uniform No Repeal of Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act or Certain SEC. 76B. Nothing in this act or in any repealing clause No repeal of thereof shall be construed to repeal or limit any of the prowarehouse visions of the act to make uniform the law of warehouse receipt act or receipts, or what is known as the bulk sales act, being seenamed acts tions 3908 to 3912, inclusive, of the Revised Laws of Nevada, or the law relating to the mortgage of personal property. certain other Inconsistent legislation repealed Time when the act takes effect Name of act Preamble Appropriation, $3,500 Duties of controller and treasurer Inconsistent Legislation Repealed. SEC. 77. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, except as provided in section 76b. Time When the Act Takes Effect. SEC. 78. This act shall take effect on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. Name of Act. SEC. 79. This act may be cited as the Uniform Sales Act. CHAP. 160-An Act to pay the deficiency in the appropriation made to the state agricultural society for the year 1914. [Approved March 18, 1915] WHEREAS, The state agricultural society incurred an indebtedness of thirty-five hundred dollars on conducting a state fair during the year 1914 over and above the appropriation made by the State of Nevada for that year: The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of thirty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the state, for the payment of the deficiency in the appropriation made to the state agricultural society for the year 1914. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the president of the board of directors of the state agricultural society for the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars specified in this act, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 161-An Act to amend "An act to regulate proceed ings in civil cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 18, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 285 of the above-entitled act, same being section 5227, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, is hereby amended to read as follows: fact must be 30 days Section 285. Upon a trial of a question of fact by the court, Question of its decision must be given within thirty days after the cause is decided by submitted for decision. The court may, however, at any time court within before a notice of appeal is served and filed, or before a motion for a new trial is ruled upon, if such motion is made, add to or modify the findings in any respect, so as to make the same conform to the issues presented by the pleadings, and to the evidence adduced at the trial. No such additions to, or modifications of, the findings shall be made unless a notice in writing specifying generally the additions or modifications desired shall have been served on the adverse party or his attorney of record. CHAP. 162—An Act to pay a deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the state fish commission, for the years nineteen thirteen and nineteen fourteen. [Approved March 18, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: relief of fish SECTION 1. The sum of forty-four hundred and sixteen $4.416.70 for dollars and seventy cents ($4,416.70) is hereby appropriated, commission out of any moneys in the general fund of the state, for the payment of this deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the state fish commission, for the years nineteen thirteen and nineteen fourteen, as follows: May, 1914, $436; June, $438.45; July, $626.02; August, $566; September, $495.64; October, $561.23; November, $515.90; December, $777.46. controller SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his Duties of warrant in favor of the state fish commission for the several and amounts specified in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 163-An Act to amend section 405 of an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 18, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 405 of said act is amended so as to read as follows: treasurer to stay unless sureties filed Section 405. If the appeal be from a judgment or order Appeal not directing the payment of money, or from an order dissolving or execution refusing to dissolve an attachment, it shall not stay the execution of the judgment or order unless a written undertaking be executed on the part of the appellant, by two or more sufficient sureties, stating their place of residence and occupation, to the effect that they are bound in double the amount named Appeal not to stay execution, when in the judgment or order, or double the sum of the value of the property attached, as the case may be; that if the judgment or order appealed from, or any part thereof, be affirmed, or such appeal be dismissed, the appellant shall pay the amount directed to be paid by the judgment or order, or the part of such amount as to which the judgment or order shall be affirmed, if affirmed only in part, and all damages and costs which shall be awarded against the appellant upon the appeal, and that if the appellant does not make such payment within thirty days after the filing of the remittitur from the supreme court, in the court in which the appeal is taken, judgment may be entered on motion of the respondent, in his favor against the sureties for such amount, together with the interest that may be due thereon and the damages and costs which may be awarded against the appellant upon the appeal. When the regarding judgment or order appealed from is made payable in a speciundertaking fied kind of money or currency, the undertaking required by this section shall be drawn and made payable in the same kind of money or currency specified in said judgment or order, and in case of any appeal from an order dissolving or refusing to dissolve an attachment, such undertaking shall be conditioned that if the order appealed from or any part thereof be affirmed, the appellant shall pay to the opposing party, on such appeal, all damages and costs caused by him by reason of said appeal and the stay of execution thereon. Regulations Preamble Appropria tion, $61.31 CHAP. 164-An Act for the relief of the Gray, Reid, Wright company. [Approved March 18, 1915] 31 WHEREAS, During the years 1911 and 1912 the Gray, Reid, Wright company of Reno, Nevada, did furnish to the Nevada state prison a quantity of supplies for which there is an unpaid. balance of sixty-one and 10% ($61.31) dollars due to said company, which amount was not paid because the apportionment for said institution for said years was exhausted, or the balance had reverted to the general fund: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the payment of the above-mentioned claim, the state controller is hereby authorized to issue his warrant to the Gray, Reid, Wright company of Reno, Nevada, for the sum of sixty-one and 10% ($61.31) dollars, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. 31 CHAP. 165-An Act regulating appropriations and to prevent state officials and the chiefs or heads of boards, bureaus, commissions, departments, or institutions of the State of Nevada from exceeding the appropriations made by the legislature for their support, or for the support and benefit of such boards, bureaus, commissions, departments, and institutions. [Approved March 18, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tions applied SECTION 1. The sums appropriated for the various branches Appropriaof expenditure in the public service of the state shall be applied specifically solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others. unanimous board of SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any state official, or any Deficien only chairman, chief, or head of any board, bureau, commission, by department, or institution of the State of Nevada to incur any vote of state outlay or expenditure in excess of the appropriation or appro- examiners priations made by the legislature for the support, use, and benefit of such official, board, bureau, commission, department, or institution, except in cases of extreme emergency, and then only by the unanimous vote of the state board of examiners. SEC. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall Penalty be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars. CHAP. 166-An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of the farmers' and homeseekers' bulletins hitherto issued by the bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 18, 1915] the WHEREAS, The displays of the resources of Nevada at the Bulletins for San Francisco and San Diego expositions are expected to expositions result in a large number of requests for literature relative to the agricultural resources and opportunities for homeseekers in Nevada; and WHEREAS, The several farmers' and homeseekers' bulletins of the Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, hitherto issued, are admirably adapted to answer such inquirers and secure such homeseekers; and WHEREAS, The available number on hand of such publica- SECTION 1. On and after April 1, 1915, the state engineer shall receive all mail addressed to the bureau of industry, Inquiries from answered agriculture and irrigation, immigration department, comprospective missioner of agriculture, or similar designations, and where settlers, how the same is a request for any bulletin hitherto issued by such bureau, or may be answered by the subject-matter of any such bulletin, he shall mail or cause to be mailed the same to such address. When any such inquiry can best be answered by any department of the University of Nevada or of the state government, he shall refer such correspondence to such department for reply. to print, when SEC. 2. The state printer, on the order of the state engineer State printer certifying that the copies for distribution of any such bulletin are exhausted or substantially exhausted, shall reprint such number of copies thereof as the state engineer with the approval of the state board of examiners may order, not exceeding ten thousand, and deliver the same to the state engineer. SEC. 3. All furniture, office equipment, and other property Immigration of the bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, after April fund created 1, 1915, shall be sold by the state board of capitol commissioners, and the proceeds of such sale shall be deposited in the state treasury in a fund to be known as the immigration fund, and none of such property shall be transferred temporarily or permanently to any other department of the state government except at its reasonable market value and in pursuance of chapter 187, Statutes of 1913, and in such instance the state engineer is authorized to receipt for the warrant provided for in section 2 of said chapter. All moneys in said immigration fund shall be subject to disbursement, exclusively, in payment for postage, envelopes, stationery, and wrappers, used in distributing the publications herein mentioned, and for the purchase of new cuts for illustrations, or colored covers when necessary, and all disbursements from immigration fund shall be on certificates of the state engineer, approved by the state board of examiners, and paid as other claims against the state are paid. How disbursed SEC. 4. Any person, company, corporation, or association engaged in colonizing lands in Nevada may apply for, and be literature; to entitled to receive, such number of copies of any such publica Half price for go to state printing office fund Repeal tion as desired, on payment to the state of one-half the actual cost of the publication thereof; and all moneys so paid shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the appropriation in support of the state printing office. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. |