For the relief of the citizens of Silver City, New Mexico, in improving streets and building dams or bridges where the same are necessary for the prevention of future damage by floods such as recently visited said city, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), payable to the order of the mayor of said city of Silver City, out of the territorial institutions fund, and said sum to be expended under the direction of the mayor and city council of Silver City. For the building of a public wagon road between Las Vegas and Santa Fe, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), which said sum shall be payable to the order of the superintendent of the penitentiary. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the statehood committees sent to Washington, D. C., by the Republican and Democratic central committees of the Territory of New Mexico, and to be paid to the Bank of Commerce of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to take up certain obligations incurred by certain citizens of the territory for the payment of said expenses, and to be paid out of the territorial institutions fund hereinafter provided for, the sum of three thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents ($3,682.25): Provided, that the publishers of all reports of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico, and of all statutes of this territory, are hereby required hereafter to transmit one copy of each volume thereof to each of the following parties, to-wit: To the attorney general of the United States, Washington, D. C.; to the librarian of each state and territory; to each of the judges of the United States supreme court, and five copies to the librarian of the supreme court of the United States; one copy each to the United States attorney, the solicitor general and each district attorney in this territory; one to each board of county commissioners, and to each probate judge in this territory; also, where any other state or territory will supply the librarian of this territory with two copies or more of the reports and statute laws of such state or territory, the librarian of this territory is authorized and required to supply and transmit to the librarian of such state or territory an equal number of copies of the reports and statute laws of this territory; also, the librarian is hereby authorized and required to transmit copies of the reports and statutes of this territory which have heretofore been published, in like quantity and number as above specified, to such of the parties aforesaid who have not heretofore received the same. The sheriffs of the various counties of this territory shall only be entitled to draw mileage for one person in charge of prisoners transported to the penitentiary, and they shall only be entitled to charge the actual expenses for the prisoners so conveyed, and shall be entitled to charge per diem at the rate of five dollars per day for each guard, and the actual cost of transportation: Provided, that sheriffs shall not be entitled to more than one guard for two prisoners, and one guard for every additional three prisoners: Provided, further, that sheriffs shall convey at one time all prisoners sentenced at the same term of court. DEFICIENCIES. For the purpose of paying the following deficiencies in the appropriations for the 52nd and 53rd fiscal years, the following appropriations are hereby made, to-wit: For Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Santa Fe, for mainte nance, six months of 1903... $ 800 00 For Jose R. Lucero, sheriff of Doña Ana county, for executing death warrant.. 100 00 For Salome Garcia, sheriff of Union county, for executing death warrant... 100 00 For A. S. Goodell, sheriff of Grant county, for executing death warrant.... 100 00 For transportation of convicts to the penitentiary, as per approved accounts on file: To Alfredo Gonzales, sheriff of Lincoln county......$ 873 38 153 85 168 45 184 50 290 25 59 65 74 70 172 80 155 70 7 25 88 90 150 15 244 25 10 80 109 73 To C. F. Blackington, executing requisition papers To W. E. Martin, executing requisition papers... To Juan J. Ortiz, Clara H. Olsen and Maggie Geimer, for transcribing election returns for statehood committee, for years 1898, 1900 and 1902. . . . . . . For transportation of convicts to the penitentiary, as per approved accounts on file: To M. C. Stewart, sheriff of Eddy county....... 86 10 $ 315 45 To Fred Higgins, sheriff of Chaves county. 381 50 226 00 185 53 655 00 And for balance due for printing tax rolls for 1902.. 36 75 requisition papers.. 122 05 To Robert B. Campbell, sheriff of Colfax county, for serving requisition papers.. 196 50 For expenses of members of board of education To Maggie J. Bucher... 7 70 11 55 To J. Francisco Chaves, for expense clerical service, assistance, expert work on annual report and other expenses connected with office superintendent public instruction. For wild animal bounties... To J. D. Hughes, public printer, for tax assessment rolls and blanks, 1901 and 1902... 2,283 40 286 00 371 23 Provided, further, that hereafter it shall be the duty of the different boards of election canvassers to cause the election returns to be sent to the seat of government to be forwarded by some express company, and upon delivery of said returns to said express company they shall take a receipt thereof and immediately forward said receipt by registered mail to the secretary of the territory: Provided, further, that whenever the county seat of any county from where the returns are to be forwarded, have no express company, then, and in no other case, the said boards of election canvassers shall designate one of their number a special messenger to convey said returns to the nearest express office, to be forwarded as above provided, and take a receipt therefor; and said messenger shall be allowed for his services twelve and one-half (12.5) cents per mile, for conveying said returns, for each and every mile actually and necessarily traveled from the county seat to such express office. MILITIA FUND. For the support of the National Guard, including transportation of arms, clothing and fuel, sta tionery, etc...... For rent and maintenance of armories... $ 500 00 750 00 Sec. 9. That section 4021 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "three and one-half" in the fifth line of said section 4021, and inserting the word "five" in lieu thereof. And hereafter the boards of county commissioners of the various counties of the territory shall be authorized to levy an annual tax of not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar upon the assessed value of all taxable property in their several counties, for current expenses. Sec. 10. That section 1537 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "That the territorial auditor shall annually, on or before the first day of May of each year, levy a tax of two (2) mills on the dollar upon all taxable property in the territory, and certify the same to the county collectors of the several counties, who shall collect the same as the other taxes are collected. The money thus received shall not be spent for any other purpose than for paying the expense of collection, which shall not exceed four per cent. of the sum thus collected, and for paying the expenses of printing necessary forms of blank reports, school laws, the salaries of the county superintendents of public instruction, the expense of their offices and paying school teachers. And when said taxes are collected, the same shall be paid by the county collectors of the various counties of the territory into the treasuries of the counties to the credit of the general school fund of each county." Sec. 11. Hereafter the several boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized to cause to be levied and collected, annually, a special tax of not exceeding two (2) mills on the dollar for the purpose of making needed repairs on the county court houses and county jails. The product of such levy, when collected, shall be kept separate and apart by the county treasurer, in the fund to be known and called the "Court House Repair Fund," which shall not be used for any other purpose than that above provided. That the levy made by the territorial sheep sanitary board for any year shall not exceed one cent on the dollar of the assessed values of sheep. Sec. 12. Whenever for any reason any legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico shall fail to pass a bill providing funds and making appropriations for the next ensuing two fiscal years, then and in that event the last previous revenue law or appropriation bill which has become a law shall continue in full force and effect, and the levies made and appropriations provided shall be the same for the successive fiscal years thereafter, except cash appropriations, with the same force and effect as if the same had been specifically re-enacted. It being the true intent and meaning of this section that the annual interest charges and expenses of conducting territorial government and its institutions shall in no event fail by reason of any failure of a specific bill for that purpose to become a law. Sec. 13. There is hereby established a fund, to be known as the "Temporary Provisional Indebtedness Fund," out of which said fund the cash appropriations for territorial institutions, and all other purposes, including deficiencies, which are made in this act to be paid immediately, shall be paid; and the territorial treasurer is hereby ordered and directed to transfer to such fund, for the payment of such appropriations, all the funds now in the territorial treasury or in the territorial depositories to the credit of the capitol building bond fund, the provisional indebtedness bond fund and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition fund, together with all the sums to come into his hands up to July first, 1903, by virtue of levies heretofore ordered to be made for such above enumerated funds; and no further or other levy shall be made during the year 1903, or thereafter, for the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition fund. And chapter 100 of the session laws of 1901, being an act providing for the collection, arrangement and display of the products of the Territory of New Mexico at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, or St. Louis World's Fair of 1903, and to make an appropriation therefor, approved March 21, 1901, is hereby repealed, in all of its parts and provisions. And the territorial board of Louisiana Purchase Exposition managers of New Mexico, created and provided for by said chapter 100 of the Session Laws of 1901, shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, or as soon thereafter as possible, meet and close up all the business of said commission, and turn over to the territorial treasurer all funds remaining in their hands, which said funds shall be by said territorial treasurer placed to the credit of said temporary provisional indebtedness fund: Provided, that after the payment of said cash appropriations including deficiencies, etc., out of said temporary provisional indebtedness fund, the balance on hand therein or to be paid into the same out of the sale of institutional lands for the repayment of loans as hereinbefore provided, shall be by the treasurer turned back into the capitol building bond fund and the provisional indebtedness bond fund in the proportion which said funds bear to each other at the time of the passage of this act. Sec. 14. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. |