Esmeralda County, State of Nevada, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved March 13, 1913. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and peace of SECTION 1. Section 1 of an act entitled "An act fixing the Salary salary of the justice of the peace of Goldfield Township, Esme- of justice of ralda County, State of Nevada, and repealing all acts and parts Goldfield of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 13, 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: month Section 1. From and after the approval of this act the justice $150 per of the peace of Goldfield Township, Esmeralda County, State of Nevada, shall receive in full compensation for all services and ex officio services, except that of registry agent, that may be rendered by him, the sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars per month. Personal property tax, when collected Proviso CHAP. 133-An Act to amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act allowing the payment of taxes in equal semiannual installments and regulating the collection of taxes on personal property," approved March 16, 1897. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act entitled "An act allowing the payment of taxes in equal semiannual installments and regulating the collection of taxes on personal property, approved March 16, 1897, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. It is hereby made a specific duty of all county assessors, at the time of assessing personal property, to collect the entire amount of tax on such personal property, unless the owner thereof shall be the owner of real estate, situate within his county, sufficient, in the judgment of the county assessor, to amply secure the payment of the entire tax on both such real estate and personal property should a lien attach thereto by reason of such taxes becoming delinquent; provided, should such assessment be made at any time between the first day of January and the date on which the tax is levied by the board of county commissioners for any year, such collection shall be made by the assessor on the regular tax levy for the preceding year, plus ten per cent. The county assessor shall immediately turn into the county treasurer the full amount of any such collection. The county treasurer shall place ten per cent thereof in a special fund and apportion the remainder as other taxes are apportioned. The ten per cent shall remain in the special fund, unapportioned, until such time as the board of county commissioners levy the tax for the then current year, at which time, if the levy is in excess of the rate applied to such personal property for the preceding year, the amount of the tax figured at such excess shall be deducted from the special fund, apportioned as other taxes, and the balance refunded to party in interest; provided, if the levy for the then current year shall be less than for the preceding year, no refund, other than the total amount of the special fund, shall be made to any party in interest. CHAP. 134-An Act to remove the county-seat of Douglas County from Genoa to Minden, and matters properly relating thereto. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January, A. D. Minden to be 1916, the county-seat of Douglas County, Nevada, shall be county-seat located and be at what is known as the town or townsite of of Douglas County Minden, Douglas County. donated SEC. 2. The county courthouse and other necessary and Land to be required buildings shall be located and situated on a tract of ground not less than three hundred by two hundred feet; provided, said site is transferred and conveyed to Douglas County, free of cost, on or before June 1, 1915. move SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the officers of said county, Officers to who are required to keep their offices at the county-seat, to remove the same to Minden to the courthouse and offices there furnished on the said January 1, 1916. for removal SEC. 4. The county commissioners shall provide for the Provisions removal of the archives, and all other movable property belonging to said county, and now located at Genoa, to Minden. Said commissioners shall have power to sell and convey any real or immovable property situate at Genoa and belonging to Douglas County, Nevada, and shall pay the proceeds of such sale into the county treasury of said county. to be SEC. 5. The county commissioners of Douglas County are Offices, etc., empowered and authorized, and it is made their duty to provide provided suitable buildings, offices, and rooms necessary for all county officers at Minden, and have them ready for occupancy on and after January 1, 1916. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed. CHAP. 135-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, and adding another section thereto, to be numbered 37512. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto, approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended by adding another section thereto, to be known as section 3751⁄2, which section reads as follows: beeves intact Section 3751⁄2. It shall be unlawful for any person to have Hides of in his possession any hide of any cow, bull, steer, calf, or must be heifer, from which hide the ears have been removed or the preserved brand cut out or removed, or the brand obliterated, defaced, or disfigured so that the same cannot be readily recognized, and any person having such hide in his possession shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for any term not less than one year nor more than five years. CHAP. 136-An Act relating to hotels, defining the same, providing regulations in connection therewith, providing for the sanitation of the rooms of such hotels, providing for the sanitary method and manner of conducting such hotels, providing for the enforcement of this act, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every building or structure, kept as, used as, Hotels, etc., maintained as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleepmust be kept ing or rooming accommodations are furnished to the transient sanitary public, whether with or without meals, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed to be a hotel, and whenever the word "hotel" shall occur in this act, it shall be deemed to include lodginghouse and rooming-house, where transient trade is solicited. must be kept clean SEC. 2. All bedding, bedclothes, or bed covering, including All bedding mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows, or comforters used in any hotel in this state must be kept clean and free from all filth or dirt; provided, that no bedding, bedclothes, or bed covering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows, or comforters, shall be used which is worn out or unsanitary for use by human beings according to the true intent and meaning of this act. Bedbugs, etc.. inhibited SEC. 3. Any room in any hotel in this state, which is or shall be infested with vermin or bedbugs or similar things, shall be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected, and renovated until such vermin or bedbugs or other similar things are entirely exterminated. SEC. 4. Every room in any hotel in this state used for sleepRooms must ing purposes, must be free from any and every kind of dirt or filth of whatsoever nature, and the walls, floors, ceiling, and doors of every such room shall be kept free from dirt. be free from dirt Ventilation Sheets of certain size Infected SEC. 5. Every room in any hotel, used for sleeping purposes, shall have devices, such as a window or transom, so constructed, as to allow for the proper and a sufficient amount of ventilation in each such room. SEC. 6. Every bed, for the accommodation of any person or persons or guests, kept or used in any hotel in this state, must be provided with a sufficient supply of clean bedding and must be provided with sheets at least ninety-eight (98) inches long and of sufficient width to completely cover the mattress and spring, and pillow slips as often as assigned to a different person. SEC. 7. Whenever any room in any hotel shall have been occupied by any person having a contagious or infectious disease, the said room shall be thoroughly fumigated under the direction of the health officer, his authorized deputy or deputies, or any agent provided for by this act, and all bedding therein thoroughly disinfected before said room shall be occupied by any other person; but, in any event, such room shall not be let to any person for at least forty-eight (48) hours after such fumigation or disinfection. must be SEC. 8. Every hotel, within this state, having a public wash- Towels stand or washbowl, where different persons gather to wash them- provided selves, must keep a sufficient supply of clean individual towels for the use of such persons within easy access of or to such persons and in plain sight and view. Nothing in this section shall be construed as excluding the use of crepe or paper towels, or the automatic roller towel. etc. SEC. 9. Every hotel in this state shall have proper facilities Disinfection for sewage disposal and shall be kept free from effluvia arising of sewers, from any sewer, drain, privy, cesspool, or other source within the control of the proprietor, owner, manager, agent, or other person in charge. Any water-closet, privy, or cesspool in connection with any hotel shall be disinfected as often as may be necessary to keep them at all times in a sanitary condition. SEC. 10. Every proprietor, owner, manager, lessee, or other Penalty person in charge of any hotel in this state who shall fail to comply with this act, whether through the acts of himself, his agent or employees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned for not more than three months, and every day that any hotel shall be kept in violation of any of the provisions of this act such keeping shall constitute a separate offense. drug com this act SEC. 11. The commissioner of food and drugs is hereby Food and charged with the enforcement of this act. He shall appoint missioner such agent or agents as he deems necessary to carry out the to enforce provisions of this act and shall make uniform rules and regulations pertaining thereto. He shall keep a record of hotels inspected, and said record or any part thereof may, in the discretion of the commissioner, be included in the annual report to the governor, which said commissioner is already authorized to make by law. any time SEC. 12. The commissioner of food and drugs, or his duly Inspection at authorized agent or agents, shall have access at any time to any hotel in this state for the purpose of making inspections and carrying out the provisions of this act. SEC. 13. This act shall be in full force and effect on and In effect after January 1, 1916. CHAP. 137-An Act to provide for submitting local and special legislation for approval by the qualified electors of any county of the State of Nevada in accordance with the referendum provisions of the constitution. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Whenever 10 per centum or more of the voters of any county of this state, as shown by the number of votes |