CHAP. 158-An Act to amend sections four and five of an act entitled "An act to license and regulate insurance business in this state," approved February 23, 1881. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. No association, firm, or individual, whose prin- Insurance companies cipal office shall be in this state, shall be permitted to transact must have business as insurer on terms more favorable than are defined approved capital of at in section 2 of this act; provided, that any company formed least $100,000 under the laws of this state for the transaction of insurance business which has unimpaired at least one hundred thousand dollars in cash on hand, or in solvent banks, or invested in bonds, mortgages or securities specified in section 2 of this act, derived from the sale of stock, or from surplus, or both, shall be permitted to do such insurance business as may be provided for in its charter or certificate granted in compliance with the laws of this state; and provided, that during the first twelve Further months after the time when an insurance company formed under the laws of this state first applies to the state controller for a certificate authorizing or permitting it to do an insurance business, collectible notes, after having been passed upon by the bank examiners and state controller, from solvent subscribers to its capital stock, payable to the company within that period, shall under sections 2 and 5 of this act be deemed to be paid-up, unimpaired cash capital to the extent of one-quarter of the paid-up, unimpaired capital or amount required by the provisions of this act to enable an insurance company formed under the laws of this state to do business. SEC. 2. Section five of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: provisions examine company, Section 5. The controller of state is hereby authorized and Controller to required, upon the receipt of a written request, signed by accounts of three citizens of this state, or whenever, from any cause, he when shall deem it necessary, to make a thorough examination of the books, accounts, securities, and all property belonging to any company incorporated under the laws of this state, and if he does not find capital, or capital and surplus, paid up to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, or if he shall find the capital, or capital and surplus, impaired below that amount, he shall give notice to such company to immediately repair its capital, and shall refuse or revoke his certificate of authority to such company to do business in this state; and if any company shall refuse to permit such examination, the controller shall refuse or revoke his certificate of authority to such company. If after such notice, refusal or revocation of his certificate by the controller, such company shall continue companies Penalties for to make contracts and issue policies, the officers, or any officer, refusing agent, or other person so violating the provisions of this act, examination shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction Salaries of state officers effect in 1915 thereof shall be fined in the sum of five hundred dollars for each offense committed after the receipt of such notice, and in default of payment of such fine shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which the offense was committed for a period not exceeding six months, or until such fine shall be paid. CHAP. 159-An Act regulating the salaries of certain state officers of the State of Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1915, the following annual salaries shall be paid to the fixed, to take various state officers of this state, at the time and in the manner prescribed by law: To the governor, seven thousand ($7,000) dollars; to the secretary of state, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the state controller, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the state treasurer, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the lieutenant-governor, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the attorney-general, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the surveyor-general, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the superintendent of public instruction, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the clerk of the supreme court, three thousand ($3,000) dollars; to the superintendent of state printing, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars; to the inspector of mines, thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars. SEC. 2. The foregoing sums shall be in full payment of all Full payment duties now or hereafter required of such officers not only for the ordinary duties of such officers but for all other duties required of such officers in any manner whatever. for all services SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 160-An Act for the relief of D. P. Randall, Lloyd B. Thomas, and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. [Approved March 22, 1913] WHEREAS, The general fund of the Nevada state prison is Deficiencies indebted to Lloyd B. Thomas in the sum of ten dollars and to D. P. Randall in the sum of twenty-five dollars and five cents; and in prison funds WHEREAS, The road fund of the Nevada state prison is indebted to the Pacific telephone and telegraph company in the sum of twenty dollars and twenty-five cents, claims for which amount have been presented by the persons respectively above named, and have been allowed by the state board of examiners and would have been paid in due course, except that the above-named prison funds were exhausted; now therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tions to pay SECTION 1. The sum of fifty-five dollars and thirty cents Appropria($55.30) is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the state deficiencies treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the above-mentioned claims, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw and deliver his warrant for the sum of ten dollars ($10) in payment of the claim of the said Lloyd B. Thomas, and his warrant for the sum of twenty-five dollars and five cents ($25.05) in payment of the said claim of D. P. Randall, and his warrant for the sum of twenty dollars and twenty-five cents ($20.25) in payment of the said telephone and telegraph company, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. CHAP. 161-An act appropriating the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars to meet Nevada's pro rata of the cost of the governors' conferences for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914. [Approved March 22, 1913] expense of conferences WHEREAS, The annual governors' conferences have become Nevada's an institution of great value and benefit to the nation and to pro rata of the several states, by reason of the interchange of views, dis- governors' cussions and comparison of the effect of laws, leading to the progress of, and harmony of action between, the states; and WHEREAS, There is no national appropriation to cover the expenses of such sessions and the publication of the proceedings, and it has been agreed that each state appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars annually for such conferences, including for the year 1912; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion, $450 SECTION 1. That the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars Appropriais hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the state treasury in support of the governors' conferences for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914, one hundred and fifty dollars for each such conference, and which shall be payable on the certification of the secretary of each such governors' conference, approved by the state board of examiners, when the state controller shall draw his warrant, and the state treasurer pay the same. Regarding which now Clark County No fees, when CHAP. 162-An Act to amend section two of an act entitled "An act amending an act entitled 'An act creating and organizing the county of Clark out of a portion of Lincoln County, and providing for its government, and to regulate the affairs of Lincoln County and Clark County,'” approved February 5, 1909. [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. Section fourteen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 14. The county officers of Lincoln County, now or hereafter having the custody of any of the files and records of Lincoln County, which in any manner relate to the territory set off as Clark County, shall at the request of the board of county commissioners of Clark County, or any person, prepare and deliver in such form as asked, transcripts and excerpts from said files and records, properly certified as requested, the fees therefor to be as provided by the general fee law applicable to said county of Lincoln. And any officer of Lincoln County shall, without compensation, at the request of the board of county commissioners of Clark County, deliver to the authorized agent of Clark County, taking his receipt therefor, any and all books, papers, lists, plats and exhibits which relate wholly to persons or property, districts, townships, towns and cities wholly within the limits of Clark County. The county assessor of Lincoln County shall, without compensation, deliver to the county assessor of Clark County, taking his receipt therefor, all statements for 1908, signed and unsigned, made for or by taxpayers, relating wholly to property in that portion of Lincoln County by this act established as Clark County. The county officers of Clark County shall receive no fee or compensation for filing any paper, book, list, plat, statement or exhibit taken from the files and records of Lincoln County, and for recording any such as may be required to be recorded but forty per cent of regular fees for recording originals shall be charged and collected. The county assessor of Clark County shall assess the property of said county for taxation for the year 1909, in the manner now provided by law; and in consideration of the shortened time, the board of county commissioners of said county shall allow said county assessor such assistants as are necessary, and shall pay for the same from the general fund of said county. CHAP. 163-An Act to regulate the fees of the county clerk of [Approved March 22, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and fees of SECTION 1. The county clerk of Esmeralda County, State Regulating of Nevada, shall be allowed to charge, and to collect, the following fees: On the commencement of any action or proceeding in the district court, except probate proceedings, to be paid by the party commencing such action or proceeding, five dollars; said fee to be in addition to the court fee of three dollars now provided for by law. On the filing of a petition for letters testamentary, or of administration, or guardianship, five dollars, to be paid by the petitioner; provided, that at the time of filing the inventory and appraisement in any such proceeding there shall be an additional deposit of fifty cents for each additional one thousand dollars of the appraised value in excess of two thousand dollars; said fee to be paid in addition to the court fee now provided for by law. On filing a petition to contest any will or codicil, three dollars, to be paid by the petitioner. On the appearance of any defendant, or any number of defendants answering jointly, to be paid upon the filing of the first paper in the action by him or them, two dollars and fifty cents. For every additional defendant, appearing separately, twodollars and fifty cents. The foregoing fees shall be in full for all services rendered by such clerk in the case, to and including the making up of the judgment roll. On the filing of any notice of motion to move for a new trial of any civil action or proceeding, the party filing the same shall pay to the clerk, in full for all services to be rendered in connection with said motion, two dollars and fifty cents. For issuing an execution or order of sale, in any action, seventy-five cents. For filing a notice of appeal, and appeal bonds, each, fifty cents. For filing a transcript on appeal from the justice's court, two dollars and fifty cents. The clerk shall also be entitled to charge and collect the following fees and compensations not above provided for: For a copy of any record, proceeding or paper on file in the office of the clerk, relating to any civil action theretofore tried or pending in said court, when such copy is made by him, per folio, ten cents. county clerk of Esmeralda |