all the persons cutting or cording the same, manifested as in this section provided. Justices of the Peace shall have juris- Jurisdiction diction of all actions under the provisions of this Act, when the of the Peace amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars. of Justices CHAP. XLVI.--An Act supplementary to an Act entitled " An Act to provide for the selection and sale of lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted, by the United States to the State of Nevada," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy three. [Approved February 28, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and State Land Register to receive for lands in completed. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful, from and after the passage of this Act, for the State Land Register of Lands, to receive additional applications for the purchase of any land belonging to application the State, wherein the first applicant or applicants, shall have case of failed to make application for contract to complete the purchase contracts of such lands to a patent. SEC. 2. The State Land Register shall proceed, with all reasonable dispatch, to notify and require all persons who have made, or hereafter make, application to purchase land of the State of Nevada, to make full and immediate payment therefor, or to enter into contract with the said State Land Register, in accordance with law, for the purchase of the land for which such persons have applied. Register to require payment. notifications. SEC. 3. The manner of notifying such persons shall be as Manner of follows: The State Land Register shall prepare proper notices requiring the applicant to make full payment or enter into contract for the purchase of the land for which he or she has applied, and shall inclose with such notice, duly prepared contracts in duplicate, for the applicant to sign, and shall address the same to such applicant by mail. Forfeiture of right to complete contracts. SEC. 4. If at the expiration of six months from the date of mailing such notices and contracts in duplicate, the party or person so notified, or his or her legal representative, shall fail to make the required full payment or to sign and return to the Register such contracts, he or she shall forfeit his or her right to complete the purchase of such land, and the title of the State to such land shall rest as fully in the State as though it was never applied for, and shall be subject to sale to any per- Land son or persons, including the person or persons so forfeiting subject to such lands on previous application. sale. forfeited to SEC. 5. Any and all sum or sums of money heretofore de- Deposits posited as partial payment on lands so forfeited as provided in the State. section four of this Act, shall be forfeited to the State, and upon such forfeiture shall immediately and unconditionally become the property of the State. Application of this Act. To take effect. SEC. 6. This Act shall apply only to applications for such lands as shall have been for twelve months or more previous to the time of mailing such notice, as provided in section one of this Act, approved to the State of Nevada by the United States. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately after its passage. Railroad companies to make annual report. To whom reports shall be submitted. How verified Date of filing report Nature and contents of report. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section forty-four of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Forty-four. Every railroad company operating its line or lines of railroad wholly, or in part, within this State, shall make an annual report to the Secretary of State of Nevada, of the operations of such railroad company, during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, in each last preceeding year, which report shall be verified by the oaths of the President or Acting Superintendent of the operations and business of such company; and also by the oaths of the Secretary and Treasurer of such company; and shall file such report in the office of the Secretary of State, aforesaid, on or before the first day of February in each year; and shall state in such report: First. The capital stock of such company, and the actual cash capital paid in on such stock by the members of such company; Second. The amount of cash expended for the Members of purchase of lands for the construction of the road of such company, the cost of the construction of such road, and the cost of buildings, engines, and cars respectively, used by such company in this state; Third. The amount and the nature of the indebtedness of such company and the amount due to such company; Fourth. The amount received by such company for the transportation of all passengers, and all freight, property, mails and express matter over the road or roads of such company, together with all amounts received by such company from all other sources in connection with such road; Fifth. The amount of freight of all kinds transported over the road or roads of such company, specifying the quantity of such freight in tons; Sixth. The amount paid by such company for repairs of engines, cars, buildings, and other expenses in gross, show company. Money expended. Receipts. Freights. Repairs. Buildings, cars, etc. to comply. Forfeiture ing the current expenses of running such road; Seventh. The Dividends. number and amount of dividends declared by such company, and when such dividends were paid; Eighth. The number of engine-houses and shops, together with the number of engines and cars, and the character of the same; Ninth. The net Profits. profits of such company during such year; and if either of the Failures officers above-named shall fail to make and file such report as above provided, or if either of such officers shall fail to make any and every statement required by this section of this Act to be made on or before the first day of February in each year, such company so neglecting, by its said officers, to comply with any of the requirements of this section of this Act, shall each day thereafter forfeit and be liable to pay as a penalty to and penalty the State of Nevada, for such neglect, the sum of five hundred dollars daily for each and every day, from and after the first day of February of each year, until such report containing such statement as above provided shall be filed, as in this section provided; and the Attorney-general of the State shall to be commence an action, in the name of the State of Nevada, for commenced the recovery of the sum of such penalties monthly, on the first Monday of each and every month thereafter, and the court shall render judgment therefor against such company until proceedings such report containing such statement shall be filed with the Secretary of State; and such action or actions shall not be dismissed or compromised, except upon the full payment of the sum of such penalties, together with all costs of such actions, and executions shall issue against the property of such company until such judgments shall be fully satisfied. Actions When to commence Judgments. Executions to issue. CHAP. XLVIII.-An Act for the greater security of Life, by providing for the use of safety cages and iron bonnets in vertical shafts where iron mining cages are used, of more than four hundred and fifty feet in depth. [Approved February 28, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations, after the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to sink or work through any vertical shaft where iron mining cages are used, at a greater depth than four hundred and fifty feet, unless the said shaft shall be provided with an iron bonneted safety cage, to be used in the lowering and hoisting of the employees of such person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations. The safety apparatus, whether consisting of eccentrics, springs, or other device, shall be securely fastened Cages to be provided by companies. mining Bonnets how made. Failures to comply and penalties. Damages to be recovered. Act to take effect. to the cage, and shall be of sufficient strength to hold the cage loaded at any depth to which the shaft may be sunk. The iron bonnet aforesaid shall be made of boiler sheet iron of a good quality, of at least three sixteenths of an inch in thickness, and shall cover the top of said cage in such manner as to afford the greatest protection to life and limb from any matter falling down said shaft. SEC. 2. Any person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations, after the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to comply with the provisions of section one of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent recovery being had in a suit for damages for injuries sustained by the party so injured, or his heir or administrator or administratrix, or any one else now competent to sue in an action of such character. SEC. 4. This Act shall go into effect on and after the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Salary Governor's Private Secretary fixed. CHAP. XLIX.-An Act to amend an Act authorizing the Governor. of the Slate to appoint a Private Secretary, defining his duties and fixing his compensation, approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. [Approved March 1, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two. The compensation of the Governor's Private Secretary shall be at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per month during the time of his service; provided, that the Governor's present Private Secretary shall be entitled to pay, When paid. at the above rate from and after the passage of this Act. Such compensation shall be paid monthly at the end of each and every month, and the State Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount of such compensation as the same becomes due, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise specially appropriated. CHAP. L.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to protect the rights of owners of stock shares aud other interests in the mineral and metal-yielding mines of this State," approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. [Approved March 1, 1879.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Owners of stock shares to visit mines. Amount of stock to allow required visitors to enter mines Privilege to visit, how obtained. Section One. Any person who shall be the bona fide owner of stock shares representing the value of one fifth of one per cent. of the original capital stock of any company incorporated for the purpose of working upon and mining in any lode, ledge, deposit, or bed of the precious metals, or useful minerals, in this State, and any number of persons who shall be the bona fide owners of an aggregate number of mining shares, amounting in value to one fifth of one per cent. of said capital stock, at the time application for a permit to examine any such mine shall be made, such owner or owners of mining stock shall, upon a written order from the County Clerk, or from the Justice of the Peace of the County in which such lode, ledge, deposit, or bed is located, be entitled to the privilege of fully examining all of the shafts, adits, borings, drifts, stopes, hoisting apparatus, and every and all properties and appurtenances belonging to any such mining company; provided, that not more than one owner of said percentage or aggregate percentages of such mining stock shall either in person, or by an accredited Agents agent, be entitled to such written order for examination of any examine specified mine or mining property, oftener than twice in one month; these days shall, however, not be more than fourteen, nor less than fifteen days apart. It shall be the duty of the superintendent or other person or parties in charge of any incorporated mining claim, or mining property in this State, to keep posted in some conspicuous place at or near the mine, the day of the week in which authorized stockholders may be admitted under the provisions of this Act. Proviso. entitled to mines. Visiting days. Duty of Superinten dents, etc. Notices to be posted up. for admis stock SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Three. Upon making application as provided in sec- Applicant tion two of this Act, for the privilege of entering and examining sion to any of the mining properties mentioned in section one of this present Act, the applicant shall present to the County Clerk or Justice certificates. of the Peace, certificates of stock shares representing in value Amount one fifth of one per cent. of the original capital stock of the of stock company whose mine or mining property he or she desires to to be examine. Thereupon the applicant shall make oath or affirma- represented tion that the said stock certificate or stock certificates presented by him or her are actually his or her own property, or that such certificates of stock at the time of presentation really belong to required |