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The word "immediately" means as soon as practicable or without unnecessary delay. Idem.

It is essential to the validity of the notice that it shall emanate from the board of county commissioners who are charged with the care of the poor, and that it shall tend 2923. When not entitled to relief.

to show that it is from that official body, and that it be attested by the clerk of such board. Idem.

An attestation by the county clerk, simply as such clerk, is not an attestation by the clerk of the board of county commissioners. Idem.

SEC. 9. After service of such notice, as aforesaid, no pauper shall be entitled to relief from such county, unless the county commissioners shall deem it absolutely necessary.

2924. County workhouses may be established.

SEC. 10. The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may, if they think proper, cause to be built or provided in their respective counties, workhouses for the accommodation and employment of such paupers as may, from time to time, become a county charge, and said workhouse and paupers shall be under such rules and regulations as said board of commissioners may deem proper and just.

2925. Penalty for transporting paupers.

SEC. 11. If any person shall bring and leave any pauper in any county in this state, wherein such pauper is not lawfully settled, knowing him to be a pauper, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recovered by and to the use of such county in a civil action before any court having jurisdiction of the same.

See secs. 2926-2928.

An Act concerning the bringing of indigent, incompetent or incapacitated persons into the state or from one county into another county of this state, and fixing the penalty therefor.

Approved February 20, 1905, 25

2926. County to support poor, when.

SECTION 1. Every county shall relieve and support all pauper, incompetent, poor, indigent persons and those incapacitated by age, disease or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported or relieved by their relatives or friends, or by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions.

See sec. 2925.

2927. Act construed-Terms defined.

SEC. 2. The term "residence," as used in this act, shall be taken to mean and shall be considered to mean the actual residence of each of such persons, or the place where each such persons were employed, or in case such persons were in no employment, then it shall be considered and held to be the place where such person made his or her home, or his or her headquarters.

2928. Bringing pauper into state misdemeanor-Penalty.

SEC. 3. Every person, firm or corporation, or the officers, agents, servants or employees of any person, firm or corporation, bringing into or leaving within, or aiding in the bringing into or the leaving within, of any pauper or poor or indigent or incapacitated or incompetent person as hereinbefore mentioned, in any county in the State of Nevada, wherein such person is not lawfully settled or not lawfully residing as herein defined, knowing him to be such pauper, poor, indigent, or incapacitated or incompetent person, and for the purpose of imposing said person as a public charge on the county to which said person shall be taken as aforesaid shall be guilty of a misde

meanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS

Relating to public reports, sections 2929-2931.

Authorizing secretary of state to furnish printed public documents, statutes and reports to certain parties, section 2932.

To provide for free distribution of statutes and legislative journals to certain parties, section 2933.

Relating to distribution of law books, sections 2934-2936.

To regulate the sale of state law books, section 2937.

To provide for the preservation and sale of certain Nevada Reports, sections 2938-2940. To provide for the republication and stereotyping of certain volumes of the decisions of the supreme court, section 2941-2946.

To provide for publication and distribution of Nevada Reports, sections 2947-2951.

An Act relating to public reports and repealing all other acts in relation thereto.

Approved February 17, 1893, 23

2929. Reports, when prepared and filed.

SECTION 1. All officers, boards of officers, commissioners, trustees, superintendents, regents, boards of control and directors required by law to make reports to the governor or legislature, except the state controller and the state treasurer, must send the original draft of such reports to the governor on or before the third day of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in every second year thereafter. The state controller must send his report to the governor before the second Monday in January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and in every year thereafter, and the state treasurer on or before the fifth day of January in eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and in every year thereafter. But the regents of the university shall submit to the governor on or before the third of January of each year, the register of the university containing the courses of study, registration of students, and such descriptive matter as may be deemed valuable. The board of control of the agricultural experiment station shall also report to the governor on or before the third day of January of each year the work of the station by departments and the receipts and expenditures of the station for the government fiscal year ending June 30th. As amended, Stats. 1901, 43.

2930. Edited and revised, how-Number printed.

SEC. 2. The governor shall, upon receipt of such reports, submit the same to the state board of examiners, who shall examine, edit and revise each of said reports, and shall order such a number of each of said reports, or part or parts of each of said reports, printed as in their judgment will meet the requirements of law; provided, that in no case shall a less number of copies than fifty nor a greater number of copies than fifteen hundred, be printed; but the board of examiners may, if they deem advisable, order two thousand copies of the university register and of the experiment station report to be printed. The board shall especially see that no matter shall be printed in more than one report, unless of great public interest. As amended, Stats. 1901, 44.

2931. State printer to print reports.

SEC. 3. The superintendent of state printing must print such reports, or such part or parts of said reports, as may be ordered by the state board of examiners, in the manner designated by said board, promptly after the receipt thereof, and distribute the same in accordance with the directions of said board.

[Secs. 4 and 5, repealing certain acts, omitted.]

An Act au thorizing the secretary of state to furnish the printed public documents, statutes, and reports to certain parties therein named.

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SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit, and to each of the judges of the United States district courts for Nevada, California, and Oregon, and to the librarian of the San Francisco law library, one full set of the reports of decisions of the supreme court of Nevada, and one full set of the legislative documents and statutes of Nevada, including such of the printed documents and statutes of the Territory of Nevada as may be in the state library for public distribution, and from time to time hereafter, as the same shall be published, to each of said judges one copy of the supreme court reports and one copy of the legislative documents and statutes of the state, and to said librarian two copies of each of said reports, documents, and statutes.

An Act to provide for the free distribution of the statutes and legislative journals of the present and future sessions of the legislature of the State of Nevada to certain parties.

Approved February 7, 1883, 32

2933. Newspapers to receive statutes and journals.

SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state to deliver, free of charge, the statutes of the present and each future session of the legislature of the State of Nevada, together with the assembly and senate journals for the present and subsequent sessions of legislature, to the publisher of any daily or weekly newspaper published in said state, who constantly furnishes the same for the use of the state library.

An Act relating to the distribution of law books to the county

and township officers.

Approved March 21, 1901, 115

2934. Distribution of law books.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to distribute the supreme court reports, the compiled laws and the session laws, when published, to county and township officers as follows: He shall mail to each county officer and justice of the peace, as provided by the statute, one copy and no more, said copy or volume to be kept in the office for the use of the office, and shall be by the officer receiving the same transferred to his successor in office, who shall give the retiring officer a receipt for all supreme court reports, compiled laws, statutes and other state documents on hand and also received from the secretary of state.

2935. Receipts for.

SEC. 2. The secretary of state shall take proper receipts for such books at the time of their distribution, and file the said receipts in his office, and in

no instance shall he supply a missing, or a second, volume other than at the statutory price for said volume.

See secs. 2945, 2952.

2936. Books to be stamped.

SEC. 3. The secretary of state shall stamp or mark all books to be distributed as provided by law to district judges, state officers, county and township officers as follows: "State property; to be turned over to your successor in office."

An Act to regulate the sale of state law books.

Approved March 5, 1907, 63

2937. Prices of state law books.

SECTION 1. The secretary of state is directed to sell Nevada law books at the following rates: Nevada Reports, two dollars and twenty-five cents a volume; Nevada and Sawyer's Digest (1878), one dollar a volume; Compiled Laws of Nevada (1861-1900), six dollars a volume; Statutes of Nevada, two dollars a volume during the two years immediately succeeding the date of publication, and at the expiration of two years, one dollar a volume; provided, that the secretary of state is not authorized to sell at one time to any one person or firm more than five copies of any one volume of said publications. See Compilation, sec. 1015.

An Act to provide for the preservation and sale of certain Nevada Reports.

Approved March 5, 1875, 132

2938. Nevada reports for use of legislature.

SECTION 1. The secretary of state, shall keep on hand, for the exclusive use of the legislature, when in session, fifty copies of each volume of the Nevada Reports heretofore published.

See Compilation, sec. 1015.

2939. Receipt given.

SEC. 2. No copy of any such volumes shall be taken from said secretary's office until the person desiring the use of the same shall have deposited with said secretary his written receipt therefor.

2940. Return of copies, when made.

SEC. 3. All copies of said reports so taken from said secretary's office shall be returned thereto on or before the last day of any regular or special session of the legislature; and any person so failing to return said reports shall be liable for the value thereof, in any sum not less than ten dollars nor exceeding twenty-five dollars per volume, together with the costs of suit, to be recovered by suit, in the name of the State of Nevada, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

An Act to provide for the republication and stereotyping of certain volumes of the reports of the decisions of the supreme court.

Approved March 2, 1877, 112

2941. By whom and in what manner pub

lished.

2942. Price per volume. 2943. Volumes retained.

2944. Who entitled to receive reports. 2945. Reports turned over to successor. 2946. Points and authorities.

2941. By whom and in what manner published.

SECTION 1. There shall be published by the publishers of the current volumes of Nevada supreme court reports, from time to time, under the

direction and by the approval of the supreme court, all volumes of the reports of the decisions of said court which shall be out of print, or so nearly so as to make the republication thereof, in the opinion of the court, advisable; and such republication shall be edited by such person, learned in the law, as shall be selected or approved by said court, and in such manner, and with such reduction of the number of volumes as said court shall, by its order, direct; the entire cost of such editing to be paid by the publishers, and the numbers and pages of the present volumes to be preserved in such new edition; and the plates of all such volumes of reports as shall be republished under this act shall be stereotyped, and four hundred copies of each volume thereof, the same to be of the same style and quality as to paper and binding as volume 10 of Nevada Reports, and to contain seven hundred and fifty pages or more, as the supreme court may determine, shall be delivered to the secretary of state. And upon furnishing to the secretary of state such copies, and satisfactory proof of having stereotyped the plates of such volumes, the said publishers shall receive from the state the price of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per copy for each volume of Nevada Reports so republished and furnished to the state, to be audited by the state board of examiners, and paid by the state treasurer, on the warrant of the state controller, out of any money not otherwise appropriated; provided, that when two volumes of said reports shall be printed and bound in one volume, by direction of the supreme court, the price to be paid by the state shall be five dollars ($5) per copy; and, provided further, that the said publishers shall enter into a contract, to be approved by the justices of the supreme court, and filed in the office of the secretary of state, stipulating that they will faithfully perform all the acts and conditions in this act required to be performed by them, and particularly will, at all times, keep for sale, and sell to the State of Nevada, and to the residents of the state, copies of the volumes to be so republished, at the rate herein fixed; and said publishers shall give bond, for the fulfillment of said contract, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, which bond shall be filed with the secretary of state and approved by the justices of the supreme court, or a majority thereof.

See secs. 4897-4899.

2942. Price per volume.

SEC. 2. The said publishers shall sell said volumes at a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per volume for each and every volume of Nevada Reports so republished, to all residents of this state, and no greater price shall be demanded or received by them, or their agents, or assigns, or either of them.

2943. Volumes retained.

SEC. 3. The secretary of state is hereby authorized to sell any copies of the volumes to be so republished, which the state may now have on hand exceeding fifty copies of each volume, which he shall retain for the use of the state, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per volume.

2944. Who entitled to receive reports.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, upon the republication of these reports as herein provided, to ascertain to whom the early reports have been supplied, as per act of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and supply, when he finds deficiencies, the following parties with all the reports of the supreme court of Nevada: To each state and territory, one copy; to each of the heads of departments at Washington, one copy; to the library of Congress and the Nevada state library, two copies; to each of the United States circuit and district courts in the States of Nevada, California and Oregon, one copy; to each state officer, justice of the supreme

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