CHAPTER 99. AN ACT REQUIRING MEMBERS OF COMMON COUNCILS IN INCORPORATED CITIES AND MEMBERS OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES IN INCORPORATED TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO TO BE RESIDENTS AND OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE SUBJECT TO TAXATION WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF SUCH CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE. H. B. No. 180; Approved March 19, 1903. Sec. 1. CONTENTS. Members of councils or boards of trustees. To be residents and owners of taxable real estate. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That no person shall be eligible to election or service as a member of the common council of any incorporated city or as a member of the board of trustees of any incorporated town or village in the Territory of New Mexico, unless at the time of his election such person shall reside within the corporate limits of the city, town or village in which he is elected and shall also be the owner of real estate subject to taxation situated within such corporate limits. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 100. AN ACT TO REQUIRE COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS TO CONTENTS. Sec. 1. County school superintendents to give bond. Sec. 2. Present county school superintendents to give bond. Sec. 3. Failure to give bond. Penalty. Sec. 4. Failure to make apportionment of school funds. Penalty. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That the county school superintendents be and they are hereby required to furnish their respective official bonds within thirty days after having received their certificate of election or appointment. Sec. 2. All present county school superintendents shall within thirty days after the passage of this act furnish their respective official bonds and fully qualify as now required by law. Sec. 3. Any such county school superintendent failing to comply with the provisions of the foregoing sections shall be summarily removed by the governor who shall fill such vacancy as now provided by law. Sec. 4. All county school superintendents who shall hereafter fail in making the apportionment of school funds in their respective counties and to file their reports relative thereto as now provided by law, shall be dealt with as provided in section 3 of this act. Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 101. AN ACT FIXING THE SALARIES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COUNTIES OF THE FIRST CLASS. C. B. No. 118; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Boards of county commissioners. Salary. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Secton 1. That hereafter each member of the board of county commissioners of counties of the first class in the Territory of New Mexico, shall receive as salary the sum of eight hundred dollars ($800.00) per year, to be paid from the general fund of such county. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER PRESERVATION, CLASSIFICATION AND INDEXING OF THE SPANISH AND MEXICAN ARCHIVES OF THE TERRITORY. Approved March 19, 1903. C. S. for A. H. B. No. 118; CONTENTS. Sec. 1 Territorial librarian authorized to send archives to library of congress. visions for preservation and return of archives. Pro Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That for the purpose of more effectually preserving and classifying the old Spanish and Mexican archives, prior to the year 1850, now in the possession of the territory, and of making the same useful to the general public and the historian, the territorial librarian is hereby authorized and directed to forward all such archives now in his custody, or which may be placed in his hands for the purpose, to the library of congress at Washington, upon securing from the librarian of congress a proper receipt therefor, and a written stipulation that the archives shall be properly classified; that all of them found to relate to land titles or to local and personal matter, and not to be of general historic interest, within one year after their reception at Washington, shall be returned to the territorial library at Santa Fe, without expense to this territory, that the remainder shall be accommodated and carefully preserved in the library of congress, and, as expeditiously as possible, analyzed and indexed; that a copy of such analysis and index shall be furnished, without charge, to the territorial librarian, to be kept in the territorial library at Santa Fe; that, should any of the documents be printed by the library of congress, a reasonable number of copies of the publication shall be supplied without charge to the territorial librarian, to be distributed by him as the territorial legislature may hereafter direct; and finally that within five years from the time of their reception in Washington, all of said documents shall be safely returned to the territorial or state librarian of New Mexico, without any expense to New Mexico. Sec. 2. 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 103. AN ACT TO PRESERVE THE PUBLIC HEALTH. proved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. C. B. No. 76; Ap Sec. 2. Sec. 3. Sec. 4. Sec. 5. Sec. 6. Sec. 7. Sec. 1. New Mexico board of health. Powers and duties. Proviso. Regulations respecting articles communicating contagious diseases. Sec. 8. Right of entry to abate nuisance or cause of sickness. Sec. 9. Entry refused. Sheriff or constable to enter. Sec. 10. Isolation of persons infected with diseases dangerous to public health. Sec. 11. Provision in case infected person cannot be removed. License to be ob Sec. 14. Justice of the peace or judge of district court may issue warrant for removal of infected persons. Sec. 15. Sec. 16. Sec. 17. Sec. 18. Sec. 20. Infected baggage, clothing or other goods. May be seized. Quarantine of infected precincts or counties. Infected counties. Duty of president of board of health. May call special meeting. Sec. 19. Physicians or persons knowing of existence of contagious disease to report to health officer or justice of peace. Failure to report. Penalty. House-holders failing to give notice. Penalty. Transportation of bodies dead of certain diseases prohibited. Preparation for transportation of bodies dead of certain diseases. Embalmers to obtain certificate. Transit permits. Shipping by express. Disinterred bodies. Provisions for vaccination. Sec. 21. Sec. 22. Appointment of county health officers and assistants. Powers. Sec. 23. Rules and regulations. Board to make. Publication. Violation of provisions of this act. Penalty.. Sec. 24. City or town health officer may be county health officer. Sec. 25. Sec. 27. Costs of carrying out provisions of this act. By whom to be paid. Sec. 28. City officers to aid in enforcing this act Proviso. Sec. 29. Sec. 30. Small-pox. Duty of school superintendents. Vaccination of children. Refusal of parents to permit vaccination of children. Penalty. County health officer to vaccinate. Expense. Vaccination of adults. Refusal. Penalty. City councils and boards of trustees. May proclaim quarantine. Publication. May enforce rules and regulations. Sec. 33. Chapter 17, Laws of 1901, regarding preservation of public health. Repealed. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That the New Mexico board of health, created by chapter 18 of the acts of the 34th legislative assembly, be vested with the powers, and charged with the duties pre scribed by said chapter and any acts that have been or may hereafter be passed in amendment thereof. Sec. 2. The board of health shall make such regulations respecting nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness, applicable to any county, city, town, or village, in the territory, or any part of any such county, city, town, or village, as the peculiar conditions in such county, city, town, or village may in the judgment of said board of health at any time require. Sec. 3. Said board may also make such regulations as the public health may require, in their judgment, for railway cars and trains of cars, being operated from place to place within the territory, or passing through the territory: Provided, however, that regulations applicable to cars or trains of cars shall in no wise conflict with the laws and constitution of the United States; and the enactment of such regulations so in conflict, shall not be held to make such regulations not so in conflict void. Sec. 4. The said board of health shall also make such regulations as they may deem necessary for the public health and safety respecting any articles of personal property, or real estate, which may be capable of containing, conveying, or communicating any infection or contagion, or of creating any sickness. This section shall extend to and include all such articles of personal property as may be brought into or conveyed from any part of the territory to any other part of the territory, and to all such articles as may be brought into the territory from without the territory. Sec. 5. The board of health shall examine into all nuisances, sources of filth, or causes of sickness, that may in their opinion be injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the territory, or of any county, city, town or village in the territory, or any part of the territory, or of any part of any county, town, city, or village of the territory. This section shall extend to and include the examination of such nuisances, sources of filth, or causes of sickness, as may be found in any railway car, or train of cars, and the board may make specific regulations for the control and abatement of the same. Sec. 6. Whenever such nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness, shall be found on private property the board of health shall order the owner or occupant, or the person or persons that have caused or committed such nuisance, at his own expense, to remove the same within twenty-four hours, and in default thereof, he, she, or they, shall forfeit the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each twenty-four hours failure |