weights and measures or portions of lots covered by stagnant water for any period, to be filled up to such level as will prevent the same from being so covered, and may assess the cost or any portion thereof, of filling, upon such real estate and make the same a lien thereon, in which case said lien shall be preserved, enforced and foreclosed as in other cases herein provided for. Thirty-first-To provide for and regulate the manner of Regulating weighing of all food products and food stuffs, and hay, grain, straw and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and of all fuel within the city, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of such articles offered for sale which do not comply with such regulations, and to examine, test and provide for the inspection and sealing of all weights and measures, throughout the city and enforce the keeping by traders and dealers, of proper weights and measures duly tested and sealed, and by ordinance provide a penalty for the using of false weights Penalty of vagrants, drunkards, lewd persons, etc. or measures. Thirty-second-To restrain and punish vagrants, drunkards, Punishment drunkenness, disorderly persons, common prostitutes, mendicants, street walkers, street solicitors for alms or otherwise, street beggars, house beggars, and lewd persons; to suppress and abolish houses of assignation, or places resorted to by persons for the purpose of prostitution or immoral purposes; to prevent diseased, maimed, injured or unfortunate persons from displaying their infirmities for the purpose of receiving alms and to prevent and punish obscene language, or conduct, indecent exposure of person, loud and threatening or lewd language, or profane language in the presence and hearing of women or children, and all obnoxious, offensive, immoral, indecent and disorderly conduct and practices in the city; to prevent and punish the discharging of firearms in the city, the lighting of fires in yards, streets or alleys, or other unsafe places anywhere within the city; to prevent and punish the carrying of weapons, concealed or otherwise; to prevent and punish fast driving, fast horseback riding, or the riding or breaking to drive of wild or unmanageable horses in the city; to require that all horses when left standing shall be hitched to post or weight, and to prescribe the length of time any horse or animal may be allowed to remain tied, held or otherwise kept on the streets or alleys of the city. Fast driving and cruelty to animals obscenity Thirty-third-To prevent and punish all persons from showProhibiting ing, selling, or exhibiting for sale or in any manner publishing, any obscene or indecent drawings, engravings, paintings, books or pamphlets, and all obscene or indecent exhibitions and shows of every kind. Regulating public utilities Thirty-fourth-To regulate the use and sale of water, gas, electric and other lights in the city; to fix and determine the price as well as the rentals of all water, gas and electric light meters within the city; and to provide for the inspection of such meters; to regulate telephone service and the use of telephones and to fix and determine the charges for telephones, govern telephone service and connections within the city; provided, State laws to that nothing herein contained shall be held to supersede any state law upon this subject, so long as any such state law may be in effect. lighting Thirty-fifth-To provide for the lighting of the streets and Public public buildings and places of the city and to regulate such lighting. tenement Thirty-sixth-To regulate lodging, tenement and apart- Lodging and ment houses having four or more lodgers; to prevent the houses overcrowding of the same, and to require the same to be kept in a sanitary condition. public peace by Thirty-seventh-To adopt and enforce by ordinance, all such To protect measures and establish all such regulations, in case no express health, provisions in this charter made, as the council may from time morals and to time deem expedient and necessary for the promotion and ordinance protection of health, comfort, safety, life, welfare and property of the inhabitants of said city, the preservation of peace and good order, the promotion of public morals and the suppression and prevention of vice in the city, and to pass and enact ordinances on any other subject of municipal control, or to carry into force or effect any other powers of the city, and to do and perform any, every and all acts and things necessary or required for the execution of the powers conferred or which may be necessary to fully carry out the purpose and intent thereof. city streams Thirty-eighth-To provide for the cleaning of the river, res- Cleaning of ervoirs and streams of the city, and the ditches connected there- and with, of all driftwood and noxious matter; to prohibit, prevent reservoirs and punish the depositing therein of any filth or other matter tending to make the waters thereof impure, unwholesome or offensive. etc., to be Thirty-ninth-To require of all ditch or canal companies, All ditches, persons or individuals owning, operating or controlling any completely ditch or canal running over or across any of the streets or bridged alleys of the city to cause such ditch or canal to be completely bridged from side to side of such street or alleys. some Fortieth-To compel the owner of any grocery, tallow- Unwholechandler shop, soap or candle factory, butcher shop or stall, institutions slaughter house, stable, barn, corral, sewer, privy, or other regulated offensive, nauseous or unwholesome place or house, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, whenever the council shall deem it necessary for the health, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants of the city; the expense thereof to be paid by the person causing, maintaining or committing the same. competent Forty-first-To select, appoint and employ an engineer, sur- To employ veyor, architect or other skilled mechanic or person from time supervisor to time, whenever in the judgment of the council it shall be necessary or expedient for the purpose of supervising and directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined and fully defined by ordinance. Fines and penalties Forty-second-To prescribe fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach or violation of any ordinance, or the provisions of this charter, but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment. Forty-third-To require of and prescribe the amount of To fix official official bonds from its members and all officers of the city, whether elective or appointive. bonds Forty-fourth-To institute and maintain any suit or suits, To institute civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper courts, and maintain whenever necessary, in the judgment of the council to enforce city suits or maintain any right of the city, and they may, in like manner, defend all actions against the city; to institute and maintain any suit to foreclose liens or otherwise, against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay as assessed by the council, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading or otherwise improving any street, or building any sidewalk or other improvement, which benefits the property or owner thereof. To manage all real and personal city property Proviso To protect trees and shrubbery Forty-fifth-To hold, manage, use and dispose of all real and personal property of the city, and to enforce the payment and collection of all dues, assessments or demands of every nature or kind, belonging or inuring to the city, but no sales of property belonging to the city shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three disinterested appraisers, residents and taxpayers of the city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five per cent of such appraised value; provided, that no park or property acquired for park or public purposes shall be sold or in any manner disposed of. Forty-sixth-To prohibit the injury to or interference with the ornamental trees and shrubbery in the streets and public places of the city, and to prescribe the punishment for such injury and interference. Forty-seventh-Any property, real or personal, necessary or To condemn required for the public use of the city, may be condemned any property and appropriated in the manner prescribed by general law and all rights of eminent domain may be exercised by the city in relation thereto. boundaries Forty-eighth-To change or enlarge the boundaries of any To alter ward ward by ordinance, so as to annex or include therein additional lands, with the tenements, property and inhabitants thereof; provided, the council shall be first petitioned so to do by a majority of the persons of the district proposed to be so annexed; and provided further, that no change in the boundaries of any ward, except for the purpose of enlarging the same, shall be made within sixty days next preceding any general city election, and in no event oftener than once every two years. Proviso Forty-ninth-To suppress or regulate and collect a license To regulate tax on circus or other public parades through the streets of public parades the city. CHAP. 230—An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide educational facilities for the children in the state orphans' home and other matters properly connected therewith," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: attend Car training Section 1. The children included in the state orphans' home State shall be included in the school census of Carson City school sto district, and in consideration of this allowance and the further son school allowance of one thousand five hundred ($1,500) dollars paid annually out of the general fund of the state treasury, the children of the state orphans' home shall be entitled to attend and shall attend the Carson City public schools and to receive therein the full attention, protection and instruction accorded to any other children, including the domestic and manual arts Manual in the elementary grades with the addition of commercial branches in the high school, all of which shall be of standard character approved by the state board of education. To this. end the board of directors of the state orphans' home is hereby authorized to enter into such agreement with the board of trustees of the Carson City school district, district No. 1, of Ormsby County, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and of this act; provided, that if in any Provisos year the domestic and manual arts and the commercial branches as herein before named are not furnished as required herein, then the money allowance to said Carson City school district shall be but one thousand ($1,000) dollars for such year; and provided further, that the increased income of said school district as herein provided shall be full consideration for the privileges required in this act. SEC. 2. Section two of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: books and supplies Section 2. The board of directors of the state orphans' home Orphans to shall furnish the children of the home who are attending school have free all text-books, supplementary books and necessary school sup- school plies; and they shall furnish a sufficient supply of proper library books for the use of said children; provided, that the above-mentioned books and supplies shall be purchased by said board and paid for out of the orphans' home fund; and provided further, that in case the state law shall require districts to furnish books and school supplies free to all children attending the public schools, then Carson school district shall furnish the supplies called for in this section. Site of hospital of hospital CHAP. 231-An Act concerning the insane of the state, creating a board of commissioners for the care of the indigent insane, and to provide for the care of the insane. [Approved March 25, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The state grounds at Reno are hereby selected as the site for the Nevada hospital for mental diseases, and the said hospital is hereby located on said grounds. SEC. 2. The public institutions of the state and the buildOfficial name ings appertaining thereto established and maintained for the care of the insane of the State shall be known and called the Nevada hospital for mental diseases, and the words "Insane asylum," "Institute for the care of the insane,' and all words of like import used in any law, process, investigation, subpena, or commitment, or in relation to any board or commission pertaining to or in any way concerning the arrest, examination, detention or care of the insane or mentally diseased in this state shall be deemed to relate to said Nevada hospital for mental diseases, and all processes and proceedings relating to the insane or mentally diseased of the state, shall run to and be held in that name. Board for care of insane Quorum Board to have full control over hospital Biennial report Board to elect SEC. 3. The governor, state controller and state treasurer are hereby constituted a board of commissioners for the purpose of providing for the care and maintenance of the indigent insane of the state. SEC. 4. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 5. The board of commissioners as named in this act shall have full power and exclusive control of and over all the grounds, buildings, property and inmates of the hospital, and shall furnish or cause to be furnished all needful supplies, provisions, and medicines for the care of the insane, and have charge of all other matters connected with the institution. They shall establish such rules, regulations and by-laws for the government thereof as they may deem proper. The board of commissioners shall cause to be kept a record of their proceedings, which shall at all times be open to inspection by a committee of the legislature. During the first week of the session a report shall be submitted to the legislature, showing the annual receipts and expenditures, the condition of the hospital, number of patients admitted during the year, number remaining in the hospital at the date of the report, and all matters touching the general affairs of the institution as they may deem proper, and shall from time to time visit the hospital, examine into its affairs, condition, government, and make a thorough inspection thereof. SEC. 6. The board of commissioners shall elect one resiphysician as dent physician who shall be the general superintendent of the hospital, subject at all times to the order and direction of superintend ent |