Salaries of officers Pay of assistants of election precincts, school districts, etc., of county commissioners are both in session, appoint a deputy at a salary not to exceed five dollars per day for such period. The district attorney shall receive two thousand dollars per annum, which shall be his compensation in full, except that he may be allowed such additional sums for necessary expenses incurred as the board of county commissioners shall authorize and approve, and he may employ such deputies as may be necessary, the compensation for such deputies to be fixed and approved by the county commissioners. Each member of the board of county commissioners shall receive nine hundred dollars per annum, and such mileage as is now allowed by law in Esmeralda County. The public administrator and the county surveyor shall receive the same compensation as is now allowed by law to these officers, respectively, in Esmeralda County. The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to allow such compensation as may be necessary for the payment of such additional clerks and assistants as may be needed in the offices of the county clerk and ex officio treasurer and county recorder and ex officio auditor, respectively, as herein provided, and such compensation shall be allowed and paid as other claims against the county. SEC. 10. The election precincts, school districts, road disBoundaries tricts, cities, towns and townships, embraced within the territory comprising the county of Mineral, shall be as heretofore fixed and established during the time the same composed a not changed part of Esmeralda County, until otherwise changed by the board of county commissioners of Mineral County, and the officers heretofore elected, or appointed to office in said precincts, districts, cities, towns and townships shall hold their respective offices in the county of Mineral until their successors are appointed, or elected and qualified. And the registration lists, school censuses and the records of said officers respectively are hereby made the same in the county of Mineral that they were heretofore in the county of Esmeralda. And the county treasurer of the county of Esmeralda is hereby directed to pay to the county treasurer of the county of Mineral on demand all sums of money held by him as custodian for said precincts, districts, cities, towns and townships, rendering proper accounts with each of said funds; provided, that all county officers of Esmeralda County, elected at the general election in 1910, who have qualified and entered on the performance of their official duties, may continue to hold office, regardless of their present places of residence and county boundaries in the county of Esmeralda until the expiration of their several terms of office. Proviso 1910 SEC. 11. At the first meeting of the board of county comTax levy for missioners of said Mineral County all necessary tax levies for reasonable provision, for needs of county, roads, school, city and town, for all purposes for the year 1911 shall be made. SEC. 12. Said Mineral County shall be attached to and seventh judi educational transcribed become a part of the seventh judicial district, in which said Part of Mineral County court shall be held at least twice in each calen- cial district dar year, at dates to be fixed by the judge of said district court; and fourth and the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County district are hereby authorized and directed to pay the necessary traveling expenses of the judge of said district court from the countyseat of Esmeralda County to the county-seat of Mineral County and return. Said Mineral County shall be attached to and become a part of the fourth educational (supervision) district. SEC. 13. The board of county commissioners of the county Records to be of Mineral shall, as soon as practicable after said county be organized, receive bids for making transcripts of all the records of said county of Esmeralda of all properties situate in the county of Mineral, or rights affecting the status of persons, residents thereof, as said board of county commissioners may deem necessary, and transcribing the same as provided by law in the proper record books to be provided by said county of Mineral for that purpose. And the said board of county commissioners of the county of Mineral shall award such contract to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, and for the faithful performance of said contract said board of county commissioners shall receive a good and sufficient bond in the sum of not less than five thousand dollars, to be approved by said board of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners may reject any and all bids for transcribing the said records in case the lowest bid is deemed by the county commissioners to be too high. And the compensation so allowed by the board of county commissioners of Mineral County for the transcribing of such records shall be payment in full for such transcription, and the officials of Esmeralda County are hereby directed to certify to the correctness of such transcriptions without compensation. The county clerk and the county recorder of the said county of Esmeralda shall afford every reasonable opportunity and facility for transcribing such record, and said transcribed records when accepted by the board of county commissioners of said Mineral County, shall become, for all legal purposes, the same as original records and files. pending SEC. 14. All suits determined and judgments remaining Regarding unsatisfied, relating to any person residing or property situate litigation wholly in the territory hereby detached from Esmeralda County, all suits, proceedings and estates pending and undetermined which may appertain wholly to property, real, personal or mixed, in said detached territory, all actions for the recovery of money in which the defendant resides in said detached territory, and all pending criminal cases which arose in said detached territory in the district court in and for Esmeralda County, shall, within forty days from the taking effect of this act be, by the county clerk of said Esmeralda County duly and legally certified, transferred and delivered to the county clerk of Mineral County, together with all papers and documents, and certified copies of all court and judicial orders pertaining Apportionment of floating of Esmeralda to the same, and all of said papers, documents and judicial and court orders shall be by said clerk of Mineral County filed in his office and thereafter proceeded with in the same manner as if commenced or heard or determined in Mineral County; the county clerk of Esmeralda County and the county clerk of Mineral County shall perform this service without compensation. SEC. 15. At the regular meeting on the first Monday in July, 1911, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall ascertain the total amount of money on hand in the county indebtedness treasury of Esmeralda County, excepting funds of the various County precincts, districts, cities, town and townships as shown by the sworn statement of the various officers of said county, and the total amount of the floating indebtedness of Esmeralda County; then deduct the amount of the floating indebtedness from the total amount of the money in the county treasury and apportion the amount of the difference thus obtained to Esmeralda County and Mineral County in the following manner: Method of ascertaining Appor tionment of funded and refunded (a) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for taxation in Esmeralda County, including the proceeds of mines, for the year 1910; (b) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for taxation in the territory set off for Mineral County, including the proceeds of mines, in the same year; (c) As the total valuation of the property assessed, including the proceeds of mines, for taxation in Esmeralda County in 1910 is to the total valuation of the property in the same year assessed, for taxation, including proceeds of mines, in the territory set off as Mineral County, so is the difference before found to the amount to be paid by Esmeralda County to Mineral County as Mineral County's due proportion of money in the county treasury of Esmeralda County. The said commissioners shall thereupon order the county treasurer of Esmeralda County to pay to the treasurer of Mineral County on or before the fifteenth day of July, 1911, the said amount so found to be Mineral County's proportion of said money, and thereafter any moneys collected by any officer of Esmeralda County on account of city, town, or county license, taxes, or poll taxes levied for the year 1910 upon persons, property and business situate in the territory hereinbefore set off as Mineral County shall be the property of Mineral County and immediately forwarded to the treasurer thereof. SEC. 16. Mineral County shall pay its due proportion of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County, as covered by all acts authorizing Esmeralda County to fund and refund its existing indebtedness, and in the manner and form following, to wit: At the regular meeting on the first Monday in July, 1911, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall ascertain indebtedness the total funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda of Esmeralda County County, deducting therefrom all moneys set aside for the payment thereof, and apportion the amount thus obtained to Esmeralda County and Mineral County in the following manner: ascertaining (a) Ascertain the total valuation of property assessed for tax- Method of ation in Esmeralda County, including the proceeds of mines, for the year 1910; (b) Ascertain the total valuation of the property assessed for taxation in the territory set off for Mineral County, including the proceeds of mines, in the same year; (c) As the total valuation of the property assessed, including proceeds of mines, for taxation in Esmeralda County, in 1910, is to the total valuation of the property in the same year assessed for taxation, including proceeds from mines, in the territory set off as Mineral County, so is the total of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County to the proportion of the funded and refunded indebtedness of Esmeralda County, due from Mineral County to Esmeralda County. when levied For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the Special tax, amount apportioned to Mineral County of said funded and refunded indebtedness, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Mineral County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property (subject to taxation), both real and personal, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Mineral County, and the amount so collected shall be paid by Mineral County to Esmeralda County at the times and in the amounts as the same shall become due under the law authorizing and the contract or contracts creating said bonded indebtedness. erty to vest SEC. 17. The title to all property situate in the county of Title to propMineral on which taxes have become, or may become delin- in Mineral quent, and which said property has been or may be forfeited County to Esmeralda County shall vest in and become the property of Mineral County and on demand of its commissioners for a tax deed to said property, or any part thereof, the county commissioners of Esmeralda County shall cause its proper officers to forthwith make, execute and deliver to said county of Mineral a good and sufficient tax deed therefor, without compensation for such service. And all county property situated within the boundaries of Mineral County shall be and remain the property of Mineral County, and all the county property situated within the boundaries of Esmeralda County shall be and remain the property of Esmeralda County. SEC. 18. This act shall take effect immediately. In effect SEC. 19. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the pro- Repeal visions of this act are hereby repealed. Reward for apprehension of murderers $5,000 Support of governor's mansion Appropria tion of $6,000 CHAP. 14-An act authorizing the governor to offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the murder of Harry Cambron and three associates in Washoe County. [Approved February 17, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the governor is hereby authorized to offer a reward of one thousand dollars in each instance, and not exceeding five thousand dollars in all, for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the murder of Harry Cambron and three associates in Washoe County. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to carry out the provisions of this act. CHAP. 15—An act for the support and maintenance of the governor's mansion, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved February 17, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The governor of the State of Nevada is hereby allowed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month for the support and maintenance of the governor's mansion, payable on the first of every month for the preceding month, on the requisition of the governor for such amount; and the state controller is hereby directed to draw warrants, and the state treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys in the state treasury appropriated for such purpose. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the state treasury the sum of six thousand dollars for the support and maintenance of the governor's mansion for the years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve. CHAP. 16-An act for the relief of Dr. T. F. Richardson for legal expenses incurred while acting as state veterinarian of the State of Nevada. [Approved February 17, 1911] WHEREAS, During the month of April, 1909, Dr. T. F. RichRelief of Dr. ardson was duly appointed to the office of state veterinarian for T. F. Richard- the State of Nevada, and while engaged in the legal discharge of his duties as such officer did incur certain expenses during the months of July and December, 1910, but owing to inadver son |