Washoe On the commencement of any action or proceeding in the Court fees, district court, except probate proceedings, or on an appeal County thereto, to be paid by the party commencing such action or proceeding, or taking such appeal, seventeen dollars; said fee to be in addition to the court fee now provided for by law; On the filing of a petition for letters testamentary, or of administration, or guardianship, eight dollars and fifty cents, to be paid by the petitioner; On filing a petition to contest any will or codicil, fifteen dollars, to be paid by the petitioner; On the appearance of any defendant, or any number of defendants answering jointly, to be paid upon the filing of the first paper in the action by him, or them, ten dollars; for every additional defendant, appearing separately, five dollars. The foregoing fees shall be in full for all services rendered. by such clerk in the case, to and including the making up of the judgment roll. On the filing of any notice of motion to move for a new trial of any civil action or proceeding, the party filing same shall pay to the clerk, in full for all services to be rendered in connection with said motion, five dollars; For issuing an execution or order of sale, in any action, one dollar; For filing a notice of appeal, and appeal bonds, each, one dollar; In all proceedings begun, or for acts performed previous to this act becoming a law, such fees and charges as were provided by law at the time such action or proceeding was begun or acts performed. The clerk shall also be entitled to charge and collect the following fees and compensations not above provided for: For any copy of any record, proceeding, or paper on file in the office of the clerk relating to any civil action theretofore tried or pending in said court, when such copy is made by him, per folio, twenty cents; For each certificate of the clerk, under the seal of the court, one dollar. For filing each claim in probate or insolvency proceedings, to be paid by the party filing such claim, fifteen cents. No fee shall be allowed to, or charged by, the clerk for any No fees in services rendered in any criminal case. criminal cases For services rendered by the clerk, not in connection with civil actions or proceedings in the court, he shall be entitled Civil fees to charge and collect the following fees: For issuing marriage licenses, one-half to be paid to the county recorder, two dollars; For filing and indexing articles of incorporation, two dollars and fifty cents. For filing, indexing, and registering certificates of copart- Civil fees, nership, two dollars and fifty cents; Washoe Civil fees, In effect For filing and indexing all papers to be kept by him, other than papers filed in actions and proceedings in court, and official bonds and certificates of appointment, each, one dollar; For issuing any license required by law, other than marriage licenses, one dollar; For examining and certifying to a copy of any paper, record, or proceeding prepared by another, and presented for his certificate, one dollar, and five cents per folio for comparing said copy with the original; For making satisfaction of or credit on judgment, twentyfive cents; For filing and receiving remittitur from supreme court, one dollar; For administering each oath, without certificate, except in a pending action or proceeding, fifty cents; For taking any affidavit, except in criminal cases, fifty cents; For taking and approving each undertaking, and the justification thereof, except in criminal cases, one dollar; For searching records of files in his office, for each year (but not to charge suitors or attorneys), fifty cents; For taking acknowledgment of any deed, or other instrument, including the certificate, one dollar. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Salaries of County assessor Deputy [Assembly Bill No. 19-Mr. Hart] CHAP. 16-An Act to amend section 9 of an act entitled "An act creating and organizing the county of Pershing out of a portion of Humboldt County, and providing for its government, and to regulate the affairs of Humboldt County and Pershing County," approved March 18, 1919. [Approved February 21, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 9 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 9. The said officers of Pershing County shall receive the following compensation, to wit: The sheriff and assessor shall receive twenty-seven hundred Sheriff and ($2,700) dollars per annum; he shall be allowed to appoint one deputy, who shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum, and he shall also have the right and authority to appoint such additional deputies as may be necessary; provided, that the compensation of each such additional deputy shall not exceed five ($5) dollars per day, such compensation to be paid by and with the approval of the board of county commissioners only. The county recorder and auditor shall receive twenty- Recorder one hundred ($2,100) dollars per annum; he shall be allowed, by and with the approval of the board of county commissioners, to appoint one deputy, with compensation not to Deputy exceed twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum. The county clerk and treasurer, clerk of the district court, Clerk and clerk of the board of county commissioners shall receive a salary of twenty-seven hundred ($2,700) dollars per annum ; he shall be allowed, by and with the approval of the board of county commissioners, to appoint one deputy, with compensa- Deputy tion not to exceed fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum. The district attorney shall receive fifteen hundred ($1,500) District dollars per annum, which shall be his compensation in full, attorney except that he may be allowed such additional sums for necessary expenses incurred as the board of county commissioners shall authorize and approve, and he may employ, by and with the approval of the board of county commissioners, such deputies or assistants as may be necessary, their compensa- Deputies, tion to be fixed and approved by the county commissioners. Each member of the board of county commissioners shall Comreceive three hundred ($300) dollars per annum, and such mileage as is now allowed by law in Humboldt County. when missioners trator: and The public administrator and the county surveyor shall Adminis receive the same compensation as is now allowed by law surveyor to these officers, respectively, in Humboldt County. missioners salaries The board of county commissioners of Pershing County Com is hereby authorized and directed to allow such compensa- to allow tion as may be necessary for the payment of such deputies and additional clerks and assistants as they may from time to time authorize in the offices of the county clerk and treasurer, county recorder and auditor, sheriff and assessor, and district attorney, respectively, and such compensation shall be allowed and paid as other claims against the county. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its In effect passage and approval. [Assembly Bill No. 33-Elko County Delegation] CHAP. 17-An Act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Elko County to raise by taxation and donate the sum of fifty thousand dollars as a bonus to aid in the construction and equipment of a railroad from Rogerson, Idaho, to Wells, Nevada. [Approved February 21, 1921] Idaho WHEREAS, The Idaho Central railroad company, an Idaho Bonus to corporation, proposes to construct a standard-gage railroad Central R. R. from Rogerson, in Twin Falls County, in the State of Idaho, in Elko to Wells, in Elko County, in the State of Nevada; and County Commissioners to levy tax when WHEREAS, The construction of said railroad will be of general public benefit to the people of the State of Nevada and especially to the people of Elko County; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Elko County are hereby authorized and directed to levy, in and for each of the years 1922 and 1923 and cause to be collected, a special tax on all taxable property of Elko County in such per cent for each of such years, as shall be sufficient to produce, as the aggregate of said special tax from said two years, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which sum, when collected, shall be placed in a separate fund which shall be called the "Rogerson-Wells Railroad Fund." SEC. 2. Whenever, on or before the first day of October, Bonus paid, 1924, the said Idaho Central railroad company or any other railroad corporation shall have completed conformably to generally accepted practice in railroad engineering the construction from Rogerson, Idaho, to Wells, Nevada, of a standard-gage railroad having steel rails of not less than a weight of seventy-five pounds to the running yard and shall have equipped such railroad ready for operation with at least two steam freight engines, two steam passenger engines, six passenger coaches, two baggage cars, and seventy freight cars, all of standard make and in good condition, then the said board of county commissioners shall cause the said sum of fifty thousand dollars to be paid to the said railroad corporation which shall have so completed the construction and equipment of said railroad. Commissioners to inspect road Proviso Time limit Overplus of SEC. 3. Immediately on being notified by the railroad company on or before October 1, 1924, of the completion of the construction and equipment of said railroad, the said board of county commissioners shall proceed to satisfy themselves by personal inspection or otherwise that such construction and equipment have been completed, and on being so satisfied shall without delay cause said sum of fifty thousand dollars to be paid to the railroad corporation which shall have so constructed and equipped such railroad; provided, that the certificate of the public service commission of the State of Nevada to the fact of such completion shall be conclusive evidence thereof to said board of commissioners. SEC. 4. If said railroad shall not have been so constructed and equipped on or before the first day of October, 1924. then the said sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be by said board transferred from said special fund to the general fund of Elko County and may be used for general county purposes, and said county shall no longer be under obligation to pay any sum to such railroad corporation. SEC. 5. If the aggregate sums produced from said special taxation to tax for said two years, 1922 and 1923, shall exceed the sum revert of fifty thousand dollars, all of the excess thereof above the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be by said board transferred to the general fund of Elko County and may be used for general county purposes. [Senate Bill No. 6-Senator Kent] CHAP. 18-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to grant the right of way to John T. Reid and his associates, their successors and assigns, for the construction and operation of a railroad within Churchill County, State of Nevada, from either the town of Hazen or Parren station therein, on or near the track of the Central or Southern Pacific railway company, as said trustees may select, to the Nevada United mining company's mines at Copper-Reid, in Churchill County; and from any point on said railroad to a point at or near Battle Mountain or Argenta station in Lander County, State of Nevada, and from the town of Hazen or Parren station, as may be selected, to a point on the Western Pacific railroad company's track, not yet named, in Washoe or Humboldt County, State of Nevada, and a branch line extending into the Silver range for a distance of twenty-five miles in a general northeasterly direction from Copper-Reid or any other point on the main line of railroad, and a branch line extending in a generally northerly direction for fifty miles from CopperReid, and a branch line extending from said Copper-Reid, or other point on the main line of railroad, to the town of Lovelock, in Humboldt County, State of Nevada, and matters relating thereto," approved March 24, 1917. [Approved February 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the said act is hereby amended franchise in County et al. to read as follows: Section 1. The right of way, not to exceed two hundred Railroad feet in width, to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a Churchill narrow or broad-gage railroad with iron or steel rails, granted to together with necessary sidetracks, switches, turnouts, turn- John T. Reid, tables, over and along such route as may be deemed most advantageous, from a point at or near the railroad tracks of the Central or Southern Pacific railway company in Churchill County, at either the town of Hazen or Parren station, as said grantees herein may select, to the Nevada United mining company's mines at Copper-Reid, in said Churchill County, and from any point on said railroad to a point at or near Battle Mountain or Argenta station in Lander County, State of Nevada, and from the town of Hazen or Parren station, as may be selected, to a point on the Western Pacific railroad |