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Repeal of act

concerning certain

mining corporations

In effect

Repealing certain sections concerning revenue

CHAP. 49-An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act requiring certain mining corporations to file statements with the county recorders and attorney-general, and to mail copies thereof to stockholders; regulating the issuance and sale of certain treasury and promotion stock, and defining the same for the purpose of this act; declaring certain acts to be unlawful; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 5, 1909, as amended March 27, 1911.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled "An act requiring certain mining corporations to file statements with the county recorders and attorneygeneral, and to mail copies thereof to stockholders; regulating the issuance and sale of certain treasury and promotion stock, and defining the same for the purpose of this act; declaring certain acts to be unlawful; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters relating thereto, approved March 5, 1909, as amended March 27, 1911, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

CHAP. 50-An Act to repeal certain sections of an act entitled "An act to provide for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Sections 143 and 144 of the above-mentioned act, being sections 3755 and 3756 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 51-An Act making it unlawful for certain persons to accept fees, commissions, or gratuities for the employment of labor, prescribing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be and is hereby made unlawful for any manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift

for any

demand or

as condition

to any

boss, or other employee of any person or corporation, charged Unlawful or intrusted with the employment of any workmen or laborers, employer to or with the continuance of workmen or laborers in employment, receive any to demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any emolument workman or laborer, employed through his agency, or worked to giving or continued in employment under his direction or control, any employment fee, commission, or gratuity of any kind or nature as the price workman or condition of the employment of any such workman or laborer, or as the price or condition of his continuance in such employment; and any such manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift boss, or other employee of any person or corporation, charged or intrusted with the employment of laborers or workmen for his principal, or under whose direction or control such workmen and laborers are engaged in work and labor for such principal, who shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, any fee, commission, or gratuity of any kind or nature, from any workman or laborer employed by him or through his agency, or worked under his direction and control, either as the price and condition of the employment of such workman or laborer, or as the price and condition of the continuance of such workman or laborer in such employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not Penalty exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying the charge.

section

SEC. 2. Section 518 of "An act concerning crimes and punish- Certain ments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto, approved repealed March 17, 1911, being section 6783 of the Revised Laws of 1912, is hereby repealed.

CHAP. 52-An Act authorizing the county commissioners of Lander County, Nevada, to appropriate money for the payment of rent and maintenance of offices for the use of justices of the peace.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Lander

receive rent

SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Lander Justice of County is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate and the peace in pay from the county treasury each month the sum of ten dol- County to lars, to be paid to each of the duly qualified and acting justices money of the peace, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, for the rent and maintenance of suitable quarters for the transaction of justice court business. In the event that the board of county commissioners shall, at any time, provide suitable quarters for the use of any duly qualified and acting

Certain

County officers to

receive fees for money

state tax

justice of the peace, such payment shall not be made to him, during the period of such provision.

CHAP. 53-An Act to amend section twenty-one of an act entitled "An act regulating the compensation of county officers in the several counties of this state, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 11, 1885, and making an appropriation for carrying out the purposes of this act.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 21 of the above-named act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 21. The State of Nevada shall allow the several counties of this state, for the services rendered under the revenue act by the auditor, assessor, and treasurer of each county, a sum which shall be the proportion of the state tax to the collected for whole tax levied by the county on the basis of salaries allowed said officers by any special or general act relating to the same. These allowances shall be made at the time of the semiannual settlement provided by law, upon vouchers furnished the county treasurer by the board of commissioners of each county; provided, that if any county has heretofore paid or may hereafter by mistake pay into the state treasury on any such semiannual settlement more money than it should have paid according to the terms of this section, or under any special act relating to one county only containing similar provisions, such county may present its claim for such overpayment, as a claim against the state, to the state board of examiners for examination and allowance, and the state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrants in favor of such county in refund of such overpayment in such amount as shall be allowed by such board of examiners; but if any such county shall feel aggrieved by any allowance made by said board of examiners on any such claim, an action may be prosecuted thereon for and on behalf of said county against the State of Nevada under and pursuant to the provisions of sections 5653-5655, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, which are hereby made applicable to any such action.

Appropria

tion, $5,000

SEC. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

CHAP. 54-An Act to provide for an oil painting of Abraham Lincoln for the state capitol building, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Nevada's statehood.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

WHEREAS, The State of Nevada, has completed its first halfcentury; and

WHEREAS, The admission of the Territory of Nevada into the Preamble union as a state was deemed of the greatest importance by President Lincoln in order to make certain the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment; and

WHEREAS, The admission of Nevada made possible the early ratification of such amendment and in this and in other ways the state effectively aided in establishing permanent peace and good-will between all the United States; and

WHEREAS, Both the Territory and the State of Nevada were established during the administration of President Lincoln, and the acts of the immortal martyred president, in advocating and Nevada's proclaiming statehood for Nevada, are part of the illustrious Fiftieth history of this commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, It is eminently appropriate that the people of Nevada observe the event of the conclusion of the first halfcentury of statehood by some suitable memorial, permanent in form and of historical value: therefore

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

statehood

anniversary

President

SECTION 1. The governor, the chief justice of the supreme court, the president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the president of the state historical society are hereby con- Portrait of stituted a special committee, to be known as the Lincoln portrait Lincoln to be committee, for the purpose of procuring an oil portrait of Abraham purchased Lincoln, and a frame for such portrait, which portrait when procured shall be hung in the assembly chamber of the state capitol building and shall thereafter be committed to the care and custody of the state board of capitol commissioners. It shall be in the discretion of the Lincoln portrait committee to purchase the portrait painted by the artist Charles M. Shean, or to procure a portrait by some other artist.

SEC. 2. The sum of thirteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry Appropriaout the purposes of this act.

tion, $1,300

Churches, etc., may

CHAP. 55-An Act to provide for the creation of corporations sole, and defining the powers thereof, and other matters relating to such corporations.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Corporations may be formed for acquiring, holding, or disposing of church or religious society property, become cor- for the benefit of religion, for works of charity, and for public worship, in the manner hereinafter provided in this chapter.

porations

Articles. how made

What

articles

SEC. 2. Any person being the archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, of any church or religious society or denomination, who may have been duly chosen, elected, or appointed, in conformity with the constitution, canons, rites, regulations, or discipline of said church or religious society, and in whom shall be vested the legal title to property held for the purposes, use, or benefit of such church or religious society, may make and subscribe written articles of incorporation, in duplicate, acknowledge the same before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment, and file one of such articles in the office of the secretary of state, and retain possession of the other.

SEC. 3. The articles of incorporation shall specify: 1. The name of the corporation, by which it shall be known; 2. The shall specify object of said corporation; 3. The estimated value of the property at the time of making the articles of incorporation; 4. The title of the person making such articles and the manner in which any vacancy occurring in the incumbency of such archbishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman is required by the rules, regulations, or discipline of such church, society, or denomination to be filled.

Church officer

may be sole

SEC. 4. Upon making and filing for record articles of incorporation as herein provided, the person subscribing the same, and his successor in office by the name or title specified in the corporation articles, shall thereafter be deemed, and is hereby created, a body politic and a corporation sole, with continual perpetual succession, and such corporation shall have power to acquire and possess, by donation, gift, bequest, devise, or purchase, and to hold and maintain property, real, personal, and mixed, and to grant, sell, convey, rent, or otherwise dispose of the same as may be necessary to carry on or promote the objects of the corporation; and shall have authority to borrow money and to give promissory notes or other written obligations therefor, and to secure the payment thereof by mortgage or other lien, upon real or personal property.

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