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Sec. 4980.

Take effect.

4980. SEC. 7. This Act shall go into force sixty (60) days after its final passage.

Ex parte Spinney, 10 Nev. 323; State v. Ching Gang, 16 Nev. 62.

Charcoal measurement

Sealed measures to be kept.

Surveyors, duties of.

Fines.

To take effect.

An Act to regulate the measurement of charcoal.

Approved February 26, 1879, 50.

4981. SECTION 1. The standard measure of a bushel of charcoal is hereby established at two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven and seven hundred and fifteen one thousandths cubic inches, stroke measure, and all charcoal bought or sold by actual measurement, must be measured in the mode and manner herein provided.

4982. SEC. 2. All persons, or corporations, purchasing or consuming more than twenty thousand bushels of charcoal annually, shall keep a sealed measure of convenient size.

4983. SEC. 3. For the purpose of this Act, any County Surveyor is empowered to estimate the dimensions of any bin or measure, and he shall inscribe thereon, in plain letters, the number of standard bushels it will contain, together with his own name or signature; he shall receive for such services five dollars for each measure so inscribed; his fee to be paid by those required under the provisions of this Act, to maintain sealed measures.

4984. SEC. 4. Any person, or Superintendent, or manager of any corporation or company, violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars.

4983. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

Exempt from
execution.

An Act to encourage the collection of geological, paleontological, and mineral specimens in this state.

Approved March 5, 1879, 64.

4986. SECTION 1. Any person who shall be the bona fide owner of a collection, or cabinet of metal-bearing ores, geological specimens, art curiosities, or paleontological remains, and who shall properly arrange, classify, number, and catalogue in a suitable book or books of reference, any such collection of ores, specimens, curiosities, or remains, whether the same shall be

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Sec. 4991.

kept at a private residence or in a public hall, or in a place of
public business or traffic, the said bona fide owner of such col-
lection shall be entitled to hold the same exempt from execution,
as other property is exempted from execution under the pro-
visions of section two hundred and twenty-one of an Act
entitled "An Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the
courts of justice of this state, and to repeal all other Acts in
relation thereto," approved March eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine.

4987. SEC. 2. Nothing in section one of this Act shall be Not exempt. construed so as to exempt from execution any numismatic collection, such as gold and silver coins, paper currency, bank notes, legal tender currency, national or state bonds, or any negotiable note, or valuable copper, bronze, nickel, platinum, or other coin whatsoever.

catalogues.

4988. SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the owner of Must keep any such collection or cabinet, as described in section one of this Act, to keep constantly at or near such collections or cabinet, for the free inspection of all visitors who may desire to examine the same, either written or printed catalogues, as provided in section one of this Act; and any person owning such collection or cabinet who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section of this Act, shall forfeit all right to hold such collections or cabinet as exempt from legal execution, as provided in section one of this Act.

An Act to encourage the sinking of artesian wells.

Approved March 6, 1879, 86.

4989. SECTION 1. Every person, firm, company, corpor-Artesian ation or association that shall from and after the passage of this wells. Act, commence the sinking of artesian wells, within this state, shall be entitled for sinking said artesian well, after the first five hundred feet shall have been sunk, the sum of two dollars per foot, to be paid in the manner provided for in section four of this Act.

4990. SEC. 2. Every person, firm, company, corporation statement to or association that proposes taking the benefit of this Act shall, be filed. prior to reaching the five hundred feet depth mentioned in section one, file with the County Recorder of the county in which said well is situated a sworn statement, setting forth (if on surveyed land) the range, township, section and subdivision of section, and if on unsurveyed lands, then the statement shall contain such description as will enable the Commissioner, hereinafter provided for, to ascertain its locality.

4991. SEC. 3. Whenever any person, firm, company, cor

Sec. 4992.

of well.

Examination poration or association shall report to the Board of County Commissioners the completion or sinking of a well, at a greater depth than five hundred feet, and demand the bounty provided for in this Act, the said Board of County Commissioners shall authorize and instruct their chairman, or a member of their body, or some other suitable person, to proceed to said well, measure and report under oath its depth to said board; provided, that the expense of said measurement, including report examination. and traveling fees, to and from said well, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars, which amount shall be paid by the party making demand for bounty.

Expense of

Warrant for

same.

Proviso.

Persons entitled to benefits of Act.

4992. SEC. 4. If, upon measurement, the Board of County Commissioners find said well to exceed in depth five hundred feet, they shall allow, audit and instruct the County Auditor to draw his warrant on the general fund of the county, in favor of such person, firm, company, corporation or association, for the sum of two dollars per foot, for each and every foot sunk, after the first five hundred feet; provided, said well or wells shall flow water to be used for mining, manufacture, agriculture or domestic purposes.

4993. SEC. 5. Every person, firm, company, corporation or association, that shall have, prior to the passage of this Act, commenced to sink an artesian well, or wells, and shall have reached the depth of three hundred feet or more, shall be entitled to receive the benefit of the provisions of this Act for each and every foot sunk thereafter; provided, after the completion of said well or wells, they shall flow water as provided in section four of this Act.

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Official

An Act fixing the rates for official advertising.

Approved March 1, 1881, 108.

4994. SECTION 1. For all advertising required or ordered advertising. by the State of Nevada the state shall pay for each square of ten lines, nonpariel measurement, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents ($2 50) for the first insertion, and one dollar ($1) for each subsequent insertion, an insertion being held to be one publication per week.

Appropria-
tion for main-
tenance of
veterans.

An Act granting aid to veterans of the late Mexican and civil wars in indigent circumstances.

Approved February 12, 1885, 23.

4995. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the

Sec. 5002

support and maintenance of veterans of the late Mexican and
civil wars, in indigent circumstances, residing in the veterans'
home, under the auspices of the veterans' home association, a
corporation duly created and existing under the laws of the
State of California, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum for each veteran duly admitted to and residing in
such home; provided, that in no one year shall a sum exceed-
ing twenty-four hundred dollars be paid by virtue of such
appropriation.

annually.

4996. SEC. 2. The aid herein granted shall commence Paid semithe first day of the month after each such veteran shall commence bona fide to reside in and be supported in such home, and shall be paid by the State of Nevada in semi-annual installments.

Examiners to

4997. SEC. 3. The State Board of Examiners are author- Board of ized in behalf of the state at any time to inquire, either in make person or by authorized agents, into the management of such inquiries. institution, and upon refusal, after due demand, to permit such inquiry, such institution shall not thereafter receive any aid under this Act.

4998. SEC. 4. Every claim for aid under this Act shall Claims. be presented to and acted upon by the State Board of Examiners.

4999. SEC. 5. If such claims be audited and allowed in If allowed whole or in part by said board, it shall be the duty of the Con-shall be paid. troller to draw his warrant for the amount thereof in favor of the President and Treasurer of said association, and it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to pay the same on due presentation.

aid.

5000. SEC. 6. No person for whose specific support there Persons not is paid such institution the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents entitled to or more per month, shall be entitled to any aid under this Act; but if such sum be less than twelve dollars and fifty cents per month, aid shall be granted for such sum only as is necessary to make the full amount of support, including the state aid, twelve dollars and fifty cents per month.

5001. SEC. 7. No money appropriated by this state, under Not to be this Act, shall be expended either in improvements or in the used for ims. erection of new buildings for such institution.

provements.

5002. SEC. 8. To entitle an applicant to admission to the persons entiveterans' home of California and to receive the benefit of state siento ader aid authorized by this Act, the applicant shall make application ans' home. under oath for such admission, reciting the following facts, to-wit: Name in full, residence, occupation, age, place of birth, married or single, date and place of enlistment, rank, company, regiment or vessel, or branch of naval service, name of commanding officer, date, place and cause of discharge, years resident of this state, name, relation and full address of nearest relative or friend, whether drawing pension from United States or not, and amount. Such application to be accompanied by a surgeon's certificate, setting forth that the applicant is unable to obtain his subsistence by manual labor, giving the reasons why, and the time, place and manner in which such disability

Sec. 5003.

Military or

was incurred, and such other matters as may be necessary to
make the examination satisfactory to the surgeon that the appli-
cant is fully entitled to the aid authorized by this Act. The
application, with surgeon's certificate annexed, to be made to a
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, when such exists in
the county, otherwise to a District Judge, to be carefully
examined and then certified by the Post Commander or District
Judge, to the Board of County Commissioners of the county
wherein the applicant resides, which board, after being satisfied
of their correctness, shall certify said papers to the State Board
of Examiners at Carson City, Nevada, together with a copy of
the order of said Board of County Commissioners on the Treas-
urer of the county for expenses of transporting and placing in
the veterans' home of California the said applicant.

5003. SEC. 9. No person shall be entitled to receive any naval services aid under this Act unless he has been admitted to and is kept in qualifications said home by reason of military or naval services, nor unless he

necessary

has been continuously a resident of the State of Nevada for one
year next prior to his admission to said home; nor unless he
would have been entitled to receive aid from the state or county
by virtue of the laws and constitution of this state. Before
allowing a claim in behalf of any inmate of said home, the State
Board of Examiners shall require proof of such facts.

An Act to provide for the compiling of the laws of the State of

Nevada.

Approved March 7, 1885, 82.

3004. SECTION 1. Upon the compilation, arranging and and John D. filing with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of this state by authorized to David E. Baily and John D. Hammond, on or before the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, shall exist and be in force on the of a thoroughly compiled and annotated copy of the laws of the State of Nevada, thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, setting forth and containing all the laws of this state of general and public interest, together with the constitution of the State of Nevada, and the laws of Congress in regard to naturalization, and the various Acts of Congress relating to the grants of land by the United States to the State of Nevada, with brief annotations or references to all the decisions of the supreme court of this state, construing any and all laws of this state in force on the said thirty-first day of March aforesaid (said compilation shall have a full and complete table of contents), the said Clerk of the Supreme Court shall at once lay the same before the Justices of the Supreme Court, or a majority thereof, for their examination and approval. The said Justices, or a majority of