Bonds pro- the repair of Duties of school officers in school building, known as the Carson high school building, situated in Carson City, Ormsby county, State of Nevada; provided, that such repairing and remodeling shall not exceed the sum of twelve thousand dollars. The Board of School Trustees of said Carson School District shall immediately proceed to issue the bonds herein provided for, and when disposed of shall proceed with due diligence to repair and remodel the said building in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Said bonds shall not be sold below par value. SEC. 5. The bonds and coupons, herein provided for, shall be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said Ormsby county. SEC. 6. All moneys received from the sales of said bonds shall be paid into the County Treasury, and the County relation to. Treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the Carson School District Repairing Fund, and to pay out said money only on warrants signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of School Trustees, and duly allowed by the Board of County Commissioners of said Ormsby county. The County Treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto. SEC. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the bonds hereby authorized to be issued, the Board of County Commissioners of Ormsby county are hereby authorized and required, at the time of the annual levy of taxes for State and county purposes for the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree, and annually thereafter, to levy upon all the taxable property of said School District Number One an amount not exceeding one-fourth of one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars' valuation of said property, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, which will become due during the next ensuing year. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and levied, and shall be paid into the County Treasury, and set apart to a fund which is hereby created, to be known as the "Carson School District Redemption Fund," and the money in said fund shall be paid out by the County Treasurer in payment of the interest on the bonds aforesaid as the same become due, and upon presentation of coupons therefor, and upon the presentation and surrender of said bonds when the same become due. SEC. 8. To provide for the payment of the bonds as they become due, and the first installment of interest upon the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, the Board of County Commissioners of said county of Ormsby are hereby authorized and required, at their last regular meeting before said bonds and interest will become due, in case there is not money sufficient in said Carson School District Redemption Fund to pay said bonds and interest, to direct the County Treasurer to set apart from the General Fund in the County Treasury, to said Carson School District Redemption Fund, a sufficient amount to pay said bonds and interest, which amount shall be repaid out of the first moneys coming into the said Treasurer's hands from the tax levied as aforesaid, and belonging to said Carson School District Redemption Fund. CHAP. LXVII.-An Act for the relief of J. A. Blossom for bounty for sinking an artesian well in Lander county, Nevada, in the year 1890. [Approved March 2, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. of. The sum of one thousand seven hundred and J. A. Blogsixty-five dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in som, relief the General Fund of the State of Nevada not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to J. A. Blossom, as a bounty for sinking an artesian well on the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section seventeen, township thirty-two north, range forty-five east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, in Lander county, Nevada, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of J. A. Blossom for the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. LXVIII.-An Act amending section seven of an Act entitled "An Act reducing and regulating the salaries and compensations of certain State officers and attaches of the State government of Nevada," approved February 21, 1881. [Approved March 2, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and members of SECTION 1. Section 7 of an Act entitled "An Act reducing Compensaand regulating the salaries and compensation of certain State monof officers and attaches of the State government of Nevada," ap- Legislature. proved February 21, 1881, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section seven. To State Senators and members of the Assembly, eight dollars per day for each day of service, provided the total amount so paid shall not exceed the sum of four hundred dollars at any regular session, and fifteen cents per mile for each mile actually traveled in going to and returning from the place of meeting, which said mileage shall, however, be computed, in all cases, upon the shortest route, if there be two or more routes, to the said place of meeting; provided, that each member may be allowed not exceeding twenty dollars for the purchase of newspapers and stationery during each session. Consolidating and providing compensation for Churchill county officers. Counties may aid District Societies. CHAP. LXIX.-An Act consolidating certain county officers in [Approved March 2, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the Sheriff of Churchill county shall be ex-officio Assessor and Tax Collector, and he shall receive as such the sum of seven hundred dollars per annum, and such fees as are now allowed to the Sheriff in civil cases, and no further compensation shall be paid by the said county of Churchill. SEC. 2. From and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the County Treasurer of Churchill county shall be ex-officio County Clerk and Clerk of the District Court and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, and shall receive for his services the sum of nine hundred dollars, which shall be full compensation for his services as Treasurer, ex-officio County Clerk and Clerk of the District Court and exofficio Clerk of Board of County Commissioners. CHAP. LXX.-An Act authorizing the Boards of County Commissioners of the several counties of this State to grant aid to any District Agricultural Association within their respective counties, or within any agricultural district of which said county or counties may be a part. [Approved March 3, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of aiding each or any District Agricultural Association within any county or counties of this Agricultural State, now formed under the laws of this State, which shall hereafter annually hold, within any county or counties composing said agricultural district, a fair for exhibition in successfully carrying out the purposes for which it has been organized, the Boards of County Commissioners of the several counties of this State are hereby authorized to appropriate any money or moneys out of the General Fund of their respective counties to aid any such District Agricultural Association, composing any agricultural district of which said county or counties may be a part. SEC. 2. Any moneys hereby appropriated by said Board of County Commissioners shall be used by the Boards of Directors of each or any such District Agricultural Associations for the payment of such premiums as may be awarded by each or any of the several District Agricultural Associations or the Board of Directors thereof, and for such purposes as the said associations may through their Board of Directors deem just and proper; provided, that none of the moneys so appropriated No funds by said Boards of County Commissioners shall be used by the used for Boards of Directors of the various District Agricultural Associations, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of paying any purse or purses for racing. racing. SEC. 3. Before any Board of County Commissioners within How funds any county in this State shall appropriate any moneys as herein to be used. provided, [they] shall have presented to them a certificate under oath signed by the President and Secretary of the Board of Directors of such District Agricultural Association, showing the amount of money expended by such District Agricultural Association within such county or counties composing such Agricultural District, and that the same was expended for the payment of premiums awarded by the Board of Directors of such District Agricultural Association, and that the same was not expended, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of paying any purse or purses for racing. SEC. 4. Where more than one county or counties in this this State is included in and comprises an agricultural district, the Boards of County Commissioners of such county or counties are authorized to appropriate, out of the General Fund of said county, such money or moneys, for the encouragement of such District Agricultural Associations, as said Board or Boards may, in its judgment, deem just and proper; provided, how- Amount ever, that in no case shall such appropriation exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in any one year. limited. On whose SEC. 5. When the Boards of County Commissioners of each or any county of this State, constituting and comprising said 'order District Agricultural Association, shall determine and allow payable. the amount to be annually appropriated for the purposes herein mentioned, the same shall be paid as other bills against the county are paid. All warrants drawn pursuant to the provisions of this section, and of this Act, shall be payable to the order of the President of the Board of Directors of such District Agricultural Association, or, in case of his absence or inability to serve, then such warrants shall be payable to the order of such member of such Board of Directors as such Board shall, by a majority vote thereof, determine and direct. CHAP. LXXI.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concern-· ing conveyances," approved November 5, 1861. [Approved March 3, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section No. 8 of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Form of ac Section eight. Such certificate shall be substantially in the following form, to-wit: day of State of Nevada, county of A. D. On this , personally apknowledg- peared before me, a Notary Public (or Judge, or other officer, as the case may be), in and for said county, A. B., known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, who acknowledged to me that he executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned; provided, that in all cases where acknowledgments have been made, or may hereafter be made, by nonresidents of this State, conveying the title to real property situated in this State, and such certificate of acknowledgment is executed in accordance with the laws of the State or Territory where such grantor resides, every such certificate shall have the same force and effect, and such conveyance shall be of equal validity as though such certificate contained the form and language prescribed in this section. Ormsby county officers. CHAP. LXXII.-An Act to amend section seven of an Act entitled "An Act to consolidate certain county offices in and for the county of Ormsby, State of Nevada, fix their compensation and the compensation of other officers of said county," approved March 5, 1891. [Approved March 3, 1893.] 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 seven. All Acts and parts of Act, in so far only as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed; provided, that such repeal shall not, in any manner, affect the office of County Assessor, nor the office or compensation of the long term County Commissioner, elected at the general election in November, A. D. 1890, in and for Ormsby county, prior to the first Monday in January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, nor any officer in said Ormsby county, prior to the first Monday in January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-three. |