Be it resolved, that the chief clerk of the house of representatives of the 35th legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, be, and he hereby is directed to transmit a copy of the foregoing memorial to the president of the United States. JOINT MEMORIAL 7. REQUESTING THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SEGREGATE CERTAIN LANDS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY. H. J. M. No. 4: Approved March 16, 1903. The 35th legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: To the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior: Whereas, there are thousands of acres of public lands situate on the Rio Las Animas and the Rio San Juan, in the County of San Juan, in the Territory of New Mexico, which lands are of unrivalled fertility and productiveness when supplied with water for irrigation purposes, and, Whereas, said streams of water have a never failing supply, being fed by the snow falls in the lofty ranges of the Rocky Mountains in the State of Colorado where these streams have their source, and, Whereas, there are a number of suitable reservoir sites and more especially one very desirable site within six miles of the town of La Plata in said County of San Juan, and, Whereas, if the government of the United States, under the act of congress, would build said reservoir and other reservoirs at suitable places in said County of San Juan, there could be thousands of acres of the public lands reclaimed and made desirable for settlement and occupation by American families in a section of the country which has the most salubrious climate and the most productive soil of any section in the world. Now therefore, your memorialist respectfully requests and most earnestly solicits that under and pursuant to the provisions of said act which authorizes your department to make investigations, that you at the earliest possible opportunity order that an investigation of the possibilities of said sections be made and that as soon as the reservoir sites may be located that the lands thereunder and which can be irrigated from said reservoirs be segregated from the public domain and held for actual settlers as contemplated by the terms of the act of congress. Be it resolved, that certified copies of this memorial be transmitted by the governor of the Territory of New Mexico to the president of the United States and to the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior. JOINT MEMORIAL 8. REQUESTING THE PASSAGE BY CONGRESS OF HOUSE BILL NO. 15369, KNOWN AS THE GOOD ROADS LAW. H. J. M. No. 5; Approved March 17, 1903. Whereas, it appears that there is now pending in the congress of the United States, a measure introduced by Honorable Walter P. Brownlow in the house of representatives which seeks to establish a policy to be pursued by the United States government in reference to the public improvement of the public highways of the country, and, Whereas, the said bill appears to be a good and wholesome measure for the establishment and maintenance of public highways in the country. Now, therefore, your memorialist, the 35th legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, respectfully requests the congress of the United States to pass said bill at its next regular session, believing that the same will be of a great and lasting benefit to the people of the country, Now, therefore, Be it resolved by the 35th Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: That the foregoing memorial be and the same hereby is adopted, and that the secretary of this territory be and he is hereby requested to certify copies thereof to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of the United States, and a copy to our delegate in congress, the Honorable B. S. Rodey, and to Honorable W. P. Brownlow, at Washington, D. C. I, J. W. Raynolds, Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing printed copies of the Acts, Joint Resolutions and Joint Memorials of the Thirty-fifth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, with the enrolled and engrossed originals thereof now on file in this office, and declare them to be correct transcripts therefrom and of the whole thereof. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Territory of New Mexico, at Santa Fe, the Capital, this the first day of June, A. D. 1903. J. W. RAYNOLDS, Secretary of New Mexico. INDEX Of Specific Amendments and Repeals Since Compilation of 1897. Management and control, Secs. 12, 13, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36, C. L. '97, R... Obstructing; penalty, Sec. 36, C. L. '97, A. Officers; duty, Sec. 9, C. L. '97, A..... Qualification of voters, Sec. 10, C. L. '97, A. ACTIONS- Civil; where and how commenced, Sec. 2950, C. L. '97, A.. ADMINISTRATORS AND EXECUTORS- Administration, Secs. 1938, 1939, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1955 and 1961, C. L. Street improvements, Sub-Sec. 82nd, Sec. 2402, C. L. '97, R........ Interrogatories; answer to be filed, Sec. 2708, C. L. '97, A..... |