than $100 or more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of six months, or by both such fine and imprison- Penalties ment, and each day of operating any such pursuit without such license shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. CHAP. 235-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That section seven hundred and seventy-two (772) of said act be amended to read as follows: of justice courts Section 772. The courts held by justices of the peace are Jurisdiction denominated justices' courts. They shall have no terms, but shall always be open. Justices' courts shall be held in their respective townships, precincts or cities. Justices' courts shall have jurisdiction of the following actions and proceedings: 1. In actions arising on contract for the recovery of money only, if the sum claimed, exclusive of interest, does not exceed three hundred dollars. 2. In actions for damages for injury to the person, or for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, or for injury to real property where no issue is raised by the verified answer of the defendant involving the title to or possession of the same, if the damage claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars. 3. In actions for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, not exceed ing three hundred dollars, given by statute, or the ordinance of an incorporated or unincorporated city where no issue is raised by the answer involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine. 4. In actions upon bonds or undertakings conditioned for the payment of money, if the sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars, though the penalty may exceed that sum. 5. In actions upon bonds or undertakings conditioned for the payment of money, if the sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars. 6. In actions to recover the possession of personal property if the value of such property does not exceed three hundred dollars. 7. To take and enter judgment on the confession of a defendant, when the amount confessed, exclusive of interest, does not exceed three hundred dollars. 8. Of actions for the possession of lands and tenements where the relation of landlord and tenant exists. 9. Of actions when the possession of lands and tenements Jurisdiction has been unlawfully or fraudulently obtained or withheld, in of justice courts Summons served anywhere in state Who may serve summons Proviso Repeal which case the proceedings shall be as prescribed by the acts upon that subject. 10. Of suits for the collection of taxes, where the amount of the tax sued for does not exceed three hundred dollars. 11. Concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of actions for the enforcement of mechanics' liens, where the amount of the lien sought to be enforced, exclusive of interest, does not exceed three hundred dollars. The jurisdiction conferred by this section shall not extend to civil actions, in which the title of real property or mining claims, or questions affecting the boundaries of land, are involved; and if questions of title to real property be involved, cases involving such questions shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided in this act. SEC. 2. That section seven hundred and eighty-nine (789) of said act be amended to read as follows: Section 789. The summons may be served out of the county in which the action is brought. SEC. 3. That section seven hundred and ninety (790) of Isaid act be amended to read as follows: Section 790. The summons may be served by a sheriff or constable of any of the counties of this state, or by any other person of the age of twenty-one years or over, not a party to the action, and said summons must be served and returned, as provided in chapter 8 of this act, or it may be served by publication; and sections 84 to 88, both inclusive, of this act, so far as they relate to the publication of summons, are made applicable to justices' courts, the word "justice" being substituted for the word "judge"; the word "twenty" for the word "forty" and the word "four" for the word "six, wherever the same occur respectively; provided, that service of summons may be made upon the resident agent of any corporation doing business in this state, subject to the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 236-An Act to amend section seven of an act entitled "An act relative to elections and to more fully secure the secrecy of the ballot," approved March 13, 1891, said amended section being section 1839 of the Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seven of said above-entitled act is hereby Amending amended to read as follows: election law of nomina filed Section 7. Certificates of nomination required to be filed Certificates with the secretary of state and with the county clerk or clerks, tion, when as the case may be, as provided in section 5 of this act, shall be filed not less than ten days prior to the first Tuesday in September of the year in which such elections shall take place. Any candidate or party committee, filing a certificate of Fees for filing nomination as in this act provided, shall pay to the officer with whom such certificate is filed, the following fees: nomination congress a. For each candidate nominated for any state office or dis- State officer, trict office voted for in more than one county, or representative, man, or U. S. or United States senator in congress, one hundred dollars. senator b. For each candidate nominated for any district office District office voted for wholly in one county, fifty dollars. in one county c. For each candidate nominated for any county office, County office twenty-five dollars. d. For each candidate nominated for state senator, twenty- State senator five dollars. e. For each candidate nominated for assembly man, fifteen Assemblydollars. man f. For each candidate nominated for justice of the peace, Town or constable, or other town or township office, ten dollars. township officer No filing fee shall be required for filing the certificate of No fee, when nomination for any candidate for an office the holder of which receives no compensation. how filled Should a vacancy occur, from any cause, in the list of nom- Vacancies in inees for any office, such vacancy may be filled at any time nomination, before the day of election by the convention, or by a committee to which the convention has delegated the power to fill vacancies, or by petitions as provided for in section 4 of this act. The chairman or secretary of such convention, or of such committee, or such petitioners, shall make out and file a certificate. setting forth the name of the person nominated to fill such vacancy, the office for which he is nominated, and the name of the person for whom the new nominee is to be substituted, and such further information as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomination; and the same fee shall be paid on the filing of certificates to fill vacancies as is required to be paid on the filing of original certificates of nomination. Amending election law printed on tinted paper nish paper CHAP. 237-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act relating to elections and to more fully secure the secrecy of the ballot," approved March 13, 1891. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eleven of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 11. It shall be the duty of the county clerk, at least Ballots to be ten days before an election, to provide printed ballots for every election of public officers, in which any voters within the county participate, and to cause to be printed in the ballot prescribed herein, the name of each and every candidate whose name has been certified to or filed with him, as provided in this act. Ballots other than those printed, as provided in this act, shall not be cast or counted in any election. All ballots shall be Secretary of printed on tinted paper, furnished by the secretary of state. state to fur- It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to obtain and keep on hand a sufficient supply of such paper for ballots, and at least fifteen days before an election to furnish the same in quantities ordered by any county clerk, and all county clerks are hereby required to notify the said secretary of state at least twenty-five days before an election of the amount of such paper they, and each of them, will require. Said paper will be watermarked with a design furnished by the secretary of state, in such manner that said water-mark will be plainly discernible on the outside of such ballot when properly folded. Said design shall be changed for each general election, and the same design shall not be used again at any general election within the space of eight years, but at any special or separate or local election, paper marked with the design used at any previous election may be used. Specifica tions regarding paper CHAP. 238-An Act to repeal sections one hundred fourteen and one hundred fifteen of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, the sections hereby repealed being sections 6379 and 6380 of the Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Sections one hundred fourteen and one hundred fifteen of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes law making and punishments and repealing certain acts relating thereto," Repealing attempt at suicide a felony approved March 17, 1911, are hereby repealed. CHAP. 239-An Act fixing the compensation of certain county officers of Esmeralda County, in the State of Nevada; regulating the appointments, number and compensation of their deputies and attachés, and requiring the said officers to make reports to the board of county commissioners of Esmeralda County, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, effective January 1, 1915. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Esmeralda SECTION 1. The following-named officers of Esmeralda Salaries of County shall receive in full payment for all services rendered officers by them the following salaries: assessor The sheriff, for services as sheriff, shall receive the sum of Sheriff and one thousand ($1,000) dollars per annum, and for his services as ex officio county assessor the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars per annum. The sheriff is hereby authorized to appoint one deputy sheriff, and said deputy shall receive a salary of six hundred ($600) dollars per annum as deputy sheriff, and one thousand two hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum as ex officio deputy county assessor, and he shall also Deputies appoint as many deputy assessors and deputy sheriffs as the board of county commissioners shall deem necessary, and said board of county commissioners shall fix the compensation of the deputies so appointed, and in no case shall the compensation exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month for each deputy so appointed. and The county clerk for services as county clerk shall receive County clerk the sum of eight hundred ($800) dollars per annum and for treasurer services as ex officio county treasurer the sum of sixteen hundred ($1,600) dollars per annum, and he shall appoint as many deputies as the board of county commissioners shall Deputies deem necessary, and said board of county commissioners shall fix the compensation of the deputies so appointed, and in no case shall the compensation exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month for each deputy so appointed. and auditor The county recorder, for services as county recorder, shall Recorder receive the sum of eight hundred ($800) dollars per annum, and for services as ex officio county auditor, the sum of sixteen hundred ($1,600) dollars per annum, and he shall also appoint as many deputies as the board of county commissioners shall Deputies deem necessary and said board of county commissioners shall fix the compensation of the deputies so appointed, and in no case shall the compensation exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month for each deputy so appointed. The district attorney of Esmeralda County shall receive the District sum of two thousand four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum, attorney |