Laws of the Territory of New Mexico

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ASYLUM FOR THE
DEAF AND DUMB, A REFORM SCHOOL, AN INSTITUTION FOR
THE BLIND, AND A MINERS' HOSPITAL FOR DISABLED MIN-
ERS. A. C. B. No. 38; Approved February 13, 1903.

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CONTENTS.

"New Mexico Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb" created. Location.
"New Mexico Reform School" created. Location. Donation of land.
'New Mexico Institute for the Blind" created. Location. Donation of land.
"Miners' Hospital of New Mexico" created. Location. Donation of land.
Acceptance of grant of lands.

Boards of Trustees. Qualifications. Appointment. Term of office. Organi-
zation. Secretary and Treasurer to give bond.
Powers of Boards.

Institute for the Blind. Purpose. Rules of admission.

Miners' Hospital. Purpose. Rules of admission.

Reform School.

confinement.

Whom to be confined therein. Duty of courts. Term of

Reform School. Superintendent or Warden to enforce rules.
Committees. To select sites. Duties. Report to Governor. Compensation.
Sec. 13. Erection of buildings. Boards of Trustees to advertise for bids and let con-
tracts.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New

Mexico:

Section 1. That there is hereby created and established

an asylum for the deaf and dumb, to be known as the "New

Mexico Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb," which is hereby es-

tablished and permanently located at the city of Santa Fe, in

the county of Santa Fe and Territory of New Mexico.

Sec. 2. That there is also hereby located and established

a territorial institution, to be known and called the "New Mex-

ico Reform School," which is hereby located somewhere within

the counties of Taos, Rio Arriba or San Juan, upon a tract

of land of not less than twenty acres, suitable for the pur-

poses of such institution, to be donated and conveyed free of

cost to the Territory of New Mexico, the title to which shall

be examined and passed upon by the solicitor general, and

proper conveyances thereof made within six months from the

passage of this act, such tract of land to be selected by three

commissioners appointed by the governor for that purpose

as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. That there is also hereby created and established

an institution of learning to be known as the "New Mexico
Institute for the Blind," which is hereby located and es-
tablished in the county of Otero in the Territory of New Mex-
ico, at the town of Alamogordo, in said county, upon a tract

of land suitable for the purposes of such institution, consisting of not less than twenty acres, to be donated and conveyed free of cost to the Territory of New Mexico, the title to which shall be examined and passed upon by the solicitor general, and proper conveyances thereof made within six months from the passage of this act, such tract of land to be selected by three commissioners to be appointed by the governor for that purpose as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 4. That there is also hereby created and established an institution to be known and called the "Miners' Hospital of New Mexico," which institution is hereby located at the City of Raton in Colfax county, New Mexico, upon a tract of land consisting of not less than ten acres within one mile of the depot of the railroad station of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company at said town of Raton, to be donated and conveyed free of cost to the Territory of New Mexico, the title to which shall be examined and passed upon by the solicitor general, and proper conveyances thereof made within six months from the passage of this act, said tract of land to be selected by three commissioners to be appointed by the governor for that purpose as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 5. That act of congress, approved June 21st, 1898, entitled an act "to make certain grants of land to the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes," is hereby accepted with all its terms and conditions, by the Territory of New Mexico, in so far as the same apply to the above named institutions; and no improvements or buildings shall be made or created upon any of such lands as are herein before provided for until proper deeds therefor, duly approved by the solicitor general, have been executed and recorded in the proper county and filed in the office of the secretary of the territory. Sec. 6. The management and control of each of said institutions above established, the care and preservation of all property of which they shall become possessed, the erection and construction of all buildings necessary for their use, and the disbursement and expenditure of all moneys appropriated by the Territory of New Mexico, or which shall otherwise come into their possession, shall be vested in a board of five trustees, one of such boards for each of said institutions; and each of said trustees shall be qualified voters and owners of real estate in the Territory of New Mexico. Said trustees shall possess the same qualifications, shall be appointed in the same manner, and their terms of office shall be the same and the vacancies therein shall be filled in the same manner as is now provided by law with reference to the regents of the Territorial University at Albuquerque, New

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