same shall govern, the action of the board of trustees of Lund school district in carrying out the provisions of this act. All demands and bills contracted by said board of trustees of Lund school district shall be paid in the manner now provided by law; provided, that no such bills shall be allowed until the plans for said school building shall have been approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. select site SEC. 9. As soon as possible after the passage and approval Trustees to of this act, or after this act shall become a law, the board of trustees of Lund school district shall proceed to select an appropriate site for said school building in the town of Lund, in said county, and the board of trustees of said county shall thereafter, with all expedient dispatch, proceed to the execution of the purposes of this act. responsible SEC. 10. The county treasurer of said White Pine County Treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto. School Fund" district SEC. 11. For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment "Lund of the bonds authorized by this act and the interest thereon, District the board of county commissioners of said White Pine County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect annually a special tax upon the assessment valuation of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines within the boundaries of said Lund school dis- Tax on trict, until said bonds and the interest thereon shall have been property fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and retire, beginning with bond number one and consecutively thereafter, one of said bonds annually beginning on the first Monday in July, 1916, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the "Lund School District Fund"; provided, however, that if the amount of the tax levied upon the property within said Lund school district shall at any time be insufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and provide for the retirement as provided in this section, the board of county commissioners of said White Pine County are hereby required to levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessment valuation of all Tax on property, real and personal, subject to taxation, including the property proceeds of mines within the boundaries of said White Pine County, and continue such levy from year to year to meet any deficit which may occur in said Lund school district fund, and the faith and credit of White Pine County is hereby pledged to the prompt and ready payment of said bonds and the interest. thereon according to the terms, conditions, and tenor thereof. SEC. 12. It shall be obligatory on the said county and on Interest its proper officers to pay in full the accrued interest on said paid County must be when bonds, beginning on the first day of July, 1916, and thereafter on the first day of July in each and every year, until all of said bonds shall have been redeemed and retired. SEC. 13. Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in Tax ceases, this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of said county, be transferred to the fund used for paying the contingent expenses of said Lund school district. SEC. 14. Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of Treasurer to the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall can cancel paid bonds Interest ceases, when Faith of state pledged Life diplomas granted to teachers, conditions cel the same by writing across the face thereof "Paid, together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid. SEC. 15. Should the holder of said bonds or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment, when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease. SEC. 16. The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued hereunder and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified. CHAP. 117-An Act to amend "An act concerning public schools and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 13, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 28 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 28. The state board of education may grant a life diploma to any resident of the State of Nevada who shall present evidence of having taught successfully and continuously for a period of seventy-two months, twenty-four of which shall have been in the State of Nevada. Such life diploma may be granted to any resident of Nevada who shall have taught the required number of months, and who shall hold a renewable Nevada certificate, or who shall hold a special certificate that shall have been the applicant's only license to teach for a period of at least seventy-two months previous to the application for such life diploma. A life diploma granted under this section shall be of the same grade and of the same name as the certificate held by the applicant at the time of the application for the life diploma, and shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any school in the State of Nevada of the grade of the certificate upon which the life diploma was granted, or to teach those subjects in any school which the special certificate entitled the holder to teach at the time of the application for the life diploma. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. CHAP. 118-An Act for the relief of Virginia City Miners' [Approved March 15, 1915] WHEREAS, The Virginia City Miners' Union Number Forty- Preamble six, Western Federation of Miners, furnished to the Virginia City school of mines for school purposes its lower hall from January 1, 1912, to January 1, 1913, at a stipulated rental of ten dollars ($10) per month, making a total rental for said period of one hundred and twenty ($120) dollars; and WHEREAS, An appropriation was duly made for the support of said Virginia City school of mines by the legislature of the State of Nevada in the year 1911; and WHEREAS, Through an inadvertence in the presentation of the above-mentioned claim for rent no warrant could be drawn in payment thereof; and WHEREAS, The said claim is a just and legal claim against the State of Nevada, and has been duly allowed by the board of examiners of said State of Nevada: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state controller of the State of Nevada is Appropriation, $120 hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Virginia City Miners' Union Number Forty-six, Western Federation of Miners, for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) in payment of the above-mentioned claim, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. CHAP. 119—An Act for the relief of the California school for the deaf and the blind. [Approved March 15, 1915] WHEREAS, The California school for the deaf and the blind Preamble has a balance due for 1912 of $39.07 against the State of Nevada for supplies furnished children committed thereto by the State of Nevada; and WHEREAS, Such balance is a just and proper claim, being certified to by the superintendent of public instruction, and Appropriation, $39.07 Salary of Deputies, when approved by the board of examiners January 25, 1915: now, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw a warrant in favor of the California school for the deaf and the blind for the sum of $39.07, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 120—An Act to amend section four of an act entitled "An act consolidating certain county offices in Lyon County, and regulating the compensation of the county officers in said county," approved March 16, 1891, approved February 18, 1893, approved March 10, 1897, approved March 13, 1905, approved March 20, 1907, approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 15, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. On and after the first day of March, 1911, the county recorder, as ex officio county auditor of Lyon County, shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, which shall be in full compensation for all services of every nature and kind performed by him for said county as county recorder and ex officio county auditor, or by virtue of each or either of said offices. He shall make no charge for services performed for the county, but all fees of every kind authorized by law, and by virtue of said office, shall be collected by him and paid to the county treasurer on the first Monday of each and every month, and he shall at the same time prepare and file with the county treasurer a full and accurate itemized statement, under oath, of all such fees legally collectible, or collected by him in his official capacity during the month previous, and also file a duplicate copy thereof with the board of county commissioners. The said county recorder shall have authority in cases of emergency, by and with the consent of the board of county commissioners of Lyon County, by order duly entered in its minutes, to appoint one or more deputies at a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars per month each, to be paid out of the general fund of Lyon County, and shall continue to be paid said salary only during the pleasure and consent of said board. CHAP. 121-An Act in relation to the keeping and preservation of the state museum of mineralogical, geological, and other historical specimens. [Approved March 15, 1915] WHEREAS, The Nevada historical society, trustee for the State Preamble of Nevada, has for one of its main objects the collection of historical material for a state museum and historical library; and WHEREAS, Said society is now provided with a brick building for the housing of said museum and library; and WHEREAS, The state museum, including the Pioneer society collection and other historical materials, now housed in the office of superintendent of public instruction, and by act of February 1, 1877, placed in the custody of said superintendent of public instruction, cannot be given room in the new office in the capitol; neither, by reason of other duties, has he time. to act as curator of the same: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: museum to Nevada SECTION 1. The state mineral cabinets and other cases, State mineral and other specimens and historical books, pictures, go to and curios, which constitute the state museum in the office of historical superintendent of public instruction, are hereby transferred to society the custody of the Nevada historical society, to be kept and preserved by said society for the benefit of the people of the state. moving, $125 SEC. 2. One hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars are Appropriahereby appropriated for the proper inventorying, packing, and tion for moving of this collection from its present quarters to the building of the Nevada historical society. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the pro- Repeal visions of this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 122-An Act providing for the payment of legal services rendered by L. A. Gibbons to the board of prison commissioners of the State of Nevada. [Approved March 15, 1915] WHEREAS, During the year 1912, L. A. Gibbons rendered legal Preamble services to the board of prison commissioners of the State of Nevada at the request of said board, relative to the investigation of prison affairs under the wardenship of Raymond T. Baker, and also relative to the investigation of the escape of convict Fred Skinner; and WHEREAS, The reasonable value of said services so rendered |