fere with the right of any such employee, by agreement, to accept from any such person or corporation, as an evidence or acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages due him, a negotiable instrument, payable at some future date with interest. SEC. 2. Any violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor Penalty or punishable by a fine of not exceeding $500. CHAP. 67—An act making an appropriation to pay for reporting the proceedings of the state board of assessors, session of 1911. [Approved March 15, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and reporting SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money Pay for in the general fund in the state treasury not otherwise appro- minutes of priated the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to pay James board of D. Finch for reporting, transcribing and indexing the minutes and proceedings of the state board of assessors, session of 1911. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said James D. Finch for the amount named in section one of this act and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 68-An act to amend section fifty-two, section seventythree, section eighty-nine, and section ninety of an act entitled "An act to provide for a reorganization of the system of school supervision and maintenance, to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, and matters properly connected therewith," approved March 29, 1907, and introducing a new section therein. [Approved March 15, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and assessors school law apportioned SECTION 1. Section fifty-two of the said act is hereby Amending amended so as to read as follows: Section 52. The superintendent of public instruction shall Funds, how apportion the county school fund to any such joint school district as follows: In apportioning sixty per cent of the county school fund of any county, he shall apportion to a joint school district the regular amount per census child residing in that county. In apportioning forty per cent of the county school fund of any county, he shall consider the teacher as belonging in part to each county, part of which lies in the joint school district, and the part belonging to any county will be in proportion to the number of school census children in that county. In apportioning thirty per cent of the state distributive school fund within any county, he shall apportion to a joint school district the regular amount per census child residing in that county. In apportioning seventy per cent of the state distributive school fund within any county, he shall consider the teacher as belonging in part to each county, part of which lies in the joint school district, and the part belonging to any county will be in proportion to the number of school census children in that county. SEC. 2. Section seventy-three of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 73. All moneys derived from interest on the state permanent school fund, together with all moneys derived from the state school tax, shall be placed in and constitute a fund apportioned to be known as the state distributive school fund, and be Interest on state school funds, how Duties of intendent apportioned semi-annually among the several school districts of the state in the manner provided in this act for the apportionment of the state distributive school fund to the several school districts of the state. SEC. 3. Section eighty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 89. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction immediately after the state controller shall state super- have made his semi-annual report, as provided in section eighty-four of this act, to apportion to the several school districts in the state the moneys in the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at such time. He shall apportion the moneys of said fund among the several school districts of the state in the following manner: First-He must ascertain the number of teachers to which Methods of each school district is entitled by calculating one teacher for apportioning every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census. Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers in the state by adding together the number of teachers assigned to the several school districts upon the basis of one teacher to each thirty school census children or fraction thereof. Third-He must apportion seventy per cent of the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at that time, among the several school districts of the state in proportion to the number of teachers in each school district, upon the basis of one teacher to each thirty school census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding school census. Fourth-He must apportion thirty per cent of the state distributive school fund, subject to apportionment at that time, among the several school districts of the state in proportion to the number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years in each school district as shown by the last preceding school census. Immediately after making the apportionment of the state intendent to distributive school fund in the manner described in this act, State superthe superintendent of public instruction shall, by means of a notify school printed report, notify the state controller, the county treas officers urer, the county auditor, and the clerk of each board of school trustees of the apportionment in detail. He shall also furnish to each county treasurer, under seal of the state board of education, an order on the state controller for an amount of money equal to the full amount of school moneys apportioned to the several school districts of that county from the state distributive school fund, and he shall take such county treasurer's receipt for the said order. SEC. 4. Section ninety of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ent of public County Section 90. The superintendent of public instruction shall, Superintendimmediately after he has apportioned the state distributive instruction to school fund, as provided in this act, proceed to apportion the apportion county school fund of each county among its several school school funds districts. He shall apportion the county school fund as follows: First-He must ascertain the number of teachers to which Methods of apportioning each district is entitled by calculating one teacher for every seventy-five census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding census report. Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers for the county by adding together the number of teachers assigned to the several school districts upon the basis of one teacher to each seventy-five school census children or fraction thereof. Third-Forty per cent of the amount of the county school fund shall be apportioned equally to each school district for every teacher assigned to it upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof. Fourth-All school moneys remaining on hand in the county school fund after apportioning forty per cent of the county school fund equally to each school district for every teacher assigned it upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof, must be apportioned to the several school districts in proportion to the number of school census children between the ages of six and eighteen years as shown by the last preceding school census. officers to be The superintendent of public instruction shall by means of School a printed report notify the county treasurer, the county notified auditor, and the clerk of each board of school trustees of such apportionment in detail. SEC. 5. A new section shall be added to the said act, which shall be numbered Section 901⁄2 and shall read as follows: auditor to intendent Section 902. On the first Tuesday of July of each school County year the county auditor in each county shall report to the notify supersuperintendent of public instruction the amount of moneys in the state and the county funds to the credit of each school district in his county. The superintendent of public instruction shall, upon receipt of such report, deduct from the total amount of money to the of superin- credit of each of the school districts, all amounts over and Further duties tendent Proviso Proviso Proviso New above two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to said district upon the basis of one teacher for every thirty census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census; provided, that if the county auditor shall have his accounts so arranged that the state school fund account is entirely separate from the county school fund account, then he shall notify the superintendent of public instruction of the amount in each fund to the credit of each school district, and the superintendent of public instruction shall deduct from the state school fund all amounts in excess of one hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to such school district on the basis of one teacher to every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census, and he shall also deduct from the county school fund all the amounts in excess of one hundred dollars for each teacher assigned to the district on the basis of one teacher for each thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census; provided, further, that if the sum of the balances in the state school fund and the county school fund of any school district on the said first Tuesday of July does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to the district, on the basis of one teacher to each thirty census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last census, the superintendent of public instruction shall not make the deductions as provided in this section, and in no case shall the superintendent of public instruction deduct such amounts from the school funds of any district as will make the balance in the funds of the district less than two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to the district upon the basis of one teacher to every thirty school census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the last preceding school census. The amounts deducted from the several school funds of each county as provided in the above paragraph shall be placed to the credit of the unapportioned county school fund of the county, and be apportioned with the said county fund. The superintendent of public instruction shall, at the time of making the deductions in accordance with this act, notify each county auditor and county treasurer of his action, and the county auditor and the county treasurer shall make such entries in their accounts as will show that such deductions have been made; provided, that this section shall not apply so as to remove from the funds of any school district any moneys derived from any source other than by apportionments from the state fund or the county fund. If the trustees of any school district shall certify to the superbuildings or intendent of public instruction that a new school building, or repairs on an old school building are necessary in the district, repairs, how made buildings or and that the trustees have been authorized by vote of the dis- New trict, if a vote is required, to build such new school building or repairs, how to make such needed repairs, or that the balance in the funds made of the district are necessary for the maintenance of school in the district, and that the trustees have estimated that the cost of such new school building, needed repairs, or school maintenance is to be......... dollars, the superintendent of public instruction shall make whatever investigation he may deem best and if he shall become satisfied that such new building or repairs are necessary in the district, or that the balance in the funds of the district are necessary for the maintenance of school, and that the amount estimated to be spent for such new building, repairs, or maintenance of school is a reasonable amount to be set aside for the purpose mentioned, he shall not make the deductions as provided in this section, but he shall make such deductions as will leave in the funds of the district an amount equal to the estimated amount to be spent for such new building, repairs, or maintenance of school, together with two hundred and fifty dollars for each teacher assigned to that district, upon the basis of one teacher for every thirty census children or fraction thereof as shown by the last preceding school census. County This section shall not be construed to mean that the portion Residue to of the excess in any school fund, as provided herein, that has remain in come to such fund from apportionments from the state school school funds fund shall be returned to the state school fund, but all of such excess, whether of state or county moneys, shall be placed to the credit of the unapportioned county school fund of the county and shall be apportioned with the regular county school fund. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 69—An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of guardians and to prescribe their duties," approved March 11, 1899. [Approved March 15, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seventeen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of guardians and to prescribe their duties, approved March 11, 1899, is hereby amended to read as follows: minor to be from estate Section 17. Every guardian appointed under the provisions Debts of of this act, whether for a minor or any other person, shall pay paid by all just debts due from the ward out of the personal estate and guardian the income from the real estate of the ward, if sufficient, and if not, then from the proceeds of a sale of the personal or real estate, upon obtaining an order for such sale according to law; |