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the people of the State of Nevada, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the board designated in section 3 of this act, for the faithful performance of his duties, which bond shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

4330. General official duties-Only state work to be done-Limitations as to number and compensation of employees-Report to governor. SEC. 5. The duties of the superintendent of state printing shall be as follows: He shall have the entire charge and superintendence of the state printing, and all matters pertaining to his office. He shall take charge of and be responsible for all manuscripts or other matter which may be placed in his hands to be printed, and shall cause the same to be promptly executed. He shall receive from the senate or assembly all matter ordered by either house to be printed and bound, or either printed or bound, and shall keep a record of the same, and of the order in which it may be received, and when the work shall have been executed he shall deliver the finished sheets, or volumes, to the sergeant-at-arms of either house, as the case may be, or any department authorized to receive them. He shall receive and promptly execute all orders for printing required to be done by the various state officers. He shall employ such compositors, pressmen, or assistants, as the exigency of the work may from time to time require, and may at any time discharge such employees; provided, that at no time shall he pay said compositors, pressmen, or assistants, a higher rate of wages than is recognized by the employing printers of the State of Nevada. He shall at no time employ more compositors, pressmen, or assistants, than the necessities of the state printing may require, and he shall not permit any other than state work to be done in the state printing office. The superintendent of state printing shall, on the first day of December of each year, make a report in writing, to the governor, embracing a record of the complete transactions of his office. 4331. Superintendent not to be interested in contracts.

SEC. 6. He shall not, during his continuance in office, have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract for furnishing paper, or other printing stock, or material connected with the state printing.

See secs. 2827 2830, 6331.

4332. Supplies, how furnished-May be advertised for.

SEC. 7. The state board of printing commissioners are hereby authorized and instructed, when in their judgment they may deem it necessary to advertise for a period of twenty days for bids for furnishing paper and other stationery requisite for the public printing, and said board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. No bid shall be considered unless it is accompanied by a bond, with two or more sureties in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned that if the bidder receives the award of the contract he will, within thirty days, enter into bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the governor, that he will faithfully perform the conditions of the contract.

[Secs. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 obsolete.]

The following sections were added to the original act by an act approved March 4, 1881, 146: 4333. Printing authorized to be done in the state printing office.

SEC. 13. The printing and binding which may be done at the expense of the state, other than that specially authorized by legislative action, shall be as follows: The statutes passed by the legislature, the journals of the senate and assembly, the appendix to the journals of the senate and assembly, the biennial message of the governor, the annual reports of the treasurer and controller, and biennial reports of the surveyor-general, the warden of the

state prison, the commissioners for the care of the indigent insane, the board of directors of the state orphans' home, the superintendent of public instruction, the biennial report of the secretary of state, all forms and blanks required in and for the various state offices, and such orders and proclamations as may be required to facilitate, support, or give legitimate expression to the government of the state and the successful working and needful exhibit of its various departments and offices.

Supplies for state board of assessors, sec. 3811.

Printing for state land office, secs. 4356-4359.
See secs. 4313 4326.

4334. Legislative session laws to be printed-Number thereof-Constitutions and treasurer's report included.

SEC. 14. There shall be printed of the statutes of each legislature sixteen hundred copies. Eight hundred copies shall be bound in calf, and eight hundred copies shall remain unbound until such time as they may be needed. The bound volumes shall contain the laws, resolutions and memorials passed at each legislative session, the report of the state treasurer, the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of Nevada. No other report or thing whatever shall be bound therewith. As amended, Stats. 1893, 31; 1907, 415.

4335. Legislative journals and appendix to be printed-Number and distribution.

SEC. 15. The journals and appendix of the two houses of the legislature shall be printed, and there shall be two hundred and twenty-five copies thereof, bound in the same style as those of the eighth session; and each member of the legislature of which such journals are the record shall be entitled to one copy of the same, that is to say, each senator shall have a copy of the senate and assembly journal, and each assemblyman shall have a copy of the senate and assembly journal; and the journal of each house shall be bound separately.

[Sec. 16 repealed, Stats. 1893, 24.]

4336. Documents ordered printed by the legislature-Number of bills printed.

SEC. 17. Whenever any message, report, or other document in pamphlet form, is ordered printed by the legislature, two hundred and twenty-five copies of the same, supplemental to the number so ordered, shall be struck off by the superintendent of state printing, and he shall retain the same for binding with the journals of the senate and assembly. When any bill introduced into either house of the legislature is ordered printed, that is to say, where the "usual number" is so ordered, the number so ordered shall be considered to be two hundred and twenty-five copies of such bill.

4337. Secretary of state to furnish copy of session laws, resolutions and memorials with marginal notes and index-Printing and distribution-Duty of state printer.

SEC. 18. The secretary of state shall furnish to the superintendent of state printing, as soon as may be, and within three days from the time he receives the same from the governor, after approval, a copy of all acts, joint and concurrent resolutions and memorials, with marginal notes to the same, passed at such session, and the superintendent of state printing shall, within ten days thereafter, print the number of copies as herein provided, and furnish printed sheets thereof to the secretary of state, who shall, immediately upon the close of such session, make out and deliver to the superintendent

of state printing an index of the same, and the superintendent of state printing shall, immediately upon the close of such session, print the said index and bind it in connection with the laws. The superintendent of state printing shall also furnish to each member of the senate and assembly, for distribution among their constituents, fifteen copies of the printed sheets of each act as printed, or if more than one act is printed at one time, then copies of the printed sheets of such series of acts. He shall also distribute one copy of said act or acts to each county clerk, county auditor, district judge, district attorney, and justice of the peace in the state. As amended, Stats. 1889, 80; 1891, 16; 1895, 50.

4338. Idem-Journals of senate and assembly.

SEC. 19. The secretary of state shall, within sixty days after the adjournment of each session of the legislature, furnish to the superintendent of state printing full copies of the journals of both houses. The superintendent of state printing shall, within sixty days thereafter, print the same and deliver proof sheets for correction to the secretary of state, and whenever corrected proof will complete a form, shall deliver the same in form to the secretary of state for indexing, who shall, within ten days thereafter, make out and deliver to the superintendent of state printing an index to each journal; and the superintendent of state printing shall, within thirty days thereafter, print and deliver to the secretary of state such number of copies of the journals aforesaid, bound in volumes, with the appropriate index thereto, as herein provided.

4339. Style of public printing-Quality of paper.

SEC. 20. The printing to be performed under this act shall be as follows, to wit: The laws, journals, messages and other documents, in book form, shall be printed solid, in type not smaller than long primer, on good white paper, each page, except the laws, shall not be more than thirty-three "ems" width, and not more than fifty-eight "ems" long, including title, blank line under it and foot line; the laws to be of the same length as the journals, and not more than twenty-nine "ems" wide, exclusive of marginal notes, which notes shall be printed in nonpareil type, and be seven "ems" wide. Figure work, and rule and figure work in messages, reports, and other documents in book form, shall be on pages corresponding in size with the journals, providing it can be brought in by using type not smaller than minion, and whenever such work cannot be brought into pages of the proper size by using type not smaller than minion, it shall be executed in a form to fold and bind in the volume it is intended to accompany. Bills, and other work of a similar character, shall be printed with type not smaller than long primer, on white plain cap paper, commencing the heading one-fourth of the length of the sheet from top, and when said printing does not occupy more than two pages of said sheet, or less, the same shall be printed upon half sheets, and be not more than forty-six "ems" wide, and not more than seventythree "ems" long, including running head, blank line under it, and foot line, and between each printed line there shall be a white line corresponding with two lines of nonpareil, and each line printed shall be numbered. Planks shall be printed in such form and on such paper and with such size type as the officers ordering them may direct. The laws shall be printed without chapter headings and with no blank lines, with the exception of one head line, one foot line, and two lines between the last section of an act and the title of another act; provided, that when there shall not be space enough between the last section of an act to print the title and enacting clause and one line of the following act upon the same page, such title may be printed on the following page. The journals shall be printed with no

blank lines, with the exception of head line, one foot line, and ten lines between the journal of one day and that of the following day. In printing the "yeas" and "nays," the word "yeas" shall be run in with the names, and the word "nays" shall be run in with the names.

Character of printing of legislative bills, see secs. 4120-4124.

4340. Binding, when-Printing commissioners to make contracts-Cost. SEC. 21. The work of binding the statutes, journals, messages, reports, and all other printed matter printed by the superintendent of state printing which should properly be bound, shall be under his supervision and direction; and when he has not the facilities for performing the work of binding himself, the board of state printing commissioners may make contracts for such binding, at rates not to exceed fifty cents per copy for binding the session laws; forty-five cents per copy for the journals of the senate and assembly, and sixty cents per copy for the appendix.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

For general powers and duties of superintendent of public instruction, see Public Schools. sections 3243-3246; see, also, State Constitution, sections 315, 353.

Duty to visit university and make report, section 4649.

Duties in relation to deaf, dumb and blind, sections 1702-1704.

. Director of state orphans' home, section 4089.

An Act to authorize the superintendent of public instruction of Nevada to employ a stenographic clerk and fixing of compensation.

Approved March 7, 1905, 211

4341. May employ stenographer.

SECTION 1. The state superintendent of public instruction of Nevada is hereby authorized to employ a stenographic clerk, whose compensation shall be seventy-five dollars per month.

Compensation increased, see sec. 4398.

4342. Compensation, how paid.

SEC. 2. The controller of state shall, at the end of each month, draw his warrant upon the state treasury in favor of such clerk for the amount of his compensation then due, and the state treasurer shall pay the same out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise specially appropriated.

An Act fixing the salary of the superintendent of public instruction.

Approved March 15, 1897, 86

4343. Salary of superintendent of public instruction-Payable out of school fund-No additional compensation for ex officio duties. SECTION 1. From and after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the salary of the superintendent of public instruction shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, payable out of the general school fund; and he shall receive no additional compensation for any ex officio duties that are now, or may hereafter be required of him by law.

An appropriation of money for payment of salary of the superintendent of public instruction out of the general school fund is not in violation of Const., sec. 355, ante; there being no restriction on the disposition

of that portion of the fund derived from taxation as provided in Const., sec. 358, ante, and the superintendent being immediately connected with the common schools. State ex rel. Cutting v. Westerfield, 24 Nev. 29 (49 P. 554).

An Act to abolish the office of state mineralogist, and provide for the care and preservation of the state museum.

Approved February 1, 1877, 59

4344. Office of state mineralogist abolished.

SECTION 1. The office of state mineralogist of the State of Nevada is hereby abolished.

4345. Superintendent of public instruction shall be curator of museum. SEC. 2. On and after the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, the superintendent of public instruction shall be ex officio curator of the state museum of mineralogical, geological, and other specimens.

4346. Idem-Duties of curator-Report-Mineral resources-Specimens. SEC. 3. The curator, when visiting the several school districts in this state, in his capacity as superintendent of public instruction, as is required by law, shall make inquiry, so far as practicable, into the resources of the mines situated in the respective districts, and inspect the same; collect specimens of ores, ascertain their value, catalogue, and place them in the state museum, and prepare for publication in the appendix of his biennial report as superintendent of public instruction, a report as curator of the state museum in detail of his acts performed and information obtained under the provisions. of this act.

[Sec. 4 repealed, Stats. 1895, 76, and sec. 5 is thus rendered nugatory.]

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4347. Power to appoint deputies-Oath-Surveys by, valid.

SECTION 1. The surveyor-general shall have power to appoint a deputy or deputies when necessary, who shall take and subscribe the official oath; and the survey of any deputy shall be equally valid as if made by the surveyorgeneral.

See secs. 312, 2765, 2774.

Member of bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, secs. 4486 4494.

Ex officio state land register, sec. 3196.

State land office, has charge of, secs. 3196–3226.

Register of Carey act lands, sec. 3089.

State Carey act land law, secs. 3064–3097.

See Public Lands, secs. 3063-3226.

Director of state orphans' home, sec. 4089.

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