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 Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014)
 TITLE20 COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS: FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
 CHAPTER243. Counties: Creation; Boundaries; Seats; Abolishment
  CREATION AND BOUNDARIES OF SPECIFIC COUNTIES; COUNTY SEATS
  Nye County

  NRS243.300. Portion of Esmeralda County detached and attached to Nye County; boundary line between Nye and Esmeralda Counties—1913.  

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  •       1.  The boundary line between Nye County and Esmeralda County shall be determined by a joint survey as provided in this section. The County of Nye shall appoint a competent surveyor, who shall act with a competent surveyor to be appointed by the County of Esmeralda. The two surveyors so appointed shall appoint a third competent surveyor. The appointing power herein provided shall be vested in the Boards of County Commissioners of the two Counties, where the Counties are vested with the appointing power. The three surveyors appointed as herein provided shall constitute a board of surveyors, who shall jointly run and determine the actual boundary line between the Counties, according to NRS 243.290, beginning at the Nevada-California line and running thence northerly and northwesterly to the Hot Springs mentioned in NRS 243.290. The survey shall be in accordance with the practice of the United States Surveyor General’s office in running township lines and establishing monuments thereon.

          2.  The expense of the survey provided for in this section shall be divided equally between Esmeralda and Nye Counties. The survey shall be completed on or before January 1, 1914, and blueprints of maps and a copy of the field notes of the survey shall be filed with the county clerk of each county and with the Surveyor General of Nevada and with the United States Surveyor General for Nevada.

          3.  The board of surveyors, as herein provided, are further directed and required to include within the boundaries of Nye County all those certain sections specified in section 1 of chapter 89, Statutes of Nevada 1903, and all of such sections of land so described and specified are hereby made a part of Nye County, and the board of surveyors shall include such parcels of land within the boundaries of Nye County in such a manner as a majority of the board of surveyors may deem wise.

          4.  The surveyed boundary line as determined according to the provisions of this section shall be the true boundary line between the Counties of Nye and Esmeralda.

      [1:221:1913] + [2:221:1913] + [3:221:1913] + [4:221:1913]