or improvement of the Rio Grande fund, or out of any moneys hereafter coming into such funds, respectively. Sec. 8. The commissioner of public lands shall immediately procure from said United States land commission for the location of lands under said act of congress, and keep in his office, a transcript of all selections if he should not now have the same, and shall also enter at once upon the record book in his office, the approval, by the secretary of the interior, when made, of all locations of lands for institutional or other purposes, and also the action of the secretary of the interior in approving or disapproving any leases or sales of any such lands. Sec. 9. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 79. AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ADJUSTING THE INDEBTEDNESS OF LUNA COUNTY TO GRANT COUNTY." H. S. for H. B. No. 34; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Commission to assemble and ascertain total amount of indebtedness due Grant county. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. For the purpose of adjusting the indebtedness due by Luna county to Grant county, and to fix a basis for the settlement thereof, it shall be the duty of the auditor, treasurer and superintendent of public instruction of the Territory of New Mexico to assemble as a commission for that purpose, and ascertain, on or before the first day of May, A. D. 1903, the total indebtedness, at the time of the creation of Luna county, of Grant county from which Luna county was segregated, less cash on hand to meet such indebtedness (not including as cash on hand the amount of money in school funds credited to the school districts of Grant county now a part of Luna county, for the year 1901), and less the value of all permanent public improvements remaining in Grant county, and also ascertain from the assessment rolls for the year 1900 the value of all taxable property embraced within the limits of Luna county that was taken from Grant county, and thereupon to determine the amount of such indebtedness that may be due from Luna county to Grant county, less the amount of cash on hand to meet such indebtedness (not including the school funds aforesaid), as such conditions existed on the first day of April, A. D. 1901; and the amount so found to be due from Luna county to Grant county, by said commission, shall be final and conclusive in both counties. Sec. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 80. AN ACT RELATIVE TO BOUNTIES ON WILD ANIMALS. H. B. No. 94; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Chapter 10, Laws of 1901, regarding bounty on wild animals. Amended. Sec. 3. False affidavit. Penalty. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That chapter 10 of the Session Laws of 1901 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "The several boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to levy annually a special tax on horses, bovine cattle, sheep and goats that may be found in their respective counties to any amount not exceeding four (4) mills, on the assessed value thereof for the purpose of raising money with which to pay bounties for the killing of wild animals. Such special tax shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the collection of other county taxes and paid into the county treasury as a "Wild Animal Bounty Fund" to be used exclusively for the payment of bounties for the killing of wild animals at the following rates: "For each coyote or wild cat, two dollars ($2.00); for each lynx, two dollars ($2.00); for each gray wolf, lobo, panther or mountain lion, twenty dollars ($20.00); for each bear, ten dollars ($10.00). "That no bounty certificates shall be issued in payment of scalps under the provisions of this act unless there are funds in the "Wild Animal Bounty Fund" to pay the same. "Sec. 2. That each party presenting an application for the payment of the bounties provided for in section 1 of this act, shall make affidavit before the probate clerk and ex-officio clerk of the board of county commissioners that he killed the said wild animals in the county wherein he applies for bounty, setting forth the location and the date of said killing, and wherever possible furnishing witnesses to verify his state ment: Provided, that no bounty shall be paid under this act for any wild animal where claim is not presented within ninety days from the date it was killed. "Sec. 3. Any person who shall make application for payment of bounty as provided in this act, for any wild animal killed outside of the county wherein he makes the application or who makes a false affidavit as to any facts stated in his application, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction may be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense, and all such fines when collected shall be paid into the "Wild Animal Bounty Fund" of the county wherein the case occurred." Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 81. AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO PREVENT THE CUTTING OF TIMBER FROM SCHOOL SECTIONS. H. B. No. 139; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Unlawful to cut timber from certain school sections or territorial lands. Penalty. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation, to cut, take or destroy any timber from or on any school section numbered sixteen and thirty-six, or other territorial lands within the Territory of New Mexico. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction in the territory, shall be punished by a fine in the sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying the case. The violations of the provisions of this act upon each day shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. Sec. 2. This act shall be in full force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 82. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF LUNA COUNTY TO PAY OVER TO THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF GRANT CERTAIN MONEYS. H. B. No. 172; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Treasurer of Luna county authorized to pay over money to treasurer of Grant county. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. The treasurer of the County of Luna is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay to the treasurer of the County of Grant, all sums of money collected or hereafter collected by said Luna county under and by virtue of levies made by Grant county prior to the creation of Luna county, viz: For the years 1899 and 1900, for the payment of interest on bonds of said Grant county. Sec. 2. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 83. AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT IN REFERENCE TO BURIALS IN CHURCHES AND CHURCHYARDS AND OLD CEMETERIES." H. B. No. 190; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Unlawful to disturb remains of persons previously interred. Penalty. Section 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to inter the remains of any deceased person in any church, church yard or old cemetery, when it shall in order to do so, be necessary to disturb or remove the remains or any part thereof of any person permanently interred in the same place. And any person who shall bury or aid in burying any deceased person in any such church, church yard or old cemetery and in doing so shall remove or disturb the remains or any part thereof of any person previously interred therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or district court, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Sec. 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 84. AN ACT AUTHORIZING BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ESTABLISH ELECTION DISTRICTS IN PRECINCTS CASTING OVER FIVE HUNDRED VOTES. C. B. No. 87; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Board of county commissioners may divide certain precincts. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That in any precinct in any county in this territory where more than five hundred votes are cast at any general election, the board of county commissioners may divide. such precinct into two or more election districts for voting purposes, and define the boundaries and designate the polling places therein, and elections in such election districts shall be held in all respects as now provided by law for the holding of elections in precincts. Sec. 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 85. RELATIVE TO PUBLIC DITCHES. C. B. No. 103; Approved March 17, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Opening of drainage to protect dams from flood and regulate water of acequia. Failure to perform work. Penalty. Penalty. Sec. 2. Excess water from drainage. Owners to pay for use. Sec. 4. Majority of mayordomos of joint drainage to regulate use of excess water. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. Whenever it be necessary to open a drainage or tajo, near the main dam of any public ditch, with the object of drawing off the excess of water, or to regulate the water of said ditches, with the object of protecting the dams from any floods, the water commissioners of said ditch are |
