let unless trict with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board for not less than 20 per cent of the amount of the contract price, conditioned upon the faithful performance of said contract. The work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer employed by the district and approved by the board; provided, that no No contract contract of any kind shall be let by said board of directors sufficient unless there is sufficient money in the district treasury at funds in the time such contract is let to fully pay for the work or material so contracted for, or unless such contract is made payable in bonds of the district as provided for in section 21. SEC. 19. Section forty-four (44) of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: treasury excluded procedure Section 44. The holder or holders of title, or evidence of Certain lands title, as described in section 1 hereof, may file with the board from of directors a petition, in writing, praying that the boun- district: daries of said district be so changed as to exclude the lands for described therein. Within thirty days after such petition is filed the board of directors shall by resolution fix what will be the probable cost of the proceedings relative to such petition and within thirty days thereafter the petitioners shall file with the secretary of the district a bond, to be approved by the board of directors in double the amount of the probable cost of the proceedings theretofore determined. by the board of directors, conditioned that the sureties of such bond will pay to the district all the cost of said proceedings in the event such petition be denied. The petition shall describe the boundaries of the several parcels owned by the petitioners and shall state the reasons for the exclusion prayed for. The board of directors shall cause the land described in such petition to be surveyed and reported upon by a competent irrigation engineer, and if the board shall then find said lands to be of such character as to prevent their receiving benefits from the existing or proposed works, the board shall make an order changing the boundaries of said district so as to exclude the land described in said petition. If lands are excluded, as in this section provided, a copy of the order excluding same, with a plat of land excluded, each certified by the secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties in which such lands are situated. If said petition be denied, the signers thereof shall be liable to the district for the full amount of the cost of the proceedings and survey of said lands. SEC. 20. Section forty-five (45) of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: concerning Section 45. Whenever state lands held under contract to Regulations purchase shall be included within the boundaries of any state lands irrigation district, such lands shall be subject to all the provisions of this act the same as any other land held in private ownership. State lands, not under contract to purchase, shall concerning State lands Regulations not become a part of an irrigation district except by the consent of the state land register, who is hereby authorized and required to consent thereto on behalf of the state upon there being filed in his office a certificate signed by the state engineer to the effect that such lands will be benefited by inclusion therein. District assessments, charges, and tolls against such lands not under contract shall become a charge against the lands, and any sale or contract to sell any such lands thereafter shall be conditioned upon the payment, by the purchaser or contractor, of all such accrued charges in addition to the purchase price of the land. In case of state land held under contract, the person holding such contract shall be deemed the owner of said land for the purposes of this act, and liens shall attach to his rights under such contract, and such liens shall be enforced as in other cases, subject to the paramount title of the state, and subject to the rights of a purchaser at a sale for delinquent assessments to be subrogated to the rights of such contract holder to acquire patent to such land from the state. provide for Local directors, SEC. 21. Section forty-nine (49) of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 49. Any one of the several divisions of a district Division may may provide for the construction of local drains, laterals, or local works other improvements, or the replacement or extension of existing works or structures, the benefits of which are limited to such division, in the following manner: Upon presentation to the board of directors of the district of a petition, signed by a majority of the electors of such division representing at least one-half of the total acreage thereof, describing in a general way the local matters proposed to be undertaken, and the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data, and naming two electors of such division for local directors thereof, the board of directors of how chosen the district shall consider such petition at a regular meeting, and, if it finds that the law has been complied with, shall approve the same and appoint the electors named in the petition as members of the local board. The directors of the district shall fill any vacancy in the office of the local director of a division by the appointment of a qualified elector from the division in which the vacancy occurs. One shall hold office until his successor is elected at the next biennial district election and qualifies, and the other until his successor is elected at the second biennial district election after his appointment and qualifies. The terms of such local directors shall be determined by lot, and their successors shall be elected for four-year terms at the biennial elections. The said two local directors, with the director of the district from the division, shall constitute the local board of such division, and such board may provide for the local undertakings above named; being hereby authorized for that purpose, in so far as applicable, to exercise the powers and Elections indebted ness benefits perform the duties granted to or imposed upon the board of directors of the district in connection with its affairs. The Limit of board of directors of the district may incur an indebtedness not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars, and not exceeding the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data, and may cause warrants of the district to issue therefor, bearing interest at six per cent per annum, and the directors of the district shall have the right and power to levy an assessment on all the lands in such division benefited by such proposed improvements, in addition to any district assessment on the lands within such division, for the payment of such expenses and the redemption of such warrants. Such local board shall thereupon prepare plans and estimates of the local undertakings proposed to be accomplished by such division, stating therein whether the funds therefor are to be raised by a Funds, how single special assessment not in excess of a stated amount raised per acre upon the lands benefited, or the said board is to be authorized to secure the necessary amounts by way of certificates of indebtedness or notes redeemable by annual assessments upon the lands benefited extending over a period of years; and if the latter method is to be used, a general statement of the purposes for which the money is to be raised may be substituted for more explicit plans and estimates. Benefits shall be apportioned upon the land within such Local division and assessments levied and collected for the pay- apportioned ment of the interest and redemption of said certificates of in same indebtedness or notes in the manner prescribed in the case district of district bonds. Such certificates of indebtedness or notes shall be signed by the officers of the district and, excepting in the matter of assessments for interest and redemption being limited to the division, shall be treated in the same manner as district bonds. Such plans and estimates or statement shall be filed with the secretary of the district, accompanied by a request of the local board that an election Elections to be called in the division to authorize the proposed specia! special assessment or assessments, and the construction of the pro- assessments posed works; thereupon the secretary of the board shall give notice of the purpose, time, and place of such election, naming the polling-place and inspectors and clerks of election suggested by the local board; such notice to be published and election to be held, as near as may be, as provided in this act for an election for special assessments in the district. If such election fail of the required two-thirds vote of the electors of the division, the term of office of the local directors shall thereupon terminate and the said local board shall Local board, be dissolved. If the special assessment or certificates or dissolved notes of indebtedness and construction of the proposed works be authorized at such election, the local board shall levy such assessments, or, as the case may be, shall proceed to the levying of annual assessments for the payment of interest and manner as bonds authorize when Proceedings, when confirmed in court Proviso When district board acts as local board the redemption of certificates of indebtedness or notes, and a list of such assessments or the first annual assessment, if to be made that year, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the district and by him entered in the assessment book or books thereof, and such assessment or assessments, and the collection thereof, shall thereafter take the course of assessments of the district as in this act provided. All the abovedescribed proceedings relating to the local undertakings of a division, including apportionment of benefits for undertakings authorized by special election, may be confirmed in court as a part of the confirmation proceedings, or upon petition of the board of directors of the division. Each member of the local board of a division shall receive three dollars per day for each day in attending meetings of the board, or while engaged in official business under the order of the board. When the local undertakings above provided for are accomplished and paid for, a showing to that effect shall be made to the board of directors of the district, and upon the approval thereof by such board the terms of office of the local directors shall terminate, and any moneys of such division in the district treasury shall be appropriately credited to the lands of the division in connection with future assessments against such lands. In the event that such local improvements affect two or more divisions of a district, less than all, then all of the provisions of this section shall be applicable to the divisions affected; provided, that the local board, in case such improvements only affect two divisions, shall consist of the directors of the district from the divisions affected and one other to be appointed by the directors of the district from the divisions affected by such improvements; and, provided, that in the event such local improvements affect three or more divisions, then the powers herein provided to be exercised by a local board shall be exercised by the directors of the district. SEC. 22. Section sixty-eight (68) of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 68. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the validity of any district, heretofore organized under the laws of this state, or its rights in or to property, or any of not disturbed its rights or privileges of whatsoever kind or nature; but Districts heretofore organized said districts are hereby made subject to the provisions of this act as far as applicable; nor shall it affect, impair, or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for, or upon which it was or might become liable or chargeable had not this act been passed; nor shall it affect the validity of any bonds which have been issued but not sold; nor shall it affect any action which now may be pending. In such districts as have been heretofore organized, and in which directors of the various divisions thereof have been elected by the votes of the electors of the district at large, such elections are hereby confirmed. In the cases of any district or districts any portion of the proceedings for the organization of which were instituted under prior existing laws and completed under the provisions of this act, such district or districts shall be deemed to have been duly organized under this act, and the organization thereof is hereby confirmed. SEC. 23. A new section is hereby added, to said act to be New section known as section 71, and to read as follows: 99 66 added ,,district to "tain words: by substi words Section 71. The name of any district hereafter organized Name of new hereunder shall contain either the words "irrigation district," include cer"water conservation district,' "water conservancy district,' districts may or "water improvement district." Any district heretofore or change name hereafter organized and existing, the name of which shall tution of include the words "irrigation district," may change its said certain name by substituting for the word "irrigation" either the words "water conservation," "water conservancy," or "water improvement," by filing with the board of county commissioners, with which was filed the original petition for the organization of the district, a certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors adopted by the unanimous vote of all the members of said board at a regular meeting thereof providing for such change of name; and thereafter all proceedings of such district shall be had under such changed name, but all existing obligations and contracts of the Previous district entered into under its former name shall remain not affected outstanding without change and with the validity thereof unimpaired and unaffected by such change of name. contracts [Senate Bill No. 41-Senator Chapin] CHAP. 80-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 11, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 191 of an act entitled "An act con- Amending cerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating school law thereto," approved March 20, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: coupon tricts; limit Section 191. Any school district of the state, now existing Negotiable or which may hereafter be created, is hereby authorized to bonds for borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing school disa school building or buildings, maintaining the same, purchasing grounds on which to erect such building, or buildings, or for refunding floating indebtedness, or for any or all of these purposes, by issuing negotiable coupon bonds of the |