sions of this section, and to submit the same to the inspection of the Court whenever it is so ordered; and it shall be the Judge to duty of the Judge to inspect and verify said account, at the

verify account. Duty of Clerk.

Jurors,

how paid.

close of each term of the Court. It shall also be the duty of the Clerk to keep an accurate account of the attendance of each juror during the term of the Court, and at the close of the term to ascertain the amount due each juror for mileage and attendance, after deducting the amount received by him as fees in civil cases. If there is money enough in the Jury Fund to pay the jurors in full they shall be paid therefrom. If the amount in the Jury Fund is insufficient to pay the jurors in full, said jurors shall be paid from said fund in the order of their claims, until the fund is exhausted; the balance of the jurors, if any, shall be paid from the General Fund of the county.

Bankers

to be divided

CHAP. CVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada,' approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

[Approved March 5, 1877.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section sixty-one of the above entitled Act is amended so as to read as follows:

Section Sixty-one. Bankers, as defined in section fifty-nine of this Act, shall be divided into seven classes, as follows: into seven Those doing business in the aggregate to the amount of five

classes.

License

for each class.

hundred thousand dollars or more, per month, shall constitute the first class. Those doing business in the aggregate to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars and less than five hundred thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the second class. Those doing business to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars and less than three hundred thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the third class. Those doing business to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars and less than two hundred thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the fourth class. Those doing business to the amount of fifty thousand dollars and less than one hundred thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the fifth class. Those doing business to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars and less than fifty thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the sixth class; and those doing business in any amount less than twenty five thousand dollars, per month, shall constitute the seventh class. The license for the first class shall be given, upon the payment of two hundred dollars per month; for the second class, upon the payment of one hundred and fifty dollars per month; for the third class, upon the payment

of one hundred dollars per month; for the fourth class, upon the payment of seventy-five dollars per month; for the fifth class, upon the payment of fifty dollars per month; for the sixth class, upon the payment of twenty-five dollars per month, and for the seventh class, upon the payment of twelve dollars per month; and a separate license shall be obtained for each establishment or separate house of such business, located in the same county. Common carriers, as defined in section fifty-nine of this Act, shall be liable to an annual license of one hundred and fifty dollars, payable quarterly; provided, that but one license shall be required from the same company or corporation in the same county.

CHAP. CIX.-An Act to provide for the preservation of fish in the waters of this State.

[Approved March 5, 1877.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

and his

SECTION 1. The Governor of this State is hereby authorized Governor to appoint and empowered to appoint a suitable person, to be styled "Fish CommisCommissioner," whose duty it shall be to establish fish breed- sioner, eries upon such of the waters of this State as, in his judgment, duty. 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 purchase and import from other States and countries the spawn or ova of valuable fish, suitable for food, and may introduce the same, when obtained, into such rivers, streams, and lakes as he may deem suited to the habits and successful culture of such fish. He may also employ persons who are skillful and expert in the bus [iness] 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 Commissioner may, in his discretion, distribute the ova or spawn to be procured by him, 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; the said lakes, ponds, or streams to be open to the public to take the said fish after they have obtained maturity.

SEC. 2. Such Commissioner shall hold his office for the term Term of office. of four years, unless some other person shall be appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by death, resignation, or inability to attend to the duties required.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to require, Fish ladas far as practicable, all persons, firms, and corporations who delitover have erected mill dams, water wiers, or other obstructions, on all dams. rivers or streams and lakes within the waters of this State, within six months after the passage of this Act, to construct

Penalty for failure

and keep in repair fish ways, or fish ladders, at such mill dams, water wiers, or obstructions, so that at all seasons of the year fish may ascend above such dam, wier, or obstruction, to deposit their spawn; and any such obstructions or dams shall not be made use of to catch the said fish by Indians or other persons. Any person, firm, or corporation owning such mill dam or obstrucor refusal. tion, who shall fail or refuse to construct or keep in repair such fish way or ladder, after having been notified and required by the Commissioner to do so, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal. The fines and penalties that may be received for convictions under this section, shall be paid one half to the District Attorney who shall prosecute the suit, and one half to the School Fund of the State.

Time for taking fish with

hook and line.

The

taking of fish with

SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, between the first days of January and June of each year, to catch or kill any river, lake, or salmon trout, in any of the streams, rivers, lakes, or other waters within this State, with any seine, gill-net, or any spear, grab-hook, wier, fence, basket, trap, explosive material, or other implements or substances, or in any manner except by hook and line; and it shall not be lawful at any time for any person or persons to catch or kill such fish in any of the waters of this State by the use of traps, gill-nets, traps, etc. grab-hooks, or any poisonous, deleterious, or stupefying drug, explosive material, or other substance, or catch or have in possession any fish so caught during the close season; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the taking of fish in private ponds constructed expressly for the raising of fish, by the owner thereof; and, provided further, Fish may that any person wanting spawn for the propagating of fish, for spawn. may take fish from their spawning beds, or elsewhere, during the spawning season. Any person violating the provisions of Penalty. this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon

inhibited.

Proviso.

be taken

Penalty

for carry

private ponds.

conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, one half to be paid to the District Attorney who shall prosecute the suit, and one half to be paid into the School Fund of the State.

SEC. 5. Every person who shall, in any manner, take or ing away carry away any trout or other fish from any stream, pond, or fish from reservoir belonging to any person or corporation, which stream, pond, or reservoir has been stocked with fish by hatching the eggs or spawn, or by placing therein, without the consent of the owner of the land covered by and adjoining such stream, pond, or reservoir, or without the consent of the agent of the corporation, if such land belong to a corporation, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two nor more than ten dollars for every fish so taken or carried away, and shall also be liable to the owner of such stream, pond, or reservoir in a civil suit, for the full value of all fish so taken or carried away.

Young fish

to be

SEC. 6. All persons engaged in the business of fishing in the captured rivers, streams, or ponds of this State, with seines or traps, or other means whatsoever, who shall capture the young of returned. any any species of fish valuable for food, but which at the time of capture are unfit for use as food, shall return the same to the

water. Every person who shall violate the provisions of this Penalty. section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or impris onment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court; one third of all penalties received under this section shall be paid to the informer, one third to the District Attorney of the county prosecuting the suit, and one third to the School Fund of the State.

sioner to

salary.

SEC. 7. The Commissioner authorized to be appointed by this CommisAct shall receive no compensation for his services. His neces- receive no sary expenses incidental to procuring and distributing the ova, salses or spawn of fish, in the employment of fish breeders, and in car- to be paid. rying out the provisions of this Act, shall be paid from the appropriation herein made, upon accounts or vouchers to be approved by the State Board of Examiners. The Commissioner To make shall report biennially to the Governor an account of his trans- report. actions under this Act, and make an exhibit of his expenditure of money under its provisions.

ation

SEC. 8. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appro- Appropripriated out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise made. appropriated, and the Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury in payment of accounts of the Fish Commissioner, as approved or allowed by the State Board of Examiners.

may take

SEC. 9. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or Indians prevent Indians from taking trout in any of the streams or fish at lakes of this State, at any time, by the same means heretofore any time. usually used and employed by them; provided, that the same Proviso. are for their own use; but it shall not be lawful for them, the said Indians, to make use of any dam, weir, or other obstruction in any stream, erected by any person, firm, or corporation for the prosecution of any business, under the same penalty that applies to other persons taking said fish out of season.

meanor to

Indians

SEC. 10. Any person or firm who shall employ any Indian Misdeor Indians to catch fish at any time, or place, or manner pro- employ hibited in this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, to fish. and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the same fine and punishment as though the wrongful act was done by him or them in person, as provided for in section four of this Act.

CHAP. CX.-An Act concerning vagrancy and vagrants.

[Approved March 5, 1877.]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

Vagrancy defined, and its

SECTION 1. Vagrancy consists of the acts and deeds of com- punishmission and omission, coupled with the personal state and con- ment.

Who are vagrants.

Check guerillas.

dition of a vagrant, and shall be deemed a misdemeanor; and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding ninety days.

SEC. 2. Every idle and dissolute person, without visible or known means of living, who has the physical ability to work, and who does not for the space of ten days make proper inquiry for, and use due diligence to seek employment. nor labor when employment is offered him; also, every idle or dissolute person who roams about the country from place to place without any lawful business; also, every healthy beggar who solicits alms as a business; also, every person who makes a Beggars. practice of going from house to house begging food, money, or other articles, or seeks admission to such houses upon frivolous pretexts for no other apparent motive than to see who may be therein, or to gain an insight of the premises; also, every idle or dissolute person or associate of known thieves who wanders about the streets at late and unusual hours of the night, or prowls around dark alleys, by-ways, and other dark or unfrequented places at any hour of the night, without any legitimate business in so doing; also, every idle or dissolute person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, or place other than that kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof; every "check guerilla," i. e., one who frequents gambling rooms and solicits money or the checks used therein to represent money, from the proprietors, bystanders or betters, and who has no other means of living other than the money so obtained, or obtained in a similar manner elsewhere; every lewd and dissolute male person who lives in and about houses of ill-fame; also, every lewd and dissolute female person known as a "street walker," or common prostitute, who shall upon the public streets, or in or about any public place or assemblage, or in any saloon, barroom, club-room, or any other public or general place of resort for men, or anywhere within the sight or hearing of ladies or children, conduct and behave herself in an immo. dest, drunken, indecent, profane, or obscene manner, either by actions, language, or improper exposure of her person; every common drunkard who is in the habit of lying around the streets, alleys, sidewalks, saloons, barrooms, or other public places in a state of gross intoxication; also, every boy or Hoodlums male person under the age of twenty-one years, who habitually remains away from his home or place of residence after the hour of nine (9) o'clock P. M. without some lawful and necessary business, or other imperative duty, or good and sufficient reason or cause for such absence from home after such hour, for his own amusement and pastime, without any legitimate business for so doing, frequents and passes his time in any gambling room, or other place where gambling is conducted, or any billiard room or other place where any such games are played, or any saloon or other place where intoxicating liquor is sold or drank; or who at any hour of the night or day, for his own amusement and pastime, without any legitimate business for so doing, frequents or loafs around any low den, house, or other place of vice, infamy, or immorality, where known thieves and other vicious and infamous persons resort

Street walkers.

Common

drunkards