Employers must provide good water for miners CHAP. 73—An Act requiring that suitable drinking water and receptacles therefor be furnished in underground workings; and providing penalties for the violation thereof. [Approved March 8, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every corporation, company, owner, or operator of a mine or underground workings in this state employing more than five men, shall, during working hours, provide suitable receptacles containing fresh, clean water for drinking purposes at places convenient to where men are employed in said underground workings. Said receptacles shall be supplied with a substantial cover which may be securely fastened or locked to prevent dust or dirt from entering therein, and shall be so made that the water shall be drawn from a valve or faucet. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the state inspector of mines Inspector to to enforce the provisions of this act. enforce Penalty License for peddlers, etc. Exception SEC. 3. Any corporation, company, owner, or operator who fails, neglects, or refuses to obey the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. 74-An Act to amend section 123 of an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891, and as amended and approved March 13, 1913. [Approved March 8, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That said section 123 of said act as amended is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 123. Every traveling merchant, hawker, or peddler, and every auctioneer, shall, before vending any goods, wares, or merchandise, or acting as auctioneer, in any county of this state, procure from the sheriff of such county a license authorizing such business in such county, and shall pay for such license the sum of fifty dollars per month, if no freight-car, vehicle, wagon, or animals be used in such business, but if a freight-car standing on a side-track, or a vehicle, wagon, or one or more animals be used in connection therewith, such license shall be seventy-five dollars per month; provided, however, that no license shall be required from the grower or growers of Nevada products for selling their fruits, vegetables, or other agricultural products, butter, eggs, honey, or poultry raised or produced in the State of Nevada. The county auditor shall issue to the sheriff of the several counties the license contemplated by this section, and they shall be issued by such sheriff to applicants therefor, upon the terms herein before stated; and any such merchant, peddler, or auctioneer who shall offer for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, or act as auctioneer, without having first obtained a license as hereinbefore provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on Penalty conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Repeal provisions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 75-An Act to provide for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely, Nevada; for the completion of the furnishing and equipment of said building; for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the completion of said building and the furnishing and equipment of same. [Approved March 9, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and school at SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of White Completion Pine County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed of high, to prepare and issue bonds of said county for an amount not Ely to exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely and for the completion of the furnishing and equipment of said building. SEC. 2. The bonds authorized under the provisions of section Denomina1 of this act shall be issued in the sum of one thousand dollars tion of bonds each. They shall be numbered from one to twenty consecutively. They shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and by the county treasurer. SEC. 3. The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall Record kept keep a record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, showing the number and date of each bond, and to whom issued. of bonds SEC. 4. The board of county commissioners of White Pine Negotiation County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed proposals, or by private sale or sales, as they may deem for the best interest of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States; and provided further, that the said board shall sell the bonds to the highest and best bidder or bidders in the event that they elect not to sell the same at private sale or sales. Interest limited of bonds SEC. 5. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed five per cent per annum, and shall be payable semiannually on the first of January and the first of July of each year after the year 1915, at the office of the county treasurer of said White Pine County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than seventeen years, and provided that the interest on said bonds shall cease on the maturity thereof, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 6. On the first day of January of the year 1929, and Redemption annually thereafter, five of such bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed by the county treasurer of White Pine County. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of their issuance, the lowest bond to be the first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole amount of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been Semiannual paid and redeemed. The interest coupons shall be paid semiannually. interest County Equipment Residue of SEC. 7. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall "White Pine be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said High School treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as the "White Pine County High School Equipment Fund, and to pay out said moneys in the manner now provided by law for the payment of the "County High School Fund, and for the purposes provided for in this act. SEC. 8. The county board of education of White Pine County is hereby authorized and directed to use such money derived from the sale of such bonds, or such portion thereof as they may deem necessary, for the completion of the county high-school building in the city of Ely, Nevada, and for the completion of the equipment and furnishing of said building, and any balance remaining in such fund after the completion of the building, equipment, and furnishing thereof shall be turned over and converted into the proper fund provided for the running and maintaining said high school in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of the law pertaining to the establishment, maintenance, and management of high schools in the various counties of this state. County board of education SEC. 9. Said county board of education shall determine as to the character of said improvements, materials to be used to determine therefor, and plans therefor. The laws in force governing the character of letting of contracts by boards of county commissioners are hereby made applicable to, and the same shall govern, the action of the improvements, etc. county board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act. All demands and bills contracted by said county board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid in the manner now provided by law for paying claims against the "County High School Fund" treasurer SEC. 10. The county treasurer of the said White Pine County County shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the responsible money which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto. "White Pine Fund" SEC. 11. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment County of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, High School the board of county commissioners of said White Pine County Bond Equipment is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect annu- Redemption ally a special tax on all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines, within the boundary of said White Pine County, until such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire the same as hereinabove provided. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are levied and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as "White Pine County High School Equipment Bond Redemption Fund" SEC. 12. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in Tax to this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this cease, when act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in the said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of said county, be transferred to the fund used for paying the contingent expenses of said county high school. bonds SEC. 13. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any Treasurer to of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel paid cancel the same by writing across the face thereof "Paid, together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the sum so paid. ceases, SEC. 14. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, Interest for any cause whatever, fail to present said bond to the said when county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on said bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. state SEC. 15. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby pledged imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act specified. Annual report of state controller, what shall contain To keep account with each county, and with the United States, etc. Further duties CHAP. 76—An Act to amend an act entitled "An act defining the duties of state controller," approved February 24, 1866. [Approved March 9, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. He shall digest, prepare, and report to the governor, on the first day of January, or within twenty-five days thereafter, annually, to be laid before the legislature at each regular session, a complete statement of the condition of the revenues, taxable funds, resources, incomes, and property of the state, and the amount of the expenditures for the preceding fiscal year; a full and detailed statement of the public debt; estimate of the revenues and expenditures for the succeeding fiscal year; also, a tabular statement showing separately the whole amount of each appropriation of money made by law, the amount paid under the same, and the balance unexpended; a tabular statement showing the amount of revenue collected from each county for the preceding year; and shall recommend such plans as he may deem expedient for the support of the public credit, for promoting frugality and economy in the public offices, for lessening the public expenses, and, generally, for the better management and more perfect understanding of the fiscal affairs of the state. SEC. 2. Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4. The controller shall open and keep an account with each county, charging the counties with the revenue collected, as shown by the auditor's statements, and also with their proportions of the salaries of the district judges, and crediting them with the amounts paid to the state treasurer. He shall also keep and state all accounts between the State of Nevada and the United States, or any state or territory, or any individual, corporation, or public officer of this state, indebted to the state, or intrusted with the collection, disbursement, or management of any moneys, funds, or interests arising therefrom, belonging to the state, of every character and description whatsoever, where the same are derivable from or payable into the state treasury. He shall settle the accounts of all county treasurers, and other collectors and receivers of all state revenues, taxes, tolls, and incomes, levied or collected by any act of the legislature and payable into the state treasury. He shall keep fair, clear, distinct, and separate accounts of all the revenues and incomes of the state, and also all the expenditures, disbursements, and investments thereof, showing the particulars of every expenditure, disbursement, and investment, and he shall have the power to direct the collection of all accounts or moneys due the state, and if there be no time fixed or |