same has not yet been delivered to the consignee, and the failure or refusal of any railroad company, express company, or other common carrier promptly so to do shall render such company so offending liable to fine in any sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, and Penalty which may be collected by proceedings instituted by the state and prosecuted by the attorney-general in any court of competent jurisdiction, and any property of the defendant within the state may be levied on and sold in satisfaction of the judgment. SEC. 4. Sections 10, 11, and 13 of the above-entitled act Repeal are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section 15, to read as follows: and board of administer designate Section 15. The president and board of regents of the President University of Nevada are hereby designated the authority to university administer this act. They shall have power to designate the regents to state quarantine officer, who shall be in charge of the labora- act and tory of the university, known as the state veterinary controlled quarantine service. They shall appoint a properly qualified entomologist officer to advise with the state quarantine officer in all matters in which the scientific knowledge of an entomologist is essential. The appointment of the state quarantine officer shall be effective when approved by the governor. CHAP. 221—An Act to amend section 25 of an act entitled "An act in relation to the act of Congress known as the Carey act, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and governing the state commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation as heretofore or may be hereafter created and established by law in the control of the selection, management, and disposal of all lands granted the state under the provisions thereof," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and act in rela SECTION 1. For the purpose of controlling its effect upon Amending any act which has been or may be enacted by the present tion to Carey session of the legislature or any subsequent session, section 25 act lands of an act entitled "An act in relation to the act of Congress known as the Carey act, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and governing the state commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation as heretofore or may be hereafter created and established by law in the control of the selection, management, and disposal of all lands granted the state under the provisions thereof, approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 25. Department the bureau of of Carey act lands State register of Carey act, surveyorgeneral is There is hereby established as a department of industry, agriculture and irrigation, as is or may be created by law, the department of Carey act lands, and which shall be in charge of the state register of lands under the Carey act, subject to the general supervision and control of lands under the commission. Said state register may appoint a deputy and such clerical and other assistants as may be required in such department, at such compensation as the commission may fix. He shall be the custodian of all papers, documents, maps, and plats relating to such department, receive and receipt for all fees and payments required to be paid under the provisions of this act, or under any rule or regulation of the commission, and deposit the same with the state treasurer to the credit of the Carey act trust fund; conduct all correspondence relating to such department, perform such other duties as the commission may prescribe, and is hereby named as the authorized agent of the state to enter into and to execute, for and in behalf of the state, the agreement prescribed by the secretary of the interior binding the state in respect to the disposal of lands under the Carey act. For services performed under the provisions of this act said state land register shall receive no compensation. No additional compensa tion Modern penitentiary to be planned Plans for modern prison CHAP. 222-An Act authorizing and requiring the board of prison commissioners to cause the preparation of plans for a modern penitentiary, to approve said plans, and to provide for the cutting of the stone called for in the said plans, with an appropriation of moneys for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, and matters relating thereto. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state board of prison commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to proceed without delay to secure plans and general specifications for the walls and buildings of a modern penitentiary; said walls and buildings to be constructed, when practicable, of stone from the quarries of the present state penitentiary. SEC. 2. In pursuance of the provisions of section 1 of this act the said board may employ an architect or draughtsman who shall, under the direct supervision of the said board, prepare plans showing the general arrangements of a modern prison, and, in full detail, the plans and specifications of the stonework to be employed in its construction. Upon the completion of such plans and specifications in a manner satisfactory to it, the said board shall approve the same. employed to stone by SEC. 3. Upon the approval of the said plans the board shall Stonecutter cause the warden of the state penitentiary to employ one com- supervise petent stonecutter to supervise the cutting of the stone called cutting of for in the said plans, by convict labor, and the said stone shall convicts be marked and stored on the prison premises until such time as the legislature may provide for the erection of the said prison or any part thereof. wages, 10 SEC. 4. The said board of prison commissioners is hereby Convict authorized to pay such convicts employed as provided in this cents per day act the sum of ten cents per day per man for each day so employed. appropriated SEC. 5. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appro- $5,000 priated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the carrying out of the provisions of this act. CHAP. 223-An Act amending section two of an act entitled "An act in relation to the act of Congress known as the Carey act, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and governing the state commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation as heretofore or may be hereafter created and established by law in the control of the selection, management, and disposal of all lands granted the state under the provisions thereof," approved March 17, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: land of Section 2. The selection, management, and disposal of said Carey act land shall be vested in a commission consisting of the governor, commission, the state engineer, and the surveyor-general, and which, for composition the purposes of this act, shall be known as the commission of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and the surveyor-general is hereby designated as state register of lands under the Carey act. CHAP. 224 An Act to authorize and direct the board of county commissioners of Douglas County, Nevada, to erect and construct a county high school at Gardnerville in said county, to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for the payment thereof, and other matters properly relating thereto. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Douglas building at Board of High-school directed, and it is made their duty to erect a county highGardnerville school building or buildings in or near the town of Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada, on a site to be selected by the board of education of Douglas County; provided, said tract of land on which said high school is located shall consist of not less than five acres of land; and provided further, said tract is transferred and conveyed, without cost, to Douglas County on or before May 1, 1915. Said building shall be completed and furnished on or before January 1, 1916, at the expense of said county and at a total cost for said building and furnishings of not more than $25,000. The board of education of Douglas County shall adopt plans and specifications for said building or buildings and deliver the same to the board of county commissioners. Said commissioners shall advertise in a newspaper in said county for at least three weeks for bids for the construction of same, and the contract shall be awarded for the construction thereof before August 1, 1915; provided, that said commissioners may, if they deem it for the best interest of said county, erect and furnish said building or buildings without advertising for bids or letting any contract for the construction thereof, the commissioners to have the right to reject any and all bids. education to adopt plans; county com missioners to award contract; proviso $25,000 in bonds to be issued SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners of Douglas County, Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made their duty to prepare and issue bonds of said county after the first day of May, 1915, for the sum of $25,000, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the erection and complete furnishings of the said high-school building and the necessary buildings in said county as herein Agriculture provided. Agriculture shall be taught as one of the courses taught at said high school. shall be SEC. 3. Prior to June 1, 1915, the board of county comCounty commissioners of said county shall have said bonds prepared and issue bonds ready for issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the chairbefore June man of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, and missioners to 1. 1915 authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of such coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the chairman of said. board and the county treasurer. SEC. 4. The clerk of the board of county commissioners Record to be shall keep a record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, showing the number and date of such bond, and to whom issued. kept of bonds SEC. 5. The board of county commissioners of Douglas Negotiation County are hereby authorized and directed during the month of June, 1915, and continuing thereafter if necessary, to negotiate the sale of said bonds, and to sell the same by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sales, as they may deem for the best interests of the county; provided, that all bonds shall be made for gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin. tion of bonds SEC. 6. Said bonds shall be each in the sum of two hundred Denominaand fifty dollars. They shall be numbered from one to one hundred, consecutively; and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually in each year at the office of the county treasurer of said Douglas County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period Limit, 30 than thirty years. years High School SEC. 7. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment "County of the bonds authorized by this act and the interest thereon, Fund" the board of county commissioners of Douglas County are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, including proceeds of mines within the boundaries of said Douglas County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire five of said bonds annually after the first Monday in June, 1925. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereon shall be kept by the county treasurer, in a special fund to be known as the "County High School Fund" retired in SEC. 8. It shall be obligatory on said county and its proper Interest officers to fully pay the interest on said bonds annually, and to fully pay and retire five of said bonds in 1925, beginning with 5 bonds, the first number thereof, and so on consecutively, and annually 1925, etc. thereafter, until said bonds and the interest thereon are fully paid, canceled, and retired, to pay and retire five of said bonds in such manner. when SEC. 9. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in Tax to cease, this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners, be transferred to the general fund of said county. cancel paid SEC. 10. Whenever the county treasurer shall pay anything Treasurer to on the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall bonds cancel the same by writing across the face thereof "Paid, together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books with the amount so paid. SEC. 11. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, Interest for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said ceases, when county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. pledged SEC. 12. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of state that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by |