shall be paid in regular quarterly payments the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and this shall be in full for all services and expenses as commissioner and secretary. The auditor shall be paid in like manner the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum in full for all services and expenses as commissioner and auditor.

All the expenses of the bureau shall be audited and allowed by the board at their regular quarterly meetings. All bills shall be filed with the auditor and all accounts allowed shall be recorded by the secretary and shall be certified to the auditor of state under seal of the board, signed by the auditor, and countersigned by the secretary of the board, and shall be paid by the warrant of the state auditor drawn on the state treasurer in favor of the parties to whom such accounts shall be certified as due; and after the appropriation herein given is exhausted there shall not be expended by this board any more money, nor shall any other debts or obligations be incurred by the board.

SEC. 12. Any commissioner as such, or as state superintendent of immigration, or as secretary or auditor of the board, shall be liable to prosecution for misdemeanor in office, the same as any other state officer under the law, for such case made and provided, and upon conviction shall be removed from office as such commissioner, president, secretary, or auditor, and the remaining members of the board shall have power to fill the vacancy so occasioned, and if any vacancy shall occur in the board by reason of death, removal, resignation, or absence from the State for more than three months at any one time the remaining members of the board shall have power to fill such vacancy.

SEC. 13. An act entitled "An act to provide for a board of immigration, to define their duties and powers, and for other purposes,' approved March 1, 1871; and also "An act supplemental to an act entitled 'An act to provide for a board of immigration, to define their duties and powers, and for other purposes,"" approved June 3, 1871; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and the existing state superintendent of immigration, and the existing state board of immigration be, and they are hereby, required, at the termination of their term of office, viz, on the second Monday in March, 1873, to deliver to their proper successors, as above provided for, and to be elected and qualified under this act, the books, papers, printed documents, office furniture, and official seal, pertaining to them as such.

SEC. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 27, 1873.

NEVADA.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Act of 1887 (immigration bureau created).—A state immigration bureau is created, by the act of 1887, consisting of the state comptroller, surveyor-general, and superintendent of public instruction. It shall be the duty of the bureau to collect all obtainable information and statistics as to the character, climate, and resources of the State which, if disseminated abroad, will tend to the inducement of population and capital into Nevada from other States and Europe. It shall transmit such data to all efficient sources of immigration. It shall be the duty of assessors and other county officers to aid in collecting such information as may be available.

Joint resolution of 1903 (senate joint resolution and memorial to Congress relative to immigration and protection). Whereas in all immigration legislation for forty years the manufacturers have reaped the benefit, to the detriment of the tradesman, artisan, and laboring man, who have been afforded no protection against the competition of the undesirable, criminal, and pauper classes of foreign countries; and

Whereas a million people are suffering for want of employment, it should be the policy of our Government to afford as complete protection to the mechanic, laborer, farmer, merchant, and miner as to the manufacturer: Therefore be it

Resolved, That Congress is memorialized to levy a tax of $100 per capita upon every immigrant entering this country, in order to restrict immigration and protect our people from foreign competition.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

ACT OF 1887.

[Nevada State Laws, 1887, ch. 88, p. 90.]

AN ACT To provide for a State immigration bureau.

The people of the State of Nevada, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. A state immigration bureau for this State is hereby created, to consist of the state controller, the surveyor-general, and superintendent of public instruction.

SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after the approval of this act, the state officers constituting said immigration bureau shall organize by selecting one of their number as the president and another as the secretary of said bureau, and shall procure and use an official seal,

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and keep a record of all their proceedings. They shall adopt and publish by-laws or rules not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States, nor in conflict with the constitution and laws of this State, for their government in the transaction of their business as such bureau. They shall fix the times of their regular meetings, which shall be held quarter yearly, and shall hold called and special meetings whenever they shall deem it necessary so to do. Their meetings shall be held in the state capitol.

SEC. 3. It is hereby made, and shall be, the duty of said bureau to collect all obtainable information and statistics as to the climate and resources of this State, its agricultural lands, grazing lands, and timber lands; the amount of agricultural lands under cultivation; the amount not under cultivation; the amount thereof already sold or disposed of by the United States to individuals, to railroads, and to this State; the amount of grazing lands sold or disposed of by the United States to individuals, to railroads, and to this State; the amount of timber land in like manner sold or disposed of; at what particular localities different kinds of grain and other farm products and fruits of different kinds can be profitably cultivated and produced; the water courses, and where, of the State, giving facilities for utilization of same for irrigation and water power; the number of manufacturing establishments, including quartz, grist, and saw mills, in the State; the number of schools and their character in the State, and the facilities for education, and the amount of the public school fund of the State, how situated and invested; the number and length of railroads in the State and leading into and out of it; the number of mines being worked; the wages of labor, skilled and common; the cost of living, and generally any information which, if disseminated abroad, will tend to the inducement of population and capital into this State from the other States and Europe.

SEC. 4. Said bureau shall comply as early as practicable, and at all times, with the requirements of section 3 of this act, and, upon obtaining such information and statistics, shall send the same to such persons, organizations, societies, and bodies outside of the State as may request the same, or, in the opinion of said bureau, will use the same to the benefit of this State. Said bureau shall also inaugurate and maintain such correspondence with similar bureaus and other organizations and individuals abroad as may tend to carry out the objects of this act.

SEC. 5. All printing necessary to be done for said bureau in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be done by the state printer. SEC. 6. Said bureau shall require of each county assessor in this State, from time to time, such information and statistics as will aid in carrying out the provisions of this act; and any county assessor who shall refuse, or willfully neglect to give such information and statistics when so requested, if in his power, shall be guilty of malfeasance in office, and shall be prosecuted and punished there for as provided by law. Other county officers shall, so far as in their power, aid assessors in performing the duties herein imposed.

Approved, February 26, 1887.

RESOLUTION OF 1903.

[Nevada State Laws, 1903, p. 229.]

No. IX.-Senate Joint resolution and memorial to Congress, relative to immigration and protection.

Whereas the Congress of the United States has under consideration the subject of immigration with a view to further legislation; and

Whereas, in all such legislation during the past forty years, the manufacturers have reaped the benefit to the detriment of the tradesman, artisan, and laboring man who have been afforded no protection against the disastrous competition of the undesirable, criminal, and pauper classes of foreign countries arriving on our shores at the rate of half a million annually, assisted hither, in many instances, by government, organized society, or private aid, thus benefiting the country left by relieving the labor market, and injuring this by the number of unemployed, nearly everyone reaching this country during the past twenty years being a positive detriment to the people already here; and

Whereas a million of our people are suffering from want of employment, and the natural increase of our population will, for an indefinite future, fully supply every demand that any possible development of the country may make, it should be the policy of our Government to afford as full and complete protection to the mechanic, laborer, farmer, merchant, miner, employed and unemployed, as the manufacturer; therefore be it

Resolved by the senate of the State of Nevada, the assembly concurring, That the Congress of the United States be, and it is hereby, memorialized to incorporate in all immigration legislation such provisions as will prohibit forever from landing on our shores the undesirable element of the Old World by the levy of one hundred dollars per capita upon every immigrant to hereafter land, or such a tax as shall fully and effectually protect our people from foreign competition;

Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives be requested to use all honorable means to secure such legislation;

Resolved, That the governor be, and he hereby is, requested to forward an engrossed copy of this memorial and resolution to each of our Senators and to our Representative in Congress.

Passed March 9, 1903.