clerk and treasurer of Douglas County, for extra labor performed in the years of 1913 and 1914, in the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses and in keeping record thereof, his compensation consisting solely of fees. Douglas SEC. 2. The county auditor of said Douglas County is hereby $57.80 from directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said H. C. Jepson County for fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents, and the county treasurer treasury is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 64 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a state printing office, and to create the office of superintendent of state printing," approved March 11, 1879, by adding a section thereto, to be known as section 22. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tendent of state SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act to establish a state Superinprinting office and to create the office of superintendent of state printing, approved March 11, 1879, is hereby amended printing by adding a section to be known as section 22, to read as practical follows: Section 22. No person other than a practical printer shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of state printing. CHAP. 65-An Act providing for the nomination and election of United States senators, and repealing sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 9 of "An act relating to elections and removals from office," approved March 31, 1913. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and must be printer of U. S. senator SECTION 1. At the general election next preceding the expira- Election tion of the time for which any United States senator was elected or appointed to represent the State of Nevada in the United States senate, candidates for United States senator may be nominated and elected in the same manner as provided by law for the nomination and election of state officers. certificate secretary SEC. 2. Certificates of nomination of candidates for United Nomination States senator shall be filed with the secretary of state of Nevada, to be filed who shall certify the names of all candidates as shown therein with to the various county clerks as now required by law in case of of state candidates for state officers, and the several county clerks in preparing the ballots to be voted for at any such general election, shall place thereon the names of all such candidates under the Governor may appoint, when Repeal In effect Amending jury act Certain words "U. S. Senator-Vote for One" and there shall be a margin at the right-hand side of these names at least one-half inch wide, where the voter may indicate his choice of said candidates by making a cross or X. SEC. 3. In case of a vacancy in the office of United States senator caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor of Nevada may appoint some qualified person to fill said vacancy, who shall hold office until the next general election, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. SEC. 4. Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 9 of "An act relating to elections and removals from office, approved March 31, 1913, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 66-An Act to amend section 9 of an act entitled “An act concerning juries," approved March 5, 1873; approved March 5, 1875; approved March 5, 1877; approved March 7, 1881; approved March 12, 1895, the same being section 4932, Revised Laws, 1912. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 9 of an act entitled "An act concerning juries, approved March 5, 1873, approved March 5, 1875, approved March 5, 1877, approved March 7, 1881, approved March 12, 1895; the same being section 4932, Revised Laws, 1912, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 9. Upon satisfactory proof, made by affidavit or otherwise, the following-named persons, and no others, shall be exempt from service as grand or trial jurors: Any federal or state officer, judge, justice of the peace, county clerk, sheriff, constable, assessor, recorder, attorney at law, physician, nurse, married women or school teacher, dentist, minister of the gospel, telegraph and telephone operator, locomotive or stationary engineer, mail carrier, engaged in the actual carrying of the United States mail, on a regular mail route, and one-half of all members of each regularly enrolled fire company in the state, said half to be determined by the several fire companies respectively, and all officers of such fire companies, not exceeding ten for each company, and also in all cities and towns wherein there is a paid fire department, after such paid fire department shall have been organized and put in operation, all members of said. paid fire department, and all persons who are now or may hereafter become members of any exempt fireman's association, society, or organization within this state; but such exemption shall not extend to any member of such association, society, or organization, unless, prior to becoming a member of the same, such member shall have served as an active fireman, in some regularly organized fire department in this state, for the period of three years, and also, in all cities and towns in this state, wherein there are volunteer fire departments, after such volunteer departments shall have been organized and put in operation, all members thereof; and also all members thereof who may hereafter become members of any exempt fireman's association, society, or organization within this state; but such exemption shall not extend to any member of such association, society, or organization, unless, prior to becoming a member of the same, such member shall have served as an active fireman in some regularly organized volunteer fire department in this state for the period of five years; provided, that the entire exemption Provisos of such firemen, where there is a paid fire department, shall not exceed in one town or city, one hundred and fifty; and where there is a volunteer fire department, the entire exemption shall not exceed, in any one town or city, fifty; and further provided, that any person liable to grand or trial jury duty resid- Persons ing sixty or more miles distant from the county-seat of his 60 miles from county shall be exempted from service on either grand or trial county-seat juries for the period of one year upon making affidavit to the upon fact that he so resides, and filing the same with the clerk of the district court of the district in which his county is situated, and paying to such clerk the sum of twenty-five dollars. Upon the receipt of such affidavit and such sum, the clerk shall deliver to such person a certificate stating the fact of such receipts, and thereafter, for the period of one year from the date of such payment, the name of such person shall not be placed in the jury box, nor shall such person be selected as a grand or trial juror. It shall be the duty of said clerk, upon the receipt of said sum, to deliver the same to the county treasurer of his county, and the said treasurer shall immediately place the same to the credit of the general fund of said county. As amended, Stats. 1875, 137; 1877, 176; 1881, 155; 1895, 51. CHAP. 67-An Act to amend section eighty-two of "An act for the incorporation of cities, their classification, establishment, and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 27, 1907, as amended March 3, 1909, and as incorporated in the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, as section 848. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eighty-two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 82. Before ordering any public improvement or residing exempt affidavit be made by council of city improve ments Estimates to repairs as provided in the last preceding section, any part of the expense of which is to be defrayed by special assessment, the council shall cause estimates of the expenses thereof to be made, and also plats and diagrams, when practicable, of the work and the locality to be improved, and shall file such plats and diagrams with the city clerk for public examination; and they shall give notice thereof and of the proposed improvement, or work, of the location of the improvement and of the district to be assessed, by publication for at least two weeks in some newspaper published in said city, and by posting notices of the same in at least three public places in each ward, and also by and posted posting a notice in or near the postoffice in said city, and by posting notices in three public places near the site of said proposed work. Said notices shall state the time when the council will meet and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made by parties in interest with respect to the proposed improvements. Unless the owners of more than onehalf of the frontage to be assessed shall file written objections thereto, the improvement or work shall be ordered. Notices to be published, near proposed work Salary of justice of peace in Reno In effect January 1, 1917 CHAP. 68-An Act to amend "An act fixing the compensation of the justice of the peace and ex officio coroner and ex officio registry agent of Reno Township, Washoe County, Nevada," approved March 25, 1913. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The justice of the peace, ex officio coroner and ex officio registry agent of Reno Township, Washoe County, shall receive as full compensation for all services performed by him as such justice of the peace, registry agent, and coroner of said township the sum of two thousand four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum payable in equal monthly installments, and in addition thereto he shall receive all fees collected by him for marriage ceremonies by him performed, together with reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as coroner outside of Reno Township. SEC. 2. This act to take effect January first, 1917. CHAP. 69-An Act appropriating three hundred dollars for watering and care of the Grand Army cemetery at Carson City. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and cemetery SECTION 1. The sum of three hundred dollars is hereby Care of appropriated, out of any money in the general fund not other- G. A. R. wise appropriated, for the purpose of watering and caring for the Grand Army cemetery at Carson City, Nevada. year SEC. 2. Annually on the first Monday in September, nineteen $150 to be hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, the state paid each board of examiners shall audit and allow to the post quartermaster of the Grand Army at Carson City, Nevada, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, on the filing with said board of examiners, by said post quartermaster, the claim and sworn statement that the amount has been expended as provided in section 1 of this act. controller treasurer SEC. 3. The state controller is hereby authorized and required Duties of to draw his warrants in favor of said post quartermaster for the and sum named in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same. CHAP. 70-An Act granting franchises for conducting and carrying on abattoirs, packing-houses, packing-house agencies, stockyards, renderies, tallow chandleries, tanneries, wool pulleries, bone, soap, and fertilizing factories, and conducting other factories and business incident or appurtenant to the foregoing; and other matters in connection therewith. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and granted packing kindred SECTION 1. In all cities in which, at the general election in Franchises the year A. D. 1914, there were polled for candidates for for 50 years United States senator more than twenty-five hundred votes, certain and in which any person, firm, association, or corporation, or houses and the heirs, assigns, or successors in interest of either of them, businesses shall have heretofore invested not less than twenty thousand dollars, in real property, including improvements and equipment thereon, for the purpose of maintaining, conducting, and carrying on, and in which said city are now being maintained, conducted, and carried on, one or more or either of the following kind of business, to wit: Abattoirs; packing-houses; packing-house agencies; plants for the curing and smoking of meats and meat products, and for manufacturing into commercial form all by-products of said abattoirs and packing |