CHAP. 220-An Act making appropriation so as to put into immediate operation the provisions of that certain act entitled "An act relating to the compensation of injured workmen in the industries of this state, and the compensation to their dependents where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act," approved March

17,

1913.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

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

tion, $2,000, to

industrial

SECTION 1. For the purpose of putting into immediate Temporary operation the provisions of that certain act entitled "An act appropriarelating to the compensation of injured workmen in the indus- Nevada tries of this state and the compensation to their dependents insurance where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial commission insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 17, 1913, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated the sum of two thousand dollars, to be paid to the "Nevada Industrial Commission, created under section 8 of said act, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for said sum in favor of said commission, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same.

within six

SEC. 2. Within six months after the receipt of the sum of To be repaid money mentioned in section 1 of this act by the said "Nevada months Industrial Commission, said commission shall out of the funds received by it under section 21 of the above-entitled act repay the said sum of two thousand dollars to the state treasury.

nation of boundary

between Nye

and Esmeralda County

CHAP. 221-An Act to definitely determine the boundary line between Esmeralda County and Nye County, and to detach a portion of Esmeralda County from said county and attach the same to Nye County.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

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

SECTION 1. The boundary line between Nye County and For determi- Esmeralda County shall be determined by a joint survey as herein provided. The county of Nye shall appoint a competent surveyor, who shall act with a competent surveyor to be appointed by the county of Esmeralda; the two surveyors so appointed shall appoint a third competent surveyor. The appointing power herein provided shall be vested in the county commissioners of the two counties, where the counties are vested with the appointing power. The three surveyors appointed as herein provided shall constitute a board of surveyors, who shall jointly run and determine the actual boundary line between the said counties, according to the law of 1875 (Acts of 1875, page 102), beginning at the Nevada-California line and running thence northerly and northwesterly to the Hot Springs mentioned in said acts of 1875. The survey shall be in accordance with the practice of the United States surveyor-general's office in running township lines and establishing monuments thereon.

Three surveyors, how appointed

Survey to conform to

U. S. practice

Expenses shared equally

Certain sections must be

SEC. 2. The expense of the survey herein provided for shall be divided equally between the said Esmeralda and Nye Counties. Such survey shall be completed on or before January 1, 1914, and blue-prints of maps and a copy of the field-notes of such survey shall be filed with the county clerk of each county and with the state surveyor-general and with the U. S. surveyorgeneral for Nevada.

SEC. 3. The board of surveyors, as herein provided, are hereby further directed and required to include within the included in boundaries of Nye County all those certain sections specified Nye County in section 1 of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Tonopah, and to establish a city government therefor, and prescribing duties of county officers relative thereto" (Acts of 1903, page 163), and all of such sections of land so described and specified are hereby made a part of Nye County, and the board of surveyors shall include such parcels of land within the boundaries of Nye County in such a manner as a majority of the board of surveyors may deem wise.

Surveyed line to be true boundary

SEC. 4. The surveyed boundary line as determined according to the provisions of this act shall be the true boundary line between the counties of Nye and Esmeralda.

CHAP. 222-An Act in relation to courts of record, to prevent unnecessary delay in rendering judicial decisions, and repealing a certain act in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

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

judicial

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme To expedite court, and the county clerk of each county, on or before the decisions fifth day of each calendar month, to publish a list of all cases submitted to the court of which he is clerk, and which remain undecided for a period of more than ninety days, together with the date of original submission, and the dates of any orders of resubmission. Such publication shall be made in a news- Clerks to paper, publishing official advertising for the state or county. It shall not be necessary to publish the full title of each case, but the number of the case and so much of the title as is sufficient to identify the same shall be published.

publish cases

affidavit

cases in

SEC. 2. Each justice of the supreme court shall, before Justices of receiving any monthly salary, file with the clerk of the supreme supreme court and with the state controller an affidavit in which shall make be stated the number of cases submitted to the supreme court concerning and which remain undetermined; the number of cases assigned supreme to such justice to prepare an opinion for the court, and in court which no such opinion has been prepared; that no case has been assigned to him for preparation of an opinion for a period of more than ninety days in which he has not prepared an opinion for submission to his associate members of the court.

to publish

assigned

SEC. 3. The clerk of the supreme court shall include in his Clerk published statement of cases submitted, the number of cases number of assigned to each justice in which opinions have not been pre- cases pared as shown by the affidavits of the justices filed with him. each justice SEC. 4. Immediately upon a case being submitted to the Immediate supreme court it shall be assigned to one member of the court for the preparation of an opinion therein.

assignment

make

SEC. 5. Each district judge shall, before receiving any District monthly salary, file with the clerk of each county within his judge to district and with the state controller, an affidavit, in which affidavit shall be set forth the number of cases, motions or other matters submitted to him as such district judge in and for each county embraced within his district which remain undecided and that no such case, motion or matter remains undecided which has been submitted for a period of more than ninety days.

restricted

SEC. 6. A case, motion or other matter submitted to the Resubmissupreme court, or to a district judge for decision, shall not be sion of cases ordered resubmitted so as to affect the provisions of this act, except by stipulation or consent of counsel in the case, filed or entered of record.

SEC. 7. Nothing in the act shall affect the right of a court Not to affect to reopen a case for further evidence or reargument.

reopening

case

Repeal of

certain act

In effect
June 1, 1913

Amending Reno incorporation act

City clerk's

salary, $1.800 per annum

SEC. 8. An act entitled "An act to prevent unnecessary delay in rendering judicial decisions by the courts of this state," approved March 5, 1891, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 9. This act shall be in force on and after June 1, 1913.

CHAP. 223-An Act to amend the title of, and to amend section two, of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of Reno, and to establish a city government therefor,' approved March 16, 1903, approved March 13, 1905," approved March 28, 1907.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

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

SECTION 1. The title of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of Reno and to establish a city government therefor,' approved March 16, 1903, approved March 13, 1905, approved March 28, 1907, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"An act to amend section five of article four of an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of Reno, in Washoe County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a city government therefor,' and other matters relating thereto."

SEC. 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. Section five of article four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 5. The city clerk shall receive a salary in the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum from and after the passage of this act, which sum shall be paid in twelve monthly installments of one hundred and fifty dollars each.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 224 An Act to amend an act entitled "An act creating the office of inspector of mines, fixing his duties and powers; providing for the appointment of a deputy and fixing the compensation of both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines," approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

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

SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of the above-entitled act, the same being section 4219 of the Revised Laws of Nevada (1912), is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

of eight

allowed

certain con

Section 22. Use of gasoline underground is forbidden, except Gas engines as follows: Gas engines of not more than eight horsepower horsepower may be operated not more than one hundred feet below the sur- underface, providing said engine exhausts into a pipe which extends ground: to the surface; or to a depth of two hundred fifty feet below ditions the surface, providing the exhaust from said engine is attached to a pipe through which air is drawn by means of a suction fan, or otherwise, to the surface. All engines and their method of installation as provided in this section shall be subject to the approval of the inspector of mines of the State of Nevada.

CHAP. 225-An Act providing for the disposition of a portion of the patients' deposit fund of the Nevada hospital for mental diseases.

[Approved March 24, 1913]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

deposit fund,

amusements.

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the fund of patients' known as the patients' deposit fund of the Nevada hospital $1,500 approfor mental diseases the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dol- priated for lars. Said sum is to be expended by the superintendent of etc. said Nevada hospital for mental diseases, under the supervision of the board of commissioners for the care of the insane in providing for the amusement, instruction and recreation of the patients of said Nevada hospital for mental diseases and for the furnishing and adornment of said hospital. All disbursements from the fund hereby appropriated shall be on certificates of the said superintendent approved by the said board of examiners, and the state controller shall then draw his warrants therefor and the state treasurer pay the same.