must fill The applicant shall fill in each blank of said application Applicant and the affidavit must affirmatively show that the applicant all blanks is an actual, bona fide resident of the precinct indicated; that he is unavoidably and temporarily absent and that he will return to said precinct after said election. That unless all of said things do not affirmatively so appear the county clerk must refuse to deliver the said ballot so applied for. SEC. 3. Section 7 of the above-entitled act is amended so as to read as follows: clerk to Section 7. Upon the receipt of the return ballot from the County elector, but not later than three days prior to any election send return day, the county clerk shall, opposite the name of the voter ballot by in the book hereinbefore mentioned, write in ink the words mail "Received election ; sent to precinct inspector of County, Nevada,' and shall send by registered mail the envelope containing the ballot, unopened, to one of the duly appointed inspectors of election where such ballot is to be voted. SEC. 4. Section 8 of the above-entitled act is amended so as to read as follows: registered to make list ballots Section 8. Three days prior to the election in which the County clerk ballots are designed to be cast, the county clerk shall make a of returned list of the voters who have applied for ballots in accordance absent-voter with the provisions of this act, those whose ballots have been returned, and the precincts in which the ballots are to be voted. A true copy of said list shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the county courthouse, and a copy shall also be posted at the polling-place of the precinct where the ballots are to be voted. SEC. 5. A new and independent section is added, to be New section known as section 15 of said act, as follows: added reregistra Section 15. Any person who has been physically and Personal corporeally absent from his or her place of residence in the tion, when precinct in which he or she last registered and voted for a period of six months immediately preceding the date on which the election for which the absent voter's ballot is applied for (excepting, however, persons mentioned in section 2 of an act entitled "An act regulating the registration of electors for general, special, and primary elections," approved March 27, 1917) shall not be entitled to receive such ballot until and unless said person shall have appeared personally at the office of the county clerk or justice of the peace as provided by law and shall have reregistered; and all persons who have voted by absent voter's ballot at the last preceding general election shall not be entitled to receive an absent voter's ballot unless reregistered in person as provided by section 16 of said above-entitled act, approved March 27, 1917. The county clerk is hereby directed to County clerk cancel all registration cards of persons who voted by absent absent voter voter's ballot in the manner provided by said section 16 of registration said act, approved March 27, 1917. to cancel cards Certain act repealed County treasurer to register certain school bonds Bonds shall be advertised for sale [Senate Bill No. 69-Senator Sheehan] CHAP. 118 An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to require foreign corporations to furnish evidence of their incorporation and corporate name,' approved March 3, 1869," approved January 30, 1877, being sections 1316 and 1347 of Revised Laws of 1912. [Approved March 9, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to require foreign corporations to furnish evidence of their incorporation and corporate name,' approved March 3, 1869," approved January 30, 1877. being sections 1346 and 1347 of Revised Laws of Nevada of 1912, is hereby repealed. [Senate Bill No. 101-Committee on Taxation] CHAP. 119-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for bonding counties for building and equipping county high schools and dormitories or for either one of these purposes, and other matters properly connected therewith," approved February 16, 1917. [Approved March 9, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 5 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. Before any county shall sell any bonds under the provisions of this act, all such bonds shall be delivered to the treasurer of the county to be duly registered by him in a book kept for that purpose in his office, which shall show the amount, the place and time of payment, and the rate of interest; and all such bonds shall bear the certificate of the county treasurer to the effect that they are issued and registered under the provisions of this act. After such registry the bonds shall be advertised for sale and sold by the county board of education for the purpose of raising funds for the objects designated in this act. All moneys derived from the sale of such bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer, and the said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund hereby created and known as the "County High-School Building Fund," and to pay out said moneys in the manner now provided by law for payments from the "County High-School Fund” and for the purposes provided for in this act. The county board of education is hereby authorized and directed to use the money derived from the sale of said bonds, or such board of character of ments portion thereof as they may deem necessary, for the con- County struction or enlargement of the high-school building or education dormitory, or both, as the case may be, and for the purchase to decide of property for a building site, agricultural gardens and improveother necessary school purposes; and any balance remaining in such fund after the accomplishment of the said purpose or purposes for which said bonds are issued shall be converted into and become a part of the "County High-School Fund." Said county board of education shall determine as to the character and location, within the town or city as advertised, of said building or improvements and the materials and plans to be used therefor; or of the building site, additional land or high-school equipment; provided, Proviso however, no purchase of property shall be made unless the value of the same be previously appraised and fixed by three disinterested persons, to be appointed for that purpose by the district judge, who shall be sworn to make a District true appraisement thereof, according to the best of their judge to knowledge and ability; said board shall advertise for bids appraisers for the construction thereof and let the construction thereof by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, said board to have authority to reject any and all bids and to readvertise until a satisfactory bid is obtained. Should the holder of any bond or bonds issued under this act, for any cause whatever, fail to present the same to the county treasurer for payment when due, all interest thereon shall immediately cease. appoint [Senate Bill No. 105-Senator Sheehan] CHAP. 120-An Act relating to the recording of instruments in the offices of the various county recorders of the State of Nevada, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 9, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and certain SECTION 1. The recorder of each county of the State of Recorders Nevada must procure such books for records as the business to procure of his office requires, but orders for the same must be record books obtained from the board of county commissioners. He shall have the custody of and be responsible for all books, records, maps and papers deposited in his office. certain SEC. 2. Each of the county recorders of this state must, Must record upon the payment of the statutory fees for same, record, papers separately, in a fair hand, or typewriting, in large wellbound separate books as hereinafter alphabetically indicated, either sewed books or an insertable leaf, which when placed in the book cannot be removed : (a) Deeds, grants, transfers and mortgages of real estate, Instruments releases of mortgages, powers of attorney to convey real estate, and leases which have been acknowledged or proved. specified "Official Records" Two separate each separate book (b) Mortgages of personal property. (c) Mortgages of both real and personal property. (f) Official bonds. (g) Notice of mechanics' liens. (h) Transcripts of judgments, which by law are made. liens upon real estate in this state. (i) Notices of attachments upon real estate. (j) Notices of the pendency of an action affecting real estate, the title thereto, or the possession thereof. (k) Instruments describing or relating to the separate property of married women. (1) Notice of preemption claims. (m) Births and deaths. (n) Notices and certificates of location of mining claims. (0) Affidavits or proof of annual labor on mining claims. (p) Certificates of sale. (q) Judgments or decrees. (r) Declarations of homesteads. (s) Such other writings as are required or permitted by law to be recorded. Each of the instruments named in subdivision (a) of this section may be recorded in separate books in the discretion of the recorder. In lieu of any or all of the separate books above provided for, the recorder may, in his discretion, record any or all of the above instruments in one general series of books to be called "Official Records," which books shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number one. The recording of instruments in such "Official Records" will impart notice in like manner and effect as if such instruments were recorded in any of the separate books in this act provided for. SEC. 3. The county recorder of every county of this state must keep two separate indexes for each separate book or indexes for series of books maintained in his office for the separate recordation of the various classes of instruments alphabetically specified in section two of this act. One of said indexes shall be for the grantor, mortagor, plaintiff or first party to any such instrument, and the other of such indexes shall be for the grantee, mortagee, defendant or second party thereto. Each of said indexes shall be so arranged as to show the names of each of the parties to every instrument, the date when such instrument was filed in the office of such recorder, the book and page where such instrument is recorded, and such other data as in the discretion of the county recorder may seem desirable. In the event the index shall be of one general series of books for all instruments recorded, it shall also show the character of the instrument indexed. be kept The recorder may keep in the same volume any two or Indexes to more of the indexes provided for in this section, but the distinct several indexes must be kept distinct from each other. Every volume of indexes must be distinctly marked on the outside in such a way as to show all of the indexes kept therein. of indexes The first column of the several indexes for grantors, Description mortgagors, plaintiffs, or the first parties to any instrument, shall be properly designated to show the name of each grantor, mortgagor, plaintiff, or first party, as the case may be, and the first column of the index provided for grantees, mortgagees, defendants, or the second parties to any instrument shall be properly designated to show the name of each grantee, mortgagee, defendant, or second party, as the case may be, and the names of the parties in the first column of such indexes must be arranged in alphabetical order. When a conveyance is executed by a sheriff, the name of the sheriff and the party charged in the execution must both be inserted in the indexes, and when an instrument is recorded to which an executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee is a party, the name of such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, together with the name of the testator, or intestate, or party for whom the trust is held, must be inserted in the index. indexes In addition to the indexes above provided for, the county Other recorder shall also keep and maintain such other indexes required as may from time to time be required in the performance of his official duties. instruments indexed Every instrument filed in the office of any county recorder All for record must be alphabetically indexed in the indexes so alphabetiprovided for each separate book or set of books under the cally names of each grantor, mortgagor, plaintiff or first party thereto, in the index provided for that purpose and also under the names of each grantee, mortgagee, defendant or second party thereto in the index provided for that purpose. must indorse time of SEC. 4. When any instrument, paper, or notice author- Recorder ized by law to be recorded, is deposited in the recorder's all papers office for record, the recorder must indorse upon the same with exact the time when it was received, noting the year, month, day, receipt, etc. hour and minute of its reception, the file-number thereof, the book and page where recorded, the amount of fees for recording, and must record the same without delay, together with the acknowledgments, proofs and certificates, written upon or annexed to the same, with the plats, surveys, schedule, and other papers thereto annexed, in the order in which the same were received for record, and must note at the foot of the record the exact time of its reception, and the name of the person at whose request it was recorded. |