SEC. 27. The Florence Crittenton Mission. For support of the Florence Crittenton Mission......$4,800.00 Florence Crittenton mission SEC. 28. The Vocational Rehabilitation Board. For support of state vocational rehabilitation under direction of the vocational rehabilitation board in cooperation with the federal government....$10,000.00 Vocational EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SEC. 29. State Board for Vocational Education. For support of vocational education in cooperation with federal board for vocational education and local and district school boards and including the mining schools and state's proportion of the salaries and expenses of all officers of said state board........ THE JUDICIAL BRANCH SEC. 30. The Supreme Court. For salaries of the supreme court justices.. For salary of the clerk of the supreme court.. rehabilitation $35,000.00 Vocational education For salary of the stenographers of the court and clerk For salary of the bailiff. For stamps and stationery and supplies, telephone and telegraph and expenses for the supreme court and clerk..... For publishing Nevada Reports.. For printing decisions in Carson Appeal. For equipment for the supreme court... SEC. 31. The District Courts. For traveling expenses of the district judges (to 4,800.00 9,000.00 1,950.00 Nevada Reports 4.800.00 3,600.00 1,300.00 be budgeted by the board of examiners).$10,000.00 District MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES SEC. 32. judges For support of county normal schools until July 1, 1923 (including all payments under existing law): County normal $3,600.00 schools SEC. 34. The Surveyor-General and State Land Register. The following sums are hereby appropriated from the permanent school fund for the purposes hereinafter expressed, school fund for the years 1923 and 1924: From permanent State land office For salary of surveyor-general and state land reg- $7,200.00 For salary of deputy surveyor-general and state 4,800.00 dent of public For salary of superintendent of public instruction....$7,200.00 4,800.00 instruction. and deputies, For salary of stenographic clerk.. 3,000.00 etc. For salary of deputy superintendents.. 24,000.00 For traveling expenses superintendent of public 1,500.00 For travel and office expenses deputies.. 15,000.00 Conflicting acts repealed For teachers' examinations, institutes, state text- Office equipment, adding machine, files, etc...... 4,500.00 500.00 SEC. 36. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, including all acts and parts of acts which provide appropriations for the purposes outlined in this act. to personnel and pay-roll with board [Senate Bill No. 120-Senator Fitzgerald] CHAP. 146-An Act providing for publicity of state payrolls, giving authority to the state board of examiners to regulate state employments and compensations, establishing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act; and repealing acts in conflict herewith. [Approved March 17, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All state offices, departments, institutions, Every state commissions, and bureaus shall file with the state board of department examiners, upon the first day of each month, a statement in such form as the board may direct, showing the name, address, salary or compensation, and character of employment of all persons upon their pay-rolls; and the said statements shall be open to public inspection in the office of the clerk of the said board during regular office hours. of examiners monthly SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the state board of examiners, and it is hereby empowered, to determine what employees examiners employees may be necessary, and to establish the salaries or compensa- Board of tion thereof in all state offices, departments, institutions, to determine commissions, and bureaus of the state government, except necessary positions and salaries specifically authorized by statute, or and salaries under the control of elective boards; and no such employment, compensation, or salary shall be valid unless the same shall be authorized by the said board at a meeting previous to such employment; provided, however, that temporary Temporary appointments or employments may be made, in case of necessity, up to the first of the month succeeding such necessity; and provided further, that present employment otherwise valid shall be valid until the first meeting of said board after this act shall go into effect. employees heads must SEC. 3. The head or heads of any state office, department, Department institution, commission, or bureau, who shall neglect, fail, obey this or refuse to observe the provisions of this act shall be guilty law: penalty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense thereunder. acts repealed SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Conflicting provisions hereof are hereby repealed. [Senate Bill No. 134-Committee on Claims] CHAP. 147-An Act for the relief of J. F. Shaughnessy. [Approved March 17, 1923] Shaughnessy WHEREAS, During the year 1922, J. F. Shaughnessy Relief of J. F. incurred traveling expenses in the amount of $169.26, while traveling on official business for the public service commission of Nevada, and for which he has not been paid because of lack of funds therefor; and WHEREAS, Such claim is a just and proper one against the state, being certified to by the secretary of state, and approved by the board of examiners on February 27, 1923; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state controller is hereby authorized to Appropriadraw and deliver to J. F. Shaughnessy a warrant for $169.26, tion, $169.26 and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. $100 to senate and assembly porters $50 each Hoopes and [Senate Bill No. 149-Senator Penrose] CHAP. 148-An Act providing for the payment for extra services by certain persons. [Approved March 17, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of the legislative fund, for the purpose of paying for extra services by porters in cleaning up and putting the respective chambers in order after the adjournment of the legislature. SEC. 2. Upon the certificate of the secretary of state that the work named herein has been done properly, the state controller shall draw warrants for fifty dollars each in favor of J. H. Hoopes, porter of the senate, and Sam Martin, porter of the assembly, and the state treasurer shall pay the same. [Assembly Bill No. 79-Mr. Robb] CHAP. 149-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911, by adding thereto seventeen new sections to be numbered and designated sections eight hundred seventyfour a, to eight hundred seventy-four p, inclusive, creating a small claims court, prescribing the procedure therein, and prescribing the method of appealing therefrom. [Approved March 17, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The above-entitled act is hereby amended by Additions to the addition of seventeen new sections, to be numbered and designated as follows: civil practice act Small claims courts created: justices of the peace to conduct Section 874a. All justices of the peace shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this title and while sitting in the exercise of said jurisdiction shall be known and referred to as the small claims court; provided, that the jurisdiction of such justices court, when sitting as a small claims court, shall be confined to cases for the recovery of money only where the amount claimed does not exceed one hundred not over $100 ($100) dollars and the defendant named is a resident of the township or city and county in which the action is to be maintained. For sums Section 874b. Actions shall be commenced, heard, and Actions, how determined in the small claims courts under the provisions of this title whenever any person appears before any justice of the peace and executes an affidavit substantially in the form conducted set forth in section eight hundred seventy-four e of this title. affidavit Section 874c. The affidavit mentioned in the last section Form of shall be made on a blank substantially in the following form: being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the The State of Nevada, to the within-named defendant, Form of greeting: You are hereby directed to appear and answer the within and foregoing claim at my office in......... (Name building or residence), in... .county of State of Nevada, on the........ day of 192...., at the hour of...........o'clock in the noon of said day; and to have with you, then and there, all books, papers, and witnesses needed by you to establish your defense to said claim. And you are further notified that in case you do not so appear, judgment will be given against you for the amount of said claim as it is stated in said affidavit. Dated this... day of.. 192..... Justice of the Peace. peace in Court Section 874d. When the claimant appears he shall prepare Duties of such an affidavit as is set forth in section eight hundred justice of the seventy-four c of this title, or, at his request, the judge of small-claims the court shall draft the same for him. Upon the affidavit being sworn to by the claimant the justice shall file the 'same and make a true and correct copy thereof. At the same time the justice shall fill in the blanks in the order printed on said copy and sign the order. Immediately thereafter the said justice shall enclose said copy and order in an envelope, address the said envelope to the said defendant at the address so stated in said affidavit, prepay the postage and mail said envelope to said defendant by registered mail, and request a return receipt, or said justice may deliver |