for 50 years granted Franchises houses; also carrying on stockyards and buildings, renderies, tallow chandleries, tanneries, wool pulleries, bone, soap, and fertilizing factories, and processing of offal, and for carrying on any other factories or business incident or appurtenant to all or either of the foregoing kinds of business, a franchise shall be and is hereby granted to each of said persons, firms, associations, or corporations, and to the heirs, successors, or assigns of either of them, to continue maintaining, conducting, and carrying on all or either of the businesses aforesaid for the period of fifty years from and after the date of enactment hereof, upon the lands and premises upon which said business or businesses were established or are being maintained, conducted, and carried on at the date hereof, and upon any premises adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity thereof, the title to which shall have been lawfully acquired and which may or shall hereafter be or become useful or advantageous in the maintaining, conducting, or carrying on of all or either of the businesses in this act enumerated; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to limit any municipality in its control and regulation or power to levy licenses or taxes upon the business or businesses herein described. City may collect license Repeal District judge to commit certain patients mode of procedure SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 71-An Act to amend section 7 of an act entitled "An act concerning the insane of the state, creating a board of commissioners for the care of the indigent insane, and to provide for the care of the insane," approved March 25, 1913. [Approved March 6, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 7 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. It shall be the duty of the judge of the district court in each judicial district in this state, upon the application of any person under oath, setting forth that any person, by reason of insanity, is unsafe to be at large, because of his homito hospital; cidal, suicidal, or incendiary disposition, and even these must not be cases of delirium tremens or harmless imbecility or feeble-mindedness, either congenital or as the result of alcoholic excesses, drugs, or the natural failing of old age, to cause the said person to be brought before him at such time and place as he may direct. Said judge may direct the clerk of said court to issue subpenas for the attendance of witnesses at the examination of said person, and such witnesses shall be paid their actual expenses caused by their attendance aforesaid, the amount of said expenses to be determined by said judge, and paid as he shall order; and the said judge shall also cause to patients appear at the same time and place one or more licensed practicing physicians, who shall proceed to examine the person alleged to be insane; and if said physicians, after careful examination, shall certify upon oath that the charge is correct, and if the judge is satisfied that such person is, by reason of insanity, unsafe to be at large, and is incompetent to provide for his or her own proper care and support, and has no property applicable for such purpose, and no kindred in the degree of husband or wife, father or mother, children, brother, or sister living within this state of sufficient means or ability to provide properly for such care and support, he shall cause the said indigent Indigent insane person to be conveyed to the Nevada hospital for mental diseases of this state, at the expense of the state, and place the said person in charge of the proper person having charge of said Nevada hospital for mental diseases, together with a copy of the complaint, commitment, and physician's certificate, which shall be in such form as the board of commissioners may prescribe, and a full and complete transcript of the notes of the official court reporter made at the examination of said person before the committing magistrate. Said physician or Physicians' physicians shall be paid a reasonable sum for their services, reporters' the amount to be determined by said judge, and paid as he fees shall order, but not to exceed ten dollars for a half-day, nor twenty dollars for a whole day. Said official reporter shall be compensated as ordered by said judge, the fees to be the same as those prescribed in section 4913 of the Revised Laws of 1912. and CHAP. 72-An Act to repeal that certain act entitled "An act to provide a typewriter operator for the county clerk of White Pine County, Nevada, and fix the salary of said operator," approved February 1, 1909. [Approved March 8, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: act SECTION 1. That certain act entitled "An act to provide a Repealing typewriter operator for the county clerk of White Pine County, concerning Nevada, and fixing the salary of said operator, approved White Pine February 1, 1909, is hereby repealed. County SEC. 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after In effect its passage and approval. Employers must provide good water for miners CHAP. 73-An Act requiring that suitable drinking water and receptacles therefor be furnished in underground workings; and providing penalties for the violation thereof. [Approved March 8, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every corporation, company, owner, or operator of a mine or underground workings in this state employing more than five men, shall, during working hours, provide suitable receptacles containing fresh, clean water for drinking purposes at places convenient to where men are employed in said underground workings. Said receptacles shall be supplied with a substantial cover which may be securely fastened or locked to prevent dust or dirt from entering therein, and shall be so made that the water shall be drawn from a valve or faucet. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the state inspector of mines Inspector to to enforce the provisions of this act. enforce Penalty License for peddlers, etc. Exception SEC. 3. Any corporation, company, owner, or operator who fails, neglects, or refuses to obey the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. 74-An Act to amend section 123 of an act entitled “ An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891, and as amended and approved March 13, 1913. [Approved March 8, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That said section 123 of said act as amended is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 123. Every traveling merchant, hawker, or peddler, and every auctioneer, shall, before vending any goods, wares, or merchandise, or acting as auctioneer, in any county of this state, procure from the sheriff of such county a license authorizing such business in such county, and shall pay for such license the sum of fifty dollars per month, if no freight-car, vehicle, wagon, or animals be used in such business, but if a freight-car standing on a side-track, or a vehicle, wagon, or one or more animals be used in connection therewith, such license shall be seventy-five dollars per month; provided, however, that no license shall be required from the grower or growers of Nevada products for selling their fruits, vegetables, or other agricultural products, butter, eggs, honey, or poultry raised or produced in the State of Nevada. The county auditor shall issue to the sheriff of the several counties the license contemplated by this section, and they shall be issued by such sheriff to applicants therefor, upon the terms herein before stated; and any such merchant, peddler, or auctioneer who shall offer for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, or act as auctioneer, without having first obtained a license as hereinbefore provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on Penalty conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Repeal provisions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 75-An Act to provide for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely, Nevada; for the completion of the furnishing and equipment of said building; for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the completion of said building and the furnishing and equipment of same. [Approved March 9, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: school at SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of White Completion Pine County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed of high to prepare and issue bonds of said county for an amount not Ely to exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely and for the completion of the furnishing and equipment of said building. SEC. 2. The bonds authorized under the provisions of section Denomina1 of this act shall be issued in the sum of one thousand dollars tion of bonds each. They shall be numbered from one to twenty consecutively. They shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and by the County treasurer. SEC. 3. The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall Record kept keep a record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, showing the number and date of each bond, and to whom issued. of bonds SEC. 4. The board of county commissioners of White Pine Negotiation County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sale or sales, as they may deem for the best interest of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States; and provided further, that the said board shall sell the bonds to the highest and best bidder or bidders in the event that they elect not to sell the same at private sale or sales. Interest limited of bonds SEC. 5. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed five per cent per annum, and shall be payable semiannually on the first of January and the first of July of each year after the year 1915, at the office of the county treasurer of said White Pine County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than seventeen years, and provided that the interest on said bonds shall cease on the maturity thereof, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 6. On the first day of January of the year 1929, and Redemption annually thereafter, five of such bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed by the county treasurer of White Pine County. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of their issuance, the lowest bond to be the first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been Semiannual paid and redeemed. The interest coupons shall be paid semiannually. interest County Fund" Residue of funds, how SEC. 7. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall "White Pine be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said High School treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same Equipment in a fund hereby created and known as the "White Pine County High School Equipment Fund, and to pay out said moneys in the manner now provided by law for the payment of the "County High School Fund, and for the purposes provided for in this act. SEC. 8. The county board of education of White Pine County is hereby authorized and directed to use such money derived from the sale of such bonds, or such portion thereof as they may disposed of deem necessary, for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely, Nevada, and for the completion of the equipment and furnishing of said building, and any balance remaining in such fund after the completion of the building, equipment, and furnishing thereof shall be turned over and converted into the proper fund provided for the running and maintaining said high school in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of the law pertaining to the establishment, maintenance, and management of high schools in the various counties of this state. County board of education SEC. 9. Said county board of education shall determine as to the character of said improvements, materials to be used therefor, and plans therefor. The laws in force governing the character of letting of contracts by boards of county commissioners are hereby made applicable to, and the same shall govern, the action of the to determine improve ments, etc. |