[Assembly Bill No. 270-Mr. Heward] CHAP. 203-An Act to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of official reporters for the district courts, their duties, qualifications, and compensation, and to repeal all former acts in relation thereto," approved March 12, 1907, being paragraphs 4968, et seq., of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, as amended by act approved March 1921. ------9 [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 6 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 6. For his services the official reporter shall Fees of dis- receive the following fees: trict court reporters Criminal case fees paid by County Monthly salary, when cases For reporting testimony and proceedings, ten dollars per day, which amount, when more than one case is reported in one day, must be apportioned by the court between the several cases. For transcription he shall receive ten cents per hundred words for the first copy, and five cents per hundred words for each additional copy. In criminal cases the fees for reporting and for transcripts ordered by the court to be made must be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the court; provided, that when there is no official reporter in attendance, and a reporter pro tempore is appointed, his reasonable expenses for traveling and detention must be fixed and allowed by the court and paid in like manner; and provided further, that the respective district judges may, with the approval of the respective board or boards of county commissioners within the judicial district, fix a monthly salary to be paid to such official reporter, in lieu of said per diem and transcribing fees in criminal cases; said salary and also actual traveling expense in cases where the reporter acts in more than one county, to be prorated by the judge on the basis of time consumed by criminal work in the respective counties; said salary and traveling expenses to be paid out of the respective county treasuries upon the order of the court. In civil cases the fees for reporting and for transcripts Fees in civil ordered by the court to be made must be paid by the parties in equal proportions, and either party may, at his option, pay the whole thereof; and in either case all amounts so paid by the party to whom costs are awarded must be taxed as costs in the case. The fees for transcripts and copies ordered by the parties must be paid by the party ordering the same. No reporter must be required to perform any service in a civil case until his fees have been paid to him or deposited with the clerk of the court. pay to Where a transcript is ordered by the court or by any party, Clerk to colthe fees for same shall be paid to the clerk of the court and let fees and by him paid to the reporter upon the furnishing of the reporter transcript. [Assembly Bill No. 272-Mr. Heward] CHAP. 204-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911, by adding thereto an additional section to be known as section 3081⁄2 thereof. [Approved March 22, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and civil practice jurors" challenges SECTION 1. The above-entitled act is hereby amended by Amending adding an additional section thereto, to be known as sec- act tion 308 thereof, which said additional section shall read as follows: Section 308. Whenever, in the opinion of a judge of a "Alternate district court about to try a defendant against whom has been filed any indictment or information for a felony, the trial is likely to be a protracted one, the court may cause an entry to that effect to be made in the minutes of the court, and thereupon, immediately after the jury is impaneled and sworn, the court may direct the calling of one or two additional jurors, in its discretion, to be known as "alternate jurors." Such jurors must be drawn from the same source, and in the same manner, and have the same qualifications as the jurors already sworn, and be subject to the same examination and challenges; provided, that the prosecution shall Peremptory be entitled to one, and the defendant to two, peremptory challenges to such alternate jurors. Such alternate jurors shall be seated near, with equal power and facilities for seeing and hearing the proceedings in the case, and shall take the same oath as the jurors already selected, and must attend at all times upon the trial of the cause in company with the other jurors; and for a failure so to do are liable to be punished for contempt. They shall obey the orders of and be bound by the admonition of the court upon each adjournment of the court; but if the regular jurors are ordered to be kept in custody of the sheriff during the trial When of the cause, such alternate jurors shall also be kept in confinement with the other jurors; and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be discharged upon the final submission of the case to the jury. If, before the final submission of the case, a juror die, or become ill, so as to be unable to perform confined his duty, the court may order him to be discharged and draw the name of an alternate, who shall then take his place in the jury-box, and be subject to the same rules and regulations as though he had been selected as one of the original jurors. [Assembly Bill No. 277-Committee on Ways and Means] CHAP. 205-An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to provide a fee bill for the office of secretary of state," approved March 24, 1913. [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 Fees of secre- amended so as to read as follows: tary of state Fees specified Section 1. The secretary of state of the State of Nevada shall be allowed to charge and to collect the following fees; provided, however, that said secretary of state shall neither charge, nor collect, any fees for services by him rendered to the State of Nevada, or any county, city, or town thereof, or any officer thereof in his official capacity: On filing any certificate or articles or other paper relative to corporations in the office of the secretary of state, the following fees and taxes shall be paid to the secretary of state for the use of the state: For certificate or articles of incorporation, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars of the total amount of capital stock authorized, but in no case less than fifty ($50) dollars; consolidation and merger of corporations, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars capital authorized, beyond the total authorized capital of the corporations merged or consolidated, but in no case less than twenty ($20) dollars; increase of capital stock, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars of the total increase authorized, but in no case less than twenty ($20) dollars; extension or renewal of corporate existence of any corporation, one-half that required for the original certificate or articles of incorporation by this act; dissolution of corporation, change of nature of business, amended articles or certificate of incorporation or organization (other than those authorizing increase of capital stock), decrease of capital stock, the increase or decrease of par value of or number of shares, twenty ($20) dollars; for filing list of officers and directors or trustees and name of agent in charge of principal office, two ($2) dollars; notice of removal of principal place of business, other than by amendment, two dollars ($2); for comparing any document to be certified when copy thereof is furnished, if any corrections are required to be made therein before certifying thereto, forty (40) cents for each folio of one hundred words of said document so compared ; for certifying to copy of articles of incorporation, where copy Fees of secreis furnished, ten ($10) dollars; for certifying to copy of tary of state ramendment to articles of incorporation, where copy is furnished, ten ($10) dollars; for certifying to authorized printed copy of the general corporation law, as compiled by the secretary of state, ten ($10) dollars; for all certificates not hereby provided for, ten ($10) dollars; provided, that no fees shall be required to be paid by any religious or charitable society or educational association having no capital stock; and provided further, that foreign incorporations shall pay the same fees to the secretary of state as are required to be paid by corporations organized under the laws of this state, except that, where a foreign corporation is organized without fixing or stating a par value to its authorized capital stock, or where its articles or charter, or the legislative, executive, or other governmental acts or other instrument of authority, under which it was created, required by law to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, do not fix or state any par value to its authorized capital stock, then, for the purpose of taxes and fees to be paid to the secretary of state, upon qualifying before carrying on the business in this state, but for no other purpose, the authorized capital stock of such foreign corporation shall be taken to be of the par value of one hundred dollars per share. for state Each and every civil officer of this state, except commis- Graded scale sioners of deeds and notaries public, shall, at the time of officers' the issuance of his commission, and before entering upon the commission duties of his office, pay a fee to the secretary of state on the basis of five ($5) dollars where the salary is thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars per year or less, and two ($2) dollars on each additional one thousand ($1,000) dollars or major fraction thereof per year; for a written copy of any law, joint resolution, transcript of record, or other paper on file or of record in this office, forty (40c) cents per folio; for certifying to any such copy and use of state seal, ten ($10) dollars for each impression; for attesting extradition papers for other states, $5 each time the state seal is necessarily used; for filing and recording each official bond, ten ($10) dollars; for filing and recording trade-marks and names, ten ($10) dollars; for each passport and other document signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state, ten ($10) dollars; for each commission as notary public, ten ($10) dollars; for each commission as commissioner of deeds, ten ($10) dollars; for each commission. signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state, other than notaries public and commissioner of deeds, ten ($10) dollars; for each commission issued by the governor Military and to staff or line officers of the militia of the State of Nevada, certain other no charge; all commissions issued to directors of the Nevada exempt state agricultural society, or to any agricultural society now "officers Repeal organized, or that may be hereafter organized, shall be free. For searching records or archives of the state, and other records and documents kept in his office, he shall charge a reasonable fee. For each certificate of qualification, issued to surety companies, ten ($10) dollars. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Bonds of [Assembly Bill No. 280-Mr. Lockhart] CHAP. 206-An Act to provide for enlarging and improving the White Pine County high-school building and the equipment thereof, and for the construction and equipment of an additional county high-school building or buildings for said White Pine County high school or branch thereof, and to provide for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund to be used for said purposes, and to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the erection, furnishing and equipment of a manual-training building for the White Pine County high school in the city of Ely, State of Nevada, and for the issuance and payment of bonds for the creation of a fund for the erection, furnishing and equipment of said building," approved April 1, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, for the purpose of creating a fund for enlarging and improving the presently existing White Pine County high-school building and the equipment thereof, including a heating plant, and the construction and equipment of a dormitory or dormitories for the accommodation of students, and for the construction and equipment of an additional county high-school building or buildings for said White Pine County high school or branch thereof, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell, all at one time or from time to time in such lesser numbers as may in their judgment be required, negotiable coupon county high-school improvement bonds of said county to an amount aggregating the principal sum of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000). Said bonds shall be two hundred and fifty (250) in number, numbered consecutively from 1 to 250, both inclusive, of the denomination of five hundred dollars ($500) each. They shall bear interest from their date until paid at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the first days of January and July, respectively, in each year, and each semiannual installment of |