shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. of bell Section 40. At all mines where hoisting apparatus is used Official code in the State of Nevada, the following code of bell signals shall signals hereafter be adopted and used: 1 Bell-Hoist; 1 Bell-Stop (if in motion). 2 Bells-Lower. 3 Bells-Men on, run slow. When men are to be hoisted or lowered, give the signal for "men on, run slow" (3 bells). Men must then get on cage or bucket, then give the signal to hoist or lower (1 or 2 bells). 4 Bells-Blasting signal; engineer must answer by raising bucket a few feet and letting it back slowly; then 1 bellhoist men away from blast. 9 Bells Danger signal (in case of fire or other danger) then ring number of station where danger exists; engineer must slow up when passing stations when men are on the cage. STATION BELLS 2 Bells, Pause, 1 Bell, 5 Bells, Pause, 1 Bell, 3 4 5 6 Station No. 1 Where electric bells are used in connection with other bells: If cage is wanted, ring station signal. answer 1 Bell. Reply 1 Bell to go up. Reply 2 Bells to go below. Station tender will If station is full of ore and station tender is wanted, ring station signal and do not answer back. 2-1-2 Bells are rung, engineer or station tender does not understand, repeat signal. In case of danger or accident, ring station signal, station tender will reply 1 Bell; ring 9 Bells. Code of signals signals not Signals not in conflict with the above code may be used to Additional meet local conditions, but the same must be posted in connec- conflicting tion with the above code. may be used One copy of this code should be posted on the gallows Code to be frame, one before the engineer and one at each station. posted Smoke helmets to be maintained noncompli ance with this act Section 41. At every mine in this state employing forty or more men underground, there shall be kept on hand at all times in good working condition at least two smoke helmets of a design to be approved by the state mining inspector, and which helmets shall at all times be subject to his inspection. For every additional fifty men so employed an additional smoke helmet shall be provided. Section 42. Any owner, agent, manager or lessee, whether Penalties for individual partnership or corporation operating a mine in this state who fails to comply with the provisions herein set forth, or either or any thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and when not otherwise provided shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. For each provision not complied with and each day after conviction of failure to comply with any provision thereof shall be deemed a separate offense and punished accordingly. Repeal Section 43. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. panies to file statements with secre tary of state CHAP. 202-An act to amend an act entitled "An act requiring certain mining corporations to file statements with the county recorders and attorney-general, and to mail copies thereof to stockholders; regulating the issuance and sale of certain treasury and promotion stock and defining the same for the purposes of this act; declaring certain acts to be unlawful; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 5, 1909. [Approved March 27, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every corporation owning, claiming, holding, Mining com- leasing or engaged in the business of working or developing any mining claim or mining property, or interest therein, in the State of Nevada, and selling or offering for sale, either directly or indirectly, any of its shares or capital stock shall, within sixty days after the expiration of the first six months of its existence as a corporation, and annually thereafter within sixty days after the first day of the month provided by its by-laws for its annual meeting of stockholders, file in the office of the county recorder of each county wherein such mining statement property is situated, and in the office of the attorney-general What of this state, a statement duly subscribed and sworn to before shall contain a notary public (or other officer authorized by law to administer oaths), by its president or vice-president and its secretary, if it is a domestic corporation, and also by its resident agent, if a foreign corporation; provided, however, that the failure of the by-laws of any such corporation to provide a date for the annual meeting of the stockholders thereof shall not excuse said corporation from filing such a statement once during each calendar year. Said statement shall cover the period of time between that embraced in the previous statement filed in accordance herewith and the first day of the month in which said annual meeting is to be held, or in the event that such statement is the first statement to be filed by any corporation in conformity with this act, such statement shall cover the first six months of the existence of such corporation. Said statement shall contain the following facts and information: (a) The name of each mining claim and the total number of such claims or fractions thereof owned or leased, and the number thereof being worked and developed, also the county and mining district (if there be one) wherein said claims are located, and the nearest postoffice and the distance therefrom, as near as can be ascertained. (b) The nature of the title thereof, or interest therein, whether leasehold or otherwise, also the date each claim or interest therein was purchased, leased or otherwise acquired by such corporation. (c) The character, value and a general description of all buildings, works, machinery and other improvements on each unpatented claim, and the character, value and a general description of all buildings, works, machinery and other improvements being actually used or operated by such corporation on its patented ground, taken as a whole; prorided, however, that where several unpatented claims belonging to such corporation are contiguous and are being developed as a group said statement may state the character, value and a general description of all buildings, works, machinery and other improvements on said entire group of unpatented claims. (d) The total amount and a description of the development work done upon each unpatented claim, if any, and upon the entire patented property, if any, since the work reported in the last statement filed as herein provided, or during the first six months of the existence of said corporation, if the statement be the first one filed in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the total sum of money or other valuable consideration, given or paid out therefor; provided, however, that where several unpatented mining claims belonging to such corporation are contiguous, and the development work thereon has been done on one or more of said claims for the benefit of the entire group, said statement may state the amount and description of the work done for the entire group, and the total What statement sum of money, or other valuable consideration, given or paid shall contain out therefor. statement (e) The total number of shares such corporation is by law authorized to issue and the different classes and par value thereof. (f) The total number of shares of stock originally set aside by such corporation, if any, in its treasury or otherwise to sell or otherwise dispose of for the purpose of working, developing or otherwise improving any patented or unpatented mining claim, or claims, owned or leased or being worked or developed by such corporation and the total amount of money realized from the sale of any portion thereof since the sales thereof reported in the last statement filed in accordance with the provisions of this act, or during the first six months of the existence of such corporation in the event that such statement is the first to be filed by said corporation in accordance herewith. (g) The total number of shares of treasury stock sold, and the total sum of money or other consideration received therefor since the sales thereof reported in the last statement filed in accordance with the provisions of this act, or during the first six months of the existence of such corporation in the event that such statement is the first to be filed in accordance herewith, and the number of shares of treasury stock remaining unsold. (h) The amount of money, if any, actually paid by such corporation to each of its officers, superintendents, or to other persons, exclusive of persons included in subdivisions of this section, as salary or compensation for services rendered such corporation, stating the nature of such services; also, the respective amounts, if any, expended for advertising and as commissions for sales of stock, since the sales thereof reported in the last statement filed in accordance with the provisions of this act, or during the first six months of the existence of such corporation in the event that such statement is the first filed in accordance herewith. (i) The total value of the ore produced from the property of such company since the production reported in the last statement filed in accordance with the provisions of this act, or during the first six months of the existence of such corporation in the event that such statement is the first to be filed by such corporation in accordance herewith. The affidavit required by this section shall state in substance as follows: That affiant is the president (or other officer of such corAffidavit to poration, or other person required to make affidavit) and has read the foregoing statement, and knows the contents thereof; that the same is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. SEC. 2. Section five of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: stock and Section 5. All stocks or shares of every mining corporation Treasury doing business in this state that have been, or shall be specifi- promotion cally set aside to sell for money or other valuable consideration, stock defined and the proceeds of which are to be used for the actual development of the mineral resources of any mining claim, or claims, or for the purpose of making necessary or useful improvements thereon, or for the purpose of maintaining such corporation, or preserving or enhancing its assets, are hereby deemed and declared to be treasury stock, and all other stock of such corporation is hereby deemed and declared to be promotion stock, within the meaning of this act. CHAP. 203—An act to provide a temporary structure for the preservation and exhibition of the library, manuscripts, museum and collections of the Nevada Historical Society. [Approved March 28, 1911] WHEREAS, The Nevada Historical Society, a state institu- Preamble tion, has already on hand, and is rapidly accumulating books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, pictures, mineral specimens, pioneer, Indian and other curios, for which its present quarters are wholly inadequate; and WHEREAS, NO suitable place for the housing of these priceless materials is available; and WHEREAS, Many valuable historical materials are being held from the society until better quarters shall be procured; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tion for in Reno or in SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby Appropriaappropriated out of any moneys of the general fund in the building state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction and according to the best judgment of the executive council of the Nevada Historical Society in the leasing or purchase of a site in the city of Reno or in Carson City, To be either if a suitable one is not donated, to erect and equip an iron Carson City structure as a temporary library and museum for the preservation and display of the books, manuscripts, relics, curios and material held by the society in trust for the state, and to pay for all plans, advertising and supervision connected with the erection of building or structure. Not more than two thousand dollars shall be paid for the site, if a suitable one is not donated, and any lease or deed of any land donated or purchased shall be taken in the name of the State of Nevada and held in trust by the society, under the control of the executive council thereof, for the state. SEC. 2. The executive council shall advertise for bids for Bids to be the construction of the building, in such manner and form as for advertised |