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minimum capital $25,000, requires every bank to have available funds amounting to 15% 

 of its deposits and requires the liability to be less than 25 % of the capital stock and surplus. 

 The governor is to appoint a bank examiner. A law of 1901 requiring the acceptance and 

 collection of grants and gifts to the state was repealed in 1911, because it was used as a 

 cover for forcing the collection of repudiated bonds of Southern states, notably North 

 Carolina. A constitutional amendment adopted in November 1912 (8,418 to 1,683) permits 

 the investment of school funds in bonds of any county in the state. 



The cash on hand January i, 1912 was $522,065; receipts for the year, $1,269,432, ex- 

 penditures, $1,212,469; and the balance on December 31, 1912, $579,028. 



Education. The legislature in 1911 adopted a code drafted in the main by a committee 

 of the state teachers' institute. The school tax rate was increased; Nevada already spent 

 more than any other state per pupil in public schools. School districts may borrow money 

 on bonds to complete and equip schools for industrial training, domestic science and agri- 

 culture. Better provision was made for enforcing school attendance. A non-partisan com- 

 mittee was appointed to prepare a law for free text-books in public schools. A college of 

 education has been established in the University of Nevada. 



For the school year 1912 the school population was 12,652; enrollment 12,403; length of 

 the school year a little over 8 months; receipts $600,000 and expenditures $587,508. In 1910 

 the percentage of illiteracy of the population 10 years and over was 6.7 (13.3 in 1900). 



Charitable and Penal Institutions. State convicts may be detailed for work on roads and 

 for each month of faithful .work they are to receive an allowance of ten days extra time off, and 

 besides they are to receive 25c a working day. Among the appropriations were: $50,900 

 to the orphans' home in Carson City; and $7,500 for the training of juvenile delinquents, still 

 carried on in institutions of adjoining states. 



History. The legislature, although Democratic, re-elected (Jan. 25, 1911) as 

 United States senator, George Stuart Nixon, Republican, who carried the primary in 

 November and whose Democratic opponent, Key Pittman, had made with him a 

 " gentleman's agreement " to abide by the results of the primary, Nixon 1 died June 

 5, 1912, and a week later Governor Tasker L. Oddie (b. 1870, Republican) appointed, 

 pending election by the 1913 legislature, first Nixon's business associate George Wing- 

 field, who declined, and then W. A. Massey, formerly chief -justice of the state supreme 

 court. He was re-nominated for election by the Republicans for the term expiring in 

 1917, Key Pittman being the Democrat candidate and Sardis Summerfield the Progres- 

 sive. Pittman was chosen by the Democratic legislature. The other senator is "a 

 Democrat, Francis G. Newlands (b. 1848; representative in Congress, 1803-1903 and 

 senator since 1903; prominent in reclamation legislation), whose term ends in 1915. 

 There was no election for governor in 1912: Oddie's term ends December 31, 1914. 

 One Socialist was elected to each house of the legislature. In the presidential campaign 

 the delegates to the Republican National Convention were instructed for Taft, and the 

 state was carried for Woodrow Wilson by 7,986 votes to 5,605 for Roosevelt, 3,190 for 

 Taft and 3,313 for Debs. E. E. Roberts, Republican, representative in Congress, was 

 re-elected. The defeat of Judge William D. Jones, a candidate for re-election to the 

 lower house of the legislature, may result in the repeal of his " open-door "and "time- 

 lock" law, requiring physical presence in the state (not intent) for divorce. If this 

 law is repealed, Nevada, and particularly Reno, will no longer be a centre for the 

 whole United States for securing divorces. 



In October 1912 there was a strike of miners at Ely, beginning on the 2nd and end- 

 ing on the 28th with a victory for the strikers. Martial law was proclaimed on the xyth. 



Bibliography. Statutes (Carson City, 1911); departmental reports; Agricultural Nevada, 

 (San Francisco, 1911); C. M.Harvey, "Trail of the Argonauts, " July 1911, Atlantic Monthly. 



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Population (1910) 430,572 (4.6% more than in 1900). Density 47.7 to the sq. m. 

 In 1900-10 the native whites decreased from 78.4% to 77.4% of the total (whites of 



| Nixon was born in Newcastle, California, in 1860, worked as a telegraph operator in 

 California and in Nevada, where he built up a banking business in Winnemucca, Reno and 

 Tonopah, and was prominent in irrigation developments. He was a leader of the silver 

 party and a memter of the state legislature in 1890, and U. S. senator after 1905. 



John Percival Jones (b. 1829), U.S. senator from Nevada in 1873-1903, Silver Republican, 

 died on November 27, 1912. 



2 See E. D. xix, 400 et seq. 



