fish-ladder, which is required by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished Misdemeanor by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 10. Any person or persons violating the provisions Misdemeanor of sections three, four, five, six, seven or eight of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

transport

SEC. 11. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, Unlawful to company, association, or corporation to, at any time, trans- fish out of port or offer for transportation to any town or place outside State. of the State, any lake, river, or brook trout which are intended to be offered for sale; and any person who shall so transport, offer for transportation or transport any lake, river or brook trout which are thereafter offered for sale or sold at any place outside of the State, or are offered for sale after being transported outside of the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined Misdemeanor in a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more than one hundred and fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

collected,

SEC. 12. One-half of any fine collected under the pro- Fines visions of this Act shall be paid to the person who shall fur- how paid. nish the information leading to the conviction and one-half to the officer making the arrest.

SEC. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

An Act to provide for the protection and preservation of different species of wild game, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 28, 1901, p. 121.]

of wild game.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Preservation firm, company, corporation or association, to kill, catch, destroy, wound, snare, trap, injure, or pursue with intent to catch, capture, injure, or destroy, any blue-bird, blue-jay, martin, thrush, mocking-bird, swallow, wren, yellow-hammer, meadow-lark, oriole, humming-bird, swan, or any insectivorous, plume, or song bird (except black-birds) within this State.

pheasants.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Relating to firm, company, corporation or association, to kill, destroy, wound, trap, net, pound, weir, injure or pursue with intent to kill, capture, injure or destroy any pheasant within this

State before the first day of September, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and six (1906).

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Close season firm, company, corporation or association, after the first day for sagebirds. of March and before the first day of July of each and every year, to kill, catch, trap, cage, weir, destroy, or pursue with intent to catch, capture, injure or destroy, any sagecock, or sagehen within this State.

For doves.

mountain quail.

Geese, ducks, valley quail,

snipe, etc.

Unlawful to buy or sell game.

SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, at any time after the first day of November of each and every year and before the fifteenth day of July following, to kill, cage, trap, catch, destroy, or pursue with intent to catch, destroy, capture or injure any dove or doves within this State.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, within this State, to kill, catch, trap, net, pound, weir, wound, or pursue with intent to catch, capture, injure or destroy, any grouse or mountain quail, before the first day of September, A. D. nineteen hundred and three (1903). This section applies only to counties polling less than nineteen hundred votes.

SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association at any time after the fifteenth day of March and before the first day of September of each and every year, to kill, catch, net, cage, pound, weir, trap or pursue with intent to catch, capture, injure or destroy, any wild goose, wild duck, sandhill crane, wind hen, plover, curlew, snipe, wood-cock, valley quail, prairie chicken or bittern within this State.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful at any time of the year for any person or persons, firm, company, tavern or hotel keeper, restaurant, or eating-house keeper, butcher, market man, or cold storage company to buy, sell, expose or offer for sale, or have in his or their possession for the purpose of sale, barter, exchange or trade, any dove, sagehen, prarie chicken, grouse, quail, pheasant, wild duck, wild goose, woodcock, sandhill crane, snipe, curlew, plover or bittern.

SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful at any and all times of the Unlawful to year for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association to destroy, injure, or remove the nest or eggs of any of the birds mentioned in this Act.

destroy or

remove nests or eggs.

No larger than No. 10 shot-gun

to be used.

Deer and antelope.

SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful in this State for any person or persons to use at any time a shot-gun of a larger caliber than that commonly known and designated as a number ten gauge.

SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to kill at any time any deer or antelope until the expiration of two years after this law shall take effect, and thereafter a person may kill not to exceed two male deer or two male antelope, between the first day of September and the first day of November.

deer or

SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Unlawful to firm, company, corporation, or association at any and all sell or buy times of the year to sell, buy, offer, or expose for sale, trans- antelope. port, or carry, or have in his or their possession any deer or antelope, or any deer or antelope skin or hide from which the evidence of sex has been removed.

kill large

SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons at Unlawful to any and all times of the year to kill, hunt, pursue, take, trap, game of destroy, transport, carry or have in his or their possession certain kind. any female deer or fawn, female antelope or fawn, male or female caribou or fawn, male or female elk or calf, male or female mountain sheep or lamb, male or female mountain goat or kid.

sale of meat,

SEC. 13. It shall be unlawful in this State at any and all Purchase or times of the year for any firm, company, tavern or hotel hides of deer. keeper, restaurant or eating-house keeper, butcher, market man, cold storage company or any person or persons to buy, sell, expose or offer for sale or have in his or their possession for the purpose of sale, barter, exchange or trade, the meat, skin, hide, horns or carcass, of any deer, antelope, elk, caribou, mountain sheep or mountain goat.

use hounds in

SEC. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Unlawful to firm, company, corporation or association at any and all pursuit of times of the year to hunt, chase, pursue, run, catch or kill deer, elk, etc. any deer, antelope, caribou, elk, mountain sheep or mountain goat, with or by the use or aid of any hound or hounds.

have wild

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Unlawful to firm, company, corporation or association within this State buy, sell or to have in his or their possession, or to sell, buy, transport or game. give away, or offer, or expose for sale, or purchase from any person whomsoever, either Indians or other persons, any of the birds, wild game or animals, mentioned in this Act during the season wherein the killing, injuring, pursuing, netting, trapping, pounding, weiring, caging, selling, buying transporting, giving away, offering or exposing for sale, or having in his or their possession is herein prohibited; pro- Proviso. vided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prohibit any resident person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association from taking (upon a written permit from the Governor of the State) any bird, fowl or animal for the purpose of propagation or domestication or scientific purposes.

SEC. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, Beaver and firm, company, corporation, or association, to catch, kill, otter. destroy, trap, net, weir, or cage any beaver or otter within this State before the first day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten (1910).

SEC. 17. Any person or persons, firm, company, corpora- Misdemeanor tion or association, or common carrier, violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misde

meanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum Punishment.

Trans

not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail of the county in which said conviction is had, for any term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (It shall be no defense in the prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, that the animals or birds were taken or killed outside the State of Nevada.)

SEC. 18. Every railroad company, express company, transportation company or other common carrier, their officers, agents and servants, and every other person who guilty of mis- shall transport, carry or take out of this State, or who shall

portation

companies

demeanor,

when.

One-half of

fine to informer.

receive for the purpose of transporting from this State any deer, buck, doe or fawn or any mountain sheep or antelope, or any quail, sage, chicken, prairie chicken, grouse, dove, wild duck or goose, or the hide, horns, of any wild animals or the plumage of any wild birds (dead or alive) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 19. Any person giving information which leads to the conviction of any person or persons for violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall, upon the conviction of such person or persons, be entitled to receive one-half of the fine paid or collected from the person or persons upon whom such fine was imposed.

SEC. 20. All Acts and parts of Acts heretofore [passed] and in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.

ARTICLE XI.

EDUCATION.

tendent,

SECTION 1. The Legislature shall encourage, by all suit- Superinable means, the promotion of intellectual, literary, scientific, when elected. mining, mechanical, agricultural and moral improvements; and also provide for the election by the people, at the general election, of a Superintendent of Public Instruction, whose term of office shall be two years from the first Monday of Term of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty five, and until office. the election and qualification of his successor, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law.

uniform.

SEC. 2. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform sys- System to be tem of common schools, by which a school shall be established and maintained in each school district at least six months in every year; and any school district neglecting to establish and maintain such a school, or shall allow instruction of a sectarian character therein, may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of the public school fund during such neglect or infraction; and the Legislature may pass such laws as will tend to secure a general attendance of the children in each school district upon said public schools.

funds

purposes.

All lands, including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth Lands and sections in any township donated for the benefit of public pledged to schools in the Act of the Thirty-eighth Congress, to enable educational 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 forty-one; provided, that Congress make provision for or authorize such diversion to be made for the purpose herein contained; all estates that may escheat to the State; all of such Escheated per centum as may be granted by Congress on the sale of estates and Îands; all fines collected under the penal laws of the State; pledged to all property given or bequeathed to the State for educational purposes. purposes, and all proceeds derived from any or all of said

fines

educational