CHAPTER 116. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR SPRINKLING OF STREETS IN CITIES AND ASSESSING THE EXPENSE THEREOF AGAINST THE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING UPON SAID STREETS. C. B. No. 92; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. City councils may assess cost of sprinkling streets against abutting property. Sec. 2. Amount assessed to be a lien on property. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That whenever the city council of any city in the Territory of New Mexico shall determine that the streets within its limits, or certain streets, or parts of streets, shall be watered in whole or in part at the expense of the owners of property abutting on such streets or parts thereof, such city council shall estimate and determine the expense of watering such streets or portions of streets, and the proportion of such expense to be borne by such owners of abutting property, and the rate to be assessed against each lineal foot of frontage of such abutting property, and thereupon shall proceed to assess, and shall assess, against each lot or parcel of land so abutting upon such street or portion thereof its proportionate share of such expense according to its frontage. Sec. 2. That the amount so assessed against each of such lots and parcels of land so abutting upon such street or part thereof, shall constitute and be a lien upon the same, and such amount shall be collected and such lien enforced in the same manner and by the same proceeding as provided by law for the enforcement of liens issued for other classes of street improvement. Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.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 117. AN ACT TO PREVENT INDECENT EXPOSURE. Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. C. B. No. 135; Sec. 1. Indecent exposure of person. Penalty. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That any person who shall hereafter indecently expose his person in or upon the streets or other public places in any unincorporated village, town or city in this territory shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court trying the same. Sec. 2. passage. This act shall be in effect from and after its CHAPTER 118. 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 1904, AND TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR. H. B. No. 192; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Territorial Board of Louisiana Purchase Exposition Managers of New Mexico Sec. 2. Sec. 3. created. Appointment. Organization. Rules and regulations. Vacancies. Compensation of members of board. Proviso. Secs. 4, 5, 6 and 9. Duties of board. Sec. 7. Appropriation. Sec. 8. Sec. 10. Tax levy to be made by auditor. Treasurer authorized to make loans. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Section 1. That for the purpose of exhibiting the resources, products and general development of the Territory of New Mexico at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition or St. Louis World's Fair to take place within or near the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri in 1904, a commission is hereby created to be called the Territorial Board of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Managers of New Mexico to be organized and continue its duties as hereinafter provided, said commission to consist of seven members residents of said Territory of New Mexico. The members of said territorial board shall be appointed by the governor of New Mexico within sixty days after the passage of this act. Sec. 2. Said members shall meet within thirty days after their appointment, and organize by the election of a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall act as aforesaid and in the absence of the president the vice-president of said board shall be the presiding officer thereof. Five members of said board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The said board shall have power to make rules, and regulations for its own government, and to do such other things as may be necessary and proper for carrying out these provisions of this act. Any member of said board may be removed, at any time, by the governor, for cause, and any vacancy which may occur in the membership of the board shall be filled by appointment by the governor. Sec. 3. The members of the board created by virtue of this act shall be entitled to their actual expenses for transportation, and the sum of three dollars ($3.00) per day for subsistence for each day necessarily absent from their homes on business of said board, but no member of said board shall receive any further compensation from said territory: Provided, that no member of said board shall receive any compensation for any time that he is not actually engaged in attending to the meetings or the work as prescribed in this act as being the duty of said board. Sec. 4. The said board shall have charge of the collection and preparation of the exhibits of New Mexico for said exposition or St. Louis World's Fair and it shall communicate with the officers thereof and obtain and disseminate through New Mexico all necessary information regarding said exposition in due and ample time for the proper exhibit of said resources and products of New Mexico at said exposition. Sec. 5. The members of said board shall have and exercise full authority in relation to the participation, the displaying and the arrangement of the exhibits of New Mexico, and the reception of its citizens, at the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, but shall incur no expense to the Territory of New Mexico in said reception of its citizens. Sec. 6. The said board shall make a report of its proceedings and expenditures from time to time to the governor and at any time upon written request; and such reports shall be transmitted by him to the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico of 1905, together with such suggestions as he may deem important for future like exhibitions. Sec. 7. To carry out the provisions of this act the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from taxes to be levied and collected for said purpose, as hereinafter provided, and the territorial treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same, from the fund to be created out of said taxes to be levied and collected as aforesaid, on requisition of said board, signed by the president and secretary thereof, and approved by the governor, and accompanied by estimates of the expenses for the payment of which the money so drawn is to be applied. Sec. 8. Said funds shall be called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Fund and for the purpose of creating and establishing said fund as specified in section 7 of this act, the auditor of the territory shall cause to be levied upon all the taxable property in the territory during the 55th and 56th fiscal years, the tax of three-fifths of one mill to be certified by him each of said fiscal years to the various county commissioners as all of the territorial taxes are levied and certified, and to be collected in the same manner as other territorial taxes, the territorial treasurer is hereby authorized to make loans as now prescribed by law for other loans to the amount as authorized herein for the purpose of making this fund at once available. Sec. 9. The said board shall make a detailed report of all its duties under this act together with all moneys expended thereunder to the governor by the fifteenth day of January, 1905, showing in detail all work done and expenditures made up to that date; and the said board shall not exist longer than March first, 1905; before February fifteenth, 1905, said board shall make a full detailed and itemized final report of all its doings and the results of its doings under this act, and of all moneys expended thereunder, which shall not in any event exceed said appropriation of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00), and said board shall in no event incur any indebtedness which, together with the amount expended, shall exceed said sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00). pies of said reports, together with all receipts, vouchers, documents, books and records of the said board shall be filed in the office of the auditor of the territory. Sec. 10. The said board may appoint a sub-commission of three members from the several counties of the territory which said sub-commission shall aid toward the exhibits from the Territory of New Mexico: Provided, that said subcommission receive no recompense for said services. The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of the territory are hereby empowered to appropriate such sums of money as they may deem proper to assist said board or commissioners in collecting and preparing the products of such counties for exhibition at the said exposition: Provided, . that the entire exhibit of the Territory of New Mexico including the separate exhibits of any county of the territory shall be directly under the management of the territorial commission. Sec. 11. Chapter 100 of the Session Laws of the Territory of New Mexico of the year 1901, approved March 21, 1901, be and the same is hereby repealed. All funds now in the territorial treasury and which have been appropriated by the legislative assembly or raised by means of the provisions of the said act approved 1901, be and the same are hereby made immediately available to carry into effect the object and purposes of this act; it being hereby expressly understood and provided that a sum equivalent to the amount so made available shall be reimbursed to the treasury of the territory from the amounts produced by the levies authorized to be made by the provisions of this act. Sec. 12. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 119. AN ACT TO HARMONIZE AND STRENGTHEN THE EXISTING SCHOOL LAWS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. S. for C. B. No. 89; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Section 11, chapter 80, Laws of 1899, regarding posting of notice of election by school directors, Amended. Granting of third class certificates. Proviso. Sec. 2. Sec. 3. Sec. 6. Sec. 7. Sec. 8. Sec. 9. Two counties may unite to hold institute. Expense. Section 1613, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding defraying of expenses of county institutes, Amended. Section 5, chapter 3, Laws of 1901, regarding protection of minors and pupils in school and penalties, Amended. Boards of school directors. To let contracts. Clerk of board to report to Clerks in rural districts, principals or superintendents of town or city schools Section 2, chapter 27, Laws of 1901, regarding teachers' certificates, Sec. 11. County superintendent. When to be at county seat. To examine books of school directors. Meeting of directors. Sec. 12. County superintendent may reject warrants illegally issued by school directors. Sec. 13. Sec. 14. School directors failing to make complete census. Penalty. Report of county superintendent to superintendent of public instruction. Sec. 15. Apportionment of school funds. County superintendent to report to probate clerk. Sec. 16. District superintendents. Term of office. Duties. |