missioners assessment board acts district In case of failure or refusal of the board of directors to When levy an assessment as in this section provided, then, in the county comevent such assessment has not otherwise been levied, it shall levy be the duty of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the office of the district is located to levy such assessment at its next regular meeting, or at a special meeting called for such purpose. The state board of irriga- When state tion district bond commissioners, at any time upon obtaining knowledge of such failure or refusal, shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to forthwith levy such assessment. It shall be the duty of the district attorney of the county in which the office of any irrigation district is located, at the time such assessment should be made, to ascertain the fact in respect to the same, and if such assessment has not been made by the board of directors as required, to immediately notify the said board of county commissioners, the state board of irrigation district bond commissioners, and the attorneygeneral in respect to such failure. It shall be the duty of Duty of the district attorney and the attorney-general to aid in attorney and obtaining the earliest possible assessment following such attorneyfailure or refusal of the district board to act. Where the last preceding assessment made will raise a sufficient revenue for the purposes of this section, in the event no other assessment is made, such assessment shall be deemed to have been levied for succeeding years, so long as it will produce the revenue required, and the taxes shall be collected in the same manner, and all officers shall perform the same duties in respect thereto, as though such assessment had been made for the particular year by the board of directors of the district. Where the assessment which should have been levied can be determined by a mere mathematical computation based on the relation between the amount to be raised for interest or interest and the redemption of bonds for any particular year and the apportionment of benefits in the district, such assessment shall be deemed to have been made, and the taxes based thereon shall be collected the same as though such assessment had been regularly levied by the board of directors of the district. general [Assembly Bill No. 144-Washoe County Delegation] CHAP. 127-An Act providing an appropriation for the payment of street work on that portion of North Virginia and Ninth streets, in the city of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, fronting on the property and grounds of the Nevada state university. [Approved March 21, 1921] WHEREAS, The city of Reno, a municipal corporation Preamble located in Washoe County, Nevada, has provided for the To reimburse pavement of certain streets in the city of Reno, including Reno for street improve ments fronting university $7.238.37 appropriated North Virginia street and Ninth street in said city, and has provided for the payment thereof by special assessment against the properties fronting on said streets; and WHEREAS, The grounds of the Nevada state university front on 712 feet of said North Virginia street, and 300 feet on Ninth street in said city; and WHEREAS, Under said improvements 24,225 square feet of pavement will be chargeable against the Nevada state university, and the cost thereof will amount to six thousand nine hundred and seventy-two and 75/100 ($6,972.75) dollars; and WHEREAS, 312 feet of curbing and gutter will be chargeable against the said Nevada state university, amounting to two hundred and sixty-five and 62/100 ($265.62) dollars; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of seven thousand two hundred thirty-eight and 87/100 ($7,238.37) dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the said city of Reno for the expense of improving North Virginia and Ninth streets, fronting on the property of the Nevada state university, for the paving of 24,225 square feet of pavement, and 312 feet of curb and gutter, and the state controller is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant for the sum of seven thousand two hundred thirty-eight and 87/100 ($7,238.37) dollars, in favor of said city of Reno, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same. 37 Amending to state library for commis [Assembly Bill No. 163-Committee on Ways and Means] CHAP. 128-An Act regulating the state library and amending certain acts in relation thereto. [Approved March 21, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An act in relation to the state library (Statutes of Nevada, 1865, 153), as the same has been amended, is hereby amended as follows: Section 7 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. Each and every officer of this state, civil and Scale of fees military, except commissioners of deeds and notaries public, shall, at the time of the issuance of his commission, and before entering upon the duties of his office, pay to the secretary of state a fee on the basis of $5, where the salary is sion of state officers $3,600 per year or less, and $2 on each additional $1,000 or major fraction thereof per year, which, with all fees of whatever character, by the laws now in force, or which may hereafter be provided to be charged and collected in the office of the secretary of state, shall constitute a portion of the library fund; and the secretary of state shall exhibit an account of, under oath, and pay to the state treasurer, at the end of each quarter, dating from the first day of January, all moneys collected under this act, and the same, together with such revenues as are hereinafter provided, shall be said fees go reserved, set apart, and appropriated, as a state library fund. library fund The support of the state library fund shall be by moneys appropriated out of the general fund by the legislature. On the 31st day of December, 1921, and annually thereafter the amounts paid out of the general fund for the support of the state library during that year shall be reimbursed to the General fund general fund out of the state library fund by the state treasurer, and the amount remaining in the library fund shall be apportioned equally between the general fund and the state distributive school fund. to reimbursed SEC. 2. Section 6 of "An act to provide for extending the Repeal of use of the state library" (Statutes of Nevada, 1917, 347) is certain act hereby repealed. [Assembly Bill No. 170-Mr. Heward] CHAP. 129-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit the employment of any person except a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States by any officer of the State of Nevada, or any political subdivision of the state, or by any person acting under or for such officer, or by any contractor with the State of Nevada, or with any political subdivision of the state, in the construction of public works, or in any office or department of the state or in any office or department of any political subdivision of the state; providing penalties for violations of this act, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 28, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: and con aliens Section 1. Only citizens or wards of the United States State officers or persons who have been honorably discharged from the tractors not military service of the United States shall be employed by to employ any officer of the State of Nevada, or by any contractor with the State of Nevada, or any political subdivision of the state, or by any person acting under or for such officer or given to men contractor, in the construction of public works or in any office or department of the State of Nevada, or political subdivision of the state, and in all cases where persons are so Preference employed, preference shall be given to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines of the United States and to citizens of the State of Nevada; provided, nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the working of prisoners by the State of Nevada, or by any political subdivision of the state, on street or road work or other public work; nor to prevent the working of aliens, who have not forfeited their right to citizenship by claiming exemption from military service, as common laborers in the construction of public roads, when it can be shown that citizens or wards of the Exception as United States or persons who have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States are not available for such employment; nor to prevent the exchange of instructors between the University of Nevada and similar institutions of the North and South American countries; and provided further, that any alien so employed shall be replaced by any citizen, ward, or ex-service man of the United States applying for employment. to university instructors contain proviso in accord with this act Contract void, when SEC. 2. Section 2 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. In each contract for the construction of public Contracts to works a proviso shall be inserted to the effect that if the provisions of section 1 of this act are not complied with by the contractor, the contract shall be void, and any failure or refusal to comply with any of the provisions of this act shall render any such contract void. All boards, commissions, officers, agents, and employees having the power to enter into contracts for the expenditure of public money on public works shall file in the office of the commissioner of labor the names and addresses of all contractors holding contracts with the State of Nevada, or with any political subdivision of the state. Upon the letting of new contracts the names and addresses of such new contractors shall likewise be filed. Upon the demand of the commissioner of labor a contractor shall furnish a list of the names and addresses of all subcontractors in his employ. Misdemeanor and penalty Proviso SEC. 3. Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. Any officer of the State of Nevada, or of any political subdivision of the state, or any person acting under or for such officer, or any contractor with the State of Nevada, or with any political subdivision of the state or any other person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or by both such fine. and imprisonment; provided, however, the penalties provided for in this act shall not apply where violations thereof are due to misrepresentations made by the employee or employees, by the production of fraudulent papers evidencing citizenship in the United States. [Assembly Bill No. 178-Mr. Brown] CHAP. 130—An Act creating a commission to be known as the Owyhee river development commission of Nevada, defining its powers and duties, and making an appropriation for the expenses thereof. [Approved March 21, 1921] WHEREAS, It is the ambition and moral duty of the people Preamble of the United States to provide farms for as many as possible of our honorably discharged soldiers in the recent world's war, and there are now approximately 650,000 acres of unreclaimed but fertile land in Humboldt and Pershing Counties, extending for a distance of about 125 miles from the northern part of Paradise valley in a southwesterly direction along the Little Humboldt river and the Humboldt river to the south boundary line of Pershing County, also along several adjacent and tributary valleys, which can be reclaimed with water; and WHEREAS, It is believed that there is a large amount of unappropriated water in the Owyhee river which can be diverted in the northwestern part of Elko County and applied to the reclamation of said lands, and the president of the Winnemucca chamber of commerce, acting as trustee, has applied to appropriate said waters and conduct the same to the said lands with the purpose of imploring the federal government, on behalf of such soldiers, to construct such irrigation project; and WHEREAS, In order to properly demonstrate to the federal government the practicability and feasibility of constructing such project and reclaiming such lands it will be necessary to make preliminary surveys and compute the approximate cost of construction and collect other data concerning such project; now, therefore, it is hereby enacted as follows: The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: develop personnel SECTION 1. A commission is hereby created, to be known Owyhee river as the Owyhee river development commission of Nevada, to ment consist of the state engineer of the State of Nevada and two commission; other citizens of the State of Nevada, to be appointed by the governor. Two of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Within thirty days after the passage and approval of this act the governor shall appoint said commissioners and they shall hold office until the governor shall conclude they have completed their duties, |