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missioners shall be used by the boards of directors of each or any such district agricultural associations for the payment of such premiums as may be awarded by each or any of the several district agricultural associations or the board of directors thereof, and for such purposes as the said associations may through their boards of directors deem just and proper; provided, that none of the moneys so appropriated by said boards of county commissioners shall be used by the boards of directors of the various district agricultural associations, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of paying any purse or purses for racing.

442. How funds to be used.

SEC. 3. Before any board of county commissioners within any county in this state shall appropriate any moneys as herein provided, [they] shall have presented to them a certificate under oath signed by the president and secretary of the board of directors of such district agricultural association, showing the amount of money expended by such district agricultural association within such county or counties composing such agricultural district, and that the same was expended for the payment of premiums awarded by the board of directors of such district agricultural association, and that the same was not expended, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of paying any purse or purses for racing.

443. Amount of aid limited.

SEC. 4. Where more than one county or counties in this state is included in and comprises an agricultural district, the boards of county commissioners of such county or counties are authorized to appropriate, out of the general fund of said county, such money or moneys, for the encouragement of such district agricultural associations, as said board or boards may, in its judgment, deem just and proper; provided, however, that in no case shall such appropriation exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in any one year. 444. On whose order payable.

SEC. 5. When the boards of county commissioners of each or any county of this state, constituting and comprising said district agricultural association, shall determine and allow the amount to be annually appropriated for the purposes herein mentioned, the same shall be paid as other bills against the county are paid. All warrants drawn pursuant to the provisions of this section, and of this act, shall be payable to the order of the president of the board of directors of such district agricultural association, or, in case of his absence or inability to serve, then such warrants shall be payable to the order of such member of such board of directors as such board shall, by a majority vote thereof, determine and direct.

RESIDENT, SELLING OWN PRODUCTS, EXEMPT FROM LICENSE
An Act to encourage agriculture.

Approved March 16, 1895, 92

445. Resident pays no license-Applies to certain counties only.

SECTION 1. Any citizen or resident of the State of Nevada shall be permitted to sell fruits, eggs and poultry, also pork and beef by the quarter, and any other agricultural products of his own industry without the payment of license; provided, that in all counties in this state which cast at the last general election not less than four hundred votes nor more than seven hundred votes, to be determined by the vote cast for secretary of state, pork and beef may be sold in any quantities less than a quarter without the payment of a license. As amended, Stats. 1899, 32.

HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONER

An Act to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the state and to destroy insect pests in orchards and elsewhere.

Approved March 13, 1903, 91

446. Horticulture commissioner to be appointed.

SECTION 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners of any county, and signed by twenty or more persons who are resident freeholders and possessors of an orchard, or both, stating that certain or all orchards or nurseries, or trees of any variety, are infested with scale insect of any kind injurious to fruit, fruit trees or vines, or are infested with codlin moth or other insects or pests that are destructive to trees or vines, and praying that a commissioner be appointed by them whose duty it shall be to supervise the destruction of such insects or trees as herein provided, the board of county commissioners shall, within twenty days after the presentation of such petition, select and appoint a commissioner for the county, who shall be known as the county horticultural commissioner. The said commissioner shall serve for a period of two years from and after the date of his appointment and qualification, or, unless he shall be sooner removed by order of said board of county commissioners.

447. Duties.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county horticultural commissioner in each county, whenever he shall deem it necessary, to make or cause to be made an inspection of any orchard, or nursery, or trees, or any fruit-packing house, store-room, sales-room, or any other place in his jurisdiction, and if found infested with scale bug, codlin moth, or other insect pests injurious to fruit, fruit trees, trees or vines, he shall notify the owner or owners, or person or persons in charge or possession of said trees or place, as aforesaid, that the same are infested with the said insects, or any of them, or their eggs or larvæ, and he shall require such person or persons to disinfect or destroy the same within a certain time, to be specified. If within such specified time such disinfection or destruction has not been accomplished, the said person or persons shall be required to make application of such treatment, for the purpose of disinfection or destruction of such insect pests, scale bug or codlin moth, as may be prescribed by said commissioner.

448. Notice to abate nuisance.

SEC. 3. The notice provided for in section 2 shall be a written notice and may be served upon the person or persons owning or having charge or possession of such infested trees or places, or articles as aforesaid, by the commissioner or by any person deputed by him for that purpose; or they may be served in the same manner as a summons in a civil action. If the owner or owners, or any person or persons in charge or possession of any orchard, or nursery or trees or places, or articles infested with the said insects, or any of them, or their larvæ or eggs, after having been notified as above to destroy the same, or make application of treatment as directed, shall fail, neglect or refuse so to do, he or they shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, and any such orchards, nurseries, trees, or places, or articles thus infested shall be adjudged and the same is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and may be proceeded against as such. If the owner or owners, person or persons aforesaid, be found guilty, the court shall direct the aforesaid county horticultural commissioner to abate the nuisance. All the expenses or liabilities incurred in such proceeding, together with the costs, shall or may be a lien upon the real property of the defendant, or property proceeded against.

449. County divided into districts.

SEC. 4. Said horticultural commissioner shall have power to divide the county into districts and to appoint a local inspector for each of said districts who shall be known as "District Horticultural Inspectors," who shall serve without compensation and who shall be subject to the supervision and control of the county horticultural commissioner, and whose authority may at any time be revoked. The county horticultural commissioner, or his local inspectors, shall have full power and authority to enter into any orchard, nursery, or place or places where trees or plants are kept and offered for sale or otherwise, or any house, store-room, sales-room, depot, or any other such place in their jurisdiction, to inspect the same or any part thereof.

450. Compensation of commissioner.

SEC. 5. The county horticultural commissioner shall be paid for each day actually engaged in the performance of his duty under this act, which amount or amounts shall be payable out of the county treasury of his county. The amount of compensation shall be fixed and determined by resolution of the board of county commissioners, prior to the time of appointing such county horticultural commissioner.

451. Commissioner to furnish bond.

SEC. 6. Before the person appointed as county horticultural commissioner enters upon the discharge of his duties, or at any time thereafter, the board of county commissioners may require a bond of such appointee, which bond shall be conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the duties of such appointee hereunder, and which bond shall be in an amount with sureties, to be fixed and approved by said board of county commissioners. 452. Commissioner may be removed.

SEC. 7. If the county horticultural commissioner of any county shall fail or neglect to perform the duties of his office as required by this act, he may be removed, and the district attorney of such county may institute a civil action to recover from the sureties on such bond all damages occasioned by such failure or neglect, or any person aggrieved thereby shall have a right of action upon such bond against the sureties thereon. In case of removal of such county horticultural commissioner, or of vacancy, occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, the county commissioners may fill such vacancy thus formed, by appointment.

453. Commissioner to make report.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the county horticultural commissioner to keep a true and accurate record of his and his local inspectors' official acts hereunder, and to make a quarterly report to the board of county commissioners, and they may withhold any compensation due such commissioner until such time as such report is made.

EXTERMINATION OF FIELD MICE, SQUIRRELS OR NOXIOUS VERMIN

An Act to provide for the appointment of inspectors to inspect lands infected with, or threatened with damage by, field mice, squirrels, or other noxious vermin, to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation.

Approved March 16, 1909, 123

454. Inspectors, how appointed-Bond.

SECTION 1. Whenever it shall appear to the board of county commissioners of any county in this state that the agricultural interests of said county are being damaged, or threatened with damage, by reason of the depredations of field mice, squirrels, or other noxious vermin, it shall be the duty of the said

board of county commissioners to appoint some suitable person or persons to inspect the lands so infested, or threatened with infection, and take all necessary means for the extermination of the same. The inspectors so appointed shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, take and file with the board of county commissioners a bond to be approved by said board in a sum not exceeding one thousand ($1,000) dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their office, and shall take the official oath. Said inspectors shall receive a compensation not exceeding five dollars ($5) per day for each and every day actually employed by them in the discharge of their duties, and the necessary expenses while so employed.

455. Duties of inspectors.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any of the said inspectors, when complaint is made to him in writing, by five or more residents of the county, owning or occupying lands in the vicinity, that certain lands therein described, are infested with field mice, squirrels, or other noxious vermin, to immediately examine the tract or tracts of land complained of, and if upon such investigation, he shall find that the lands so complained of, or any portion thereof, is so infested with field mice, squirrels, or other noxious vermin, as to seriously damage, or threaten serious damage to lands in its vicinity, he shall serve a written notice upon the owner or occupant of said land to immediately take such steps to destroy the same, and if the party, or parties, so notified, do not, within five days from the time of receiving said notice, proceed to do so, the inspector shall immediately take such measures as may be necessary to exterminate such field mice, squirrels, or other noxious vermin, and when he shall have completed doing so, he shall present an itemized bill of the expenses incurred therefor, to the owner or occupant of said premises so treated, and if said owner or occupant shall fail to pay the same within fifteen days from the date of the presentation, the inspector performing the work shall so notify the board of county commissioners of his county, with a statement containing a general description of the land treated, the name of the owner or occupant thereof, the time when said land was treated by him, the cost of the treatment, and that the same has not been paid, whereupon such indebtedness shall become a lien against the land so treated, which said lien shall not be removed, or defeated until such indebtedness shall have been fully paid, and it shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners to require the district attorney of the county to collect the amount by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

An Act in relation to the agricultural experiment station of this state.

Approved February 8, 1889, 30

456. Agricultural experiment station recognized.

SECTION 1. The agricultural experiment station, organized and established by the board of regents of the state university at, and in connection with, said state university, is hereby recognized and shall be continued as a part of said state institution, and shall be conducted by a "Board of Control" hereinafter provided for, for the purposes of acquiring and diffusing among the people useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, said state university having been established in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical arts," and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

457. Board of control.

SEC. 2. The board of control of said agricultural experiment station shall consist of the board of regents of the state university, and they shall organize said board and choose its officers.

458. Keeping and expenditure of money.

SEC. 3. The board of control of said agricultural experiment station shall, to the best of its ability, observe and carry out the requirements of "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto," approved by the president March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The said board of control shall have charge of the receipts, safe keeping and expenditure of all money appropriated by Congress for the benefit and use of said agricultural experiment station; they shall be allowed and paid all necessary expenses incurred by them severally in the discharge of their official duties, but shall receive no salary or compensation for their services.

459. Report to be published.

SEC. 4. Said board of control shall make a report at the end of each fiscal year to the governor, and twelve hundred copies thereof shall be printed at the state printing office for general distribution by said board. The governor shall transmit all said annual reports to the legislature.

460. Acceptance and agreement.

SEC. 5. The legislature of Nevada hereby gratefully assents to the purposes of all grants of money made heretofore, and all which may hereafter be made, to the State of Nevada by Congress, under the act of Congress, the title of which is recited in section three of this act, and agrees that the same shall be used only for the purposes named in said act of Congress, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

An Act in relation to the agricultural experiment station
of the State of Nevada.

461. Adams act.

Approved March 29, 1907, 433

SECTION 1. The board of control of the agricultural experiment station of Nevada shall, to the best of its ability, observe and carry out the requirements of "An act to provide for the increased annual appropriation for the agricultural experiment stations, and regulating the expenditures thereof," approved March 16, 1906, generally known as the Adams act. The said board of control shall have charge of the receipts, safe keeping, and expenditure of the money appropriated by Congress under this act for the benefit and use of the agricultural experiment station of Nevada.

462. Federal appropriation-Disposition of funds.

SEC. 2. This act of Congress, approved March 16, 1906, entitled "An act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for the-agricultural experiment stations, and regulating the expenditures thereof," provides the sum of five thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906; the sum of seven thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907; the sum of nine thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908; the sum of eleven thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909; the sum of thirteen thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910; the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911; to be paid as provided in the said act to each state and territory for the more

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