Justice of Constable. law; provided such Justice of the Peace shall have no claim Salary of against the county for services rendered in civil or criminal the Peace. cases. The Constable, wherein the number of votes equaled or exceeded the number of sixteen hundred, shall receive the sum Salary of of nine hundred dollars a year and such fees in civil cases only as are allowed by law; provided, such Constable shall have no claim against the county for services rendered in civil or criminal cases. The Justice of the Peace for services as Justice of the Peace and ex-officio Coroner in any township wherein the number of votes cast at the last general election equaled or exceeded the number of five hundred, shall receive the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars a year, and in addition thereto shall receive such fees as are now allowed by law; provided; such Justice of the Peace shall have no claim against the county for services rendered in civil or criminal cases. The Constable, wherein the number of votes equaled or exceeded the number of five hundred, shall receive the sum of four hundred dollars a year, and in addition thereto such fees as are now allowed by law; provided, such Constable shall have no claim against the county for services rendered in civil or criminal cases. Nothing in this Act shall effect Justices of the Peace or Constables in any other than the county of Storey. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, except the County Commissioner for the long term, elected in the year 1890, who shall receive his present salary until the expiration of his term of office. CHAP. X.-An Act to amend section five hundred and eighty-eight of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto," approved March 8, 1869. [Approved February 11, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That section five hundred and eighty-eight of Isaid Act be amended to read as follows: Section five hundred and eighty-eight. Justices of the Peace Fees Justice may require of the plaintiff a deposit of money or an undertak- of the ing as security for all costs before issuing a summons. 3 Peace. Relief of Duties State CHAP. XI.-An Act for the relief of Jacob Eggers, Assessor of Elko county, on account of poll tax receipts lost, for which he had never received the tax. [Approved February 11, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and thirty-eight ($138) dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Jacob Eggers, on account of forty-six poll tax receipts, which were lost in transit in the United States mail in October, 1892, and for which said Eggers never received the tax. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Jacob Eggers for the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight ($138) dollars, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. XII.-An Act to amend an Act to provide for the management and control of the State Agricultural Society by the State, Approved March 7, 1885. [Approved February 11, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section three. Within ten days after their appointment, the Board of persons so appointed shall qualify as required by the ConstituAgriculture. tion, and shall meet at the office of the State Agricultural Society, and organize by the election of one of their number as President, and one as Vice President of the Board and [of] said Society, who shall hold said offices of President and Vice President for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The Board shall also elect a Secretary and Treasurer, not of their number, who shall each hold office at the discretion of the Board. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section four. At the same meeting the members of the Board shall, by lot, or otherwise, classify themselves into four classes of three members each. The terms of office of the first class shall expire at the end of the first fiscal year; of the second class, of the second year; of the third class, of the third year; of the fourth class, at the end of the full term of four years. The fiscal year shall be from the first of December to the first of December. CHAP. XIII.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act fixing the salary of Justice of the Peace in and for Eureka township, Eureka county, State of Nevada, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 10, 1891. [Approved February 11, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Salary of SECTION 1. An Act fixing the salary of Justice of the Peace. in and for Eureka township, Eureka county, State of Nevada, Justice of and other matters relating thereto, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. the Peace. CHAP. XIV.--An Act to prohibit certain live stock from running at large upon the streets, highways or commons of the cities and towns of the State of Nevada. [Approved February 11, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners, or any person or persons having in charge any cow, calf, bull, steer, heifer, horse, gelding, mare, colt, jack, jenny, mule or any neat foot animal, or any number of such animals, to permit or allow them to run at large within the ordinary limits of any city or town of this State between the hours of six o'clock P. M. and seven o'clock A. M. of each day, during any period of the year. Said ordinary limits shall be defined as follows: Within an incorporated city or town, the limits shall be as defined in said incorporated clause or clauses; and within a town or city not incorporated in this State, the said ordinary limits shall be defined as follows: Within such city or town with fifty or more inhabitants, the said limits shall be defined as being within a radius of half mile, radiating from the postoffice of said city or town. Live stock at large restricted. Duties of Constables. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff, deputy and Sheriffs and deputies, Constable and policemen of or in any town described in section one of this Act, to impound any or all animals mentioned herein. SEC. 3. The owner or owners, agent or agents, or person or persons having charge of such animal or animals, shall be fined five dollars for each and every violation of this Act, and as much more, as in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction thereof, may deem a sufficient amount to cover all damages. Penalties. When be impound SEC. 4. Any officer, officers, person or persons named in animals may section two of this Act, having in his charge, after they have ed and sold. been impounded, any of the animals mentioned in this Act, shall post a notice that such animal or animals are in his charge, and if not taken out by the owner or owners, agent or agents, person or persons in charge, by paying all costs, charges and damages, will be sold. After the expiration of ten days the officer or officers, person or persons having such animal or animals, and having given notice, as aforesaid, shall post three written or printed notices in conspicuous places in the town or city where such animal or animals have been taken up, describing the same, giving all marks or brands, if any, and that such animal or animals will be sold by him to pay the charges that have, and will have accrued, against the property, and the costs. He shall sell to the highest bidder, and upon payment of the purchase money shall turn over to the buyer the animal or animals sold, and after deducting the costs of impounding and all accrued costs, including the costs of feeding, keeping and selling, shall pay the balance, if any remains, into the county treasury, where it shall remain subject to the laws governing escheats. Duty of officers. Bounty for tion of gophers. SEC. 5. It is hereby made the duty of the several officers in this Act named, to enforce its provisions, and a failure to do so shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any officer found guilty thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. SEC. 6. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. CHAP. XV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the destruction of certain noxious animals," approved March 13, 1891. [Approved February 14, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. follows: Section one. Section 1 is hereby amended so as to read as If any person shall take and kill within this the destruc- State any pocket gophers he shall be entitled to receive out of the treasury of the county within which such pocket gophers shall have been taken the following bounty, to-wit: For every pocket gopher, one and one-half cents; provided, no person shall be entitled to apply for or receive bounty money for any number of scalps less than one hundred at any one time, and all bounties to be paid for the object herein set forth shall be subject to the provision of this Act; and, further provided, that the term pocket gophers herein shall not include squirrels or chipmunks. SEC. 2. Section 2 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: bounty may Section two. The person intending to apply for such bounty When shall take the heads, or skin of the heads, with pockets attached, be claimed. with the ears connected thereto, of the pocket gophers killed by him to some Justice of the Peace of the county wherein which such pocket gophers shall have been taken. SEC. 3. Section 3 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section three. The person claiming such bounty shall then be sworn by such Justice of the Peace, and state on oath the time and place when and where said pocket gophers for which a bounty is claimed by him, when taken and killed, and shall also submit to such further examination, on oath, concerning the killing and taking of such pocket gophers, as the Justice of the Peace may require. Duties of SEC. 4. Section 4 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section four. If it shall appear to the Justice of the Peace that the pocket gopher or pocket gophers have been taken and Justice of killed within the county, he shall cut off the ears from the the Peace. scalp and destroy the said ears, and give to the person so sworn a certificate stating the number of scalps deposited with and destroyed by him. The said Justice of the Peace shall receive for each oath administered, twenty-five cents, and for each certificate, twenty-five cents, to be paid by the party applying for such bounty, and in no case to be a charge against the county. SEC. 5. Upon the presentation to the Board of County Commissioners of the proper county of any such certificate, they are hereby authorized and directed to allow the amount due Bounties under the provisions of this Act to the person therein named, allowed, out of the General Fund of such county. CHAP. XVI.-An Act concerning the payment in money of debts and other obligations. [Approved February 15, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: how. paid in SECTION 1. On and after the passage of this Act, all official Debts to be bonds and undertakings, and also all obligations of debt, judg- lawful ments or executions stated in terms of dollars and to be paid in money. money shall be payable, all stipulations in the contract to the contrary notwithstanding, in either the standard silver or gold coins and other legal money authorized by the Congress of the United States. CHAP. XVII.-An Act to ascertain and express the will of the people of the State of Nevada upon the subject of election of United States Senators. [Approved February 15, 1893.] WHEREAS, It is expedient that the wishes of the people of this |