Examiners, Section Forty-one. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction Board of shall appoint three competent persons in each county within this State, and duties. who shall be and constitute a Board of Examination, for the purpose of examining applicants and granting certificates of qualification to teachers of Public Schools. They shall meet at such times and places as the interests of the public may require, and be governed by such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education may from time to time direct. They shall only grant certificates to such persons as shall pass a satisfactory examination, which certificate shall remain in force, as specified in this section, unless revoked for good cause shown. Said Board of Examiners shall have power to grant certificates of the following grades: Certificates of the first grade, for teaching unclassified grammar and high schools, which shall be good for two years; certificates of the second grade, for teaching primary schools, which shall be good for one year. Said certificates shall be issued to such persons only as have passed a satisfactory examination in the branches of study pursued in each specified grade of the Public Schools, and shall have given evidence of good moral character and fitness to teach; and such certificates shall be signed by all the Board of Examiners. Said Board shall have power to renew the certificates of a teacher who is successfully and continually engaged in teaching in the county, without a re-examination. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be ex officio a member of each and every Board of Examination. SEC. 19. Section forty-three of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: Section Forty-three. No portion of the Public School Funds, nor of School Fund, money raised by State tax, or specially appropriated for the support of how used. Public Schools, shall be devoted to any other object or purpose. SEC. 20. Section forty-six of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: Treasurer Section Forty-six. No Tax Collector or County Treasurer shall re- Collector or ceive any fees or compensation whatever for collecting, receiving, keep- not to reing, transporting, or disbursing any school moneys (except what may be ceive fees. specially provided for in this Act); but the whole moneys collected as provided in Section forty-five of this Act, shall be paid to the County Treasurer, and disbursed by him according to law. SEC. 21. Section fifty of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: etc., not to beadmitted. Section Fifty. Negroes, Mongolians, and Indians shall not be admit- Negroes, ted into the Public Schools, but the Board of Trustees may establish a separate school for their education, and use the Public School Funds for the support of the same. SEC. 22. Section fifty-six of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: Districts. Section Fifty-six. Each village, town, or incorporated city of this State School shall constitute but one school district, and the public schools therein shall be under the supervision and control of the trustees thereof. SEC. 23. Section Fifty-seven. The Act entitled "An Act establish- Acts repealed. ing a Common School System for the Territory of Nevada," approved November twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one ; and also "An Act to amend an Act establishing a Common School System for the Territory of Nevada, approved November twentyninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one," approved December twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, together with all its amendments, are hereby appealed [repealed]; provided, that this repeal shall not render invalid any lawful proceedings already taken under said Act, or its amendments, and that the Common School moneys or funds already accrued from taxation or otherwise, shall inure to the benefit of, and belong to, the Public School Funds provided for in this Act; and all other laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Secretary of CHAP. LIII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to employ a Clerk in the State Library and Adjutant General's Office. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to employ authorized a Clerk in the State Library and Adjutant General's office; said Clerk to employ shall also perform such other duties as may from time to time be required by the Secretary of State. Compensation. SEC. 2. The compensation of said Clerk shall be one hundred and fifty dollars per month, and the Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer at the end of each month for the above amount, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same out of any moneys not otherwise specially appropriated. Compensation. CHAP. LIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning District Attorneys, approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five," approved February twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of the above entitled Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: Section Four. The District Attorney of each county of this State shall receive for his services, annually, a compensation to be paid in four equal quarterly payments, as follows: First-Of the County of Storey, two thousand dollars. Second-Of the County of Esmeralda, one thousand dollars. Fourth-Of the County of Humboldt, one thousand dollars. Fifth-Of the County of Ormsby, one thousand dollars. Seventh Of the County of Lyon, fifteen hundred dollars. Eleventh-When any new county shall be created hereafter, the District Attorney for such county shall receive for his services an annual salary, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, as the County Commissioners of such county may determine. SEC. 2. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are Repeal. hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on and after the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. CHAP. LV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning the office of Secretary of State," approved February 14, 1865. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: of State to tribute Section Seven. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to su- Duty of perintend the printing, and have corrected a proof sheet of the Acts, Joint Secretary Resolutions, and Journals required by law to be printed, by carefully superintend printing, comparing them with the enrolled bills and original journals on file in etc. his office, and to distribute the laws and journals on file in his office, and to distribute the laws and journals as soon as printed, in the follow-To dising manner: To each department of the Government at Washington, Laws and one copy; to the library of Congress, two copies; to each of the States Journals. and organized Territories, two copies; to each of our members of Congress, to each of the Judges of the Supreme and District Courts, one copy; every person who was a member of the Legislature of the session when the laws and journals were adopted, and every elective officer of the Senate and Assembly, and every appointee of the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate of such session, shall be entitled to one copy of each. Of the laws alone he shall furnish to Laws alone. the County Clerk, in the cheapest and most expeditious manner, to be by the County Clerk distributed, upon application to him, as follows: one copy for the Board of Commissioners, when such Board exists, and one copy to each county officer and each Justice of the Peace; and of the journals he shall furnish two copies of each House to each County Journals. Clerk, for the use of the county; he shall also distribute the laws and Laws and journals to such literary and scientific institutions, publishers, and authors as in his opinion may secure an interchange of works which Journals. Laws and of office. may properly be placed in the State Library; and he shall also, through the County Clerk, distribute one copy thereof to each public library in the State. All laws and journals distributed to State or other officers of to be for use this State, except to members of the Legislature, shall be for the use of the office, and to be by the person receiving them turned over to his successor in office; and the Secretary of State shall take proper receipts for such books, and file the same in his office; and he shall also direct the County Clerks as to the form and disposition of the receipts to be taken by them from distributees. Receipts. Appropriation. CHAP. LVI.—An Act for the relief of A. Whitford. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred dollars in the gold coin of the United States is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of A. Whitford, as audited by the State Board of Examiners, March sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six; and the Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, and the State Treasurer is required to pay the same. Salaries, etc. payable in currency. Proviso. CHAP. LVII.-An Act amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act in relation to the payment of Salaries and other Claims against the State," approved February 27, 1866. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby so amended as to read as follows: Section Two. From and after the first Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, all salaries and claims accruing against the State, except for money borrowed and the interest thereon, shall be payable in any currency made a legal tender by any law of the United States; provided, that the compensation of the State Printer shall be paid in gold coin to July first, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to amend section fifty-two of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons," approved November twenty-ninth, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section fifty-two of said Act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: entitled to Section Fifty-two. Administration of the estate of a person dying Who intestate shall be granted to some one or more of the persons herein- administer after mentioned, and they shall be respectively entitled in the following on estates order: First-The surviving husband or wife, or some person as he or she may request to have appointed. Second-The children. Third-The father or mother. Fifth-The sisters. Sixth-The grandchildren. Seventh-Any other of the kindred entitled to share in the distribution of the estate. Eighth-The public administrator. Ninth-The creditors. Tenth-Any of the kindred not above enumerated, within the fourth degree of consanguinity. Eleventh-Any person or persons legally competent. intestate. Provided, that when there was any partnership existing between the Proviso. intestate, at the time of his or her death, and any other person, the surviving partner shall in no case be appointed administrator of the estate of such intestate. SEC. 2. All Acts, or parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are Repeal. hereby repealed. CHAP. LIX.-An Act relative to transcribing and indexing certain [Approved March 11, 1867.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: directed to SECTION 1. The County Clerk of Humboldt County shall, under Clerk the direction of the Judge of the District Court of said county, transcribe transcribe in suitable books, to be provided for that purpose by the and index Commissioners of said county, the records of the Probate Court of said records. certain |