Fifth-To order the drawing and payment, upon properly authenticated vouchers, duly certified by the president and secretary, of money from out of the law library fund, for any liability or expenditure herein authorized, and generally to do all that may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Sixth-To fix the salaries of the librarian, secretary and of other subordinate officers and assistants. Seventh-To contract with any existing law library association to make use of its library for the purpose of a public law library, under proper rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board of trustees, either by lease or such other contract as may best carry the purposes of this act into effect. trustees SEC. 7. The orders and demands of the trustees of any such Orders of public law library, when duly made and authenticated as above honored provided, shall be verified and audited by the auditing officer, and paid by the treasurer of such county out of the library fund properly belonging thereto, of which full entry and record shall be kept as in other cases. make annual SEC. 8. The said board of trustees, on or before the first Trustees to Monday in December of each year, shall make an annual report report to the board of commissioners of their county, giving the condition of their trust, with full statements of all their property and money received, whence derived, how used and expended, the number of books, periodicals, and other publications on hand; the number added by purchase, gift or otherwise during the year; the number lost or missing, and such other information as might be of interest. A financial report, showing all receipts and disbursements of money, shall also at the same time be made by the secretary of the board of trustees, duly verified by his oath. SEC. 9. The board of commissioners of any such county Location shall provide a library room for the use of such library, when- provided ever such room may be demanded by such board of trustees. SEC. 10. The said board of trustees shall meet the first Monthly meetings of Tuesday of each month, and at such other times as they may trustees appoint, at a place to be appointed for that purpose; and a majority of all their number shall constitute a quorum for business. They shall appoint one of their number as president of their board. They shall elect a secretary, who shall keep a Secretary full statement and account of all property, money, receipts and expenditures, and a record and full minutes, in writing, of all their proceedings. They may appoint a librarian. The secre- Librarian tary may certify to such proceedings, or any part or portion thereof, under his hand, verified by an official seal, adopted and provided by the trustees for that purpose. library SEC. 11. Said library shall be free to the judiciary and Privileges of county officials of said county, without payment of dues, and free to all inhabitants of said county, upon payment of such dues as may be ordained by said [of] trustees, and under such rules and regulations as may be by them provided. state to furnish cer SEC. 12. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and Secretary of directed to transmit to the county clerk of each county of the state, for the use of said library, a copy of each and every pubtain volumes lication which may hereafter be made by this state, and especially a copy of each report of the decisions of the supreme court, and of the statutes of this state; and also a copy of all such reports and statutes heretofore published. State librarian to furnish certain volumes Conflicting acts repealed Provisos missioners to act SEC. 13. The librarian of the state library is hereby authorized and directed to distribute among the law libraries herein provided for such duplicates of books as may be in the state library, and not needed for its own purpose. SEC. 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed; provided, however, that wherever a law library and a board of trustees to govern the same is already provided by law in any county, or city and county, in this state, this act shall not affect such library or board of trustees, or be considered a repeal of any legislation under which such library is established and now governed; and provided further, that it shall be discretionary with the board of commissioners of any county to provide by ordinance for the application of the provisions of this act to such county. SEC. 15. Whenever the board of commissioners in any County com- county in this state which shall have adopted the provisions of this act and have established a law library, desire to discontinue such law library, they shall by ordinance so declare their intentions so to do, and shall provide in such ordinance that the books already in the library shall be transferred to and kept in the chambers of the judges of the district court of such county; and all moneys on hand in the library fund of such county shall be by the same ordinance transferred to the school fund of such county, and the office of the board of trustees of such law library shall be abolished. After such an ordinance shall take effect the county clerk of such county shall not set aside the fees provided for in section 1 of said act. SEC. 16. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. In effect Amending CHAP. 251-An Act to amend section one of article ten and section two of article eighteen 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," as amended March 13, 1905. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of article ten of said act is hereby Reno charter amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. There shall be a chief of the fire department department, and duties who shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to confirmation Chief of fire by the council. He shall give his entire time and attention to the duties of his office, and shall see that all rules, regulations, laws and ordinances concerning the department are carried into effect and observed. He shall diligently observe the condition of all apparatus in use by the department, and, from time to time, shall report to the council, with his recommendations for the betterment of the department and to increase its efficiency. He shall have power, subject to confirmation by the council, to appoint the necessary number of firemen as may be required by the council. SEC. 2. Section two of article eighteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: grant bonds Section 2. The council shall have the power by ordinance, Council may to grant any franchise or create any city or municipal bonded franchises indebtedness and issue bonds as herein provided, but no and issue ordinance for such purpose or purposes shall be valid or effective unless the council shall first pass a resolution which shall set forth fully and in detail, the purpose or purposes of the proposed bonded indebtedness, the terms, amount, rate of interest and time within which redeemable, and on what fund; or the application for, the purpose and character of, terms, time and conditions of the proposed franchise as the case may be. Such resolution shall be published at least once a week in full, in some newspaper published in the city for at least four weeks. On the first regular meeting of the council after the expiration of the period of such publication, the council shall, unless a petition shall be received by it as in the next section provided, proceed to pass an ordinance for the issuing of the bonds or the granting of the franchise, as the case may be; provided, that such bonds shall be issued or municipal Resolutions indebtedness created, or franchise granted, as the case may be, published only on the same terms and conditions in all respects as expressed in the resolution as published, otherwise such ordinance shall be null and void; provided, further, that the council shall dispose of said bonds or franchise, as the case Provisos may be, only to the person or persons offering the best and most advantageous terms to the city; and provided, further, that this section with regard to the publication and adoption of a resolution shall not apply to the bonds which are issued for special street or sidewalk work and paid in installments by certain owners whose property is benefited by the said improvement. must be Annual fishing and hunting licenses When $1 When $10 When $25 CHAP. 252-An Act to amend section three of an act entitled "An act to regulate and license hunting of game birds and animals and the taking or catching of fish, and to provide revenue therefrom for game and fish preservation and protection, and for the better protection of mountain sheep and goats, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof, and to make an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act," approved February 26, 1909. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. as follows: The license herein provided for shall be issued First-To any citizen of the United States who is a bona fide resident of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of one dollar. Second-To any citizen of the United States, not a bona fide resident of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of ten dollars. Third-To any person not a citizen of the United States, upon the payment of twenty-five dollars; Provided, that a license for fishing only and good for but Limited fish thirty days shall be issued to any applicant therefor upon the payment of two dollars. ing license,$2 Mountain sheep and goats protected until 1920 Court fees and county SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful at all times to kill, injure or maim any mountain sheep, or mountain goat until January 1, 1920. CHAP. 253-An Act fixing and establishing the fees to be charged in certain cases by the county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial court, in the State of Nevada, and providing for the disposition of such fees, and to repeal a certain act. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The county clerk of White Pine County and ex clerk fees in officio clerk of the Ninth judicial district court of the State of Nevada shall charge and collect fees as follows: White Pine County For all services performed by him in any action or proceeding (except a probate or guardianship proceeding) to and including the making up of the judgment roll, five dollars, to be collected in advance from the party commencing the action or proceeding; provided, that in cases where an injunction or an attachment or a receiver is asked for, an additional advance fee of two dollars and fifty cents shall be charged and collected. For filing cross complaint, counter-claim or a complaint in Amount of intervention, two dollars and fifty cents. For entering judgment by confession, three dollars. For services in probate and guardianship proceedings, up to and including the final settlement of the case, (a) in which the value of the estate does not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, fifteen dollars; (b) in which the value of the estate exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars and does not exceed ten thousand dollars, twenty dollars; (c) in which the value of the estate exceeds ten thousand dollars, twenty-five dollars; the valuation herein mentioned to be ascertained from the inventory filed, and the fees above provided to be collected as follows, to wit: the sum of fifteen dollars at the time of filing petition for letters testamentary or of administration or guardianship, and the balance, if any, at the time of filing such inventory. For filing objections or cross petitions to the appointment of an executor, administrator or guardian, or objections to the settlement of accounts or any other proceedings in an estate or guardianship matter, five dollars, to be paid by the moving or objecting party. For any copy of any record, proceeding or paper on file in the office of the clerk relating to any civil action or proceeding theretofore tried or pending in said court, when such copy is made by him, per folio, fifteen cents, and when such copy is not made by him, per folio, ten cents, and for each certificate thereto, twenty-five cents. For all services not herein enumerated, such fees as are now or may hereafter be fixed by law; provided, that no fee shall be allowed to be charged by the clerk for any services rendered in any criminal case. fees court fees SEC. 2. The foregoing fees shall be collected in addition to Special the fees provided and known as "special court fees" in sections 2030 and 2031 of the Revised Laws of Nevada (1912). County SEC. 3. The clerk shall on the first Monday of each and All fees to every month pay to the county treasurer the amount of all fees treasury charged by the said clerk during the next preceding month. May 1, 1913; SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of May, In effect 1913; provided, that in all proceedings begun, or for acts per- proviso formed, previous to this act becoming a law, such fees and charges as were provided by law at the time such action or proceeding was begun or acts performed shall be charged and collected until the termination thereof. similar act of this session page 159 SEC. 5. An act entitled "An act fixing and establishing Certain the fees to be charged in certain cases by the county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial repealed; see district court, in the State of Nevada, and providing for the disposition of such fees, approved March 15, 1913, is hereby repealed, and the state printer is hereby directed in printing the laws passed at the twenty-sixth session of the legislature of the State of Nevada to omit said last-mentioned act from the volume containing such laws. |