James Quirk Clerk shall issue a venire directed to the Sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon the twelve persons so drawn as grand jurors to attend in court at such time as the Judge may have directed, and the Sheriff shall summon such grand jurors, and out of the number so summoned the court shall select ten persons who shall constitute the grand jury. If from any cause a sufficient number do not appear, or those who appear are excused or discharged, an additional number sufficient to complete the grand jury shall be selected from the jury list by the Judge and Clerk, and summoned to appear in court at such time as the Judge may direct. SEC. 2. That section eight of an Act entitled "An Act concerning juries," approved March 5, 1873, and the Acts amendatory of said section, approved February 14, 1879, and approved February 8, 1881, so far as the same amends said section eight, are hereby repealed. CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act granting leave of absence to James [Approved February 18, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Leave of absence from Storey county and State has leave of of Nevada is hereby granted to James Quirk, Sheriff and absence. Duties of ex-officio Assessor of said county, for the period of three months, to be taken during either one of the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three or eighteen hundred and ninetyfour; provided, said James Quirk shall leave in his place during his absence a competent deputy or deputies to perform the necessary work of his office. CHAP. XXXV.—An Act to consolidate certain State offices in the [Approved February 20, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State shall be ex-officio Clerk of Secretary of the Supreme Court and ex-officio State Librarian. The GovernState multi- or's Private Secretary shall be ex-officio Adjutant General, plied. and as such officers and ex-officio officers, they shall severally perform the duties required by law. SEC. 2. An Act entitled 66 An Act to consolidate certain State offices in the State of Nevada," approved March 9, 1891, is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Tuesday after the first Monday of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-five. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act to define the manner of electing County [Approved February 21, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and may be SECTION 1. Whenever twenty per cent. or more of the quali- County Comfied electors of any county in this State shall petition the Board missioners of County Commissioners of their county to that effect, it shall elected, how be the duty of the County Commissioners of such county, on or before the first Monday in July preceding any general election, to divide the county into three districts to be known as "Commissioner Districts." Such division shall be made to conform to the established boundaries of election precincts or wards, and each and every election precinct or ward shall be wholly within one of the Commissioner Districts herein provided for. Each Commissioner District shall embrace, as near as may be, one-third of the voting population of the county, to be determined by the vote cast at the last general election, and shall consist of adjoining precincts; provided, that in case not more than three election precincts or wards exist in the county, then each election precinct or ward shall constitute a Commissioner District. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners to cause to be published in some newspaper in the county, if there be one, and if not, then by the posting at the door of the Courthouse, and one or more conspicuous places in each of the Commissioner Districts, a notice specifying the election precincts or wards embraced in each of the Commissioner Districts so established. Such notice shall be posted or published for a period not less than twenty days prior to each general election. office. SEC. 3. The Commissioner designated in the statute as the Terms of "long term " Commissioner shall represent the district in which he resided when elected, and at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elected a Commissioner from each of the remaining districts, one for the "long term " and one for the "short term," as now provided by law. SEC. 4. County Commissioners shall be elected by the qualified electors of the district wherein they reside in the same manner as township officers are now elected. CHAP. XXXVII.—An Act licensing the sale of cigarettes. [Approved February 21, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the quarterly license for Cigarettes the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper shall be one hundred may be sold, and fifty dollars. when. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in dealing, in selling, giving away or offering to sell cigarettes or cigarette paper after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall take out a quarterly license provided for in Section 1 of this Act. SEC. 3. Any person, firm, association or corporation, or the managing agent of any person, firm, association or corporation, violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each and every offense in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 4. The license provided for in this Act shall be collected and accounted for in the same manner as other licenses for State and county purposes are now collected. State Agricultural Society, appropriation for. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to pay the deficiencies in the State Agricultural Society for improvements made on the buildings and grounds during the years 1891 and 1892. [Approved February 21, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows. SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund of the State for the payment of deficiencies in the appropriations for the years 1891 and 1892, as follows: To the State Agricultural Society, $6,500. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the State Agricultural Society for the amount specified in this Act, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. XXXIX.-An Act to compensate Sardis Summerfield for services rendered in the action of James D. Torreyson, Attorney General, relator, vs. O. H. Grey, Secretary of State, respondent, under employment of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendments. [Approved February 21, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTON 1. The sum of one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the State of propriation Nevada, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Sardis Sum- Sardis Summerfield for services rendered in the Supreme Court of the merfield, apState of Nevada in the action of James D. Torreyson, Attorney for. General, relator, vs. O. H. Grey, Secretary of State, respondent, under employment of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendments. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of Sardis Summerfield for one hundred dollars, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. XL.—An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of [Approved February 21, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Commis park at Reno SECTION 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Washoe Duties county are hereby authorized to issue a bond of said county, in County the sum of ten hundred ($1,000) dollars, for the purpose of pur- sioners rechasing two lots of land in fromt of the Courthouse within the lating to town limits of Reno, from William Thompson, at a sum not to exceed ten hundred ($1,000) dollars, and said real estate so purchased shall be for the use and benefit of the people as a public park. SEC. 2. The Commissioners shall cause such bond to be prepared, and it shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, and countersigned by the County Clerk, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to said bond, so they may be removed without injury to the said bond, consecutively numbered and signed by the County Treasurer. SEC. 3. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bond at not less than its face value, the proceeds of which shall be placed in the County Treasury, and placed in the Reno Park Fund of said county for the purpose mentioned in this Act. bonds. SEC. 4. The bond shall be of the denomination of ten hun- Form of dred ($1,000) dollars, with interest thereon not to exceed six per cent. per annum, payable on the first Monday of December in the when such bond shall have been issued, and every year twelve months thereafter, and on the first Monday in December in the year A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, said bond shall be paid and taken up. SEC. 5. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of said bond hereby authorized, the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe county is hereby empowered and directed to include in the levy in each year, commencing in eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for Reno town purposes, a tax upon Bonds provided for. the assessed value of all real and personal property within the limits of said town of Reno, sufficient to pay all of such bond and interest, as the same may become due and payable, until the same shall have been fully paid, and such additional tax shall be kept by the County Treasurer for such purposes, and shall not be diverted to any other purpose whatever, until all of said bond and interest shall have been fully paid. Govern ment of Orphans' Home. Regulating licensed gambling. CHAP. XLI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the government and maintenance of the State Orphans' Home," approved March 1, 1873. [Approved February 23, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 9 of the above entitled Act, approved March 1, 1873, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section nine. Upon complying with the requirements of this Act, all orphans under fourteen years of age may be admitted to the State Orphans' Home; provided, no orphan ever shall be admitted to, or received into, said State Orphans' Home who is either an insane person, an idiot, or a person so mentally or physically deformed as to be incapable of receiving the elements of an education in the usual English branches. For the purposes of this Act, the age of majority for all orphans that are or may be wards of the State, shall be eighteen years. CHAP. XLII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to restrict gaming and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto," approved March 8, 1879. [Approved February 23, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION. 1. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section seven. The licensee shall not carry on his game in any front room on the first or ground floor of any building, and if any person carrying on any of said games shall knowingly permit to enter or remain in any licensed room any person under the age of twenty-one years, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by the same penalties, for violation of its provisions, as are prescribed in section one of this Act. |