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 STATE OF NEVADA 
 
 The School 
 Law-1909 
 
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 SCHOOL OFFICERS OF NEVADA, 1909. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: 
 
 Orvis Eing Carson City 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION: 
 
 His Excellency D. S. Dickerson, President Carson City 
 
 Dr. J. E. Stubbs, President of the University of Nevada Keno 
 
 Orvis Ring, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary Carson City 
 
 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: 
 
 Frank Williams Good Springs 
 
 Charles B. Henderson Elko 
 
 John Sunderland, Jr Eeno 
 
 A. A. CoDD Goldfield 
 
 J. J. Sullivan Virginia City 
 
 Geo. H. Taylor, Secretary of the Board Reno 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: 
 
 J. E. Stubbs, M.A., LL.D., D.D Reno 
 
 DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: 
 
 Name. Address. District. 
 
 G. E. Anderson Elko First District 
 
 A. B. LiGHTFOOT Eureka ; ..Second District 
 
 J. F. Abel Winnemucca Third District 
 
 J. E. Bray Reno Fourth District 
 
 G. C. Ross Tonopah Fifth District 
 
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 EXPLANATORY. 
 
 This compilation of the School Laws is made in compliance with the 
 statute which provides that the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion "shall prepare pamphlet copies of the School Law and all amend- 
 ments thereto, and shall transmit a copy thereof to each School Trustee. 
 School IMarshal, and school teacher in the State. ' ' 
 
 The work is arranged by chapters, each chapter comprising an Act as 
 it was passed by the State Legislature. The full title of each law is 
 given, together with the date of approval and the page of the Statutes, 
 for that year, on which it may be found. Amendments are embodied in 
 the law with proper references as to date and page. 
 
 The attention of all school officers is called to the compulsory educa- 
 tion law (Chapter XVII), and to the law regarding dependent children 
 (Chapter XVIII). 
 
 Suiyerintendent of PuMic Instruction. 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter. Title of Act. Page. 
 Constitutional provisions, Article XI 9 
 
 l....An Act to define the constitution, organization, powers, and duties of the 
 State Board of Education, and matters properly connected therewith. 
 Approved March 16, 1895, p. SI 13 
 
 2. ...An Act to provide for a reorganization of the system of school supervision 
 and maintenance, to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict there- 
 with, and matters properly connected therewith. Approved March 29, 
 1907, p. 379 14 
 
 3. ...An Act to create a State Text-Book Commission and to authorize said Com- 
 mission to adopt a uniform series of text-books for the public schools of 
 Nevada, and matters properly connected therewith. Approved March 22, 
 1907, p. 217 40 
 
 4. ...An Act to provide books, equipment, and materials, and to encourage the 
 economic use thereof by the pupils of the public schools, and fixing pen- 
 alties for its infraction. Approved March 22, 1909, p. 156 45 
 
 5....An Act providing for the date of election of School Trustees, and other 
 
 matters properly connected therewith. Approved March 16, 1909, p. 124.. 47 
 
 6.. ..An Act to provide for the election of School Trustees, and matters properly 
 
 connected therewith. Approved March 16, 1897, p. 100 48 
 
 7.. -An Act to amplify the powers of Boards of School Trustees. Approved 
 
 March 20, 1901, p. 97 51 
 
 8.. ..An Act permitting the establishment of County High Schools in the various 
 counties of this State, and providing for the construction, maintenance, 
 management, and supervision of the same, to repeal all Acts and parts 
 of Acts in conflict herewith, and matters properly connected therewith. 
 Approved March 24, 1909. p. 241 52 
 
 9.. ..An Act for the establishment of Normal Training Schools, and for the 
 
 maintenance and control of the same. Approved March 20, 1909, p. 174.. 56 
 
 10— .An Act to provide for Union School Districts, and matters properly con- 
 nected therewith. Approved March 8, 1909, p. 49 58 
 
 11.. ..An Act to authorize Boards of County Commissionei's to enlarge the bound- 
 aries of certain school districts, or to consolidate two or more into one, 
 and matters properly connected therewith. Approved March 11, 1909, 
 p. 87 59 
 
 12....An Act to provide an Emergency School Fund for new school districts, 
 prescribing its use and manner of disbursement, and other matters prop- 
 erly connected therewith. Approved February 13, 1909, p. 20 59 
 
 13.. ..An Act to provide for the disposal of funds and property of abolished school 
 
 districts. Approved March 5, 1909, p. 70 61 
 
 14.... An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable the several school dis- 
 tricts of the State to issue negotiable coupon bonds for the purpose of 
 erecting and furnishing school buildings, or purchasing ground, or for 
 refunding floating funded debts, and providing for the payment of the 
 principal indebtedness thus authorized and the interest thereon," approved 
 March 12, 1907. Approved February S, 1908, p. 34 62 
 
6 TABLE OP CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter. Title of Act. Page. 
 
 15— -An Act to enable school districts to issue negotiable coupon bonds for the 
 purpose of erecting, furnishing, equipping, and maintaining buildings for 
 industrial training, manual training, domestic science, and agriculture, 
 or any one or all of these purposes, and providing for the payment of 
 the principal indebtedness and the interest thereon, and other matters 
 properly connected therewith. Approved March 16, 1909, p. 122 65 
 
 16.— An Act to protect the security of school bonds. Approved March 13, 1909, 
 
 p. 94 65 
 
 17--. -An Act providing for compulsory education, and other matters properly 
 connected therewith, providing for penalties for the violation of any of 
 the provisions thereof, and repealing any and all prior laws on the sub- 
 ject of compulsory education. Approved March 20, 1909, p. 147 66 
 
 18— -An Act relating to children who are now or who may hereafter become 
 dependent, neglected, or delinquent, to define these tei'ms and to provide 
 for the treatment, control, maintenance, protection, adoption, and guard- 
 ianship of the person of such child or children. Approved March 24, 
 1909, p. 229 69 
 
 19---An Act to secure protection to school children and to preserve the peace of 
 public schools, and matters properly connected thereAvith. Approved 
 March 6, 1893, p. 106 - 79 
 
 20---An Act to prevent malicious injury to church, school, and other buildings 
 and property, and to protect persons from malicious annoyance, and 
 matters properly relating thereto. Approved March 13, 1895, p. 63 SO 
 
 21--An Act to regulate the location, equipment, or maintenance of hospitals. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1907, p. 430 - SO 
 
 22— -An Act to regulate houses of prostitution, dance-houses, and houses where 
 beer, wine, or spirituous liquors are sold. Approved February 26, 1887, 
 p. 84 SI 
 
 23— An Act authorizing the owners of land to lay out and plat such land into 
 lots, streets, alleys, and public places, and providing for the approval and 
 filing of maps or plats thereof. Approved March 13, 1905, p. 223 81 
 
 24 An Act to exempt teachers from jury duty. Approved March 14, 1903, 
 
 p. Ill - S2 
 
 25— -An Act to require School Trustees to procure and hoist on public school- 
 houses the United States flag. Approved March 13, 1909, p. 100 82 
 
 26 An Act adopting the design of the flag of the State of Nevada. Approved 
 
 February 25, 1905, p. 42 S3 
 
 27-— An Act establishing Arbor Day. Approved February 10, 1887; p. 51 S3 
 
 28— An Act to fix the name of the State University of Nevada. Approved 
 
 March 29, 1907, p. 433 83 
 
 29— An Act relating to the State University, and matters properly connected 
 
 therewith. Approved February 7, 1887, p. 42 84 
 
 30— An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act relating to the State Uni- 
 versity, and matters properly connected therewith," approved February 
 7, 1887. Approved March 16, 1895, p. 76 87 
 
 31— -An Act creating the Honorary Board of Visitors of the Nevada State Uni- 
 versity, and other matters relating thereto. Approved March 11, 1895, 
 p. 40 - 88 
 
 32 . -An Act creating a School of Mines, to be located at Virginia City, State of 
 
 Nevada. Approved March 20, 1908, p. 211 - 89 
 
 33— -An Act to provide for the education of the deaf and dumb, and the blind 
 
 of the State of Nevada. Approved March 2, 1869, p. 103 89 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS, 7 
 
 Chapter. Title of Act. Page. 
 
 34— -An Act to provide for free public libraries, and otlier matters relating 
 
 thereto. Approved March 16, 1895, p. 79.... 90 
 
 35....An Act to provide revenue for the support of the Governnaent of the State 
 of Nevada, and to repeal certain Acts relating thereto. Approved March 
 23, 1891, p. 135 92 
 
 36.. ..An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to the State Library," 
 
 approved February 14, 1865. Approved March 29, 1907, p. 372 92 
 
 37... -An Act providing that ten per cent of proceeds from fees which issue to 
 the counties from national forest reserves be paid into the county school 
 fund of the county in which such fees may be collected. Approved March 
 29, 1907, p. 415 93 
 
 38....An Act to fix the state tax levy, and to distribute the same in the proper 
 
 funds. Approved March 20, 1909, p. 141 94 
 
 39....An Act making appropriations for the support of the Civil Government of 
 the State of Nevada for the fiscal years 1909 and 1910. Approved March 
 22, 1909, p. 162 94 
 
 40....An Act to provide for the dissemination of knowledge in the public schools 
 relative to the preservation of song-birds, fish, and game. Approved 
 March 12, 1901, p. 56 95 
 
 Appendix — Fish and Game Laws, and special laws relating to school mat- 
 ters passed in 1909 97 
 
CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Superintendent, When Elected — Term of Office. 
 
 Section 1. The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, 
 the promotion of intellectual, literary, scientific, mining, mechanical, 
 agricultural, and moral improvements ; and also provide for the election 
 by the people, at the general election, of a Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, whose term of office shall be two years from the first Mon- 
 day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and until the 
 election and qualification of his successor, and whose duties shall be 
 prescribed by law. 
 
 System to he Uniform. 
 
 Sec 2. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform system of com- 
 mon schools, by which a school shall be established and maintained in 
 each school district for at least six months in every year ; and any school 
 district neglecting to establish and maintain such a school, or which 
 phall allow instruction of a sectarian character therein, may be deprived 
 of its proportion of the interest of the Public School Fund during such 
 neglect or infraction ; and the Legislature may pass such laws as will 
 tend to secure a general attendance of the children in each school dis- 
 trict upon said public schools. 
 
 Lands and Funds Pledged to Educational Purposes — Escheated Estates 
 and Fines Pledged to Educational Purposes — Interest Only to he 
 Used — May he Appropjriated for State University. 
 Sec. 3. All lands, including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections 
 in any township donated for the benefit of public schools in the Act of 
 the Thirty-eighth Congress, to enable the people of Nevada Territory to 
 form a State Government, the thirty thousand acres of public lands 
 granted by an Act of Congress, approved July second, A. D. eighteen 
 hundred and sixtj-two, for each Senator and Representative in Con- 
 gress, and all proceeds of lands that have been or may hereafter be 
 granted or appropriated by the United States to this State, and also 
 the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new States 
 under the Act of Congress distributing the proceeds of the public lands 
 among the several States of the Union, approved A. D. eighteen hun- 
 dred and forty-one; provided, that Congress make provision for or 
 authorize such diversion to be made for the purpose herein contained ; 
 all estates that may escheat to the State; all such per centum as may 
 be granted by Congress on the sale of lands; all fines collected under 
 
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 the penal laws of the State; all property given or bequeathed to the 
 State for educational purposes, and all proceeds derived from any or 
 all of said sources, shall be and the same are hereby solemnly pledged 
 for educational purposes, and shall not be transferred to any other 
 fund for other uses ; and the interest thereon shall, from time to time, 
 be apportioned among the several counties as the Legislature may pro- 
 vide by law; and the Legislature shall provide for the sale of floating 
 land warrants to cover the aforesaid lands, and for the investment of 
 all proceeds derived from any of the above-mentioned sources, in United 
 States bonds, or the bonds of this State, or the bonds of other States 
 of the Union ; provided, that the interest only of the aforesaid proceeds 
 shall be used for educational purposes, and any surplus interest shall 
 be added to the principal sum; and 'provided further, that such portions 
 of said interest as may be necessary may be appropriated for the sup- 
 port of the State University. [As amended — Fifth Amendment.] 
 
 JJniversiiy. 
 
 Sec 4. The Legislature shall provide for the establishment of a 
 State University, which shall embrace departments for agriculture, 
 mechanic arts, and mining, to be controlled by a Board of Regents, 
 whose duties shall be prescribed by law. 
 
 Normal Schools. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Legislature shall have power to establish normal schools, 
 and such different grades of schools, from the primary department to 
 the University, as in their discretion they may deem necessary, and all 
 professors in said University, or teachers in said schools, of whatever 
 grade, shall be required to take and subscribe to the oath as prescribed 
 m Article XV of this Constitution. No professor or teacher who fails 
 to comply with the provisions of this section shall be entitled to receive 
 any portion of the public moneys set apart for school purposes. 
 
 Special Tax Provided for Educational Purposes. 
 
 Sec. 6 The Legislature shall provide a special tax, which shall not 
 exceed two mills on the dollar of all taxable property in the State, in 
 addition to the other means provided for the support and maintenance 
 of said University and common schools. [As amended — Sixth Amend- 
 ment.] 
 
 Board of Regents. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Governor, Secretarj^ of State, and Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction shall, for the first four years, and until their succes- 
 sors are elected and qualified, constitute a Board of Regents, to control 
 and manage the affairs of the University and the funds of the same, 
 imder such regulations as may be provided by law. But the Legisla- 
 ture shall, at its regular session next preceding the expiration of the 
 term of office of said Board of Regents, provide for the election of a 
 new Board of Regents, and define their duties. 
 
 Duties of Regents. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Board of Regents shall, from the interest accruing from 
 the first funds Avhich come under their control, immediately organize 
 
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 and maintain the said mining department in such manner as to make it 
 ihe most effective and useful; provided, that all the proceeds of the 
 public lands donated by Act of Congress, approved July second, A. D. 
 (•Iffhteeri hundred and sixtA^-two, for a college for the benefit of agricul- 
 ture, the mechanic arts, and including military tactics, shall be invested 
 by the said Board of Regents in a separate fund, to be appropriated 
 exclusively for the benefit of the first-named departments of the Uni- 
 versity, as set forth in section four above ; and the Legislature shall pro- 
 vide that, if through neglect or any other contingency, any portion of 
 the fund so set apart shall be lost or misappropriated, the State of 
 Nevada sliall replace said amount so lost or misappropriated in said 
 fund, so that the principal of said fund shall remain forever undi- 
 minished. 
 
 Sectarian ism. Proh ihited. 
 
 Sec. 9. No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or tolerated in 
 .my school or university that may be established under this Constitution. 
 
 A'o Funds for Sectarian Purposes. 
 
 Sec. 10. No public funds of any kind or character whatever. State, 
 iiounty, or municipal, shall be used for sectarian purposes. [Added by 
 Second Amendment.] 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Chapter I — An Act to define the constitution, organization, powers, 
 and duties of the State Board of Education, and matters properly 
 connected therewith. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1895, p. 81. 
 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 Section 1. The State Board of Education shall consist of the Gov- 
 ernor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President of 
 the University. 
 
 Officers of Board. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Governor is the President, and the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction the Secretary of the Board. 
 
 Time of Meeting. 
 
 Sec. 3. The board shall meet at the call of the Secretary, but shall 
 hold at least two meetings a year. [See also Chap. II, Sec. 2, eighth 
 part.] 
 
 Powers and Duties of Board. 
 
 Sec. 4. The powers and duties of the board shall be as follows : 
 
 Third — To prescribe and cause to be adopted the course of study in 
 the public schools. 
 
 Fourth — To recommend a list of books for district libraries. 
 
 Sixth — To revoke for immoral conduct, or evident unfitness for teach- 
 ing, any State diploma or any State or county certificate. 
 
 Seventh — To have done by the State Printer any printing required by 
 the board, such as the proceedings of the State Teachers' Institute, 
 circulars of information to school officers or teachers, and blank forms. 
 
 Eighth — To adopt and use in authentication of its acts an official seal. 
 
 Ninth — To keep a record of its proceedings, which shall be published 
 biennially in the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Eighteenth— All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 [Portions omitted are superseded by the Statutes of 1907.] 
 
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 SCHOOL ORGANIZATION. 
 
 Chap. II — A71 Act to provide for a reorganization of the system of 
 school supervision and maintenance, to repeal all Acts and parts of 
 Acts in conflict thereivith, and matters properly connected there- 
 
 ^*^^*- Approved March 29, 1907, p. 379. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 
 Election of Superintendent of Puhlic Instruction. 
 
 Section 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be elected 
 quadrennially by the qualified electors of the State at the same time 
 and in the same manner as the Governor is elected and shall hold office 
 for the term of four years from the first Monday in January next after 
 the election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. 
 
 Duties of Said Officer — Visit Schools — Apportion School Fund — 
 Apportion County Funds — Report Biennially — Rules — Teachers' 
 Institutes — Meetings of State Board of Education — Appoint Trus- 
 tees — Nominate Deputies — Printing. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have power 
 and it shall be his duty : 
 
 First — To visit each county in the State at least once each year for 
 the purpose of conducting teachers' institutes, visiting schools, consult- 
 ing with school officers, and addressing public assemblies on subjects 
 pertaining to the schools. 
 
 Second — To apportion the General School Fund among the several 
 counties as provided in section ninety of this Act. 
 
 Third — To apportion the school funds of each county among its vari- 
 ous districts as provided in section ninety-one of this Act. 
 
 Fourth — To report to the Governor biennially, on or before the first 
 day of Decem.ber of the years preceding the regular session of the Legis- 
 lature. The Governor shall transmit said report to the Legislature ; and 
 whenever it is ordered published the State Printer shall deliver a suffi- 
 cient number of copies to the Superintendent, who shall distribute the 
 same among school officers of the State and of the United States. Said 
 report shall contain a full statement of the condition of public instruc- 
 tion in the State ; a statement of the condition and amount of all funds 
 and property appropriated to the purpose of education; the number 
 and grade of schools in each county; the number of children in each 
 count3^ between the ages of six and eighteen years of age ; the number 
 of such attending public schools ; the number attending private schools ; 
 the number attending no schools; the number under six years of 
 age; the number between eighteen and twenty-one j^ears of age; 
 the amount of public school moneys apportioned to each county; the 
 amount of money raised by county taxation, district tax, subscription or 
 otherwise, by any city, town, district, or county, for the support of 
 schools therein ; the amount of money raised for building schoolhouses ; 
 a statement of plans for the management and improvement of public 
 schools ; and such other information relative to the educational interests 
 of the State as he may think of importance. 
 
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 Fifth — To prescribe suitable rules and regulations for making all 
 reports and conducting all necessary proceedings under this Act and to 
 furnish suitable blank forms for the same ; to cause the same, with such 
 instructions as he shall deem necessary and proper for the organization 
 and government of schools, to be transmitted to the local school officers. 
 who shall be governed in accordance therewith. He shall prepare a con- 
 venient form of school register for the purpose of securing accurate 
 returns from the teachers of public schools, and shall furnish each school 
 district in the State with such registers. He shall prepare pamphlet 
 copies of the school law and all amendments thereto, and shall transmit 
 a copy thereof of each School Trustee, School Marshal, and school 
 teacher in the State. 
 
 Sixth — To convene a State Teachers' Institute biennially in the even- 
 numbered years in such place and at such time as he may deem advisa- 
 ble. It shall be his further duty to convene five District Teachers' 
 Institutes in the various sections of the State biennially in the odd- 
 numbered years in such places and at such times as he may deem advis- 
 able. He shall engage such institute lecturers and teachers as he shall 
 deem advisable, and shall preside over and regulate the exercises of all 
 State and District Institutes. No institute shall continue less than four 
 nor more than ten days. The expense incurred in holding such insti- 
 tutes shall be paid out of the State General Fund; provided, that the 
 amount for the State Institute shall not exceed two hundred dollars nor 
 the amount of any one District Institute one hundred and fifty dollars, 
 and the State Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his 
 warrants for the same upon the order of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction. All teachers shall be recjuired to attend the District Insti- 
 tutes held in the supervision districts in which they may be teaching 
 respectively, unless they shall be excused for good cause bj^ the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction, and without loss of salary for the time 
 thus employed. 
 
 Seventh — To call, with the approval of the Board of County Com- 
 missioners, a County Teachers' Institute in any county at such time and 
 place as in his judgment will best subserve the educational interests of 
 the county, and to preside over and regulate the exercises of the same. 
 The expenses of such institute shall be paid out of the County General 
 Fund of the county in which such institute is held; provided, that the 
 Board of County Commissioners shall authorize such institute upon the 
 application of the Superintendent of Public Instruction ; arid provided, 
 that such expenses shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars. 
 All teachers shall be required to attend any County Institute held in 
 the counties in which they shall be teaching respectively, unless excused 
 for good cause by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and with- 
 out loss of salary for the time thus employed. 
 
 Eighth — To call meetings of the State Board of Education in Janu- 
 ary and July of each year and at such other times as he shall deem 
 proper or when two members of said board shall request a meeting. 
 
 Ninth — To appoint School Trustees in all districts in which the quali- 
 fied voters fail to elect, and to fill by appointment all vacancies occur- 
 ring in said office. 
 
16 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 Tenth — To nominate Deputy Superintendents of Public Instruction 
 for appointment by the State Board of Education. 
 
 Eleventh — To perform such other duties relative to the public schools 
 as may be prescribed by law. 
 
 Twelfth — To have done at the State Printing Office any printing 
 required under this Act. 
 
 Deliver Property. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, at the expi- 
 ration of his term of office, deliver to his successor all property and 
 effects belonging to his office and take a receipt for the same. 
 
 DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 
 Office of County Superintendent Aholished. 
 
 Sec 4. The office of County Superintendent of Public Schools either 
 as a separate office or as an ex officio office shall be, and hereby is, 
 abolished for all counties in this State on and after the thirty-iirst day 
 of August, 1907 ; provided, that the ex officio County Superintendent 
 shall make the reports for the school year ending on the thirtv-first day 
 of August, 1907. 
 
 Deputy Superintendents — Supervision Districts. 
 
 Sec. 5. Upon the nomination of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction the State Board of Education shall, on or before the first 
 Monday in December, 1907, and each fourth year thereafter, appoint 
 one Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction for each Supervision 
 District as hereinafter provided for, and such appointee shall be a bona 
 fide resident of the district for which he is appointed. At the time of 
 such appointment and during his term of office, such appointee shall 
 take office on the first Monday in September and shall serve for a period 
 of four years ; provided, that in case any nominee of the State Superin- 
 tendent is unsatisfactory to the board another nomination or nomina- 
 tions shall be made to the satisfaction of the board. In case a vacancy 
 shall occur in the office of Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
 the State Board of Education shall in like manner make an appoint- 
 ment for the unexpired term. The Deputy Superintendents of Public 
 Instruction shall devote their entire time to school supervision and shall 
 not engage in other M^ork while holding this office. 
 
 Qualifications of Deputies. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person holding a teacher's certificate of high-school 
 grade and who shall have had not less than forty-five months successful 
 experience in teaching, at least nine months of which shall have been 
 in the State of Nevada, shall be eligible to appointment as Deputy 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, and no others shall be eligible to 
 such appointment. 
 
 Duties of Deputies. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of each Deputy Superintendent to visit 
 each school in his district at least twice a year, to examine the records 
 and observe the work of each school carefully, to advise with teachers 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 17 
 
 as to organization, management and teaching, to inspect school build- 
 ings, libraries, and apparatus, to confer with Trustees and county offi- 
 cers as to the condition and needs of their schools, to hold teachers' 
 meetings, to assist at State, District, and County Institutes, and other- 
 wise advance the educational interests of his district. The Deputy 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction shall act as deputy examiner at 
 teachers' examinations, as member of the Board of Educational Exam- 
 iners and shall assist the State Board of Education in preparing courses 
 of stud3\ He shall attend the meetings of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion to furnish information pertaining to the schools of his district 
 when said board shall so order. He shall, under the direction of the 
 State Board of Education, examine the records and financial accounts 
 of each school district and shall, in his report to said Board of Educa- 
 tion, state whether or not the law has been complied with in every case, 
 specifically calling attention to any violations of law. He shall make 
 such Avritten reports and perform such other duties as may be required 
 by the State Board of Education. 
 
 Powers of D&piities. 
 
 Sec. 8. Subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, 
 the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall confer upon the Deputy 
 Superintendents such power and authority to act in his name as he shall 
 deem proper. 
 
 State Board to Adopt Rules for Deputies. 
 
 Sec. 9. The State Board of Education shall adopt such rules and 
 regulations further defining the powers and duties of the Deputy Super- 
 intendents of Public Instruction as shall, in its judgment, be needful to 
 secure efficiency and coordination ; provided, that such rules and regula- 
 tions shall be in accordance with the laws of this State. 
 
 Eemoval. 
 
 Sec. 10. The State Board of Education shall, upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, have power to remove 
 Deputy Superintendents of Public Instruction* from office for evident 
 unfitness or for conspicuous failure to perform the duties of said office. 
 
 certification op teachers. 
 Teachers' Certificates. 
 
 Sec. 11. No certificate or diploma authorizing any person to teach 
 in the public schools of this State shall be issued by any officer or board 
 except the State Board of Education, and the State Board shall issue 
 only those classes and grades described in this Act ; provided, however, 
 that all teachers' certificates previously issued by legally constituted 
 authorities shall remain valid for the time and under the conditions of 
 the original issue unless revoked in accordance with law. 
 
 Date and Place of Examinations. 
 
 Sec. 12. Examinations for teachers' certificates in this State shall 
 be held in the several counties semi-annually, beginning on the second 
 jMonday in January and July, and continuing not more than four days 
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 SCHOOL IjAWS of NEVADA. 
 
 at 
 
 / any one examination ; provided, that the interest of the schools in any 
 jounty shall require such examinations. The State Board of Educa- 
 tion shall ma6e provision for such other examinations at such times and 
 places as in its judgment the public interest may require. 
 
 Deputy Examiners — Compensation. 
 
 . Sec. 13. All examinations for teachers' certificates shall be con- 
 ducted by deputy examiners, who shall act under the authority of the 
 State Board of Education. It shall be the duty of the deputy exam- 
 iners to send all examination papers to the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction without grading them. The Deputj^ Superintendents of 
 Public Instruction shall act as deputy examiners in such counties in 
 their respective districts as shall be designated by the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
 appoint in addition a sufficient number of deputy examiners to provide 
 for all the counties of the State ; provided, that there shall not be more 
 than two such deputy examiners in any one county. Deputy examiners 
 other than the Deputy Superintendents of Public Instruction shall 
 receive a compensation of five dollars a day, to be paid as other claims 
 out of the State General Fund. The State Board of Education shall 
 prescribe such rules and regulations governing examinations as may be 
 needful to secure uniformity and justice. 
 
 [For appropriation for conducting examinations, see Chap. XXXIX, 
 Sec. 90.] 
 
 Regulations Regarding Questions. 
 
 Sec. 14. The questions used for written work in teachers' examina- 
 tions shall be prepared by the State Board of Education, and shall be 
 uniform throughout the State. Such examination questions shall be for- 
 warded to the various deputy examiners throughout the State by the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, so as to reach their destination 
 immediately before the date set for the examination. Such questions 
 shall be sent under the seal of the State Board of Education, the ques- 
 tions on each subject being under separate seal, and no questions shall 
 be opened by any deputy examiner or other person until the day and 
 the hour set for the us^ of such questions, and this time shall be plainly 
 specified under each seal. 
 
 Primary-School Certificate. 
 
 Sec. 15. The primary-school certificate, good for two years, shall be 
 issued upon satisfactory examination in the following subjects, and 
 shall entitle the holder to teach in any school in which only primary 
 branches are taught: Orthography, reading, grammar, written arith- 
 metic, mental arithmetic, penmanship, physiology, history of the United 
 States, civil government, geography, current news, drawing, theory and 
 practice of teaching, and, at the discretion of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion, music and the elements of chemistry and physics. 
 
 Granimar-Sckool Certificate. 
 
 Sec. 16. The grammar-school certificate, good for three years, shall 
 be issued upon satisfactory examination in the following subjects, and 
 
SCHOOL liAWS OF NEVADA. 19 
 
 shall entitle the holder to teach in primary, grammar, or unclassified 
 schools : All the subjects designated for primary-school certificates, and 
 in addition thereto, algebra, the first and second books of plane geom- 
 etry. English histor}^, bookkeeping, physical geography, physics, chem- 
 istry, and methods of teaching. [See also Chap. IX, Sec. 4.] 
 
 Higli -Sell ool Certificaie. 
 
 Sec. 17. The high-school certificate, good for four years, shall entitle 
 the holder to teach in any school, and shall be issued upon satisfactory 
 examination in all the subjects mentioned in sections fifteen and sixteen 
 of this Act, and, in addition thereto, botany, Latin, general history, 
 English literature, plane geometry, astronomy, rhetoric, civil govern- 
 ment, and the history and methods of teaching. 
 
 Provisions Begarding Certificates. 
 
 Sec. 18. Applicants who have taught successfully under any grade 
 of certificate issued imder this Act shall, when applying for the next 
 higher grade, be required to take only the studies of that grade; pro- 
 vided, that any person, holding a primary-school certificate, in applying 
 for a grammar-school certificate, need take only the additional branches 
 named in section sixteen of this Act. 
 
 Life Diplomas. 
 
 Sec. 19. The State Board of Education shall grant a life diploma to 
 am" resident of the State of Nevada who shall present evidence of having 
 taught successfully and continuously in the public schools of the State 
 of Nevada for a period of seventy-two months. A life diploma granted 
 tinder this section shall be of the same grade as the certificate held by 
 the applicant at the time of application for the diploma, and shall 
 entitle the holder thereof to teach in any school in the State of Nevada 
 of a grade corresponding to the grade of the certificate upon which the 
 life diploma w^as granted. 
 
 State Edncational Diplomas. 
 
 Sec. 20. State educational diplomas may be issued to such persons 
 only as have held a certificate of high-school grade, and shall furnish 
 satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching 
 at least forty-five months in the public schools, twenty months of which 
 must have been in Nevada. Every application for an educational 
 diploma must be accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted 
 by the Board of School Trustees of the district in which the applicant 
 has taught at least one year. An educational diploma shall entitle the 
 holder thereof to teach in any public school in the State of Nevada 
 without further examination. 
 
 Conditions of Issuance. 
 
 Sec. 21. Life diplomas may be issued on all and the same conditions 
 as educational diplomas, except that the applicant must furnish satis- 
 factory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching 
 seventy-two months in public schools, twenty-four of which must have 
 
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 been in Nevada. A life diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach 
 in any school in the State of Nevada without further examination. 
 
 Different Certificates to Certain Graduates of Nevada State Normal 
 School. 
 Sec. 22. High-school certificates, good for five years, shall be issued 
 to graduates of the Nevada State Normal School, advanced course. 
 Grammar-school certificates, good for five years, shall be issued to grad- 
 uates of the Nevada State Normal School, elementary course. To the 
 graduates of the Nevada State Normal School who hold high-school cer- 
 tificates, the State Board of Education shall grant a life diploma of 
 high-school grade when said graduates shall have completed at least 
 fortj'^-five months of successful teaching in public schools. To all grad- 
 uates of the Nevada State Normal School who hold a grammar-school 
 certificate, the State Board of Education shall grant a life diploma of 
 the grammar grade when said graduates shall have completed at least 
 forty-five months of successful instruction in public schools. 
 
 Other Graduates Privileged. 
 
 Sec. 23. Graduates of universities, colleges, and normal schools 
 approved by the State Board of Education shall be permitted to submit 
 their credentials from such institutions, and to the extent that these 
 credentials give evidence of scholarship and professional preparation 
 they shall be accepted in lieu of examination. 
 
 Life Certificates of Other States. 
 
 Sec. 24. Any teacher holding a life certificate from another State 
 shall be permitted to submit such certificate as evidence of his or her 
 fitness for teaching, and if the State Board of Education shall be satis- 
 fied that the State which issued such certificate maintains a high pro- 
 fessional standard, said board may issue a certificate for teaching in 
 this State of such grade as it shall deem proper. [Such credentials 
 should be forwarded to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Car- 
 son City, Nevada.] 
 
 All Papers Graded hy Board of Educational Examiners. 
 
 Sec. 25. All examination papers for teachers' certificates shall be 
 examined and graded under the authority of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion by the Board of Educational Examiners, which shall consist of at 
 least two members of the State Board of Education, the Deputy Super- 
 intendents of Public Instruction, and such other persons, not to exceed 
 three in number, as may be appointed by the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction. The Board of Educational Examiners shall certify the 
 grade of each applicant in each subject to the State Board of Educa- 
 tion. Persons appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 as members of the Board of Educational Examiners shall receive com- 
 pensation at the rate of five dollars a day for the time actually employed 
 in such service, to be paid out of the State General Fund in the usual 
 manner. 
 
 Special Certificates. 
 
 Sec. 26. The State Board of Education shall grant special eertifi- 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 21 
 
 cates valid for teaching music, drawing, manual training, penmanship, 
 kindergarten work, or any specified foreign language, provided that it 
 shall be satisfied that the applicant is qualified to teach such special 
 subject. The board shall determine as to the fitness of the applicant by 
 whatever method shall appear to be most appropriate. Such certificate 
 shall be valid for two years. A special certificate shall entitle the holder 
 to teach only the subject or subjects mentioned in the certificate. 
 
 Temporary Certificates — Restriction. 
 
 Sec. 27. The State Board of Education may, at its discretion, issue 
 temporary certificates without examination; provided, that such certifi- 
 cate shall be issued only upon request of the Board of School Trustees 
 of a school district in this State, and that such certificate shall be valid 
 only in the district from which the request is made, and such certificate 
 shall be valid only until the next teachers' examination held in the 
 county in which such person shall be teaching. If any member of the 
 Board of School Trustees making the above-mentioned request is a mem- 
 ber of the family or a near relative of the applicant, the certificate shall 
 not be granted. Not more than one temporary certificate shall be 
 granted to any one person. 
 
 Age Limit. 
 
 Sec. 28. No certificate authorized by this Act shall be issued to any 
 person under sixteen years of age. 
 
 DUTIES OF TEACHERS. 
 
 Teacher Must Be Legally Employed. 
 
 Sec. 29. No teacher shall be entitled to receive any portion of the 
 public school moneys as compensation for services rendered, unless such 
 teacher shall have been legally employed by the Board of Trustees, nor 
 unless such teacher shall have a certificate issued in accordance with 
 law, in full force and effect at the time such service is rendered, nor 
 unless such teacher shall have made a full and correct report, in the 
 form and manner prescribed by law, to the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction and to the Board of School Trustees. 
 
 Teachers to Take Official Oath. 
 
 Sec. 30. Each and every teacher employed in this State, whose com- 
 pensation is pa.^'able out of the public funds, shall take and subscribe 
 to the oath as prescribed by the fifteenth article of the State Constitu- 
 tion before entering upon the discharge of the duties of such teacher. 
 Such oath, when so taken and subscribed to, shall, if that of a teacher 
 in the State University, be filed in the office of the Board of Regents; 
 if of any other class of teachers, the same shall be filed in the office of 
 the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 The oath is as follows : 
 
 I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, 
 
 protect, and defend the Constitution and Government of the United 
 States, and the Constitution and Government of the State of Nevada, 
 against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear 
 true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, 
 
22 ^ SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 or law of any State Convention or Legislature to the contrary notwith- 
 standing ; and further, that I do this with a full determination, pledge, 
 and purpose, without any mental reservation or evasion whatsoever. 
 And I do further solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not fought a 
 duel, nor sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel, nor been a second 
 to either party, nor in any manner aided or assisted in such duel, nor 
 been knowingly the bearer of such challenge or acceptance, since the 
 adoption of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, and that I will not 
 be so engaged or concerned, directly nor indirectly, in or about such 
 duel, during my continuance in office. And further, that I will well and 
 
 faithfully perform all the duties of the office of on which 
 
 I am about to enter (if an oath), "so help me God" ; (if an affirmation) 
 "under the pains and penalties of perjury." Sworn and subscribed to 
 
 before me, a of the County of ..- and State of 
 
 Nevada, this day of , Anno Domini 
 
 School Officers May Administer Oath. 
 
 Sec. 31. The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Deputy 
 Superintendents of Public Instruction are hereby authorized to admin- 
 ister the oath (or affirmation) to teachers and all other oaths (or affir- 
 mations) relating to public schools. The Clerk of the Board of School 
 Trustees is hereby authorized to administer the oath (or affirmation) to 
 teachers and School Census Marshals. No officer shall receive any com- 
 pensation for administering the oath (or affirmation) as provided in 
 this section. 
 
 School Register. 
 
 Sec. 32. All teachers of public schools shall keep registers of all the 
 scholars attending such schools, their age, daily attendance, and time of 
 continuance at school, and such further statistics as may be required hy 
 the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and shall deliver such regis- 
 ters, at the close of their term of employment, to the Board of Trustees 
 of their respective districts. 
 
 BOARDS OP TRUSTEES OP SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 [For Election of Trustees, see Chapters V and VI.] 
 
 Meetings of Trustees — Duties of Clerk — Compensation. 
 
 Sec. 33. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees, a majority 
 of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, to 
 meet as soon as practicable after taking the oath of office, at such place 
 as may be most convenient in the district, and to organize by appoint- 
 ing one of their number President of the Board and another as Clerk. 
 It shall be the duty of the President to preside at the meetings of the 
 board. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to record the proceedings of 
 the board in a book to be provided for the purpose ; and all such pro- 
 ceedings, when so recorded, shall be signed by said Clerk. Said book 
 shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any taxpaj^er in the dis- 
 trict ; and said Clerk shall cause full minutes of the proceedings of each 
 session of the board to be published in some newspaper having general 
 circulation in the district; provided, that such publication can be had 
 without expense to the district. In districts having a school population 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVAD 
 
 A. 23 
 
 of three hundred or «^ore and not exceedin ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 the Board of Trustees may receive such s, & 
 
 »ro^'id£'d that such salary shall not exc -f r> as said board may allow , 
 
 ptovtata, uictu oLiv. 1 -^ ■„„ ^ __!,„ .eed ten dollars per month; pro- 
 
 vided, that m districts havmg a scho ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^f ^^^ thousand or 
 
 more the Clerk of the Board of T ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ 
 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Meetings Monthly. 
 
 bEC. d*. n ■ ^.y,;^A ■'cts in which there are not less than three 
 
 hundred ^clio^J, «^^"^^^"^^^^. '-f^'li, as shown by the last preceding school 
 census report, the Board ^r B'^i^ool Trustees shall hold a regular meeting 
 at least one- each moTitn, .^t such time and place as it shall determine, 
 arivA public notice oi sue j-^ meetings shall be given in one or more news- 
 papers published m sr^^h district; provided, that such notices can be 
 published without cos\- to the district. 
 
 Majority Vote to Lp^goUze Action. 
 
 Sec. 35. No action of the Board of School Trustees in any school 
 district shall b'<j vaVkl unless such action shall receive the approval of a 
 majority of the Kiembers of such board at a regularly called meeting. 
 The Clerk cvf th^e Board shall give at least two days' notice of each meet- 
 ing to e.^eli member of the Board of School Trustees, specifying the time 
 and P/lace of each meeting ; provided, that if all members of such board 
 are. pr^ent at such meeting the lack of such notification shall not invali- 
 date its proceedings. 
 
 Corporate Powers of School Trustees— State Superintendent to Approve 
 Flans. 
 
 Sec. 36. Each Board of Public School Trustees shall constitute a 
 body corporate, and shall have care and custody of all school property 
 within their district. They shall have power to convey by deed all 
 estate or interest of their district in anj- schoolhouse or site directed to 
 be sold by vote of the district. It shall be their duty, directed by a vote 
 of their district, to build, purchase or hire schoolhouses for the use of 
 the district, and also, without such vote, to cause needed repairs of the 
 same, when the expense of such repairs will not exceed five hundred 
 dollars, and to supply schoolhouses with the necessary furniture, fixtures, 
 and fuel ; provided, that no public schoolhouse shall be erected in any 
 school district in the State until the plan of the same has been sub- 
 mitted to and approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 The Superintendent of Public Instruction may revise to approve bills 
 in payment of expenses incurred in disregard of this provision. Trus- 
 tees shall cause to be erected such outhouses as decency requires, and 
 in case of failure or neglect in this particular it shall be the duty of the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction to cause the work to be done, and 
 to pay for the same out of the funds belonging to the delinquent dis- 
 trict. All conveyances of real estate made to the Board of School Trus- 
 tees shall be in their name corporate and to their successors in office. 
 
 Trustees Not Pecuniarily Interested. 
 
 Sec. 37. No Trustee shall be pecuniarily interested in any contract 
 made bv the Board of Trustees of which he is a member. 
 
24 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 Report of Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 38. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of School 
 Trustees of each district to report to the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction the number of schools, specifying the different grades, the 
 number of teachers, male and female ; the number of children, male and 
 female, who have attended school within the past year; the average 
 attendance; the length of the term of school ; the compensation of teach- 
 ers, male and female ; the number and condition of the schoolhouses and 
 furniture, and the estimated value thereof; the number of books in 
 public-school libraries ; the text-books used in schools ; the value and 
 kind of school apparatus ; district taxation and subscription for school 
 purposes ; the amount expended in erecting and furnishing schoolhouses, 
 and other such statistics as the Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 may require. 
 
 City Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 Sec. 39. All school districts in Nevada are hereby divided into two 
 classes. Districts employing ten or more teachers shall be known as 
 districts of the first class, and districts employing less than ten teachers 
 shall be known as districts of the second class. The Board of School 
 Trustees of any district of the first class is hereby authorized to create 
 the office of City Superintendent of Schools for such district, to define 
 the powers and duties of such Superintendent, to elect to said office any 
 person entitled to teach in the high schools of this State, and to fix 
 the salary; provided, that no City Superintendent shall be elected for 
 more than one year, unless said City Superintendent shall have first 
 served one year acceptably in the district, when said Board of Trustees 
 is empowered to elect said Superintendent for a term not to exceed four 
 years ; provided, further, that said Superintendent may be dismissed at 
 any time for cause. As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 323. 
 
 Trustees to Fix Salaries of Teachers — No Discrimination Against 
 Females. 
 Sec. 40. It shall be the duty of the' Board of School Trustees to 
 employ teachers, to determine the salary to be paid and the length of the 
 term of employment for such teachers, embodying these conditions in a 
 written contract to be signed by the Clerk, at the order of the board, 
 and by the teacher ; provided, that the board shall not have the right to 
 employ teachers for any term of service commencing after the time for 
 which any member of the Board of Trustees was elected. The salaries 
 of teachers shall be determined by the character of the service required, 
 and in no district shall there be any discrimination in the matter of 
 salary as against female teachers. 
 
 Clerk to Issue Warrants. 
 
 Sec. 41. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of School 
 Trustees in each district, subject to the direction of said board, to draw 
 all orders for the payment of the moneys belonging to his district, and 
 such orders, when signed hj the President and the Clerk of the Board 
 of School Trustees of such district, shall be valid vouchers in the hands 
 of the County Auditor for warrants on the County Treasurer, to be paid 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 25 
 
 out of funds belonging to such district; provided, that no warrant for 
 the payment of money for a new school building or for repairs or furni- 
 ture in excess of five hundred dollars shall be issued unless the order 
 shall be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Itemized Statement of Bills. 
 
 Sec. 42. All such orders shall be accompanied by an itemized state- 
 ment of the purpose or purposes for which the order is issued, and such 
 statement shall be- kept on file in the oifice of the County Auditor, sub- 
 ject to inspection by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or his 
 deputy, until ordered to be destroyed by the State Board of Education. 
 No order for the payment of the money of any district shall be issued 
 by the Clerk of such district unless there shall be in the county treasury 
 credited to such district a sum of money equal to the amount for which 
 the order is issued, and available for the purpose of such order. If the 
 Clerk of the Board of School Trustees of any district shall draw any 
 order for the payment of school moneys in violation of the laws of this 
 State, the members of the Board of School Trustees of such district shall 
 be jointly and severally liable for the amount of such order. 
 
 Trustees Must Visit Schools. 
 
 Sec. 43. It shall be the duty of the Board of School Trustees, as 
 represented by at least one member, to visit the school or schools under 
 their charge at least once each year. The board may invite other com- 
 petent persons to visit the school or schools and report as to the build- 
 ing, the equipment, the health of the pupils, and as to the management 
 and instruction of the pupils. 
 
 Powers and Duties of Trustees. 
 
 Sec. 44. The School Trustees shall have power, and it shall be their 
 duty : 
 
 First — To provide schoolhouses with maps, blackboards, furniture, 
 and other necessary apparatus, including library and cabinet cases, if 
 deemed expedient, and pay for the same out of the county school moneys 
 belonging to their district. 
 
 Second — To provide books for the indigent children, and record-books 
 for the district, and to pay for the same out of the county school moneys 
 belonging to their district. 
 
 Third — To divide the public schools within their district into kinder- 
 garten, primary, grammar, and high-school departments, and to employ 
 competent and legally qualified teachers for the instruction of the dif- 
 ferent departments whenever they shall deem such division into depart- 
 ments advisable; provided, there shall be such means for all such 
 departments, and if not, then in the order in which they are herein 
 named, excepting the kindergarten department, which shall not be con- 
 sidered as taking precedence of any other department ; provided, also, 
 that the kindergarten department shall not be established in a school 
 district having a school census population of less than three hundred. 
 
 Fourth — To suspend or expel from any public school Avithin their 
 district, with the advice of the teachers, any pupil who will not submit 
 to reasonable and ordinary rules of order and discipline therein, and to 
 
26 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 exclude from school children under six jears of age when the interest 
 of the school requires it to be done. 
 
 Fifth— To apportion the school fund among the several schools within 
 their districts in proportion to the average number of pupils attending 
 such schools. 
 
 Sixth— At the close of their official term to deliver over their books, 
 of record, and all papers, books, blanks, documents, money, and all other 
 property in their hands as such Trustees, to their successors in office, 
 and take their receipt for the same, which receipt shall be filed with the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Further Powers. ' 
 
 Sec. 45. The School Trustees shall have power ; 
 
 First — [Abrogated by "An Act to provide for Union School Dis- 
 tricts,-" approved March 3, 1909. See Chapter X.] 
 
 Second — To make arrangements with the Trustees of any adjoining 
 district for the attendance of such children in the school of either dis- 
 trict as may be most convenient, and to transfer the school moneys due. 
 by apportionment to such children to the district in which they may 
 attend school. The School Trustees of any district may transfer to an 
 adjoining district any child, together with all school moneys due by 
 apportionment to such child, whenever the parent or guardian shall pre- 
 sent a written request accompanied by a written permit from the Board 
 of School Trustees of the adjoining district. 
 
 [For furthers powers of Trustees, see Chap. VII.] 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. . \ '? 
 
 But One District in Toivn or City — Five Trustees, When. 
 
 Sec. 46. Each village, town, or incorporated city of this State shall 
 constitute but one school district ; and the public schools therein shall 
 be under the supervision and control of the Trustees thereof ; provided^ 
 in all such villages, towns, and cities wherein the aggregate number of 
 registered voters thereof, at the last previous general election, exceeds 
 fifteen hundred, there shall be elected five instead of three Trustees. 
 
 [See also Chap. V, Sections 1-3.] 
 
 County Commissioners May Change Districts — New Districts. 
 
 Sec. 47. The Board of County Commissioners of the several counties 
 of this State are hereby authorized and empowered to create new school 
 districts, change the boundaries of school districts heretofore estab- 
 lished, or abolish the same whenever in their judgment it shall be for 
 the best interests of the common schools to do so; provided, that the 
 boundaries of any school district shall not be changed nor shall any 
 school district with the legal number of school children within said dis- 
 trict be abolished for the purpose of joining or consolidating said school 
 district with another school district unless a petition signed by at least 
 three-fifths of the residents of said district be presented to said Board 
 of County Commissioners praying for the change in the boundaries or 
 for the abolishment of said district ; provided further, that when a new 
 school district is organized school shall be commenced within one hun- 
 dred and twenty days from the action of the Board of County Com- 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 27 
 
 missioners creating such new school district, and if school shall not be 
 commenced within the said one hundred and twenty days in the said 
 new district, then such action shall become void, and no such district 
 shall exist; and provided further, that no district organized under the 
 provisions of this Act after its passage shall exceed in size sixteen miles 
 square. 
 
 [For disposition of funds and property of abolished school districts, 
 see Chap. XIII.] 
 
 [For provision for enlarging school districts, see Chap. XI.] 
 
 But One School, WJien. 
 
 Sec. 48. In any neighborhood or community containing not more 
 than twenty school census children, and where one school can accommo- 
 date all the school census children therein, although the most distant 
 school census child resides not to exceed five miles from the schoolhouse, 
 but one school shall receive public school money, and the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction shall decide the schoolhouse in which the 
 school shall be kept open. 
 
 At Least Five Children for a District. 
 
 Sec. 49. No school district shall be entitled to receive moneys from 
 the county funds unless there shall be residing in the district at least 
 five school census children. 
 
 School Must Be Maintained at Least Three Months in the Year — 
 Division of District. 
 
 Sec. 50. No school district, except when newly organized, shall be 
 entitled to receive any portion of the public school moneys in which 
 there shall not have been taught a public school for at least three months 
 within the year ending the last day of August previous ; and no public 
 school shall receive any moneys, benefits, or immunities under the pro- 
 visions of this Act unless such school shall have been instructed by a 
 teacher or teachers duly examined, approved, and employed by legal 
 authority, as herein provided. When a new district is formed by the 
 division of an old one, it shall be entitled to a just share of the school 
 moneys to the credit of the old district after the payment of all out- 
 standing debts at the time when a school was actually commenced in 
 such new district; and the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
 divide and apportion such remaining money according to the number 
 of census children resident in each district, for which purpose he may 
 order a census to be taken, the expenses of which shall be met as pro- 
 vided in section seventy of this Act. 
 
 Joint School District, When. 
 
 Sec. 51. A joint school district may be formed of parts of two or 
 more counties, provided a majority of the qualified voters in that part 
 of each county which it is proposed to include in such joint district shall 
 petition for the creation of such joint district, such petition to contain 
 a description of the boundaries of the proposed joint district. When 
 such identical petition is presented to the Board of County Commis- 
 sioners in each county in Avhich any part of the territory of said pro- 
 posed joint district is located, such boards shall, if they favor the 
 
28 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 establishment of a joint district, provide for such establishment, and 
 the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint the members of 
 the Board of School Trustees, who shall serve until their successors are 
 elected and qualified according to law. 
 
 State Superintendent to Apportion Funds, Hotv. 
 
 Sec. 52. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion 
 the county school funds to any such joint district as follows : In appor- 
 tioning sixty per cent of the school funds of any county he shall appor- 
 tion to a joint district the regular amount per census child residing in 
 that county. In apportioning forty per cent of the county school funds 
 of any county he shall consider the teacher as belonging in part to each 
 county, part of which lies in the joint district, and the part belonging 
 to an^' county will be in proportion to the number of school census chil- 
 dren in that county. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 School Year. 
 
 Sec. 53. The public school year shall commence on the first day of 
 September and shall end on the last day of August. 
 
 ScJiool Month. 
 
 Sec. 54. Except when special agreement is made, a school month 
 shall consist of four weeks of five days each, and teachers shall be paid 
 only for the time in which they are actually engaged in teaching ; pro- 
 vided, that when an intermission of less than six days is ordered by the 
 Trustees no deduction of salary shall be made therefor. 
 
 Sectarian Literature Prohibited. 
 
 Sec. 55. No books, tracts, or papers of a sectarian or denominational 
 character shall be used or introduced in any schools established under 
 the provisions of this Act ; nor shall any sectarian or denominational 
 doctrines be taught therein ; nor shall any school whatever receive any 
 of the public school funds which has not been taught in accordance 
 with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 [See also Constitution, Article XI, Sections 9 and 10. j 
 
 School Property Exempt From Taxation. 
 
 Sec. 56. All lots, buildings, or other school propert}^, owned by any 
 district, town, or city, and devoted to public school purposes, shall be, 
 and the same are hereby, exempted from taxation and from sale on any 
 execution or other writ or order in the nature of an execution. 
 
 [See also Chapter XXXV, Section 5.] 
 
 Hygiene to he Taught. 
 
 Sec. 57. Physiology and hygiene shall be taught in the public schools 
 of this State, and especial attention shall be given to the effects of stim- 
 ulants and narcotics upon the human system. 
 
 SCHOOL census MARSHAL. 
 
 May Be Females. 
 
 Sec. 58. It shall be the duty of the Board of School Trustees of each 
 district to appoint a competent person over twenty-one years of age as 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 29 
 
 School Census Marshal before the first da.Y of March of each school year 
 and to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction of such appoint- 
 ment immediately after it is made. This section shall not be construed 
 in such a way as to prevent the appointment of a member of the Board 
 of School Trustees or of a woman as School Census Marshal. Before 
 the School Census IMarshal shall enter upon the performance of his 
 duties he shall take and subscribe to the oath of office, and such oath 
 shall be filed in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Blanks for Marshal. 
 
 Sec. 59. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall supply each 
 School Census Marshal with printed instructions as to his duty, and 
 with all blank forms required for taking and reporting the census. 
 
 Duties of School Census Marshal. 
 
 Sec. 60. It shall be the duty of the School Census Marshal of each 
 district to take annually in the month of April a census of the resident 
 children of the district for which he shall have been appointed, and to 
 report the same to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The term 
 "resident children," as used in this section, shall be defined in such a 
 way as to include : First, children residing with their parents or guar- 
 dians in such district ; second, children temporarily residing outside of 
 said district for the purpose of attending institutions of learning or 
 benevolent institutions, such as schools for the deaf and blind and 
 orphans' homes; provided, that the parents of such children shall be 
 residing in such district on the first day of April ; and provided further, 
 that the children themselves shall have been actual residents of the dis- 
 trict immediately previous to the time of such outside residence. The 
 term "resident children" shall be further defined in such a way as to 
 exclude : First, Indian children who shall not have attended public 
 school during the last preceding year; second, children temporarily 
 visiting in or passing through said district ; third, children who have 
 never actually resided within the district, even in cases where the par- 
 ents or guardian shall reside in such district ; fourth, children who are 
 residing in the district for the purpose of attending institutions of 
 learning or benevolent institutions; and, in general, all children who 
 may properly be included in the census of some other district. 
 
 Same. 
 
 Sec. 61. The School Census Marshal shall visit each home, habita- 
 tion, residence, domicile, or place of abode in his district and require 
 the necessary information of parents or others competent to give accu- 
 rate information, supplementing and correcting this by actual observa- 
 tion when necessary. The School Census Marshal shall have power to 
 administer the legal oath to parents, guardians, and other persons fur- 
 nishing such information. 
 
 Beport of Marshal, What to Contain. 
 
 Sec. 62. The report of the School Census Marshal shall be made 
 upon blank forms to be furnished by the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, and shall show the following facts: 
 
 First — The full names of all children less than twentv years old and 
 
30 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 residing in the district on tlie first day of April, such names to be given 
 by families under the name of the parents or guardian. 
 
 Second — The j^ear, month, and day on which each child was born, and 
 the age in years, counting to the first day of April. 
 
 Third — The sex and color of each child. 
 
 Fourth — The place of birth of each child and of each parent. 
 
 Fifth — The total number of children less than six years of age; the 
 total number not less than six nor over eighteen years of age, and the 
 total number of children over eighteen and less than twenty-one years 
 of age, counting from the first day of April. Only those children who 
 are not less than six nor over eighteen years of age shall be considered 
 as school census children. 
 
 Sixth — Such other facts as the State Board of Education may require. 
 
 Districts in Two Counties. 
 
 Sec. 63. In the case of districts lying partly in two or more coun- 
 ties, the School Census Marshal shall report separately the children of 
 each county. 
 
 State Superintendent to Appoint School Census Marshal, When. 
 
 Sec. 64. If the Board of School Trustees of any district shall fail to 
 appoint a School Census Marshal and to notify the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction of the same, as provided in section fifty-eight of this 
 Act, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to 
 call the attention of the Clerk of the Board of such district to such 
 failure, and if a notification of an appointment is not received at his 
 office before the first day of April, the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion shall appoint the School Census Marshal for such district, such 
 appointee to proceed in like manner as if appointed by the Board of 
 School Trustees, and any appointment of Census Marshal made by the 
 Board of School Trustees of such district shall be void. 
 
 Clerk to Examine Marshal's Report. 
 
 Sec. 65. Immediately after the School Census Marshal shall have 
 completed the work of taking the census, he shall submit a report of the 
 same, according to a form to be prescribed by the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, to the Clerk of the Board of School Trustees, and 
 if the Clerk finds the report to be correct, according to the best of his 
 knowledge, he shall sign the same, after which the Census Marshal shall 
 transmit it to the Superintendent of Public Instruction with a sworn 
 statement to the effect that reasonable diligence and care have been 
 exercised and that, to the best of his knowledge, all parts of the report 
 are correct. 
 
 Dates for Completing Reports. 
 
 Sec. 66. In the case of districts having a school census population of 
 less than three hundred the report shall be sent to the Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction before the fifteenth day of May. In the ease of 
 districts having over three hundred census children the report shall be 
 sent to the Superintendent of Public Instruction before the first day 
 of June. 
 
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 State Superintendent to Compare Reports of Census MarsJials. 
 
 Sec. 67. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall compare the 
 census reports submitted to him b}' the various School Census Marshals 
 so far as he shall consider needful, and he shall strike from them the 
 names of any children whose names are, according to his best knowledge, 
 w^'onglv included in the reports, and it shall be his duty to correct all 
 manifest errors in such reports. In all cases he shall make sufficient 
 investigation to confirm him in his action before correcting any report. 
 
 Special Census Marshal, When. 
 
 Sec. 68. If at any time the Superintendent shall have reason to 
 believe that a report contains errors which he is unable to correct, or if 
 at any time the report of the School Census Marshal is not transmitted 
 as provided by section sixty-six of this Act, he may appoint a special 
 School Census j\Iarshal who shall retake the census as soon as practica- 
 ble and not later than the thirtieth day of June, conforming otherwise 
 to the rules governing the original census. 
 
 Count ij to Pay Census Marshal. 
 
 Sec. 69. Every bill for the compensation of a School Census Marshal 
 shall be presented to the Board of County Commissioners of the county 
 in which the district for which he shall have been appointed lies, and 
 upon the order of said board shall be paid as other claims out of the 
 general fund of the county. No bill for the compensation of any 
 School Census Marshal shall be ordered paid unless the bill shall be 
 accompanied b}^ a statement from the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion to the effect that a satisfactory census report has been returned as 
 provided by law. 
 
 Negligence of Marshal — Punishment. 
 
 Sec. 70. If the School Census Marshal of any district neglects or 
 refuses to make his report at the time and in the manner prescribed by 
 law. or if he. with intention to defraud the State, or through failure to 
 exercise reasonable care, include the names of children in violation of 
 law. or if he report their ages falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in 
 any amount not less than five or more than one hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail not less than five nor more than thii'ty 
 days, and it shall be the duty of the various District Attorneys to cause 
 the arrest and prosecution of such persons upon information furnished 
 by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, other school officers, or 
 by other persons. 
 
 school funds. 
 
 State Permanent School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 71. All moneys accruing to this State from the sale of lands 
 heretofore given or bequeathed, or that may hereafter be given or 
 bequeathed, for public school purposes; all fines collected under the 
 penal laws of the State ; two per cent of the gross proceeds of all toll 
 roads and bridges, and all estates that may escheat to the State, shall 
 be and the same are hereby solemnly pledged for educational purposes, 
 and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses, but shall 
 
32 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 constitute an irreducible and indivisible fund, to be known as the State 
 Permanent School Fund, which shall be invested as provided in section 
 eighty-eight of this Act. [See also Constitution, Article XI, Sec. 3.] 
 
 Ad Valorem State School Tax. 
 
 Sec. 72. An ad valorem tax of six cents on the hundred dollars of 
 all taxable property in the State is hereby levied and directed to be col- 
 lected and paid in the same manner as other State taxes are required to 
 be paid ; and said tax shall be known as the State School Tax, and the 
 Board of County Commissioners of the several counties shall, annually, 
 at the same time other State taxes are levied, add this to the other taxes 
 provided by law to be levied and collected, and it shall be annually col- 
 lected at the same time and in the same manner as other State taxes are 
 collected, and if, from any reason whatever, in any year said taxes are 
 not levied, as herein required, by the Board of County Commissioners, 
 the County Auditor shall enter them on the assessment roll, as required 
 by law for other taxes. [See State Tax Levy, Chap. XXXVIII, Sec. 1.] 
 
 State Distributive School Fimd. 
 
 Sec. 73. All moneys derived from interest on the State Permanent 
 School Fund, together with all moneys derived from the State school 
 tax, shall be placed in and constitute a fund to be known as the State 
 Distributive School Fund, and be apportioned semi-annually among the 
 several counties of the State in proportion to the number of resident 
 children not less than six nor more than eighteen years of age in the 
 respective counties as shown by the last preceding reports of the School 
 Census Marshals. 
 
 TJse of Distributive School Fund Restricted. 
 
 Sec. 74. The school moneys distributed to the various counties of 
 the State, from the State Distributive School Fund, shall not be used 
 for any other purpose than the payment of qualified teachers, under 
 this Act ; and no portion of said fund shall, either directly or indirectly, 
 be paid for the erection of schoolhouses. the use of schoolrooms, furni- 
 ture, or any other contingent expenses of public schools. 
 
 State Tax, Use Restricted. 
 
 Sec. 75. No portion of the public school funds, nor of the moneys 
 raised by State tax, or specially appropriated for the support of public 
 schools, shall be devoted to any other object or purpose ; nor shall any 
 portion of the public school funds, nor of money raised by State tax for 
 the support of public schools, be in any way segregated, divided, or set 
 apart for the use or benefit of any sectarian or secular society or asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 County School Tax. 
 
 Sec. 76. The Board of County Commissioners of each county shall, 
 annually, at the time of levying other county taxes, levy a county school 
 tax, not to exceed fifty cents nor less than fifteen cents on each one hun- 
 dred dollars valuation of taxable propert.y, which tax shall be added to 
 the county tax and collected in the same manner, and paid into the 
 county treasury as a special deposit, to be drawn in the same manner 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 33 
 
 as other public school moneys; and should said County Commissioners 
 fail or neglect to levy said tax as required it shall be the duty of the 
 County Auditor to add such tax as the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction may deem sufficient, between the limits of fifteen and fifty 
 cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the 
 county, to the assessment roll, to be collected as specified in this section. 
 
 Use of County School Funds. 
 
 Sec. 77. The Board of Trustees, or Board of Education, of each 
 city, town, and district, may use the moneys from the county school 
 funds to purchase sites, build, or rent schoolhouses, to purchase libraries, 
 and to pay teachers or contingent expenses as they may deem proper. 
 
 METHODS OP LEVYING SPECLVL SCHOOL TAXES. 
 
 Special School Tax, When — Popular Election to Decide, When. 
 
 Sec. 78. When, in the judgment of the Board of School Trustees of 
 any district, the school moneys to which such district shall be entitled 
 for the coming school year will not be sufficient to maintain the school 
 properly and for a sufficient number of months, said board shall have 
 power to direct that a tax of not more than twenty-five cents on the 
 one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of such district shall be 
 levied, and, upon notification by the Clerk of the Board of School Trus- 
 tees of such district that such action has been taken, the Board of 
 County Commissioners shall levy and cause to be collected such tax 
 upon the taxable property of such district ; provided, that when the 
 Board of School Trustees shall have decided to direct the levy of such 
 tax, it shall give thirty days' notice of such intention in one or more 
 newspapers published in such district or by posting notices in public 
 places; and provided further, that the question of such tax shall be 
 submitted to a vote of the people at a special election if ten per cent of 
 the qualified voters of such district shall petition for such vote within 
 thirty days after the publication of such notice; and provided further, 
 that if a majority of the people voting at such election shall vote against 
 the proposed tax, the Board of School Trustees shall not direct the 
 levy of such tax. 
 
 No Fees for Handling School Moneys. 
 
 Sec. 79. No tax collector or County Treasurer shall receive any fees 
 or compensation whatever for collecting, receiving, keeping, transport- 
 ing, or disbursing any school moneys mentioned in the preceding sec- 
 tions of this Act. In case of a special school tax for any school district, 
 as provided in sections eighty-one and eighty-two of this Act, the Board 
 of County Commissioners may allow a reasonable compensation for 
 assessing and collecting if such taxes are assessed and collected inde- 
 pendently and separate from the regular taxes, such compensation to be 
 paid out of the special taxes thus collected. 
 
 Popular Election, Regtdations For — Ballots — School Tax Collectible 
 Immediately, When — Recourse of Property Owner — Delinquent 
 School Taxes. 
 Sec. 80. The Board of Trustees of any school district may, when in 
 
 their judgment it is advisable, call an election and submit to the quali- 
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 fied electors of the district the question whether a tax shall be raised to 
 furnish additional school facilities for said district, or to keep any 
 school or schools in such district open for a longer period than the 
 ordinary funds will allow, or for building an additional schoolhouse or 
 houses, or for any two or for all of these purposes. Such election shall 
 be called by posting notices in three of the most public places in the 
 district for twenty days, and also if there be a newspaper in the county 
 by advertisement therein once a week for three weeks. Said notice shall 
 contain time and place of holding the election, the amount of money 
 proposed to be raised, and the purpose or purposes for which it is 
 intended to be used. The Trustees shall appoint three judges to eon- 
 duct the election, and it shall be held in all other respects as nearly as 
 practicable in conformity with the general election law. At such elec- 
 tion the ballot shall contain the words: "Tax — Yes," or "Tax — No." 
 If a majority of the votes cast are "Tax — Yes," the officers of the elec- 
 tion shall certify the fact to the County Commissioners, together with a 
 statement of the amount, of money proposed to be raised, who shall 
 ascertain the necessary percentage on the property of said district, as 
 shown by the last assessment made thereof after equalization, to raise 
 the amount of money voted, and shall add it to the next county tax to 
 be collected on the property aforesaid ; and the same shall be paid into 
 the county treasury as a special deposit in favor of said school district, 
 to be drawn in the same manner as other school moneysi ; provided, if in 
 am^ school district the School Trustees shall certify to the County Com- 
 missioners that the State and county money to which any district is 
 entitled is not sufficient to keep school open in such district up to the 
 date when State and county taxes shall become due, the tax provided 
 for in this section shall be due and payable to the Assessor of such 
 county in which the tax is levied immediately after he shall make the 
 assessment and demand for payment of the tax ; provided, the owner of 
 the property shall, if he deem the assessment too high, have the privilege 
 of submitting the assessment to the Board of County Commissioners for 
 equalization within ten days after demand made for the payment of the 
 tax, and the County Commissioners, within five days after complaint 
 made to them, shall meet and determine the correct valuation of the 
 property assessed, and may change the same by adding to or deducting 
 from the sum fixed either by the owner or Assessor, and upon notice 
 to the owner of the result of their equalization the tax shall be immedi- 
 ately payable to the Assessor, and if not paid shall become delinquent ; 
 and all taxes so assessed shall constitute a lien on the property charged 
 therewith, from the date of the levy thereof by the County Commis- 
 sioners, or entry thereof on the assessment roll by the County Auditor, 
 until the same are paid, and thereafter if allowed to become delinquent 
 shall be enforced in the same manner as provided by law for the collec- 
 tion of State and county taxes. If for any reason said tax is not added 
 to the county tax by the County Commissioners, the County Auditor 
 shall enter it upon the assessment roll to be charged against the prop- 
 erty of that district, on application from the Trustees of said district. 
 
 District Tax. 
 
 Sec. 81. M^hen the State and county money to which any district is 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 35 
 
 entitled is not sufficient to keep a school open in such district at least 
 six months in each year, it is hereby made the duty of the Trustees of 
 such district to levy, and they shall levy, a district tax upon the tax- 
 able property of such district sufficient to raise an amount, which, 
 together with the State and county money to which such district is 
 entitled, will keep a school open six months in each year ; and such tax 
 shall be assessed, equalized, and collected in the same manner prescribed 
 for assessing, equalizing, and collecting the taxes voted for furnishing 
 additional school facilities, in section eighty of this Act. 
 
 CUSTODY, INVESTMENT, AND APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS. 
 
 State Permanent School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 82. The State Controller shall keep a separate and distinct 
 account of the State Permanent School Fund, of the interest and 
 income thereof, of such moneys as shall be raised by the State school 
 tax, and of all moneys derived from special appropriations or otherwise 
 for the support of public schools. 
 
 State Controlley to lie port School Securities. 
 
 Sec. 83. The State Controller shall, on or before the tenth day of 
 April and the tenth day of October of each year, make to the State 
 Board of Education a statement of the securities belonging to the State 
 Permanent School Fund. He shall also, on or before the tenth day of 
 January and the tenth day of July of each year, render to the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction a statement of the moneys in the treasury 
 subject to distribution to the several counties of the State, as provided 
 in section ninety of this Act. 
 
 State Treasurer Custodian of School Securities. 
 
 Sec. 84. The State Treasurer shall be the legal custodian of all 
 State and National securities in which the moneys of the State Perma- 
 nent School Fund of the State of Nevada are or may hereafter be 
 invested, and for their safe-keeping he shall be liable on his official 
 bond. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to pay over all public 
 school moneys received by him only on warrants of the State Controller, 
 issued upon the orders of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
 under seal of the Board of Education, in favor of County Treasurers, 
 or on orders of the State Board of Education, for purposes of invest- 
 ment, as provided in section. eighty-eight of this Act, which orders, duly 
 endorsed, shall be valid vouchers in the hands of the State Controller 
 for the disbursement of public school moneys. 
 
 County Treasurers to Receive State School Moneys Semi- Annually. 
 
 Sec. 85. All school moneys due each county in the State shall be 
 paid over by the State Treasurer to the County Treasurers on the tenth 
 day of January and the tenth day of July of each year, or as soon 
 thereafter as the County Treasurer may apply for the same, upon the 
 warrant of the State Controller drawn in conformity with the appor- 
 tionment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided in 
 section eighty-nine of this Act. 
 
 State Treasurer to Turn Interest Into State Distributive School Fund. 
 Sec. 86. When the interest on any securities belonging to the State 
 
36 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 Permanent School Fund is due, the State Treasurer shall, upon the 
 warrant of the State Controller and in the presence of a majority of 
 the members of the State Board of Education, cut off and pay the 
 coupon on such securities, and place the moneys so paid into the State 
 Distributive School Fund, and keep a correct account thereof in his 
 books. 
 
 Duties of State Controller — Investments Must Be Tliorouglily Inves- 
 tigated. 
 Sec. 87. It is hereby made the duty of the State Controller, quar- 
 terly, to notify the State Board of Education of the amount of money 
 in the State Permanent School Fund, and whenever there shall, be a 
 sum in said fund sufficient for investment said board shall direct the 
 State Treasurer to negotiate for investment of the same in United 
 States securities, or in the bonds of this State, or in the bonds of other 
 States, at the lowest purchasable rates, and the board shall then draw 
 their order upon the Controller in favor of the State Treasurer for the 
 amount to be invested. Said Controller shall thereupon draw his war- 
 rant as directed, and the State Treasurer shall complete the purchase 
 of the securities negotiated for by him in pursuance of this Act; pro- 
 vided, that before any such investment of said school moneys as is 
 contemplated by the provisions of this Act is made, said Board of Edu- 
 cation shall require of the Attorney-Ueneral of this State his legal 
 opinion as to the validit}^ of any Act or Acts of any State under which 
 said bonds are issued and in which said Board of Education are about 
 to make an investment ; and provided further, that in no case shall any 
 bonds be purchased as herein provided without said Board of Educa- 
 tion making due and diligent inquiry as to the financial standing and 
 responsibility of the State or States whose bonds it is proposed to 
 purchase. 
 
 Duties of County Treasurers. 
 
 Sec. 88. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of each 
 county : 
 
 First — To receive and hold as a special deposit all public school 
 moneys, whether received by him from the State Treasurer or raised by 
 the county for the benefit of public schools, or from any other source, 
 and to keep separate accounts thereof and of their disbursements. 
 
 Second — On the second Monday of June and on the second Monday 
 of December of each year to notify the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction of the amount of money in the county school fund subject 
 to distribution. 
 
 Third — To pay over all public school moneys received by him only 
 on warrants of the County Auditor, issued upon orders of the Clerks of 
 the Boards of School Trustees for their respective school districts. All 
 orders issued by the said Clerks shall be valid vouchers in the hands of 
 County Auditors for warrants drawn upon such orders ; provided, that 
 orders for the payment of mone.y for new school buildings and for 
 repairs or furniture amounting to over five hundred dollars must be 
 approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction before such war- 
 rants are drawn. 
 
 Fourth — On or before the first day of October, annually, to make 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OP NEVADA. 37 
 
 full report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the public 
 school monej's received into the county treasury within the school year 
 ending on the last day of August next previous thereto, Avith a particu- 
 lar statement of the disbursement of the said school moneys, and of any 
 amount of said school moneys which may remain in his hands at the 
 close of such school .year, designating whether of State or county school 
 fund; and in case of failure or neglect of said County Treasurer to 
 make such report, he shall forfeit for the benefit of the county school 
 fund the sum of one hundred dollars from his official compensation, 
 and it is hereby made the duty of the County Commissioners, on notice 
 from the Superintendent of Public Instruction of such failure or neg- 
 lect on the part of any County Treasurer, to deduct said one hundred 
 dollars from his compensation and place said amount to the credit of 
 the county school fund. 
 
 State Superintendent to Apportion School 3Ioneys. 
 
 Sec. 89. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, immediately after the State Controller shall have made his 
 semi-annual report as required in section eighty-four of this Act, to 
 apportion to the several counties of the State the moneys in the State 
 Distributive School Fund. He shall apportion the moneys of said fund 
 among the several counties of the State in proportion to the number of 
 resident children not less than six nor more than eighteen years of age 
 in the respective counties, as shown by the last preceding reports of the 
 Census Marshals, and he shall furnish to the State Controller, to each 
 County Treasurer, and to each County Auditor an abstract of such 
 apportionment, and with such abstract he shall furnish each County 
 Treasurer with an order on the State Controller, under seal of the State 
 Board of Education, for the amount of school moneys in the State 
 Treasury to which such counties shall be entitled, and to take such 
 County Treasurer's receipt for the same. 
 
 Method of Apportionment. 
 
 Sec. 90. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, immedi- 
 ately after the State apportionment of school moneys is completed, pro- 
 ceed to apportion the school moneys of each county among its several 
 districts, apportioning the moneys derived from the State Distributive 
 School Fund separate from the other county school moneys. He shall 
 apportion all moneys as follows : First, he must ascertain the number 
 of teachers each district is entitled to, by calculating one teacher for 
 every seventy-five census children or fraction thereof as shown by the 
 next preceding school census ; second, he must ascertain the total num- 
 ber of teachers for the county by adding together the number of 
 teachers assigned to the several districts upon the basis of one teacher 
 to each seventy-five census children or fraction thereof ; third, forty per 
 cent of the amount of the apportionment from the State and county 
 school fund shall be apportioned equally to each district for every 
 teacher assigned it, upon the basis of seventy-five census children or 
 fraction thereof; fourth, all school moneys remaining on hand, after 
 apportioning forty per cent of the State and county apportionment 
 equally to each district for every teacher assigned it upon the basis of 
 
38 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 seventy-five census children or fraction thereof, must be apportioned 
 to the several districts in proportion to the number of children between 
 the ages of six and eighteen years, as returned by the School Trustees 
 and Census Marshals. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
 by means of a printed report notif}^ the County Treasurer, the County 
 Auditor, and the School Trustees of such apportionment in detail. 
 
 [For apportionment to Emergency School Fund, see Chap. XII. Sec- 
 tions 1-3.1 
 
 DISTRICT SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Method of Apportionment for District School Library Fund. 
 
 Sec 91. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction in July of each year, after apportioning the public school 
 moneys of each county among its respective districts, to set apart for 
 each district out of the money thus appropriated to such district a sum 
 of not less than three dollars nor more than five dollars for each teacher 
 to which the district is entitled, calculating one teacher for every 
 seventy -five census children or fraction thereof, and the further sum of 
 not less than five cents nor more than ten cents for each census child 
 as shown by the last school census, and the sums thus apportioned shall 
 constitute for each district a District School Library Fund. 
 
 Amount of Same Determined. 
 
 Sec. 92. The amount of money to be set apart and apportioned, 
 within the limits provided by the preceding section, shall be determined 
 by the State Board of Education. 
 
 Books Approved hy State Board. 
 
 Sec. 93. The moneys herein designated and apportioned shall be 
 expended for the purchase of books, approved by the State Board of 
 Education, for the public school library of each district, and for no 
 other purpose, and shall be paid out and expended as the other school 
 funds of such district are now paid out. 
 
 Trustees Authorized. 
 
 Sec. 94. The Board of School Trustees of each school district in this 
 State is hereby authorized and directed to purchase books for public 
 school libraries in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Rides for Libraries. 
 
 Sec. 95. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and 
 directed to make such rules and regulations for the purchase of books 
 provided for, and for the preservation and use thereof, as may be 
 proper, provided such rules and regulations do not in any wise conflict 
 with the laws of the State. 
 
 repeal section. 
 Repeal of Previous Acts. 
 
 Sec. 96. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for the maintenance 
 and supervision of public schools, ' ' approved March twentieth, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-five ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act supplementary to an 
 Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision 
 of public schools,' approved INIarch twentieth, eighteen hundred and 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OP NEVADA. 39 
 
 sixty-five, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, 
 approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, approved 
 ]\Iarch seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March 
 fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, ' ' approved February twenty- 
 fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; an Act entitled "An Act 
 to provide for the safe-keeping of the securities of the State School 
 Fund," approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
 one; an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the maintenance and 
 supervision of public schools," approved March ninth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and eighty-seven ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act to empower the State 
 Board of Education to grant life diplomas to residents of Nevada who 
 have taught ten years," approved March first, eighteen hundred and 
 ninety-seven ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act to empower the State Board of 
 Education to grant life diplomas to residents of the State of Nevada 
 who have received the degree of Bachelor of Arts," approved March 
 eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetj^-seven ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act 
 to authorize the State Board of Education to issue special certificates 
 to teach," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety- 
 nine ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act to provide for uniform examinations for 
 teachers' certificates, and other matters properly connected therewith," 
 approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; an Act 
 entitled "An Act to provide for the issuing of teachers' certificates by 
 County Boards of Examination, and other matters properly connected 
 therewith," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- 
 five; an Act entitled "An Act relating to the duties of Census Mar- 
 shals," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety- 
 seven ; an Act entitled ' ' An Act to promote the progress and efficiency 
 of the public schools by providing for State Teachers' Institutes," 
 approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three ; an Act 
 entitled "An Act providing for public school libraries, and all other 
 matters relating thereto, ' ' approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred 
 and five, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Salaries of Deputies — Traveling and Oilier Expenses. 
 
 Sec. 97. The compensation of each Deputy Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Instruction is hereby fixed at two thousand dollars per annum and 
 shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State as the salaries of 
 other State officers are paid, together with actual traveling and office 
 expenses incurred in the performance of duty as required b.y law, such 
 traveling expenses to include the cost of transportation and board while 
 absent from their places of residence ; provided, that for any period of 
 one year there shall not be more than eight hundred dollars ($800) nor 
 less than five hundred dollars ($500) appropriated by the State to pay 
 the traveling expenses of any Deputy Superintendent, and not more 
 than four hundred dollars ($400) nor less than three hundred dollars 
 ($300) shall be appropriated to pay the office expenses of such Deputy 
 Superintendent for any period of one year. The claims against the 
 State for such traveling and office expenses shall be presented to and 
 allowed by the State Board of Examiners as other such claims are pre- 
 sented and allowed. As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 228. 
 
40 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 Appropriations. 
 
 [Sec. 2.] There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 
 the State, the following amounts to pay the salary, traveling expenses 
 of the Deputy Superintendents of Public Instruction for the period of 
 time beginning July first, nineteen hundred and nine, and ending Jan- 
 uary first, nineteen hundred and eleven : 
 
 For the First Supervision District — Salary of Deputy Superintend- 
 ent, $3,000 ; office expenses, $400 ; traveling expenses, $800. 
 
 For the Second Supervision District — Salary of Deputy Superintend- 
 ent, $3,000 ; office expenses, $400 ; traveling expenses, $800. 
 
 For the Third Supervision District — Salary of Deputy Superintend- 
 ent, $3,000 ; office expenses, $400 ; traveling expenses, $1,200. 
 
 For the Fourth Supervision District^ — Salary of Deput}^ Superintend- 
 ent, $3,000 ; office expenses, $600 ; traveling expenses, $1,200. 
 
 For the Fifth Supervision District — Salary of Deputy Superintend- 
 ent, $3,000; office expenses, $600; traveling expenses, $1,200. Stats. 
 1909, p. 229. 
 
 [Sec. 3.] This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred 
 and nine. Btats. 1909, p. 229. 
 
 Educational Districts Established. 
 
 Sec. 98. Five, Educational [Supervision] Districts are hereby estab- 
 lished as follows : District Number 1, comprising Elko County ; District 
 Number 2, comprising "White Pine, Lander, Eureka Counties; Dis- 
 trict Number 3, comprising Humboldt and Churchill Counties ; District 
 Number 4, comprising Washoe, Storey, Ormsby, Douglas, Lyon, and 
 Esmeralda Counties; District Number 5, comprising Lincoln and Nye 
 Counties. 
 
 "And said Clark County shall be attached to and become a part 
 of the Fifth Educational [Supervision] District." Stats. 1909, Sec. 
 14, p. 10. 
 
 Sec. 99. This action (Act) shall take effect on and after the thirty- 
 first day of August, nineteen hundred and seven. 
 
 SCHOOL BOOKS. 
 
 METHOD OP ADOPTING THE TEXT-BOOKS. 
 
 Chap. Ill — An Act to create a State Text-Book Commission and to 
 authorize said Commission to adopt a uniform series of text-hooks 
 for the public schools of Nevada, and matters properly connected 
 therewith. Approved March 22, 1907, p. 217. 
 
 State Text-Book Commission to Consist of Board of Education and 
 Four Appointed Members. 
 Section 1. A State Text-Book Commission is hereby created. Such 
 commission shall consist of the members of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion and of four additional members to be appointed by the Governor. 
 Such appointments shall be made before the first day of April, nineteen 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 41 
 
 hundred and seven, and during the month of January every four years 
 thereafter, and such appointees shall be principals of schools employing 
 not less than five teachers, or superintendents, and they shall hold office 
 for four years. If any vacancies occur during the terms of said offi- 
 cers by death, resignation, or removal, the Governor shall fill such 
 vacancy by appointment of some principal or superintendent eligible 
 as described above. 
 
 Officers of Commission — Quorum — Meetings Public . 
 
 Sec. 2. The Governor shall be ex officio President and the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction ex officio Secretary of said Text-Book 
 Commission. The Secretary shall call a meeting of the Text-Book Com- 
 mission not later than the first of April, 1907, at which time the Com- 
 mission shall organize by taking the constitutional oath of office, which 
 oath shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and shall adopt 
 rules of procedure in harmony with the provisions of this Act. Four 
 members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 
 tion of business, but no action shall be taken bj' the commission unless 
 a majority of the entire commission shall vote in favor thereof. All 
 meetings of the commission shall be public, and the Secretary shall keep 
 a full and complete record of all proceedings, which record shall be 
 open to the inspection of the public. The vote on the adoption of all 
 text-books shall be by roll call and the Secretary shall record the name 
 and vote of each member. 
 
 Meetings, Where and When Held — Contracts for Books. 
 
 Sec. 3. The State Text-Book Commission shall hold its meetings to 
 adopt text-books in the oiifice of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion in Carson City on the fourth Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred 
 and seven, and on the fourth Tuesday in June every four years there- 
 after. The Secretary may call special meetings of the Text-Book Com- 
 mission whenever in his judgment there may be business to transact of 
 such importance as to justify the call, or at the written request of four 
 members of the commission, stating definitely the purpose of the meet- 
 ing. At the meeting held on the fourth Tuesday in June, nineteen hun- 
 dred and seven, and every four years thereafter, the commission shall 
 adopt a uniform series of text-books for exclusive use as text-books in 
 all the public schools of the State. If a contract for any text-book 
 adopted at any regular meeting of the Text-Book Commission shall 
 expire, either through the failure of the publishers of said book to 
 fulfill the conditions of the contract, or for any other reason, the Text- 
 Book Commission may adopt another book to take the place of the one 
 on which the contract has lapsed, after notifying text-book publishers 
 as hereinafter provided for in cases of regular adoptions. When regu- 
 lar adoptions are being made the commission may adjourn from day 
 to day ; provided, the session shall not continue beyond six actual days. 
 
 Changes of Books, When and How Made — Sealed Proposals. 
 
 Sec. 4. Immediately after the first meeting of the commission, and 
 not later than the first day of April, nineteen hundred and seven, and 
 every four years thereafter, if the commission shall deem it advisable 
 
42 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 to make changes in the list of prescribed text-books, the Secretary of 
 the commission shall notify all publishers of text-books who shall have 
 placed their names and postoffice addresses on file with the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction, to be kept on file in the office of said 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, that the Text-Book Commission 
 will meet, as herein provided, and will receive sealed proposals, up to 
 twelve o'clock, noon, of said fourth Tuesday of June, for supplying the 
 State of Nevada with a series of text-books for use in all the public 
 schools of the State, for a period of four years from and after the 
 first day of September, nineteen hundred and seven, in the following 
 branches, viz : Reading, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history of 
 the United States, physiology and hygiene, writing, spelling, drawing, 
 music, and will also approve other books for supplemental use, as per- 
 mitted in this Act. Said sealed proposals shall be made in accordance 
 with a form to be prescribed bj^ the commission and shall be addressed 
 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Carson City, Nevada ; and 
 shall be indorsed "Sealed proposals for supplying text-books for use 
 in the State of Nevada. ' ' Said proposals shall include a statement of 
 the introductory price, the exchange price for new books in the hands 
 of the dealers, the exchange price for second-hand books, and the retail 
 price at which the publishers will agree to furnish each text-book to 
 the school children of Nevada at one or more places in each county as 
 shall be designated by the commission. Whenever any contract shall 
 be terminated by reason of the failure of any contracting publisher to 
 observe the terms of the contract, or when any contract shall cease to 
 be in force and effect, the Text-Book Commission shall notify pub- 
 lishers to this effect, in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, that adop- 
 tions will be made to fill out the unexpired time of such contract, and 
 that sealed bids shall be filed with the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction on or before a date to be determined by the commission, 
 to be specified in the notification to the publishers. 
 
 Geographies, Special Matter for Nevada. 
 
 Sec. 5. The publishers, contracting and agreeing to furnish books 
 for use in the State of Nevada under the provisions of this Act, shall 
 cause to be prepared a special map and a special supplement descrip- 
 tive of Nevada for the geography adopted by said commission. The 
 map and special descriptive geography of Nevada shall be revised every 
 four years by the publishers. They shall further agree to maintain the 
 mechanical excellence of the books adopted by said commission, fully 
 equal to the samples submitted, in binding, printing, quality of paper, 
 and other essential features, and the books shall be of the latest revised 
 edition. 
 
 Commission to Adopt Text-Books. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said Text-Book Commission to meet 
 at the time and place mentioned in said notice and to open all sealed 
 proposals in public, in the presence of a quorum of said commission, 
 to select and adopt such text-books for use in the public schools, and 
 to approve such supplemental books as in the opinion of the commission 
 will best subserve the educational interests of the State ; provided, how- 
 
SCHOOI. I.AWS OF NEVADA. 43 
 
 ever, that the Text-Book Commission may, at its discretion, reject any 
 and all proposals, if it be deemed by it to be to the interest of the State 
 so to do, and call for new proposals, stating the time when such new 
 proposals shall be opened, which time shall not be later than thirty days 
 from the rejection of the previous proposals. 
 
 Commission's Choice to he Standard for Nevada ScJiools — Supplemental 
 Books Allowed. 
 Sec. 7. The series of text-books so selected and approved by said 
 Text-Book Commission shall be certified to by the President and Secre- 
 tary, and said certificate, with a copy of the books named therein, shall 
 be placed on file in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion. Such certificate must contain a complete list of all books adopted 
 and approved by said commission, giving introductory, exchange, and 
 retail prices for which each text-book wall be furnished, and the names 
 of the publishers agreeing to furnish the same. The said books named 
 in said certificate shall, for a period of four years, from and after the 
 first day of September next following the date of such adoption, be used 
 in all the public schools of the State to the exclusion of all others ; pro- 
 vided, however, that nothing in any part of this Act shall be construed 
 so as to prevent the purchase or use by the district of any supplemental 
 or reference books for use in the schools of this State. 
 
 Contracts to Name Prices and Guarantee Depositories. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Text-Book Commission shall have power to make such 
 contracts for the purchase and use of text-books in the name of the 
 State as they shall deem necessary for the interests of the public schools 
 of the State. Such contracts shall set forth the introductory, exchange, 
 and retail price of each text-book, and such prices shall not be less 
 favorable than the prices at which such books are sold in any other 
 State, a fair specified allowance being made for a difference in the cost 
 of transportation and handling; and such contract shall provide, fur- 
 ther, that the contracting publisher shall, during the life of the con- 
 tract, keep on hand at one or more depositories, in each county, as shall 
 be designated by the commission, a sufficient number of copies of such 
 text-books to supply the needs of the schools of the State, as ordered by 
 the keepers of said depositories. 
 
 Bonds for Contracting Pnhlisliers. 
 
 Sec. 9. All publishers contracting to furnish text-books adopted by 
 the Text-Book Commission shall be required to give bonds in an amount 
 equal to one-half of the value of the books to be furnished during one 
 school year, as estimated by the Text-Book Commission, and such bonds 
 shall be forfeited to the State Distributive School Fund if such pub- 
 lishers fail to comply with the terms of the contract in any county of 
 the State; provided, however, that such bonds shall not be forfeited 
 through the unauthorized action of text-book dealers in this State if 
 such publisher shall, upon notification by the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, promptly correct any violation of contract prices, on the 
 part of any local dealer. Upon information furnished by the State 
 Text-Book Commission, the Attorney-General shall bring action for the 
 
44 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 recovery of the amount of any such bond of any publisher who shall 
 have failed to comply with the terms of any contract, and the full 
 amount named in such bond shall be deemed to be fixed and liquidated 
 damages for the breach of such contract. 
 
 Contracts, When in Effect. 
 
 Sec. 10. Such contract with the publishers of text-books shall not 
 take effect until such publishers shall have filed with the Secretary of 
 State, their bond, with at least two sufficient sureties, or a bond from 
 a bonding company authorized to do business in this State, to be 
 approved by the Governor, and in such sum as shall be determined by 
 the Text-Book Commission. 
 
 Contracts Void, When. 
 
 Sec. 11. In case the publishers of any text-books adopted by the 
 Text-Book Commission shall not, on or before the fifteenth day of July 
 next following such adoption, have filed with the Secretary of State a 
 bond as hereinbefore provided, or in case such publishers shall at any 
 time thereafter fail to comply with the terms of such contract, and if 
 within reasonable time, after due notice shall have been given by the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, they shall have failed to comply 
 with the conditions of the contract in any respect, the adoption of said 
 books shall become null and void. The text-books adopted by the said 
 Text-Book Commission under this Act shall, upon the compliance of the 
 publishers with the aforesaid conditions, continue in use for the period 
 of four years after the first day of September next following the date 
 of such adoption, to the exclusion of all other text-books. 
 
 Price of Text-Books to he Promulgated. 
 
 Sec. 12. Whenever the publishers of the books adopted under the 
 provisions of this Act shall have filed their bond as herein provided, it 
 shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to cause 
 all prices of text-books as guaranteed by the publishers to be printed 
 and distributed among superintendents and School Trustees, and it 
 shall be the duty of the School Trustees in each district to cause such 
 prices to be kept constantly posted in a conspicuous place in each 
 schoolroom. 
 
 Use of Authorized Books Conipidsory — Penalty — Annual Report. 
 
 Sec. 13. The text-books adopted by the Text-Book Commission shall 
 be used in every public school in the State in the grades for which they 
 are adopted, and no other books shall be used as text-books in such 
 grades ; provided, however, that this section shall not be interpreted in 
 such a manner as to prohibit the use of supplemental books purchased 
 by the district. Any school officer or teacher who shall violate the pro- 
 visions of this Act by requiring the pupils to use text-books other than 
 those adopted by the Text-Book Commission, or by permitting the use 
 of such other books as texts, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. All superintendents and school officers 
 are charged with the execution of this law, and the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction shall require the Trustees of the several school dis- 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 45 
 
 tricts, or the Clerks thereof, to report annually as to the text-books 
 used in their schools. 
 
 Per Diem of Appointed Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 14. The members of the State Text-Book Commission shall, 
 with the exception of the Governor, the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, and the President of the University, receive the sum of five 
 dollars per diem for each day actually engaged in transacting the busi- 
 ness of the commission, and actual traveling expenses. There is hereby 
 appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars per year, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, from 
 the State General Fund. Bills for such compensation shall be allowed 
 and paid in the usual manner. The State Text-Book Commission shall 
 not be in session more than ten days in any one year. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 15. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 METHOD OF PROVIDING FREE TEXT-BOOKS. 
 
 Chap. IV- — An Act to provide hooks, equipment, and materials, and to 
 encourage the economic use thereof hy the pupils of the public 
 schools, and fixing penalties for its infraction. 
 
 Approved March 22, 1909, p. 156. 
 
 To Provide Free Text-Books for Pupils, When — Election. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of Trustees of each school district may upon 
 their own motion, and shall upon written demand by a number of quali- 
 fied voters equal to ten per cent of the average number of children 
 attending the public schools in said district during the preceding full 
 school month, submit to a vote of the people, at the next ensuing gen- 
 eral or special school election, the question of providing free text-books 
 for the pupils attending said schools, and of levying a special tax for 
 this purpose at a rate to be named in the demand, if demand be made, 
 and in a notice of such election, which shall be given as required in the 
 case of other special-tax elections. 
 
 Trustees to Levy Tax, When. 
 
 Sec. 2. If a majority of those voting at such election vote in favor 
 of providing free text-books and of a special tax for the same, the 
 Board of Trustees shall levy such tax, which shall be collected as other 
 special taxes are collected and, from the fund so provided, which shall 
 be called the book fund, shall purchase a sufficient number of author- 
 ized text-books, as they may be required, and shall loan them upon such 
 terms, and under such rules and regulations, as may be made by said 
 board, or as may be provided by law, to parents or guardians for the 
 use of the pupils of the schools of said district. 
 
 District Property. 
 
 Sec. 3. All property purchased under this Act for a school district 
 
46 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 shall be and remain the property of said district, except as otherwise 
 provided by law. 
 
 Books, How Disposed Of. 
 
 Sec. 4. Text-books purchased under this Act may be disposed of as 
 follows : 
 
 (a) They may be sold for cash to pupils of the public schools, or to 
 parents or guardians of such pupils. 
 
 (&) If the Board of Trustees so decide, pupils who have coinpleted 
 the last two years of the course of study for the district, may, as a 
 mark of merit, be given the permanent ownership of such four text- 
 books used by them during their last two years of study in the schools 
 of said district, as said pupils may select. 
 
 Parents ResponsiMe for Books. 
 
 Sec. 5. The parents and guardians of pupils shall be responsible 
 for all books loaned to the pupils in their charge, and shall pay to the 
 Clerk of the Board of Trustees, for the book fund of the district, the 
 full purchase price of every such book destroyed, lost, or so damaged 
 as to make it unacceptable to other pupils succeeding to their classes. 
 The Board of Trustees may also make rules for payment for slighter 
 injuries to books. 
 
 Credits to Pupils. 
 
 Sec. 6. Credits shall be given to pupils in a ratio to be fixed by 
 those having authority to fix ratios of credits, for the economic use and 
 care of books in the hands of pupils, whether such books be the property 
 of the district or otherwise. 
 
 Material Other Than Books. 
 
 Sec. 7. Equipment and materials for use in manual training, indus- 
 trial training, and the teaching of domestic science, may be supplied 
 to pupils in the same manner, out of the same fund, and on the same 
 terms and conditions as books ; provided, that no private ownership can 
 be acquired in such equipment or material unless sold according to law 
 when such equipment or material shall be no longer used or required 
 for the schools of the district. 
 
 Other Books. 
 
 Sec. 8. Authorized supplementary books for the use of the teachers 
 may be purchased under this Act, and shall remain the property of the 
 school district for which purchased unless sold in accordance with law. 
 
 Tax Levy. 
 
 Sec. 9. Each year after the first introduction in any school district 
 of the system provided for in this Act, and on or before the tenth day 
 of January thereof, the Board of School Trustees of such district shall 
 estimate the amount of money necessary for maintaining or increasing 
 the supply of books, equipment, and material, or any or all of these, 
 and proceed to levy the necessary tax therefor in the manner now pro- 
 vided for by law for levying a special tax not in excess of twenty-five 
 cents on the one hundred dollars. [See Chap. II, Sec. 78.] 
 
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 Not to Invalidate Existing Contracts. 
 
 Sec. 10. This x\ct shall not be so construed as to authorize the vio- 
 lation of any valid existing contract, nor to provide a means for the 
 adoption of text-books. 
 
 Penalties. 
 
 Sec. 11. Every person violating the provisions of this Act shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than twenty dol- 
 lars ($20) or imprisoned not more than ten (10) days, or both so fined 
 and imprisoned. 
 
 SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 ELECTION OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Chap. \ — An Act providing for the date of election of School Trustees, 
 and other matters properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1909, p. 124. 
 
 School Trustees. 
 
 Section 1. School districts having fifteen hundred or more school 
 children, as shown by the last preceding school census, shall have five 
 Trustees ; other districts shall have three Trustees. 
 
 Election of Trustees. 
 
 Sec. 2. An election of School Trustees shall be held in each school 
 district of the State on the first Saturday in April, nineteen hundred 
 and ten. and on the same day every two years thereafter. At such 
 elections, three Trustees shall be elected in any district having fifteen 
 hundred or more school census children, as shown by the last preceding 
 census, two for four years and one for two years; and two Trustees 
 shall be elected in every other district, one for four years and one for 
 tM^o years. 
 
 Numher of Trustees, How Determined. 
 
 Sec. 3. In any school district having for the first time fifteen hun- 
 dred school census children, as determined after the election of Trustees 
 in any year, there shall be elected at the next ensuing school trustee 
 election two Trustees for four years and two Trustees for two years, 
 to bring such district to the five-trustee basis ; and in any district fall- 
 ing below such number, as determined after a school trustee election, 
 there shall be elected at the next ensuing trustee election one Trustee 
 for four years, to bring such district to the three-trustee basis. 
 
 Terms of Office. 
 
 Sec. 4. Trustees elected under this Act shall take office on the first 
 Monday in May following their election; provided, that the Trustees 
 elected in nineteen hundred and ten shall take office on the first Mon- 
 day in July, nineteen hundred and ten, those ejected for four years to 
 serve until the first ^Monday in May, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 
 and those elected for two years to serve until the first Monday in May, 
 nineteen hundred and twelve. 
 
48 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. , 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 5. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Chap. VI — An Act to provide for the election of School Trustees and 
 matters properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1897, p. 100. 
 
 Section 1. [Repealed by an Act approved March 16, 1909. See 
 Chap, v.] 
 
 Sec. 2. [Superseded by ninth part of Sec. 2, Chap. II. (Statutes 
 of 1907, p. 380.) Provision for appointments to fill vacancies.] 
 
 Election Officers Appointed. 
 
 Sec. 3. All Judges and Inspectors of Election and such other offi- 
 cers as may be necessary, shall be appointed by the School Trustees in 
 each district. If the Trustees fail to appoint the election officers, or if 
 they are not present at the time of opening the polls, the electors pres- 
 ent may appoint them. All such officers shall serve without compensa- 
 tion. • ' 
 
 Certificates of Election. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Election Board shall issue certificates of election to 
 those receiving the greatest number of votes cast in accordance with 
 the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Notices to te Posted. 
 
 Sec. 5. Not less than ten days before the election held under the 
 provisions of this Act, the Trustees in each district shall post notices in 
 three public places in the district, which notices shall specify that there 
 will be an election held at the schoolhouse of such district and the hours 
 between which the polls will be kept open. If the Trustees of any dis- 
 trict shall have failed to post the notices as required by this section, 
 then any three electors of the district may, within five days of the day 
 of election, give notice of such election, which notices shall be sufficient 
 for the election required by this Act, and in such case no registration 
 shall be necessary, but all the other provisions of this Act shall be 
 enforced. 
 
 Qualification for Voting. 
 
 Sec. 6. No person shall be allowed to vote at any school election 
 unless he is a resident of the district and his name appears upon the 
 official registry list of the voting precinct or precincts including the 
 district for the last preceding general election ; provided, that any citi- 
 zen of the United States who shall have resided in this State six months, 
 and in the school district thirty days next preceding the day of election, 
 and whose name is not upon the said official registry list, may apply to 
 the Clerk of the Board of School Trustees, or to a person authorized by 
 the Trustees of the district to act as Registry i^gent, not more than 
 eight nor less than five days prior to the day of election, to have his 
 name registered. 
 
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 Relating to Registration — Form of Oath. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of School 
 Trustees, or the person appointed by the Board of School Trustees, as 
 the case may be, to register any qualified voter of the school district 
 who may apply to be registered under the provisions of the preceding 
 section; provided, that if the person applying to be registered be 
 anknown to the Registry Agent, or his qualifications for voting be 
 unknown, he shall, before having his name registered, be required to 
 subscribe to the following oath : You do solemnly swear that you are 
 a citizen of the United States; that you are twenty-one years of age; 
 that you will have resided in the State six months and in this school 
 district thirtj' days next preceding the day of the school election. False 
 swearing under the provisions of this section shall be deemed perjury 
 and punished as now provided by law. 
 
 List of Voters. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person shall be entitled to vote under the provisions of 
 this Act except he be registered as herein provided. The Board of 
 School Trustees shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a list of the 
 names of all persons entitled to vote at the school election as herein 
 provided, which said list shall be completed at least three days prior 
 to the day of election, and shall be under the charge of the Clerk of the 
 Board of School Trustees and subject to the inspection of any qualified 
 voter in the district. 
 
 List of Voters to &fe Prepared — Compensation Allowed. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Board of School Trustees in all districts having a voting 
 population of fifty or more, are authorized to employ a competent per- 
 son to prepare said list of qualified voters and to pay for the work out 
 of the school fund of the district, in a manner as other claims against 
 the district are allowed and paid, a reasonable sum, not exceeding five 
 cents a name for each qualified voter, providing that the total amount 
 to be allowed shall not exceed twenty dollars. The list so prepared 
 shall be sworn to by the person making the same as correct according 
 to his best knowledge, information, and belief. 
 
 List Delivered to Inspectors of Election. 
 
 Sec. 10. The list of qualified voters, as hereinbefore described, shall 
 be delivered to the Inspectors of Election prior to the time of opening 
 the polls on the day of election, and no person shall be entitled to vote 
 at the election whose name is not on said list; provided, that any per- 
 son whose name is left off said list by mistake, design, accident, or 
 otherwise, may have his name placed thereon by the Inspectors of Elec- 
 tion upon satisfactory proofs being presented of his having previously 
 been registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Voting Shall Be hy Ballot. 
 
 Sec. 11. The voting shall be by ballot, either written or printed, 
 and when two or more Trustees are to be elected for different terms, 
 the ballot shall designate such term as "long term" and "short term," 
 respectively. 
 
50 SCHOOL LAWS OP NEVADA. 
 
 Ballots, What to Contain — Nutnber of Ballots. 
 
 Sec. 12. In all school districts having a voting population of one 
 hundred or over, the Board of School Trustees shall have printed bal- 
 lots of uniform size containing the names in alphabetical order, of all 
 persons candidates for the oiSce of School Trustee. There shall be 
 twice as many ballots printed as there are voters in the district, and no 
 ballots other than those furnished by the Board of School Trustees shall 
 be voted. 
 
 How to Vote. 
 
 Sec. 13. A person desiring to vote shall, if his name be upon the 
 registry list as herein provided, receive from the Board of Election or 
 some member thereof, and from no other person, a ballot upon which he 
 shall designate his choice for Trustee or Trustees to be elected in the 
 district, by placing a cross thus: X, opposite and to the right of the 
 name of the person for whom he intends to vote. 
 
 Ballot Can Contain. 
 
 Sec. 14. There shall be placed on the ballots, in addition to the 
 names of the candidates, such information as the Board of Trustees may 
 deem necessary to inform the voter how to mark his ballot, such as: 
 ' ' Place a cross thus : X, opposite and to the right of the name of the 
 candidate for whom you wish to vote," "vote for one," "vote for 
 two," etc. 
 Allowed at Polls — Misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 15. No person, other than the Board of Election or a police 
 officer in the discharge of his duty, shall be allowed within one hundred 
 feet of the polls, except when actually engaged in voting or in going to 
 or from the polls for the purpose of voting or of challenging the vote of 
 another, and excepting all persons in attendance upon any school which 
 may be in session in the building. No person shall show his ballot to 
 another while marking it or after marking it so as to disclose for whom 
 he has voted, but he shall, as soon as possible after marking it, fold it 
 so that the marking will be on the inside and return it to the Board of 
 Election to be counted. Wilful violation of any of the provisions of 
 this section shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not 
 exceeding fifty dolars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 
 twenty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Assistance Allowed. 
 
 Sec. 16. No person shall receive assistance in marking his ballot 
 unless physically unable to mark it and then only by permission of the 
 Board of Election. A voter spoiling his ballot may procure another by 
 delivering the spoiled ballot to the Board of Election. 
 
 Challenge — Penalty. 
 
 Sec. 17. Any registered person offering to vote may be challenged 
 by any elector of the district, and the Judges of Election must there- 
 upon administer to the person challenged an oath in substance as fol- 
 lows : You do swear that you are a citizen of the United States ; that 
 you are twenty-one years of age; that you have resided in this State 
 
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 six months, and in this school district thirty days next preceding this 
 election, and that you have not voted before this day. If he takes the 
 oath prescribed in this section his vote shall be received, otherwise his 
 vote must be rejected. Illegally voting under the provisions of this Act 
 shall be punished the same as the law now provides for punishing 
 offenses of this character. 
 
 Candidates to File Their Names With the County Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 18. In school districts having a voting population of one hun- 
 dred (100) or over, candidates for the office of School Trustee shall, not 
 later than five days before the day of election, have their names filed 
 with the County Clerk of said county, with designation of the term of 
 office for which they are candidates, and no names shall be placed upon 
 the Ijallots unless filed within the time herein provided. As amended, 
 Stats. 1901, p. 54. 
 
 Duty of Board of Election Upon Completion of Count. 
 
 Sec. 19. The Board of Election shall keep a poll list and tally sheet, 
 which, together with the registry list and all ballots cast, shall be deliv- 
 ered to the County Clerk upon the count being completed, and such 
 returns shall be kept as the law now provides for keeping returns of 
 general elections. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 20. All Acts in conflict with this Act, and all parts of Acts 
 in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 POWERS OF BOARDS OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 Chap. YII — An Act to amplify the powers of Boards of School Trustees. 
 
 Approved March 20, 1901, p. 97. 
 
 Board of School Trustees. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of School Trustees of the respective school 
 districts of the State of Nevada are hereby given such reasonable and 
 necessary powers, not conflicting with the Constitution and laws of the 
 State of Nevada as may be requisite to attain the ends for which the 
 public schools are established, and to promote the welfare of school 
 children. 
 
 To Enforce Sanitary Regulations. 
 
 Sec. 2. The School Trustees are hereby given power to make and 
 enforce needful sanitary regulations, and to make and enforce such 
 rules for preventing the spread of contagious and infectious diseases as 
 they may deem necessary. 
 
 To Enforce Discipline. 
 
 Sec. 3. The School Trustees, principals, and teachers are hereby 
 given concurrent power with the peace officers for the protection of 
 
52 SCHOOL LAWS OP NEVADA. 
 
 children on the way to and from school, and for the enforcement of 
 order and discipline among them. 
 
 Same. 
 
 Sec. 4. The School Trustees may direct the principals and teachers 
 employed by them to exercise such powers and authority in the schools 
 as the Trustees are invested with under this Act. 
 
 Same Powers. 
 
 Sec. 5. Under the provisions of this Act, County Boards of Educa- 
 tion in control of high schools shall have the same powers as are herein 
 given to School Trustees. 
 
 Indigent Children. 
 
 Sec. 6. The School Trustees are hereby empowered to pay out of 
 the public school funds any expenses incurred by them in applying sec- 
 tion two of this Act to indigent children. 
 
 Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
 
 COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 
 Chap. VIII — An Act permitting the establishment of County High 
 Schools in the various counties of this State, and providing for the 
 construction, maintenance, management, and supervision of the 
 same, to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith, and 
 matters properly connected thereivith. 
 
 Approved March 24, 1909, p. 241. 
 
 County High Schools Established by Popular Vote. 
 
 Section 1. There may be -established in any county in this State a 
 high school; provided, that at any general or special election held in 
 said county after the passage of this Act, a majority of all the votes 
 cast at such election, upon the proposition to establish a high school 
 shall be in favor of establishing and maintaining such high school at 
 the expense of said county. 
 
 County Commissioners to Submit Question to Voters — Ballots. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners at any general election 
 to be held in any county after the passage of this Act, upon the presen- 
 tation of a petition signed by fifty or more qualified electors, taxpayers 
 of said county, at any regular meeting of said board held not less than 
 eight weeks before any general or special election, must make an order 
 submitting the question of establishing, constructing, and maintaining 
 a county high school to the qualified electors thereof. The Board of 
 County Conmiissioners, upon the presentation of said petition, may 
 order a special election for said purpose. Said election shall be con- 
 ducted in the manner prescribed by law for conducting elections, and 
 the ballots at such election shall have printed thereon the words ' ' For a 
 County High School ' ' and the words ' ' Against a County High School. ' ' 
 
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 The votes east for and against said county high school at any election 
 therefor, shall be counted and the returns thereof made and canvassed 
 in the manner provided for by law for counting, making returns, and 
 canvassing the votes of a general election; provided, that the election 
 officers appointed to conduct any special election held in accordance 
 with this Act, as required by law, shall perform all services required of 
 them by law in holding and conducting such elections, without any fees 
 or pay therefor. 
 
 Location of School, How Determined. 
 
 Sec. 3. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition to estab- 
 lish a county high school shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the duty 
 of the Board of County Commissioners, within thirty days after can- 
 vassing said vote, to locate the high school in the place in said county 
 where the said board shall deem most suitable and convenient for the 
 purpose. If, within sixty days after the County Commissioners shall 
 have located said high school, there shall be presented a certified peti- 
 tion bearing the signatures of at least one-fourth of the qualified voters 
 of such county according to the last general election returns, said peti- 
 tion requesting a vote on the question of the location of the county 
 high school and specifying a desired location, said Board of County 
 Commissioners shall submit the question of such location to the voters 
 of the county at the next general election; provided, that in all cases 
 where special elections have been called by the Board of County Com- 
 missioners of any county of this State previous to the passage of this 
 Act to submit the question of location of any county high school to the 
 voters in any such county wherein two thousand or more votes were 
 cast at the last general election, and wherein the assessed valuation of 
 real and personal property is six million dollars or more, the Board of 
 County Commissioners may, if said board deems it to the best interest 
 of the people of such county, establish two county high schools ; one at 
 the place selected by the Board of County Commissioners and one at 
 the place named in the petition presented to the said Board of County 
 Commissioners praying for said special election in said county, and 
 thereupon the said board may revoke the order calling said special 
 election, and in such case no special election shall be held. At any gen- 
 eral election at which the location of any county high school is sub- 
 mitted to the voters of the county, the form of the ballot shall be : 
 
 Shall the County High School be located at ? I ^^^ 
 
 In other respects the provisions of the general election law shall be fol- 
 lowed. If at any such election a majority of all voters who shall vote 
 on the question of such location shall vote in favor of locating the 
 county high school at the place designated in the petition, it shall be 
 the duty of the Board of County Commissioners to cause the high school 
 to be located at such place, not later than the first day of the next fol- 
 lowing September. "While a vote on the question of changing the loca- 
 tion of any county high school is pending, no contract for the purchase 
 of grounds or for the erection of a building shall be made. When the 
 location of the county high school has been finally determined, the 
 Board of County Commissioners shall estimate the cost of purchasing 
 
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 suitable grounds, procuring plans and specifications, erecting a build- 
 ing, furnishing the same, fencing and ornamenting the grounds, and 
 the cost of running said school for the following twelve months ; pro- 
 vided, that the estimate mentioned herein for purchasing suitable 
 grounds, procuring plans and specifications, erecting a building, fur- 
 nishing the same, and fencing and ornamenting the grounds shall not 
 be made, if previous to the time when the Commissioners are to make 
 such estimate the Legislature shall have authorized said county to issue 
 bonds for such purpose. 
 
 Tax Levy. 
 
 Sec. 4. When such estimate shall have been made, the Board of 
 County Commissioners shall thereupon immediately proceed to levy a 
 special tax upon all the assessable property of the county sufficient to 
 raise the amount estimated. Said tax shall be computed, entered on 
 the tax roll, and collected in the same manner as other taxes are com- 
 puted, entered, and collected, and the amount so collected shall be 
 deposited in the county treasury and be known and designated as the 
 "County High School Fund," and shall be drawn from the treasury 
 in the manner now provided by law for drawing money from the treas- 
 ury by School Trustees; provided, however, that the tax levy for pur- 
 chasing suitable grounds, procuring plans and specifications, erecting 
 a building, and furnishing the same, fencing and ornamenting the 
 grounds, may be deferred as long as a sufficient number of suitable 
 rooms in a public school building can be secured for the purposes of 
 such county high school at a reasonable rental. In case such levy be 
 deferred until after the election of a County Board of Education, the 
 levy shall be made by the Board of County Commissioners whenever so 
 ordered by the County Board of Education, and the Board of Educa- 
 tion shall be charged with the duty of purchasing grounds and erecting 
 and furnishing such school building. 
 
 Temporary County Board of Education. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Board of County Commissioners shall act as a County 
 Board of Education in the performance of the duties hereinbefore men- 
 tioned and shall continue to perform the duties of the County Board 
 of Education until a County Board of Education shall have been 
 elected and qualified as hereinafter provided, and at such tim_e the 
 Board of County Commissioners shall transfer all property and con- 
 trol of said school to the County Board of Education, who shall hold 
 the same in trust for the county. 
 
 County Board of Education Elected. 
 
 Sec. 6. At the next general election after it shall have been decided 
 to establish a county high school there shall be elected a County Board 
 of Education, to consist of three members, two of whom shall serve two 
 3^ears, and the other four years, and thereafter at reach regular biennial 
 election there shall be elected two members of said board, one of whom 
 shall serve for two years and the other for four years. Each person 
 elected as herein provided shall enter upon the duties of his office on 
 the first Monday in January next following his election, and shall hold 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 55 
 
 office until his successor is elected and qualified. If at any time a 
 vacancy shall occur on said board, it shall be the duty of the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction to appoint a member for the unexpired 
 term. 
 
 Duties of Board. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Education to 
 furnish, annually, an estimate of the amount of money needed to pay 
 all the necessary expenses of running said school; to enforce the uni- 
 form high-school course of study adopted by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion; to employ teachers holding Nevada State certificates of the 
 high-school grade in full force and effect ; to hire janitors and other 
 employees, and discharge such employees when sufficient cause therefor 
 shall exist ; and to do any and all other things necessary to the proper 
 conduct of the school. [See also Chap. VII, Sec. 5.] 
 
 Tax Levy. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners 
 to include in their annual tax levy the amount estimated by the County 
 Board of Education as needed to pay the expenses of conducting the 
 county school; and such amount, when collected and paid into the 
 county treasury, shall be known as the ''County High School Fund," 
 and may be dra^\Ti therefrom for the purpose of defraying the expenses 
 of conducting said county high school, in the manner now provided by 
 law for drawing money from the county treasury by School Trustees. 
 
 Eligible Pupils. 
 
 Sec. 9. All county high schools 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 examination for admission to the county high school, which exam- 
 ination shall be conducted under the direction and authority of the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 Principal May Supervise Other Schools. 
 
 Sec. 10. Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent the 
 principal of the county high school from acting as principal of the 
 grammar school of the district in which the county high school is 
 located if so desired by the Trustees of said school district and the 
 County Board of Education. 
 
 Under General Laws. 
 
 Sec. 11. The county high school shall be under the same general 
 supervision and shall be subject to the same laws, rules, and regulations 
 governing the other schools of the state school system. 
 
 Dormitories and Dining Hall. 
 
 Sec. 12. The County Board of Education is hereby empowered to 
 provide for the rental, purchase, or erection of a suitable dormitory or 
 dormitories and dining hall for high-school students, and to provide for 
 the support, maintenance, and management of the same. The said 
 
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 dormitory or dormitories shall be considered part of the regular high- 
 school equipment and organization. > 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 13. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOLS. 
 
 Chap. IX — An Act for the establishment of Normal Training Schools 
 and for the maintenance and control of the same. 
 
 Approved March 20, 1909, p. 174. 
 How Established. 
 
 Section 1. Upon notification hy the County Board of Education in 
 counties where a county high school is in operation, and of the Board 
 of Trustees of the school district in which the county -seat is located, in 
 counties not having an established county high school, that the said 
 County Board of Education or Board of Trustees and the Board of 
 County Commissioners of the county have decided by a majority vote 
 of each of the said boards to establish a normal training school, and 
 that there are at least five bona fide applicants for a normal training 
 course in such school, the State Board of Education shall, subject to the 
 provisions herein named, grant permission to establish and maintain a 
 normal training school for the purpose of giving free instruction and 
 training in the principles of education and methods of teaching to resi- 
 dents of this State ; provided, that no such normal training school shall 
 be established in any county having within its borders a State Normal 
 School or State University; and, provided further, that but one such 
 normal training school shall be established in any county. 
 
 Training School Board. 
 
 Sec. 2. The State Board of Education shall constitute the Normal 
 Training School Board. 
 
 Duties of Normal Training School Board. 
 
 Sec. 3. The duties of the Normal Training School Board shall be 
 as follows: 
 
 First — To determine the qualification for admission to the normal 
 training school; provided, that applicants who do not hold a diploma 
 from an accredited high school or a teacher's certificate of at least the 
 primary grade shall be required to pass an entrance examination. And 
 said examination shall include all subjects taught in the high schools 
 as provided by the laws of this State. 
 
 Second — To establish a course of studj^ to be pursued for a period 
 of not less than thirty-six wrecks. 
 
 Third — To grant certificates of graduation to such persons as finish 
 the course adopted in such form as the Normal Training School Board 
 shall prescribe. 
 
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 Graduation Certificate. 
 
 Sec. 4. The certificate of graduation shall entitle the holder thereof 
 to the state teachers ' certificate of the rural grammar-school grade with- 
 out further examination, and said certificate shall entitle the holder 
 thereof to teach in any of the rural schools of this State not employing 
 more than one teacher, and said certificate shall not be good for more 
 than three years and shall in no case be renewable. 
 
 Provisions for Maintaining Schools. 
 
 Sec. 5. For the purpose of maintaining such normal training schools 
 as are herein described, it is further provided : 
 
 First — That the county in which a normal training school shall be 
 established shall provide rooms with heating and equipment satisfactory 
 to the Normal Training School Board for the purposes of such school. 
 
 Second — Upon certification of the State Board of Education that a 
 normal training school has been established in any county, that the 
 school has been properly equipped, that at least five bona fide students 
 are in actual attendance, and that a competent normal-training teacher 
 is employed, the State Controller shall on the first day of October and 
 the first day of February of each year set aside from any money in the 
 State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, a sum designated by 
 the State Board of Education not exceeding nine hundred dollars and 
 not less than six hundred dollars, to be known as the Normal Training 
 
 School Salary Fund for County, to be used in payment 
 
 of the teacher's salary and to be drawn from the State Treasury in the 
 usual manner. Any money remaining in such fund on the thirty-first 
 day of August of each year shall revert to the State General Fund. 
 
 Third — In any county establishing a normal training school the 
 Normal Training School Board shall, previous to the first day of Sep- 
 tember in each year, estimate the cost of maintaining the rooms and 
 equipment of the normal training school for the ensuing year and 
 certjfy the amount estimated to the Board of County Commissioners of 
 said county ; provided, such estimate shall not exceed the amount of five 
 hundred dollars for any one year. Claims for equipment and mainte- 
 nance shall be just and legal charges upon the general fund of said 
 county; provided, that not more than the amount estimated shall be 
 allowed for any one year. 
 
 Authority Conferred. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Normal Training School Board is hereby given the 
 power to make and put into effect any and all rules and regulations 
 necessary to the proper conduct of any normal training school estab- 
 lished under and by virtue of the provisions of this Act. 
 
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 UNION SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 Cpiap. X — An Act to provide for Union School Districts, and matters 
 properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved March 3, 1909, p. 49. 
 How Established. 
 
 Section 1. On the recommendation of the Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Instruction, the Boards of School Trustees of any continguous school 
 districts in the same county or in adjoining counties may, in joint 
 meeting of the two boards, unite the two districts and establish a union 
 school to be supported out of the funds belonging to the respective 
 districts. 
 
 Joint Board to Govern — More Than One School or Grade, When. 
 
 Sec. 2. The school thus established shall be governed by a joint 
 board, composed of the Trustees of the combining districts ; provided, 
 that school may be maintained at more than one point in the union 
 district thus formed, if found necessary or advisable; and provided 
 further, that the classes and grades in the two districts shall be 
 arranged with reference to the convenience of the children and the effi- 
 cient and economical management of the school. In case of a disagree- 
 ment of the joint board as to the arrangement and distribution of the 
 various classes and grades in the two districts, the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction shall determine the same. 
 
 Expenses, How Paid. 
 
 Sec. 3. A majority of the members of the joint board shall consti- 
 tute a quorum for the transaction of business. Vouchers shall be made 
 out on the separate district funds for the pro rata of monthly expenses, 
 as agreed upon by the joint board, and these vouchers shall be signed 
 by the President and Clerk of the School Board in the district on whose 
 fund the vouchers are drawn. 
 
 District Dissolved, When. 
 
 Sec. 4. The union school, or district, herein provided for may be 
 dissolved in July of any year by mutual consent or action of the Boards 
 of School Trustees in the districts interested, or by the unanimous 
 action of the School Board of either district ; provided, that no indebt- 
 edness incurred by the joint board exists ; and provided further, that in 
 case of dissolution by action of only one of the two districts as herein 
 prescribed, at least thirty days' notice of intention to dissolve shall 
 have been given to the joint board. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
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 ENLARGEMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 Chap. XI — An Act to authorize Boards of County Commissioners to 
 enlarge the boundaries of certain school districts or to consolidate 
 two or more into one, and ^natters properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved March 11, 1909, p. 87. 
 
 Districts Enlarged or Consolidated. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners in any county, on 
 the recommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and 
 without formal petition, may enlarge the boundaries of any school dis- 
 trict, wherein there may be uncertainty of maintaining the minimum 
 requirement of five school census children, sufficiently beyond the 
 sixteen-mile-square limit to include five or more school census children 
 actually residing, and not temporarily living, therein, or the board, 
 upon the recommendation of the Superintendent, may consolidate two 
 or more such districts or parts of districts into a single district. 
 
 Property of Consolidated Districts. 
 
 Sec. 2. In case of the consolidation of two or more districts as 
 herein provided for, the property of the separate districts shall become 
 the property of the district thus formed, and any money in the fund of 
 a district consolidated with another shall, on notice given by the Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction, be transferred by the County Auditor 
 and the County Treasurer to the credit of the district so formed. 
 
 Board Appointed, When. 
 
 Sec. 3. When a district is formed by consolidation as herein pro- 
 vided, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ^appoint a Board 
 of School Trustees therefor; he shall determine the points therein 
 where instruction is to be given, and shall aid the Trustees in making 
 necessary provision for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 4. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 EMERGENCY FUND FOR NEW DISTRICTS. 
 
 Chap. XII — An Act to provide an Emergency School Fund for new 
 school districts, prescribing its use and manner of disbursement, 
 and other matters properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved February 13, 1909, p. 20. 
 
 Emergency School Fund Created — $3,000 From General Fund. 
 
 Section 1. At the time of the apportionment of money in the State 
 Distributive School Fund in January and July of each year, the Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction, before making such apportionment, 
 shall set aside from said fund the sum of three thousand dollars, the 
 same to constitute and be known as the Emergency School Fund; and 
 
60 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 he shall at once notify the State Controller and the State Treasurer of 
 his action; provided, that there is hereby appropriated from the State 
 General Fund the sum of three thousand dollars, which is to constitute 
 the Emergency School Fund until the next apportionment of money 
 in the State Distributive School Fund in July, nineteen hundred and 
 nine. 
 
 For Districts Formed After Regular Apportionment. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Emergency School Fund, or such portion thereof as 
 the State Board of Education shall deem advisable, shall be used as 
 hereinafter provided for payment of a teacher's salary in any legally 
 constituted school district formed after the regular apportionment in 
 January and July of any year and not consisting mainly or wholly of 
 census children and territory theretofore included in an established 
 school district. 
 
 Conditions Before Money Is Distrihuted. 
 
 Sec. 3. Before any portion of the Emergency School Fund is dis- 
 tributed to any school district that may be entitled thereto under the 
 provisions of this Act, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
 cause a census to be taken and shall satisfy himself that a competent 
 teacher has been employed and that a suitable building has been pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Basis of Distribution. 
 
 Sec. 4. The money in the Emergencj^ School Fund, or such part 
 thereof as may be necessary, shall be distributed to the various dis- 
 tricts entitled thereto on the basis of teachers — one teacher to every 
 fifty census children, or fraction thereof; and not more than two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars shall be allowed for any one teacher. The money 
 thus distributed shall be used only for the payment of salaries of 
 teachers. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit to 
 the State Board of Education lists of school districts entitled to money 
 under the provisions of this Act, and estimates of the amount of money 
 necessary for each district. 
 
 But One Apportionment to Each District From Emergency Fund. 
 
 Sec. 5. No more than one apportionment shall be made to any one 
 school district from the Emergency School Fund. But at the general 
 apportionments thereafter such district shall be entitled to its share of 
 the State Distributive School Fund and of the general school fund of 
 the county in which the district is located, the census provided for in 
 section three of this Act serving as the basis of apportionment until the 
 general school census is available therefor. 
 
 State Board of Education to Approve. 
 
 Sec. 6. Upon the approval by the State Board of Education of the 
 amounts to be distributed, the Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall draw his order on the State Controller for the sum to be sent from 
 the Emergency School Fund to any county, and the State Controller 
 shall thereupon draw his warrant on the State Treasurer therefor, and 
 the State Treasurer shall pay over the money to the County Treasurer, 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 61 
 
 or Treasurer named. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
 inform the County Auditor and the County Treasurer of any county 
 to which money is thus sent, of the amount set aside for any school dis- 
 trict or districts in that county; and such money shall be applied by 
 the Board or Boards of School Trustees thereof for the purpose named 
 in this Act, and disbursed in the manner prescribed by law. 
 
 Residue to Revert. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any money remaining in the Emergency School Fund on 
 the thirty-first day of December of any year shall revert to the State 
 Distributive School Fund. 
 
 In Effect. 
 
 Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect upon approval. 
 
 ABOLISHED SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 Chap. XIII — An Act to provide for the disposal of the funds and 
 property of aholished school districts. 
 
 Approved March 5, 1909, p. 70. 
 
 Certain Moneys to Revert. 
 
 Section 1. All moneys remaining to the credit of any school dis- 
 trict which has been legally abolished, by action of the Board of 
 County Commissioners of the county in which the district is situated, 
 shall revert to the county school fund of the said county. 
 
 Property of Aholished School District to he Sold. 
 
 Sec. 2. All property, real and personal, of any abolished school dis- 
 trict shall revert to the county in which the said district is situated, 
 and the Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized to con- 
 trol and manage, rent, or sell such reverted school property in the 
 manner prescribed for the sale of county property; provided, that in 
 case the said Board of County Commissioners shall find all of the real 
 and personal property of any abolished district to be of a value less 
 than one hundred dollars, the same may be sold without publication of 
 notice and to the highest bidder for cash at private sale. 
 
 Disposal of Proceeds. 
 
 Sec. 3. All the moneys derived from the sale or rent of reverted 
 school property shall be paid into the county school fund. 
 
 In Effect. 
 
 Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect immediatelv. 
 
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 SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDS. 
 
 Chap. XIV — A71 Act to amend an Act entitled "An, Act to enable the 
 several school districts of the State to issue negotiahle coupon 
 honds for the purpose of erecting and furnishing school buildings, 
 or purchasing grounds, or for refunding floating funded debts, and 
 providing for the payment of the principal indebtedness thus 
 authorized and the interest thereon," approved March 12, 1907. 
 
 Approved February 8, 1908, p. 34. 
 
 Bonds May Be Issued. 
 
 Section 1. Any school district of the State, now existing or which 
 may hereafter be created, is hereby authorized to borrow money for 
 the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school building or buildings, 
 maintaining the same, purchasing grounds on which to erect such build- 
 ing, or buildings, or for refunding floating indebtedness, or for any or 
 all of these purposes, by issuing negotiable coupon bonds of the district 
 in the manner by this Act provided. As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 178. 
 
 Question of Issuing Bonds Submitted to Popular Vote. 
 
 Sec. 2. When the Board of Trustees of any school district shall 
 deem it necessary to incur an indebtedness authorized by this Act by 
 issuing the negotiable coupon bonds of the district, such Board of Trus- 
 tees shall first determine the amount of such bonds to be issued, and a 
 certificate of such determination shall be made and entered in and upon 
 the records of said district. Thereupon the Board of School Trustees 
 shall, by resolution duly made and entered in and upon the records of 
 said board, submit the question of contracting a bonded indebtedness 
 for any of the purposes authorized by this Act to a vote of the duly 
 qualified electors of the district at the next general election of the 
 School Trustees, or at a special election which the School Trustees are 
 hereby authorized to call for such purpose. 
 
 Election, How Conducted — Election Notice, What to Contain. 
 
 Sec. 3. The election provided in this Act shall be called and held, 
 and the vote canvassed and returned, in all respects as nearly as may 
 be in accordance with the provisions of law now governing the election 
 of School Trustees ; provided, that if there is a newspaper published in 
 the school district, the notice shall be published for at least once a week 
 for two successive weeks, preceding said election. The election notice 
 must contain: 
 
 First — The time and place of holding such election. 
 
 Second — The names of Inspectors and Judges to conduct the same. 
 
 Third — The hours during the day in which the polls will be open. 
 
 Fourth — The amount and denomination of the bonds, the rate of 
 interest and the number of years, not exceeding twenty, the bonds are 
 to run. All persons voting on the question submitted at such election 
 shall vote by separate ballot whereon is placed the words "For the 
 Bonds " or " Against the Bonds. ' ' The ballots shall be deposited in a 
 separate box provided by the School Trustees for that purpose. 
 
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 Bonds to Run No Longer Than Twenty Years — Sale of Bonds to he 
 Published. 
 
 Sec. 4. If upon the official determination of the result of such elec- 
 tion it appear that a majority of all the votes cast are "For the Bonds," 
 the Board of Trustees, as soon as practicable, shall issue the negotiable 
 coupon bonds of the district in such form and denomination as the 
 Board of Trustees may direct, said bonds to run for a period not to 
 [exceed] twenty (20) years from the date of issue, and bearing interest 
 at a rate not exceeding eight (8) per cent per annum, payable semi- 
 annually, both principal and interest paj^able at such place as the 
 Board of Trustees may direct, said bonds not to be sold for less than 
 their par value. And before said sale is made notice of such proposed 
 sale must be given by publication, in a newspaper, if there is a news- 
 paper published in the district, for at least one week before said bonds 
 are disposed of, inviting sealed bids to be made for said bonds, and said 
 bonds are to be sold to the highest and best bidder for said bonds ; pro- 
 vided, if there is no newspaper published in said school district, the 
 notice herein provided for shall be given by posting in three public 
 places in said school district for at least ten days before said bonds are 
 disposed of. 
 
 Bonds Signed — Seal. 
 
 Sec. 5. All bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall be 
 signed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and be duly attested 
 by the Clerk thereof, and shall bear the seal of the district if the dis- 
 trict has a seal, and shall be countersigned by the County Treasurer. 
 
 Register of Bonds. 
 
 Sec. 6. Before any district shall issue bonds under the provisions 
 of this Act, all such bonds shall be presented to the Treasurer of the 
 count}' to be duly registered by him in a book kept for that purpose in 
 his office, which registry shall show the school district, the amount, the 
 time of payment, and the rate of interest, and all such bonds shall bear 
 the certificate of the County Treasurer to the effect that they are issued 
 and registered under the provisions of this Act. After such registry 
 the bonds shall be at the disposal of the Board of Trustees of the dis- 
 trict issuing the same, to be sold for the purpose of raising funds for 
 the objects designated by this Act. 
 
 Special Tax for Interest and Redemption of Bonds — Sinking Fund. 
 
 Sec. 7. Whenever any school district shall issue any bonds under 
 the provisions of this Act it shall be the duty of the Board of Commis- 
 sioners of the county in which such district may be situated to levy and 
 assess a special tax on all the taxable property of such district in an 
 amount sufficient to pay the interest thereon when the same shall become 
 due according to the tenor and effect of said bonds, and the County 
 Treasurer shall collect the same as other taxes are collected, in cash 
 only, keeping the same separate from other funds received by him •, and 
 if there shall be any surplus after paying said interest and the expenses 
 of collecting such special tax, the Treasurer shall without delay pass 
 
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 the same to the credit of such school district, and such funds so passed 
 to the credit of the district shall be subject to the disposal of the Board 
 of Trustees; and beginning with the year the bonds are issued, and 
 annually thereafter, until the full payment of said bonds has been 
 made, the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which said 
 school district is situtated shall levy and assess a special tax, and shall 
 cause said special tax to be collected on all property of the school dis- 
 trict, including the net proceeds of mines, sufficient to pay annually a 
 proportion of the principal of said bonds equal to a sum produced by 
 taking the whole amount of said bonds outstanding and dividing it 
 by the number of years said bonds then have to run, which amount 
 shall be levied, assessed, and collected in the same manner as the tax 
 for the payment of the interest coupons and when collected shall be 
 known as the ' ' Sinking Fund, ' ' and shall be used only in the payment 
 of such bonds. The sinking fund thus provided may be applied to the 
 purchase and cancelation of the outstanding bonds of the district. At 
 the maturity of such bonds the County Treasurer shall call in and pay 
 such bonds and accrued interest thereon and duly cancel the same, and 
 certify his action to the Board of Trustees of the school district. 
 
 Change in Boundary Not to Release Property for Taxes. 
 
 Sec. 8. No change in the boundary lines of any school district shall 
 release the taxable real property of the district from assessment and 
 levy of the taxes to pay the interest and principal of such bonds, and if 
 there shall be any change in the boundary of such school district so as 
 to leave any portion of the taxable real property of the district which 
 was subject to taxation in the district at the time of the issue of such 
 bonds, the assessment and levy of taxes for the payment of the prin- 
 cipal and interest of such bonds shall be made on such property as if it 
 were still within the district, and if there shall be any change of the 
 boundary lines of such school district so as to annex or include any 
 taxable or real property, after the issue of such bonds, the real property 
 so included or annexed shall thereafter be subject to the assessment and 
 levy of a tax for the payment of the principal and interest of such 
 bonds. [See also Chap. XVI.] 
 
 Taxes Constitute Lien on Property. 
 
 Sec. 9. All taxes levied and assessed as in this Act provided shall 
 constitute a lien on the property charged therewith, from the date of 
 the levy thereof by the County Commissioners, or the entry thereof on 
 the assessment roll of the County Auditor, until the same are paid, and 
 thereafter, if allowed to become delinquent, shall be enforced in the 
 same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of state and 
 county taxes. And no additional allowance, fee, or compensation what- 
 ever shall be paid to any officer for carrying out the provisions of 
 this Act. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 10. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
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 BONDS FOR MANUAL TRAINING. 
 
 Chap. XV — An Act to enable school districts to issue negotiable coupon 
 bonds for' the purpose of erecting, furnishing , equipping, and 
 maintaining buildiiigs for industrial training, manual training, 
 domestic science, and agriculture, or for any one or all of these 
 purposes, and providing for the payment of the principal indebted- 
 ness and the interest thereon, and other matters properly connected 
 therewith. Approved March 16, 1909, p. 122. 
 
 Bonds for Various Purposes. 
 
 Section 1. Any school district of the State is hereby authorized to 
 borrow money for the purpose of purchasing grounds, erecting build- 
 ings, and furnishing, equipping, and maintaining the same, for instruc- 
 tion in industrial training, manual training, domestic science, and 
 agriculture, or for any one or all of these purposes, by issuing negotia- 
 ble coupon bonds of the district. 
 
 Under General Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such bonds shall be determined upon, submitted to vote of 
 the district interested, authorized, issued, and paid, in accordance with 
 the provisions of the general law for bonding school districts, as 
 approved March 12, 1907, and as amended February 8, 1908. 
 
 In Effect. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval. 
 
 SECURITY OF SCHOOL BONDS. 
 
 Chap. XVI — An Act to protect the security of school bonds. 
 Approved March 13, 1909, p. 94. 
 
 Change of School Districts Not to Release Responsibility for Bonds. 
 
 Section 1. No change in the boundary lines of any school district 
 that has been, or may hereafter be, bonded for school purposes shall 
 operate to release any part of the property of such district, as existing 
 prior to such change, from taxation for payment of the outstanding 
 bonds issued prior thereto. 
 
 In Effect. 
 
 Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval. 
 
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 COMPULSORY EDUCATION. 
 
 Chap. XVII — An Act providing for- compulsory education and other 
 matters properly connected therewith, providing for penalities for 
 the violation of any of the provisions thereof, and repealing any 
 and all prior laws on the subject of comptdsory education. 
 
 Approved March 20, 1909, p. 147. 
 Various Excuses for N on- Attendance. 
 
 Section 1. Each parent, guardian, or other person, in the State of 
 Nevada, having control or charge of any child between the ages of eight 
 and sixteen years shall be required to send such child to a public school 
 during the time in which a public school shall be in session in the school 
 district in which said child resides; but such attendance shall be 
 excused : 
 
 1. When satisfactory evidence is presented to the Board of Trustees 
 of the school district in which such child resides, that the child's bodily 
 or mental condition is such as to prevent or render inadvisable attend- 
 ance at school, or application to study. A certificate from any reputa- 
 ble physician that the child is not able to attend school, or that its 
 attendance is inadvisable, must be taken as satisfactory evidence by 
 any such board; 
 
 2. When the child has already completed the eight grades of the 
 prescribed grammar-school course ; 
 
 3. When satisfactory evidence is presented to the Board of Trustees 
 that the child is being taught in a private school, or by a private tutor, 
 or at home, by any person capable of teaching in such branches as are 
 usually taught in the primary and grammar schools of this State ; 
 
 4. When satisfactory evidence is presented to the Board of Trustees 
 that the child's labor is necessary for its own or its parent's support ; 
 
 5. When the District Superintendent shall determine that the child's 
 residence is located at such distance from the public school as to render 
 attendance impracticable or unsafe. 
 
 Truancy Defined. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any child shall be deemed a truant, in the meaning of this 
 Act, who shall have been absent from school, without valid excuse, more 
 than three days ; and absence for any part of a day shall be considered 
 as absence for that entire day. The teacher, attendance officer, or other 
 person connected with the schools, shall send or deliver a written notice 
 of such truancy to the parent, guardian, or other person, having control 
 or charge of the child. After such notice has thus been furnished or 
 sent to said parent, guardian, or other person, any child who is absent 
 from school thereafter within the school year, without valid excuse, one 
 or more days or parts thereof, shall again be deemed a truant. Any 
 child shall be declared an habitual truant who shall have been deemed 
 a truant three or more times within the school year. Any child who 
 has once been declared an habitual truant and who in a succeeding 
 year is absent from school, without valid excuse, for one or more days 
 or parts thereof, may again be declared an habitual truant. 
 
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 Funishment of Parent. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any parent, guardian, or other person having control or 
 charge of any child, to whom notice has been given of truancy, as pro- 
 vided in section two of this Act, and who fails to prevent the child's 
 subsequent truancy within that school year, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be liable, for the first offense, 
 to a fine of not more than ten dollars or imprisonment for not more 
 than five days, and for each subsequent offense he shall be liable to a 
 fine of not less than ten or more than fifty dollars, or to imprisonment 
 for not less than five nor more than twenty-five clays, or to both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
 School Trustees to Malx Investigation. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Trustees of any school district shall, on the 
 complaint of any person, make a full and impartial investigation of all 
 charges against parents or guardians or other persons having control 
 or charge of any such child, for violation of any of the provisions of 
 this Act. If it shall appear upon such investigation that any such 
 parent or guardian or other person has violated any of the provisions 
 of this Act, it is hereby made the duty of the Clerk of such Board of 
 Trustees to make and file in the proper court a criminal complaint 
 against such parent, guardian, or other person, charging such violation, 
 and to see that such charge is prosecuted by the proper authorities ; 
 provided, that in such school districts having an attendance officer, such 
 officer, shall, if so directed by the Board of Trustees, make and file 
 such complaint, and see that such charge is prosecuted by the proper 
 authorities. 
 
 Trustees May Appoint and Remove Attendance Officer. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Board of Trustees of any school district may appoint 
 and remove at pleasure an attendance officer and shall fix the compensa- 
 tion therefor, and shall prescribe the duties of said officer, not incon- 
 sistent with law, and make rules and regulations for the performance 
 thereof. It shall be the duty of the attendance officer, or any peace 
 officer, or any other school officer, to arrest during school hours, without 
 a warrant, any child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, who 
 has been reported to him by the teacher, the City Superintendent, or 
 other person connected with the schools, as an absentee from instruc- 
 tion upon which he is lawfully required to attend within the school dis- 
 trict. Such arresting officer shall forthwith deliver the child so arrested 
 to the teacher, parent, guardian, or other person having control or 
 charge of said child. 
 
 Separate Booms for Habitual Truants. 
 
 Sec. 6. Boards of Trustees are hereby authorized to set apart any 
 school building or buildings or any room or rooms in any school build- 
 ing or buildings for the establishment of special or ungraded schools, 
 to provide for the instruction of habitual truants as defined in section 
 two of this Act, or for pupils who have been insubordinate or disorderly 
 during attendance at school. Boards of Trustees are also authorized to 
 purchase sites and erect buildings for such purposes, in the same man- 
 
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 ner as other school sites and school buildings may be purchased and 
 erected; or Boards of Trustees may rent suitable property for special 
 or ungraded rooms without being so directed by vote of the district. 
 Teachers of such special or ungraded schools shall have the same quali- 
 fications as other teachers in the grades, and shall be paid from the 
 same funds. Boards of Trustees are hereby authorized to assign 
 habitual truants and other pupils who have been insubordinate or dis- 
 orderly during attendance at school to such special and ungraded 
 schools for a period not to exceed the remainder of the school year. 
 Such pupils, however, may be restored to their former room or grade 
 when in the judgment of the board there has been sufficient improve- 
 ment to warrant the belief that their example and influence will no 
 longer be a detriment to the room to which they shall return. 
 
 Persons Encouraging Truancy Punished. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to 
 be absent unlawfully from school, or who knowingly employs or harbors 
 while school is in session any child absent unlawfully from school, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment of not 
 more than twenty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 The attendance officer or any other school officer is hereby empowered 
 to visit any place or establishment where minor children are employed 
 to ascertain whether the provisions of this law are duly complied with, 
 and may demand from all employers of such children a list of children 
 employed, with their names and ages. 
 
 Punishment for False Statements. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any parent, guardian, or other person who makes a false 
 statement concerning the age or school attendance of a child between 
 the ages of eight and sixteen years who is under his control or charge, 
 such false statement being made with intent to deceive under this Act, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be 
 punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment of 
 not more than twenty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Disposal of Fines. 
 
 Sec. 9. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be 
 paid into the Permanent School Fund of the State. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any and all Acts which have been previously passed on 
 the subject of compulsor}- education are hereby repealed. 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 69 
 
 DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 
 
 Chap. XVIII — An Act relating to children who are now or who may 
 hereafter become dependent, neglected, or delinquent, to define 
 these terms and to provide for the treatment, control, niaintenance, 
 protection, adoption, and guardianship of the person of such child 
 or children. Approved March 24, 1909, p. 229. 
 
 Section 1. Definition. That all persons under the age of twenty- 
 one years, shall, for the purpose of this Act only, be considered wards 
 of this State and their persons shall be subject to the care, guardian- 
 ship, and control of the court as hereinafter provided. For the pur- 
 pose of this Act the words "dependent child" and "neglected child" 
 shall mean any male child who, while under the age of seventeen years, 
 or any female child who, while under the age of eighteen years, for any 
 reason is destitute, homeless, or abandoned; or dependent upon the 
 public for support ; or has not proper parental care or guardianship ; 
 or habitually begs or receives alms ; or is found living in any house of 
 ill-fame, or M'ith any vicious or disreputable person, or has a home 
 which by reason of neglect, cruelty, or depravity, on the part of its 
 parents, guardian, or an,y other person in whose care it may be, is an 
 anfit place for such child; and any child who, while under the age of 
 ten years, is found begging, peddling, or selling any article or articles, 
 or singing, or playing any musical instrument for gain upon the street 
 or giving any public entertainments, or accompanies or is used in the 
 aid of any person so doing. The words ' ' delinquent child ' ' shall mean 
 any male child who, while under the age of seventeen years, or any 
 female child who, while under the age of eighteen years, violates any 
 law of this State; or is incorrigible, or knowingly associates with 
 thieves, vicious, or immoral persons ; or without just cause, and without 
 the consent of the parents, guardian, or custodian absents itself from 
 its home or place of abode, or is growing up in idleness or crime ; or 
 knowingly frequents or visits a house of ill-fame or ill-repute; or 
 knowingly frequents or visits any policy shop or place where any 
 gaming device is operated ; or patronizes, visits, or frequents any saloon 
 or dramshop where intoxicating liquors are sold; or patronizes any 
 public poolroom where the game of pool or billiards is being carried 
 on for pay or hire ; or who wanders about the streets in the night time 
 without being on any lawful business or lawful occupation; or habit- 
 ually wanders about any railroad yards or tracks or jumps or attempts 
 to jump onto any moving train; or enters any car or engine without 
 lawful authority, or writes or uses vile, obscene, profane, or indecent 
 language, or smokes cigarettes in any public place or about any school- 
 house ; or is guilty of indecent, immoral, or lascivious conduct ; any child 
 committing any of these acts shall be deemed a delinquent child and 
 when proceeded against, such proceeding shall be on behalf of the State 
 in the interest of the child and the State, with due regard for the rights 
 and duties of parents and others, by petition to be filed by any reputable 
 person, and to that end it shall be dealt with, protected, and cared for 
 in the probate or chancery court as a ward of the State in the manner 
 
70 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 hereinafter provided. A deposition of any child under this Act or any 
 evidence given in such cause, shall not, in any civil, criminal, or other 
 cause or proceeding whatever in any court, be lawful or proper evi- 
 dence against such child for any purpose whatever, except in subse- 
 quent cases against the same child under this Act; nor shall the name 
 of any such child in connection with any proceedings under this Act 
 be published in any newspaper, without a written order of the court. 
 The word "child" or "children" may be held to mean one or more 
 children, and the word "parent" or "parents" may be held to mean 
 one or both parents, when consistent with the intent of this Act. The 
 word "association" shall include any association, institution, or corpo- 
 ration which include in their purposes the care or disposition of chil- 
 dren, coming within the meaning of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. Jurisdiction. The District Courts of the several Judicial 
 Districts in this State shall have original jurisdiction in all cases 
 coming within the terms of this Act. In all trials under this Act, any 
 person interested therein may demand a jury of six or twelve persons, 
 or the Judge of his own motion may order a jury of the same number 
 to try the case. 
 
 Sec. 3. Juvenile Department. The findings of the court shall be 
 entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, and known as 
 the "Juvenile Department," and the court may for convenience be 
 called the "Juvenile Department of the District Court." 
 
 Sec. 4. Petition to the Court. Any reputable person, being a resi- 
 dent of the county, may file with the Clerk of the court having jurisdic- 
 tion of the matter, a petition in writing setting forth that a certain 
 child, naming it, within his county, is either dependent, neglected, or 
 delinquent as defined in section one hereof ; and that it is for the inter- 
 est of the child and this State that the child be taken from its parent, 
 parents, custodian, or guardian and placed under the guardianship of 
 some suitable person to be appointed by the court ; and that the parent, 
 parents, custodian, or guardian of such child, are unfit or improper 
 guardians, or .are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train, edu- 
 cate, correct, control, or discipline such child, or that the parent, 
 parents, guardian, or custodian consent that such child shall be taken 
 from them. The petition shall also set forth either the name, or that 
 the name is unknown to petitioner (a) of the person ha\ing the custody 
 of such child; and (&) of each of the parents or the surviving parent 
 of a legitimate child; or of the mother of an illegitimate child; or (c) if 
 it allege that both such parents are, or such mother is, dead, then of 
 the guardian, if any, of such child; or {d) if it allege that both such 
 parents are or that such mother is dead and that no guardian of such 
 child is known to petitioner. All persons so named in such petition 
 shall be made defendants by name and shall be notified of such pro- 
 ceedings by summons if residents of this State in the same manner as 
 is now or may hereafter be required in court proceedings by the laws 
 of this State except only as herein otherwise provided. All persons, if 
 any, who or whose names are stated in the petition to be unknown to 
 petitioner, shall be deemed and taken as defendants by the name or 
 designation of ' ' all whom it may concern. ' ' The petition shall be veri- 
 fied by affidavit, which affidavit shall be sufficient upon information 
 
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 and belief. Process shall be issued against all persons made parties 
 by the designation of "all whom it may concern" by such descrip- 
 tion, and notice given by publication as is required in this Act shall be 
 sufficient to authorize the court to hear and determine the suit as 
 though the parties had been sued by their proper names. 
 
 Sec. 5. Summons. The summons shall require the person alleged 
 to have the custody of the child to appear with the child at the time and 
 place stated in the summons ; and shall also require all defendants to 
 be and appear and answer the petition on the return day of the sum- 
 mons. The summons shall be made returnable at any time within 
 twenty days after the date thereof and may be served by the Sheriff, 
 or by any duly appointed probation officer, even though such officer be 
 the petitioner. The return of such summons with indorsement of 
 service by the Sheriff or by such probation officer in accordance here- 
 with shall be sufficient proof thereof. 
 
 Whenever it shall appear from the petition or from affidavit filed in 
 the cause that any named defendant resides or hath gone out of the 
 State, or on due inquiry cannot be found, or is concealed within this 
 State or that his place of residence is unknown so that process cannot 
 be served upon him, or whenever any person is made defendant under 
 the name or designation of "all whom it may concern," the Clerk shall 
 cause publication to be made once in some newspaper of general cir- 
 culation published in his county, and if there be none published in his 
 county, then in a newspaper published in the nearest place to his 
 county in this State, which shall be substantially as follows : 
 
 A, B, C, D, etc. (here giving the names of such named defendants, 
 if any), and to "all to whom it may concern" (if there be any defend- 
 ant under such designation) : 
 
 Take notice that on the day of , A. D. 19...., a 
 
 petition was filed by in the Court of 
 
 County to have a certain child named declared a (depend- 
 ent or delinquent) and to take from you the custody and guardianship 
 of said child (and if the petition prays for the appointment of a guard- 
 ian with power to consent to adoption, add and to give said child out 
 for adoption). 
 
 Now, unless you appear within ten days after the date of this notice 
 and show cause against such application, the petition shall be taken for 
 confessed and a decree granted. 
 
 Dated (the date of publication). , Clerk. 
 
 And he shall also within ten days after the publication of such notice 
 send a copy thereof by mail, addressed to such defendants whose place 
 of residence is stated in the petition, and who shall not have been 
 served with summons. Notice given by publications as is required by 
 this Act shall be the only publication notice required either in the case 
 of residents, non-residents, or otherwise. The certificate of a Clerk that 
 he has sent such notice in pursuance of this section shall be evidence 
 thereof. Every defendant who shall be duly summoned shall be held 
 to appear and answer either in writing or orally in open court on 
 return day of the summons or if such summons shall be served less than 
 one day prior to the return day then on the following day. Every 
 defendant who shall be notified by publication as herein provided shall 
 
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 be held to appear and answer either in writing or orally in open court 
 within twenty days after the date of the publication notice. The 
 answer shall have no greater weight as evidence than the petition. In 
 default of an answer at the time or times herein specified or at such 
 further time as by order of court may be granted to a defendant, the 
 petition may be taken as confessed. If the person having the custody 
 or control of the child shall fail without reasonable cause to bring the 
 child into court, he may be proceeded against as in case of contempt 
 of court. In case the summons shall be returned and not served upon 
 the person having the custody or control of such child or such person 
 fails to obey the same and in any case when it shall be made to appear 
 to the court by affidavit, which may be on information and belief that 
 such summons will be ineffectual to secure the presence of the child, a 
 warrant may be issued on the order of the court either against the 
 parents or either of them, or guardian, or the person having the cus- 
 tody or control of the child or with whom the child may be or against 
 the child itself to bring such person into court. On default of the cus- 
 todian of the child or on his appearance or answer, or on the appear- 
 ance in person of the child in court with or without the summons or 
 other process and on the answer, default, or appearance, or written 
 consent to the procedings of the other defendants thereto, or as soon 
 thereafter as may be, the court shall proceed to hear evidence. The 
 court may, in any case when the child is not represented by any per- 
 son, appoint some suitable person to act on behalf of the child. At 
 any time after the filing of the petition and pending the final disposi- 
 tion of the case, the court may continue the hearing from time to time 
 and may allow such child to remain in the possession of his custodian 
 or in its own home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation 
 officer, or it may order such child to be placed in the custody of a 
 probation officer of the court, or of any suitable person appointed by 
 the court, or to be kept in some suitable place provided by the city or 
 county authorities. 
 
 Sec. 6. Probation Officers. The District Courts in this State shall 
 have authority to appoint any number of discreet persons of good 
 moral character to serve as probation officers during the pleasure of 
 the court; said probation officers to receive no compensation from the 
 county treasury except as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the 
 Clerk of the court, if practicable, to notify the said probation officer 
 when any child is to be brought before the court ; it shall be the duty 
 of such probation officer to make investigation of such case ; to be pres- 
 ent in court to represent the interests of the child when the case is 
 heard ; to furnish to such court such information and assistance as the 
 court or Judge may require, and to take charge of any child before and 
 after the trial as may be directed by the court. The number of proba- 
 tion officers to receive compensation from the county, named and des- 
 ignated by the District Court, shall be as follows: In all counties in 
 this State the District Judge may appoint one probation officer, when- 
 ever in the opinion of the District Judge, the District Superintendent 
 of Schools, in which district said, county may be located, or be a part 
 thereof, and a majority of the Board of County Commissioners of said 
 county shall deem such appointment necessary to care for the depend- 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 73 
 
 ent and delinquent children of the county; provided, such probation 
 officer can be removed from office at any time by the said District 
 Judge. The salary of said probation officer shall not exceed the sum 
 of eighteen hundred dollars a year, and the expenses of such probation 
 officer for probation work shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred 
 and fifty dollars per year ; provided, that the said probation officer can 
 be appointed for any portion or part of a year as the said District 
 Judge may determine, and can be paid for the time and period said 
 probation officer serves under such appointment. The salary and 
 expenses of the probation officer shall be paid out of the county funds 
 in the county treasury in monthly installments. Any District Judge 
 appointing such probation officer to receive a salary or other compensa- 
 tion from the county provided for under this Act, shall transmit such 
 appointment to the District Superintendent of Schools of the district 
 of which the county in which said appointment is made is a part, the 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Governor of this 
 State, who shall constitute a board to investigate the competency of 
 such person so appointed to act as a probation officer, and it shall be 
 the duty of a majority of said board to approve or disapprove of such 
 appointee, within thirty days after submission thereof by the said Dis- 
 trict Court, and a failure to act thereon within such time shall consti- 
 tute an approval of such appointment ; if a majority of such board are of 
 the opinion that such appointee does not possess the qualifications for 
 a probation officer, they shall notify the court of their conclusions 
 within thirty days of the submission of such appointment to the 
 respective members thereof, whereupon it shall be the duty of the Dis- 
 trict Judge to withdraw such appointment and appoint some one who 
 shall receive the approval of said board. Probation officers receiving 
 a salary or other compensation from the county, provided for by this 
 Act, are hereby vested with all the power and authority of police or 
 Sheriffs to make arrests and perform any other duties ordinarily 
 required by policemen and Sheriffs which may be incident to their 
 office or necessary or convenient to the performance of their duties; 
 provided, that other probation officers may be vested with like power 
 and authority upon a written certificate from the District Judge that 
 they are persons of discretion and good character, and that it is the 
 desire of the court to vest them with all the power and authority con- 
 ferred by law upon probation officers receiving compensation from the 
 county. Salaries or compensation of paid probation officers permitted 
 by this Act shall be fixed by the District Judge, not to exceed the sums 
 herein mentioned, and any bills for expenses, not exceeding the sums 
 herein provided for, shall be certified to by the District Judge as being 
 necessary in and about the performance of the duties of probation offi- 
 cer or officers. The appointment of probation officers and the approval 
 thereof as to the qualifications of such officers by the board herein des- 
 ignated, shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court. Probation 
 officers shall take an oath such as may be required of other county offi- 
 cers to perform their duties and file it in the office of Clerk of the 
 District Court. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to 
 limit or abridge the power of the District Judge to appoint any num- 
 ber of persons as probation officers, whom said Judge may see fit and 
 
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 who may be willing to serve without pay from the eountj^ for such 
 services as probation officers. 
 
 Sec. 7. Dependent and Neglected Children. If the court shall find 
 any male child under the age of seventeen years, or any female child 
 under the age of eighteen years, to be dependent or neglected within 
 the meaning of this Act, the court may allow such child to remain at its 
 home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation officer, or to 
 report to the court or probation officer from its home or school at such 
 times as the court may require. And if parent, parents, guardian, or 
 custodian consent thereto, or if the court shall further find that the 
 parent, parents, guardian, or custodian of such child are unfit or 
 improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, 
 train, educate, correct, or discipline such child and that it is for the 
 interest of such child and of the people of this State that such child be 
 taken from the custody of its parents, custodian, or guardian, the court 
 may make an order appointing as guardian of the person of such child, 
 some reputable citizen of good moral character, and order such guard- 
 ian to place such child in some suitable family home or other suitable 
 place, which such guardian may provide for such child, or the court 
 may enter an order committing such child to some suitable state insti- 
 tution, of this or any other State organized for the care of dependent 
 or neglected children, or to some training school or industrial school or 
 children's home-finding society of this or any other State or to some 
 association embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtain- 
 ing homes for neglected or dependent children, which association shall 
 have been accredited as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 8. Guardianship. In every case where such child is committed 
 to an institution, or association, the court shall appoint the president, 
 secretary, or superintendent of such institution or association, guardian 
 over the person of such child and shall order such guardian to place 
 such child in such institution or with such association, whereof he is 
 such officer, and to hold such child, care for, train, and educate it sub- 
 ject to the rules and laws that may be in force from time to time gov- 
 erning such institution or association. 
 
 Sec. 9. Deli^iquent Children. If the court shall find any male 
 child under the age of seventeen years, or any female child under the 
 age of eighteen years, to be delinquent within the meaning of this Act, 
 the court may allow such child to remain at its own home subject to 
 the friendly visitation of a probation officer, such child to report to the 
 court or probation officer with such record of its conduct in its home 
 or school as the court may require as often as may be required, and if 
 the parents, parent, guardian, or custodian consent thereto, or if the 
 court shall further find either that the parent, parents, guardian, or 
 custodian are unfit or improper guardians or are unable or unwilling 
 to care for, protect, educate, or discipline such child and shall further 
 find that the parent, parents, guardian, or custodian are unfit or 
 improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, 
 educate or discipline such child and shall further find that it is for the 
 interest of such child and of the people of this State that such child 
 be taken from the custody of its parents, parent, custodian, or guard- 
 
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 ian, the court may appoint some proper person or probation officer 
 guardian over the person of such child and permit it to remain at its 
 home, or order such guardian to cause such child to be placed in a 
 suitable family home, or cause it to be boarded out in some suitable 
 home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise 
 for the payment of the board ; or the court may commit such child to 
 any institution incorporated under the laws of this or any other State 
 to care for delinquent children, or to any institution that has been or 
 may be provided by the State, county, city, town, or village suitable for 
 the care of delinqvient children, including a detention home or school, 
 or to some association that will receive it, embracing in its objects the 
 care of neglected, dependent, or delinquent children and which has 
 been duly accredited as hereinafter provided. In every case where 
 such child is committed to an institution or association, the court shall 
 appoint the president, secretary, or superintendent of such institution 
 or association, guardian over the person of such child and shall order 
 such guardian to place such child in such institution or with such asso- 
 ciation, whereof he is such officer, and to hold such child, care for, 
 train, and educate it subject to the rules and laws that may be in force, 
 from time to time governing such institution or association. 
 
 Sec. 10. The court maj^ in its discretion in any case of a delinquent 
 child permit such child to be proceeded against in accordance with the 
 laws that may be in force in this State governing the commission of 
 crimes or violation of city, village, or town ordinances; in such case 
 the petition filed under this Act shall be dismissed. 
 
 Sec. 11. The court may when the health or condition of any child 
 found to be dependent, neglected, or delinquent, requires it, order the 
 guardian to cause such child to be placed in a public hospital or insti- 
 tution for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institu- 
 tion, which will receive it for like purposes, without charge to the 
 public authorities. 
 
 Sec. 12. Any child found to be dependent, neglected, or delinquent 
 as defined in this Act, and awarded by the court to a guardian, institu- 
 tion or association, shall be held by such guardian, institution, or asso- 
 ciation, as the case may be, by virtue of the order entered of record in 
 such case, and the Clerk of the court shall issue and cause to be deliv- 
 ered to such guardian or association a certified copy of such order of 
 the court, which certified copy of such order shall be proof of the 
 authority of such guardian, institution, or association in behalf of such 
 child, and no other process need issue to warrant the keeping of such 
 child. The guardianship under this Act shall continue until the court 
 shall by further order otherwise direct, but not after such child shall 
 have reached the age of twenty-one years. 
 
 Sec. 13. The court may, from time to time, cite into court the 
 guardian, institution, or association to whose care anj^ dependent, neg- 
 lected, or delinquent child has been awarded, and require him or it to 
 make a full, true, and perfect report as to his or its doings in behalf of 
 such child; and it shall be the duty of such guardian, institution, or 
 association, within ten days after such citation, to make such report 
 either in writing verified by affidavit, or verbally under oath in open 
 
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 court, or otherwise as the court shall direct, and upon the hearing of 
 such report, with or without further evidence, the court may, if it sees 
 fit, remove such guardian and appoint another in his stead, or take 
 such child away from such institution or association and place it in 
 another, or restore such child to the custody of its parents or former 
 guardian or custodian. 
 
 Sec. 14. Transfers From Justice and Police Magistrates. "When in 
 any county where a court is held as provided in section two of this Act, 
 a male child under the age of seventeen years, or a female child under 
 the age of eighteen years, is arrested with or without warrant, such 
 child may, instead of being taken before a Justice of the Peace or 
 police magistrate, be taken directly before such court; or if the child 
 is taken before a Justice of the Peace or police magistrate, such Justice 
 or magistrate shall inquire into such case, and unless he be of thd 
 opinion that no sufficient foundation exists for the charge of depend- 
 ency or delinquency, it shall be the duty of such Justice of the Peace 
 or police magistrate to transfer the case to the District Court, and the 
 officer having the child in charge to take the child before such court, 
 and in any case the District Court may proceed to hear and dispose of 
 the case in the same manner as if the child had been brought before the 
 court upon petition as herein provided. In any case, the court shall 
 require notice to be given and investigation to be made as in other cases 
 under this Act, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time for 
 that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 15. Children Under Twelve Years Not to he Committed to Jail. 
 No court or magistrate shall commit a child under twelve years of age 
 to a jail or police station, but if such child is unable to give bail it may 
 be committed to the care of the Sheriff, police officer, or probation offi- 
 cer who shall keep such child in some suitable place provided by the 
 city or county outside of the enclosure of any jail or police station. 
 When any child shall be sentenced to confinement in any institution to 
 which adult convicts are sentenced, it shall be unlawful to confine such 
 child in the same building with such adult convicts, or to confine such 
 child in the same j^ard or enclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring 
 such child into any yard or building in which adult convicts may be 
 present. In counties of over fifteen thousand population it shall be the 
 duty of the proper authorities to provide and maintain at public 
 expense a house separated and removed from any jail or lockup, to be 
 m charge of a matron or other person of good moral character, wherein 
 all children within the provisions of this Act shall, when necessary 
 before or after trial, be detained either for securing the attendance of 
 such child at any hearing or trial of any cause, or for such disciplinary 
 purposes as may seem necessary to the court for the best interests of 
 said child and of the State. Any child within the provisions of this 
 Act, informed against or regarding which a petition has been filed, or 
 for any purpose taken into custody, shall, at any time before it is tried 
 and adjudged to be delinquent, be entitled, by any friend or parent 
 offering sufficient surety, to give bond or other security for its appear- 
 ance at any hearing or trial of such case as such right is given to per- 
 sons informed against for crime ; and the court may in any case, upon 
 the request of said child or parent representing it, appoint counsel to 
 
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 appear and defend on behalf of any such child, such counsel to receive 
 no pay from the county. 
 
 Sec. 16. Agents of Juvenile Reformatories. It shall be the duty of 
 the board of managers, trustees, or such authorities as may be vested 
 by law with the control or management of any state institution now or 
 hereafter established to which juvenile delinquents may be committed 
 by the courts of this State, to maintain an agent of such institution, 
 whose duty it shall be to examine the homes of children paroled from 
 such institution, for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to said 
 institutions where they have suitable homes ; to assist children paroled 
 or discharged from such institutions in finding employment and to 
 maintain a friendly supervision over paroled inmates during the con- 
 tinuance of their parole; such agent shall hold office subject to the 
 pleasure of the board or other authority having charge of said institu- 
 tion, making the appointment, and shall receive such compensation as 
 such board or authorities controlling such institution may determine 
 out of any funds appropriated for such institution which may be appli- 
 cable thereto. 
 
 Sec. 17. Incorporation of Association. No association whose objects 
 embrace the caring for dependent, neglected, or delinquent children 
 shall hereafter be incorporated in this State. 
 
 Sec. 18. The State of Nevada shall be chargeable with and defray 
 all expenses incurred for the support, maintenance, education, care, 
 custody, and control of each and every child after its commitment 
 under the terms and provisions of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 19. Order Relating to Adoption. Whenever the petition filed, 
 as is provided in section four hereof, or a supplemental petition filed at 
 any time after the appointment of the guardian, shall pray that the 
 guardian appointed or to be appointed shall be authorized to consent 
 to the legal adoption of the child, and the court upon the hearing shall 
 find that it is to the best interests of such child that the guardian be 
 given such authority, the court may, in its order appointing such 
 guardian, empower him to appear in court where any proceedings for 
 the adoption of such child may be pending, and to consent to such 
 adoption; and such consent shall be sufficient to authorize the court 
 where the adoption proceedings are pending to enter a proper order 
 or decree of adoption without further notice to or consent by the 
 parents or relatives of such child; provided, Jwivever, that before enter- 
 ing such order the court shall find from the evidence that (1) the 
 parents or surviving parent of a legitimate child or the mother of an 
 illegitimate child, or if the child has no parents living, the guardian of 
 the child, if any, or if there is no parent living and the child has no 
 guardian or the guardian is not known to petitioner, then a known, 
 near relative of the child, if any there be, consent to such order; 
 or (2) that one parent consents and the other is unfit for any of the 
 reasons hereinafter specified to have the child, or that both parents are 
 or that the surviving parent or the mother of an illegitimate child is so 
 unfit for such reasons— the grounds of unfitness being (a) depravity, 
 (6) open and notorious adultery or fornication, (c) habitual drunken- 
 ness for the space of one year prior to the filing of petition, (d) extreme 
 and repeated cruelty to the child, (e) abandonment of the child or 
 
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 (/) desertion of the child for more than six months next preceding the 
 filing of the petition, and (3) that such child, if of the age of fourteen 
 years or over, consents to such order. 
 
 Sec. 20. Foreign Corporations. No association which is incorpo- 
 rated under the laws of any other State than the State of Nevada shall 
 place any child in any family home within the boundaries of the State 
 of Nevada either with or without indenture or for adoption, unless the 
 said association shall have furnished the Attorney-General with such 
 guaranty as he may require that no child shall be brought into the 
 State of Nevada by such society or its agents, having any contagious, 
 or incurable disease, or having au}^ deformity or being feeble minded, 
 or of vicious character, and that said association shall promptly receive 
 and remove from the State any child brought into the State of Nevada 
 by its agent, which shall become a public charge within the period of 
 five years after being brought into the State. Anj^ person who shall 
 receive, to be placed in a home, or shall place in a home, any child in 
 behalf of any association incorporated in any other State than the 
 State of Nevada, which shall not have complied with the provisions of 
 this Act, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty 
 days, or fined no less than five dollars or more than one hundred dol- 
 lars, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 21. Religious Preference. The court in committing children 
 shall place them as far as practicable in the care and custody of some 
 individual holding the same religious belief as the parents of the said 
 child, or with some association or institution which is controlled by 
 perspns of like religious faith of the parents of said child. 
 
 Sec; 22. Officers of Courts. It shall be unlawful for any court 
 clerk or other person to tax or collect, or for any county to pay any 
 fees whatever which may be permitted by any law to be taxed or col- 
 lected for the benefit of any court oflicer or person for any case con- 
 cerning any child coming within the provisions of this Act for violating 
 any law of this State unless such child shall be proceeded against under 
 the provisions and in accordance with the purpose of this Act, except 
 in capital cases or where the courts shall direct a proceeding under the 
 criminal code, as provided in section ten of this Act, or where a case 
 has been instituted before a Justice of the Peace or police magistrate, 
 who shall duly comply with the terms of section fourteen of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 23. Construction of Act. This Act shall be liberally construed 
 to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to wit, that the care, 
 custody, and discipline of the child shall approximate as nearly as may 
 be that which should be given by its parents, and in all cases of 
 dependency where it can be properly done, that the child shall be placed 
 in an approved family home, and become a member of a home and 
 family by legal tdoption or otherwise, and in cases of delinquency, 
 that, as far as possible, or practicable, any delinquent child shall be 
 treated, not as a criminal, but as misdirected and misguided and need- 
 ing aid, encouragement, and assistance, and if such child cannot be 
 handled, properly cared for, and corrected in its own home, or with the 
 assistance and help of the probation officers, then that it may be placed 
 in a suitable institution where it may be helped and educated and 
 equipped for industrial efficiency and useful citizenship. 
 
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 Sec. 24. Siipj^ort of Children. If it shall appear, upon the hearing- 
 of the cause, that the parent, parents, or any person or persons named 
 in such petition who are in law liable for the support of such child, are 
 able to contribute to the support of such child, the court shall enter an 
 order requiring such parent, parents, or other persons to pay to the 
 guardian so appointed, or to the institution to which such child may be 
 committed, or to the State, a reasonable sum from time to time for the 
 support, maintenance, or education of such child, and the court may 
 order such parent, parents, or other persons to give reasonable security 
 for the payment of such sum or sums, and, upon fail^ire to pay, the 
 court may enforce obedience to such order as for contempt of court. 
 The court may, on application and on such notice as the court may 
 direct from time to time, make such alterations in the allowance as may 
 appear reasonable and proper. 
 
 Sec. 25. Guardianshi'p of Person. Nothing in this Act shall be 
 construed to give the guardian appointed under this Act the guardian- 
 ship of the estate of the child or to change the age of minority for any 
 other purpose except the custody of the child. 
 
 Sec. 26. Appeals. Cases under this Act may be reviewed by appeal 
 to the Supreme Court. 
 
 Sec. 27. Contempt of Court. Any person who shall interfere with 
 the direction or disposition of any child under any order of the court 
 concerning any child made in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, 
 or with any probation or other officer of the court in carrying out the 
 directions of the court under any such order, shall be held to be in 
 contempt of court and subject to punishment as for contempt of court. 
 
 Sec. 28. Validity of Acts. The invalidity of any portion of this 
 Act shall not affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can 
 be given effect without such invalid part. 
 
 PROTECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
 
 Chap. XIX — An Act to secure protection to school children and to 
 preserve the peace of public schools, and matters connected there- 
 
 ^*^^- Approved March 6, 1893, p. 106. 
 
 Misdemeanor to Interfere With Pupil. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to 
 detain, beat, whip, or otherwise interfere with any pupil or pupils 
 attending any public school in the State of Nevada on his, her, or their 
 way to or from such school against the will of such pupil or pupils. 
 
 Misdemeanor to Disturl) School. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to dis- 
 turb the peace of any public school in the State of Nevada by using vile 
 or indecent language, or by threatening or assaulting any pupil or 
 teacher Avithin the building or grounds of such school, and for the pur- 
 pose of this Act the ground of every public school in the State of 
 Nevada shall extend to a distance of fifty yards in all directions from 
 the school building. 
 
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 Penalty. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person or persons convicted of a misdemeanor under 
 either of the foregoing sections of this Act shall be subject to a fine not 
 exceeding three hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not 
 to exceed six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 PROTECTION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY. 
 
 Chap. XX — An Act to prevent malicious injury to church, school, and 
 other buildings and property, and to protect persons from mali- 
 cious annoyance, and matters properly relating thereto. 
 
 Approved March 13, 1895, p. 63. 
 
 Injure or Deface Buildings. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to 
 wilfully and maliciously injure, mark, or deface any church edifice, 
 schoolhouse or other building, public or private, its fixtures, books, or 
 appurtenances, or to commit any nuisance therein, or to purposely and 
 maliciously commit anj^ trespass upon the grounds attached thereto, or 
 any fixtures placed thereon, or any enclosure or sidewalk about the 
 same, or in any manner to maliciously and purposely interfere with or 
 disturb those peaceably assembled within such building or buildings. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons convicted of a misdemeanor under 
 the foregoing section of this Act shall be subject to a fine, not exceeding 
 two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail not to 
 exceed six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 LOCATION OP HOSPITALS. 
 
 Chap. XXI — An Act to regulate the location, equipment, or mainte- 
 nance of hospitals. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1907, p. 430. 
 
 Hospitals Prohibited Near Schools. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm, cor- 
 poration, or association, to locate or maintain any hospital for the treat- 
 ment of diseased or injured persons within three hundred feet of any 
 public school building ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall apply to 
 hospitals now being operated. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined 
 not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars. 
 
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 LOCATION OF HOUSES OF ILL-FAME. 
 
 Chap. XXII — An Act to regulate houses of prostitution, dance-houses, 
 and houses ivhere beer, wine, or spirituous liquors are sold. 
 
 Approved February 26, 1887, p. 84. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent of any 
 owner, or any other person, to keep any house of ill-fame, or to let or 
 rent to any person whomsoever, for any length of time whatever, to be 
 kept or used as a house of ill-fame, or resort for the purpose of prosti- 
 tution, any house, room, or structure situated within four hundred 
 yards of any schoolhouse or schoolroom used by any public or common 
 school in the State of Nevada, or within four hundred yards of any 
 church edifice, building, or structure, erected and used for devotional 
 services or religious worship in the State of Nevada. As amended. 
 Stats. 1903, p. 82. 
 
 Sec. 2. [Regarding location on main streets or thoroughfares.] 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person violating the provisions of sections one or two 
 of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
 shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three 
 hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned in the county jail not less than 
 five nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, 
 in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 4. [Repealed, Statutes 1889, p. 85.] 
 
 Sec. 5. [Regarding evidence.] 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the District Attorney and Sheriff of 
 each county in this State to see that the provisions of this Act are 
 strictly enforced and carried into effect, and upon neglect so to do they, 
 or either of them, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in office, and 
 may be proceeded against as provided in sections sixty -three to seventy- 
 two, inclusive, of an Act entitled "An Act relating to elections," 
 approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (See 
 Cutting's Compiled Laws, Sections 1646 to 1655 inclusive.) 
 
 Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after 
 the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. 
 
 TOWN-SITE BLOCK RESERVED FOR SCHOOL USES. 
 
 Chap. XXIII — An Act authorizing the owners of land to lay out and 
 plat such land into lots, streets, alleys, and public places, and pro- 
 viding for the approval and filing of maps or plats thereof. 
 
 Approved March 13, 1905, p. 223. 
 
 Section 1. Owner May Plat Lands. It shall be lawful for any 
 owner or owners of any land, or any trustee or trustees selected by such 
 owners, to lay out and plat such land into lots, streets, alleys, and pub- 
 lic squares. 
 
 Sec. 2. Map. Whenever any lands are hereafter laid out and 
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 platted as mentioned in section one, the owner or owners of the same 
 or any trustee or trustees selected by such owner or owners, shall cause 
 to be made out an accurate map or plat, particularly setting forth and 
 describing : 
 
 1. All the parcels of ground so laid out and platted by their bound- 
 aries, course, and extent, and whether thej^ are intended for avenues, 
 streets, lanes, alleys, commons, or other public uses, together with such 
 as may be reserved for public purposes, and every map or plat of ground 
 so laid out shall, if it covers forty or more acres of land, show one block 
 for everj^ quarter-section of land in the parcel of ground so mapped or 
 platted, and the block so designated upon the map shall be forever 
 devoted and dedicated to the uses of the public-school system of the 
 district in which it is located. 
 
 2. All lots intended for sale by numbers and their precise length and 
 width. As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 111. 
 
 [Sections 3 to 12, inclusive, relate to drawing, approving, and filing 
 such plats. See Statutes 1905, p. 224.] 
 
 TEACHERS EXEMPT FROM JURY DUTY. 
 
 Chap. XXIV — An Act to exempt teachers from jury duty. 
 
 Approved March 14, 1903, p. 111. 
 
 Section 1. Teachers actually engaged in teaching in the public 
 scTiools of the State and members of the Faculty of the State University 
 shall be exempt from jury duty during the session of the public schools 
 or University, but nothing in this Act shall be construed as to excuse 
 said teachers from liability to jury duty during a vacation. 
 
 THE NATIONAL FLAG. 
 
 Chap. XXV — An Act to require School Trustees to procure and hoist 
 on public schoolhouses the United States flag. 
 
 Approved March 13, 1909, p. 100. 
 
 Section 1. Boards of School Trustees in all school districts through- 
 out the State shall provide for their respective schoolhouses a suitable 
 flag of the United States, which shall be hoisted on the respective 
 schoolhouses on all suitable occasions. 
 
 Sec. 2. The respective Boards of Trustees are hereby authorized 
 and directed to cause said flags to be paid for out of any county school 
 money in their respective school district funds not required for regular 
 school expenses. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect on approval. 
 
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 THE STATE FLAG. 
 
 Chap. XXVI — An Act adopting the design of the flag of the State 
 
 of Nevada. 
 
 Approved Februaiy 25, 1905, p. 42. 
 
 Section 1. The flaii' of the State of Nevada will be of blue bunting, 
 with the following devices thereon, to wit: The word "NEVADA" in 
 silver-colored block letters, equidistant between the top and bottom ; 
 near the top the word "SILVER" in silver color, and near the bottom 
 the word "GOLD" in gold color, each of which shall be in Roman 
 capital letters, and there shall be under the word "Silver" a row of 
 eight stars in silver color, under which and above the word "Nevada" 
 a row of nine stars in gold color, at each end of the word ' ' Nevada ' ' a 
 silver-colored star, and under the word ' ' Nevada ' ' a row of nine stars 
 in gold color, under which and above the word "Gold" a row of eight 
 stars in silver color. Each star shall have five points and be placed 
 with one point up. 
 
 ARBOR DAY. 
 
 Chap. XXVII — An Act establishing Arbor Day. 
 
 Approved February 10, 1887, p. 51. 
 School Holiday. 
 
 Section 1. Arbor Day is hereby established in the State of Nevada, 
 and shall be fixed each year by proclamation of the Governor at least 
 one month before the fixing of such date, and it shall be observed as a 
 holiday by the public schools of this State; provided, that. nothing in 
 this Act shall be so construed as making this a legal holiday, so far as 
 the courts and civil contracts are concerned. 
 
 Governor to Make Proclamation. 
 
 Sec. 2. His Excellency the Governor is requested to make procla- 
 mation setting forth the provisions of the first section of this statute, 
 and recommending that Arbor Day so established, be observed by the 
 people of the State in the planting of trees, shrubs, and vines, in the 
 promotion of forest growth and culture, in the adornment of public 
 cind private grounds, places, and ways, and in such other efforts and 
 undertakings as shall be in harmony with the character of the day so 
 established. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA. 
 
 Chap. XXVIII— .In Act to fix the name of the State University of 
 
 Nevada. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1907, p. 433. 
 Section 1. The legal and corporate name of the State University 
 shall be the University of Nevada. 
 
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 Chap. XXIX — A71 Act relating to the State University, and matters 
 properly connected therewith. 
 
 Approved February 7, 1887, p. 42. 
 
 Literary and Scientific Course at State University. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be established in the State University of 
 Nevada, a school for the instruction of teachers, in which shall be 
 taught all the branches of instruction which are taught in the common 
 schools of this State, together with the theory and practice of teaching, 
 school law, botany, physiology, and geology. There shall also be taught 
 in said University, chemistry, assaying, mineralogy, surveying, and 
 geology, so far as they relate to the theory and practice of mining, 
 agriculture, and the mechanic arts. There shall also be taught in the 
 preparatory department of said University, typewriting, shorthand, 
 telegraphy, bookkeeping, and commercial law, so far as they relate to 
 the practical affairs of life. As amended, Stats. 1891, p. 92. 
 
 Five Regents Authorized — Two Elected at Every General Election. 
 
 Sec. 2. From and after the first day of January, A. D. 1907, the 
 Board of Regents of the State University shall consist of five members ; 
 those who are elected for the term of four years to be known as ' ' Long- 
 Term Regents ' ' and those who are elected for the term of two years to 
 be known as ''Short-Term Regents," and to hold their offices for the 
 several periods for which they are elected, and until their successors 
 are elected and qualified. At the general election held in 1906 there 
 shall be elected two Long-Term Regents, who shall hold their office for 
 the term of four years, and two Short-Term Regents, who shall hold 
 their office for the period of two years. Thereafter, at each general 
 election, there shall be elected two Regents for the long term and one 
 Regent for the short term in the same manner as other state officers 
 are elected. The persons elected as Regents under the provisions of 
 this Act, before entering upon the discharge of their office, shall take 
 and subscribe to the official oath and file the same in the office of the 
 Secretary of State. In case of vacancy in said Board of Regents, the 
 Governor shall fill the same by appointment until the next general elec- 
 tion, when such vacancy shall be filled by election. The term of office 
 of each Regent shall begin on the first Monday of January after his 
 election. As amended, Stats. 1905, p. 190. 
 
 Powers and Duties of Regents. 
 
 Sec. 3. The powers and duties of the Board of Regents are as 
 loUows : 
 
 First — To prescribe rules for their own government, and for the 
 government of the University. 
 
 Second — To prescribe rules for the reports of officers and teachers of 
 the University. 
 
 Third — To prescribe the course of study, the time and standard of 
 graduation, and the commencement and duration of the terms, and the 
 length of the vacations of the University. 
 
 Fourth — To prescribe the text-books, and provide apparatus and 
 furniture for the use of pupils. 
 
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 Fifth — To appoint a President of the University, who shall have a 
 diploma from some recognized college of learning of good standing, or 
 some state normal school, who has had at least five years of practical 
 experience as an instructor; who is familiar with the modern methods 
 of imparting instruction generally approved in the United States, and 
 who shall be endorsed as to moral character and qualifications as an 
 instructor by the president and faculty of three institutions of learning 
 authorized by law to confer degrees. 
 
 Sixth — To prescribe the duties of the President, and fix his salary 
 and the salaries of all other teachers in the University. 
 
 Seventh — To require the President, under their direction, to establish 
 and maintain training and model schools, and require the pupils of the 
 University to teach and instruct classes therein. 
 
 Eighth — To control the expenditures of all moneys appropriated for 
 the support and maintenance of the University, and all moneys received 
 from any source whatsoever. 
 
 Ninth — To keep open to public inspection an account of receipts and 
 expenditures. 
 
 Tenth — To annually report to the Governor a statement of all their 
 transactions, and of all other matters pertaining to the University. 
 
 Eleventh — To transmit with such report a copy of the President's 
 annual report. 
 
 Twelfth — To revoke any diploma by them granted, on receiving sat- 
 isfactory evidence that the holder thereof is addicted to drunkenness, 
 is guilty of gross immorality, or is reputably dishonest in his or her 
 dealings; provided, that such person shall have at least thirty days' 
 previous notice of such contemplated action, and shall, if he or she ask 
 it, be heard in his or her own defense. 
 
 Chairman to he Appointed. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Regents shall have the power to appoint a 
 chairman, who shall receive no compensation therefor, nor shall any 
 member receive any compensation for his services except necessary 
 expenses in attending meetings of the board. The Board of Regents 
 may employ a clerk of said board, who shall receive a salary of twenty- 
 five dollars per month, and who shall keep a full record of all proceed- 
 ings of the board, which shall at all times be open to public inspection, 
 and said clerk shall not be a teacher in said University. 
 
 Sec. 5. The board must hold four regular meetings in each year, 
 and may hold special meetings at the call of the chairman of the board. 
 
 Sec. 6. The President of the University must make a detailed annual 
 report to the Board of Regents, with a catalogue of pupils, and such 
 other particulars as the board may require or he may think useful. 
 
 Academic Degree, How Issued — State Normal ScJiool — State High- 
 School Certificates — Life Diploma — Grammar-Grade Diploma — 
 Cause for Revocation — Diploma of Graduation. 
 Sec. 7. Upon the recommendation of the President of the Univer- 
 sity, the Board of Regents shall issue to those who worthily complete 
 the full course of study in the School of Mines, or in the School of Agri- 
 culture, or in the School of Liberal Arts, or in any equivalent course 
 
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 that may hereafter be prescribed, a diploma of graduation, conferring 
 the proper academic degree, from the Nevada State University; and 
 no diploma bearing the distinctive title, "Nevada State University," 
 shall be issued to any one who has not completed the full course of 
 study as above set forth. Upon the recommendation of the President 
 of the University, the Board of Regents shall issue to those who worthily 
 complete the full four years' course of study prescribed in the Nevada 
 State Normal School, a department of the State University, a diploma 
 of graduation, and said diploma shall bear the heading, "The Nevada 
 State Normal School," [and to all persons receiving this diploma, the 
 State Board of Education shall issue a state high-school certificate of 
 the first grade, good for five years. To the holders of the above state 
 high-school certificates of the first grade, the State Board of Education 
 shall grant a life diploma when said graduates of the Nevada State 
 Normal School shall have completed at least five years of successful 
 instruction in the public schools of Nevada, or of any other State.] 
 Upon the recommendation of the President of the University, the Board 
 of Regents shall issue to those who worthily complete the three years' 
 course of study prescribed in the Nevada State Normal School, a 
 grammar-grade diploma of graduation, and said diploma shall bear the 
 heading, "Nevada State Normal School Grammar-Grade Diploma," 
 [and to all persons receiving this grammar-grade diploma, the State 
 Board of Education shall grant a grammar-grade state certificate good 
 for five years.] The Board of Regents may require said Normal School 
 graduates, before granting the diplomas herein provided for, to sign 
 the following obligation : "I hereby agree to report to the President of 
 the University, by letter, at least twice a year for three years after my 
 graduation, and once a year thereafter, so long as I continue in the 
 profession of teaching, and when I shall leave the profession I will 
 report the fact to him, with the cause therefor. A failure to make such 
 reports may be considered sufficient cause for the revocation of mj^ 
 diploma." And further it is herebj^ expressly provided that the grad- 
 uates of the Nevada State Normal School for the year 1895 shall receive 
 their diplomas and state certificates according to the Act of March 19, 
 1891, hereby amended. Upon the recommendation of the President of 
 the University, the Board of Regents shall issue to those who worthily 
 complete the full course of study in any other department of the Uni- 
 versity, not equivalent to a regular University course, a diploma of 
 graduation, but said diploma shall bear the name of the department 
 from which it is issued, and in no case to bear the heading of the reg- 
 ular University diploma. As amended, Stats. 1895, p. 89. 
 
 [Portions in brackets, superseded by Statutes of 1907. See Chapter 
 II, Section 22.] 
 
 Duty of President of University. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the President of the University to 
 instruct in the University, and, under the direction of the Board of 
 Regents, to manage all matters connected with the institution, to employ 
 assistant teachers and servants, purchase supplies, and make monthly 
 statements to the Board of Regents of all receipts and expenditures, 
 supported by vouchers. 
 
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 No Dis crimination. 
 
 Sec. 9. There shall be no discrimination in the admission of pupils 
 on account of sex, race, or color; but no person shall be admitted who 
 is not of good moral character, and who has not arrived at the age of 
 fifteen years, and passed Such an examination as shall be prescribed by 
 the Board of Regents, and no person under said age shall hereafter be 
 taught in said institution. • 
 
 Sec. 10. Tuition shall be free. 
 
 Sec. 11. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction must visit 
 the University at least every three months, inquire into its condition 
 and management and report to the Board of Regents quarter-yearly 
 the condition of the institution, with such suggestions as he may deem 
 proper. 
 
 Duties of Board of Examiners. 
 
 Sec. 12. All expenses incurred, of every name and nature, involving 
 the payment of money by or under the direction of the Board of 
 Regents of the University, shall be passed upon by the Board of Exam- 
 iners as other accounts against the State, and be paid out of the moneys 
 appropriated for the University. 
 
 Sec. 13. [Repealing certain laws and sections of laws regarding the 
 University. See Statutes of 1887, p. 45.] 
 
 ORES TO BE ANALYZED AT UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Chap. XXX — An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act relat- 
 ing to the State University, and matters properly connected there- 
 with," approved February 7, 1887. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1895, p. 76. 
 
 Belating to Chemical Analysis at State University. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President of the State Uni- 
 versity, in addition to his other duties as fixed by law, to cause to be 
 analyzed by an assistant, teacher, or teachers employed at the State 
 University, any ores, mineral, soil, or water taken from within the 
 boundaries of the State of Nevada, and sent by any citizen of said State 
 for that purpose. Any citizen of the State may send any such sub- 
 stances and have the same analyzed free of charge, and the result of the 
 same returned to him by mail with as near as possible an explanation 
 of their uses and value in market, and there shall be kept at the State 
 University a book of record open for inspection, under such rules as 
 may be made by the Regents, of all mineral, ores, or other matters so 
 sent, with the history of such mineral or other matters, stating the 
 name of the person or persons from whom received, the district and 
 county from which it came, and all other matters that may be beneficial 
 touching the same. A duplicate of the sample analyzed, as far as prac- 
 ticable, shall be kept at the University, properly labeled, so as to cor- 
 respond to the record, and properly preserved. 
 
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 Relating to Analysis m Duplicate. 
 
 Sec. 2. If the same kind of matter for analysis is sent from the 
 same place it shall not be necessary to analyze the same, but a duplicate 
 of the analysis shall be sent by mail to the person desiring the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. Samples for analysis shall be analyzed in the order received. 
 
 Assays for Gold and Silver. « 
 
 Sec. 4. Sample assays for gold or silver shall be made, and when 
 the value per ton exceeds five dollars in gold, the returns shall state the 
 fact thus, "Test for gold." And when the value per ton exceeds five 
 dollars in silver the returns shall state the fact thus, ' ' Test for silver. ' ' 
 As amended, Stats. 1897, p. 91. 
 
 HONORARY BOARD OF VISITORS. 
 
 Chap. XXXI — An Act creating the Honorary Board of Visitors of the 
 Nevada State University, and other matters relating thereto. 
 
 Approved March 11, 1895, p. 40. 
 
 Board Created — Term of Office. 
 
 Section 1. There is herebj^ created a board to be known as the 
 Honorary Board of Visitors of the Nevada State University. Said 
 board shall consist of fifteen members. The Chief Justice of the 
 Supreme Court shall be ex officio a member and the chairman of said 
 board. In the absence of said Chief Justice the members of the board 
 may elect one of their number to act as temporary chairman. The term 
 of office of the members of said board shall be two years from the date 
 of their appointment and until their successors are appointed. 
 
 Who Shall Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Governor shall appoint and commission, within forty 
 days after the passage of this Act, from each county, one suitable and 
 discreet person who is interested in higher education and who is an 
 actual resident of said county as a member of said board. 
 
 Duties of Board. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said Board of Visitors to meet annu- 
 ally at the seat of the Nevada State University during commencement 
 week, and inspect the grounds, buildings, and equipment of said Uni- 
 versity, and also to inquire into the actual state of the discipline, 
 instruction, police administration, and other affairs or concerns of the 
 University. The Board of Visitors shall report thereon to the Governor 
 within thirty days after each annual meeting, for the information of 
 the people of the State and of the next succeeding Legislature of the 
 State, their action as such visitors, with their views and recommenda- 
 tions concerning the University, such as they shall deem wise and just 
 and for the best interests of the University. 
 
 Notice to Board. 
 
 Sec. 4. The President of the University shall cause at least thirty 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA, 89 
 
 days ' notice to be given to the members of the Honorary Board of Vis- 
 itors of the time and place of their annual meeting. 
 
 No Compensation. 
 
 Sec. 5. No compensation shall be made to the members of said 
 Board of Visitors for their services or for their traveling expenses, but 
 the Board of Regents shall pay out of the University Contingent Fund 
 their expenses for board and lodging while at the University. 
 
 VIRGINIA CITY SCHOOL OF MINES. 
 
 Chap. XXXII — An Act creating a iScJiool of Mifoes, to be located at 
 Virginia City, State of Nevada. 
 
 Approved March 20, 1903, p. 211. 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created a School of Mines, to be known 
 as the Virginia City School of Mines, to be located at Virginia City, 
 Storey County, Nevada, and to be under the direction and control of 
 the State Board of Education. 
 
 EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, AND THE BLIND. 
 
 Chap. XXXIII — An Act to provide for the education of the deaf and 
 dumb, and the blind of the State of Nevada. 
 
 Approved March 2, 1869, p. 103. 
 
 Section 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is authorized 
 to make arrangements with the directors of any institutions for the 
 deaf and dumb and the blind in the State of California, or in the State 
 of Utah, for the admission, support, education, and care of the deaf and 
 dumb and the blind of this State, and for that purpose is hereby 
 empowered to make all needful contracts and agreements to carry out 
 the provisions of this Act. As amended, Stats. 1907, p. 371. 
 
 Application, How Made — Superintendent of Public Instruction to Issue 
 Certificate. 
 Sec. 2. Upon application under oath of a parent, relative, guardian 
 or nearest friend of any deaf, dumb or blind person, resident of this 
 State, setting forth that by reason of deafness, dumbness, or blindness, 
 such person is disqualified from being taught by the ordinary process 
 of instruction or education, and that such parent, relative, guardian or 
 nearest friend is unable to pay for his or her support, education and 
 instruction in the aforesaid institutions, and file the same with the 
 Board of County Commissioners of the proper county, and such board 
 shall be satisfied of the truth thereof, and such board shall have made 
 application to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for that pur- 
 pose, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to 
 issue a certificate to that effect, which certificate being produced shall 
 
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 be the authority of the directors of any of the institutions aforesaid for 
 receiving such deaf and dumb, or blind, person. As amended, Stats. 
 1907, p. 371. 
 
 Sec. 3. [Obsolete.] 
 
 Persons Entitled to Benefit of This Act — Adidts Must Be Residents for 
 Five Years. 
 Sec. 4. All deaf and dumb or blind persons that are not mentally 
 or physically incapacitated to receive an education or instruction, that 
 are free from offensive or contagious diseases, and are unable to pay 
 for their support, education, and instruction in the aforesaid institu- 
 tions, and whose parent, relative, guardian, or nearest friend is unable 
 to pay for his or her support, education, and instruction in any of the 
 aforesaid institutions, shall be entitled to the benefits intended by this 
 Act, and it is hereby made the duty of the Board of County Commis- 
 sioners of such county to make provisions, at the expense of the county, 
 for carrying such person to the office of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, who shall make necessary arrangements for carrying the 
 person to any of the institutions of instruction before mentioned, at the 
 expense of the State, payable out of the fund provided by this Act. All 
 deaf, dumb or blind persons over the age of twenty-one years seeking 
 admission into the aforesaid institutions shall, before making applica- 
 tion under this Act, have been actual bona fide residents of the State 
 of Nevada for the period of five years preceding the date of making 
 such application. As amended, Stats. 1907, p. 372. 
 
 FEEE PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 
 
 Chap. XXXIV — An Act to provide for free public libraries, and other 
 matters relating thereto. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1895, p. 79. 
 
 Establishment of Free Public Libraries — Tax Levy — Library Fund. 
 
 Section 1. Whenever in any county in the State of Nevada a peti- 
 tion or petitions for the establishment of a free public library, certified 
 by the District Judge of any Judicial District of the State- of Nevada 
 as being signed by a majority of the taxpayers or by taxpayers repre- 
 senting a majority of the taxable property, as shown by the last pre- 
 ceding assessment roll of any city, unincorporated town or school 
 district shall be presented to the Board of County Commissioners of 
 the county in which said city, unincorporated town or school district is 
 situated, accompanied by affidavit of one or more of thp signers thereof 
 that the signatures thereto are genuine, the said Board of County Com- 
 missioners shall within ten days after said petition or petitions are so 
 presented levy a tax upon all taxable property of said city, unincorpo- 
 rated town, or school district of not less than five nor more than ten 
 cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property therein 
 for the purpose of creating a fund to be known as the ' ' Library Fund. ' ' 
 And each year thereafter said Board of County Commissioners at the 
 
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 time and in the manner other taxes are levied shall levy a tax upon 
 said property for said purpose of not more than ten cents on each one 
 hundred dollars valuation thereof. As amended, Stats. 1907, p. 181. 
 
 State Board of Education to Name Library Trustees— To Serve With- 
 out Compensation. 
 
 Sec. 2. The State Board of Education of Nevada, whenever notified 
 that a petition has been presented as provided in section one of this 
 Act, shall appoint three competent persons who are residents of such 
 city, unincorporated town or school district, to be known as Library 
 Trustees, who shall hold office for the period of one, two, and three 
 years respectively, and said State Board of Education shall annually 
 thereafter appoint one Library Trustee, who shall hold office for the 
 period of three j-ears, and all vacancies which may occur at any time 
 in the said office of Library Trustee shall be filled by appointment by 
 the said State Board of Education; said trustees shall serve without 
 compensation, and shall hold office until their successors are appointed 
 and qualified. As amended. Stats. 1901, p. 38. 
 
 Powers of Library Trustees. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said Library Trustees shall have power to, and shall estab- 
 lish and maintain, a library and reading room, make purchases, secure 
 rooms, employ assistants, appoint officers, establish by-laws and regu- 
 lations, and manage and control the affairs and business of said library ; 
 and they and their successors shall hold and possess the property and 
 effects of said library and reading room in trust for the public and for 
 the purpose of said library and reading room, and may, as said Library 
 Trustees, and for the purpose hereinbefore provided, acquire and hold 
 real estate and personal property, by purchase or bequest, and admin- 
 ister any trust declared or created, for such library or reading room, 
 and may prosecute, maintain or defend any action in reference to the 
 property or affairs of said library and reading room. 
 
 Maimer of Paying Claims. 
 
 Sec. 4. All claims for indebtedness incurred or created by said 
 Library Trustees shall be audited by a majority of said Library Trus- 
 tees, and presented to and acted upon by the Board of County Com- 
 missioners, and paid out of said library fund in the same manner as 
 claims against the county are presented, acted upon and paid. No 
 indebtedness in excess of the amount of money to be realized in any 
 year from said levy for said library fund, shall be incurred by said 
 Library Trustees, or allowed by the Board of County Commissioners, 
 and in no case shall any claim except for library and reading-room 
 purposes be allowed or paid out of said library fund. 
 
 Sec. 5. Said library and reading room shall forever be and remain 
 free and accessible to the people of such city, unincorporated town or 
 school district, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said 
 Library Trustees may adopt. 
 
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 REVENUE. 
 
 Chap. XXXV — An Act to provide revenue for the support of the Gov- 
 ernment of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain Acts relating 
 thereto. Approved March 23, 1891, p. 135. 
 
 Section 1. [Superseded.] 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of each county shall, 
 on or before the first Monday of March of each year, fix the rate of 
 county taxes for such year, designating the number of cents on each 
 hundred dollars of property levied for each fund; and shall levy the 
 state and county taxes upon the taxable property of the county. 
 
 Sec. 3. Every tax levied under the provisions or authority of this 
 Act is hereby made a lien against the property assessed, and a lien shall 
 attach upon the real property for the tax levied upon the personal 
 property of the owner of such real estate, which lien shall attach upon 
 the day on which the taxes are levied in each year, on all property then 
 in this State, and on all other property whenever it reaches the State, 
 and shall not be satisfied or removed until all the taxes are paid, or the 
 property has absolutely vested in the purchaser under a sale for taxes. 
 
 Sec. 4. All special taxes levied for city, town, school, road, or other 
 purposes throughout the different counties of this State shall be a lien 
 on the property so assessed, and shall be assessed and collected by the 
 same officers, at the same time, and in the same manner as the state and 
 county taxes are now or may hereafter be assessed and collected. 
 
 Sec. 5. All property of every kind and nature whatsoever within 
 this State, shall be subject to taxation except : 
 
 First — All lands and other property owned by the State, or by the 
 United States, or by any county, municipal corporation, town, or village 
 in this State, and all public schoolhouses, with lots appurtenant thereto, 
 owned by any legally created school district within the State ; provided, 
 that when any of the property mentioned in this subdivision is used for 
 any other than public purposes, and a rent or valuable consideration is 
 received for its use, the same shall be taxed. As amended. Stats. 1909, 
 p. 125. 
 
 [Parts second to sixth, inclusive, do not refer to schools.] 
 
 [Sec. 2.] All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. Stats. 1909, p. 126. 
 
 [Sections 6 to 154, inclusive, relate in general to taxes.] 
 
 STATE LIBRARY FUND TRANSFERRED TO GENERAL 
 STATE SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 Chap. XXXVI — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation 
 to the State Library," approved February 14, 1865. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1907, p. 372. 
 
 Section 1. Section seven of the above-named Act is hereby amended 
 to read as follows: 
 
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 Section 7. Each and every officer of this State, civil and military, 
 except Commissioners of Deeds and Notaries Public, shall, at the time 
 of the issuance of his commission, and before entering upon the duties 
 of his office, pay to the Secretary of State the sum of five dollars, which, 
 with all fees of whatever character, by the laws now in force, or which 
 may hereafter be provided to be charged and collected in the office of 
 the Secretary of State, shall constitute a portion of the Library Fund ; 
 and the Secretary of State shall exhibit an account of, under oath, and 
 pay to the State Treasurer, at the end of each quarter, dating from the 
 first daj^ of January, all moneys collected under this Act, and the same, 
 together with such revenues as are hereinafter provided, shall be 
 reserved, set apart, and appropriated, as a State Library Fund. On the 
 thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and seven, and annually 
 thereafter, the State Treasurer shall take from the said Library Fund 
 all moneys in excess of the sum of five thousand dollars, if there be any 
 surplus, and transfer one-half of such moneys to the General Fund of 
 the State Treasury, and the other half to the General State School Fund 
 of the State Treasury. 
 
 COUNTY SCHOOL FUND TO RECEIVE FEES FOR GRAZING. 
 
 Chap. XXXVII — An Act providing that ten ^r cent of proceeds from 
 fees which' issue to the counties from national forest reserves he 
 paid into the county school fund of the county m which such fees 
 may he collected. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1907, p. 415. 
 
 Whereas, The President of the United States has been authorized 
 to establish, from time to time, forest reserves in the several States, and 
 legislation is now pending which will grant him further authority to 
 establish grazing districts upon the vacant public lands of the United 
 States; and 
 
 Whereas, Certain fixed charges will be made for the grazing of live 
 stock upon said lands, ten per cent of such fees to be paid into the 
 treasury of the county in which such fees may be collected, now, there- 
 fore, 
 
 The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assemhly, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the proceeds from such fees which may be paid 
 into the treasury of the several counties of the State shall be paid into 
 the county school fund of such counties, and shall be apportioned at the 
 same time and in the same manner as other countv school funds. 
 
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 STATE TAX LEVY. 
 
 Chap. XXXVIII — An Act to fix the state tax levy, and to distribute 
 the same in the proper funds. 
 
 Approved March 20, 1909, p. 141. 
 
 Section 1. For the fiscal year commencing January first, nineteen 
 hundred and nine, and annually thereafter, an ad valorem tax of sixty 
 cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property is hereby levied 
 and directed to be collected for state purposes, upon all taxable prop- 
 erty in the State, including net proceeds of mines and mining claims, 
 except such property as is by law exempted from taxation. Of the tax 
 hereby levied thirty-six and six-tenths cents shall go into the G-eneral 
 Fund of the State; three cents shall go into the Territorial Interest 
 Fund ; five cents shall go into the State Interest and Sinking Fund ; six 
 cents shall go into the General School Fund ; one-tenth of one cent shall 
 go into the Contingent University Fund, 1905, No. 1 ; three-tenths of one 
 cent shall go into the Contingent University Fund, 1905, No. 2 ; five 
 cents shall go into the Contingent University Fund; and one cent shall 
 go into the State Orphans ' Home Interest and Sinking Fund, and three 
 cents shall go into the Nevada State Prison Interest and Sinking Fund. 
 
 GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
 
 Chap. XXXIX- — An Act making appropriations for the support of the 
 Civil Government of the State of Nevada for the fiscal years 1909 
 and 1910. 
 
 Approved March 22, 1909, p. 162. 
 
 Section 1. The following sums of money are hereby appropriated 
 for the purpose hereinafter expressed, and for the support of the Gov- 
 ernment of the State of Nevada, for the years 1909 and 1910 : 
 
 [Only those parts relating to schools are given.] 
 
 Sec. 21. For salary of the Surveyor-General and Land Register, 
 four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800), payable out of the State 
 School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 25. For salary of clerks in the State Land Office for years 1909 
 and 1910 and for transcribing records, four thousand dollars ($4,000), 
 payable out of the State School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 26. For the purchase of township plats from the United States 
 Surveyor-General's office, providing that the price per plat shall not 
 exceed six dollars, three hundred dollars ($300), payable out of the 
 State School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 27. For salary of State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 and ex officio Curator of State Museum, four thousand dollars ($4,000), 
 payable out of the General School Fund. 
 
 Sec. 29. For traveling expenses of the State Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, eight hundred dollars ($800), payable out of the 
 General School Fund. 
 
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 Sec. 30. For expenses for Teachers' Institute for 1909 and 1910 
 (one State Institute and five District Institutes), seven hundred and 
 fifty dollars- ($750). 
 
 Sec. 58. Tuition and support for the deaf and dumb and blind, 
 seven thousand dollars ($7,000). 
 
 Sec. 76. For support of Virginia Citv School of Mines for the years 
 1909 and 1910, thirty-six hundred dollars ($3,600). 
 
 Sec. 90. For conducting the teachers' examinations and grading 
 the papers, and payment of incidental expenses, eighteen hundred dol- 
 lars ($1,800). 
 
 FISH AND GAME LAWS TO BE TAUGHT IN THE 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 Chap. XL — An Act to provide for the dissemination of knowledge in 
 the puhlic schools relative to the preservation of song-birds, fish, 
 and game. Approved March 12, 1901, p. 56. 
 
 Duties of Teachers — Children to he Instructed Relative to Preservation 
 of Birds, Fish, and Game. 
 Section 1. It is hereby made the duty of each and every teacher 
 in the public schools of this State to give oral instruction, at least once 
 a month, to all children attending such schools, relative to the preserva- 
 tion of song-birds, fish, and game; and to read or cause to be read to 
 such children, at least twice during each school year, the fish and game 
 laws of the State of Nevada. 
 
 Teachers to Comply With Provisions of This Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. No teacher shall be entitled to receive any portion of the 
 public school moneys as compensation for services, unless such teacher 
 shall have complied with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 In Effect. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
 passage. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
 
 An Act to prevent pollution or contamination of the waters of the lakes, 
 rivers, streams, and ditches in the State of Nevada. 
 
 Section 1. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or 
 association in this State, or the managing agent of any person or per- 
 sons, firm, company, corporation, or association in this State, or any 
 duly elected, appointed, or lawfully created state officer of this State, or 
 any duly elected, appointed, or lawfully created officer of any county, 
 city, town, municipalitj^, or municipal government in this State, who 
 shall deposit or who shall permit or allow any person or persons in their 
 employ or under their control, management, or direction to deposit in 
 any of the waters of the lakes, rivers, streams, and ditches in this State 
 any sawdust, rubbish, filth, or poisonous, or deleterious substance or 
 substances, liable to affect the health of persons, fish, or live stock, or 
 place or deposit any such deleterious substance or substances in any 
 place where the same may be washed or infiltered into any of the waters 
 herein named, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum 
 not less than sixty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, exclusive 
 of court costs ; provided, that in cases of state institutions, municipali- 
 ties, towns, incorporated towns or cities, when, owing to the magnitude 
 of the work, immediate correction of the evil is impracticable, then in 
 such eases the authorities shall adopt all new work, and as rapidly as 
 possible reconstruct the old systems of drainage sewerage so as to con- 
 form with the provisions of this Act ; and provided further, that all 
 such new and reconstructed systems shall be completed before March 
 20, 1913 ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to 
 prevent mining or milling companies to dump tailings directly into any 
 stream in this State so as to prevent or impede the natural flow of such 
 stream. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to apply to any 
 quartz mill or ore reduction works in this State. Stats. 1909, p. 306. 
 
 Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act the word "ditch" shall be con- 
 strued to mean any ditch, canal, channel, or artificial water-way, used 
 for carrying or conveying water into any reservoir from which it may 
 be used or distributed or any distributing ditch, canal, channel, or arti- 
 ficial water-way carrying or conveying water for domestic or irrigation 
 purposes, to any persons or premises in this State, or to any persons or 
 premises in any county, city, town, or municipality in this State. Stats. 
 1909. p. 217. 
 
 An Act to provide for the appointment of a Board of Fish Commis- 
 sioners and to define their duties. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1905, p. 264. 
 
 Section 1. The Governor of this State is hereby authorized and 
 empowered to appoint three suitable persons to be styled "Fish Com- 
 missioners," whose duty shall be to establish fish hatcheries, in locali- 
 
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 ties suitable to their hatching, upon such of the waters of this State as, 
 in their judgment, shall be most available for the purpose of stocking 
 and supplying the streams and lakes of this State with both foreign and 
 native fish ; and for such purpose, may take the ova or spawn from fish 
 now inhabiting the waters of the State ; and may purchase and import 
 from other States and countries spawn or ova of valuable fish, suitable 
 for food, and may introduce the same, when obtained, into such rivers, 
 streams, and lakes as they may deem suited to the habits and successful 
 culture of such fish. They may also employ persons who are skillful 
 and expert in the science of fish breeding, and may superintend and 
 direct the construction of fish-ways and fish-ladders that may be built 
 in the streams and waters of this State. The Commissioners may, in 
 their discretion, distribute the ova or spawn to be procured by them to 
 such person or persons as have proper lakes, ponds, or streams for the 
 propagation and breeding of fish, and who will, without expense to the 
 State, take charge of such breeding and propagation. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such Commissioners shall hold their respective offices for 
 the term of four years, unless some other persons shall be appointed to 
 fill the vacancy occasioned by death, resignation, or inability to attend 
 to the duties required. The Commissioners authorized to be appointed 
 by this Act shall receive no compensation for their services. The neces- 
 sary expenses incidental to procuring and distributing the ova or spawn 
 or fish, in the employment of fish-breeders, and in carrying out the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall be paid from any moneys that may be appro- 
 priated by the Legislature, upon accounts or vouchers to be approved 
 by the State Board of Examiners. The Commissioners shall report 
 biennially to the Governor an account of their transactions under this 
 Act, and make an exhibit of their expenditure of money under its pro- 
 visions. 
 
 An Act to provide for the preservation of fish in the waters of this 
 State, and matters properly relating thereto. 
 
 Approved March 14, 1903, p. 114. 
 
 Section 1. Every person who places or allows to pass, or who places 
 where it can pass or fall into or upon any of the waters of this State at 
 any time, any lime, gas, tar, coculus indicus, slag, acids, or other chem- 
 ical, sawdust, shavings, slabs, edgings, mill or factory refuse, or any 
 substance deleterious to fish, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and is punishable by a fine not less than two hundred and fifty nor more 
 than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail in the 
 county in which the conviction shall be had, for not less than one hun- 
 dred and twenty -five or two hundred and fifty days ; provided, that the 
 provisions of this section shall not apply to mills or works for the 
 reduction of ores, nor against the owners or operators of such mills or 
 works so far as concerns the operator of such mills or works. 
 
 Sec. 2. All persons, firms, companies, associations, or corporations, 
 who have erected, or who may hereafter erect, any dams, water weirs or 
 other obstructions to the free passage of fish in the rivers, streams, lakes 
 or other waters of the State of Nevada, shall construct and keep in 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 101 
 
 repair fish-ways or fish-ladders at all such dams, water weirs, or other 
 obstruction; so that at all seasons of the year, fish may ascend above 
 such dams, water weirs, or other obstructions, to deposit their spawn. 
 Any person or persons, firm, company, association, or corporation fail- 
 ing to comply with the provisions of this section after having been noti- 
 fied and required so to do by the proper authority, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail for not less than twenty-five days nor 
 more than one hundred and fifty days. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch, 
 or kill any river, lake or brook trout, or land-locked salmon, white fish, 
 or wide-mouthed bass in any of the streams, lakes, rivers, or other 
 waters within this State between the fifteenth day of September and the 
 thirtieth day of March of the succeeding year. As amended, Stats. 
 1909, p. 215. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to have in his 
 or her possession or to buy or sell, or offer or expose for sale, any river, 
 lake or brook trout or land-locked salmon, white fish or wide-mouthed 
 bass taken, caught, or killed in any river, lake, streams or other waters 
 within this State between the fifteenth day of September and the thir- 
 tieth day of March of the year next succeeding. As amended, Stats. 
 1909, p. 215. 
 
 Sec. 5. Every cold-storage company or person keeping a cold-storage 
 warehouse, tavern or hotel keeper, restaurant or eating-house keeper, 
 market men or other person who shall sell or expose or offer for sale, or 
 give away or have in his or their possession, any river, lake or brook 
 trout or "land-locked salmon, white fish or wide-mouthed bass between 
 the fifteenth day of September and the thirtieth day of March of the 
 year next succeeding, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section eleven 
 of this Act. As amended. Stats. 1909, p. 215. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier, express com- 
 pany, or any other corporation or person to ship or transport, or receive 
 for shipment or transportation any river, lake or brook trout or land- 
 locked salmon, white fish or wide-mouthed bass, taken, caught or killed 
 in any stream, lake, river, or other waters of this State, between the 
 fifteenth day of September and the thirtieth day of March of the next 
 succeeding year. As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 215. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any person or persons who buys, sells or offers or exposes 
 for sale any specie of trout less than six inches long within this State, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and Upon conviction thereof 
 shall be punished as provided in section eleven of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in the State 
 of Nevada at any time to take, catch, or kill any river, lake or brook 
 trout, or land-locked salmon, white fish or wide-mouthed bass, in any of 
 the rivers, streams, lakes, or other waters within this State with any 
 seine, net, spear or grab-hook, or by means of any set line, set hooks, 
 gill net, weir fence, basket, trap, giant powder, or any explosive com- 
 pound, or with or by means of any other implement or substance, or in 
 any manner except by hook and line; provided, that nothing in this 
 
102 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 section shall be so construed as to prohibit the Fish Commissioners of 
 this State from taking at all times such fish as are deemed necessary for 
 the purpose of artificial hatching. 
 
 Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take any 
 spawn or ova from any variety of trout or from any rivers, streams, or 
 lakes, or other waters in the State of Nevada, without having first 
 obtained a written permit so to do from the State Board of Fish Com- 
 missioners of the State of Nevada. If there be no State Fish Commis- 
 sioners the County Commissioners of the county where spawn is to be 
 taken may grant such permission, in consideration and upon agreement, 
 however, with the parties so taking said spawn that not less than ten 
 per cent of all spawn or eggs so collected shall be hatched and said ten 
 per cent shall be planted in the waters from which the eggs were taken 
 and within said county. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person or persons who shall at any time wilfully or 
 knowingly destroy, injure, or obstruct any fish-way or fish-ladder, or 
 any person or persons who shall at any time take or catch any fish in 
 any manner within one hundred feet of any dam containing a fish-way 
 or fish-ladder, which is required by law, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as pro- 
 vided in section eleven of this Act. Nothing in this section shall be so 
 construed as to prohibit the taking of fish for spawning or transplant- 
 ing purposes by the State Board of Fish Commissioners or other author- 
 ized persons. 
 
 Sec. 11. Any person or persons violating the provisions of sections 
 three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten of this Act shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred 
 dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor 
 more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company, 
 association, or corporation, to at any time transport or offer for trans- 
 portation to any place outside of this State any lake, river or brook 
 trout or land-locked salmon, which are intended to be offered for sale ; 
 and any person who shall so transport or offer for transportation any 
 lake, river or brook trout or land-locked salmon, white fish or wide- 
 mouthed bass which are thereafter offered for sale or sold at any place 
 outside of this State, or are offered for sale after being transported 
 outside of this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
 more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the count}^ jail 
 for not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty days, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 [A catch of trout or black bass not to exceed twenty fish in any one 
 day by any one person. Night fishing or night hunting prohibited. 
 Fishing season from March 30th to September 15th. See Stats. 1909. 
 p. 215.] 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 103 
 
 An Act giving authority to the Boards of County Commissioners of the 
 several counties of this State to extend the closed season for fishing 
 in streams and waters of a certain class, and providing for the 
 enforcement of the same. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1905, p. 192. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of the several 
 counties of this State, each within its own county-, are hereby author- 
 ized to extend the closed season for fishing in streams and waters within 
 their county which now are, or hereafter shall have been, stocked with 
 food fishes by others than the State or its Fish Commissioner, or author- 
 ized agent, to such periods as may in their opinion be required for the 
 protection of the fish in said stream and waters, to the end that the 
 supply of fish for food may be permanently increased. 
 
 Sec. 2. This Act shall be made effective by an order of the Board 
 of County Commissioners published in a newspaper within the county, 
 which order shall name the stream or streams and waters within the 
 county in which the catching of fish is to be restricted, and shall state 
 the period over which the closed season is to extend ; provided, that no 
 such order shall be effective without such publication for the period of 
 at least one month before the date upon which the order is to take 
 effect ; and further provided, that no such publication shall be made at 
 an expense to the county of more than three dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person who shall violate the provisions of said order of 
 the Board of County Commissioners shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and shall be fined not to exceed thirty dollars, or imprisoned in the 
 county jail not to exceed fifteen days, or by both such fine and impris- 
 onment, in the discretion of the court, for each offense. 
 
 An Act to provide for the protection and preservation of wild game, 
 and to repeal all other Acts in conflict therewith. 
 
 Approved March 16, 1903, p. 199. 
 
 [Sections 1 to 6. inclusive, repealed by Act of March 24, 1909.] 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful in this State for any person or persons 
 to use at any time a shotgun of larger caliber than that commonly 
 known and designated as a number ten gage. 
 
 [Sections 8 and 9 repealed, 1909.] 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 I^any, corporation, or association, at any and all times of the year to 
 hunt, chase, pursue, run, catch, or kill any deer or antelope, caribou, 
 elk, mountain sheep, or mountain goat, with or by the use of or aid of 
 any hound or hounds. 
 
 [Sections 11, 12, and 13 repealed, 1909.] 
 
 Sec. 14. Should it be deemed advisable by any Board of County 
 Commissioners for any county within this State to lengthen or extend 
 the time of the close season for any specie of game mentioned in this 
 Act, the said Board of County Commissioners acting for their respect- 
 ive county may by special ordinance extend such close season; provided, 
 however, that in no event shall the County Commissioners or any other 
 
104 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 organization of men within this State extend the open season or shorten 
 the close season for any specie of game whatsoever ; provided, however, 
 the County Commissioners of any county in the State acting under the 
 provisions of this Act may change the open season for sagehen or for 
 deer and antelope to an earlier or later date as the necessities of their 
 respective county for the preservation of the above-mentioned game 
 may demand : the length of time during which said game shall be pro- 
 tected shall in all cases remain the same as provided for in this Act. 
 Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prohibit any person 
 (upon a written permit of the Governor of the State) from taking or 
 killing any bird or fowl, or collecting the nest and eggs of the same, 
 for strictly scientific purposes. 
 
 An Act providing for the protection and preservation of game, and 
 repealing all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict therewith. 
 
 Approved March 24, 1909, p. 213. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, 
 company, corporation, or association, to kill, catch, destroy, wound, 
 snare, trap, injure, or pursue with attempt to kill, capture, or destroy, 
 any bluebird, thrush, mocking-bird, oriole, humming-bird, meadow lark, 
 robin, or any other insectivorous, plume, or song-birds within this State. 
 
 Sec. 2, It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, to take, kill, wound, trap, net, weir, 
 destroy, injure, or pursue with attempt to take, kill, injure, or destroy 
 any pheasant, bob-white quail, partridge, or any other variety of 
 imported game birds within this State. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, after the first day of October and 
 before the fifteenth day of July of each and every year, to kill, catch, 
 trap, cage, weir, destroy, injure, or pursue with attempt to kill, catch, 
 capture, injure, or destroy any sagecock or sagehen within this State. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, to kill, catch, destroy, injure, snare, 
 weir, wound, or pursue with attempt to take, kill, injure, or destroy any 
 grouse or mountain quail after the first day of January and before the 
 first day of October of each year, within this State. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, at any time after March 15th, and 
 before September 15th, of each and every year, to kill, catch, net, cage, 
 pound, weir, trap, or pursue with attempt to catch, capture, injure, or 
 destroy, any wild duck, sandhill crane, plover, curlew, snipe, woodcock, 
 swan, or wild goose within this State. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, at any time after the fifteenth day of 
 January, and before the fifteenth day of October, of each and every 
 year, to kill, catch, trap, cage, net, weir, pound, destroy, or pursue with 
 attempt to catch, capture, injure, or destroy, any valley quail within 
 this State. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful at any and all times of the year for any 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVxVDA. 105 
 
 person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, to dis- 
 turb or destroy the nest of, or to take or remove from any nest of any 
 wild fowl or game bird mentioned in this Act, any egg or eggs of such 
 wild fowl or game bird, or to have in their possession, or to sell or to 
 offer for sale or exchange, except for scientific purposes, or for the pur- 
 pose of propagation, any such eggs or nests, within this State. 
 
 Sec. 8. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit any per- 
 son from selling game killed by himself, but it shall be unlawful for 
 any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, to 
 purchase such game for the purpose of barter or sale, and it shall also 
 be unlawful for any person to kill or have in his possession a greater 
 number than twenty ducks, fifteen mountain quail, ten sagebirds, six 
 grouse, fifteen valley quail, five plover, ten geese, three swan, or fifteen 
 snipe in any one day, within this State. 
 
 Sec. 9. The open season for deer and antelope in this State shall be 
 from September 15th, and until October 15th, of each and every year, 
 and during that time it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, 
 firm, company, corporation, or association, within this State, to kill, 
 catch, trap, wound, or pursue with an attempt to catch, capture, injure, 
 or destroy, any number of deer or antelope exceeding two for any one 
 open season or year. It shall be unlawful to kill, catch, trap, wound, or 
 pursue with attempt to catch, injure, kill, or destroy, any antelope or 
 any spotted fawn at any time. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful in this State for any person or per- 
 sons to have in their possession any deer or antelope from and after 
 November 1st of each year and until September 15th of the year next 
 succeeding, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell 
 or offer for sale or to trade or barter or offer to trade or barter any 
 number of deer or antelope in excess of two during the time interven- 
 ing between the fifteenth day of September and the first day of Novem- 
 ber of anj^ year. 
 
 Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, to have in his or their possession, or 
 to sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale, or pur- 
 chase from any person, whomsoever, either Indian or other person, any 
 of the birds, animals, or wild game mentioned in this Act during the 
 season wherein the killing, injuring, pursuing, trapping, pounding, weir- 
 ing, caging, selling, bujang, transporting, giving away, offering or 
 exposing for sale, or having in his or their possession is herein prohib- 
 ited; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed as 
 to prohibit any resident person or persons, firm, company, corporation, 
 or association from taking (upon a written permit from the State Board 
 of Fish and Game Commissioners) any bird, animal, or fowl or the 
 nest or eggs of any bird or fowl for the purpose of propagation or 
 domestication or for scientific purposes. 
 
 Sec. 12. Catch of trout or black bass not to exceed twenty fish in 
 any one day by any one person. Night fishing or night hunting pro- 
 hibited. Fishing season, March 30th to September 15th. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or asso- 
 ciation, or common carrier, violating any of the provisions of this Act 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
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106 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
 five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail in the county 
 where the conviction is had for any term not exceeding six months, or 
 by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be no defense in the pros- 
 ecution for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, that the 
 animals or birds were taken or killed outside of the State of Nevada; 
 nor shall it be any defense in the prosecution for the violation of any of 
 the provisions of this Act that the animals or birds were taken or killed 
 by one other than he in whose possession said animals or birds were 
 found; nor shall it be any defense in the prosecution for the violation 
 of any of the provisions of this Act that the person did not know that 
 hunting was not allowed upon the premises on which he was trespassing. 
 
 Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners 
 of any county within this State, when petitioned by fifty taxpayers 
 within their county, for the protection of any variety of birds, fowls, or 
 animals, to draw and pass an ordinance protecting said birds, fowls, 
 or animals for the length of time as prayed for in the petition and to 
 fix a penalty, for the violation of said ordinance ; said penalty to be in 
 conformity with section thirteen of this Act. When said ordinance is 
 properly drawn and signed by the Chairman of the Board of County 
 Commissioners it shall be published in some newspaper published in the 
 county for the period of four issues, and thereafter it shall be in full 
 force and effect. 
 
 Sec. 15. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are 
 hereby repealed. Every railroad company, express company, transpor- 
 tation company, or other common carrier, their officers, agents and 
 servants, and every other person who shall transport, carry, or take out 
 of the State, or who shall receive for the purpose of transporting, or 
 carrying from this State, any deer, buck, doe, or fawn, or any mountain 
 sheep or antelope, or any quail, sage chicken, prairie chicken, grouse, 
 wild ducks, or goose, or any other bird or animal mentioned in this Act, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, com- 
 pany, corporation, or association, to catch, kill, destroy, trap, net, weir, 
 or cage any beaver within this State before the first day of April, A. D. 
 1920. Stats. 1909, p. 212. 
 
 An Act to prevent the unlawful destruction of fish and game; to pro- 
 vide for the appointment of Fish and Game Wardens in the several 
 counties of this State, and to define their duties and compensation. 
 
 Approved March 12, 1901, p. 57. 
 
 Section 1. It is hereby made the duty of the several Boards of 
 County Commissioners in this State, at their first regular meeting in 
 April, nineteen hundred and one, and annually thereafter, upon the 
 petition of twenty or more resident taxpayers, to appoint a Fish and 
 Game Warden for their respective counties, who shall reside in the 
 county for which he is appointed. Each warden so appointed, before 
 entering upon the duties of his office, shall take his oath of office, and 
 give an undertaking to the State of Nevada for the use of the respect- 
 ive counties thereof, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 107 
 
 Board of County Commissioners conditioned for the faithful perform- 
 ance of his duties, and in such sum as the County Commissioners of the 
 several counties may deem sufficient for the faithful performance of the 
 duties of his office and the enforcement of the requirements of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said warden is hereby empowered, and it shall be his duty, 
 to enforce the state laws and all county and municipal ordinances rela- 
 tive to the protection of fish and game ; and he shall be vested with the 
 power to make arrests for the violation of such laws and ordinances in 
 any county in this State; to appoint a deputy or deputies who shall 
 have power to transact all official business appertaining to said officer, 
 to the same extent as their principal ; provided, that said warden shall 
 be responsible for the compensation of such deputy or deputies, and 
 shall be responsible on his official bond for all malfeasance or non- 
 feasance of the same. Bonds for the faithful performance of the duties 
 of his official deputy or deputies may be required of said deputy or 
 deputies by said principal. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said Fish and Game Warden shall report quarterly to the 
 Board of County Commissioners of his county, giving a detailed state- 
 ment of all arrests made, convictions had, fines collected, and generally 
 in regard to the management of his office. Such officers maj^ be removed 
 by the Board of County Commissioners, for intemperance, neglect of 
 duty, or other good and sufficient reasons. 
 
 Sec, 4. The salary of Fish and Game Wardens shall be fixed by the 
 County Commissioners of the various counties of this State out of the 
 Fish and Game Preservation Fund; provided, that in case of a defi- 
 ciency in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, such deficiency shall 
 be paid out of the general fund of the various county treasuries. The 
 salary of said Fish and Game Wardens shall not be more than one hun- 
 dred dollars, nor less than twenty dollars per month. Said warden shall 
 be allowed a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars per month for 
 expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties. As 
 amended, Stats. 1909, p. 327. 
 
 An Act for the preservation of a bird known as the American eagle, 
 within the State of Nevada. 
 
 Approved February 25, 1905, p. 41. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, 
 company, corporation, or association to kill, destroy, wound, trap, 
 injure, keep in captivity, or in any other manner to catch or capture, or 
 to pursue with such intent the bird known as the American eagle, 
 within this State, or to take, injure, or destroy the nest or eggs of said 
 before-mentioned bird. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or asso- 
 ciation violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not 
 less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred 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 
 
108 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 
 
 criminal prosecution, twenty-five dollars liquidated damages, shall be 
 entered up as costs against such defendant, and collected in the manner 
 now provided by law for the collection of costs in civil action, which 
 said sum of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to the party instrumental 
 in securing the arrest and conviction of said defendant. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff and his deputies, Con- 
 stable and his deputies, District Attorney and all other peace officers in 
 this State, upon receiving information from any person that any pro- 
 visions of this Act have been violated, to immediately institute proceed- 
 ings 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 proceed- 
 ings as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and 
 fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 An Act to regulate and license the hunting of game hirds and animals, 
 and the taking or catching of fish, and to provide revenue there- 
 from for gam.e and fish preservation and protection, and to prescribe 
 a penalty for the violation thereof, and to make an appropriation 
 for the purpose of carryivg out the objects of this Act. 
 
 Approved February 26, 1909, p. 38. 
 
 Section 1. Every person in the State of Nevada, who hunts, pur- 
 sues, or kills any of the wild birds or animals, or who takes or catches 
 any of the fishes that are protected by the laws of this State, without 
 first procuring a license therefor, as provided in this Act, is guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 2. Licenses granting the privilege to hunt, pursue, or kill wild 
 birds or animals, or to take or catch fish during the open season as fixed 
 by law, shall be issued and delivered, upon application, by the County 
 Clerk of any of the counties of this State, or by the Fish and Game 
 Warden of any of the counties of this State, which license shall have 
 
 stamped thereon the words "Hunting License No State of Nevada. 
 
 Expires February 28, 19....," with the registration number and appro- 
 priate year stamped therein. Said licenses shall be prepared and fur- 
 nished the County Clerk by the Board of County Commissioners, which 
 board shall take receipt therefor by number and quantity from the 
 County Clerk, and the County Clerk shall be responsible therefor and 
 shall account for the same to the Auditor of said county every three 
 months after receipt thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. The license herein provided for shall be issued as follows : 
 
 First — To any citizen of the United States who is a bona fide resident 
 of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of one dollar. 
 
 Second — To any citizen of the United States, not a bona fide resident 
 of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of ten dollars. 
 
 Third — To any person not a citizen of the United States, upon the 
 payment of twenty -five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every person applying for and procuring a license as herein 
 provided, shall give to the County Clerk his name and resident address. 
 
SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. 109 
 
 which information shall be by the clerk or board entered in a book kept 
 for that purpose, and provided by said Board of County Commissioners, 
 together with a statement of the date of issuance, the number of license 
 issued to such person and description of such person, by age, height, 
 race, and color of the eyes and hair. 
 
 Sec. 5. All licenses issued as herein provided shall be valid, and shall 
 authorize the person to whom issued, to hunt, pursue, and kill game 
 birds and animals and to take or catch fish during the open season fixed 
 therefor by law, on and from the first day of March, 1909, until the date 
 of expiration stamped thereon, but no license shall continue in force for 
 a period longer than one year. 
 
 Sec. 6. All moneys collected for licenses as provided herein, shall 
 be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the Game and Fish 
 Preservation Fund, which fund is hereb.y created, and the moneys in 
 said fund shall be applied to the payment of the expenses incurred in 
 the prosecution of offenders, and for the revenue to pay Fish and Game 
 Wardens and deputies when necessary to hire Deputy Fish and Game 
 Warden or Wardens. 
 
 Sec. 7. Not more than one license shall be issued to any one person 
 for the same fiscal year, except upon an affidavit by the applicant that 
 the one issued has been lost or destroj-ed, and no license issued as herein 
 provided shall be transferable or used by any other person than the one 
 to whom it was issued. 
 
 Sec. 8. Every person having a license as provided herein who while 
 hunting or fishing refuses to exhibit such license upon the demand of 
 any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of the State, 
 or any other peace officer of the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and every person lawfully having said license, who transfers or disposes 
 of the same to another person to be used as a hunting or fishing license, 
 shall forfeit the same. 
 
 Sec. 9. Every person violating any of the provisions of this Act 
 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in 
 the county jail for a term of not less than five, nor more than fifty days, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 10. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the 
 county treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-five 
 dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, to be 
 used by the Board of County Commissioners for the printing and bind- 
 ing of suitable books and blanks required herein, and for the purchase 
 of metal licenses. The County Auditor is hereby directed to draw his 
 warrant for said amount in favor of said Board of County Commis- 
 sioners at such times and in such amounts as may be needed from time 
 to time, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. 
 
 Sec. 11. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any person 
 who, on his own land, during the open season, hunts, pursues, or kills 
 any of the wild birds or animals, or takes or catches any of the fish pro- 
 tected by the laws of this State, nor to women or to boys under fourteen 
 years of age. 
 
 Sec. 12. The license herein provided for shall be procured from the 
 county of which the applicant is a resident, and may be used in any 
 
110 SCHOOL LAWS OF NEVADA. • 
 
 county in the State of Nevada. Non-residents of the State may procure 
 a license in any county. 
 
 Sec. 13. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after its 
 passage. 
 
 SPECIAL SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 The following special laws were passed at the Twenty-fourth Session 
 of the State Legislature. They may be found in full in the Statutes 
 of 1909: 
 
 Authorizing the Board of School Trustees of East Ely School District 
 to issue bonds, p. 14. 
 
 Creating and confirming Las Vegas School District No. 12, in Lincoln 
 County, p. 41. ' 
 
 Amending the Act permitting the establishment of county high 
 , schools, p. 43. 
 
 Authorizing the Board of School Trustees of Fallon District No. 4 to 
 issue bonds, p. 57. 
 
 Authorizing ^he City Council of Reno to sell McKinley Park to R^no 
 School District No. lO', p. 77. v 
 
 Providing for the purchase of additional land for the University of 
 Nevada, p. 101. 
 
 Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Lyon County to 
 issue bonds for county high school, p. 145. 
 
 Authorizing tl>e Board of County Commissioners of Humboldt County 
 to pay certain high-school salaries and expenses, p. 159. 
 
 Providing for a state loan and its repayment by issuing certam 
 bonds, ^. 184. 
 
 Authorizing Boards of Countj^ Commissioners to establish district 
 high schools, p. 226. 
 
 '^t Providing for the transfer of certain county and township funds to 
 A the support of the public schools, p. 245. 
 
 Joint Resolution No. 1, amending Secjtion 3 of Article XI of the Con- 
 stitution, j>. 340. 
 
 WI!oncurrent Resolution No. 3, ainending Section 3 of Article XV of 
 the Constitution, p. 349. 
 
INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 ARBOR DAY— Page. Section. 
 
 Established S3 1 
 
 Hovv observed S3 2 
 
 AUDITOR, COUNTY— 
 
 To draw warrants 24 41 
 
 To draw warrants 36 88 
 
 To keep file of statements 25 42 
 
 To enter state school ta^ 32 72 
 
 To enter county school tax 33 76 
 
 To enter district school tax 35 81 
 
 Transfer money to credit of consolidated district 59 2 
 
 Informed regarding emergency fund 61 6 
 
 Enter special tax 64 9 
 
 APPORTIONMENTS— 
 
 For divided i .trict .., 27 50 
 
 For joint dist ct ■.- 28 52 
 
 Of State Distributive School Fund ^- 37 89,90 
 
 Of county school fund - -- 37 90 
 
 Of district school library fund ; 38 91 
 
 Of Emergency School Fund 60 4,5 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS— 
 
 Deputy Superintendents' salaries and expenses .*. 40 2 
 
 Emergency fund 59 1 
 
 Normal training school 57 5 
 
 General appropriations - 94 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION, STATE— 
 
 Membership of ■ 13 1 
 
 Officers of - : - 13 2 
 
 Meetings of 13 3 
 
 Meetings of " 15 2 
 
 Powers and Duties of — 
 
 To adopt course of study 13 4 
 
 To recommend library books 13 4 
 
 To revoke certificates 13. 4 
 
 To have printing done « -■ 13 4 
 
 To adopt seal .^. 13 4 
 
 To keep and publish record of proceedings , 13 4 
 
 To appoint Deputy Superintendents 16 4 
 
 To remove Deputy Superintendents 17 10 
 
 To define duties of Deputy Superintendents : 17 9 
 
 To grant certificates 17 11 
 
 To prescribe rules for examinations^. , - -, 18 13 
 
 To prepare questions for examinations 18 14 
 
 To choose optional subjects for primary-school certificates 18 15 
 
 To grant life diplomas - 19 19 
 
 To grant life diplomas to graduates of State Normal School 20 22 
 
 To grant certificates upon credentials 20 23, 24 
 
 Authorize examining and grading of papers .-. ^ 20 25 
 
 To grant special certificates V 21 26 
 
 To grant temporary certificates .^. ^ - 21 27 
 
 To invest State Permanent School Fund 36 87 
 
 ^ To determine amount of library mcyiey t 38 92 
 
 To approve school library books . .1. 38 93. 95 
 
 To be members of the Text-Book Commission .'—, 40 1 
 
 To conduct eighth grade and high school examinations 55 9 
 
112 INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Board of Education (Continued) — Page. Section. 
 
 To grant permission to establisli normal training sciiools 56 1 
 
 To constitute Normal Training School Board 56 2 
 
 To certify to establishment of normal training school 57 5 
 
 To approve distribution of Emergency School Fund 60 2, 4, 5 
 
 To appoint Public Library Trustees 91 2 
 
 BOARD OP EDUCATION, COUNTY— 
 
 Board of County Commissioners to act as 54 5 
 
 Elected and appointed, when 54 6 
 
 Duties of 55 7 
 
 Powers of 52 5 
 
 May provide dormitories 55 12 
 
 Connection with normal training school 56 1 
 
 To hold high school property ; 54 5 
 
 BOARD OF OF UNIVERSITY, HONORARY— 
 
 Membership 88 1 
 
 Appointment 88 2 
 
 Duties of 88 3 
 
 Meetings of 88 4 
 
 Compensation '. 89 5 
 
 BONDS, SCHOOL— 
 
 School District — 
 
 For what purposes issued 62 1 
 
 Must be submitted to vote 62 2 
 
 Election for 62 3 
 
 Term of, sale of — 63 4 
 
 How signed 63 5 
 
 Registry of 63 6 
 
 Tax for 63 7 
 
 Changes in boundary of school district 64 8 
 
 Taxes for, to constitute a lien 64 9 
 
 Security of 65 1 
 
 Manual Training — 
 
 For what purpose issued 65 1 
 
 Method of issuing 65 2 
 
 CENSUS, SCHOOL— 
 
 For division of school district 27 50 
 
 Blanks for, how supplied 29 59 
 
 Date of taking 29 60 
 
 For emergency fund 60 3 
 
 Basis of apportionment 37 89, 90 
 
 Basis of apportionment 38 91 
 
 Census Marshal — - 
 
 How appointed, who eligible 28 58 
 
 Duties of 29 60, 61 
 
 May administer oath. 29 61 
 
 Shall report joint district separately 30 63 
 
 Appointed by Superintendent, when 30 64 
 
 Submit report to Clerk 30 65 
 
 Compensation 31 69 
 
 Negligence, punishment 31 70 
 
 Special Census Marshal — 
 
 When and how appointed 31 68 
 
 Report — 
 
 What to contain 29 62 
 
 Sworn to by Census Marshal 30 65 
 
 Signed by Clerk 30 65 
 
 Date of return 30 66 
 
 Comparison and correction of 31 67 
 
INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 113 
 
 CERTIFICATES— Page. Section. 
 
 Issued only by State Board of Education 17 11 
 
 Examinations for, when held 17 12 
 
 Examinations for, how conducted. 18 13 
 
 Primary-school 18 15 
 
 Grammar-school 18 16 
 
 High-school 19 17 
 
 Additional subjects for 19 IS 
 
 Life diplomas 19 19, 21 
 
 State educational diplomas 19 20 
 
 Issued to graduates of State Normal School 20 22 
 
 To graduates of approved universities, colleges, and normals 20 23 
 
 To teachers holding life certificates of other States 20 24 
 
 Special certificates 20 26 
 
 Temporary certificates 21 27 
 
 Age limit for 21 28 
 
 Necessary for high-school teachers 55 7 
 
 Rural grammar-school certificate 57 4 
 
 Of graduation from normal training school 57 4 
 
 CHILDREN— 
 
 Five necessary for school district 27 49 
 
 Resident children, defined 29 60 
 
 Census children, defined 30 62 
 
 Protection and discipline of 51 3 
 
 When excused from attendance at school 66 1 
 
 When deemed truant 66 2 
 
 When subject to arrest 67 5 
 
 Employed children 68 7 
 
 False statements concerning, when punished 68 8 
 
 Dependent, neglected, and delinquent children 69 1 
 
 Dependent and neglected children, custody of 74 7 
 
 Guardianship of ,. 74 S 
 
 Delinquent children, care of 74 9, 10, 11 
 
 Not to be committed to jail, when 76 15 
 
 Expenses of 77 18 
 
 Adoption of 77 19 
 
 Removed from State, when 78 20 
 
 Support of 79 24 
 
 Interference with 79 27 
 
 Protection of 79 1, 2 
 
 CLERK OF BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES— 
 
 May administer oath, when 22 31 
 
 How chosen, duties of, compensation 22 33 
 
 Give notice of meetings 23 35 
 
 Must make report 24 38 
 
 Issue warrants , 24 41 
 
 Examine and approve census report 30 65 
 
 Notify County Commissioners of special tax levy 33 78 
 
 Receive pay for damaged books 46 5 
 
 Register voters 49 7 
 
 Attest to bonds 63 5 
 
 File criminal complaint, when 67 4 
 
 CONTRACTS— 
 
 Trustees not to be pecuniarily interested in 23 37 
 
 Necessary for hiring teachers 24 40 
 
 Expiration of book contracts 41 3, 4 
 
 For text-books 43 8 
 
 Bonds for compliance with 43 9 
 
 In effect, when - 44 10 
 
 Void, when 44 11 
 
 Existing contracts, not invalidated 47 10 
 
114 INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 CONSTITUTION, STATE— Page. Section. 
 
 Article XI - 9 
 
 COMPULSORY EDUCATION— 
 
 Act providing for 66 
 
 COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY— 
 
 May create, abolish, and change boundaries of school districts 26 47 
 
 Establish joint districts - 28 51 
 
 Pay claims of Census Marshals - : 31 69 
 
 Levy state school tax 32 72 
 
 Levy county school tax - - - 32 76 
 
 Levy special school tax - 33 78 
 
 Authorize compensation for assessing and collecting tax 33 79 
 
 Levy special school tax - 34 80 
 
 Call election for county high school 52 2 
 
 Locate high school - 53 3 
 
 Revoke order of election 53 3 
 
 Authorize county institutes 15 2 
 
 Levy' special high school tax - -— 54 4 
 
 Act as County Board of Education, when 54 5 
 
 Levy annual high-school tax 55 8 
 
 Notified regarding normal training school - 56 1 
 
 Enlarge school districts - - 59 1 
 
 Abolish school districts - 61 1, 2 
 
 Levy special tax for redemption of bonds 63 7 
 
 Concur in appointing probation officer 72 6 
 
 Duties relative to deaf, dumb and blind 89 2 
 
 Levy special tax for library fund 90 1 
 
 Fix rate of county taxes 92 2 
 
 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND— 
 
 Education of 89 
 
 DIPLOMAS— 
 
 Life diplomas 19 19, 21 
 
 State educational - 19 20 
 
 Eighth-grade - - 55 9 
 
 Life diplomas 20 22 
 
 DISTRICTS, SCHOOL— 
 
 One district, when - 26 46 
 
 Created, changed, and abolished 26 47 
 
 One school, when 27 48 
 
 Children necessary for - - 27 49 
 
 Length of term in - 27 50 
 
 How divided 27 50 
 
 How enlarged or consolidated 59 1, 2, 3 
 
 Joint School District — 
 
 How formed 27 51 
 
 Union School District — 
 
 Provisions for 58 1, 2, 3, 4 
 
 Abolished School Districts — 
 
 Disposal of money and property 61 1, 2. 3 
 
 DISTRICTS, SUPERVISION— 
 
 Established - 40 98 
 
 Superintendents of 16 5 
 
 DORMITORIES— 
 
 High school, provision for - 55 12 
 
 ELECTIONS— 
 
 For Superintendent of Public Instruction 14 1 
 
 For special school tax 33 78, 80 
 
INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. - 115 
 
 Elections (Continued) — Page. Section. 
 
 For free text-books 45 3,2 
 
 For selecting School Trustees 47 2,3 
 
 Manner of conducting 48 3-20 
 
 For establishment of high schools 52 1 
 
 For location of high schools 53 3 
 
 For selecting County Board of Education 54 6 
 
 For issuing school district bonds 62 2, 3, 4 
 
 For selecting Regents of University 84 2 
 
 EXAMINATIONS— 
 
 Teachers- 
 Date and place of conducting 17 12 
 
 Manner of conducting 18 13 
 
 Questions for 18 14 
 
 Grading of papers 20 25 
 
 Eighth Grade — 
 
 Necessary for admission to high school 55 9 
 
 Normal Training School — 
 
 Necessary for admission 56 3 
 
 FISH AND GAME LAWS— 
 
 Act relating to teaching of 95 
 
 Provisions of 99 
 
 FLAGS— 
 
 National flag to be procured for public school 82 1, 2 
 
 Design for state flag 83 1 
 
 FUNDS, SCHOOI.— 
 
 State Permanent — 
 
 Created 32 71 
 
 Account of, how kept 35 82 
 
 Report of securities for 35 83 
 
 Custody of securities for 35 84 
 
 Investment of 36 87 
 
 State Distributive — 
 
 Created 32 73 
 
 Use restricted 32 74, 75 
 
 Hov7 transferred to counties 35 85 
 
 To receive interest of State Permanent School Fund 36 86 
 
 County Treasurer to receive and pay out 36 88 
 
 Method of apportionment 37 89 
 
 Receive from State Library Fund 93 7 
 
 County — 
 
 Created 32 76 
 
 Use of 33 77 
 
 County Treasurer to receive and pay out 36 88 
 
 Method of apportionment 37 89 
 
 To receive fees from grazing 93 1 
 
 District School Library — 
 
 How apportioned 38 91 
 
 How determined 38 92 
 
 Free Text-Book— 
 
 How obtained 45 1 
 
 How expended 45 2 
 
 County High School — 
 
 Provisions for 54 4 
 
 Estimate for 55 7 
 
 Expenditure of 55 8 
 
 Normal Training School Salary — 
 
 Created 57 5 
 
 Emergency — 
 
 Created 59 1 
 
116 INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. \ 
 
 Funds, School {Continued) — Page. Section. 
 
 Use of 60 2 
 
 Basis of distribution of 60 4 
 
 One apportionment of 60 5 
 
 Transfer of, to County Treasurer 60 6 
 
 Reversion 61 7 
 
 Puhlic Library — 
 
 Created 90 1 
 
 How expended 91 4 
 
 HIGH SCHOOLS, COUNTY— 
 
 Act permitting establishment of 52 
 
 HOSPITALS— 
 
 Prohibited near schools 80 1, 2 
 
 HOUSES OF ILL-FAME— 
 
 Prohibited near schools 81 1 
 
 HYGIENE— 
 
 Must be taught 28 57 
 
 INSTITUTES, TEACHERS'— 
 
 State, District, County •. 15 2 
 
 Duties of Deputy Superintendents, regarding 17 7 
 
 INDIANS. See Children. 
 
 JURY DUTY— 
 
 Teachers exempt from 82 1 
 
 LIBRARIES— 
 
 District School — 
 
 Apportionment for 38 91, 92 
 
 Books for, how selected and purchased 38 93, 94 
 
 Rules and regulations of 38 95 
 
 Free Public — 
 
 How established 90 1 
 
 Trustees of 91 2,3 
 
 Manner of paying claims against 91 4 
 
 MANUAL TRAINING— 
 
 Materials for 46 7 
 
 Bonds for 65 1, 2 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOL, STATE— 
 
 Graduates to receive certificates 20 22 
 
 In connection with University of Nevada 85 7 
 
 Graduates to receive life diplomas 86 7 
 
 Diplomas may be revoked 86 7 
 
 NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL— 
 
 Established, how 56 1 
 
 Governed, how 56 2, 3 
 
 Privileges of graduates 57 4 
 
 Maintained, how 57 5 
 
 Conducted, how '. 57 6 
 
 OATH OF OFFICE— 
 
 Teachers must take 21 30 
 
 May be administered by whom 22 31 
 
 Census Marshal must take 28 58 
 
 PROPERTY, SCHOOL— 
 
 Protection of 80 1 
 
 Exempt from taxation, when 92 5 
 
 Exempt from taxation 28 56 
 
INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 117 
 
 REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA— Page. Section. 
 
 Election of 84 2 
 
 Powers and duties of 84 3, 4 
 
 Meetings of 85 5 
 
 Report of 85 6 
 
 May grant and revoke diplomas 85 7 
 
 Direct expenditures 87 12 
 
 SECTARIANISM— 
 
 Prohibited 11 9. 10 
 
 Literature prohibited 28 55 
 
 Preference in placing children 78 21 
 
 SPECIAL SCHOOL LAWS— 
 
 Passed by Legislature of 1909, synopsis of 110 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 
 
 Member of State Board of Education 13 1 
 
 Secretary of State Board of Education 13 2 
 
 Election of 14 1 
 
 Duties of 14 2 
 
 Deliver property to successor 16 3 
 
 Nominate Deputy Superintendents 16 5 
 
 Confer authority upon Deputy Superintendents 17 8 
 
 Administer oath 22 31 
 
 Approve plans for schools 23 36 
 
 Apportion funds to joint districts 28 52 
 
 Appoint Trustees for joint districts 28 53 
 
 Supply blanks for census 29 59 
 
 Appoint Census Marshal, when 30 64 
 
 Compare reports of Census Marshals 31 67 
 
 Order special census, when 31 68 
 
 Apportion school money 37 89, 90 
 
 Apportion school library money 38 91 
 
 Secretary of Text-Book Commission 41 2 
 
 Appoint members of County Board of Education, when 55 6 
 
 Recommend union school districts 58 1 
 
 Appoint Trustees, when 59 3 
 
 Apportion emergency fund 60 4 
 
 Arrange for education of deaf, dumb and blind 89 1, 2 
 
 SUPERINTENDENTS, DEPUTY— 
 
 Provided for 16 5 
 
 Who eligible to office 16 6 
 
 Duties of 16 7 
 
 Powers of 17 8 
 
 Rules for 17 9 
 
 Removal of 17 10 
 
 Act as Deputy Examiner 18 13 
 
 Act as educational examiner 20 25 
 
 May administer oath 22 31 
 
 Salaries of 39 97 
 
 Appropriation for 40 2 
 
 Exempt children from school attendance 66 1 
 
 Assist in selecting probation officer 72 6 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT, CITY— 
 
 Office created, when ; who eligible 24 39 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT, COUNTY— 
 
 Office abolished 16 4 
 
 TAXES— 
 
 Ad valorem state school 32 72 
 
 County school 32 76 
 
118 INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Taxes (Continued) — Page. Section. 
 
 Special school 33 78, 80 
 
 District school 34 81 
 
 Special for free text-books 45 1, 2 
 
 Special for county high school 54 4 
 
 Annual for county high school 55 8 
 
 Special for bond issue 63 7 
 
 ' Annual levy of County Commissioners 92 2, 3, 4 
 
 Exemptions from 92 5 
 
 State levy 94 1 
 
 teachers- 
 How employed 21 29 
 
 To take oath 21 30 
 
 Must keep register 22 32 
 
 Salaries of 24 40 
 
 Authority of 52 4 
 
 Of high schools, how employed 55 7 
 
 Shall notify of truancy 66 2 
 
 Protection of - 79 2 
 
 Exempt from jury duty 82 1 
 
 In University -: 85 3 
 
 Must teach fish and game laws : 95 2, 3 
 
 See also Certificates and Examinations. 
 
 TEXT-BOOKS— 
 
 Contracts for 41 3 
 
 Changes of 41 4 
 
 In geography, special matter 42 5 
 
 How adopted 42 6 
 
 Standard of use 43 7 
 
 Prices of and depositories for 43 8 
 
 Prices of, made public 44 12 
 
 Use compulsory 44 13 
 
 Contracts for, when in effect 44 10 
 
 Contracts for, when void 44 11 
 
 Free — 
 
 How provided 45 1, 2 
 
 How disposed of 46 4 
 
 Parents responsible for 46 5 
 
 Credits for care of - 46 6 
 
 Authorized supplementary 46 8 
 
 TEXT-BOOK COMMISSION— 
 
 An Act to create 40 
 
 TOWN-SITES— 
 
 Block in, reserved for school purposes 82 2 
 
 TREASURER, COUNTY— 
 
 To pay warrants 24 41 
 
 Not to receive fees, when 33 79 
 
 Duties of 36 88 
 
 To receive emergency fund 60 6 
 
 To countersign school bonds 63 5 
 
 To pay and call in school bonds 63 7 
 
 TREASURER, STATE— 
 
 Custodian of school securities 35 84 
 
 Pay school money to County Treasurers 35 85 
 
 Pay interest into State Distributive School Fund 35 86 
 
 Purchase securities, when 36 87 
 
 TRUSTEES, SCHOOL— 
 
 Organization of Board of 22 33 
 
INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS. 119 
 
 Trustees, School (Continued) — Page. Section. 
 
 Meetings of 23 34 
 
 Legal action of 23 35 
 
 Corporate powers of 23 36 
 
 Not interested in contracts 23 37 
 
 Employ teachers 24 40 
 
 Visit schools 25 43 
 
 Powers and duties of 25 44 
 
 Further powers 26 45 
 
 Appointment of, for joint district 27 51 
 
 Appoint Census Marshal 28 58 
 
 Call election for special tax 33 78, SO 
 
 Levy special tax 34 81 
 
 Purchase library books 38 94 
 
 Election of - 47 
 
 Powers of 51 
 
 Of union school districts 58 2 
 
 Of enlarged school districts : 59 3 
 
 Submit question of bonds to vote 62 2 
 
 Investigate charges of truancy 67 4 
 
 Appoint and remove attendance officer 67 5 
 
 Provide rooms for truants 67 6 
 
 Procure flag for schools 82 1, 2 
 
 TRUANCY. See Compulsory Education. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA— 
 
 Name of 83 1 
 
 Establishment of 84 1 
 
 Regents of , 84 2 
 
 How managed 84 3,4 
 
 Degrees granted 85 7 
 
 Duties of President of 86 8 
 
 Regulations concerning 87 9, 10, 11 
 
 Expenses of 87 12 
 
 Ores to be analyzed at 87 1 
 
 Board of Visitors of 88 
 
 VIRGINIA CITY SCHOOL OF MINES— 
 
 Created 89 1 
 
 Appropriation for 95 76 
 
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