Highway bonds authorized for Lander County Conditions of $30,000 toward such construction and improvement; and WHEREAS, Churchill County having heretofore authorized a bond issue to provide funds which may meet the requirement of the Lincoln highway association; and WHEREAS, It is to the interest of Lander County and the State of Nevada that said improvement be made; therefore The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of aiding the department of highways of the State of Nevada, in constructing and improving route 2 of the state highway system in Lander County, known as the Lincoln highway, the board of county commissioners of Lander County, Nevada, is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to issue bonds in the name of and for said Lander County in the aggregate sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars, exclusive of interest. Said bonds shall be known as "Lander County Lincoln Highway Bonds," and the proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be used in aiding the construction and improvement of the Lincoln highway west of Austin, Nevada. SEC. 2. Upon being notified by the department of highways of the State of Nevada that it is ready to proceed with of bond issue the work of constructing and improving the Lincoln highway in Lander and Churchill Counties, the board of county commissioners of said Lander County is hereby authorized, directed, and required to cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners of Lander County and the county clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons representing the several installments of interest to fall due thereon shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bonds. Said bonds shall be numbered consecutively. The interest coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and the treasurer, or the printed facsimile signatures of said officials may be imprinted thereon. "Lander County Lincoln Highway Redemption Fund" SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of Lander County is authorized and directed to negotiate the sale of the bonds herein provided for, all at one time, or in such amounts Interest and as may be required from time to time to comply with the tenor of this act, to the highest responsible bidder, at not less than the par value thereof, after advertising for sealed bids for the same in one or more papers published in Lander County for a period of not less than two weeks preceding the date of the opening of said bids. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, or any of them, shall be placed in what shall be known as the "Lander County Lincoln Highway Fund," which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions and purpose of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn by the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations incurred under this act, and on demands made and certified by the department of highways of the State of Nevada. tion and SEC. 4. The said bonds shall be in denominations of five Denominahundred dollars ($500) each, and shall bear interest at the interest rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, said interest payable semiannually on the second Monday of January and July of each year following the issuance of the bonds; and on the first Monday in January, 1923, and annually on the same date thereafter, at least six of said bonds so issued shall be redeemed and satisfied until all of the bonds issued shall have been redeemed and satisfied. Said bonds shall be redeemed and satisfied in the order of their issuance, the lowest-numbered bonds being first redeemed. County Interest and Fund" SEC. 5. For the purpose of creating a fund for the "Lander redemption of said bonds and the payment of the interest Lincoln due thereon as the same may become due, the board of Highway county commissioners of Lander County shall, in the year Redemption 1921, and annually thereafter, at the time of levying taxes for state and county purposes, and in the same manner, levy and collect a special and additional tax upon all property within Lander County subject to taxation, sufficient in its judgment to provide for the payment of the interest due on said bonds in each year, and the redemption and satisfaction of the bonds as hereinbefore provided. The said special tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other taxes are assessed and collected, paid to the county treasurer and by him placed in the "Lander County Lincoln Highway Interest and Redemption Fund." At the maturity of said bonds and the coupons thereon they shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the fund in this section created, and shall thereupon be canceled and marked paid by the county treasurer; no interest shall be allowed or paid on any of said bonds after they have become due and payable. when SEC. 6. When the bonds and interest herein provided for Tax ceases. shall have been paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease and all moneys remaining in said interest and redemption fund shall be transferred to the general fund of Lander County. pledged SEC. 7. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby Nevada imposed omitted until all the bonds and interest coupons issued thereunder shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified. State highway engineer routes to avoid danger or unreasona ble expense with county commissioners and highway directors [Assembly Bill No. 128-Mr. Fulton] CHAP. 105-An Act to amend section 24 of an act entitled "An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada," approved March 23, 1917. [Approved March 14, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 24 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 24. Whenever in the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of any of the state highways it shall appear to the state highway engineer that any portion of the may change state highway as herein defined is dangerous or inconvenient to the traveling public in its present location, or as it may from time to time be located, by reason of grades, dangerous turns, or other local conditions; or that the expense in approval of the construction, building, rebuilding, maintenance, or repair thereof would be unreasonably great and could be materially reduced or lessened by change of route, the state highway engineer is hereby empowered to divert or change said route in such manner as in his discretion may seem best, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, but such route shall not be so changed and diverted as to exclude therefrom any of the towns mentioned in section 8 of this act unless the consent of the board of county commissioners of the county in which said town or towns are located shall have been obtained; and provided further, that the said state highway engineer shall first submit a plan of the proposed change to the board of highway directors, and the same shall be approved by them. and signboards must be erected As a part of every plan and of all specifications and Guide-posts contracts for the construction of the said highways herein provided for, provision shall be made for the erection of permanent guide-posts and signboards at every point where another road crosses or diverges such state highway and at all places requiring warning to the traveling public as to the condition of the road, such as dangerous turns, steep grades, etc., which guide-posts and signboards shall contain plain and accurate information as to the distances of towns and other points, such as is usually contained on signboards for the information of the traveling public. [Assembly Bill No. 24-Mr. Lockhart] CHAP. 106-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide a water law for the State of Nevada; providing a system of state control; creating the office of the state engineer and other offices connected with the appropriation, distribution and use of water, prescribing the duties and powers of the state engineer and other officers, and fixing their compensation; prescribing the duties of water users and providing penalties for failure to perform such duties; providing for the appointment of water commissioners, defining their duties and fixing their compensation; providing for a fee system for the certification of records, and an official seal for the state engineer's office; providing for an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act; and other matters properly connected therewith, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, repealing an act to provide for the appropriation, distribution and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer, an assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties, and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners and defining their duties, approved February 26, 1907; also repealing an act amendatory of a certain act entitled 'An act to provide for the appropriation, distribution and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer and assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners and defining their duties,' approved February 26, 1907, and to provide a fee system for the certification of the records of, and an official seal for, the state engineer's office and other matters relating thereto," approved February 20, 1909, approved March 22, 1913, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. [Approved March 16, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 27 of the above-entitled act is hereby Amending amended to read as follows: water law engineer Section 27. At the time of submission of proofs of Fees of state appropriation, where the necessary maps are prepared by the state engineer, the fee collected from such claimants shall be engineer Fees of state seventy-five cents for each acre of irrigated land up to and including one hundred acres; fifty cents for each acre from one hundred acres to and including five hundred acres; thirty-five cents for each acre from five hundred acres to and including one thousand acres; and twenty-five cents per acre for each acre in excess of one thousand acres; seventyfive cents for each theoretical horsepower up to and including one hundred horsepower; fifty cents for each horsepower from one hundred horsepower to and including five hundred horsepower; thirty-five cents for each horsepower from five hundred horsepower to and including one thousand horsepower; and twenty-five cents for each horsepower in excess of one thousand horsepower; as set forth in such proof, the minimum fee, however, for any claimant to be ten dollars ($10). The state engineer shall collect a fee of ten dollars ($10) for a proof of water used for domestic purposes or any other character of claim to water. Such fee shall include the cost of recording the water-right certificate in the office of the county recorder, should such certificate of water right issue. All fees collected as above set forth shall be accounted for in detail and deposited with the state treasurer once in each month; provided, however, that the state engineer shall deduct and hold such an amount from said fees as may be estimated to cover the cost of recording the certificates of water right. State engineer proofs order of determination, notice, etc. SEC. 2. Section 28 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 28. As soon as practicable after the expiration of the period fixed in which proofs may be filed, the state to assemble engineer shall assemble all proofs which have been filed with him, and prepare and certify an abstract of all of said. proofs, which shall be printed in the state printing office. The state engineer shall also prepare from the proofs and evidence taken or given before him, or obtained by him, a preliminary order of determination establishing the several rights of claimants to the waters of the stream. When said Preliminary abstract of proofs and said preliminary order of determination shall be completed, the state engineer shall then prepare a notice fixing and setting a time and place when and where the evidence taken by or filed with him, and the proofs of claims shall be open to the inspection of all interested persons, said period of inspection to be not less than twenty days, which notice shall be deemed an order of the state engineer as to the matters contained therein. A copy of said notice, together with a printed copy of the preliminary order of determination and a printed copy of the said abstract of proofs, shall be delivered by the state engineer, or sent by registered mail, at least thirty days prior to the first day of such period of inspection, to each person who has appeared and filed proof, as herein provided. The state engineer shall be present at the time and place designated in said notice |