Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-10
.Patteroon's Scalp Bill.

/.POllOWnN tS the Dlll introduced 10y
/ AsSenblyman Patterson to amend
the@acarp law: '. .. go
a. .Sec ion i. Section one OF said Act
Is hereby amended so rs to read as
fJlIowp:
SIC ion If anv person shall take
H.epd kill within this State any OF the.
Following noxinls animals, he shall
be entitled to receive ont of the treas
ury Of the county wi hin winch such
noxious animals shall have been
taken, the following bonnties, to wit:
For every coyote or prairie wolf, fifty
cents; for every lynx or wild Cat, one
dollar; for every California lion, one
do lar; for every bad 5er, fifty cents !;
all of which bounties shall he subject
to the provisions Of this Act; provided,
that no person shall he entIlled to ap.
ply for or receive bounty money for
any number OF scalIs less than ten at
any one time.
"Sec ILh 9. Section four OF said Act
II hereby amended 81 as to read as
follows:
Section 4. II it shall appear to the
Justice that the noxions animals have
been taken and killed within the
county, he shall cut off the ears from
til" scalps, and give t." the person 30
sworn certificate stating the num-
Der and kind Of scaIpa deposited with
said Justice. The Justice shall with
thirty days thereafter send to the
Sheriff Of his county al ecaps depos-
tied with him, together with state
ment naming the person detoeitng
the same. the tune deposited, and the
kind OF scalps. Upon receipt of said
Bthlps and statement. the Sheriff,
COMFY Clerk, and District ATTORNEY,
as part Of their official duties. shall
compare the number and kinds of
.scalps received by the said Sheriff
with said statement. and in. mediate
ly thereafter said officials shall de-
stroy said ears and file the said state
ment with the Clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners. The said
Justice shall receive for each oath
administered twenty-five cents, and
Tor each certificate twenty-five cents.
to be paid by the party applying for
said bounty, and III no case to be a
charge against the county"
The Jnly change made in section /
OF tue present law is that badger
ecalps are included. 1t is rather diff
,fcut to see where that would relieve
the drain upon the county treasures.
Section 4 Of the present law is wiped
ont entirely by section Q of the bill
The bill provides that the Justices of
the peace shall cut off the ears from
the scalps and send the scalps to the
sheriff within thirty days. AS the
bill fails to state what the Justices
shall do with the ears after the, ha We
cut them from the scalps they can dry
aud wear them rs ornaments or do
any other old thing with them. After
the justices have kept the scalps for
thirty days in the summer time they
would not be in Il tit condition for
the sheriff, district attorney and clerk
70 handle unless they we're embalmed
after the manner Of the beef Alper
led the soldiers at Santiuuo M,
would then doubtless smell very loud
bnt not loud enough to prevent the
scalp hends from getting their fins
into the county treasury. The bill as
q breeder OF Lad smells would he 9
su cess II enacted into law, bnt no g
protection to the treasury it would be
= rank failure.
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