board any shortage, misappropriation, or misapplication of any of the public moneys so collected, and shall give such further information as may be required by such board. juries SEC. 3. The reports of such accountant shall, by order of Reports to go the district judge, be laid before the grand jury of each of the trand counties of this state for an examination by them, and to take such action upon such report as they shall deem necessary. grand jury to if neglected SEC. 4. In case any board hereby required to audit and Duty of examine, or cause to be audited and examined, the accounts of order such the various officers herein enumerated, shall fail to cause such examination examination and report to be so made, then it shall be the duty of the grand jury of the county, to employ competent experts to make such examination and to report to such grand jury, and such grand jury shall also indict such officers as have failed, refused or neglected to audit and examine, or cause to be audited and examined, the accounts of such officers as required by this act. neglect SEC. 5. The members of the board who are hereby required Penalty for to examine and audit, or cause to be examined or audited, the accounts of the various officers herein mentioned, who shall fail, refuse or neglect to do so, as required by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, and unless such fine be paid, shall be confined in the county jail at the rate of one day for each two dollars of such fine. tion for ex books SEC. 6. All expenses incurred in the examination of the Appropriaaccounts of the state officers, for experts or otherwise, shall be amination of a legal charge against the sum of $2,400, which is hereby state officers' appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant, and the treasurer to pay the same upon the written order of the board of examiners drawn in favor of the person making such examination; all costs for the examination When legal of the county books shall be a legal charge against the county, against and all costs incurred in the examination of the books of any county or incorporated city or town shall be a legal charge against such incorporated city or town, all such accounts to be paid by the county or incorporated city or town, the same as any other claims against such county, city or town. SEC. 7. charge city All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. vision in CHAP. 136-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of road supervisor in Elko County, to fill the same by appointment, to prescribe the duties and compensation of said office, and other matters in relation thereto," approved March 14, 1907. [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4. In addition to his other duties, the road superRoad super- visor thus appointed shall attest to the propriety of all bills Elko County for work done under his supervision, and he shall direct the expenditure of all sums set apart for his district by the board of county commissioners; provided, however, that except in cases of emergency no money shall be expended upon the roads of any road district without the previous authorization of the board of county commissioners, and in all cases where the estimated cost of any piece of work upon a public road, in any road district shall be not less than fifty dollars ($50), and not more than five hundred dollars ($500), the said board of county commissioners may, in their discretion, contract for such work upon not less than five days' notice for bids given by posting a notice at the court-house in the town of Elko, and in three public places in said road district. mencing CHAP. 137-An act to amend an act entitled "An act granting a franchise unto Nevada Telephone-Telegraph Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada, its successors and assigns, to complete and operate a telephone and telegraph line from the town of Reno, in Washoe County, to the town of Ely, in White Pine County, via Carson City, Ormsby County: Dayton, Lyon County: Fort Churchill, Lyon County: Tonopah, Nye County: along, across and under highways and certain lands between the said termini," approved March 22, 1909. [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. The construction of said line or lines shall be Time of com- commenced within one year from the passage of this act, and any portion of said right of way over which said line has not been constructed within four years from the passage of this act shall be considered abandoned and forfeited. construction extended CHAP. 138-An act providing for the establishment of private fish hatcheries for artificial propagation, culture and maintenance of food fishes, for their regulation and licensing, and for the sale, shipment, transportation and disposition of fish raised and propagated therein or thereby, and prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof. [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and hatcheries may be SECTION 1. Any person may establish a private fish hatch- Private fish ery for the artificial propagation, culture and maintenance of food fishes; and any person lawfully conducting any such established private fish hatchery, and engaged in the artificial propagation, culture and maintenance of fishes, may take them in his own enclosed waters wherein the same are so cultivated and maintained, at any time and for the purposes herein mentioned and none other. may be sold SEC. 2. The products of such fish hatchery, fish spawn, fry Products and fish may be sold at any time of the year by such hatchery, or their then vendees, after having first complied with the terms of this act, and the regulations of the state fish commission in relation thereto. regarding SEC. 3. No fish spawn, fry or fish from any private hatch- Restrictions ery shall be sold under the terms of this act, unless location sales and plan of such hatchery be approved by the state fish commission, and the same duly licensed as a private hatchery. license for SEC. 4. Each private fish hatchery, before it shall be enti- County tled to the benefits of this act, shall pay to the county treas- hatchery urer of the county wherein such hatchery is located, an annual license fee of ten dollars ($10), and such fee shall be credited to the game and fish preservation fund of such county. dealers SEC. 5. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the License for business of buying and selling, packing and preserving, or otherwise dealing in trout or other food fishes, obtained from private hatcheries of this state, shall procure a license for such business from the fish and game warden of the county wherein such selling, packing, and preserving is done, and shall pay an annual license fee of $2.50. with every SEC. 6. When the proprietor of any licensed fish hatchery Invoice to go shall sell or dispose of any fish as herein provided, he shall at sale of fish the same time deliver to the purchaser or donee or attach thereto an invoice signed by the proprietor, or his agent, stating the number of his license, and the name of such hatchery, the date of disposition, the kind, and as near as practicable the weight and number of such fish, the name and address of the purchaser, consignee or donee. Such invoice shall authorize transportation and use for six days after this date, and shall be substantially in the following form: Form of invoice STATE OF NEVADA, DEPARTMENT OF FISH COMMISSION Duplicate invoice Proviso Invoice attached to shipment illegal This authorizes transportation within this state, possession and sale for six days after date, if attached to article. Such proprietor or his agent shall at the same time mail, postpaid, or otherwise deliver, a duplicate of such invoice to the county fish and game warden of the county in which such hatchery is located; provided, that no invoice shall be required in case of fish lawfully taken or killed in such private hatchery during the open season therefor, and within the quantity provided by law while in the possession of the person killing the same, during the open season and for five days thereafter. SEC. 7. When any such fish for which an invoice is required is to be shipped by rail, express or other carrier, public or private, the invoice shall be securely attached thereto, or to the package containing the same, in plain sight and the same may then be lawfully carried and delivered within this state to the consignee named in such invoice. If such fish is held, exposed or offered for sale, or sold by the consignee, or kept in any storage, hotel, restaurant, cafe or boarding-house, such invoice shall be kept attached thereto as aforesaid until the same shall have been prepared for consumption. In case of a sale or disposal of a part of such fish, the vendor shall at the same time make a copy of such invoice and indorse thereon the date of sale, the number and kind of fishes disposed of, and the name of the purchaser, and sign and deliver the same to the purchaser or donee, who shall keep it attached as aforesaid until the fish is prepared for consumption, and the same shall have the same force and effect as the original invoice. SEC. 8. Any wilful misstatement in, or any omission of a False invoice substantial requirement from any invoice or copy thereof, shall render the same void and be deemed a violation of this act, and the possession of such fish shall be unlawful, and the possession of any fish without such invoice or a copy thereof, attached Proprietors thereto, when so as above required, shall be unlawful. The proprietor of every private hatchery, licensed under the preceding commission sections, shall whenever required by the state fish commission, make and send to the commission a report showing as near as practicable the kind and number of the fish added and disposed of during the year preceding, and on hand at the date of the invoice. to report to state fish Penalty SEC. 9. Any person or persons, or the agent of any corporation or company, violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction Penalty shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. 139-An act to amend an act entitled "An act creating a school of mines, to be located at Virginia City, Nevada," approved March 20, 1903. [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said act is hereby amended so that Virginia the same shall read as follows: mining There is hereby created a school of mines, to be known as the Virginia City school of mines, to be located at Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada, to be under the direction and control of the state board of education. The principal in Salary of principal charge of said school of mines shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments on the first day of each and every month during the time this act and the provisions thereof shall remain in force and effect. for support of school SEC. 2. The said state board of education are hereby Expenditure authorized and empowered to expend for the support and ch maintenance of the Virginia City school of mines for the years 1911 and 1912, in addition to the salary of the principal in charge of said school of mines, the sum of four hundred and twenty-five dollars ($425). CHAP. 140—An act to provide for the erection and equipment of an electrical building at the University of Nevada at Reno, Nevada, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 20, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and building for SECTION 1. The board of regents of the University of Nevada Electrical is hereby authorized and directed to construct and equip a university suitable building upon the university land at Reno to be known as an electrical building, and to be used for purposes of instruction and research in electrical engineering and kindred subjects. building SEC. 2. The building shall be of brick, stone, and cement, Character of and, with its equipment, shall not exceed in cost the sum of forty thousand (840,000) dollars. |