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CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT TO CREATE THE COUNTY OF TORRANCE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THEREOF. C. B. No. 122; Ap

proved March 16, 1903.

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Judicial district.

District attorney.

Legislative district. Representation.

Sec. 10.

Sec. 11.

Bond issue to pay indebtedness due County of Valencia. Form. Maturity.
Rate of interest.

Indebtedness due other counties to be adjusted.

Bond issue for court house and jail purposes, and current expenses. Sec. 12. This act in force January first, 1905.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. That a county, which shall be known as Torrance county is hereby created out of that portion of the Territory of New Mexico, included within the following boundaries, as indicated by United States surveys, to wit:

Commencing at the southwest corner of township one north, range six east of the New Mexico Principal Base Line, and running thence north on the range line, between ranges five and six east, to the northwest corner of township seven north, range six east; thence east on the township line between townships seven and eight north to the southeast corner of township eight north range seven east; thence north on the range line between ranges seven and eight east to the northwest corner of township eight north, range eight east, thence west along the Second Standard Parallel North to the southwest corner of township nine north, range seven east; thence along range line between ranges six and seven east to the northwest corner of township nine north, range seven east; thence east on the township line between townships nine and ten north, to the northeast corner of township nine north, range eleven east; thence south on the range line between ranges eleven and twelve east, to the corner of sections thirteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-four; thence east, through the middle of township nine north ranges twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen east, to corner of sections thirteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-four on the range line between ranges fifteen and sixteen, township nine north;

thence south on the range line between ranges fifteen and sixteen east to the corner of township one north, between ranges fifteen and sixteen east on the New Mexico Principal Base Line; and thence west along said New Mexico Principal Base Line to the southwest corner of township one north of range six east, the place of beginning.

Sec. 2. The county seat of the County of Torrance shall be and the same is hereby located at Progreso in said county. Sec. 3. On the first day of August, 1904, the governor of the Territory of New Mexico shall appoint three qualified persons, legal voters within the County of Torrance as a returning board, whose duties shall be the same as county commissioners in regard to the appointment of boards of registration and judges of election in the said County of Torrance and whose duty it shall be to call and give notice of the holding of a general election, at the time and in the manner now prescribed by law. The members of the said returning board before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take the oath of office before some officer qualified to administer oaths, as provided for county commissioners, and the said returning board when so appointed and qualified as herein provided, shall have the same power and authority as to receiving, canvassing and certifying the returns of the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1904, for county officers of said county as is now conferred by law upon county commissioners of the several counties of this territory, and the said returning board shall serve in such capacity without compensation for their services.

Sec. 4. That said County of Torrance so established shall, with reference to the salaries of officers be a county of the fourth class as defined in and provided for by the act entitled "An Act to provide for the compensation of county officers, and for other purposes, approved March 18th, 1897," and the salaries and emoluments of the officers of said county shall be such as are in said act provided for officers of counties of the fourth class.

Sec. 5. The precincts and school districts now existing in the territory included in such county, and the officials thereof shall remain the same as they now are until changed by law.

Sec. 6. For legislative purposes, the said County of Torrance is hereby attached to and made a part of the sixth council and the tenth legislative districts, and jointly with the County of Valencia shall elect one councilman and two representatives to the territorial legislature.

Sec. 7. The said County of Torrance is hereby attached

to the second judicial district for judicial purposes, and the district court for the trial of causes arising under the laws of the territory shall be held therein by the judge of said court at such times as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 8. That the district attorney for the County of Bernalillo shall also be the district attorney for the county of Torrance.

Sec. 9. That the said County of Torrance shall assume and pay to the County of Valencia from which the said County of Torrance has been partly segregated and organized, onethird () of the existing and outstanding legal and valid indebtedness of the said County of Valencia, less the value of moneys on hand in said County of Valencia to pay such indebtedness, and for this purpose the said County of Torrance may issue bonds in whatever sum may be necessary said bonds to run for the period and become due and payable in twenty years from the date of their issuance; but payable at the option of the said county at any time after the expiration of ten years, said bonds to be in the usual form and in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or any multiple thereof; and the said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent. per annum until paid, the interest payable semiannually. And the county commissioners of said County of Torrance are required annually when other taxes are levied and collected, to levy and cause to be collected upon all taxable property of said county, a sum sufficient to pay said interest, and such proportion of the principal as shall be necessary to pay said bonds at maturity, or sooner if it be elected to do so, as herein provided, and for the purpose of paying its share of the foregoing pro rata indebtedness. The bonds authorized in this act shall specify for what purpose or account they are issued.

Sec. 10. The indebtedness of the other counties from which the said County of Torrance has been segregated and organized, shall remain and be adjusted and settled as to those counties as now provided by law.

Sec. 11. The County of Torrance after its organization, may issue bonds for court house purposes to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) and for jail purposes to an amount not exceeding five thousand ($5.000.00) and for the current expenses until taxes are levied and collected to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).

Sec. 12. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after the first day of January, A. D. 1905, except as to the provisions thereof, which require action at an earlier date, and as to such provisions they shall take effect on such earlier

dates, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT FIXING THE TIMES OF HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURTS IN THE COUNTIES OF TAOS, LINCOLN, M'KINLEY AND THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. II. B. No. 164; Approved March 16, 1903.

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Sec. 4.

Term of court in first judicial district, San Juan, Rio Arriba and Taos counties.

Term of court in McKinley county.

Term of court in Lincoln county.

All writs issued by district courts returnable at the times and places designated in sections 1, 2 and 3.

Sec. 5. Terms of district courts in other counties to remain unchanged.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. In the first judicial district and in the County of Santa Fe, at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of March and September of each year; in San Juan county at the county seat of said county commencing on the second Monday of April and October of each year; in the County of Rio Arriba, at the county seat of said. county, commencing on the fourth Monday of April and October of each year; in the County of Taos at the county seat of said county, commencing on the third Monday of May and November of each year.

Sec. 2. That the terms of the district court in and for the County of McKinley, shall be begun and held at the county seat of the said county on the first Monday of June, and the third Monday in November of each year.

Sec. 3. That the terms of the district court in and for the County of Lincoln, shall be begun and held at the county seat of the said county on the first Monday of March and the first Monday of September of each year.

Sec. 4. Every writ, summons, bond, recognizance, subpœna, venire, or other process whatever which has been issued or taken out from any district court for any district or county, shall be returnable at the times and places designated in sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act, and shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been made returnable at the time and places mentioned in said sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act.

Sec. 5. All other terms of the district court in the several

counties of this territory, shall be begun and held as heretofore provided by law.

Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1534, COMPILED LAWS OF 1897. H. B. No. 106; Approved March 17, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Section 1534, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding powers and duties of school directors in levying tax. Amended.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. That section 1534, Compiled Laws of 1897, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: "Provided, that any school district, upon a majority vote of the legal tax payers thereof, at a regularly called election for the purpose, may have power to levy for school purposes not to exceed seven and one-half (7.5) mills, including the five (5) mill levy herein before authorized for such purpose.'

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Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this law shall take effect thirty days after its passage and approval by the governor.

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPRAISEMENT OF DAMAGE COMMITTED BY ANIMALS OF KNOWN OWNERS UPON CULTIVATED FIELDS AND FENCED LAND, REGULATING THE SAME, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. H. B. No. 128; Approved March 17, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Owners of animals damaging fields liable. Appraisement of damage.
Sec. 2. Appraisers. Duties and compensation.

Sec. 3.

Procedure in case of execution upon damaging animals when owner neglects or refuses to appear. Proviso.

Sec. 4. Fees of justice of the peace.

Sec. 5.

Animals to which provisions of this act shall apply.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. All damage or injury done to any cultivated fields

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