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V said board of county commissioners in double the amount of the probable cost of organizing such district, conditioned that the bondsmen will pay all said costs in case said organization shall not be affected. Notice of intention to present such petition shall be published for at least two weeks before the time the same is to be presented, in some newspaper printed and published in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. SEC. 3. When such petition is presented, and it shall appear that the notice of the presentation of said petition has been given and that said petition has been signed by the requisite number of petitioners as required by this act, the commissioners shall hold a hearing on said petition, and may adjourn such hearing from time to time not exceeding three weeks in all. In the hearing of any such petition the board of county commissioners shall disregard any informalities therein, and in case it deny the same or dismiss it for any reasons on account of the provisions of this act not having been complied with, which are the only reasons upon which it shall have the right to refuse or dismiss the same, it shall state its reasons in writing therefor in detail, which shall be entered upon its records, and in case the reasons are not well founded, a writ of mandamus shall, upon proper application therefor, issue out of the district court of the county compelling it to act in compliance with this act, which writ shall be heard within twenty days from the date of issuance, such time to be excluded from the time given the county commissioners to act upon the petition. Upon the completion of the hearing the county commissioners shall forthwith make an order denying or granting the prayer of said petition, and if the same is granted shall, in said order define and establish the boundaries and designate the name of such proposed district and divide the same into seven divisions, as prescribed in the petition, as nearly equal in size as may be practicable. Thereupon the said commissioners shall by further order duly entered upon their record call an election of the qualified electors of said proposed district to determine whether such district shall be organized under the provisions of this act, and by such order shall submit the names of one or more persons from each of the divisions of said district to be voted for as directors of the district. One director shall be elected from each division by the qualified electors of the water district and shall be a qualified elector and property owner of the division from which he is elected. Each division shall constitute an election precinct for the purposes of this act; provided, that after the organization of the district the directors may divide a division into two or more precincts and fix the polling places therein; and provided further, that the directors, by affirmative vote of all of their number or of all of their number save one, may reduce the number of election precincts to one or more within the district, establish the boundaries thereof, and fix the polling place or places therein. 'The board of county commissioners shall give notice of such election, which shall be published for two weeks prior to such election in a newspaper within the county where the petition is filed. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots which shall contain the words ’’Water District—-Yes”, or ’’Water District—-No”, or words equivalent thereto, and the names of persons to be voted for as directors. For the purpose of this election the board shall establish a polling place in each election precinct aforesaid, and shall also appoint three qualified electors to act as in­spectors of election in each election precinct, and also appoint for each precinct two clerks of election. The record of the board of county commissioners of the proceedings had and taken by it Tinder the provisions of this act shall be, in the absence of fraud, conclusive evidence of the matters and things therein recited. SECTION 4. Except as in this act otherwise provided, all such elections shall be conducted as near as may be practicable in accordance with the general election laws of this state, including the right to vote by absent voter»s ballot. The board of county commissioners shall meet on the second Monday succeeding such election and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat, and if upon such canvas it appears that a majority of the electors voted ’’Water District—Yes” the board, by an order entered upon its minutes, shall declare such territory duly organized as a water district under the name and style theretofore designated, and shall declare the persons receiving, respectively, the highest number of votes for directors to be duly elected, and shall cause a copy of such order and a plat of said district, each duly certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners, to be immediately filed for record in the office of the county recorder of Clark County, and certified copies thereof shall also be filed with the county clerk of Clark County, and thereafter the organi­zation of the district shall be complete. -3