that the county commissioner elected at November election in the year 1912 for the term of four years, shall, until the expiration of his term of office receive the sum of seventy-five ($75) dollars per month. named to pensation county The above salaries shall be in full compensation for all All salaries services and ex officio services to be performed by the above- be full comnamed officers, both civil and criminal, and all precentages collected by the sheriff, as sheriff and ex officio assessor, shall be paid into the treasury of Esmeralda County, and no fees All fees to of any kind or character shall be allowed the above-named treasury officers, and they shall receive no other compensation but the salary herein named, and they shall make full, true, and correct reports of all fees collected by them monthly, to the board of county commissioners of Esmeralda County. The county commissioners of Esmeralda County are hereby authorized to allow the traveling expenses of all the above-named officers Traveling when traveling either in Esmeralda County or elsewhere in allowed performing the duties of their offices. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after April 1, 1915. expenses In effect SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Repeal provisions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 210-An Act to provide a law for the conservation of underground waters, providing for the casing and capping of artesian wells, defining the underground waters which are governed by the laws relating to the appropriation of the public waters of the state, providing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, and prescribing the duties of the district attorneys in relation thereto. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and ground SECTION 1. All underground waters, save and except per- Undercolating water, the course and boundaries of which are inca- water pable of determination, are hereby declared to be subject to subject ta appropriation under the laws of the state relating to the appro- tion priation and use of water. appropria wells to be encased SEC. 2. Every person sinking or boring an artesian well in Artesian the state shall cause to be placed in such well a proper and properly sufficient casing, so arranged as to prevent the caving in of such well, and to prevent the escape of water therefrom through any intervening sand or gravel stratum, and shall provide the necessary valves and appliances to prevent or control the flow of water from such well. allowed to SEC. 3. No person controlling an artesian well shall suffer Water not or permit the waters thereof to flow to waste, unless, and so far run to waste as reasonably necessary, to prevent the obstruction thereof, or to flow or to be taken therefrom, save for beneficial purposes. District attorney to act SEC. 4. Whenever it shall be called to the attention of the district attorney of any county of the state, by complaint or enforce this otherwise, that the proprietor of any artesian well, or any person controlling the same, has failed to install proper casing, valves, or appliances, or is permitting the waters thereof to run to waste, it shall be his duty to investigate such matters and, if it is found that any of the provisions of this act are being violated, to commence criminal action against such owner or proprietor. Right of entry for public officers Penalty "Person" defined In effect In certain divorce cases, wife entitled to of com munity though husband were dead Woman remarries, SEC. 5. Any officer of the county or state shall have the right to enter the premises of any such owner or proprietor, where any such well is situated, at any reasonable hour of the day, for the purpose of investigating any matters in connection with this act. SEC. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this. act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by law. SEC. 7. The word "person" as used herein, shall be interpreted to mean any firm, partnership, association, company, or corporation. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect upon its approval. passage and CHAP. 211-An Act to amend section 27 of an act entitled [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 27 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 27. When the marriage shall be dissolved by the husband being sentenced to imprisonment, and when a divorce shall be ordered for the cause of adultery committed by the same share husband, the wife shall be entitled to the same proportion of his lands and property as if he were dead; but in other cases property as the court may set apart such portion for her support, and the support of their children, as shall be deemed just and equitable. In the event of the remarriage of the wife, and there being issue of the former marriage, the court in which the divorce alimony may was granted may, on proper showing for cause, enter an order go to minor that the alimony previously awarded, or part thereof, be paid as ordered by the court for the benefit of the minor children. In any suit for divorce now pending, or which may hereafter be commenced, the court or judge may, in its discretion, upon application, of which due notice shall have been given to the husband or his attorney, at any time after the filing of the complaint, require the husband to pay such sums as may be necessary to enable the wife to carry on or defend such suit, children Alimony pendente lite and for her support and for the support of the children of the parties during the pendency of such suit; and the court or Procedure judge may direct the application of specific property of the husband to such object, and may also direct the payment to the wife for such purpose of any sum or sums that may be due and owing the husband from any quarter, and may enforce all Orders orders made in this behalf, as provided in section 24 of this act. CHAP. 212-An Act for the relief of Dr. E. T. Krebs. [Approved March 24, 1915] WHEREAS, John F. Byrne, an assemblyman from Esmeralda Preamble County, in the month of January, 1911, while in the service of the state and in the actual performance of his duties as such assemblyman, slipped upon the steps of the state capitol building and suffered a fracture of the right leg therefrom; and WHEREAS, Dr. E. T. Krebs rendered medical services and furnished medicines in and about the treatment of said fracture to the amount of ninety-two ($92) dollars; and WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of Nevada, at its twenty-fifth session, passed an act for the relief of said Dr. E. T. Krebs, on account of said medical services and medicines so furnished by him, in the amount of ninety-two ($92) dollars; and WHEREAS, The state controller of the State of Nevada refused to draw his warrant in payment of said claim because the same had not been passed on by the board of examiners of the State of Nevada before presentation to the legislature for relief; and WHEREAS, The said J. F. Byrne afterwards paid said Dr. E. T. Krebs the sum of thirty-two ($32) dollars, leaving a balance due of sixty ($60) dollars; and WHEREAS, The board of examiners has now passed upon said claim: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of sixty ($60) dollars is hereby Appropriaappropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund not other- tion, $60 wise appropriated, for the payment of said claim of Dr. E. T. Krebs, and to compensate him for medical services rendered as aforesaid. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his Dr. Krebs to warrant in favor of Dr. E. T. Krebs for the sum of sixty ($60) dollars, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. be paid Amending mineral land commissioner act Salary of commis per year CHAP. 213-An Act to amend section five of an act entitled "An act creating the office of mineral land commissioner, defining his duties, and fixing his compensation therefor, and constituting the attorney-general ex officio mineral land commissioner." [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 5 of an act entitled "An act creating the office of mineral land commissioner, defining his duties and fixing his compensation therefor, and constituting the attorney-general ex officio mineral land commissioner, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. The mineral land commissioner may appoint as many deputies as he may deem necessary for the carrying out sioner, $1,400 of the provisions of this act. All fees or charges of such deputies shall be paid out of the salary herein provided for the mineral land commissioner. The mineral land commissioner shall receive a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum. payable in equal monthly installments, the same as the salaries of other officers of the state are paid, and the state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of any money not otherwise then especially appropriated. The state mineral land commissioner shall make no charge nor shall he receive any other fees than the salary herein provided. Preamble Appropria tion, $192.50 CHAP. 214-An Act for the relief of the Raycraft Realty company. [Approved March 24, 1915] WHEREAS, The Raycraft Realty company, during the adminis tration of Ray Baker as warden of the state prison, supplied the said warden automobile services, supplies, and repairs amounting to the sum of one hundred ninety-two and fo dollars; and WHEREAS, Owing to the absence of said Baker from the State of Nevada, and from the United States, it is impossible to secure the approval of said Baker to said bill; and WHEREAS, The said claim is a just and legal claim against the State of Nevada, and should be paid: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Raycraft Realty company in the sum of one hundred ninety-two and dollars, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. 50 CHAP. 215-An Act authorizing the State of Nevada to transfer to the different funds of the University of Nevada certain bonds and moneys, and authorizing the board of regents of the University of Nevada to ascertain the amount of bonds and moneys so to be transferred. [Approved March 24, 1915] land grants university WHEREAS, The United States of America donated to the Moneys from State of Nevada certain public lands of the United States within to be transthe State of Nevada, known as the "90,000-Acre Grant, and ferred to "72-Section Grant, upon the condition that all moneys derived funds from the sale of said lands by the State of Nevada should be invested by said State of Nevada in stocks of the United States or of the states, or some other safe stocks, in such a manner that such funds so invested would yield not less than five per centum per annum upon the amount so invested, and that the principal thereof should forever remain unimpaired; and WHEREAS, The moneys so derived by the State of Nevada from the sale of said lands have not been so invested by said State of Nevada in stocks or bonds producing an income of five per centum, but have been invested in bonds producing an income of less than five per centum; and WHEREAS, Said State of Nevada accepted said grants of public lands so made to it by the United States, and agreed to the said condition imposed upon the State of Nevada by the terms of said grants; and WHEREAS, It is the desire of the State of Nevada that the contract so entered into between it and the United States be performed: The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. make records of "90.000 Section The board of regents of the University of Nevada Regents to is hereby directed, authorized, and empowered to examine and abstract of make an abstract of all records of the State of Nevada apper- recoing to taining or in any wise relating to the sale of public lands of the sale of lands United States donated to the State of Nevada under an act of Acre Grant" Congress approved July 2, 1862, and under an act of Congress and 72approved July 4, 1866, said lands being commonly known as Grant" the "90,000-Acre Grant, and the "72-Section Grant, and to ascertain and determine the amount of money received by the State of Nevada from the sale of said public lands, the disposition of the same by investment or otherwise, and the amount of interest or revenue received by the State of Nevada from the moneys so invested by it and to further ascertain and determine the difference, if any, between five per centum per annum on said principal sums so ascertained and the amount of interest received by the University of Nevada from the investments so made by the State of Nevada. SEC. 2. The state controller, state treasurer, surveyorgeneral, and all other officers of the State of Nevada, are |