How franchises may be granted by boards of missioners Duties of board CHAP. 59-An Act to amend section three of an act entitled "An act concerning the granting of franchises by boards of county commissioners, prescribing the terms under which said franchises shall be granted, and repealing certain acts pertaining thereto, and allowing corporations, associations, and persons having franchises obtained under other laws of this state to obtain the benefits of this act, and providing for other matters properly connected therewith," approved March 23, 1909; said section three being also section 2131 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. An applicant shall also file with such application, and as a part thereof, if such franchise, right, or privilege is to be exercised within any unincorporated town or city in such county, a petition, in writing, signed by a majority of the resicounty com- dent taxpayers of such unincorporated town or city. Said taxpayers must be residents and owners of real estate situated in said county, and paying taxes upon said real estate; provided, that if such street-railway, electric-light, heat, and power lines, gas and water mains, telegraph and telephone lines shall not pass through any unincorporated town, or city, no petition need be filed with the said application for the franchise. Upon the filing of the said application, the said board of county commissioners shall, at its next regular meeting, cause notice of said application to be given; such notice shall contain the name of the firm, association, corporation, person, or persons making the application; the nature in general terms of the franchise, right, or privilege applied for; the day when the hearing upon such application shall be had, which shall not be less than ten (10) days after the period of publication or notice herein provided for has been completed, or at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners, after the completion of said publication, or notice, as the case may be; notice that all persons who have any objection to the granting of said franchise, right, or privilege to file their objection, in writing, with the clerk of said board before the date of said hearing, or to appear at said meeting, and present their objections at said time. Said notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation, published in said county. The clerk shall also cause three copies of said notice to be posted in three public places nearest where said application shall take effect, and if more than one incorporated city or town shall be affected thereby, such notice shall be posted in three public places in each of said incorporated towns or cities; provided, however, Notice published Provisos notice to be that if no newspaper shall be published in said county, that notice shall be given by the posting of notices as herein provided. Proof of such notice shall be made by the clerk of the Proof of board before the hearing in said matter shall proceed, and such made proof shall become a part of the record in such proceedings; provided, however, that before such notice shall be given, the applicant must deposit with such clerk the cost of such publication, and notice, the amount thereof to be fixed by said board of county commissioners. CHAP. 60-An Act authorizing school trustees of school district No. 4, Churchill County, Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of improving the school grounds, buying additional school furniture, and completing and repairing the public school buildings of said district No. 4 in the city of Fallon, and owned by said district, and matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and school County SECTION 1. The board of school trustees of school district Bonds for No. 4, Churchill County, Nevada, is hereby authorized to pre- purposes in pare and issue bonds of said school district in the amount not Churchill to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), exclusive of interest, for the purpose of improving the school grounds, buying additional school furniture, and completing and repairing the school buildings of said district No. 4, in the city of Fallon, and now owned by said district. tion of bonds SEC. 2. The bonds authorized under the provisions of sec- Denomination 1 of this act shall be issued in the sum of five hundred dollars each; shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 6 per cent per annum; said bonds shall be numbered from one to ten, inclusive, and shall be signed by the president and clerk of said board of school trustees and countersigned by the treasurer of Churchill County. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the president and clerk of said board of trustees and the county treasurer. of bonds SEC. 3. The board of school trustees of said district No. 4 Negotiation are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed bids, or by private sale, as they may deem for the best interest of the school district; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that the bonds shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin. SEC. 4. All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of Churchill County, District No. 4 Nevada, and the said county treasurer is hereby required to "Fallon School Improvement Fund" Tax for redemption of bonds of same receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the "Fallon School District No. 4 Improvement Fund, and to pay out said money only on warrants signed by the president and clerk of the said board of school trustees. The county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto. SEC. 5. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of said bonds, as authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Churchill County is hereby authorized, at the time of making the annual levy of taxes for state and county purposes for the year 1916, and annually thereafter until the said bonds are redeemed, to levy sufficient taxes on all property, both real and personal, to redeem one of said bonds each year and the payment each year of the accumulated interest on all the bonds authorized by this act. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be paid into the county treasury and set apart as a fund which is hereby known as the "Fallon School District No. 4 Improvement Fund." SEC. 6. On the first Monday in January, 1917, and every Redemption year thereafter, one of said bonds, together with the interest thereon, and the accumulated interest on all unredeemed bonds shall be paid. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of issuance, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole number of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been paid and redeemed, and all coupons shall be paid annually. Interest ceases, when Treasurer to cancel redeemed bonds SEC. 7. Should the holder of said bonds, or of any of them, for any cause whatsoever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. SEC. 8. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall 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 for the amount so paid. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer of Churchill County. SEC. 9. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for by this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond fund Tax ceases, shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of Churchill County, be transferred to the county school fund of the said school district No. 4. when state SEC. 10. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed pledged omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full. CHAP. 61-An Act to amend section four and section five of an act entitled "An act to facilitate the giving of bonds and undertakings in certain cases, and prescribing conditions upon which surety companies may become liable thereon in this state; fixing penalties for the violation thereof, repealing conflicting acts, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 26, 1909. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to obtain from of state Section 4. Any surety company qualified by this act to Surety transact business in this state may, at any time, apply to the company secretary of state, and, upon the payment of a fee of five dollars certificate therefor, obtain a certificate which shall state the name of such secretary company, the state under which it is incorporated or exists, and that such company has fully qualified under the provisions hereof to assume risks and become surety on all bonds and undertakings mentioned in section 1 hereof, stating also the date such company qualified as aforesaid; provided, that such certificates shall expire on the first day of January of the year succeeding the date of issuance. SEC. 2. Section five of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to be Section 5. The certificate or any duplicate certificate issued Certificate by the secretary of state in accordance with the provisions of evidence this act shall be prima facie evidence in all the courts of this state of all matters herein stated; provided, such certificate shall not have expired. Any printed copy of a circular issued by the treasury department of the United States known as form No. 356, stating the amount of the capital and surplus of any such surety company, and not more than six months old as appears from the date of issuance thereof, shall be prima facie Provisos evidence of the amount of such capital and surplus and of the amount to which such company is entitled to be received as sole surety on any bond in this state, and shall, if accompanied with the certificate of the secretary of state herein mentioned, be a complete justification for any amount not exceeding ten per centum of such capital and surplus, whenever any such company shall be required to justify on any bond or undertaking; provided, that the party requiring such justification may produce competent evidence to show that such surety In effect 1916 Employer shall not prohibit employees from entering politics company is not worth such sum over and above all its just SEC. 3. ary, 1916. CHAP. 62--An Act to prohibit any employer from making any rule or regulation against any of his or her employees on account of engaging in politics or running for public office, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation doing business or employing labor in the State of Nevada to make any rule or regulation, prohibiting or preventing any employee from engaging in politics or becoming a candidate for any public office in this state. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating the proPenalty-fine visions of this act shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. The foregoing penalty shall be recovered in a suit brought for that purpose by the attorney-general in the name and for the benefit of the State of Nevada, but no such prosecution shall be commenced later than three months after the commission of the offense herein described. In all prosecutions hereunder the person, firm, or corporation violating this act shall be held responsible for the acts of his, her or its managers, officers, agents, and employees. Principal responsible SEC. 3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preDamages not vent the injured employee from recovering damages from his or her employer for injury suffered through violation of this act. prevented Relief of H. C. Jepson CHAP. 63-An Act to provide for the relief of H. C. Jepson, clerk and treasurer of Douglas County. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the game and fish preservation fund of Douglas County, to be paid to H. C. Jepson, |