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tion; shall have possession and care of its property, and be intrusted with the direction of its entire business and financial affairs. They shall define the duties of the secretary and treasurer, fix their bonds and compensation, and shall have power to make all necessary changes in the constitution and rules of the society to adapt the same to the provisions of this act, and to the management of the society, its meetings and exhibitions. They shall provide for an annual fair or exhibition by the society of all the industries and industrial products of the state at the city of Reno; provided, that in no event shall the state be liable for any premium awarded or debt created by said board of agriculture.

3926. May appoint marshals and police.

SEC. 6. The board shall have power to appoint all necessary marshals and police to keep order and preserve peace at the annual fairs of the society, and the officers so appointed shall be vested with the same authority for the preservation of order and peace, on the grounds and in the buildings of the society, that executive peace officers are vested with by law.

3927. Board to collect and disseminate information.

SEC. 7. Said board shall use all suitable means to collect and disseminate all kinds of information calculated to educate and benefit the industrial classes, develop the resources, and advance the material interests of the state, and shall, on or before the first day of February of each year, report to the governor a full and detailed account of their transactions, statistics, and information gained, and also a full financial statement of all funds received and disbursed. They shall also make such suggestions and recommendations as experience and good policy may dictate for the improvement and advancement of the agricultural and kindred industries.

3928. Reports to be printed and distributed.

SEC. 8. The superintendent of state printing shall, each year, print and bind four hundred volumes of said transactions, and deliver the same to said board of agriculture for distribution and exchange. He shall also do such. job printing as said board may require to carry out the provisions of this act. 3929. Shall receive reports of county and district associations.

SEC. 9. The directors or board of managers of each county and district agricultural society or association, and of county, district or state horticultural and stock-breeding association or society, organized and acting under the laws of this state, shall report annually, on or before the first day of April, to the state board of agriculture, the name and postoffice address of each officer of such society or association; and, on or before the first day of December, shall report to the board of agriculture the transactions of said society, including the premiums offered, the list of stock and articles exhibited and the premiums paid, the amount of receipts and expenditures for the year, the new industries inaugurated, and any and all facts and statistics showing the development and extent of the industries, products and resources of the county or district embraced within the management of such society or association; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any board of commissioners or other body organized under the laws of this state, the object of which is to promote vinicultural industries, unless such board or body shall voluntarily request the privilege of making such reports as are called for by this act, in which case this board or body shall enjoy equal privileges as are accorded to other institutions devoted to agriculture.

3930. Blanks to be furnished.

SEC. 10. To facilitate such reports the state board of agriculture shall

have prepared and shall furnish such societies with necessary schedules and blanks for such reports; and such state board shall include such reports from societies and associations, or so much thereof as they may deem advisable, in their report to the governor.

3931. Secretary to report organization.

SEC. 11. When said state board of agriculture shall have been organized and classified as provided herein, the secretary of the board shall report such organization and classification to the governor. He shall also report any vacancy that may occur in said board at any time.

An Act for the aid and benefit of the state agricultural society.

Approved March 28, 1907, 340

[Sections 1, 2 and 3, making appropriation and providing for its disposition, omitted.] 3932. Additional members of board created.

SEC. 4. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint three additional resident citizens of the state to act as members of the state board of agriculture.

No charge for commissions, sec. 4260.

See district agricultural societies, secs. 432 444.

Counties to aid state exhibits, secs. 3935 3940.

STATE ARMORY BUILDING

An Act relating to the custody of the state armory building and grounds.

Approved February 28, 1907, 53

3933. Adjutant-general custodian of.

SECTION 1. The adjutant-general of the State of Nevada is hereby made the custodian of the state armory building and grounds.

STATE BOUNDARY

An Act to define and establish a portion of the western boundary of
the State of Nevada.

Approved February 27, 1903, 38

3934. Defining part of western boundary line.

SECTION 1. That portion of the western boundary line of the State of Nevada southeastward from Lake Tahoe, and extending to the southwesterly corner of said State of Nevada, that is to say: Southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich to the southwesterly corner of said State of Nevada, as lately surveyed, established and marked by the United States coast and geodetic survey, completed during the year 1900, and now recognized by the State of California, is hereby declared to be the true, correct and legal boundary line of the State of Nevada, between Lake Tahoe and the southwesterly corner of the State of Nevada, and the said line as surveyed, established and marked aforesaid shall now and hereafter be recognized and considered by the courts of this state as the boundary of this state between the two said points.

See Const., sec. 368, ante.

STATE EXHIBITS

Empowering county commissioners to levy special tax to cover expenses of displaying products of county at expositions, sections 3935, 3936.

To encourage the exhibition of Nevada products, sections 3937-3940.

An Act empowering the county commissioners to levy a special tax to cover the expenses of displaying the products of the county at expositions.

Approved March 20, 1911, 136

3935. County tax for exhibits at expositions.

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, the county commissioners of the various counties are hereby empowered to levy a special tax for the purpose of displaying the products of the county at expositions. 3936. Tax limited.

SEC. 2. The county commissioners are hereby authorized to use their discretion in the levying of such tax to cover the legitimate expenses incurred in the display of any such products at any such exposition; provided, that in no case shall such tax levy exceed four cents on each one hundred dollars in any one year.

An Act to encourage the exhibition of Nevada products.

Approved March 6, 1903, 52

3937. Counties may aid state exhibits.

SECTION 1. Whenever the State of Nevada by act of legislature shall have decided to make a state exhibit at any exposition, the various counties may, for the purpose of more efficiently representing their resources and products, by order of their respective county commissioners, employ some person or persons to collect county exhibits and forward the same pursuant to instructions from the state board of commissioners of such expositions.

3938. Exhibits to be marked.

SEC. 2. All collectors acting under authorization of county commissioners, shall collect and mark each and all samples in accordance with such instructions from the state board as may be necessary to secure clearness and uniformity of system in the state exhibit.

3939. Expenses a county charge.

SEC. 3. The commissioners of each county may order the payment of such expenses as may be incurred in collecting such exhibit out of any available fund.

3940. County may maintain permanent exhibit-Expense limited.

SEC. 4. The commissioners may, for the purpose of illustrating, exhibiting and advertising the resources of their counties, maintain permanent exhibits at suitable places either in this state or elsewhere, provided that they shall not expend for the maintenance of such permanent exhibit more than twentyfive dollars in any one month. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to conflict in any way with sections 1, 2 or 3.

STATE HYGIENIC LABORATORY

An Act to establish and maintain a state hygienic laboratory at the University of Nevada for the diagnosis of infectious diseases, for research, providing for the appointment of a director and assistants, and making an appropriation therefor.

Approved March 25, 1909, 325

3941. Laboratory at university-Purpose

Free.

3942. Regents to purchase equipment.
3943. Director and assistant-Qualifications.

3944. Director to make examination and research-Infectious diseases-Who may require.

3945. Director to publish bulletins and annual reports.

3941. Laboratory at university-Purpose-Free.

SECTION 1. There shall be established and maintained at the University of Nevada at Reno, for the use of the health officials and physicians of the State of Nevada, a state hygienic laboratory for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and the conduct of research into the nature, cause, and control of such diseases; provided, such diagnosis and researches shall be free of charge. 3942. Regents to purchase equipment.

SEC. 2. The regents of the University of Nevada shall, from the money hereby appropriated, purchase suitable equipment, apparatus, chemicals and supplies for the maintenance of such laboratory in the existing laboratories of the University of Nevada at Reno.

3943. Director and assistant-Qualifications.

SEC. 3. The regents of the University of Nevada shall, upon the recommendation of the president, appoint a director of said laboratory from the existing instructing staff of the university. The director shall be a skilled bacteriologist and shall have general supervision of the performance of all duties required by this act. The regents of the University of Nevada shall appoint one assistant whose time shall be exclusively devoted to the work designated in this act, under the supervision of the director of the laboratory. 3944. Director to make examination and research-Infectious diseasesWho may require.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the director of this laboratory and of his assistants to examine promptly and report to the person sending it, such material, free of charge, as may be submitted by any health officer or health board or any physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of Nevada, for the diagnosis of any infectious disease, in which laboratory methods are of recognized value; to examine such other clinical and pathological material as may, in the discretion of the director, appear feasible; and to undertake research into the nature, cause, diagnosis, and control of the infectious disease.

3945. Director to publish bulletins and annual reports.

SEC. 5. The director shall publish annually a report of the work done in the laboratory during the preceding year under the provisions of this act. Such results of the investigations that may be conducted under this act as are considered of interest to the public shall be published from time to time, either in connection with the annual reports, or in separate series of circulars or bulletins, or both, in the discretion of the director.

STATE LIBRARY

Act in relation to, sections 3946-3953.

Prescribing office hours for state library, sections 3954-3959.

To authorize state librarian to appoint assistant, section 3960.

To provide for disposal and sale of duplicate copies of books, section 3961. Authorizing employment of engineer and janitor for state library building, sections 3962-3964.

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3946. What books and documents preserved in the state library. SECTION 1. All books, maps, and charts, now belonging to, or which may hereafter come into possession of this state, by purchase or otherwise; all books, maps, charts, pamphlets, and other documents, which, by any state officer, may be received in their official capacity from the general government, or in exchange from other states or territories, or received from foreign nations, or donated to the state by any person or corporation, shall be placed in the state library, and shall be carefully preserved by the librarian.

3947. Secretary of state ex officio librarian-Catalogue-Report.

SEC. 2. The secretary of state shall be ex officio state librarian, and shall take charge of the library, and all papers and furniture properly belonging thereto, under such regulations as are herein provided, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law. He shall be responsible for the safe keeping of all the property of the state library, and shall cause all the books, maps, charts, pamphlets, and other documents thereof, to be impressed with the proper stamp or seal, after the same shall have been procured by the directors hereinafter named. Said librarian shall at all times keep, in a convenient place in the library, a catalogue of the books belonging thereto for reference. He shall annually, by the first Monday of January, report to the said board of directors the condition of the library, and recommend such additions thereto, and improvements therein, as he may think advisable for the interests of the same.

See note preceding sec. 3954.

Annual report to be made to governor, sec. 4268.

3948. Who may take books from the library-Number limited.

SEC. 3. Books may be taken from the state library by. the members of the state legislature during its session, and at any time by the governor and other officers of the executive department of this state who are required to keep their offices at the seat of government, the justices of the supreme court and attorney-general; provided, that no person shall be permitted to have more than two volumes of miscellaneous works from said library at the same time. 3949. Register of books issued-How long books retained.

SEC. 4. The librarian shall cause to be kept a register of all the books

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