Mortgages recorded in separate book Section 6. Whenever an instrument conveying, encumbering or mortgaging both real and personal property shall be presented to any county recorder for recording, the said county recorder shall record such instrument in a book kept by him for that purpose, which record must be indexed in both the real estate index and personal property index, as deeds and other conveyances are required by law to be indexed, and for which he may receive the same fees as are allowed by law for recording and indexing deeds and other instruments, but only one fee for the recording of such instrument shall be collected. Amending criminal [Assembly Bill No. 135-Mr. Lockhart] CHAP. 93-An Act to amend section 376 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, effective January 1, 1912. [Approved March 11, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 376 of an act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto, practice act approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Record of brand on hide of animal to be kept by dealer Section 376. It shall be unlawful for the keeper of any slaughter-house, or any person engaged in slaughtering cattle, or for the keeper of any butcher-shop, or other person slaughtered who buys the meat of slaughtered bovine animal or animals in quantities of a quarter-carcass or more, to purchase or receive any cattle for slaughter or any meat of a slaughtered bovine animal except meat purchased from a wholesale meat dealer or packing-house without first having exhibited to him the hide of such animal and examining the brand or other marks on such hide and entering in a book kept for that purpose a description of such brand and any other marks on the hide, the sex, number of head or quantity of meat purchased or received, together with the name and address of the person from whom the purchase is made and the date of the purchase, and, in the case of animals purchased for slaughter, the date of slaughtering. Said book shall be kept at the slaughter-house or butcher-shop or other place where the purchase is made and shall be open to the inspection of any person or persons during business hours; provided, that in the cases of a resale of such cattle or meat by the keeper of an established slaughter-house or of an established butcher-shop, such exhibition of the hide. shall not be required nor shall it be necessary to make entries in such cases in the record-book herein provided for. Exception Any person violating the provisions of this section shall Penalty be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than two hundred fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [Assembly Bill No. 149-Mr. Whitacre] CHAP. 94-An Act concerning the county officers of Lyon County; their duties, salaries and compensation; amending a certain act on the same subject approved March 26, 1919, 191; repealing another act on the same subject approved March 27, 1919, 255, and reenacting a portion of the last-mentioned act. [Approved March 11, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and certain act Lyon County SECTION 1. That the certain act entitled "An act concern- Repeal of ing county officers in the county of Lyon, State of Nevada; concerning fixing the salaries and compensation of said officers; regu- salaries of lating the appointment of deputies and the compensation officers thereof; requiring the officers of said county to make reports of all fees collected by them to the board of county commissioners of Lyon County; consolidating certain offices in said county; and other matters properly relating thereto, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 26, 1919, 191, be, and the same is hereby, amended by repealing section 6 thereof. SEC. 2. That the certain act entitled "An act concerning Same county officers in the county of Lyon, State of Nevada, fixing the salaries and compensation of said officers, regulating the appointment of deputies and the compensation thereof, and requiring said officers to make reports of all fees collected by them to the board of county commissioners of Lyon County; and other matters properly relating thereto, repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 27, 1919, 255, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Lyon County traveling SEC. 3. The district attorney of the county of Lyon shall Salary of receive a salary of twenty-one ($2,100) hundred dollars per district annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments, and attorney: shall also be allowed his actual traveling expenses when called expenses from the county seat in the discharge of his official duties as district attorney. Said salary and expenses shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, and all fees or commissions collected by him in his official capacity shall be paid to the county treasurer on the first Monday of each and every month; and he shall, at the same time, prepare and file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners a statement, Deputies, when under oath, of all such fees collected by him in his official capacity during the month previous. Said district attorney may, when the public needs of the county require it, and when authorized and directed by the board of county commissioners, appoint one or more deputy district attorneys for said Lyon County, whose appointment shall be for such time as said board of county commissioners shall deem necessary, and whose compensation shall be fixed by said board of county commissioners, but shall not be in excess of one hundred fifty dollars per month for each deputy so appointed. SEC. 4. It is the sense of the legislature that the salary, Intent of act compensation, and duties of the district attorney, and the powers conferred on him respecting the term for which he has been elected, are not changed by this act. Title of certain act amended Two [Assembly Bill No. 154-Mr. Smith] CHAP. 95-An Act to amend the title of and to amend a certain act entitled "An act providing for the division of Clark County, Nevada, into educational districts and providing for the government of the schools therein," approved March 29, 1919. [Approved March 11, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The title of the above-mentioned act is hereby amended to read as follows: An act providing for the division of Clark County, Nevada, into educational districts, and providing for the government of the schools therein, and validating certain bonds of educational district No. 1 of said Clark County, Nevada. SEC. 2. Section one of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. Clark County of the State of Nevada is hereby educational divided into two educational districts, as follows: districts in Clark County Educational district No. 1 shall include all territory in Clark County lying east and north of the division line. described as follows: Beginning at the point where the range Description line between ranges sixty-three (63) and sixty-four (64) east of district No. 1 District of first class intersects the north boundary line of Clark County; thence south on said range line to the township line between townships seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) south, thence east on said township line to the range line between ranges sixty-four (64) and sixty-five (65) east, thence south on said range line to the fifth standard parallel south, and thence east on said fifth standard parallel south to the Colorado river. Educational district No. 1 shall be a school district of the first class, and shall be governed by all the laws and shall have all the No. 2; powers granted to such districts by the general laws of the State of Nevada, except as otherwise provided for in this act. Educational district No. 2 shall include all that portion of District Clark County not embraced in educational district No. 1 as high-school hereinbefore described, and shall constitute a high-school district district for the government and maintenance of all high schools in said district. SEC. 3. Said Board, How Selected. Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: education Section 3. The members of the board of school trustees Board of as at present constituted within said educational district for district No. 1 shall meet at Overton, in said county, on or before the No.1 first day of May, 1919, and from their numbers they shall select five persons who shall constitute the board of education of said educational district until the next general election. Three of such board shall be selected from the boards of trustees of schools of the Moapa valley and two from the boards of trustees of schools of the Virgin valley of said educational district No. 1. SEC. 4. Board of Education To Be Elected 1920. Section 4 of the above - entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: education election Section 4. At the general election of 1920 two members Board of of said board shall be elected for a term of four years and elected at three members of said board shall be elected for a term of general two years. At each general election of county officers thereafter two members of said board shall be elected for a term of four years and one member of said board shall be elected for a term of two years. SEC. 5. Section 5 of the above - entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: said board Section 5. The said board of education of said educa- Duties of tional district No. 1 shall have control of the fiscal policy of the high and elementary schools in said district; it shall embrace uniform courses of study as provided or adopted by the state board of education or other lawful authority; it shall employ all teachers, hire janitors and other employees and discharge the same when sufficient cause therefor exists; it shall select and purchase or otherwise acquire sites for elementary and high-school buildings, houses for school use or for the housing of teachers; equip and keep in repair all school properties; transport elementary or high-school pupils to and from school; and they shall do any and all other things necessary for the proper conduct, administration, and maintenance of said schools or for the furtherance of sound educational policy in said district; election to Provided, that if a protest against any elementary- or high- Special school site, selected by said board, signed by 25 per cent of name site of the qualified voters residing within the limits of said educa- high school, tional district No. 1, naming a different site desired by the protestants, shall be presented to the said board of education when New bids, when be audited not later than twenty days after the announcement of the Shall the schoolhouse be located at............ ? (Being the site (Being the site The voter shall place a cross after the site desired. Provided, further, that after advertising as required by chapter 250, Statutes of Nevada, 1915, if bids received in response for the construction of buildings or for making other improvements are unsatisfactory, the school board, with the consent and approval of the deputy state superintendent of schools of said district, may employ a competent builder and proceed with the erection of the building or buildings, or other improvements. Provided, again, that a detailed and accurate account of all Accounts to expenditures shall be kept by the school board, and said and reported accounts shall be audited by the county auditor, and a report thereon made to the deputy state superintendent of public instruction. Special elections in SEC. 6. Section 8 of the said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 8. Special elections in educational district No. 1 shall be held in conformity with the requirements of the district No. 1 general school law governing school districts of the first class; provided, that the board of educational district No. 1 shall appoint a registry agent in each voting precinct who shall serve without pay, provided that the required notices shall be posted in each of the voting precincts in said district No. 1; and provided, further, that boards of election shall deliver the returns in sealed packages or containers to the clerk of the board of education; and provided, further, that the board of education shall at the first regular meeting of said board, or at a special meeting called for the purpose, canvass the vote of the election and announce the results. The election returns shall then be filed with the county clerk and kept by him as the law requires. SEC. 7. Said act is further amended by adding thereto New sections two additional sections to be known as numbers 9 and 10 thereof, which said sections 9 and 10 shall read as follows: added School census in Section 9. For the purpose of taking the school census and for the purpose of apportioning state and county money district No.1 to educational district No. 1, the school districts which were united to form educational district No. 1 shall be and are hereby retained as subdistricts of said educational district No. 1, as census districts. The school census shall be taken in each of the said census districts in conformity with the requirements of chapter 9, Statutes of Nevada, 1911, as amended 1913, and the superintendent of public instruction |