to certain Not to Apply to Certain Residents. SEC. 7. The provisions of this act relating to the filing of Not to apply a bond or making of a cash deposit shall not apply to owners of sufficient real estate within the State of Nevada to insure the payment of said taxes. residents County assessor to furnish owner with certificate Form of certificate County Assessor to Furnish Owner With Certificate-Form of SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the county assessor in each county, at the time of assessing any transient stock, to furnish. the owner of said transient stock or his agent with a certificate and such copies thereof as the owner or his agent may require, showing the time, place, number, and description of the animals assessed; provided, residents and other persons not owning sufficient real estate within the state to secure the payment of said taxes shall have complied with all of the necessary provisions of this act before they shall be entitled to such certificate. Such certificate shall be substantially in the following form: State of Nevada, County of.. assessor of... SS. do hereby certify that I am the County, State of Nevada; that I have this day assessed for the year 19__, ______head of. Certificate and state ment to be filed Assessor to make full assessment live stock Dated this._____day of By-- Deputy. Certificate and Statement To Be Filed. SEC. 9. Whenever the owner of any transient live stock or his agent shall drive or remove such live stock into another county for grazing or feeding purposes, such owner or his agent shall file with the county clerk of such county a copy of the certificate set forth in the preceding section, together with a statement from said owner or his agent showing the date when they will probably leave. Such certificate and statement must be filed in each county into which such live stock are driven or removed. Assessor to Make Full Assessment. SEC. 10. If the assessment in the county where first made is not in full, then the assessor of such other county in which such transient stock may be ranging is authorized to assess such stock to the number omitted in the previous assessment, and such taxes on the number so assessed shall be paid in the county where such last assessment is made. Applies to All Live Stock. SEC. 11. The provisions of this act shall apply in cases of all Applies to all transient live stock running at large or otherwise, whether in charge of a herder or not, and the taxes thereon may be collected at any time during the calendar year; and the fact that such live stock may have been assessed, and the taxes thereon for the same year paid in some other state or territory, shall not exempt it from assessment and taxation in this state; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the free passage of such live stock through this state for commercial purposes, or to deny to the citizens of each state all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states. Tax To Be Equalized, When. when SEC. 12. When the property described in this act shall have Tax to be been assessed as herein provided and the taxes thereon collected equalized, as prescribed herein, upon complaint in writing by the owner, his agent, or any person aggrieved (which complaint shall be made within ten days after the collection of said taxes, and shall be filed with any state board or commission authorized by law to equalize assessment values, or with the board of county commissioners, if there be no such state board or commission), that the assessment was too high or too low, it shall be the duty of such state board or commission or board of county commissioners at its next regular session after the filing of such complaint to equalize the same, and the proceedings shall be the same as in other cases of equalization. County Commissioners to Commence Suit, When-Defendant in the Action. missioners suit, when; SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners County comof the county in which such live stock shall be herded or grazed to commence without having first complied with the provisions of this act, aufendant in upon receiving satisfactory information of such fact, to insti- the action tute civil action in the name of the county against the person so herding or grazing such live stock, or his agent, for the proper amount of taxes due and all costs of action; and the institution or determination of such suit shall not in any wise act as a bar to the enforcement of any other penalties or forfeitures herein provided for. Penalty for Moving Stock with Intent to Move Out of State-Misdemeanor. of state meanor SEC. 14. If any person having the care or custody of such Penalty for moving stock live stock shall, pending an action instituted as provided in with intent the last section, drive or move said live stock out of the to move out county with intent to move the same out of the state, or with misdethe intent to evade the payment of the forfeiture herein before named, upon affidavit to that effect being made and filed in an action being brought to recover said forfeiture or tax herein provided, writs of attachment may issue as in civil actions, and the proceedings therein shall be as in other cases, except that no undertaking on attachment shall be required; provided, the district attorney or other interested party may make such affidavit on information and belief. In addition to the foregoing, any person so driving or moving such live stock shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in Failure to file cer demeanor the county jail for not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense. Failure to File Certificate a Misdemeanor. SEC. 15. Any person named in section 2 of this act, or his agent, who shall bring any live stock into any county of this tificate a mis-state for grazing or feeding purposes, and shall herd or feed or graze the same in any county of the state without filing said certificate as required herein, and without paying the amount of money or giving the bond as hereinbefore provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall further forfeit and pay the sum of forty cents for each and every head of cattle thereof, and fifteen cents for each and every head of sheep, for the use of said county, which said forfeit shall be collected by a civil action in the name of the county in which said live stock are, or were, so herded, grazed or fed. Further pun ishment for violation of this actduties of assessors for failure of officers to Further Punishment for Violation of This Act-Duties of Assessors. SEC. 16. Any person or his agent bringing live stock from one county in this state into another county for grazing purposes without filing the statement and certificate as provided in section 9 of this act, within ten days after he has crossed the county line, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months; and in addition thereto said live stock shall not be exempt from taxation in the county from which they are taken. Any assessor of any county may, when he finds live stock belonging outside his county ranging within his county lines, enumerate such stock and render to the county clerk of the county where the stock belong, or the county where they were first certified to as herein required, a certificate setting forth the time that such stock entered and the time such stock left his county. A certificate so rendered shall be of the same force and effect as though made by an agent of the owner of the stock. Punishment for Failure of Officers to Perform Duties. SEC. 17. Any county officer or member of the board of Punishment county commissioners or board of equalization, who shall fail to perform the duties prescribed in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Construction of the Word "Person" Used in This Act. perform of the word SEC. 18. Within the meaning of this act the word "person" Construction shall be construed to mean and include corporations, whether domestic or foreign, joint-stock companies, firms, or other associations associated together and doing business. Repealing Section. "person" used in this act SEC. 19. An act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, approved repealed March 13, 1895; an act entitled "An act defining and classify- Certain acts ing transient stock and providing for the assessment, collection, and distribution of taxes on the same, and providing penalties for violation of its provisions, approved March 9, 1903; and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. CHAP. 272-An Act to amend section 163 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, the same being section 6428 of the Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 163 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto, approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 163. A libel is a malicious defamation, expressed Libel defined by printing, writing, signs, pictures, or the like, tending to blacken the memory of the dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation, or to publish the natural defects, of a living person or persons, or community of persons, or association of persons, and thereby to expose them to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Every person, whether the writer or the publisher, convicted of the offense, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment Penalty in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison not exceeding five years. In all prosecutions for libel the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, Jury to and was published for good motive and for justifiable ends, the intent party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. determine For prevention of disease in poultry, bees, agri similar commodities CHAP. 273-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act providing for the better prevention, control, and extermination of infectious, contagious and destructive diseases, parasites, and insect pests, affecting animals, poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural plants, trees or shrubs, injurious to any industry in the state, and other matters relating thereto; and to repeal an act entitled 'An act providing for the appointment of a state veterinarian, defining his duties and fixing his compensation-governor to appoint,' approved March 15, 1905, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act," approved March 31, 1913. [Approved March 26, 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. For the better prevention, control, and extermination of infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, parasites or insect pests, affecting poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural plants, trees, or shrubs, injurious to any industry cultural and in the state, the governor, with the advice of the state quarantine officer, or otherwise, is hereby empowered to proclaim and enforce quarantine against any state or any portion of any state, with respect to the importation into Nevada, or against any county or any portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the state, with respect to the exportation therefrom to any other part of the state, of any poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural crops, products, seeds, plants, trees or shrubs, or any article (hereinafter for convenience referred to as commodity) infected with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, or infected with parasites or insect pests, or the eggs or larva thereof, dangerous to any industry in the state; and to formulate and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this act. The word "plants," as herein used, shall be construed to mean and include any and all farm, field, and garden crops grown in the state. The word "trees, as herein used, shall be construed to mean and include any and all fruit, shade, and ornamental trees. The word "shrubs, as herein used, shall be construed to mean and include all fruit-producing, ornamental, or useful shrubs and bushes. Certain sections repealed Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the above-entitled act are SEC. 2. SEC. 3. Section 5 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. It is hereby made the duty of each and every person in the state owning, possessing, or having upon his premises, or any premises under his control, lease, supervision, |