SEC. 6. Section 21 of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section twenty-one. The assessment made by the County Basis of Assessors, as apportioned by the Boards of County Commis- taxation. sioners, shall be the only basis of taxation for city, town, school, road, or other districts, in their respective counties. SEC. 7. Section 22 of said Act is hereby repealed. SEC. 8. tion, powers of. when valua Section 23 of this Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows. Section twenty-three. The Board of County Commissioners Board of of each county shall constitute a Board of Equalization, of Equaliza which Board the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners and duties shall be Clerk. The Board of Equalization of each county shall meet on the third Monday in September in each year, and shall continue in session from time to time until the business of equalization presented to them is disposed of; provided, however, that they shall not sit after the first Monday of October, except as in this section provided. The Board shall have power to determine the valuation of any property assessed, and may change and correct any valuation, either by adding thereto or deducting therefrom, such sum as shall be necessary to make it conform to the actual cash value of the property assessed, whether said valuation was fixed by the owner or Assessor; except that in case where the person complaining of the assessment has refused to give the Assessor his list under oath, as required by this Act, no reduction shall be made by the Board in the assessment made by the Assessor. If the Board find it necessary to add to the assessed valuation of any property on Rights of the assessment roll, they shall direct the Clerk to give notice to taxpayer the person so interested, by letter deposited in the postoffice or tion has express, or otherwise, naming the day when they shall act in been added. that case, and allowing a reasonable time to appear. As soon as possible after the adjournment of the Board in September its clerks shall make out a list of all persons who have not appeared before the Board, the valuation of whose property has been added to on the assessment roll, and shall state the amount so added, and list of all property, the valuation on which has been added to on the assessment roll, with the amounts so added, the owners of which have not appeared before the Board; and the Board of County Commissioners shall cause the same to be published in one newspaper in the county, if there be any, and if not, then by posting one copy of the same in a public place in each election precinct in the county, and any person, to the assessed value of whose property there was an amount added, not appearing before the Board of Equalization in September may appear before it in October, and upon making affidavit that he had no knowledge of such increased valuation of his property he shall be given a hearing and the final judgment of the Board, and the Clerk of the Board shall note all changes made and report the same to the Auditor, who shall make the changes required on the original assessment roll. The Assessor, either in person or by deputy, shall be present, Dutes of and County sioners. Duties of also any deputy whose testimony may be required by the par- SEC. 9. Section 25 of said Act is hereby repealed. On the SEC. 10. Section 26 of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section twenty-six. During the session, or within five days. after the adjournment of the Board of Equalization, its Clerk shall enter upon the assessment roll all the changes and corrections made by the Board, and shall immediately deliver said corrected roll, with his certificate attached, to the County Auditor. Section 27 of said Act is hereby amended so as to SEC. 11. Section twenty-seven. The County Auditor, as soon as the assessment roll is delivered to him by the Clerk of the Board of Equalization, shall proceed to add up the valuations and to enter the total valuation of each kind of property and the total valuation of all property on the assessment roll, and he shall, on or before the fourth Monday in October of each year, deliver the same to the ex-officio Tax Receiver, with his certificate attached, together with the maps or plat book. SEC. 12. Section 28 of this Act is hereby repealed. SEC. 13. CHAP. XLIX. An Act for the preservation of wild game, and for the preservation of beaver and otter within the State of Nevada, and to repeal all other Acts in relation thereto. [Approved February 27, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and protected SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, to kill, destroy, Perpetually wound, trap, snare, injure or in any other manner to catch, or birds. capture, or to pursue with such intent, any sparrow, bluebird, bluejay, martin, thrush, mocking-bird, redbreast, cat-bird, wren, robin, meadow-lark, or humming-bird, or any song bird, except linnets, within this State, or who shall take, injure or destroy the nest or eggs of said before mentioned birds. game birds. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, close season company, corporation, or association, at any time between the for certain fifteenth day of March, of each and every year, or any year, and before the fifteenth day of September following, to catch, kill, destroy, or net, pound, weir, cage, or trap, or to pursue with such intent, any partridge, pheasant, woodcock, quail, or any wild goose, wood-duck, teal, mallard or other ducks, sand-hill crane, brant, swan, plover, curlew, snipe, grouse, yellow hammer or bittern, and every person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, who shall sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer, or expose for sale, or have in his or their possession, any of the birds herein before mentioned, that have been snared, captured, taken, killed, trapped, netted, or pounded, in or by any other means herein before mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as in this Act hereinafter specified, and any person, firm, company, corporation, or association, who shall destroy, injure, or in any manner disturb the nest or eggs of any of the birds protected by this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as is provided in this Act. Penalties. for sagehens SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, Close season company, corporation, or association to catch, kill, net, pound, weir, cage, trap, or destroy, or to pursue with such intent, between the first day of March of each and every year and before the fifteenth of August following, any sagecock, hen or chicken within this State, and each and every person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association who shall sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer, or expose for sale, or have in his or their possession any sagecock, hen or chicken that have been taken, killed, captured, snared, netted, pounded, weired, caged, or trapped contrary to the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, to catch, kill, or destroy, or to pursue with such intent, at any time after the first day of for certain animals. Close season December and before the first day of August of each year, any deer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep, goat, or cariboo, or to have in his or their possession, or to sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale any of the animals mentioned in this section during the season when the killing, injuring, or pursuing is herein prohibited, and any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, who shall catch, kill, or destroy, or who shall pursue with such intent, or who shall buy, sell, transport, or give away, or expose for sale, or have in his or their possession any of the animals mentioned in this section, during the season mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as hereinafter provided. Close season fur animals. SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, for certain company, corporation, or association, to catch, kill, destroy, trap, net, pound, weir, or cage, any beaver or otter within this State before the first day of April, in the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897), and each and every person, firm, company, corporation, or association, who shall sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his or their possession, any beaver or otter, as mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, within this State, to have in his or their possession, or to sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale, or purchase from any person whomsoever, either Indians or other persons, any of the birds, wild game, or animals, mentioned in this Act, during the seasons wherein the killing, injuring, pursuing, netting, trapping, pounding, weiring, caging, selling, buying, transporting, giving away, offering or exposing for sale, or having in his or their possession, is herein prohibited; provided, that for scientific nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prohibit any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, taking any bird, fowl, or animal mentioned in this Act, at any time, for scientific purposes. Exceptions purposes. Penalties for violation. SEC. 7. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, or common carrier, or the agent of any such firm, company, corporation, or association, or common carrier, violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars, nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail of the county in which said conviction is had, for any term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition to the costs now allowed by law on criminal prosecution, twenty-five ($25) dollars liquidated damages, shall be entered up as costs against each defendant, and collected in the manner now provided by law for the collection of costs in civil actions, which said sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars shall be paid to the party instrumental in securing the arrest and conviction of said defendant. officers in SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff and his deputies, Duties of Constable and his deputies, District Attorneys and all other cer peace officers in this State, upon receiving information from relation to. any person, that any of the provisions of this Act have been violated, to immediately institute proceedings in the proper court against the person or persons thus complained of, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment, and any peace officer refusing to make complaint or institute proceedings as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and fined in any sum not exceeding twentyfive ($25) dollars. SEC. 9. All Acts and parts of Acts heretofore passed and Repeal. now in force in regard to the protection and preservation of wild game are hereby repealed. CHAP. L.-An Act fixing the salaries and compensations of the officers of Elko county, and consolidating certain offices in said county, and to repeal all Acts in relation thereto. [Approved February 27, 1893.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: certain Elko county. SECTION 1. On and after the first Monday in January, A. D. Salaries of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the Sheriff of Elko county county offishall receive the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars per cers in annum, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered. The Sheriff shall pay into the county treasury, each month, all moneys collected by him as fees. The Deputy Sheriff shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum as a salary, and he shall act as jailer without further compensation. SEC. 2. On and after the first Monday in January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the County Recorder and ex-officio Auditor shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered, and he shall pay into the county treasury, each month, all moneys collected by him as fees. SEC. 3. The County Clerk, as ex-officio Treasurer and exofficio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, shall receive the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be compensation in full for all sericves rendered by him, and he shall pay into the county treasury, each month, all moneys collected by him as fees. SEC. 4. The County Assessor shall receive the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars per annum, which shall be compensation in full for all services rendered by him or his deputies. The District Attorney shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and he shall act as County Superintendent of Public Schools without further compensa tion. |