CHAP. 262-An Act fixing the salary of the county recorder of Elko County, Nevada, and providing for a deputy county recorder, and fixing said deputy's salary. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Elko County SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, the Salary of county recorder of Elko County, Nevada, and as ex officio aud-recorder of itor, shall receive the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars per annum; he shall pay into the county treasury each month all moneys collected by him as fees. The county recorder, and as ex officio auditor, may appoint one deputy, who shall receive a salary of $1,500 per annum, provided the county commissioners may allow or disallow additional deputies when they may deem the same necessary. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the pro- Repeal visions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 263-An Act fixing the compensation of the deputy county recorder of the county of Humboldt. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and deputy Humboldt SECTION 1. From and after the first day of April, 1915, the Salary of deputy county recorder of the county of Humboldt, shall receive county the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars annually, as full recorder of compensation for all official services rendered said county by said deputy county recorder. And said sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars shall be allowed and paid said deputy county recorder in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are now allowed and paid. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the pro- Repeal visions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 264-An Act for the relief of Nevada industrial commission. [Approved March 26, 1915] premiums on for 1913-1914 WHEREAS, An act known as the "Nevada Industrial Insur- To pay ance Act, approved March 15, 1913, providing for the crea- salaries of tion and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care state officers of workmen injured in the course of employment, and providing further as follows: "Article B. Section 1. Where the state, county, municipal corporation, school district, cities under special charter or commission form of government, is $2,475.94 for Nevada commission the employer, the limitations of two employees shall not apply, and as to such employees and employers thereof the rights and remedies, as by this act provided, to pay compensation for personal injury sustained by such employees arising out of, and in the course of the employment shall be exclusive, compulsory, and obligatory"; and WHEREAS, Payment was not made of premiums on salaries of employees of the various departments of the state government: therefore The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-four cents ($2,475.94) is hereby appropriated appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the industrial state for the payment of deficiencies in the appropriation for the years 1913 and 1914 as follows: Amounts due the Nevada industrial commission as premiums on salaries of state employees from July 1, 1913, to January 1, 1915: Governor's office, $19.80; secretary of state, $68.40; state treasurer, $19.80; state controller, $19.80; attorney-general, $19.80; surveyor-general, $41.40; department Carey act land, $0.53; justices supreme court, $32.40; clerk supreme court, $10.80; state bank examiner, $10.80; state board of health, $10.80; state mine inspector, $63; state engineer, $149.19; bureau of industry, $19.80; board of capitol commissioners, $58.72; state prison, $605.25; Nevada state police, $205.11; state orphans' home, $99.52; Nevada public service commission, $24.39; Nevada railroad commission, $73.75; superintendent of public instruction, $9; deputy superintendents of public instruction, $54; state printing office, $175.19; Nevada hospital for mental diseases, $489.95; Nevada tax commission, $65.23; Virginia City mining school, $10.80; Nevada fish commission, $38.81; Elko County dry farm, $41.04; state experiment farm, Clark County, $38.86; total, $2,475.94. Duties of controller and treasurer SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the Nevada industrial commission for the amount specified in this act, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 265-An Act to authorize any board of county commissioners to pass ordinances relating to certain animals running at large, making the violation thereof a misdemeanor, and fixing the punishment. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of any county in this state, when petitioned by 25 sioners may ordinance per cent of the taxpayers of any town or voting precinct, not Commismaintaining a separate and independent local government, to make pass an ordinance to prevent the running at large of any horse, preventing mule, ass, kine, hog, sheep, or goat in said town or precinct; running at and providing in said ordinance for the impounding of the animals in said animals as estrays and the payment of certain fees and unincorpo costs before the release of such animals. large of rated towns shall be SEC. 2. When said ordinance is properly drawn and signed Ordinance by the chairman of the board of county commissioners it shall published be published in some newspaper of general circulation published in said town or precinct, and if there be none, then in some newspaper published in the county for a period of at least ten days before going into effect. The cost of publication to be paid by the county out of the general fund of the county the same as other bills. SEC. 3. A violation of any such ordinance shall be a misde- Penalty meanor, and punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed. CHAP. 266-An Act to amend "An act to prevent the unlawful destruction of fish and game; to provide for the appointment of fish and game wardens of the several counties of this state, and to define their duties and compensation," approved March 12, 1901, being section 2052 of the Revised Laws, 1912. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and and game on petition SECTION 1. The several boards of county commissioners in County fish this state, at their first regular meeting in April, 1915, and warden may annually thereafter, upon the petition of twenty or more resi- be appointed dent taxpayers, may appoint a fish and game warden for their of 20 taxrespective counties, who shall reside in the county for which payers he is appointed. Each warden so appointed, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take his oath of office and give an undertaking to the State of Nevada, for the use of the respective counties thereof, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and in such sum as the county commissioners of the several counties may deem sufficient for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and the enforcement of the requirements of this act. Relief of Appropria tion, $739.81 State board CHAP. 267-An Act for the relief of the Remington Typewriter company, a corporation, doing business at San Francisco, California. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of $739.81 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Remington Typewriter company, a corporation, doing business and located in San Francisco, California, for supplying typewriters to the various state officers in the employ of the government of the State of Nevada. SEC. 2. Upon the passage of this bill, the controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasury of Nevada in the sum of $739.81 in favor of the said Remington Typewriter company, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay said warrant upon its presentation. CHAP. 268-An Act relating to cattle, horses, and hogs, and regulating such stock, creating a state board of stock commissioners, defining their duties, and matters properly relating thereto. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state board of stock commissioners is hereby of stock com- created. missioners created of said board Oath and bond SEC. 2. The state board of stock commissioners, hereinafter Composition called the board, shall consist of three (3) members, all of whom shall be experienced stockmen, no two of whom shall be from the same county, said members to be appointed by the governor, and to hold office for four years, and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Each of said commissioners, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office and enter into a bond with at least two sureties in the penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), payable to the State of Nevada, and conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, which bond shall be approved by the governor, and filed in the office of secretary of state. The members of the board shall each receive for their services three Salary, $300 hundred dollars ($300) per annum and actual transportation expenses while in discharge of their duties. Said salary and expenses shall be paid from the state treasury. Each member of said board shall be a qualified elector of the county from which he is chosen, and must reside during his term of office within the state. Said board must hold their meetings quarterly, and oftener if so requested by any member of the board. per year Quarterly meetings rules and board tine, etc. quarantine SEC. 3. The board shall elect one of its members president, Officers; and is empowered to make rules and regulations for governing regulations itself, and for the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and shall have control of all matters pertaining to the cattle, horse, and hog industry. It shall, in conjunction with the Duties of state veterinary control service department of the University of Nevada, adopt on behalf of the state rules and regulations of the United States bureau of animal industry, relating to the control and suppression of disease in said stock, and to coop- Cooperation erate with the officers of said bureau in the enforcement of to quaransuch rules and regulations. The board is authorized to give the inspectors of the bureau of animal industry full authority and power for the inspection, quarantine and condemnation of cattle, horses and hogs affected with any infectious or contagious disease, and for these purposes is granted all the authority of the present inspectors of the state, and is authorized and empowered to enter upon any ground or premises of this state for the purpose of enforcing the inspection, quarantine and condemnation laws of this state. The board is authorized to give the state quarantine officer, or his representatives or his State agents, duly approved by the board, full authority and power officer for the inspection, quarantine and condemnation of cattle, horses and hogs affected with any infectious or contagious disease, and is authorized and empowered to enter upon any ground or premises of this state for the purpose of enforcing the inspection, quarantine, and condemnation laws of this state. The board shall maintain an office at some point Office for within this state, to be determined by the board. The maintenance of such office shall be paid from the state treasury, in the same manner as the salaries and expenses of state officers. The board shall fix the rate of tax to be levied, as provided for in section four of this act, and shall send notice of the same to the county commissioners of the several counties of the state on or before the first day of August of each year. The board shall audit all bills of salaries and expenses incurred in the enforcement of this act that may be payable from the stock inspection fund, and, if found correct, shall certify the Stock inspecsame to the state controller, who shall draw a warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the parties entitled thereto. The board shall make an annual report in writing to the governor Annual on or before the thirtieth day of November in each year, giving a statement of the transactions of the board, and facts relating to the condition of the stock industry in this state. The board shall have power to order the state quarantine officer to have State quarinspected or quarantined any stock in the state, compel treat- to inspect ment at such times and as often as he deems necessary to stock on insure the suppression of disease, and the board shall divide board the state into such districts as may be necessary for the enforcement of this act. The state quarantine officer shall, upon direction of the board, quarantine and compel the cleaning and disinfection of any corrals or place where stock is board tion fund report antine officer order of |