five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and the court trying any such offender, may also include in any judgment rendered an order to the effect that the clothing or other property infected be burned or otherwise destroyed, and shall have power to carry such order into effect.

Penalty for Violation.

4984. SEC. 2. Any person guilty of violating the provisions of section one of this Act, in addition to the penalties herein prescribed, shall be liable in a civil action, in damages, to any and all persons who may from that cause become infected with such contagious disease; said damages shall be so assessed as to include, in addition to other damages, all expenses incurred by reason of such sickness, loss of time, and burial expenses; and such action may also be maintained by the representative of any deceased person.

An Act to prevent the propagation and spread of contagious diseases.

Removal of Deceased Person.

Approved February 24, 1879, 47.

4985. SECTION 1. Any person or persons, company, association or corporation in this state who shall exhume or disinter, or who shall cause to be exhumed or disinterred, any human remains, or any part of such remains which have been buried in the ground in this state, for the purpose of transporting the same to any other state or foreign country, except under the conditions hereinafter provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than three hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every such offense, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for any period not less than six months nor more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Commissioners to Issue Permits.

4986. SEC. 2. The County Commissioners of the several counties in this state, in which said human remains are buried or interred, as provided in section one of this Act, are hereby authorized to grant and to issue written permits for the disinterments and removal of any such human remains referred to in section one of this Act, whenever in their judgment the public health will not be endangered by such disinterment and removal; provided, however, that no such permit shall be granted or issued under any circumstances or at any time where the party or parties buried or interred have died from or with any contagious or loathsome disease.

An Act relating to the burial of the dead of incorporated cities in the State of Nevada. Approved March 8, 1879, 119.

Certificate of Physician-Coroner's Permit to Issue.

4987. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any undertaker or other person within the State of Nevada to bury any deceased person who has died within the limits of any incorporated town or city in said state without first having procured a certificate from the physician who attended the said deceased person during his or her last illness, setting forth the name, nativity, sex, age, time of death, place of death and cause of death of said deceased person, as near as can be ascertained by said physician; provided, that in cases where no physician has attended said deceased person during his or her last illness, no such certificate shall be required, but the Coroner's permit mentioned in the next succeeding seetion of this Act shall be obtained, and shall be sufficient authority for the burial of such deceased person.

To Present Certificate Coroner to Issue Permit.

4988. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any undertaker or other person obtain

ing the certificate mentioned in the first section of this Act, before burying such deceased person, to present such certificate to the Coroner of the county within which such deceased person shall have died. The said Coroner, after being satisfied of the truth of the facts set forth in said certificate, shall issue a permit to the person presenting such certificate to bury the deceased person named in said certificate, or shall take such action under the law as the facts set forth in said certificate shall warrant. Said permit shall be in writing, signed by the Coroner, and shall set forth the facts under which it was issued. Said Coroner shall file in his office all physicians' certificates so presented to him, and shall keep a record of the same and a memorandum of all permits so issued by him, which records and memoranda he shall turn over to his successor in office as a part of the public records of his office. As amended, Stats. 1881, 28.

Offense, Charge and Violation.

4989. SEC. 3. Any physician who shall willfully issue or sign, or cause to be issued or signed, any certificate, as provided for in this Act, knowing the facts set forth in said certificate to be false, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term not less than one year and not more than five years.

Penalty for Violation.

4990. SEC. 4. Any person willfully and unlawfully violating any of the provisions of sections one and two of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Act for the permanent location of the seat of government at Carson City. Approved November 25, 1861, 54.

Carson City the Capital.

4991. SECTION 1. The town of Carson City is hereby made and declared the permanent seat of government of the State of Nevada.

Plaza Dedicated.

4992. SEC. 2. The plaza, in Carson City, bounded on the north by Musser street, on the east by Fall street, on the south by Second street, and on the west by Carson street, is hereby dedicated to the use of this state for the erection of public buildings.

An Act fixing the time when laws and joint resolutions shall take effect.

When to Take Effect-Exception.

Approved January 10, 1865, 90.

4993. SECTION 1. Every law and joint resolution hereafter passed by the legislature of the State of Nevada shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, unless such law or joint resolution shall prescribe a different time.

Duplicate Claims.

An Act relating to accounts against the state.

Approved February 23, 1871, 70.

4994. SECTION 1. The State Printer, and all other persons having claims

against the state, shall file with the State Board of Examiners an itemized duplicate of their accounts.

Repeal.

4995. SEC. 2. Chapter fifty-eight of the laws of Nevada, approved February twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An Act relating to accounts against the state," and all other Acts, or parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

An Act to prevent persons having a claim or claims against the state from presenting the same claim or claims a second time.

Release Given.

Approved March 2, 1877, 132.

4996. SECTION 1. Any person or persons having a claim or claims against the state after the same shall have been presented and allowed, shall, before the same are paid by the Treasurer of the state, execute, under seal, a full and complete release of all claims and demands of whatever nature or kind against the state, since the organization of the state to the date of such payment; and the Treasurer of state shall carefully preserve and file alphabetically in his office for future reference all such releases so executed.

Design of Seal.

An Act to provide a seal of state for the State of Nevada.

Approved February 24, 1866, 94.

4997. SECTION 1. There shall be a seal of the State of Nevada, which shall be kept by the Governor and used by him officially, and shall be called "The Great Seal of the State of Nevada," the design of which shall be as follows, to wit: In the foreground, two large mountains, at the base of which, on the right, there shall be located a quartz mill, and on the left a tunnel penetrating the silver leads of the mountain, with a miner running out a car load of ore, and a team loaded with ore for the mill. Immediately in the foreground there shall be emblems indicative of the agricultural resources of the state, as follows: a plow, a sheaf, and a sickle. In the middle ground, a train of railroad cars, passing a mountain gorge; also a telegraph line extending along the line of the railroad. In the extreme background, a range of snow-clad mountains, with the rising sun in the east. Thirty-six stars to encircle the whole group. In an outer circle, the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Nevada," to be engraven with these words, for the motto of our state, "All for Our Country."

An Act in relation to the great seal of the State of Nerada.
Approved February 1, 1875, 50.

Secretary of State to Procure Seal.

4998. SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, to procure a seal, the design of which shall be the same as that upon the present great seal of the State of Nevada, as provided by an Act entitled "An Act to provide a seal of state for the State of Nevada," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and the size thereof shall not be more than two and three-fourths inches in diameter; and when completed, shall be known as the great seal of the State of Nevada, and shall be used instead of the present great seal.

Use of Seal.

4999. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall at all times have access to said seal, and may use the same in verification of all his official acts.

SEC. 3 obsolete.

Lawful Age.

An Act fixing the age of majority.

Approved November 21, 1861, 40.

5000. SECTION 1. All male persons of the age of twenty-one years, and all females of the age of eighteen years, and who are under no legal disability, shall be capable of entering into any contract, and shall be, to all intents and purposes, held and considered to be of lawful age.

Petition Filed.

An Act in relation to changing the names of individuals.

Approved February 10, 1869, 60.

5001. SECTION 1. Any person desiring to have his or her name changed, may file with the Clerk of the District Court, of the district in which he or she may reside, a petition, verified by his or her oath, addressed to said court, stating his or her present name, the name which he or she desires to bear in future, and the reason for desiring said change.

Notice Published.

5002. SEC. 2. Upon the filing of said petition the applicant shall make out and procure to be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, for the period of thirty days, a notice, stating the fact of the filing of the petition, its object, his or her present name, and the name which he or she desires to bear in future.

Court to Make Order, When.

5003. SEC. 3. If, within ten days after the expiration of the thirty days, no written objection shall be filed with said Clerk, upon proof of the filing of the petition and publication of notice, as required in section two, and upon being satisfied by the statements in the petition, or by other evidence, that good reason exists therefor, the said court shall make an order, changing the name of the applicant as prayed for in the petition. If, within said period, objection be filed, the court shall appoint a day for hearing the proofs respectively of the applicant and the objection, upon reasonable notice; and upon said day shall hear the proofs, and grant or refuse the prayer of the petitioner, according as the proofs shall or shall not show satisfactory reasons for making said change. Upon the making of an order, granting the prayer of the petitioner, the same shall be recorded as a judgment of said court, and the name of the applicant shall thereupon be as stated in said order.

An Act to prohibit the employment of Chinese and Mongolians in certain cases.

Not Employed on Public Works.

Approved March 6, 1879, 81.

5004. SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, no Chinaman or Mongolian shall be employed, directly or indirectly, in any capacity, on any public works, or in or about any buildings or institutions, or grounds, under the control of this state.

Charters Not to Issue.

5005. SEC. 2. Hereafter no right of way or charter, or other privileges for the construction of any public works by any railroad or other corporation or association shall be granted to such corporation or association, except upon the express condition that no Mongolian or Chinese shall be employed on or about the construction of such work in any capacity.

Penalty.

5006. SEC. 3. Any violation of the conditions of this Act shall work a forfeiture of all rights, privileges, and franchise granted to such corporation or association.

An Act providing for the removal of county seats and permanent location of the same. Approved March 2, 1877, 139.

Three-Fifths to Petition--Election.

5007. SECTION 1. Whenever three-fifths of the qualified electors of any county of this state, each elector being a taxpayer of said county, as appears by the last assessment roll, who have taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation prescribed by law for the registration of electors in this state, shall petition the Board of County Commissioners of such county for the removal or location of the seat of justice of said county, the said County Commissioners shall, within sixty days thereafter, cause an election to be held at the various places of voting in said county, the said County Commissioners giving thirty days' notice in some newspaper published in the county or by posting written or printed notices at the several voting precincts in the county; such notice shall state the time and place of holding, and for what purpose such election is held; and any election provided for in this Act may be held on the day of any general election in said county. The place receiving a majority of all the votes cast at such election shall be declared the county seat; provided, that if no place receive a majority of all the votes cast, there shall be held a second election for said seat of justice, on a day not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the vote of the first election is counted and declared by the said Board of County Commissioners, which last day shall be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners, and they shall give notice of the same for at least ten days in the manner provided for the first election. At said second election the balloting for the seat of justice shall be confined to the two places having the highest number of votes at the first election.

Vote Canvassed.

5008. SEC. 2. Within ten days after such election shall be held the Board of County Commissioners shall meet and proceed to canvass the vote, and the place which has received the majority of all the votes cast shall be proclaimed by them the seat of justice for said county.

To Remove Papers, etc.

5009. SEC. 3. The county officers who are required by law to keep their offices at the county seat, shall, within twenty days after said proclamation, remove all books, records, papers, and furniture belonging to the county to the place named, and if any officer shall fail to remove within the time prescribed by this section, he or his sureties shall pay to the county the sum of twenty dollars for each and every day of such failure, to be sued for and collected by the Board of County Commissioners.

Registry Agent to Certify.

5010. SEC. 4. Every petition for the purpose mentioned in section one of this Act shall be accompanied by the certificate of the Registry Agent of the district where the persons signing such petition reside, showing that all the persons whose names are signed to said petition are qualified electors of said county, as appears by the registry list of said district, or the affidavits on file in his office of persons not registered at the last general or special election, but who are qualified electors of said county.

Election, How Conducted.

5011. SEC. 5. The election provided for in this Act shall be conducted in all respects as provided for by the general election laws of this state, and any person swearing or affirming falsely in taking an oath provided for in this Act, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and held subject to all the penalties attached by law to the commission of that crime.

Repeal.

5012.

SEC. 6. The Act entitled "An Act providing for the removal of county seats and the permanent location of the same," approved March second, eighteen