that named in the aforesaid order to be paid out of the school insurance fund. [Assembly Bill No. 199-Mr. Hussman] CHAP. 180-An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Douglas County, Nevada, to issue bonds to provide funds for constructing and improving roads and highways and constructing bridges in Douglas County, Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and County construction SECTION 1. For the purpose of constructing and improv- Douglas ing highways and roads and constructing bridges in Douglas bonds for County, the board of county commissioners of Douglas highway County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to issue bonds in the name of said Douglas County in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, said bonds to be known as the "Douglas County Highway Bonds." All money derived from the sale of said bonds to be expended by the county commissioners of said Douglas County, and within the bounds of said county. of bonds SEC. 2. The said board of county commissioners shall Preparation cause said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by the chairman of said board and its clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated by the official seal of said 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, numbered consecutively and signed by the county treasurer or a printed facsimile of his signature. County High SEC. 3. The said board of county commissioners is author- "Douglas, ized to negotiate the sale of said bonds from time to time, way Fund" as the said board deems necessary, to the highest responsible bidders, for cash, and at a price not less than ninety-five cents on the dollar, or at private sale at not less than their par value; the proceeds of such sales shall be placed in what is known as the "Douglas County Highway Fund," which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn on the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations contracted under the provisions of this act. Denomination and interest Douglas SEC. 4. The said bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars each; they shall be numbered consecutively and they shall bear interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum, said interest payable semiannually on the first day of January of each year and the first day of July of each year after the issuance of said bonds until paid in full; and on the first day of July, 1924, and every twelve months thereafter, five or more of said bonds shall be redeemed and paid until all of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and paid. Said bonds shall be redeemed and paid as aforesaid in the order of their issuance, the lowestnumbered bond to be first redeemed and paid, and so on until the whole amount of said bonds so issued shall have been redeemed and paid. SEC. 5. For the purpose of creating a fund for the redemption and payment of the said bonds and the interest thereon, the said board of county commissioners of said county shall, Redemption in the year 1921 and annually thereafter, at the time of levy County High- Fund Legality of bonds not questioned Balance ing taxes for state and county purposes and in the same manner, levy a tax upon all property subject to taxation within said Douglas County sufficient in its judgment to provide for the payment of the interest annually due on said bonds and the redemption and payment of the said bonds as hereinbefore provided. Said taxes shall be assessed and collected as are other taxes, and shall be paid into a fund to be known as the "Douglas County Highway Bond, 1921, Redemption Fund," and shall be used for no other purpose except as herein provided; said fund shall be held by the county treasurer of said county and paid out by him as herein provided. At the maturity of the said bonds and the coupons thereon, they shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the said "Douglas County Highway Bond Redemption Fund,” 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 and shall have been called in for redemption. SEC. 6. When said bonds and coupons shall have been executed as herein provided, their legality shall not be open to contest by said county or by any person or corporation for or on its behalf for any reason whatsoever. SEC. 7. Any balance remaining in any fund hereby created and provided for after the accomplishment of the said general road purposes shall be converted into and become a part of the general road fund of said county. reverts to fund Faith of Nevada pledged SEC. 8. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation hereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue of this act shall have been paid in full as herein provided. [Assembly Bill No. 206-Committee on Claims] CHAP. 181-An Act for the relief of the Gray, Reid, Wright Company. [Approved March 22, 1921] supplies to WHEREAS, During the year 1919 supplies were delivered Preamble: by the Gray, Reid, Wright Company to the Nevada state state prison prison in amounts as follows: In the month of January, 1919, $7.07; in the month of April, 1919, $202.40; in the month of June, 1919, $161.54; making a total of $371.01; and WHEREAS, Claims for said supplies were inadvertently not presented for payment during the 1919-1920 period, and these claims cannot now be legally paid otherwise than by relief act; and WHEREAS, The said claims have been examined, approved and allowed by the state board of examiners and are just and legal and valid claims against the State of Nevada; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and tion, $371.01, SECTION 1. The amount of $371.01 is hereby appro- Appropriapriated, out of any money in the general fund of the state for Gray. treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the Reid. Wright above claim to the Gray, Reid, Wright Company, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant therefor and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. [Assembly Bill No. 213-Mr. Spellier] CHAP. 182-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That certain act entitled and approved as Amending aforesaid is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, school law to be known and designated as section 671, as follows: No school ment over Section 67. Notwithstanding the provisions of the last improvepreceding section, no school site shall be purchased nor any $5.000 withschoolhouse erected or repaired, at a greater expense than five out popular election thousand dollars, unless the same is first authorized by a majority vote of the school district cast at a school election called and held as provided by law; at which said election no person shall be allowed to vote unless he or she is a resident of the district and his or her name appears upon the official registry list of the voting precinct or precincts including the district for the last preceding general election, or for the last Additional preceding town or city election; provided, that any citizen. of the United States who shall have resided in this state six months, and in the school district thirty days next preceding the day of election, and whose name is not upon the said official registry list, may, not more than ten days nor less than five days prior to the day of election for the purpose of having his or her name registered, apply to the clerk of the board of school trustees, or to a person authorized by the trustees of the district to act as registry agent. registration [Assembly Bill No. 215-Mr. Hartley] CHAP. 183-An Act to provide for the leasing of coal and oil-bearing lands by the state. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The surveyor-general of the State of Nevada is Surveyor- hereby authorized to lease any land now or hereafter owned general may lease certain by the State of Nevada, or which may hereafter be granted state lands it by the United States of America, except contract lands, upon terms as hereinafter provided in this act. SEC. 2. Such leases shall be in blocks of not less than forty Size of leases nor more than twelve hundred and eighty acres each and shall conform to governmental subdivisions. $1 per acre per year; royalty Attorneygeneral to prepare form of lease SEC. 3. Such leases shall be based upon a fixed rental of one dollar per acre annually for each and every acre contained therein, and shall further provide for a fixed royalty of five per cent of the net proceeds of all oil, coal or gas extracted therefrom. SEC. 4. Such leases shall be executed upon a form to be prepared by the attorney-general, which form shall contain all of the covenants and agreements usual and necessary to leases for the extraction of coal, oil and gas. [Assembly Bill No. 216-Mr. Smith] CHAP. 184-An Act authorizing and empowering the board of county commissioners of Clark County, State of Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the construction of state highways within said county. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: issue for highways SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Clark $75,000 bond County, Nevada, is hereby authorized and empowered to Clark County issue bonds of said Clark County in the sum of not to exceed for state seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars and not to exceed six per cent (6%) interest per annum thereon and to run not to exceed twenty years and to be issued from time to time, as may be required, in the usual form of county bond. The said board is also authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax upon all the property within the said Clark Annual tax County subject to taxation for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of said bonds. at par value SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be sold by the said board at not Bonds sold less than the par value thereof and the proceeds thereof when sold shall be deposited with the treasurer of Clark County to the credit of the Clark county-state highway fund, and shall be used solely for the purpose of aiding in the construction of state highways within the said Clark County. Nevada SEC. 3. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged Faith of that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby pledged imposed be omitted, until all the bonds issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full. [Assembly Bill No. 217-Committee on Ways and Means] CHAP. 185-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," Statutes of Nevada, 1915, 236. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 34 of the act mentioned in the title of this act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 34. All amounts collected from fees and licenses under special acts to regulate insurance business in the state shall be paid into the general fund in the state treasury. |