CHAPTER 108. AN ACT PROVIDING FUNDS AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 55TH AND 56TH FISCAL YEARS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. C. S. for H. S. for C. S. for C. B. No. 57; Law by Limitation, March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Payment of interest on bonded indebtedness. Proviso. Support and maintenance of territorial institutions. Proviso. Chapter 69, Sec. 2. Sec. 3. Charitable institutions. Sec. 5. Territorial purposes. Appropriations for 55th fiscal year extended to the 56th fiscal year. Exception. Sec. 6. Surplus of any given fund of one year transferred to the same fund of the Sec. 7. Sec. 8. Sec. 10. Sec. 11. Sec. 13. year following. Beginning of fiscal year. Penitentiary current expense fund. Pay of territorial officials. Proviso. Supreme court fund. Miscellaneous fund. Sheriffs. Public wagon road. Deficiencies. Militia. Section 4021, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding levy for current county ex- Section 1537, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding tax levy for school purposes. Court house repair fund. Provision in case any legislative assembly fails to pass appropriation bill. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Section 1. For the 55th fiscal year the following appropriations or so much thereof as may be deemed necessary are hereby made and directed to be paid for the purposes hereinafter expressed, to-wit: For the payment of interest on bonded indebtedness sixty-two thousand dollars ($62,000.00): Provided. that if at any time the moneys in the interest fund are insufficient for the payment of interest coupons as they mature, it shall be the duty of the territorial treasurer to borrow temporarily a sufficient sum to complete the said payment, and for that purpose he, the said treasurer, is hereby authorized and empowered to make and negotiate the necessary loan on the best terms obtainable, and at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum. The auditor of public accounts shall countersign any and all papers necessary for the negotiation of said loan and charge the proceeds to the treasurer, and the treasurer shall redeem such paper out of the moneys coming into the interest fund. Sec. 2. For the support and maintenance of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the University of New Mexico, the New Mexico School of Mines, the New Mexico Normal School at Silver City, the New Mexico Normal School at Las Vegas, the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, the New Mexico Insane Asylum at Las Vegas, the Miners' Hospital at Raton, the Institute for the Blind at Alamogordo, the Reform School to be hereafter located at the County of Taos, Rio Arriba or San Juan, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Santa Fe, all territorial institutions, an annual tax levy shall be made each and every year hereafter, commencing with the 55th fiscal year, to the amount of four and eightyfive hundredths (4.85) mills on the dollar, in addition to that provided for other purposes, which shall be made and collected, and the product of such levy shall be distributed as follows, to-wit: To the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts forty one-hundredths (.40) of one mill; and, for the purpose of re-paying the sum of sixty-two hundred dollars ($6,200.00) heretofore advanced by certain citizens to said institution, and making permanent improvements in and upon said New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the construction of buildings, etc., there is hereby appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold. To the University of New Mexico sixty-five one-hundredths (.65) of one mill; and for the purpose of making permanent improvements and the construction of buildings in connection with said University of New Mexico there is hereby appropriated the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00), out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created. To the New Mexico School of Mines forty-five one-hundredths (.45) of one mill. To the New Mexico Normal School at Silver City fifty onehundredths (.50) of one mill. To the New Mexico Normal School at Las Vegas fifty onehundredths (.50) of one mill. To the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell forty-five one-hundredths (.45) of one mill; and, for the purpose of making permanent improvements and the construction of buildings in connection with said New Mexico Military Institute there is hereby appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold. To the New Mexico Insane Asylum at Las Vegas one and one-half (1.5) mills; and, for the purpose of making permanent improvements and the construction of buildings in connection with said New Mexico Insane Asylum there is hereby appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of the said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold; and there is hereby also further appropriated all moneys now in the territorial treasury or hereafter coming into said treasury, levied and collected under the provisions of chapter 69 of the Acts of 1901, being an act providing for geological surveys in the Territory of New Mexico; and the territorial treasurer is hereby directed to transfer all such funds now in his hands to the said territorial insane asylum in addition to the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars ($25,000.00) hereinbefore appropriated for such institution, and to transfer such other funds out of the said geological survey fund so hereafter coming into his hands under the provisions of said act to said institution; and said chapter 69 of the laws of 1901 is hereby repealed in all of its parts and provisions: Provided, that hereafter it shall be the duty of the authorities of said insane asylum to receive all indigent insane from any part or county of the territory who are entitled to admittance in said asylum without regard to the quota now in said asylum from any particular county in said territory. To the Miners' Hospital at Raton ten one-hundredths (.10) of one mill; and, for the purpose of making permanent improvements and the construction of buildings, etc., in connection with said Miners' Hospital there is hereby appropriated the sum of seven thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,800.00) out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of seven thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,800.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold. To the Institute for the Blind at Alamogordo ten one-hundredths (10) of one mill; and, for the purpose of making permanent improvements, and the construction of buildings in connection with said Institute for the Blind there is hereby appropriated the sum of seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00) out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold. To the Reform School to be hereafter located at the County of Taos, Rio Arriba or San Juan ten one-hundredths (.10) of one mill; and, for the purpose of making permanent improvements and the construction of buildings in connection with the said Reform School there is hereby appropriated the sum of four thousand four hundred dollars ($4,400.00), out of the temporary provisional indebtedness fund hereinafter created, which said amount of four thousand four hundred dollars ($4,400.00) hereby so appropriated shall be covered into the treasury of the Territory of New Mexico to the credit of the said fund out of the proceeds of the sale of any lands belonging to said institution, so soon as said lands or any part thereof may be sold. For the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Santa Fe ten one-hundredths (.10) of one mill: Provided, that no funds now on hand from the sale of lands belonging to any institutions shall be covered into the treasury, and proceeds from the future sale of lands for the Miners' Hospital, Institute for the Blind and Reform School shall not be covered into the treasury until six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) in addition to the amounts above provided shall have been paid to each of said institutions for the maintenance and equipment thereof from the future sales of lands belonging thereto: Provided, that the secretary and treasurer of such institutions shall receive no compensation as such secretary and treasurer out of territorial funds. Sec. 3. That the St. Vincent's Hospital at Santa Fe, the Grant County Hospital at Silver City, the Sisters of Mercy Hospital at Silver City, the Ladies Hospital at Deming, the Eddy County Hospital at Carlsbad, the Orphan's School at Santa Fe, the Relief Society at Las Vegas, the Sisters Hospital at Albuquerque, the Gallup Hospital, all charitable institutions, for the support and maintenance of which an an nual tax levy shall be levied each and every year hereafter commencing with the 55th fiscal year, to the amount of eighty-six one-hundredths (.86) of one mill on the dollar, in addition to that provided for other purposes, and shall be made and collected, and the proceeds of such levy shall be distributed as follows, to-wit: To the St. Vincent's Hospital at Santa Fe twelve one-hundredths (.12) of one mill. To the Grant County Hospital at Silver City six one-hundredths (.06) of one mill. To the Sisters of Mercy Hospital at Silver City six onehundredths (.06) of one mill. To the Ladies Hospital at Deming six one-hundredths (.06) of one mill. To the Eddy County Hospital at Carlsbad six one-hundredths (.06) of one mill. To the Relief Society of Las Vegas eight one-hundredths (.08) of one mill. To the Sisters' Hospital at Albuquerque eight one-hundredths (.08) of one mill. To the Orphan's School at Santa Fe eighteen one-hundredths (.18) of one mill. To the Gallup Hospital at Gallup six one-hundredths (.06) of one mill, to be expended by the county commissioners of McKinley county. To the Sisters of Loretto at Taos five one-hundredths (.05) of one mill to be used by them in caring for the indigent sick. Sec. 4. For territorial purposes there shall be levied for the 55th fiscal year upon each dollar of taxable property six (6) mills on the dollar, and for each fiscal year thereafter there shall be levied upon each dollar of taxable property six (6) mills on the dollar: Provided, that the territorial treasurer shall distribute the cash product of the tax levy of each fiscal year in the proportion that each appropriation bears to the total appropriation. Sec. 5. The same appropriations made for the 55th fiscal year are hereby extended to the 56th fiscal year, and the same amounts and sums of money appropriated for the 55th fiscal year are hereby appropriated for the 56th fiscal year, except the appropriations made for printing the laws and journals of the 35th legislative assembly, and the cash appropriations of the sums named and appropriated to the different territorial institutions. Sec. 6. At the end of each fiscal year and after any appropriations and expenditures which may be required to be paid out of any particular fund or funds shall have been paid, all the surplus which shall remain in any or either one of the |