Statistics.

of Equalization his assessment roll for the year in which To report. general elections are held, to deliver also a written report, embracing said year and the preceding year, to the County Auditor, of the following matters within his county: First, the number of acres in agriculture, and the approximate amount of agricultural, grazing and timber lands; second, the number of horses, mules, jacks, jennies, cattle, sheep, goats and swine; third, the aggregate quantity of wheat, rye, maize, potatoes, grapes and other agricultural products; fourth, a statement of the approximate quantity of mineral lands in such county, and the approximate quality and value of such; fifth, the number of mills, manufactories, distilleries and breweries, classifying each, and the number and length of all flumes and water ditches used to convey water for mining, manufacturing or agricultural purposes; sixth, the number of transplanted fish, their variety, by whom transplanted, and into what stream or lake; seventh, the number and kind of forest, fruit or nut trees transplanted, and under successful cultivation; eighth, he shall also report such other matters as may be required by the annual circular of the Surveyor-general, and for such report he shall be allowed such a sum as may be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, and until the delivery of such report, the last month's salary, or wages of said Assessor, be retained.

Fees.

Retention

of salary.

Trustees to issue bonds

CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to authorize the School Trustees, of School District number ten, in Washoe County, to issue bonds for school purposes.

[Approved February 18, 1879.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees, of School District number ten, in the town of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, are hereby authorized, under the provisions of this Act, to issue bonds, Amount of bearing interest, not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in United States gold coin, none of which said bonds shall run for a period longer than twenty years from the date thereof.

issue of

bonds.

Size of bond and interest how payably.

Coupons.

Principal made

payable.

SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be issued for sums not less than one hundred dollars each, in gold coin, shall be payable to bearer, and the interest thereon shall be payable semi-annually, and coupons for such installment of such interest shall be attached to each of said bonds.

SEC. 3. The principal of said bonds shall be made payable as follows: One thousand dollars of the bonds so issued shall be made payable in two years from the date of issuance thereof, the remainder shall be made payable in annual payments there

after, none of which shall run for a period longer than twenty years from the date of their issuance.

Where

situated and

SEC. 4. The Board of Trustees of Reno School District, are Board to purchase hereby authorized to purchase a lot, or lots, on the north side lots and of the river, in the town of Reno, and build thereon a school build. building, or school buildings, as the Board may determine; provided, such lot or lots, building or buildings, shall be in a central and convenient locality, and shall not exceed in cost the cost. sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, and the said Board of Trustees are further authorized to purchase lot or lots on the south side of the river, in the town of Reno, and build and complete thereon one school building, suitable for a Primary Primary School; provided, such lot or lots and building shall be in a Building. convenient locality, and shall approximate in cost the sum of three thousand ($3000) dollars, but shall not exceed that sum. Cost. The Board of Trustees of said Reno School District shall immediately proceed to issue the bonds herein provided for, and To issue when disposed of, shall proceed, with due diligence, and purchase the lots, and erect the buildings, and complete the same, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

School

Bonds.

how signed.

SEC. 5. The bonds and coupons herein provided for, shall Bonds, etc., be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said Washoe County.

created.

out.

SEC. 6. All moneys received from the sales of said bonds, School fund shall be paid into the County Treasury, and the County Treasurer is hereby required to receive, and safely keep the same, in a fund, to be known as the "Reno School District Building How paid Fund," and to pay out said money only on warrants, signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Trustees, and duly allowed by the Board of County Commissioners of said Washoe County. The County Treasurer shall be liable on his official Treasurer bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto.

liable.

of bonds

SEC. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the Redemption bonds hereby authorized to be issued, the Board of County provided Commissioners of Washoe County are hereby authorized and for. required, at the time of the annual levy of taxes for State and Taxation. County purposes, for the year eighteen hundred and seventynine, and annually thereafter, to levy upon all the taxable property of said School District number ten, an amount not exceeding one fourth of one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars valuation of said property, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds, issued under the provisions of this Act, which will become due during the next ensuing year, the taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are Taxes, how assessed and levied, and shall be paid into the County Treasury, and set apart to a fund which is hereby created, to be known as the "Reno School District Redemption Fund," and Redemption the money in said fund shall be paid out by the County Treasurer, in payment of the interest on the bonds aforesaid as the same becomes due, and upon presentation of coupons therefor,

collected.

fund.

How paid out.

Payment of bonds provided for.

Treasurer

to set apart moneys.

and upon the presentation and surrender of said bonds, when the same become due.

SEC. 8. To provide for the payment of the bonds, as they become due, and the first installment of interest upon the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, the Board of County Commissioners, of said county, are hereby authorized and required, at their last regular meeting before said bonds and interest will become due, in case there is not sufficient money in said “Reno School District Redemption Fund" to pay said bonds and interest, to direct the County Treasurer to set apart from the General Fund in the County Treasury, to said "Reno School District Redemption Fund," a sufficient amount to pay said bonds and interest, which amount shall be repaid out of the first moneys coming into the said Treasurer's hands, from the taxes levied as aforesaid, and belonging to said "School District Redemption Fund."

Not lawful to catch fish

period.

CHAP. XXX. An Act amendatory of, and supplementary to, an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the preservation of Fish, in the Waters of this State," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

[Approved February 19, 1879.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section four, of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the preservation of Fish, in the Waters of this State," is hereby amended, so as to read as follows:

Section Four. It shall not be lawful for any person or perfor a certain sons, between the first day of January and June of each year, to catch or kill any river, lake, brook, or salmon trout, in any of the streams, rivers, lakes, or other waters within this State, with any seine, gill-net, or any spear, grab-hook, weir-fence, basket, trap, explosive material, or other implements or substances, or in any manner, except by hook and line; and it shall not be lawful, at any time, for any person or persons to catch or kill such fish, in any of the waters of this State, by the use of traps, gill-nets, grab-hooks, or any poisonous, deleterious or stupefying drug, explosive material, or other substance, or catch or have in possession any fish so caught during the close season; and it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to expose for sale, or to catch or kill for sale, or to catch or kill for salting in any manner whatever, any of the river, lake, brook or salmon trout, in any river, lake, or other waters within this State, between the twentieth day of April and the first day of October in each year; and it shall not be lawful for any railway corporation, express company, or other common carriers, or private parties, to ship or transport for sale, any of the river, lake, brook or salmon trout, taken from the rivers, lakes or

Close season.

Period forbidding catch of fish.

Unlawful to

transport

fish for sale

ponds

be taken.

other waters of this State, during the said season, viz: between the twentieth day of April and the first day of October in each year; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be on- Proviso. strued to prohibit the taking of fish in private ponds, con- Owners of structed expressly for the raising of fish by the owner thereof; private and, provided further, that any person wanting spawn for the exempt. propagation of fish, may take fish from the spawning beds, or elsewhere, during the spawning season; and, provided further, Spawn can that no person shall catch or kill any fish in any of the waters of this State, at any time, by means of giant powder, or any other explosive substance, or material, or stupefying or deleterious drug. Any person violating the provisions of this sec tion shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon convic- Misdemeantion thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail, not less than thirty days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment,' in the discretion of the Court, one half of the fine recovered to be paid to the informer, and one half to be paid into the School Fund of the State.

SEC. 2. And it is hereby made the duty of the district attorneys, county commissioners, justices of the peace, and sheriffs and their deputies, upon receiving reliable information of any violations of the provisions of this Act, to make complaint against the parties, and any of the peace officers named in this section who shall neglect or fail to make complaint against parties violating any of the provisions of this Act, after having received reliable information of such violation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the penalties prescribed in the fourth section of this Act.

or and

penalties.

One half informer.

fine for

Duties of

officers.

CHAP. XXXI.-An Act to prevent persons from passing through inclosures and leaving them open, by tearing down fences, or otherwise, and domestic animals from being shot by persons while hunting on inclosed premises, and providing for the payment for such injuries so done.

[Approved February 19, 1879.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Parties prohibited from leaving open gates,

SECTION 1. Every person who shall open any gate, bars or fence, for the purpose of passing through, and shall willfully or negligently leave the same open, without permission of the t owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Misdemean

or.

For

SEC. 2. Every person who willfully tears down, or otherwise destroys any fence, on any inclosed land of another, is guilty of destruction a misdemeanor.

of fences,

etc.

Leaving fires

burning.

Penalties.

Judgments.

SEC. 3. Every person who, upon departing from camp, willfully or negligently leaves the fire or fires burning or unexhausted, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 4. Every person found guilty of any of the misdemeanors herein mentioned shall be found guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine is satisfied, not exceeding one day for each two dollars thereof.

SEC. 5. Nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the party suffering damage from obtaining a judgment against the party or parties so injuring or damaging, in any court of competent jurisdiction, as in all civil cases under the Practice Act of the State of Nevada.

Goats and swine prohibited to run at large.

Period forbidden to run at large.

Exempted period.

Owners subject to damages.

Amount of

damages.

Damages, how

obtained.

CHAP. XXXII:-An Act entitled "An Act to make it unlawful for the owner or owners of swine, goat or goats to allow them to run at large during a certain period of each year, from and after the approval of this Act."

[Approved February 19, 1879.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful, from and after the passage of this Act, for any person or persons, who are the owner or owners, or who may have charge of any swine, goat or goats, within this State, to allow them to run at large, and be free commouers, from and after the first day of March to the tenth day of November of each and every year. But the intervening period between the tenth day of November to the first day of March of each year, such swine, goat or goats, may be free

commoners.

SEC. 2. Any swine, goat or goats, belonging to any person or persons that shall break into any yard, flower or vegetable garden, or any inclosure whatever, or shall root up or destroy any pasture, field, or growing grass for hay purposes, or any kind of growing crop whatever, whether the same be inclosed or not during the period that such swine, goat or goats, are prohibited to run at large, and be free commoners, by section one of this Act, such owner or owners shall be subject to such damages as shall be equal to twice the value of the property broken into, eaten up or destroyed.

SEC. 3. All actions for damages arising under the provisions of this Act shall be tried and determined in the Court having jurisdiction thereof, as in other cases made and provided.