Duties of superin tendent of public instruction named in detail Deputy superintendents, how appointed; qualifications Deputies must give entire time to office cause by the superintendent of public instruction and without loss of salary for the time thus employed; 8. To call meetings of the state board of education in January and June of each year, and at such other times as he shall deem proper, or when two members of said board shall request a meeting; 9. To perform such other duties relative to the public schools as may be prescribed by law; 10. To have done at the state printing office any printing required in the performance of his duties; 11. To require a written report from each deputy superintendent on the first day of October, the first day of January, the first day of April, and the first day of July of each school year. Such reports shall contain any information or facts that the superintendent of public instruction may require; 12. To arrange blank forms, including school registers, for teachers' contracts, and supply the same to school trustees and teachers; 13. The superintendent of public instruction shall, at the expiration of his term of office, deliver to his successor all property and effects belonging to his office, and take a receipt for same. SEC. 2. Section nine 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 9. The state board of education shall, on or before the first Monday in May, 1911, and each fourth year thereafter, appoint one deputy superintendent of public instruction for each supervision district as herein provided for, and such appointee shall, at the time of his appointment and during his term of office, be a bona fide resident of the district for which he is appointed. Such appointee shall take office on the first Monday in September and shall serve for a period of four years or until his successor shall have been appointed and shall have qualified. In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of deputy superintendent of public instruction, the state board of education shall, in like manner, make an appointment for the unexpired term. The deputy superintendents of public instruction shall devote their entire time to school supervision and shall not engage in any other work while holding this office. RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS No. 1-Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to amending section three of article eleven of the constitution of the State of Nevada. [Approved March 26, 1913; approved February 4, 1915] state con Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That Amending section three of article eleven of the constitution of the State stitution; of Nevada be amended to read as follows: second passage by purposes Section 3. All lands, including the sixteenth and thirty- legislature sixth sections in any township donated for the benefit of public schools in the act of the Thirty-eighth Congress, to enable the people of Nevada Territory to form a state government, the thirty thousand acres of public lands granted by an act of Congress, approved July second, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for each senator and representative in Congress, and all proceeds of lands that have been or may hereafter be granted or appropriated by the United States to this state, and also the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new states under the act of Congress distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the several states of the union, approved A. D. eighteen hundred and fortyone; provided, that Congress make provision for or authorize All of certain such diversion to be made for the purpose herein contained; revenues to all estates that may escheat to the state; all of such per educational centum as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands; all fines collected under the penal laws of the state; all property given or bequeathed to the state for educational purposes, and all proceeds derived from any or all of said sources shall be and the same are hereby solemnly pledged for educational purposes, and shall not be transferred to any other funds for other uses; and the interest thereon shall, from time to time, be apportioned among the several counties as the legislature may provide by law; and the legislature shall provide for the sale of floating land warrants to cover the aforesaid lands, and for the investment of all proceeds derived from any of the above-mentioned sources, in United States bonds, or the bonds of this state, or the bonds of other states of the union, or the bonds of any county in the State of Nevada; or in loans at a rate of interest of not less than six per cent per annum, secured by mortgage on agricultural lands in this state of not less than three times the value of the amount loaned, exclusive of perishable improvements, of unexceptional title and free from all encumbrances, said loans to be under such further restrictions and regulations as may be provided by law; provided, that the interest only of the aforesaid proceeds shall be used for educational purposes, and any surplus interest shall be added to the principal sum; and provided further, that such portion of said interest as may be necessary may be appropriated for the support of the state university. No. 2-Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, memorializing Congress and the Nevada senators and representative in Congress. [Approved February 4, 1915] WHEREAS, Under congressional grants of 1862 and 1864, the Central Pacific railroad company acquired a right of way across the State of Nevada 400 feet in width-200 feet on each side the center of its track-and notwithstanding the fact that these grants conveyed a mere easement, the company proceeded to sell in various towns along its route considerable quantities of land within its right of way, which lands have been occupied and improved, and taxes paid thereon by the purchasers and. their grantees, for about forty years; and WHEREAS, It is now claimed that the company had no power of alienation, and its deeds to lands so conveyed within its right of way are void; and WHEREAS, Lots so conveyed constitute much of the most valuable and highly improved property in the towns of Verdi, Reno, Lovelock, Winnemucca, Carlin, Elko, and Wells, all of which is seriously affected by the present conditions, its value depreciated, its titles unsettled, its salability impaired, and its further improvement arrested; and WHEREAS, There is now pending in the house of representatives of the United States a bill known as senate bill No. 5042, introduced March 24, 1914, by Honorable Francis G. Newlands, and passed by the senate August 7, 1914, the purpose of which is to give all conveyances or agreements made by said company and its successor companies concerning lands forming a part of said right of way, the same force and effect as if the land involved had been held under absolute or fee simple title; and WHEREAS, Similar relief has been granted by Congress to all persons who had purchased land within the right of way of the Northern Pacific railroad company by an act entitled "An act validating certain conveyances of the Northern Pacific railroad company, and the Northern Pacific railway company" (U. S. Stats. at L., vol. 33, p. 538); and WHEREAS, The same character of relief has been granted by Congress to the people of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah by an act entitled "An act legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Union Pacific railroad company" (U. S. Stats. at L., vol. 37, pt. 1, p. 138); and WHEREAS, The Central Pacific railway company has announced that: "Notwithstanding the decisions of the |