trial thereof in like manner and under the same rules as are allowed and required in cases of depositions to be read on any trial pending in the district court; and such depositions, when thus taken, shall be sealed up by the officer taking the same and directed to the secretary of state, who shall keep the same unopened, and deliver them to the presiding officer of the house in which such contest is to be tried, to be disposed of by such officer as the depositions specified in the preceding sections. When Contest May Be Commenced for State Officers. SEC. 136. Proceedings to contest the election of any state Contest for officer must be begun within sixty days after the evidence state office, becomes available upon which the contest is based. For Other Officers. time limit other than SEC. 137. Proceedings to contest the election of any county Contests for officer, or any officer other than a state officer, must be begun state office within forty days after the evidence becomes available upon which such contest is based. When Time Begins to Run. begins to run SEC. 138. Delays arising from any cause tending to pre- When time vent the obtaining of evidence upon which a contest is brought shall not cause such contest to fail, but the time provided in this act shall begin to run only from the day when such evidence may be freely available to the person contesting the election of another, and from and after the passage of this act. When Demand for Recount Must Be Made. demand for SEC. 139. Demands for recount must be made within sixty When days from the day of election, or after the passage of this act recount if the recount is to be had of votes cast at the last general must be election preceding the passage of this act. FOR CONTESTING ELECTION OF STATE OFFICERS How Instituted. made state office, SEC. 140. Any qualified elector of the state may contest Contest for the election of any person declared duly elected to any state how instioffice within this state by filing a specification of the grounds tuted of such contest with the clerk of the supreme court, which specification shall be verified by oath or affirmation, and it is hereby made the duty of the attorney-general to prosecute such action in the name of the people of the state, before the supreme court, who shall have original jurisdiction in such cases; the justices, or any of them, shall have power to issue such process as may be necessary to the complete hearing and final determination of such action. SEC. 141. Whenever ten per centum or more of the voters of this state, as shown by the number of votes cast at the last per cent of total vote necessary for referendum Petition of 10 preceding general election for justice of the supreme court, shall express their wish that any law or resolution made by the legislature be submitted to the vote of the people, they shall file with the secretary of state, not less than four months before the time set for such general election, a petition, which petition shall contain the names and residences of at least ten per centum of the voters of this state, demanding that a referendum vote be had by the people of the state at the next general election upon the bill or resolution on which the referendum is demanded. More than verification More Than One Petition-Verification. SEC. 142. The names of the electors so petitioning need not all be upon one petition, but may be contained in one or more vee petition; petitions; but each petition must be verified by at least one of the voters who has signed such petition, and such voter making such verification must swear that the persons signing said petition are qualified voters of this state. Said petition may be verified upon information and belief. Secretary of state to certify questions to county to be public Secretary of State to Certify Questions to the County Clerks- SEC. 143. That upon receipt of said petition by the secretary of state he shall file the same, and at the next general election shall submit the question of the approval or disapproval of said law or resolution to the people of the state to clerks; same be voted upon at the ensuing election wherein any state or congressional officer is to be voted for, or wherein any question may be voted upon by the electors of the entire state. And the secretary of state shall certify the said law to the several county clerks in this state, and they shall publish the same in accordance with the provisions of law requiring the said county clerks to publish questions and constitutional amendments which are to be submitted for popular vote. Questions, how placed on ballots referendum Questions, How Placed on Ballots. SEC. 144. That the title of the act shall be set out on the ballot and the question printed upon the ballot for the information of the voter shall be as follows: Shall the act (setting out the title thereof) be approved? And the votes cast upon such question shall be counted and canvassed as are the votes for state officers counted and canvassed. Operation of Referendum. SEC. 145. When a majority of the electors voting on the Operation of question of the approval or disapproval of any act at a state election, shall by their vote signify approval of the same, such act shall stand as the law of the state, and shall not be overruled, annulled, set aside, suspended, or in any way made inoperative, except by a direct vote of the people. When a majority shall so signify disapproval, the law or resolution so disapproved shall be void and of no effect. CHAPTER 6 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Words Construed. includes SEC. 146. Words in this act in the masculine gender shall Masculine be construed to comprehend the feminine gender in compli- feminine ance with the constitutional amendment granting suffrage gender to women. Judicial Officers. officers with SEC. 147. No words designating the party affiliation of Judicial any candidate for a judicial office shall be printed upon the out party ballot. School Elections. designation trustee SEC. 148. School trustees shall be elected in accordance School with the provisions of chapter six of an act entitled "An act elections concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. Electors in Military Service. SEC. 149. Electors of the State of Nevada in the military Soldier vote service of the United States may, when called into such service, vote in accordance with the provisions of the act approved March 14, 1899. Repeal. SEC. 150. All parts of acts in conflict with the provisions Repeal of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 286-An Act regulating the compensation of receivers of corporations in cases of involuntary dissolution or liquidation. [Approved March 29, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: insolvent to receive funds SECTION 1. A receiver of a corporation appointed in any Receivers proceeding heretofore or hereafter instituted for the involun- of certain tary liquidation or dissolution of such corporation and the corporations winding up of its affairs, in addition to his necessary expenses, certain pershall receive as compensation for his services not to exceed centage of two per cent of all moneys or sums received by him, and an handled additional two per cent of all moneys paid out by him in dividends; provided, however, in case of extraordinary services rendered by the receiver the court may allow him an additional one per cent upon final accounting of all moneys disbursed by him by way of dividends. Any order, judgment, decree, or proceeding allowing any greater or further compensation than that provided in this act to any receiver of any insolvent corporation appointed in a proceeding for its involuntary liquidation or winding up shall be void. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. Amending school code Duties of superintendent of public instruction named in detail CHAP. 287-An Act to amend section six and section nine of an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto." [Approved March 29, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The superintendent of public instruction shall have power, and it shall be his duty: 1. To visit each county in the state at least once each year for the purpose of conducting institutes, visiting schools, consulting with the school officers, and addressing public assemblies on subjects pertaining to the schools; and the necessary traveling expenses incurred by the superintendent in performance of such duties, such traveling expenses to include the cost of transportation and board while absent from his place of residence, shall be allowed, audited and paid out of the general fund, in the same manner as claims upon said fund are now allowed, audited and paid; provided, that the sum so expended in any one year shall not exceed one thousand dollars; 2. To apportion the state distributive school fund; 3. To apportion the county school fund of each county among its various districts; 4. To report to the governor biennially, on or before the first day of December of the years preceding the regular session of the legislature. The governor shall transmit said report to the legislature; and whenever it is ordered published the state printer shall deliver a sufficient number of copies to the superintendent, who shall distribute the same among school officers of the state and of the United States. Said report shall contain a full statement of the condition of public instruction in the state; a statement of the condition and amount of all funds and property appropriated to the purpose of education, the number and grade of schools in each county; the number of children in each county between the ages of six and eighteen years of age; the number of such attending public schools; the number attending private schools; the number attending no schools; the number under six years of age; the number between eighteen and twentyone years of age; the amount of public-school moneys apportioned to each county; the amount of money raised by county taxation, district tax, subscription, or otherwise, by any city, town, district, or county, for the support of schools therein; the amount of money raised for building schoolhouses; a statement of plans for the management and improvement of public schools; and such other information relative to the educational interests of the state as he may think of importance; tendent of instruction 5. To prescribe suitable rules and regulations for making Duties of all reports and conducting all necessary proceedings under superint this act, and to furnish suitable blank forms for the same; public to cause the same, with such instructions as he shall deem named in necessary and proper for the organization and government of detail schools, to be transmitted to the local school officers, who shall be governed in accordance therewith. He shall prepare a convenient form of school register for the purpose of securing accurate returns from the teachers of public schools, and shall furnish each school district in the state with such registers. He shall prepare pamphlet copies of the school law and all amendments thereto, and shall transmit a copy thereof to each school trustee, school census marshal, and school teacher in the state; 6. To convene a state teachers' institute biennially, in the even-numbered years, in such place and at such time as he may deem advisable. It shall be his further duty to convene five district teachers' institutes in the various sections of the state biennially, in the odd-numbered years, in such places and at such times as he may deem advisable. He shall engage such institute lecturers and teachers as he shall deem advisable, and shall preside over and regulate the exercises of all state and district institutes. No institute shall continue less than four nor more than ten days. The expenses incurred in holding such institute shall be paid out of the state general fund; provided, that the amount for the state institute shall not exceed five hundred dollars, nor the amount of any one district institute two hundred and fifty dollars, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants for the same upon the order of the superintendent of public instruction. All teachers shall be required to attend the district institutes held in the supervision districts in which they may be teaching, respectively, unless they shall be excused for good cause by the superintendent of public instruction, and without loss of salary for the time thus employed; 7. To call, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, a county teachers' institute in any county at such time and place as in his judgment will best subserve the educational interests of the county, and to preside over and regulate the exercises of the same. The expenses of such institute shall be paid out of the county general fund of the county in which such institute is held; provided, that the board of county commissioners shall authorize such institute upon the application of the superintendent of public instruction; and provided, that such expenses shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars. All teachers shall be required to attend any county institute held in the counties in which they shall be teaching, respectively, unless excused for good |