Public roads may be made toll roads. Other Acts made and providing a fair remuneration to the lessee thereof for the time and money expended in repairing and maintaining the same. SEC. 2. Whenever any lease shall have been made under the provisions of section one of this Act, and as often thereafter as said Board shall deem fit, the Board of County Commissioners of the county shall establish such rates of toll on such leased road, to be collected by the lessee thereof, as to said Board may seem proper. The rates of toll so established shall be written, printed or painted in a plain and legible manner on a bulletin board, to be posted at each toll gate on such road, and if any such lessee shall demand or collect any higher or greater rates of toll than those so fixed and specified on said bulletin board he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in default of payment of such fine may, in the discretion of the court, be committed to the county jail until such fine be paid. One-half of all fines so collected shall go to the informer or prosecutor, and one-half to the school fund of the county; but in no case shall the county be responsible for the costs in any such prosection. SEC. 3. All the provisions of section five of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for constructing and maintaining toll roads applicable. and bridges in the State of Nevada," approved March eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; as amended, statutes eighteen hundred and seventy-five, page one hundred and fifty-six, are hereby made applicabe to all roads leased and to all toll gates that may be established under the provisions of this Act. Road districts, CHAP. CXVIII,-An Act in relation to public roads and highways. [Approved March 9, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Each voting precinct in any county of the State in which the total vote of the said county was not less than sixhow formed. teen hundred votes and not more than two thousand votes at the general election held in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall constitute a road district; provided, that any incorporated city or town shall constitute but one road district, and any two or more voting precincts, if a majority of the electors thereof so desire, shall constitute but one road district. SEC. 2. All roads, streets, alleys, or other highways, bridges, or other public crossings within the boundaries of the said road districts created under section one of this Act shall be under the supervision and control of a Board of Trustees consisting of three resident taxpayers of such district, who shall be chosen at the general election and shall serve two years, beginning the first Monday in January following such election; provided, that immediately after the passage of this Act the County Commissioners in the several counties shall appoint three Road Trustees in each road district of their respective counties, who shall serve until the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Trustees. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Board of Road Trustees Board of of each district, a majority of whose members shall constitute Road a quorum for the transaction of business, to meet as soon as practicable after taking the oath of office, at such place as shall be most convenient in the district, and to organize by appointing one of their number clerk, who shall keep a true and correct record of all official proceedings of the Board, which shall from time to time be transacted, in a book to be provided for that purpose, which said book shall at all times be open to inspection by any taxpayer in the district. SEC. 4. The Clerk of the Board of Road Trustees of any district may receive such compensation for his services as the Board may allow, to be paid out of the separate road fund of the district; provided, that .such compensation or salary shall not exceed five per cent. of the total amount of the said road fund of the district for that year. roads pro SEC. 5. The Board of Road Trustees shall cause any needed Improveimprovements or repairs of roads, streets, alleys or other high-ments of ways, bridges or other crossings, within its respective district, vided for. to be made and to be paid for by warrants drawn upon the separate Road Fund of the district at the regular monthly meeting of said Board, which said warrants shall be signed by at least two of the Road Trustees of the district and shall be then paid by the County Treasurer. SEC. 6 No Board of Road Trustees in any district shall have power to create a debt upon its Road Fund, except by order of the Board of County Commissioners, and the payment of such debt shall be provided for by a special tax upon the district to be levied by the County Commissioners at their next annual county levy, and shall be collected in the same manner as other county tax. Commis SEC. 7. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby Duties authorized and required to apportion back to each Road District Board of created under section one of this Act, seventy-five per cent of County the county's proportion of all poll taxes collected from citizens sioners. residing in said Road District, also seventy-five per cent. of any general road tax annually levied, assessed and collected upon property situated in said district, and all of any special road tax that may be levied, assessed and collected upon the property of said district in accordance with the provisions of section six of this Act, the same to constitute a separate Road Fund for the use and benefit of said district. The remaining twenty-five per cent. of the county's proportion of the poll taxes collected in any county, also the remaining twenty-five per cent. of any general road tax levied, assessed and collected upon the taxable property of the county and all of any special road tax levied, assessed vided for roads. Funds pro- and collected upon all the property of the county in accordance with the provisions of section nine of this Act, shall constitute a general County Road Fund, to be expended by the County Commissioners in the manner prescribed in section nine of this Act, and in such further manner upon the roads, streets, alleys and other highways, bridges and other crossings of any district, as they shall deem advisable. Duties Property may be SEC. 8. At any time when a majority of the resident taxpayers of a road district, according to the last previous assessment roll, shall petition the County Commissioners of their county for the location, opening for public use, establishment, change, or vacation of any public road or highway, or any street or alley in any incorporated town of such county, setting forth in such petition the beginning, course and termination of such road or highway, street or alley, together with the names of the owner or owners of the lands through which the same will pass, said petition may be presented to the County Clerk of said county, and the Clerk shall lay said petition before the. Board of County Commissioners at their next meeting, and thereupon said Board of Commissioners shall, within thirty days thereafter, proceed to locate, open to public use, establish, change, or vacate such road, highway, street, or alley; provided, that if such road, highway, street, or alley shall pass through private property, such property shall first be condemned for public use, as follows: The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint one disinterested person, and the owner or agents of said private property shall select one such taken, how. person, and the two shall proceed to appraise the damage which may be done to such property by reason of the location, change, or vacation of such road, street, or alley, after deducting any advantages arising from the same to the owner or owners of such property. If the two appraisers can not agree as to such damages, then they shall choose a third person, and the three persons so selected as appraisers shall be authorized to administer oaths, compel the attendance of witnesses before them, and their decision of the matter shall be final; provided, that the parties aggrieved by the decision of such road appraisers may commence action in the District Court within twenty days from the date of such decision to set aside their award, and upon the final award and decision of such damages, the Board of County Commissioners shall provide for the opening, establishment, change, or vacation, as the case may be, of such road, street, or alley, according to the petition aforesaid; provided, that in no case shall the Commissioners cause any road or street to be opened where the same shall run diagonally through any lands or lot so as to greatly impair it in shape, without consent of the owner or owners thereof, and in all cases they shall follow legal subdivisional lines of the Government surveys of town plats when the same is practicable. SEC. 9. The cost of opening, establishing, changing, or vacating any road, highway, street, or alley, as required under section eight of this Act, shall be paid out of the General Road Fund of the county, and if the said General Road Fund shall at SEC. 10. It is hereby made a part of the duty of the Board Duties of Road Trustees to see that section six of an Act entitled "An Board of Trustees. Act in relation to public highways," approved March nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is enforced within the boundaries of their district. CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the products of the State of Nevada at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and to make an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 10, 1893.] WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has provided, Preliminary by an Act approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and declaration. ninety, for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and WHEREAS, It is of great importance that the natural resources, industrial development and general progress of the State of Nevada should be fully and creditably displayed to the world at said exposition; therefore The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the State of Nevada, together with its citizens, shall be exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in the city of Chicago, and State of Illinois, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Columbian SEC. 2. That there is hereby created a Board of Commis- Board of sioners to be known as the World's Fair Managers of Nevada. World's Such Board shall be composed of three members. They shall Exposition be appointed by the Governor, and they shall be selected created. entirely with regard to their familiarity with the resources and products of the State, their business experience and executive skill, and they shall be residents of the State of Nevada. Said Board shall be composed of the two members of the National World's Fair Commissioners from Nevada, who shall be ex-officio World's Fair Commissioners for Nevada, who shall serve the Status of Lady Exhibits may be sold. How indi viduals and contribute. districts Duties Board. State without pay, and one other to be appointed by the Governor, who shall receive the pay prescribed in this Act. They shall hold their offices from the day of their appointment until September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, unless sooner removed for cause by the Governor, and in case of such removal, or their death, or inability, or refusal to act, their successors shall be appointed by the Governor. SEC. 3. The members of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Commission from the State of Nevada, and their respective alternates, shall be ex-officio members of the Board of World's Fair Managers for the State of Nevada. SEC. 4. The member of the Board appointed under this Act shall not be entitled to any compensation for his services out of the State Treasury, except his actual expenses for transportation, and the sum of five dollars per day for his subsistence for each day he is necessarily absent from his home in the actual discharge of his duties as member of said Board. SEC. 5. After the close of said exposition the said Board shall have power to sell such exhibit as is proper to dispose of to the best advantage of the State, and shall deposit the proceeds in the General Fund of the State Treasury, and shall also return to the owners such exhibits as may be loaned for exhibition purposes, free of cost to said owners. SEC. 6. All counties, districts or individuals desiring to send articles to such exposition may do so, by having the same delivered in good order for shipment at such towns as may be designated by the Board of Commissioners, where they shall be received by the commission and carefully stored in some suitable and safe building until the proper time for shipment to such exposition; and such commission shall forward all such articles as they may deem worthy of exhibition to Chicago. The freight or express charges from said points to and from Chicago shall be paid by the commission out of the fund hereinafter appropriated. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of such Board of Commismembers of sioners to send as many articles for exhibition as possible, and the members thereof shall give their personal attention to the making of an attractive and creditable exhibition for the State. Appropriation. Special fund created. SEC. 8. To carry out the provisions of this Act, the sum of ten thousand dollars, out of any money in the General Fund of the State Treasury, or which may hereafter be therein, is hereby taken out of the said General Fund and made into one to be known as the World's Columbian Exposition Fund. expenditures of money from said fund shall be under the direction and control of the said Board of World's Fair Managers. All SEC. 9. Said fund hereby created may be drawn upon by said Board of World's Fair Managers of Nevada in advance of actual expenditure, when made to appear to be necessary, upon application to and approval by the State Board of Examiners of this State, properly certified by said Board of Examiners to the State Controller, who shall thereupon draw his warrant for the amount on the State Treasurer, payable out of the World's |