wear star SEC. 2. Every such policeman shall, when on duty, wear Officer must in plain view a star bearing the words "Railroad Police," and the name of the company for which he is commissioned. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Repeal Amending school law tax in counties without reg ular county high school [Assembly Bill No. 116-Mr. Cross] CHAP. 164-An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to authorize county commissioners, in counties not having high schools, to aid district high schools, under certain conditions, and other matters properly connected therewith," approved March 9, 1915, approved March 25, 1919. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: High-School Tax in Counties Without Regular County High Section 1. In any county in which no county high school High-school is located, the county commissioners, at the time of making the annual levy for said county, if petitioned by the board of trustees of the district high school in any county having but one duly organized high school, or the several boards of trustees of the district high schools in counties having more than one such high school, shall levy a county tax for highschool purposes of not less than twenty cents (20c), or such a part thereof as is shown in said petitions to be necessary, on the hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation of the county, for the benefit of any district high school or schools that comply with the following conditions: Conditions high schools must comply with When commissioners may reduce 1. That the said high school or schools shall have standard courses in commercial work or manual arts, or domestic arts, or standard courses in agriculture; 2. That the board of school trustees of each district interested shall have passed a resolution opening their high school to all properly qualified students of the county; 3. That the board of school trustees of the district or districts having high schools as described in paragraph 1 of these conditions shall each have levied a special district tax of not less than twenty cents (20c) on the hundred ($100) dollars of the assessed valuation. Should the board of trustees of the district or districts each make petitions as provided in section 1 of the aboveentitled act and each comply with condition 1 and conditax for high tion 2 of said act, but levy a special district tax of less than twenty cents (20c) on the hundred ($100) dollars of assessed valuation, then the board of county commissioners schools may, for the year in which said special district tax of less than twenty cents (20c) is levied, reduce the county tax rate for high schools by the same number of cents on the hundred ($100) dollars of assessed valuation. 1921 If, on approval of this act, the tax levy for 1921 shall Tax levy for have been fixed, as required by law, the boards of county commissioners of all counties affected by this act are hereby required to change said tax levy as herein provided for, if petitioned by the board of school trustees or boards of school trustees so to do within thirty days after the passage and approval of this act. [Assembly Bill No. 125-Mr. Spellier] CHAP. 165—An Act to provide for the equipment and completion of a mining experiment station building at the University of Nevada; providing for the issuance and sale of bonds therefor and the redemption thereof. [Approved March 22, 1921] WHEREAS, The federal government has assigned a mining Preamble experiment station to the State of Nevada to be located at the University of Nevada, upon condition that the State of Nevada properly house same; and WHEREAS, The sum of $30,000 authorized by chapter 67, Statutes of Nevada, 1919, was not sufficient to provide the housing space required by said mining experiment station: The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ($10,000) for experiment SECTION 1. The governor, state controller, and state Bonds treasurer are hereby constituted a commission and hereby completion authorized, directed, and empowered to prepare and issue of mining bonds of the State of Nevada in the sum of ten thousand station dollars ($10,000). Said bonds shall be in denominations of five hundred dollars ($500) each, payable in gold coin of the United States, and shall be numbered serially, and when retired shall be retired in order of their issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor and endorsed by the state treasurer, and countersigned by the state controller, and authenticated by the great seal of the state. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent (6%) per annum, payable semiannually, and shall be payable within twenty years from date of issuance. Mining Building SEC. 2. Upon the issuance and execution of said bonds the "University same shall be sold to the highest and best bidder, giving Experiment preference to the State of Nevada; provided, that any and Station all bids may be rejected. When so sold the state controller Fund" shall place the proceeds of said sale in a fund to be known as the "University Mining Experiment Station Building Fund." At least two of said bonds of five hundred dollars State tax lo cent Limited to $10,000 from said fund each shall be redeemed each year, commencing June 1, 1922, and annually thereafter on same date. SEC. 3. There shall be annually levied an ad valorem tax of one-tenth of one cent on each hundred dollars of taxable property in the State of Nevada, including the net proceeds of mines, and all moneys derived therefrom shall be paid into the university mining experiment station building interest and redemption fund, which shall be used for the purpose of paying interest and the annual redemption of the bonds authorized by this act. If after the payment of interest and the redemption of the number of bonds, as herein provided for, there shall remain a surplus in said fund, such surplus shall be used for the retirement and cancelation of additional bonds provided in this act to the amount of such surplus. SEC. 4. The board of regents of the University of Nevada is hereby authorized and directed to complete and equip said mining experiment station building. The cost of said equipment and completion of building shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). SEC. 5. All bills for the employment of architect and for All bills paid the equipment and completion of said mining experiment station building shall be paid out of the university mining experiment station building fund, herein provided for in section 2, upon bills approved by the board of regents of the University of Nevada and audited and approved by the board of examiners of the State of Nevada as other claims against the state are paid. Bounty for commercial oil well "Commer cial well" defined [Assembly Bill No. 126-Committee on Mines and Mining] CHAP. 166-An Act to provide for the payment of a bounty to encourage the boring of wells in searching for oil, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any person, firm, company, corporation, or association of persons who first brings into production in the State of Nevada a commercial oil well shall receive as a bounty therefor from the State of Nevada the sum of twentyfive thousand ($25,000) dollars. SEC. 2. A commercial well is hereby defined as a well that produces equivalent of one hundred barrels of oil each day of twenty-four hours for a period of thirty successive days. SEC. 3. The governor, attorney-general, and secretary of Commission state of the State of Nevada are hereby made a commission for carrying out the purposes of this act. created to decide as SEC. 4. Upon application for the payment of the bounty Commission herein provided the said commission shall determine whether to bounty the provisions of this act have been fulfilled, and if the said commission shall so determine it shall issue a certificate to such effect to the state board of examiners. bounty paid SEC. 5. Upon presentation of a claim for the payment of When the bounty herein provided for, accompanied by said certificate, the state board of examiners shall allow such claim in the sum of not to exceed twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, and such claim shall be allowed, approved, and paid in the usual method for allowance, approval, and payment of claims against the state. tion, $25,000 SEC. 6. The sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars Appropriais hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this act. [Assembly Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 139-Committee CHAP. 167-An Act regulating the manner and method of [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: weighing milk, cream, SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any hauler of milk Regulating or cream, other than a common carrier, or any person, firm method of or corporation receiving or purchasing milk or cream by and testing weight or test or both, or by measure or test or both, to and dairy fradulently manipulate the weight, measure or test of milk products or cream, or to take unfair samples thereof, or to fraudulently manipulate such samples. Such hauler or other agent shall weigh or measure the milk or cream of each patron accurately and correctly and shall report such weights and measurements accurately and correctly to the creamery or factory. He shall thoroughly mix the milk or cream of each patron by pouring or stirring until such milk or cream is uniform and homogeneous in richness, before the sample is False tests declared unlawful Licensed testers Licenses revoked, when Record of tests to be kept Samples retained for 24 hours or more taken from such milk or cream. When the weighing or sampling is done at the creamery, shipping station or factory, the same rule shall apply. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, by himself or as the agent, servant, employee or officer of any person, firm or corporation, receiving or purchasing milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butterfat contained therein, to underread, overread or otherwise fraudulently manipulate the Babcock test used for determining the per cent of butter-fat in milk or cream, or to falsify the records thereof, or to read the test at any other temperature than the correct one, which is one hundred thirty degrees to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit, or to pay on the basis of any measurement or weight except the true measurement or weight, which is seventeen and six-tenths cubic centimeters for milk and nine grams or eighteen grams for cream; provided, that in all tests for cream the cream shall be weighed into the test-bottle. All testing of milk or cream purchased on the basis of the amount of butter-fat contained therein shall be done by licensed tester, who shall supervise and be responsible for the operation of the Babcock test of milk or cream. A license shall be issued to such person by the commissioner of food and drugs, whose duty it shall be to examine into the qualifications of the applicant for such license, and every such applicant shall satisfy said officer of his qualifications and comply with the provisions herein, before any license shall be issued to him. SEC. 3. Said licenses shall be revoked at any time by the commissioner of food and drugs, when in his opinion said licensee has not conformed to any or all of the provisions of this act which relate to his duties. SEC. 4. Said licensed tester shall, in addition to the records herein required to be kept, record all tests made by him in a permanent book of record, a form for which shall be supplied by the department, and said tests shall be indelibly recorded in said record-book in such a manner as to identify the patron whose milk or cream has been tested, and also in such a manner as to prevent erasures or changes made in these tests, and said record shall be at all times during business hours kept open to the inspection of the commissioner of food and drugs or his agents, or of any officer of the city and county board of health, or of any peace officer of the city, county or state, or of any patron who may be delivering milk or cream to the plant or place where such tests are made. SEC. 5. Such licensed tester also shall retain in testable condition a sample of all milk or cream so tested by him for a period of not less than twenty-four hours after said tests of milk or cream have been made, and said tester shall be responsible for the safe keeping of such samples of milk or cream and shall retain the same in his custody for said period |