Annual special assessments and taxes Certain funds established Duties of county commissioners regarding loans SEC. 9. Whenever any bonds shall be issued in pursuance of the provisions of this act, such bonds shall constitute a lien upon all the taxable property of the said county of Churchill, and the board of county commissioners shall annually order special assessments to be levied, assessed and collected against each and every tract and parcel of land upon the security of which any loan or loans hereunder shall have been made, at the time and in the manner that other taxes are levied, assessed and collected, sufficient to cover the annual installments of principal or interest or both due on all outstanding loans theretofore made thereon under the provisions of this act as they become due and payable until such loans shall have been fully paid; and for a failure to pay the same the property against which any such special assessment shall have been so levied or assessed shall be subject to sale at the same time, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as for failure to pay other county taxes. No property shall be discharged from any lien imposed upon the same by virtue of any loan made under the provisions of this act until such loan shall have been fully paid. SEC. 10. All moneys received by the county in the course of the repayment of loans made or of the collection of taxes assessed under the provisions of this act shall be by the county treasurer kept in a fund hereby created, to be known. as the" Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund," and the county treasurer shall cause the interest on said bonds to be always promptly paid from said fund upon the surrender of the interest coupons to him as they severally become due, and shall pass to the credit of the "Reclamation Expense Fund" the moneys belonging therein as provided in section 11 of this act; and whenever there shall be a surplus then remaining in said fund in excess of the amount required for the payment of interest on said bonds, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to order the redemption and payment of so many of said bonds as the amount of the surplus in said fund shall permit, in the manner proIvided in section 2 of this act. SEC. 11. For the purpose of securing moneys for the payment of the necessary expenses in connection with said loans and for other things which in the judgment of the board may be required in carrying out the purposes of this act, as well as for the reimbursement of said county for the amount of any interest which it may be required to pay on said bonds at times when any part of the proceeds of such bonds shall not have been drawing interest, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to charge and collect on said loans a rate of interest not in excess of five per centum per annum ; and a sum equal to the difference between the amount of interest paid and accrued upon the bonds issued and sold hereunder, on the one hand, and the amount of interest earned by said loans, taking into consideration the amount of county com loans such loans, the time which the same shall have run and the Duties of rate of interest charged thereupon, on the other hand, shall missioners be available for the purposes aforesaid. The board of county regarding commissioners may also require every applicant for a loan hereunder to pay an application fee of not to exceed two per centum of the amount of the loan for which application is made, and may retain from such fee two per centum of the amount of any loan made thereunder or in any event one-half of the amount of such application fee; and the amount of all such application fees so retained shall likewise be available for the purposes in this section above mentioned. For the purpose of paying the initial expenses of carrying this act into effect, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to appropriate not to exceed five hundred dollars from the general fund of said county, which shall be repaid to said general county fund as soon as there shall be sufficient. moneys therefor which may be available for the payment of the expenses aforesaid and not otherwise required. The board shall require the moneys available for the purposes aforesaid to be kept in a fund separate and distinct from other county moneys, to be known as the "Reclamation Expense Fund," and no such expenses shall be paid or incurred in excess of the amounts authorized by this section or of the amount of the balance which may be on hand in said "Reclamation Expense Fund"; and should there at any time be a surplus remaining in said fund it shall be transferred to the "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund" and in such event subsequent special assessments as provided for in section 9 of this act may be proportionately reduced in amount by virtue thereof. Churchill officers SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of all public officers of Duties of Churchill County to perform such services in connection County with the carrying out of the purposes of this act as the board of county commissioners may direct, without further compensation than is now or may hereafter be provided by law in connection with their respective offices; and, subject to the provisions of section 11 of this act, the board of county commissioners may appoint and fix the compensation of such additional engineers, appraisers and other employees, and may incur such other expenses as in their judgment may be required to carry out the purposes of this act, all of which shall be payable only out of said "Reclamation Expense Fund." U.S., when SEC. 13. The board of county commissioners is hereby To collect for further authorized, in connection with its procedure under section 9 of this act, and to the same extent, in the same manner and with like effect at the request of the United States or of the State of Nevada, to undertake the collection of any and all unpaid "construction" charges referred to in section 6 hereof, or of the amount of any and all loans made in cooperation with said board under the provisions State boards and may purchase said bonds of this act, under such regulations as the board may adopt governing the same. SEC. 14. Any and every board and commission of the State of Nevada now existing or which may hereafter be commissions created, charged with authority to loan or invest public moneys, is hereby authorized to purchase at par plus accrued interest all or any part of the said bonds, using therefor any of such moneys not otherwise appropriated or reserved. SEC. 15. The board of county commissioners of said county is hereby authorized to perform such acts and make county com- such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or proper to carry this act into full force and effect. General authority of missioners Special annual ad SEC. 16. The board of county commissioners shall annually levy and assess on all the taxable property of said county, valorem tax including net proceeds of mines, a special ad valorem tax for such amount as shall be necessary or sufficient to pay the interest semianually as it shall accrue on each and every bond issued under the provisions of this act and also to pay the principal of such bonds as they severally become due, until all of said bonds with the interest shall have been fully paid. Such tax shall be levied, assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied, assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in the said "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund" and the same shall be paid out as hereinbefore provided in this act for payments from said fund; provided, however, that all money in said "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund" shall first be appropriated and used for paying and discharging the principal and interest on said bonds and that no such ad valorem tax shall be so levied in any year when, at the time of levying taxes in such year, there shall be in said "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund" sufficient moneys available for the payment of all principal and interest which may become due before taxes for a future year would be due and payable. Proviso County treasurer liable Faith of state pledged Transfers authorized SEC. 17. The county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe-keeping of the moneys which shall come into his possession under the provisions of this act and for the faithful discharge of all his duties hereunder. SEC. 18. 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 under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act provided. SEC. 19. The board of county commissioners may at any time and from time to time transfer such moneys as they may see fit from the "Reclamation Fund" to the "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund"; and should any moneys remain in said "Reclamation Bond Redemption Fund" after payment of all of said bonds, the county treasurer shall with out delay pass the same to the credit of the general fund of said county. of interest SEC. 20. The board of county commissioners may make Payment such arrangements as may be proper for the payment of provided for interest which may become payable on said bonds prior to the time when the same may be collected by taxes levied and assessed as herein before provided, and in the absence of other arrangements may pay the same or any part thereof out of the general county fund. CHAP. 205-An Act to amend section 8 of an act entitled "An act concerning juries," approved March 5, 1873, and as amended and approved March 14, 1879, and February 8. 1881, and March 16, 1915, being section 4931 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912. [Approved March 29, 1919] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and jury law SECTION 1. Section 8 of the above-entitled act, being sec- Amending tion 4931 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, is hereby amended to read as follows: selecting and county 24 names for Section 8. It shall be the duty of the district judge and Mode of any one of the county commissioners of the county, as grand jury often as the public interest may require, to select from the qualified jurors of the county (whether their names are or are not upon the list selected by the board of county commissioners) twenty-four persons who shall be summoned to appear as grand jurors at such time as the judge may order; provided, that if the district judge deems proper he may direct any one of the county commissioners of the county and the clerk to select the grand jurors, and such county commissioner and clerk, if the County clerk judge so directs, shall select from the said qualified jurors commis twenty-four persons as grand jurors. If the judge directs sioner selects the grand jurors to be selected by one of the county com- grand jurors missioners and the clerk, the judge must make and file with the clerk an order designating the name of such county commissioner, and the judge shall in said order fix the time when said grand jurors shall be required to appear; and if from any cause such county commissioner and clerk should fail to select the grand jurors, the judge and any one of the county commissioners may, at any time, select the same. A list of the names so selected as grand jurors shall be made out and certified by the officers making such selection and be filed in the clerk's office, and the clerk shall immediately issue a venire, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon the persons so drawn as grand District judge selects jurors to attend in court at such time as the judge may have 17 for grand directed; and the sheriff shall summon such grand jurors, jury of summons defined and out of the number so summoned the court shall select seventeen persons to constitute the grand jury. If from any cause a sufficient number do not appear, or those who appear are excused or discharged, an additional number, sufficient to complete the grand jury, shall be selected from the said qualified jurors by the judge and clerk and summoned to appear in court at such time as the court may direct. Any Legal service person named in such venire, who resides elsewhere than at the place at which the court is held, shall be served by the sheriff mailing a summons to such person commanding him to attend as a juror at a time and place designated therein, which summons shall be registered and deposited in the postoffice, addressed to such person at his usual postoffice address. And the receipt of the person so addressed for such registered summons shall be regarded as personal service of such summons upon such person and no mileage shall be allowed for the service of such person. The postage and registry fee shall be paid by the sheriff and allowed him as other claims against the county. Directors of state orphans' home may apprentice CHAP. 206-An Act to amend sections nine, eleven, twelve, and thirteen of an act entitled "An act for the government and maintenance of the state orphans' home," approved March 1, 1873, as amended March 3, 1887, as amended March 9, 1903, as amended March 25, 1913, as amended March 26, 1915. [Approved March 29, 1919] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SEC. 1. Section eleven of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 11. Whenever said board shall deem it for the best interests of any child in said home, or of the state, they may discharge any child therein; and they are hereby empowered, discharge or whenever they may deem it meet and proper, to apprentice any child in said home to the head of any family, or to any person carrying on a useful and proper business; but in all such indentures of apprenticeship the board shall reserve the power to themselves at any time to cancel the same, and reclaim said child to the home whenever, in their judgment, the best interest of said child and the state shall demand. children SEC. 2. Section twelve of the above-entitled act, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the board of directors, at their discretion, from receiving |