Conditions of Purchase.

SEC. 2. Section three is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The commissioners herein named are authorized to purchase the bonds herein specified, if they can purchase the whole issue (three hundred and eighty thousand dollars), and not otherwise, if such purchase can be made at such rate of premium as would guarantee to the purchaser four and one-half per cent per annum interest on the amount paid during the life of the bonds so purchased; they are also authorized, in making such purchase, to exchange the United States and other bonds, now in the territorial interest and sinking fund, and also in the state school fund, for the bonds herein proposed to be purchased; provided, that in making such exchange, the value of such United States and other bonds shall be at least the value of such bonds, with the average premium added, as shown by the sales of such securities in the market on the day of exchange, and in no case at less than par. The amount of securities placed at the disposal of said board of commissioners for the purpose herein specified is as follows: One hundred thousand dollars in United States bonds, and seventy-five thousand dollars in money now in the territorial interest and sinking fund, and three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in United States bonds and money in the state school fund, and no more.

$380,000 Irredeemable State School Bond.

SEC. 3. Section four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 4. Upon the purchase of the bonds herein mentioned, the board of commissioners shall surrender them to the state treasurer for cancelation, and a bond to the amount of three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, not redeemable or transferable, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum shall be issued to the state school fund of the State of Nevada. Said bond shall be signed by the governor and the state controller, countersigned by the state treasurer, and authenticated with the great seal of the state, and shall state in substance that the State of Nevada owes to its state school fund three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the interest on which sum, at the rate of five per cent per annum she agrees to pay for all time for the benefit of the common schools of the state. Said bond shall be engrossed on parchment and deposited with the treasurer of the state. The interest on said bonds shall be paid semiannually, on the first days of January and July of each year, on the written order of the state board of education to the state controller, directing him to draw his warrant for the amount of such semiannual interest on the territorial interest fund herein created. All sums derived from the interest on said bonds shall go into the general school fund for the support of the common schools of the state, and for the regular and prompt payment of said interest the faith and credit of the state is hereby solemnly pledged.

Tax Authorized.

SEC. 4. Section five of this [said] act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 5. There shall be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter, an ad valorem tax of eight cents upon each one

hundred dollars of all the taxable property in the state, including the tax upon the proceeds of the mines, which tax shall take the place and be in lieu of the tax heretofore levied for territorial interest and sinking fund purposes. All sums derived from this tax shall go into the territorial interest fund, and shall be disposed of as provided for in this act.

Alternative Provisions.

SEC. 5. Section seven of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 7. In the event that the commissioners are unable to purchase the "Territorial Bonds" of the state under the terms of this act, the securities herein placed at their disposal for that purpose shall remain in their respective funds, and the resources of the territorial interest and sinking fund for the fifteenth and sixteenth fiscal years shall be: First, all money now in said fund, or that shall come into it from delinquent taxes and interest on the United States bonds now, or that may be placed in said fund; and, second, all money from the tax herein levied for a territorial interest fund.

Repeal.

SEC. 6. Section eight of the act to which this act is amendatory is hereby repealed.

CLERK FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

An Act to authorize the superintendent of public instruction of Nevada to employ a stenographic clerk, and fixing of compensation.

Salary

Approved March 7, 1905

SECTION 1. The state superintendent of public instruction is hereby authorized to employ a stenographic clerk, whose compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum. As amended, Stats. 1907, 62.

Duties of Controller and Treasurer.

SEC. 2. The controller of state shall, at the end of each month, draw his warrant upon the state treasury in favor of such clerk for the amount of his compensation then due, and the state treasurer shall pay the same out of any moneys not otherwise specially appropriated.

In Effect.

SEC. 3. This act to take effect immediately.

TRANSFER OF MONEY IN COUNTY GENERAL FUND
TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS

An Act authorizing boards of county commissioners to transfer certain funds to the county school fund of school districts or to levy a special county tax in certain cases, and other matters properly connected therewith.

Approved March 17, 1913

County Commissioners May Transfer County Money to District School Fund

Proviso.

SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of any county in Nevada may by resolution adopted at any regular or special meeting

transfer from the county general fund to the county school fund of any district in said county such sum of money as they shall deem necessary, additional to that now provided by law for such district; provided, that such district shall have levied a special tax for the school year of at least twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars.

County Commissioners May Aid Districts Desiring High-School Work-Provisos.

SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners of any county, in their discretion, may aid a school district needing and desiring high-school work by transfer of money from the county high-school fund or the county general fund to the county school fund of such district; or they may levy a special county tax not exceeding ten cents on the hundred dollars for the benefit of said district; provided, that in either the case of transfer of money or of levy of special tax as herein provided the following precedent conditions shall in any year of proposed aid exist:

1. That there are ten or more pupils of high-school grade in such district that need high-school instruction and are desirous of having such instruction.

2. That the parents of such pupils, or a majority of them, find it impracticable to send them away for high-school training.

3. That the taxable property is so small that it is entirely insufficient to enable them to raise the money needed to provide and maintain needed high-school privileges.

4. That a special district tax of at least twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars has been levied.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CERTAIN DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS TO BE SUPPORTED BY COUNTY An Act to authorize boards of county commissioners to establish district high schools, and matters properly connected therewith.

Approved March 24, 1909

[Act specially applies to Lyon County.]

District High Schools at County Expense, When.

SECTION 1. Boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized to establish district high schools in school districts in accordance with the provisions hereinafter set forth in this act.

Petition-What Petition Must Show.

SEC. 2. Upon presentation of a petition signed by at least ten per cent of the voters of the county as shown at the last general election, the board of county commissioners of a county may authorize and establish a district high school at the point designated in the petition. The petition must show:

First-That there are at least seventy-five school census children in the school district for which the request is made that a district high school shall be established according to the last preceding census.

Second-That there are at least five children therein of high-school grade between the ages of six and eighteen years.

Third-That the school in such district is situated not less than twenty miles from a county high school located in the same county.

Trustees to Provide Building-Proviso.

SEC. 3. When such petition has been presented and acted upon favorably by the board of county commissioners, and such district high school is authorized, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of such district, together with the state board of education, within thirty days thereafter, to estimate the cost of purchasing suitable grounds when necessary, erecting a building, and furnishing the same for the accommodation of the school; provided, that the board of school trustees may construct additions to the public school building or buildings in the place where such school shall be located, or if rooms can be obtained in the public school buildings therefor, such rooms shall be given the preference. And all expenses incurred for carrying out the provisions of this section shall be sustained by the school district interested, in accordance with the provisions of section eighty of "An act to provide for a reorganization of the system of school supervision and maintenance, to repeal all acts and parts of act in conflict therewith, and matters properly connected therewith, approved March 29, 1907.

Tax Levy for High School.

SEC. 4. When such high-school building shall have been erected and furnished, or rooms secured as provided in this act, by such school district, the entire cost and expense of maintenance and instruction for the high school shall be paid by a tax on all the property in the county in which the said district high school is situated, in the same manner as other claims against the county are allowed and paid.

Annual Estimate.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the board of school trustees, together with the state board of education, to furnish annually an estimate of the amount of money needed to pay all the necessary expenses of conducting and maintaining such school; to adopt and enforce the use of the necessary text-books required by the state board of education in such school; to employ competent teachers, janitors, and other persons, and to discharge such teachers, janitors, and other persons, when sufficient cause therefor shall exist; and to do any and all other things necessary to the proper conduct of such school.

District High School Fund.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of the county within which such high school shall be situated, to include in their annual tax levy the amount estimated by the board of school trustees, together with said state board of education, as needed to pay the expenses of conducting such district high school; and such amount when collected and paid into the county treasury shall be known as the "District No.High School Fund, and may be drawn therefrom for the purpose of defraying the expenses of conducting said district high school in the manner provided by law for payment of school claims.

What Pupils Eligible.

SEC. 7. Any district high school shall be open for the admission of graduates holding diplomas from the eighth grade of the elementary schools of the state; provided, that the examinations for the said diplomas

shall have been given under the direction and authority of the state board of education; and to such other pupils as shall pass the examinations for admission to the district high school, which examination shall be conducted under the direction and authority of the state board of education.

Principal May Supervise All Schools.

SEC. 8. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the principal of the district high school from acting as principal of all the schools of the district in which the district high school is located if so desired by the trustees of said district high school and the state board of education.

Subject to School Laws.

SEC. 9. The district high school shall be under the same general supervision and shall be subject to the same laws, rules, and regulations as other schools of the state school system.

Application of Act Restricted.

SEC. 10. This act shall apply only to counties which at the last general election polled not more than nine hundred and sixty (960) votes, and which had more than three million six hundred thousand ($3,600,000) dollars of taxable property; and nothing in this act shall be so construed as to militate against, or in any wise annul or modify, provisions already made for any county high school now established, or that may hereafter be established in any county.

SEC. 11. This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

FREE TEXT-BOOKS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

An Act to provide books, equipment, and materials free of charge to the pupils of the public schools and to provide for and encourage the economic use thereof. and fixing penalties for its infraction, and repealing an act in conflict herewith.

Approved March 14, 1913

Trustees to Furnish All School Books and Supplies for Pupils.

SECTION 1. The board of trustees of each school district shall purchase all new text and supplementary school books and school supplies to be used by the pupils of such district, and the cost of the same shall be a legal charge against the county school fund belonging to such district. Books Remain Property of School District.

SEC. 2. All books purchased by the district board shall be held as property of the district, except as herein provided, and shall be loaned to the pupils of the school in said district while pursuing a course of study therein.

Parents and Guardians Responsible for Books-Rules.

SEC. 3. The parents and guardians of pupils shall be responsible for all books loaned to the children in their charge, and shall pay to the clerk of the board of trustees, or other person authorized by the board of trustees to receive the same, the full purchase price of every such book destroyed, lost, or so damaged as to make it unfit for use by other pupils