CHAPTER 7. A. C. B. No. 4; Ap AN ACT TO CREATE ROOSEVELT COUNTY. proved February 28, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 3. Sec. 4. County officers. Appointment by governor. Sec. 5. Sec. 1. Roosevelt county Creation. Boundaries. Sec. 2. County seat. Location. Public buildings. County commissioners. To divide county into precincts. To appoint precinct and school district officers. Term of office. Commission to ascertain amount of indebtedness due to Chaves and Guadalupe counties, Of whom composed. Sec. 6. Sec. 7. Bond issue. Purpose. Rate of interest. Maturity. Form. Provision for payment of interest. Sinking fund created. Sec. 8. Sec. 11. Sec. 12. Issue of bonds for court house and jail purposes, and current expenses. Judicial district. Time for holding court. District attorney Sec. 13. County and precinct officers. Jurisdiction until when. Salary. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That there be and hereby is created a county, to be known as and called Roosevelt county, out of that portion of the Territory of New Mexico included in the following boundaries as indicated by the United States survey, to wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of township two south, range twenty-seven east of the New Mexico principal Base and Meridian; thence north along the range line between twenty-six and twenty-seven east; to the northwest corner of township four north of range twenty-seven east; thence east along the north line of township four north (projected) to its point of intersection with the Texas-New Mexico boundary line; thence south along the Texas New Mexico boundary line. to the point of its intersection with the First Standard Parallel South (projected eastward); thence west along the First Standard Parallel South to the southwest corner of township five south, range thirty-one east; thence north along the range line between ranges thirty and thirty-one east to the southwest corner of township four south, range thirty-one east; thence west along the south line of township four south, range thirty east, to the southwest corner of township four south, range thirty east; thence north along the range line between ranges twenty-nine and thirty east, to the southwest corner of township two south, range thirty east; thence west along the south boundary line of township two south to the point of beginning. Sec. 2. That the county seat of the said County of Roosevelt shall be established at the town of Portales in said county; and that the board of county commissioners of said. county (to be appointed or elected as hereinafter provided) shall select and designate the most proper and convenient place in said town for the erection of the public buildings of said County of Roosevelt. Sec. 3. The county commissioners appointed under this act, are authorized and empowered to divide said county of Roosevelt into precincts and to appoint in each precinct and school district the officers provided by law, until after the first election. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the governor of the Territory of New Mexico, on or before the first day of April, A. D. 1903, to appoint for the said County of Roosevelt the county officers now provided by law for the counties in the territory, and the officers so appointed shall immediately thereafter qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties as such officers. And the officers so appointed shall serve until the election and qualification of their successors, who shall be elected at the next general election for such officers, and the governor shall likewise appoint officers to fill any vacancies caused by the failure of any such appointees to qualify as required by law. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the auditor, treasurer and solicitor general of the territory to assemble as a commission for that purpose and ascertain, on or before the first day of June, A. D. 1903, the total separate indebtedness of both Chaves county and Guadalupe county, from which Roosevelt county is segregated, less cash on hand to meet such indebtedness, and the value of all permanent public improvements excepting bridges remaining in said counties of Chaves and Guadalupe; and also to ascertain from the assessment rolls for the year 1902 the value of all taxable property embraced within the limits of Roosevelt county so taken from Chaves and Guadalupe counties; and thereupon to determine the amount of such indebtedness that may be due from Roosevelt county to Chaves and Guadalupe counties respectively, less the amount of cash on hand in each of said counties to meet such indebtedness, as such conditions existed on the first day of January, 1903; and the amounts so found to be due from Roosevelt county to Chaves and Guadalupe counties respectively, by said commission shall be final and conclusive on each of said counties. Sec. 6. For the purpose of enabling Roosevelt county to pay to Chaves and Guadalupe counties the amounts of its obligations and debts to them respectively, as found and ascertained by the commission provided for in section 5 of this act, the board of county commissioners of Roosevelt county is hereby authorized and directed to issue its coupon bonds of that county, which bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually; such said bonds shall be payable absolutely twenty years from their date and at the option of said county ten years from their date; they shall be in amounts of one hundred dollars ($100.) each or in multiples thereof; they shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the clerk of said board, attested by its seal and endorsed by the treasurer of the county, with the engraved signature of the clerk of the probate court of said county on the coupons thereto attached, and shall be in form to be approved by the district attorney for the County of Chaves, Territory of New Mexico. Sec. 7. Such bonds may be sold for cash, at not less than par, and out of the proceeds of such sale the indebtedness of Roosevelt county to said Counties of Chaves and Guadalupe as found by said commission, shall be paid and satisfied in full; and if such sale cannot be made by the first day of January, A. D. 1904, then and in that case, said bonds and coupons attached shall be turned over to Chaves and Guadalu pe counties in full settlement of the indebtedness of Roosevelt county to Chaves and Guadalupe counties respectively, and it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of Roosevelt county to annually levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest coupons coming due semi-annually upon said bonds, and in addition a sufficient amount to create a sinking fund to pay said bonds when they become due; which sinking fund tax shall be levied annually from and after five years after the passage of this act; said bonds shall be the first issued by Roosevelt county, and the levy for the payment of interest shall be the first made, and such bonds shall be known and designated as "Roosevelt County Establishment Bonds." Such bonds shall be dated the first day of July, A. D. 1903, and the coupons shall become due and be payable semi-annually thereafter. The debt ascertained to be due from Roosevelt county to Chaves and Guadalupe counties respectively, on the first day of January, 1903, shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from that date until the payment of the same in cash or in the taking of the bonds and coupons above provided for; and this amount of interest shall be added to the debts evidenced by the issuance of said bonds, and be included therein. Sec. 8. The County of Roosevelt may issue bonds for court house purposes to an amount not exceeding twentyfive thousand dollars ($25,000.), and for jail purposes to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), and for current expenses, until taxes are levied and collected, to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000). Sec. 9. Roosevelt county shall be entitled to have and receive all unpaid taxes for the year A. D. 1902, and prior thereto, which taxes have been levied or assessed upon or against property within the former limits of Chaves and Guadalupe counties and which by this act are set off from said counties of Chaves and Guadalupe and has become Roosevelt county; and the treasurer and collector of Roosevelt county shall collect and receipt for the same to the same extent as the respective treasurers and collectors of Chaves and Guadalupe counties might have done had said property remained within the limits of the Counties of Chaves and Guadalupe, and Roosevelt county shall be entitled to and shall receive from Chaves and Guadalupe counties respectively such proportion of the moneys received from licenses issued by said Chaves and Guadalupe counties in force in Roosevelt county during any part of the year A. D. 1903, as such unexpired term of each such license shall bear to the whole term for which such license was issued; and all taxes collected from Roosevelt county and paid into the respective treasuries of Chaves and Guadalupe counties after January first, 1903, shall be credited upon the proportion of the respective debts of Chaves and Guadalupe counties assumed and to be paid by Roosevelt county. All school funds in the respective treasuries of Chaves and Guadalupe counties on April first, 1903, due to the school districts of Roosevelt county, whether appor tioned or unapportioned, shall be on said date or immediately thereafter paid over by such treasurers to Roosevelt county. Sec. 10. On or before the first day of May, A. D. 1903, the treasurers and ex-officio collectors of the Counties of Chaves and Guadalupe shall deliver to the county commissioners of Roosevelt county a list of all the delinquent taxes and unpaid licenses and also a list of all taxes which will become due on July first, A. D. 1903, upon property within the limits of and upon personal property belonging to persons resident within the limits of Roosevelt county, and the treasurer and ex-officio collector of Roosevelt county shall proceed and collect said taxes and licenses as required by law and they shall become and be the funds of Roosevelt county. Sec. 11. Said Roosevelt county is hereby attached to the fifth judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico for judicial purposes, and district court for the trial of causes arising under the laws of the Territory of New Mexico shall be held at the county seat of said county by the judge of said court, beginning on the third Monday of March and the third Monday of October in each year, there being a sufficient amount of the court fund in said county therefor, and special terms of said court may be held when convened in accordance with law. The district attorney for the district of which Chaves county is a part shall be the district attorney for Roosevelt county until otherwise provided by law, and shall be entitled to a salary from said Roosevelt county of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per annum, payable quarterly. Sec. 12. The County of Roosevelt for legislative purposes shall be attached to the ninth council and the fifteenth house district until otherwise provided by law. Sec. 13 Until the appointment and qualification of the county and precinct officers of Roosevelt county the county and precinct officers of the Counties of Chaves and Guadalupe shall continue to exercise authority as before this act, and shall have jurisdiction as heretofore. Sec. 14. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 8. AN ACT TO CREATE QUAY COUNTY. A. S. for H. B. No. 49; Approved February 28, 1903. Sec. 2. County seat. Location. Public Building. Sec. 3. County commissioners. To divide county into precints. To appoint precinct and school district officers. County officers. Appointment by governor. Term of office. Commissioners. To ascertain amount of indebtedness due to Guadalupe and Union counties. Of whom composed. Sec. 6. Bond issue. Purpose. Rate of interest. Maturity. Form. Sec. 8. Sale of bonds. Purpose. Provision for payment of interest. Sinking fund created. Issue of bonds for court house and jail purposes, and for current expenses. Unpaid taxes and licenses. Proportion to be credited on debt. School fund. Sec. 10. Delinquent taxes and unpaid licenses. List to be delivered to county Sec. 11. Sec. 12. commissioners. Judicial district. Time for holding court. District attorney. Salary. Sec. 13. County and precinct officers. Jurisdiction until when. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That there be and hereby is created a county, |