assessments directors shall levy an assessment upon the lands in said dis- Levy of trict upon the basis, and in the proportion, of the list and apportionment of benefits approved by the court as hereinbefore provided, which assessment shall be sufficient to raise the annual interest on the outstanding bonds, and all payments due or to become due the ensuing year to the United States or any person or persons under any contract between the district and the United States, or said person or persons accompanying which bonds of the district have not been deposited with the United States or any person or persons, as herein provided. At the expiration of ten years after the issue of said bonds of any issue, the board must increase said assessment, as may be necessary from year to year, to raise a sum sufficient to pay the principal of the outstanding bonds as they mature. The secretary of the board must compute and enter in a separate column of the assessment book the respective sums, in dollars and cents, to be paid as an assessment on the property therein enumerated. When collected, the assessment shall be paid into the county treasury, and shall constitute a special fund, to be called "Bond Fund of Irrigation District. In case any assessment should be made for the pur- in case such assessments include amounts due or to become SEC. 12. Section 38 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: assessments Section 38. After such assessment is made up, the secretary Payment of of the board of directors shall forthwith certify the same to the county auditor of the county in which the district is located, and the county auditor shall enter the same in the tax rolls of the county; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to collect such taxes at the time and in the same manner and subject to the same penalties that other taxes are collected. Said taxes shall become due and delinquent at the same time and shall be collected by the same officers and in the same manner as state and county taxes. SEC. 13. Section 39 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: list Section 39. The county auditor, when making up the Delinquent assessment roll, shall place upon it the taxes of the district as certified to him. At the time of computing the tax in the county assessment roll, the county clerk shall compute the district tax of the district and districts in the county. The records of the county shall contain a complete record as certified to its officers, and the auditor, clerk, and county treasurer construction work shall do and perform all acts and acts necessary to the collertion of the said taxes in conformity with law governing such matters. SEC. 14. Section 42 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 42. After adopting a plan for said canal or canals, Contract for storage reservoirs, and works, the board of directors shall give notice, by publication thereof not less than thirty days in one newspaper published in each of the counties comprising the district, if a newspaper is published therein, and in such other newspaper as they may deem advisable, calling for bids for the construction of such work, or any portion thereof. If less than the whole work is advertised, then the portions so advertised must be particularly described in such notice. Said notice shall set forth that plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the board, and that the board will receive sealed proposals therefor, and that the contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, stating the time and place for opening such proposals, which, at the time and place appointed, shall be opened in public; and as soon as convenient thereafter, the board shall let said work, either in portions or as a whole, to the lowest responsible bidder, or they may reject any and all bids and readvertise for proposals. Contracts for the purchase of the material shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Any person or persons to whom a contract may be awarded shall enter into a bond, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the board, payable to said district for its use, for 25 per cent of the amount of the contract price, conditioned upon the faithful performance of said contract. The work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engi neer employed by the district, and approved by the board: provided, that no contract of any kind shall be let by said board of directors unless there is sufficient money in the district treasury at the time such contract is let, available for such payment, to fully pay for the work or material so contracted for; provided further, the provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of any contract between the district and the United States. Certain sections repealed recorded SEC. 15. Amend the above-entitled act by striking out sections 40 and 41 of said act. SEC. 16. Section 58 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 58. Upon a change of the boundaries of a district Order to be being made, a copy of the order of the board of directors ordering such change, certified by the president and secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the recorder's office of each county within which are situated any of the lands of the district, and thereupon the district shall be and remain an irriga tion district as fully and to every intent and purpose as if the lands which are included in the district by the change of the boundaries as aforesaid had been included therein at the original organization of the district; provided, that in case contract has been made between the district and the United States, as in section 13 provided, no change shall be made in the boundaries of the district, and the board of directors shall make no order changing the boundaries of the district until the secretary of the interior shall assent thereto in writing, and such assent be filed with the board of directors. SEC. 17. Section 61 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: lands to be surveyed Section 61. The board of directors to whom such petition is Excluded presented must cause the land described in such petition to be surveyed by a competent irrigation engineer, and if found to be too high to receive any benefit from irrigation works of said district, said board must make an order changing the boundaries of said district so as to exclude the land described in said petition; provided, that in case contract has been made between the district and the United States, as in section 13 provided, no change shall be made in the boundaries of the district, and the board of directors shall make no order changing the boundaries of the district until the secretary of the interior shall assent thereto in writing and such assent be filed with the board of directors. SEC. 18. Section 64 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: may be Section 64. Whenever the board of directors of any two or Districts more irrigation districts which are contiguous deem for the consolidated best interests of their respective districts that the same be consolidated into a single district, such board of directors may petition the board of county commissioners for an order for an election, to vote upon the question of such consolidation, which petition shall state in detail the terms upon which said consolidation is proposed to be made. Upon receiving such petitions, the said board of county commissioners shall request the state engineer to investigate the conditions of such districts, and all questions affecting such proposed consolidation, and he shall make a report of the result of such investigation to the board of county commissioners not more than ninety days after such request is received. At the time said report upon the matter is made, said board of county commissioners, if deemed advisable, shall make an order fixing the time for an election in the said district to vote upon the question of such Election to proposed consolidation, which time shall not be less than thirty, nor more than sixty days after the date of said report. Notice of said election shall be published as required for notice of the election in section 4 of this act; and the said board of directors shall make all necessary arrangements for such election in their respective districts as provided in this act for other elections. The ballots should be substantially as follows: "Consolidation-Yes, "Consolidation-No." The said Ballots board of directors shall canvass the returns of such election as provided in case of usual district elections, and shall immedi decide, when district ately thereafter transmit, by messenger or by registered mail, certified abstracts of the result of said election in their respective districts to the clerk of the board of county commissioners. Within ten days after such returns are received by the clerk the said board of county commissioners shall meet and canvass the same. If it appears that a majority of all the votes cast in each of said districts is "Consolidation-Yes, said board shall make an order and enter the same of record in its minutes establishing said consolidated district, giving its boundaries and designation, and in detail the terms under which the consolidation has been effected, and dividing said consolidated district into three divisions, and shall appoint some person Directors of qualified under this act to act as director of each of said diviconsolidated sions of said district until the next general election for the election of officers, when a board of directors shall be elected as provided in section 5; provided, however, that the organization. of such district shall not take effect until the first Tuesday of the January following said order of its establishment. If the date provided by law for the election of directors shall come between the date of said order of the board of county commissioners and said first Tuesday of January, then in making such order said board shall designate the board of directors of one of the consolidated districts as a board to take charge of said election, and a director shall in that case be elected for each division of said consolidated district, and in that case no appointment of directors shall be made by said board of county commissioners. If, however, upon such a canvass by said board of county commissioners it appears that a majority of votes cast in any district thus proposed to be consolidated is "Consolidation-No, then a record of that fact shall be entered in the same minutes of the said board of county commissioners, and all the proceedings had under this section shall be void; provided also, that in case contract has been made between either district and the United States, as in section 13 provided, no consolidation shall be made and no order of consolidation entered until the secretary of the interior shall assent thereto in writing, and such assent shall be filed with the board of county commissioners. Proviso regarding contracts with U. S. authorities District dissolved; method of procedure SEC. 19. The above-entitled act is further amended by adding a section numbered 692, to read as follows: Section 692. Upon the filing of the petition in the district court setting forth that said irrigation district should be forthwith dissolved, such petition to be signed by at least a majoriy of the land owners and who own at least two-thirds of the land in said district, the said court shall make its order setting said petition for hearing, giving at least ten and not more than twenty days notice thereof, by publication in a newspaper, if one is published in the county; provided further, that before the order can be entered dissolving the district, the directors. must show that the district, as such, does not owe any money nor that there are any outstanding bonds of said district or other evidence of indebtedness. Upon a proper showing being made the said district court shall enter its order dissolving absolutely such irrigation district; provided further, the said district may be divided or land excluded therefrom on a similar showing and petition signed by a majority of the electors owning at least two-thirds of all the land in the said district; provided further, that in case contract has been made between the district and the United States no division of said district or change in the boundaries of the district thereof, and no order dividing or changing the boundaries of the district or excluding Consent of land therefrom shall be made until the secretary of the interior of interior shall assent thereto in writing, and such assent be filed with the necessary, said court having jurisdiction thereof. SEC. 20. Said above-entitled act is amended by adding a section numbered 70, to read as follows: secretary when attend tax property for Section 70. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, or Treasurer to secretary-treasurer of the said district, to attend all sales of sales and bid property for delinquent taxes where assessments or taxes have in certain been levied by the district, and in case there are no bidders use of district for any parcel or parcels of property offered for sale and which parcel or parcels are affected by a tax or assessment of said district, to pay such tax and costs thereon, then such treasurers may bid for and bid in such parcel or parcels of property as others will not buy as aforesaid, in the name of and for said district; and such treasurer shall take the certificate of sale, or deeds for such property, as other private buyers and subject to the same redemption, fees, and other provisions of law relating thereto. Said property shall be held, treated, and disposed of in accordance with the laws relating to similar cases in which counties purchase property. CHAP. 279-An Act to amend section 11 of an act entitled "An act making the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service commission for the regulation and control of certain public utilities, prescribing the manner in which such public utilities shall be regulated and controlled, requiring such public utilities to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities, prohibiting unjust and unreasonable charges for services rendered by such public utilities, providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, authorizing such public service commission to appoint an expert engineer and to employ clerks and assistants, and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this act," approved March 23, 1911. [Approved March 29, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: |