The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-10-23

A tannery is the latest industry
talked of for Reno. With the water
already chemically doped, it ought to
pay.
The newspapers report that man
in Carson lately won 500 on 10-cent
lottery ticket. 1t cannot be true, be-
cause the laws are very strict against
the sale of lottery tickets in Nevada.
However, if it should turn out to be
true, would suggest that the Nevada
State Board of Revenue send out an
examiner over the State to report any
violations of the law
The Legislature of 1908 enacted "An
Act to amend an Act entitled AN Act
to provide for a more uniform valua-
ton and assessment of property in this
State,' approved March l6, 1901.
Section l provides for the meeting of
the County Assessors, who shall assess
railroads and rolling-stock of such
roads, telegraph and telephone lines,
electric light and power lines, cattle,
sheep and all other kinds of property
which in their judgment can be valued
acting collectively better than by act
ing separately. 1t further provides
that the Boards of Equalization must
not equalize property thus assessed.
There are other amendments to the
law of 1901, but section 13 as amended
is the one | desire to call attention to.
"Section 49, Should any Assessor in
this State neglect to assess property in
accordance with the provisions of this
Act, or laws now in force or effect, or
place a greater or less valuation on
any property that has been fixed at
said meeting of Assessors, the State
Board of Revenue, which is hereby
created, consisting of the Governor,
State Controller and Attorney-Gen-
eral, shall instruct the District At
torney of said Assessors county to
bring suit against such Assessor and
his bondsmen for the sum of five hun
dred dollars as a penalty therefor,
which sum, when collected, shall be
paid into the general fund of the State
Treasury, and such board may in
struct the Attorney General to request
the District Attorney of said Assessors
county to institute suit against such
Assessor for his removal from Office for
such neglect or refusal. The suit shall
be tried in the District Court having
jurisdiction in the county where prop
erty is situated
1t will beobserved that State Board
of Revenue, fully armed, springs upon
the public in the middle of an amend
ment to an Act to provide for more
uniform valuation and assessment of
property in this State.
Section II, article ", Constitution
of Nevada, reads as follows: each
law enacted by the Legislature shall
embrace but one subject, and matter
properly connected herewith, which
subject shall be briefly expressed in
the title.n
The amendments to section 10 of the
Act referred to are the creation of a
State Board of Revenue, and the pun
ishment of Assessors who may raise
the valuation set by the State Board of
Assessors. The original Act provided
punishment for lowering, but not for
raising.
In 1901 Dixie o. P Randall, Assessor
of Lyon county, assessed the Central
Pacific road at $4,000 mile, and they
paid it, and it is evident that the Leg
stature of 1903, which was largely COM
posed of the ''workingman's friends, :"
didn't propose to have Mr.. Randall
play any such capers on ''the road"
again, and SO they provided to fire
him out of office if he dared attempt it
again. / know personally that the
amendment referred to is the thing
that kept him from raising the valua-
alton, because he publicly stated that
if he could afford to pay his bondsmen
anu lOSt luS OlliCe, ne WOulu lfy IL,
anyhow, being fully convinced that
$4,000 per mile is one-seventh the
value of the road.
With reference to the creation of a
State Board of Revenue in the middle
of an amendatory section of an Act
between the lines, as it were-and the
same not being expressed or limited at
in the title, and embracing more than
one subject, L believe is unconstitu-
tional as violative of the provision
above cited, and, therefore, all it's acts
void.
The Legislature of 1903 enacted:
San Act relating to county govern
ment, and the reduction of the rate of
county taxation" wrote something
about il last week II nrovides for the