fifteen hundred dollars; the Recorder and Auditor shall receive two thousand dollars; the Assessor shall receive four thousand dollars; the Superintendent of Schools shall receive four hundred dollars; the Commissioners shall each receive four hundred dollars. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Appropriation to pay nam. CHAP. LXXII.—An Act to Pay a Deficiency in the Appropriation for State Printing and Official Advertisements. [Approved March 2, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of fifty dollars is hereby approC. A. V. Put priated out of any money in the General Fund of this State, not otherwise appropriated, to pay a deficiency in the appropriation for State Printing and Official Advertisements for the fifteenth and sixteenth fiscal years, to C. A. V. Putnam, fifty dollars. Warrant. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of C. A. V. Putnam for the amount specified in Section One of this Act, and the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the same. State tax for 1881, and ment. CHAP. LXXIII.—An Act to Fix the Rate of State Taxation. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the fiscal year commencing January 1, apportion- 1881, and annually thereafter, an ad valorem tax of ninety cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property is hereby levied and directed to be collected for State purposes upon all taxable property in this State, including net proceeds of mines and mining claims, except such property as is by law exempt from taxation. Of the tax hereby levied sixty-four (64) cents shall go into the General Fund of the State, eight (8) cents shall go into the Territorial Interest Fund, ten (10) cents shall go into the State Interest and Sinking Fund, three (3) cents shall go into the Indigent Insane Asylum Interest and Sinking Fund, and five (5) cents shall go into the General School Fund of the State. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts levying a tax for State purposes, in so far only as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. CHAP. LXXIV.—An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine of an Act entitled "An Act Concerning Orimes and Punishments," approved November 26, 1861. [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION. 1. Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine of ar. Act entitled "An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments," approved November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine. If any person or persons shall knowingly buy or sell any goods, wares, or merchandise, or any valuable thing by false weight or measure, or shall knowingly use any false measure or false weight at any mill in taking toll for grinding corn, wheat, rye, or other grain, or shall knowingly use any false weight or weights, or false scales, or false steelyards, or false balances, or false measures for any purpose in buying or selling or trading any article whatever, he or she shall be deemed a common cheat, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not to exceed two hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the County Jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. LXXV.-An Act Concerning Marriages. [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: not allowed SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any Judge of a Dis- Marriages trict Court in his district, or Justice of the Peace in his to be con county, or Minister of any religious society or congregation, summated within this State, to join together as husband and wife, license. Judges and others liable persons now allowed by law to be joined in marriage, until the persons proposing such marriage shall exhibit to him a license from the County Clerk as now provided by law. SEC. 2. Any Judge of a District Court, or Justice of the to penalties. Peace, or Minister violating the provisions of Section One of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Official advertising, rates allowed for such services. CHAP. LXXVI.—An Act Fixing the Rates for Official [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For all advertising required or ordered by the State of Nevada the State shall pay for each square of ten lines, nonpariel measurement, the sum of $2 50 for the first insertion and $1 for each subsequent insertion, an insertion being held to be one publication per week. Appropriation to pay S. H. Marlette. CHAP. LXXVII.—An Act for the Relief of S. H. Marlette. [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the General Fund in favor of S. H. Marlette for the sum of two hundred and seventy dollars and on the School Fund for the sum of six hundred and nine dollars and eight cents, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of any moneys in said funds not otherwise specially appropriated. SEC. 2. The sum of eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eight cents is hereby appropriated out of the State School and General Funds for the payment of said claim. CHAP. LXXVIII.-An Act to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Government of the State Prison of the State of Nevada," approved March 7, 1873. [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and State Prison required to convicts perform labor. allowed to good behav. as Proviso; 86keepers, etc. future. saults upon subject to forfeiture. SECTION 1. Section Twenty-one of the above-entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Twenty-one. The Board of Commissioners shall require of every able-bodied convict in said Prison as many hours of faithful labor in each and every day during his term of imprisonment as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Prison, and every convict faithfully performing such labor and being in all respects obedient to Time the rules and regulations of the Prison, or if unable to work, convicts for yet faithful and obedient, shall be allowed from his term, for, etc. instead and in lieu of the commutation heretofore allowed by law, a deduction of two months in each of the first two years, three months in each of the next two years, and four months in each of the remaining years of said term; provided, that any such convict who shall commit an assault upon his keeper, or any foreman, officer or convict, or otherwise endanger life, or by any flagrant disregard of the rules of the Prison or any misdemeanor whatever, shall forfeit all deductions of time earned by him for good conduct before the commission of such offense; forfeiture, however, shall only be made by the Board of Commissioners after due Board of proof of the offense and notice to the offender; nor shall missioners such forfeiture be imposed when a party has violated any judges. rule or rules without violence or evil intent, of which the Board of Commissioners shall be the sole judges. The officers of name of no convict who attempts to escape, after the passage to send in of this Act, shall be sent by the Warden or State Prison prisoners in officials to the Board of Commissioners for the commutation certain herein provided; provided further, that of those prisoners entitled to their discharge at the date of the passage of this Discharges. Act, by virtue of the provisions hereof, not more than one shall be discharged on any one day, and the discharge shall be made under the directions of the Board of Commissioners. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect April 1, 1881. Prison Com to be the not names of cases. CountyCommissioners to levy tax for Fire De CHAP. LXXIX.-An Act to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Create a Fire Department Fund," approved March 9, 1865. [Approved March 1, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section One of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section One. The County Commissioners of the various empowered counties of the State of Nevada are hereby empowered to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding one-half of one per cent. upon the assessed value of property within any unincorporated town for the benefit of the Fire Department in such town. partment. Appropria tion to W. T. J. Bell. CHAP. LXXX.-An Act to Provide for Certain Legislative [Approved March 3, 1881.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State Controller is hereby directed to R. King and draw his warrant on the Legislative Fund in favor of W. R. King, President pro tem. of the Senate, and T. J. Bell, Speaker pro tem. of the Assembly, for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars each, for services rendered as such President pro tem. and Speaker pro tem. of the Senate and Assembly, respectively, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed and required to pay the same. Appropria tion to pay CHAP. LXXXI.-An Act for the Relief of W. M. Little. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand four hundred and W.M.Little. fifty dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the General Fund of this State, not otherwise appropriated, to |