in any case where the accident shall occur elsewhere than on or in or about the premises on which the principal has undertaken to execute the work or which are otherwise under his control or management. not com against SEC. 11. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or Employee deemed to require any workman or his personal representa- pelled to tives to proceed under its terms and provisions for the recov- proceed ery of compensation of damages for death or accidental employer injury. But if the workman or his personal representatives shall so elect, he or they may disregard the provisions of this act and may pursue any other remedy at law for the recovery of such compensation of damages for or on account of such death or injury. The right of election or choice of remedies shall be exercised solely by such workman or his representatives. compensa debt SEC. 12. A claim for compensation for the injury or death Claim for of any employee or any reward or judgment entered thereon tion shall be entitled to a preference over the other debts of the preferred employer if and to the same extent as the wages of such employee shall be so preferred, but this section shall not impair the lien of any judgment entered upon any award. becomes SEC. 13. The making of a lawful claim against an employer Assignment. for compensation under this act for the injury or death of his when claim employee shall operate as an assignment of any assignable legal cause of action in tort which the employee or his personal representative may have against any other party for such injury or death, and such employer may enforce in his own name the liability of such other party. be com SEC. 14. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed Claims may as impairing the right of parties interested after the injury promised or death of an employee to compromise or settle upon such terms as they may agree upon any liability which may be claimed to exist under this act on account of such injury or death, nor as conferring upon the dependents of any injured employee any interest which he may not divert by such settlement or for which he or his estate shall in the event of such settlement by him be accountable to such dependents or any of them. SEC. 15. This act shall take effect July 1, 1911. In effect work on public roads CHAP. 184-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of road inspector, and to provide for work on public roads and to limit the compensation therefor." approved February 27, 1897. [Approved March 24, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. Compensation to others than road inspector shall Payment for be not to exceed three dollars for a day's work on the public roads by one man, or not to exceed six dollars by one man and a span of two draft animals, and one dollar and fifty cents additional for each such additional span. The person so compensated shall, without additional charge, furnish such tools, implements, vehicle, and other necessary equipment, as may be necessary in his work. missioners to work costing Over $500 CHAP. 185-An act to amend an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of the state, and to define their duties and powers,' approved March 8, 1865," approved February 19, 1867. [Approved March 24, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. In letting all contracts of any and every kind, County com- character, and description whatever, where the contract in the advertise for aggregate exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars, the county bids for all commissioners shall advertise such contract or contracts to be let, stating the nature and character thereof-and when plans and specifications are to constitute part of such contract, it shall be stated in the notice where the same may be seen-in some newspaper published in their county, for the period of thirty days; in case the contract be for constructing any public building, then the advertisement shall be in that paper published in the county which is nearest the selected location for such building; and in case there shall be no newspaper published in their county, then by posting notices of the same in five of the most conspicuous and public places in their county for the same period of time. All such contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, subject to the provisions of the twenty-third section of the act to which this is supplementary; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not Proviso apply to contracts for the construction or repair of bridges, highways, streets or alleys where the same conflicts with other acts in relation to bridges, highways, streets or alleys. CHAP. 186-An act to amend sections three and five of an act entitled "An act in relation to erection and maintenance of bridges," approved February 21, 1877. [Approved March 24, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of the above-entitled act is hereby Relating to amended so as to read as follows: bridge work ers must Section 3. No bridge shall be constructed or repaired except on the order of the board of county commissioners, or unless a petition as provided for in section four of this act be filed. When the cost of construction or repair of any bridge will not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, the board of county commissioners shall have the power to let a contract for such construction or repair without advertising or otherwise calling for bids therefor. When the cost of such construction or repair Commissionshall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars the contract therefor advertise for shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice given bids, when by the board of county commissioners, in a county newspaper, for a period of at least two and not more than four weeks' publication, and if there be no such newspaper, then by three posted notices-one at the court-house, one at the point to be bridged, and one at some other neighboring public place. The bids must be sealed, opened, and the contract awarded at the time specified in the notice; provided, that the board of county commissioners shall have the right to reject any and all bids, in which event new notice shall be given in manner and form as above set forth. The contract and bond to perform the work must be entered into and approved by the board of county commissioners. SEC. 2. Section five of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: as to neces character of Section 5. On the day fixed to hear the application, proof Commissionof the notice given being made satisfactory, the board must ers to decide hear the petition, examine witnesses, and determine whether sity for and or not a bridge is necessary to be constructed or repaired as bridge petitioned for. If found necessary, the board must determine the character of bridge to be constructed or repairs to be made, prepare plans and specifications, invite bids or otherwise let the contract for the construction or repair of same as in this act provided. Additional regulations in registration of voters elector CHAP. 187—An act to provide for the registration of the names of electors and to prevent fraud at elections in certain incorporated cities within the State of Nevada, providing certain penalties and other matters properly appertaining thereto. [Approved March 24, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The county commissioners of the several counties shall provide for the registry agents, as now constituted by law, in their respective counties, when and where required all proper and necessary books and stationery to carry out the provisions of this act. They shall furnish to each registry agent whose duty it is to register the electors in any incorporated city within the State of Nevada, polling more than two thousand votes at the last preceding general election, a book to be known as the "Official Register, which shall be ruled in columns of suitable dimensions to provide for the following entries oppoSite the name of each elector, to wit: First-Number on the register. Second-Date of registry. Third-Name of elector. Fourth-Age of elector. Fifth-Where born. Sixth-Number of ward or name of electoral district. Seventh-Description of residence. Eighth-Certificate of naturalization exhibited. Ninth-Signature of the elector. Tenth-Number of identification statement. Each column shall be so marked by printed or written words at the top thereof on each page of such official register as to indicate the nature of the entries to be made therein. Such official register shall be in such number of volumes as shall equal the number of voting or polling-places in such incorporated city. SEC. 2. In registering electors in any such incorporated Signature of city as mentioned in section one of this act, it shall be the duty of the registry agent to make the appropriate entries in each column of such official register, except in the ninth column, and in said ninth column it shall be the duty of the registry agent to procure from the elector his signature by having the elector sign therein his name in ink or indelible pencil; and the elector shall, with his own hand and without assistance, using an indelible pencil or ink, sign his name; provided, that if the elector alleges his inability to so sign, the registry agent shall read to the elector the following questions from a book to be furnished by the county commissioners and to be known as "Identification Statements for Registration Day, and said registry agent shall write down in said book the answers of the elector to said questions, each answer being written after the question to which it is an answer. Said be answered questions so read shall be the following: What is your name? What is or was your father's full name? What is or was your mother's full name? What is your occupation? What is the Proviso Questions to by elector unable to write agent to sign name of your present employer? If unemployed, what is the name of your last employer? Where is or was his place of business? Are you married or single? Where did you actually reside immediately prior to taking up your present residence? At the bottom of each list of questions shall be printed the following statement: "I certify that I have read to the abovenamed elector each of the foregoing questions and that I have truly recorded his answers as above to each of said questions," and said registry agent, who has made the above record, shall Registry forthwith sign his name to said certificate and date the same. his own The above questions shall be printed on separate sheets of name paper which shall be furnished said registry agent, bound together in book form and numbered consecutively, and the number corresponding to the number consecutively, and the number corresponding to the number on each sheet, containing said list of questions shall be entered, when questions have been answered, in the tenth column in the official register of electors. Said book of identification statements shall be kept at all times by the registration agent or other proper officer or officers with the said official register. tions and to election SEC. 3. Each of said registration agents shall cause such Said quesregistrations of electors and said questions for identification to answers be so kept that the same shall be in form to be transmitted to transmitted the inspectors of elections, and all the electors registering shall board be classified according to the polling or voting places at which they are each respectively entitled to vote, and all electors entitled to vote at any particular polling-place in the same book, or have the questions put to them recorded in one book or bound together in such manner as the registry agent shall determine, and no electors entitled to vote at different pollingplaces shall be registered in the same book. And no change shall be made in polling-places which in anywise interferes with the purposes of this act. official regis board SEC. 4. In addition to the books now required by law to Original be delivered by registry agents to the inspector or inspectors ter delivered of elections, the registry agent shall deliver not later than the to election day preceding that on which the election is to be held, to some one of the inspectors of election in each polling or voting place in any such incorporated city, the original official register containing the names and original signatures of all electors registered and entitled to vote at such polling-place, together with the original or true and certified copies of the identification statements for all electors entitled to vote at such pollingplace, if any there be. swear in SEC. 5. If any elector registered under the provisions of this oath to act shall transfer to any other incorporated city mentioned in vote, when section one thereof, or if any duly registered elector shall transfer to any such incorporated city, after the closing of registration, and shall demand his right to vote at the election and shall, by reason of such transfer, not be able to be identified thereat by his signature taken at the time of registering as pro |