14. An act to enable school districts to issue negotiable coupon Acts bonds for the purpose of erecting, furnishing, equipping, repealed and maintaining buildings for industrial training, manual training, domestic science, and agriculture, or any one or all of these purposes, and providing for the payment of the principal indebtedness and the interest thereon, and other matters properly connected therewith, approved March 16, 1909; 15. An act to protect the security of school bonds, approved March 13, 1909; 16. An act providing for compulsory education, and other matters properly connected therewith, providing for penalties for the violation of any of the provisions thereof, and repealing any and all prior laws on the subject of compulsory education, approved March 20, 1909; 17. An act to secure protection to school children and to preserve the peace of public schools, and matters properly connected therewith, approved March 6, 1893; 18. An act to prevent malicious injury to church, school, and other buildings and property, and to protect persons from malicious annoyance, and matters properly relating thereto, approved March 13, 1895; 19. An act to regulate houses of prostitution, dance-houses, and houses where beer, wine, or spirituous liquors are sold, approved February 26, 1887; 20. An act to exempt teachers from jury duty, approved March 14, 1903; 21. An act to require school trustees to procure and hoist on public schoolhouses the United States flag, approved March 13, 1909; 22. An act adopting the design of the flag of the State of Nevada, approved February 25, 1905; 23. An act establishing Arbor Day, approved February 10, 1887; 24. An act to provide for the dissemination of knowledge in Irrigation districts, how organized Petition for organization CHAP. 134-An act entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of drainage, irrigation and water storage districts, to provide for the acquisition of water and other property, and for the distribution of the water thereby for irrigation purposes, and for other matters properly connected therewith." [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and CHAPTER 1-ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT SECTION 1. Who May Propose Organization. Whenever a majority of the holders of title, or evidence of title, to lands susceptible of one mode of irrigation from a common source and by the same system of works, desire to provide for the irrigation of the same, or, when for drainage purposes and other reasons, they desire to organize the proposed territory into one district, they may propose the organization of an irrigation district under this act; provided, said holders of title, or evidence of title, shall hold such title, or evidence of title, to at least one-fourth part of the total area of the land in the proposed district; provided, further, that no person shall be a competent signer of a petition provided in this act for the formation of an "irrigation district" who is not the holder of title or evidence of title to not less than five acres of land irrigated or susceptible of irrigation from the said common source of water supply, which shall be accessible for the purpose of the district. The equalized county assessment roll next preceding the presentation of a petition for the organization of an irrigation district shall be sufficient evidence of title for the purpose of this act, but other evidence may be received, including receipts or other evidence of rights of entrymen on land under any law of the United States or this state, and such entrymen shall be competent signers of such petition, and the land on which they have made such entries shall, for the purpose of said petition, be considered as owned by them. SEC. 2. Petition for Organization. Whenever it is proposed to form an irrigation district, a petition shall first be presented to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the lands, or the greater portion thereof, are situated, signed by the required number of freeholders of such proposed district, possessing the qualifications provided for in section one of this act, which petition shall set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of such district, and shall pray that the same may be organized under the provisions of this act. The petitioners must accompany the petition with a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the said board of county commissioners, in double the amount of the probable cost of organizing such district, conditioned that the bondsmen will pay all said costs in case said organization shall not be effected. lished Such petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of said board, and a notice thereof shall be published for at least two Notice pubweeks before the time at which the same is to be presented, in some newspaper printed and published in the county where said petition is presented, which newspaper shall be designated by said board as the paper most likely to impart notice of the hearing of said petition, the said notice to set forth that said petition has been filed, the time of the meeting of said board to consider said petition, and a description of the territory to be embraced in such proposed district. ers to define SEC. 3. Commissioners Define Boundaries. When such peti- Commissiontion is presented, and it shall appear that the notice of the pres- boundaries entation of said petition has been given as required by law, and of districts that said petition has been signed by the requisite number of petitioners as required by this act, the commissioners shall then proceed to define the boundaries of said proposed district from said petition and from such applications for the exclusion of lands therefrom and inclusion of lands therein as may be made in accordance with the provisions of this act. The said commissioners may adjourn such examination from time to time not exceeding three weeks in all and shall, by final order duly entered, define and establish the boundaries of such proposed district; provided, that said board shall not modify such pro- Proviso posed boundaries described in the petition so as to change the object of said petition or so as to exempt from the operation of this act any land within the boundaries proposed by the petition susceptible to irrigation by the same system of waterworks applicable to other lands in such proposed district; nor shall any land be included in such district if the owner thereof shall make application at such hearing to withdraw the same; provided, also, that contiguous lands not included in such pro- Proviso posed district, as described in the petition, may, upon application of the owner or owners thereof, be included in such district upon such hearing; provided, that in the hearing of any such petition the board of county commissioners shall disregard any informalities therein, and in case they deny the same, or dismiss it for any reasons on account of the provisions of this act not having been complied with, which are the only reasons upon which they shall have a right to refuse or dismiss the same, they shall state their reasons in writing therefor in detail, which shall be entered upon their records, and in case the reasons are not well founded, a writ of mandamus shall, upon proper application therefor, issue out of the district court of said county, compelling them to act in compliance with this act, which writ shall be heard within twenty days from the date of issuance, and which twenty days shall be excluded from the forty days given the commissioners herein to act upon said petition. County com When the boundaries of any proposed district shall have Duties of been examined and defined as aforesaid, the county commis- missioners sioners shall forthwith make an order allowing the prayer of said petition, defining and establishing the boundaries and of tion, when designing the name of such proposed district, and also divide such district into three divisions, as nearly equal in size as may be practicable, and one director, who shall be a freeholder and qualified elector in the division, shall be elected as a director, from such division, by the freeholders who are also qualified electors in the proposed district at large. No more than one person shall be elected as a director from one and the same division of such district. Thereupon the said commissioners shall by further order duly entered upon their record Popular elec- call an election of the freeholders, who are also qualified electors of said district, to be held for the purpose of determining whether such district shall be organized under the conditions of this act, and by such order shall submit the names of one or more persons from each of the three divisions of said district, as herein provided, to be voted for as directors therein. Each of said divisions shall constitute an election district for the purpose of this act. Said board of county commissioners shall then give notice of such election to be held in such proposed district, which notice shall be published for three weeks prior to such election in a newspaper within the county or counties within which such proposed district lies. Such notice shall require the said electors to cast ballots which shall contain the words "Irrigation District-Yes" or "Irrigation District-No, or words equivalent thereto, and also the names of persons to be voted for to fill the various elective offices by this act provided for. For the purpose of this election above provided for, the said board of county commissioners must establish a convenient number of election precincts and polling places in said proposed districts and define the boundaries thereof, which said precincts may thereafter be changed by the board of directors of such district, and shall also appoint the judges of election for such precinct, one of whom shall act as clerk of the election. Ballots Precincts Officers of district Qualifications of voters ducted reg ularly The officers of such district shall consist of three directors, as aforesaid, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall be appointed by the board of directors. At said election and all elections held under the provisions of this act, all persons who are qualified electors within the proposed district, and who are as well competent signers of the petition as provided in section one of this act who shall be entitled to vote and none others. SEC. 4. Election. Except as in this act otherwise provided, Election con- all such elections shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the general election laws of this state. The said board of county commissioners shall meet on the second Monday succeeding such election and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat, and if, upon such canvass it appears that at least a majority of said legal electors in said district have voted "Irrigation District-Yes," the said board shall, by an order entered on their minutes, declare such territory duly organized as an irrigation district, under the name and style votes theretofore designated, and shall declare the persons receiving, Canvass of respectively, the highest number of votes for such several vote offices, to be duly elected to such office. Said board shall cause a copy of such order, including a plat of said district duly certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners to be immediately filed for record in the office of the county clerk of each county in which any portion of such lands are situated, and no board of county commissioners of any county, including any portion of such district, shall, after the date of organization of such district, allow another district to be formed, including any of the lands of such district, without the consent of the board of directors thereof, and from and after the date of such filing, the organization of such district shall be complete, and the officers thereof shall immediately enter upon the duties of their respective offices, upon qualifying, in accordance with the law, and shall hold such offices, respectively, until their successors are elected and have qualified. ularly held SEC. 5. Elections, When Held. The regular election of Subsequent said district shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first elections reg Monday in April of each year thereafter, at which shall be elected three directors by the electors of the district at large. The terms of the office of the directors shall be as follows: The directors shall, immediately after the first regular election following such organization, be selected by lot so that one shall hold his office for the term of one year, one for the term Terms of of two years, and one for the term of three years, and an elec- office tion shall be held in each district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April of each year thereafter, at which one director shall be elected for a term of three years, or until his successor is elected and qualified. Such director must be a qualified elector and a freeholder of the division of the director whom he is to succeed in office. Within ten days after receiving the certificates of election hereinafter provided for, such officer shall take and subscribe to an official oath and file the same in the office of the board of directors, and execute the hond hereinafter provided for. Each member of said board oficial of directors shall execute an official bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), which said bonds shall be approved by the judge of the district court in and for said county where such organization is effected, and shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder thereof and filed with the secretary of said board. All official bonds provided for in this act shall be in the form prescribed by law. bonds SEC. 6. Directors. The office of the board of directors shall Directors be located in the county where the organization was effected. Fifteen days before any election held under this act subsequent to the organization of the district, the secretary, who shall be appointed by the board of directors, shall cause notice specify- Election ing the polling places in each election precinct to be posted in notice three public places in each election precinct, of the time and |