not employed, for the first folio, fifty cents; for each additional folio, twenty-five cents. For taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, to be Fees of collected from the defendant, one dollar. For entering any cause without process, one dollar. For entering judgment by confession, as in the district court, three dollars. For each motion, exception, rule, order, default, dismissal, discontinuance, or non-suit, and for filing each paper required to be filed, twenty-five cents. justices of peace SEC. 8. Witnesses required to attend in the courts of Mineral Witness fees County, State of Nevada, shall be entitled to the following fees: For attending in any civil suit or proceeding before any court of record, referee, commissioner, or justice of the peace, for each day's attendance, three dollars; and thirty cents per mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled, one way only; provided, that no person shall be obliged to testify in a civil action unless his fees and mileage have been tendered him, or he shall not have demanded the same; and provided further, that no person shall be obliged to testify in a civil action unless his fees have been tendered him, if he demanded the same, for mileage and one day's attendance; for each subsequent day's attendance, the witness is entitled to demand in advance his fees from the party in whose favor he has been subpenaed; and in case of refusal, is exonerated from further attendance. Witness fees in civil cases shall be taxed as disbursement costs against the defeated party upon proof by affidavit that the disbursements have actually been made. Costs shall not be allowed for more than two witnesses to the same fact or series of facts, nor shall party, plaintiff or defendant, be allowed any fees for attendance as a witness in his own behalf. No per diem or mileage shall be allowed or paid in criminal cases except for attendance upon the district court, or appearance before the grand jury in obedience to a subpena. jurors SEC. 9. Jurors: Each person summoned to attend as a Fees of grand or trial juror in Mineral County, State of Nevada, unless he be excused by the court at his own request from serving on the day he is summoned to attend, shall receive three dollars per day for each day he may be in attendance, and thirty cents per mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled, one way only. In civil cases the per diem of each juror engaged in the trial of the cause shall be paid each day in advance to the clerk of the court or the justice of the peace, by the party who shall have demanded the jury; but in case the party paying such fees be the prevailing party, the fees so paid shall be recoverable as costs from the losing party. If the jury, from any cause, be discharged in a civil action without finding a verdict, and the party who demands the jury shall afterwards obtain judgment, the fees so paid shall be recoverable as costs from the losing party. Jurors in justice courts shall receive Fees of jurors Officers of county to pay all fees into treasury Repeal In effect but two dollars per day in civil cases; provided, that no fees shall be allowed or mileage paid trial jurors in criminal cases in justice courts. The fees paid jurors by the clerk for service in civil actions shall be deducted from the amounts due them from the county for attendance upon the court, and the balance only shall be a charge against the county. Coroners' jurors (with not more than six persons upon the jury) shall be entitled to receive for each day's service, two dollars and fifty cents, to be allowed, audited, and paid as are other claims against the county; provided, that when it is necessary for said coroner's jury to travel a distance greater than one mile to view the remains or to the place where said inquisition is held, the necessary and actual expenses incurred by said coroner for the transportation of the jury, shall be allowed, audited, and paid as are other claims against the county. SEC. 10. All fees collected by each of the aforesaid officers of Mineral County, under the provisions of the foregoing act, in their official or ex officio capacity, except the justices of the peace and constables, shall be by them paid into the county treasury on or before the first Monday of each month. SEC. 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. CHAP. 125—An Act to establish commissioner districts in the county of Clark, and providing for the election therefrom of members of the board of county commissioners. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The county of Clark is hereby divided into three County com- commissioner districts as follows: missioner districts in Clark County Districts described One to be 1. All that portion of Clark County comprising Las Vegas Township shall be known as commissioner district No. 1, and shall be represented by one member of the board of county commissioners. 2. All that portion of Clark County situated south of Las Vegas Township shall be known as commissioner district No. 2, and shall be represented by one member of the board of county commissioners. 3. All that portion of Clark County situated to the north and the east of Las Vegas Township shall be known as commissioner district No. 3, and shall be represented by one member of the board county commissioners. SEC. 2. At every election hereafter, at which county commissioners are to be elected, one member of the board each district of county commissioners shall be elected from each one of said districts in which a vacancy may exist or may impend elected from because of the expiration of the term of office of the incumbent member from that district. SEC. 3. This act shall become operative from and after its In effect passage and approval. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 126-An Act regulating the fees of the office of surveyor-general, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and surveyor SECTION 1. The surveyor-general shall charge the following Fees of fees: For the making of any copy of any instrument, twenty general cents per folio; for making.plats, or copies of plats or maps, he shall charge the actual cost of the preparation thereof, plus twenty per cent. All fees charged and collected shall be accounted for by the surveyor-general, and shall be paid into the state treasury of the State of Nevada for the general fund. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 127-An Act to amend an act reducing and regulating the salaries and compensation of certain state officers and attachés of the state government of Nevada, approved February 21, 1881. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 7 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: senators and Section 7. To state senators and members of the assembly, Per diem of ten dollars per day for each day of service; provided, the total assemblyamount so paid shall not exceed the sum of six hundred dol- men lars at any regular session, and ten 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 practical routes to the said place of meeting; provided, that each member may be allowed not allowance, exceeding twenty dollars for the purchase of newspapers and stationery during the session. Stationery $20 Certain other light deemed equivalent CHAP. 128-An Act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to promote the public safety by requiring commoncarrier railroads to provide and equip all locomotives in road service with headlights of lighting capacity of 1,500candle power, and prescribing penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof," approved February 28, 1913, and to repeal section 2 of said act. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. Every company, corporational lessee, manager, Locomotive or receiver, owning or operating a railroad in this state, is headlights hereby required to equip, maintain, use, and display at night must be 1,500-candle upon each and every locomotive being operated in road service power in this state, an electric or other headlight of at least 1,500candle power, measured without the aid of a reflector; provided, that any electric headlight, which will pick up and distinguish an object the size of a man dressed in dark clothes upon a dark, clear night at a distance of 1,000 feet, shall be deemed the equivalent of a 1,500-candle power headlight measured without the aid of a reflector; provided further, that this act shall not apply to locomotive engines regularly used in switchExceptions ing cars or trains; and provided further, that this act shall not apply to railroads not maintaining regular night-train schedules nor to locomotives going to or returning from repair shops when ordered in for repairs. Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby repealed. Inspectors of hides to be appointed, when CHAP. 129-An Act to provide for the appointment of inspectors of hides, defining their duties and mode of compensation, and repealing a certain act. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of any board of county commissioners of any county of this state, upon the application in writing of three or more property owners in any township of any county of the state, to appoint in and for said township and for such length of time as may be deemed necessary, not exceeding two years, an inspector of hides, whose duty it shall be to examine, when requested so to do by any three taxpayers of said township, the hides of any or all cattle killed in said township, and to mark such hide inspected in such a to search manner as may be indicated by the said board of county commissioners, and shall, upon the request of said taxpayers aforesaid, have the right, and it shall be his duty, to go upon the premises of any resident of such township and make search for any hides concealed, or which such inspector or said taxpayers Inspectors may have reason to believe are concealed upon said premises, premises, and shall report in writing, to the district attorney of the county when in which he has been appointed, at such time as may be designated by the said board of county commissioners making the appointment, giving the number of hides inspected, the brands or other marks upon such hides, the names of the persons in whose possession they were found, and whether the persons having them in possession had killed the cattle from which the hides were taken, or had obtained them from other persons, and the names of such persons. inspectors SEC. 2. The rate of compensation of such inspectors shall Pay of be fixed by the said board of county commissioners at the time the appointments are made, and shall be paid by the parties on whose petitions they are appointed, or by the taxpayers upon whose request they act, as provided in section one of this act. SEC. 3. An act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled Repeal 'An act to provide for the appointment of inspectors of hides, defining their duties and mode of compensation,' approved March 3, 1881, approved March 10, 1897, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 130-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled 'An act to regulate the settlement of estates of deceased persons,' approved March 23, 1897, and as amended and approved March 16, 1899, approved March 6, 1901," and as amended March 11, 1913. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 259 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: intestate, Section 259. When any person having title to any estate, not Estate of otherwise limited by marriage contract, shall die intestate as to how such estate, it shall descend and be distributed, subject to the payment of his or her debts, in the following manner: First-If there be a surviving husband or wife, and only one child, or the lawful issue of one child, one-half to the surviving husband or wife, and one-half to such child or issue of such child. If there be a surviving husband or wife and more than one child living, or one child living and the lawful issue of one or more deceased children, one-third to the surviving husband distributed |