New schedule may be suspended Proviso authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the interested railroad or railroads, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon the commission, upon delivering to the railroad or railroads affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, but not for a longer period than sixty days beyond the time when such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice would otherwise go into effect; and after full hearing, whether completed before or after the date upon which the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the commission may make such order in reference to such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice had become effective; provided, that if any such hearing cannot be concluded within the period of suspension, as above stated, the commission may, in its discretion, extend the time of suspension for a further period, not exceeding sixty days. county treasurer and district CHAP. 194 An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, to allow the appointment of certain deputy county officers under certain circumstances and fixing their compensation. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, the Deputies for board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, when said board deem it necessary, shall allow the attorney of county treasurer and district attorney of said county to appoint Elko County a deputy or deputies for their offices, who shall serve as long as said necessity may continue, and said deputy or deputies shall be paid out of the general fund of said county at the rate of not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month. Repeal SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 195-An Act making it the duty of the several county assessors of the State of Nevada to report to the secretary of state the ownership of and other information concerning motor vehicles within their respective counties. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and must report of motor SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the several county assessors Assessors of the State of Nevada to report annually, in writing, to the names of secretary of State of Nevada, not later than the third Monday all owners in January of each year, commencing in January, 1916, the vehicles, etc., name of each and every owner of any motor vehicle within his of state respective county, together with the name of the maker, factory number, style of vehicle, and motor power. to secretary vehicle" SEC. 2. By "motor vehicle" is meant such vehicles propelled "Motor by any power other than muscular power; provided, that noth- defined ing herein contained shall apply to traction engines, road-rollers. street-cars, railway motors, or railway locomotives. CHAP. 196-An Act for the relief of certain persons, firms, associations, and corporations who advanced funds for the construction of the Nevada school of industry, in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, and authorizing the repayment of the same by the county of Elko, State of Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1915] sums 'school of WHEREAS, During the twenty-sixth session of the legislature To refund of Nevada, an act entitled "An act establishing a state institu- advanced tion for delinquent boys, providing for the purchase of a site, for Nevada erection of buildings, organizing the government of said school, industry' and providing for the maintenance thereof, and creating a tax levy to raise funds for such purposes, approved March 26, 1913, was passed, creating a Nevada school of industry and a commission for the construction of said school and the government thereof, and conditioned that the Nevada school of industry, therein created, should be located in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, upon land deeded to the state, without charge, and upon the payment to the commission, by the citizens of Elko, of the sum of five thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, The commission provided in said act was duly appointed, and the conditions set forth in said act were duly complied with, and said school has been constructed; and WHEREAS, No authority has been provided by which the said county of Elko could appropriate the said five thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, In order not to delay the construction of said building, the following-named persons, firms, associations, and corporations paid and advanced to the said commission the sums named said sum of five thousand dollars, as is hereafter more particuPersons and larly set forth, to wit: W. T. Smith Company, $250; Elko Lumber Company, $250; A. G. McBride, $250; R. H. Mallett, $250; Guy Saval, $250; A. W. Hesson Company, $250; Chris Eshleman, $250; Doctors Hood & West, $250; L. J. Wintermantel Company, $250; Elko Hide and Junk Company, $250; Mayer Hotel Company, $250; George Russell, $250; Elko Automobile Company, $250; E. M. Steninger, $250; Sutherland & McFarlane, $250; Engler Company, $250; E. Dotta, $250; Thomas Hunter, $250; First National Bank of Elko, $250; and Henderson Banking Company, $250; and WHEREAS, Said sums were so advanced and paid, with the understanding that the same would be a charge against the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and be repaid by said town, as soon as an enabling act should be enacted by the legislature of the State of Nevada: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of the Elko county county of Elko, State of Nevada, be and is hereby authorized, commis sioners to allow sums as named empowered and directed, as soon as there be sufficient funds in the town government fund of the town of Elko, State of Nevada, upon presentation and proof that said sums have been paid to the commission for the establishment of the Nevada school of industry, to approve and allow on said fund, the claim of W. T. Smith Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Lumber Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. G. McBride, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of R. H. Mallett, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Guy Saval, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. W. Hesson Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Chris Eshleman, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Doctors Hood & West, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of L. J. Wintermantel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Hide and Junk Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Mayer Hotel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of George Russell, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Automobile Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. M. Steninger, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Sutherland & McFarlane, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Engler Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. Dotta, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Thomas Hunter, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of First National Bank of Elko, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); and the claim of the Henderson Banking Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250). levy on SEC. 2. After the approval and allowance of said amounts, Special tax or any of them, by the said board of county commissioners of Elko town the county of Elko, State of Nevada, the said board of county property commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to provide for and cause a special tax levy to be made against the property in the town of Elko sufficient to pay such claim as may be allowed, and the auditor of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant in favor of the persons, firms, associations, and corporations above named, for the amounts specified in this act; and the treasurer of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to pay the same. CHAP. 197-An Act to amend section 807 of 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, being section 5749 of the Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 807 of 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, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: attachment Section 807. A writ to attach the property of the defendant Writ of must be issued by the justice at the time of, or after, issuing must issue, summons, on receiving an affidavit by or on behalf of the when plaintiff, showing the same facts as are required to be shown by the affidavit specified in section 206. CHAP. 198-An Act to provide for the payment of retirement salaries to public school teachers of this state, and all matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 23, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: public school SECTION 1. There are hereby established two funds in the Retirement state treasury, to be known, respectively, as the public school salaries for teachers' retirement salary fund and the public school teachers' teachers permanent fund. The public school teachers' permanent fund shall be made up of all moneys received from the following sources, or derived in the following manner: (1) All contributions made by teachers, as hereinafter provided; Permanent fund, how provided (2) The income and interest derived from the investment of moneys contained in such fund; (3) An ad valorem tax of three mills on the hundred dollars of all taxable property in the state; and the board of county commissioners of the several counties shall, annually, at the same time other state taxes are levied, add this to the other taxes provided by law to be levied and collected, and it shall be annually collected at the same time and in the same manner as other state taxes are collected, and if, from any reason whatever, in any year said taxes are not levied as herein required, by the board of county commissioners, the county auditor shall enter them on the assessment roll as required by law for other taxes; (4) All donations, legacies, gifts, and bequests which shall be made to such fund, and all moneys which shall be obtained or contributed for the same purposes from other sources. SEC. 2. The public school teachers' retirement salary fund shall be made up of such moneys as shall be transferred from how made up time to time under authority of this act from the public school Retirement salary fund, Duties of controller and treasurer to contribute teachers' permanent fund. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the state controller and of the state treasurer to make, when notified by the public school teachers' retirement salary fund board, or by the state superintendent of public instruction, under authority of this act, transfers of such amounts from the public school teachers' permanent fund to the public school teachers' retirement salary fund as will be sufficient to meet the claims which may be legally drawn against said public school teachers' retirement salary fund. SEC. 4. There shall be deducted each school year, comAll teachers mencing September, 1915, from the salary of every teacher subject to the burdens of this act, nine dollars, and every official whose duty it is to pay said teacher's salary shall make said deduction at such times of payment as shall be directed by the state board of education; the amounts thus deducted shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the public school teachers' permanent fund, and shall constitute part thereof. to the benefits SEC. 5. No person shall, except as hereinafter otherwise Who eligible provided, be eligible to receive the benefits of this act who shall not have paid into said public school teachers' permanent fund an amount equal to nine dollars for each year of service up to and including thirty years; provided, however, that the difference between the amount actually paid by such teacher of thirty years' service and two hundred and seventy dollars, may be paid into said fund by such teacher at the time of retirement, with the same effect as if the full sum of two hundred and seventy dollars had been paid at the rate of nine dollars per year before retirement; or the sum of twenty dollars per month may be withheld from such teacher's retirement salary until the amount so withheld shall equal the difference between said |