moneys arising from such sale to such uses as the said association or corporation, with the approval of such court, shall deem to be for the best interests of such association or corporation; and in like manner such court may make an order authorizing such association or corporation to mortgage any of its real estate for such purposes as shall appear to be for the interest or benefit thereof. Any order made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be subject to rehearing and to appeal to the supreme court, as in other civil cases; but a party having the right of such appeal may waive the same by filing such waiver in writing, and on filing the same the right to appeal shall no longer exist. 1370. Descent of property-Trust. SEC. 6. All lands, tenements, and hereditaments that have been, or may hereafter be, lawfully conveyed by devise, gift, grant, purchase, or otherwise, to any persons or trustees in trust for the use of any such organization, shall descend, with the improvements, in perpetual succession to, and shall be held by such trustees in trust for such organization. 1371. Limitation of property. SEC. 7. The real estate held by such association or corporation, shall in no case exceed one block in any town or city, and ten acres in the country; nor shall any portion thereof used for ordinary business purposes, and connected with the objects of such association or corporation, or rented for profit, be exempted from taxation; provided, that the grand lodges of the orders of Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and subordinate lodges thereof, may acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be deemed necessary by the proper authorities thereof to carry out their charitable, educational, or ceremonial objects; and such association or corporation may sue and be sued, and have such other general powers as are by the laws of this state granted to corporations; and provided further, that all real and personal property owned by such association or corporation prior to the passage of this act, notwithstanding any of the provisions thereof, may be still held, owned and enjoyed by them. 1372. Trustees to make annual report. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the said trustees annually to make a full report of all property, real and personal, held in trust by them, and the condition of the corporation, to the society or association by which they have been appointed or elected, a copy of which report shall be filed in the county clerk's office, where the original certificate is filed, with an affidavit of the truth of such report, and also that such association or corporation has not been engaged, directly or indirectly, in any other business than such as is set forth in the original certificate on file. An Act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals. Approved March 7, 1873, 141 1373. Society for prevention of cruelty. 1374. By-laws of society. 1375. Officers-Reports. 1376. Peace officers may arrest. 1378. What considered cruelty - Property may be seized-Maimed animal not to run at large. 1379. Punishment. 1377. Arrests, by whom made Society 1380. Prosecutions. badge-Resistance. 1381. Law inapplicable to certain cases. 1373. Society for prevention of cruelty. SECTION 1. Any three or more citizens of the State of Nevada, who shall incorporate as a body corporate under the general laws for incorporations in this state, for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals, may avail themselves of the privileges and benefits of this act; provided, that the corporate body first forming as aforesaid in any county shall be the only one so entitled to the benefits and privileges of this act in said county. 1374. By-laws of society. SEC. 2. The said societies may make and adopt by-laws governing the admission of associates and members, providing for all meetings, and assistant and district or local officers; providing, also, for means and systems for the effectual attainments of the objects contemplated by this act, for the regulation and management of its business affairs, and for the effectual working of the societies; prescribing, also, the duties of all their officers, for the outlay of all moneys, and the auditing of all accounts; provided, that such by-laws shall not in any wise conflict with the laws of the State of Nevada or of the United States, or any provision of this act. 1375. Officers-Reports. SEC. 3. Said societies shall elect officers and fill vacancies according to the provisions of their by-laws. They shall make such reports of elections as is by law required of all corporations, and shall, in addition, report to the legislature of the State of Nevada, at each of its regular sessions, a full account of all their acts. 1376. Peace officers may arrest. SEC. 4. All sheriffs, constables, police, and peace officers are empowered to make arrests for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and are hereby also empowered to make arrest without warrant, for the violation of any provision of this act which by this act is denominated a misdemeanor, when said misdemeanor is committed in the presence of said officers. 1377. Arrests, who may make-Society badge-Resistance. SEC. 5. All members and agents, and all local and district officers of each or any of the societies so incorporating, as shall by the trustees of said societies be duly authorized in writing, approved by the county judge of the county, and sworn in the same manner as are constables and peace officers, may make arrests for the violation of the provisions of this act in the same manner as is provided herein for other officers; provided, that all such members shall, when making such arrests, exhibit and expose a suitable badge, to be adopted by said society. All persons resisting said specially appointed officers, as such, shall be punished for said resistance in the same manner as is provided for the punishment of resistance to other officers. 1378. What considered cruelty-Property may be seized-Maimed animal not to run at large. SEC. 6. Every person who shall overdrive, overload, torture, torment, or deprive of sufficient and necessary sustenance, or unmercifully or cruelly beat or mutilate any living creature, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall, by his act or neglect, maliciously maim, wound, injure, torture, or cruelly beat any animal belonging to himself or to another, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who shall cause any animal, bull, bear, dog, cock, or other creature to fight, worry, or injure each other, or any person who shall permit the same to be done on premises under his charge or control, and any person who shall aid, abet, or be present at such fighting and worrying of such animals as a spectator for an admission fee, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that this shall not apply to officers of said society, peace, or police officers, or to witnesses authorized by the board of trustees of said society to be present at such fight for the purpose of giving evidence before the police judge, magistrate, or the grand jury of the county in which the offense was committed. Every person who, carrying or transporting, or causing to be carried or transported on any vehicle, railroad car, steamer, or sailing vessel, any living creature, shall unnecessarily torture, injure, torment, beat, wound, or deprive of necessary sustenance, or cause unnecessary pain to them, or any person who shall pluck the feathers from any living fowl or bird, geese and tame ducks excepted, shall on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and whenever such person shall be taken into custody, or placed under arrest, by any officer or person authorized to take into custody and to arrest for said unlawful acts, such person so arresting may take charge of the vehicle and its contents, in which such unlawful carrying is committed, and keep the same in some safe place, to be by the owner or person controlling said vehicle designated, or if such place be not designated, then to deliver the same into the custody of the sheriff or constable, to be safely kept until such person so arrested, shall be admitted to bail or shall claim the same, when it shall be delivered to the owner, or person entitled to the possession thereof, upon the payment of all charges of detention and keeping. Every owner, driver, or possessor of any maimed or diseased horse, mule, ox, or cow, or other domestic animal, who shall permit the same to go loose in any street, alley, or vacant lot of any town or city for more than three hours after knowledge thereof, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, this shall not apply to owner keeping such animal, belonging to him, on his own premises, with proper care. Every sick, disabled, infirm, or crippled horse, ox, mule, cow, or other domestic animal, which shall be abandoned on the public highway, or in any open space in any city or town, may, after due search by a peace officer of said society, and no owner can be found therefor, be destroyed by such officer, and it shall be the duty of all police and peace officers to cause the same to be done on information of such fact of abandonment of such creatures. SEC. 7. Every person convicted of any misdemeanor under this act shall be punished as is by law provided for the punishment of misdemeanors. See sec. 6285. 1380. Prosecutions. SEC. 8. All prosecutions for violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be conducted and prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction; and any member of said societies, authorized as is provided in section 5 of this act, may appear and prosecute in any of said courts, for any violation of the provisions of this act, whether or not he be an attorney and counselor at law; provided, that all such prosecutions shall be conducted in the name of the people of the State of Nevada. [Sec. 9, providing that fines may be paid to society, is omitted as unconstitutional.] 1381. Law inapplicable to certain cases. SEC. 10. No part of this act shall be deemed to interfere with any of the laws of this state known as the game laws, or any laws for the destruction of certain birds; nor shall this act be deemed to interfere with the right to destroy any venomous reptiles or animals, or any animal known as dangerous to life, limb, or property, or to interfere with the right to kill all animals and fowls used for food; nor shall this act be deemed to interfere with any scientific or physiological experiments conducted or prosecuted for the advancement of science or medicine. An Act to provide for the organization and maintenance of historic and other literary societies. Approved March 20, 1865, 409 1382. Purposes for which may be created. 1383. How formed. 1384. Certified copy of certificate prima facie evidence. 1385. Powers and privileges. 1382. Purposes for which may be created. SECTION 1. Corporations may be created for the organization and maintenance of gymnastic, athletic, historic, scientific and other literary societies. designed to promote the diffusion of useful knowledge. As amended, Stats. 1893, 116. 1383. How formed. SEC. 2. Any five or more persons, who may desire to form an association for any one or more of the purposes specified in the preceding section, may make, sign and acknowledge, before some officer authorized by law to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of the secretary of state, and also file a copy thereof in the recorder's office of the county in which the meeting is held, and the general business of such association, or society, is to be transacted, a certificate, in which shall be stated the corporate name of the society, or association, the objects for which the same shall be formed, the time of its existence-which shall not exceed fifty years-the number of directors and their names, who shall manage the business of the society, or association, for the first six months, and the name of the city or town in which the principal business of the society, or association, is to be transacted. The directors of any such society, or association, shall not be more than five nor less than three. 1384. Certified copy of certificate prima facie evidence. SEC. 3. A copy of any certificate of incorporation, filed in pursuance of this act, and certified by the secretary of state, or the recorder of the county in which the same may be filed, as provided in the foregoing section, shall be received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the matter therein stated. 1385. Powers and privileges. SEC. 4. When the certificate and copy thereof shall have been filed, as herein before provided, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the same, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name stated in the certificate, and by that name have succession for the period limited, and shall have power: First, to sue and be sued, and prosecute and defend in any court. Second, to devise, adopt and use a seal, and change the same at pleasure. Third, to purchase, accept by grant, gift or devise, hold, sell and convey such real and personal property, or estate, as the purpose of the society or association shall require. Fourth, to appoint, or elect and remove such officers, agents and servants as the business of the society, or association, may require, to define their powers, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation. Fifth, to make by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, for the transaction of the business of such society, or association, the management of its property, the regulation of its affairs, the admission and expulsion of members, and generally for the transaction of all such business as may be within the scope of its organization and original design. 1386. Election of directors. SEC. 5. Directors, after the expiration of the term first selected and named in the certificate of such organization, shall be annually elected by the members of such society, or association, at such time and place, and upon such notice and in such mode, as may be directed by its by-laws. 1387. Time of election-Quorum. SEC. 6. If it should happen, at any time, that an election of directors shall not be made on the day designated by the by-laws of the society or association, the corporation shall not for that reason be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold an election for directors, in such manner as shall be provided in the by-laws of the society or association, and all acts of the directors shall be valid and binding on the society or association, until the election and qualification of their successors. A majority of the whole number of directors shall form a board for the transaction of business, and a majority of the whole number of members of the society or association, represented in person or by proxy, shall be necessary to transact business; and any decision of a majority of the persons assembled as a board, or as a meeting of the society or association, shall be valid. 1388. Notice of first meeting. SEC. 7. The first meeting of the directors shall be called by a notice. signed by a majority of the persons named as directors, in the certificate setting forth the time and place of the meeting, which notice shall be given personally to each director, or published at least one week in some newspaper of the county where such meeting is to be held. 1389. Limitation of indebtedness. SEC. 8. No such association, or society, shall ever contract indebtedness which, in the aggregate, shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars over and above the assets of such association, or society; and no corporation, or association, organized under this act shall, by any implication, or construction, be deemed to possess the power of issuing bills, notes or other evidence of debt for circulation as money. An Act for the incorporation of hospitals or asylums in certain cases. 1390. How incorporated. 1391. What articles to contain. Approved March 4, 1867, 79 1392. Trustees, how elected and powers. 1393. May hold real and personal propertyLimitation. 1390. How incorporated. 1394. Trustees not to have compensation. 1396. Property exempt from taxation. SECTION 1. In all cases where lands or any other property, amounting in value to one thousand dollars or upwards, have been or shall hereafter be given, granted, devised or bequeathed to one or more trustees, or persons acting in the capacity of trustees, for the purpose of founding or endowing a hospital, or other charitable asylum within this state, for the care or relief of orphan children, or of sick, infirm or indigent persons, and it shall, for the more effective and perfect administration of such trust, be deemed expedient by such trustee [s] to organize themselves as a corporation, then the trustees, or persons acting as trustees in whom said lands, or other property, are for the time being invested, may become incorporated by executing under their hands, and acknowledging before some person in this state authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, duplicate articles of incorporation, one of which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and one recorded |