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part of Camp Ruby, and north of the present line between the counties of Nye and Lander, as located by Thomas J. Reed, county surveyor of Lander County, made in 1868.

See sec. 1487.

Balance of act, not relating to boundaries, omitted.

Cited, County of White Pine v. Ash, 5 Nev. 281.

This act upheld, State ex rel. Clarke v. Irwin, 5 Nev. 111-131.

Cited, Hooten v. McKinney, 5 Nev. 200; White Pine Co. v. Ash, 5 Nev. 279.

Cited, State ex rel. Davenport v. Laughton, 19 Nev. 208, 210 (8 P. 344).

An Act to detach a portion of the territory of Nye County from said county, and to attach the same to White Pine County.

Approved February 26, 1875, 103

1487. Territory detached from Nye.

SECTION 1. The following-described territory, now a portion of Nye County, Nevada, is hereby detached from said Nye County, and is hereby attached to and made a part of White Pine County, Nevada, to wit: All that territory embraced within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point now known as the southeast corner of Eureka County; thence running due east along the south line of White Pine County ninety (90) miles more or less to the east line of the State of Nevada; thence running south along the said state line thirty (30) miles more or less to a point due east from the north line of A. Prairie's farm; thence from said point due west fifty-two (52) miles more or less to the one hundred and fifteenth (115th) meridian west of Greenwich; and thence northwesterly sixty (60) miles more or less to the place of beginning.

Balance of act, not relating to boundaries, omitted.

Portion of this county detached and added to Eureka, see sec. 1465.

An Act to remove the county-seat of White Pine County from the
town of Hamilton to the town of Ely.

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SECTION 1. From and after the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the county-seat of White Pine County shall be located at the town of Ely, in said county.

Balance of act, not relating to location of county-seat, omitted.

In addition to above, special acts in regard to this county have been passed as follows: Authorizing transfer of certain records and suits of Lander County to White Pine County, 1869, 137; submitting to the people of Elko, White Pine, Nye and Lincoln a proposition to give county aid to railroad, 1869, 160; to provide for the payment of the indebtedness of Treasure City, 1871, 48; to provide for the payment of indebtedness, 1871, 75; to repeal "An act to incorporate the town of Hamilton," 1871, 95; to consolidate and fund indebtedness, 1873, 146; to disincorporate the town of Hamilton, 1875, 154; to provide for payment of indebtedness known as the Hamilton debt, 1877, 54 (construed, Mau v. Liddle, 15 Nev. 273); to create a current expense fund, 1877, 195; amended 1879, 88; to provide for payment of certain indebtedness, 1879, 43; fixing compensation of county recorder, 1885, 45; authorizing issuance of certain bonds, 1885, 55; authorizing construction of court house and county hospital, 1887, 33; to make provisions for payment of certain indebtedness, 1877, 131; amended, 1889, 14; consolidating certain county offices, 1891, 49; amended, 1893, 77; regulating the compensation of certain officers, 1891, 73; creating jurors' per diem fund, 1895, 48; relating to county officers, regulating their compensations and other matters connected therewith, 1895, 66; amended, 1899, 68; regulating compensation of district attorney, 1897, 75; separating offices of treasurer and assessor, 1901, 35; amended 1905, 42; to create a salary fund, 1901, 40; relating to salaries and compensation of county officers, 1901, 92; authorizing issuance of bonds on property of the town of Ely for protection against fire, 1901, 114; to consolidate certain offices and fixing compensation of the officers, 1905, 95; authorizing issuance of bonds on the property of the town of Ely for protection against fire, 1905, 152; fixing salaries and compensation of county clerk and district attorney, 1905, 249; pertaining to compensation of county officers, 1907, 212; authorizing trustees of Ely school district No. 1 to issue bonds to purchase sites, erect. furnish and equip school buildings, 1907, 337; authorizing issuance of bonds for erection of

county buildings, 1907, 338; to segregate certain offices and fixing salaries, 1907, 428; amended, 1911, 8, 9; to provide a typewriter operator for county clerk and fixing salary, 1909, 6; authorizing trustees of East Ely school district to issue bonds for purchasing, erecting, furnishing school buildings, 1909, 14; amended, 1911, 122; making county treas urer ex officio city treasurer of Ely, 1909, 88; fixing fees and compensation of witnesses in criminal cases, 1909, 168; authorizing issuance of bonds to refund bonds heretofore issued, 1909, 181; to create the office of road supervisor, 1909, 206; to fix a salary for the constable for the first township, 1911, 9; fixing salary of justice in first township, 1911, 21; fixing and regulating salaries of certain officers, 1911, 111.

An Act authorizing the survey and establishment of boundaries between the several counties of this state.

Approved February 26, 1866, 130

1489. Boundary surveys authorized.
1490. Duty of surveyor.
1491. Idem.

1489. Survey authorized.

1492. Reports and maps to be made.
1493. Expenses to be prorated.
1494. Compensation for expenses.
1495. Construction of act.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners, of the several counties of this state, are hereby authorized and required to have made an accurate survey of the boundaries between the several counties within this state, in which the same have not been established according to law; and said survey shall be commenced within six months after the passage of this act. And the commissioners of the counties adjoining, are required to arrange for the making of such survey, and notify the county surveyors of their respective counties thereof.

Six months provision of above section held to be directory. Lyon County v. Storey County, 33 Nev. -.

Cited, Eureka Co. v. Lander Co., 21 Nev. 148 (24 P. 871); Humboldt Co. v. Lander Co., 22 Nev. 256 (58 A. S. 750, 26 L. R. A. 749, 38 P. 578).

1490. Duty of surveyor.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county surveyors, of the several counties where the boundaries have not been established by survey, to meet at such time and place as the county commissioners of the said counties shall designate, and proceed to survey the boundary lines between the same. Lyon County v. Storey County, 33 Nev. -.

1491. Idem.

SEC. 3. If the surveyor or surveyors of any county or counties shall fail to meet the surveyor or surveyors of the county or counties adjoining, at the time and place designated by the county commissioners, the surveyor or surveyors of the county or counties, who may be present, shall proceed to make the survey, and the same shall be the established boundaries between such counties.

1492. Reports and maps to be made.

SEC. 4. The county surveyors, of the several counties where such boundaries are surveyed, are hereby required to make out a report and maps of the same, one copy to be deposited with the county clerk of said counties, as aforesaid, and a joint copy of the counties adjoining to be transmitted to the secretary of state.

1493. Expenses to be prorated.

SEC. 5. The expenses of such surveys shall be borne jointly by the several counties pro rata according to the number of miles surveyed on the line of each county.

1494. Compensation for expenses.

SEC. 6. The boards of the county commissioners, of the counties on the line of which such surveys shall be so made, are hereby authorized and empowered

to allow reasonable and proper compensation and all necessary expenses incurred in making the surveys, as aforesaid, and upon such allowance the county auditor, of such counties respectively, is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the county treasurer therefor, in favor of the party or parties entitled to the same.

1495. Construction of act.

SEC. 7. Nothing in the provisions of this act shall be construed so as to compel or enforce the board of county commissioners, of the several counties of this state, to have any county line or lines surveyed and established, except where such county lines or line is now, or may hereafter be, in dispute by reason of the settlement of persons and the ownership of property along such county line or lines.

An Act providing for the removal of county-seats and permanent

location of the same.

Approved March 2, 1877, 139

1496. Petition for removal-Requisites

Election.

1497. Vote canvassed-Proclamation.

1498. Officers to remove to new location. 1499. Registry agent to certify petition. 1500. Election, how conducted.

1496. Petition for removal of county-seats, requisites-Election.

SECTION 1. Whenever three-fifths of the qualified electors of any county of this state, each elector being a taxpayer of said county, as appears by the last assessment roll, who have taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation prescribed by law for the registration of electors in this state, shall petition the board of county commissioners of such county for the removal or location of the seat of justice of said county, the said county commissioners shall, within sixty days thereafter, cause an election to be held at the various places of voting in said county, the said county commissioners giving thirty days' notice in some newspaper published in the county or by posting written or printed notices at the several voting precincts in the county; such notice shall state the time and place of holding, and for what purpose such election is held; and any election provided for in this act may be held on the day of any general election in said county. The place receiving a majority of all the votes cast at such election shall be declared the county-seat; provided, that if no place receive a majority of all the votes cast, there shall be held a second election for said seat of justice, on a day not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the vote of the first election is counted and declared by the said board of county commissioners, which last day shall be fixed by the board of county commissioners, and they shall give notice of the same for at least ten days in the manner provided for the first election. At said second election the balloting for the seat of justice shall be confined to the two places having the highest number of votes at the first election.

The words "each elector being a taxpayer of said county" refer to the preceding word "electors," and hence the petition is sufficient when three-fifths of the qualified taxpaying electors are signers of the petition. State ex rel. Kaufman v. Martin, 31 Nev. 493, 496-500 (103 P. 840).

The fact that one may have failed to register for a special election does not dis

1497. Vote canvassed.

qualify him as a signer of the petition above required where he possesses the substantial qualifications and is a taxpayer and voter as indicated.

Persons who appear on the assessment roll as paying taxes only in a partnership capacity are taxpayers within the meaning of this section. State ex rel. Kaufman v. Martin, 32 Nev. 197 (106 P. 318-320).

Within ten days after such election shall be held the board of county commissioners shall meet and proceed to canvass the vote, and the place which has received the majority of all the votes cast shall be proclaimed by them the seat of justice for said county.

1498. Officers to remove to new location.

SEC. 3. The county officers who are required by law to keep their offices at the county-seat, shall, within twenty days after said proclamation, remove all books, records, papers, and furniture belonging to the county to the place named, and if any officer shall fail to remove within the time prescribed by this section, he or his sureties shall pay to the county the sum of twenty dollars for each and every day of such failure, to be sued for and collected by the board of county commissioners.

1499. Registry agents to certify petition.

SEC. 4. Every petition for the purpose mentioned in section 1 of this act shall be accompanied by the certificate of the registry agent of the district where the persons signing such petition reside, showing that all the persons whose names are signed to said petition are qualified electors of said county, as appears by the registry list of said district, or the affidavits on file in his office of persons not registered at the last general or special election, but who are qualified electors of said county.

The determination of the question as to whether the signers were on the last assess ment roll and as to whether they had taken the oath prescribed by law for the regis tration of electors, when that fact was certified by the registry agent, are ministerial acts, and mandamus will lie to compel the board to call an election, if the petition is filed by three-fifths of the taxpaying voters, as shown by the roll and registration certified, although the board has already acted 1500. Election, how conducted.

and denied the petition. State ex rel. Kaufman v. Martin, 31 Nev. 493, 496, 499 (103 P. 840).

A petition for the removal of a countyseat which alleges every statutory requirement is not void because it also asks that an election be called to determine whether the county-seat shall be removed to a particular place. State ex rel. Kaufman v. Martin, 32 Nev. 197 (106 P. 318–320).

SEC. 5. The election provided for in this act shall be conducted in all respects as provided for by the general election laws of this state, and any person swearing or affirming falsely in taking an oath provided for in this act, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and held subject to all the penalties attached by law to the commission of that crime.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT

COMMISSIONERS

To create board and define duties and powers, sections 1501-1529.

Act supplementary to above, section 1530.

To define manner of electing, sections 1531-1534.

Presentation and auditing of claims, section 1535.

Concerning allowance and payment of demands, section 1536.

In relation to county contracts, sections 1537-1538.

Limiting power of certain officers, section 1539.

Authorizing transfer of surplus money from one fund to the other, section 1540.
Providing for publication of bills, sections 1541-1543.

Regulating powers and duties of in certain cases, 1544, 1545.

To fix the number and limit the compensation of, sections 1546-1548.

Creating boards of examiners, sections 1549–1551.

To authorize commissioners to build or purchase buildings for county purposes, sections 1552-1554.

To apportion the county revenues, sections 1555-1557.

Act supplementary to above, sections 1558, 1559.

Permitting compilation of index of records and proceedings, sections 1560-1561.

Relative to abating nuisances, section 1562.

Relating to county certificates of indebtedness, section 1563.

Prescribing office hours for county officers, sections 1564, 1565.
Authorizing commissioners to grant leave of absence, 1566-1568.
ASSESSORS

Providing for election of, sections 1569-1576.

In relation to, section 1577.

Relating to duties of, section 1578.

To provide for appointment of deputies, sections 1579, 1580.
Authorizing commission on collections from certain taxes, section 1581.

AUDITORS

Relating to county certificates of indebtedness, section 1582.

To regulate issuance of court orders, section 1583.

To provide for obtaining statements of financial condition, sections 1584-1591. To abolish compensation for extending taxes, section 1592.

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS

Concerning district attorneys, sections 1593-1607.

To require certain reports, sections 1608, 1609.

Relating to district attorneys and partners thereof, sections 1610–1612.

COUNTY CLERKS

Relating to duties of regarding claims, section 1613.

Authorizing retention of certain fees and compensation, section 1614.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS

Relating to office and prescribing duties, sections 1615–1627.

RECORDERS

Concerning and defining duties, 1628–1632.

Relating to duties of in certain counties, sections 1633, 1634.
Concerning records now in custody of, sections 1635, 1636.
Requiring a receiving book, sections 1637, 1638.

For purchase and preservation of newspapers, sections 1639-1642.

Relating to, sections 1643-1660.

SHERIFFS

Defining duties in relation to filing and posting licenses, section 1661.

For relief of purchasers at sales of real estate by public officers, sections 1662, 1663.

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Authorizing treasurers to place county funds in bank under certain restrictions, tions 1687-1688.

CONCERNING CERTAIN OFFICERS

Concerning officers, sections 1689-1692.

COMPENSATION, FEES, SALARIES

Fixing compensation of deputies and jailers, sections 1693–1695.
Regulating compensations of county officers, sections 1696-1701.

COMMISSIONERS

An Act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of state and to define their duties and powers.

Approved March 8, 1865, 257

1501. Commissioners, when elected-Terms 1503. Meetings of boards.

of office-Vacancies, how filled. 1502. Qualifications-Terms of office-Eligi bility-Vacancy.

1504. Special meetings-Notice - B

restricted.

1505. Quorum-Clerk-Absence of chara

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