house, allowing him to sell and offer for sale the same during the period stated in such permit: Provided, that the provisions of this section shall also apply to any business house or merchant within the Territory of New Mexico, importing, or offering for sale, or selling game or game fish brought from without said territory. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section or violating any of the provisions thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 12. Game fish as defined by this act, are small and large mouth bass, and speckled trout of whatsoever variety or species.

Sec. 13. The provisions of this act shall apply to all Indians off the reservations within this territory or coming into this territory from adjoining states or territories, and it is hereby made the duty of the secretary of the territory to make certified copies of this act within ten days after the passage thereof and send the same by registered mail to each and every Indian agent in the Territory of New Mexico.

Sec. 14. Whenever the owner or lessee of lands within any enclosure in this territory shall desire to protect or propagate any fish in any stream within said enclosure, he may publish notices of such act in both Engish and Spanish warning all persons not to fish within such enclosure or water described, which notice shall be by hand-bills posted in at least three conspicuous places on said premises, and by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where such enclosure is situate, which publication shall be for the period of three weeks or three consecutive publications of such newspaper. After the publication and posting of such notice, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to trespass on said premises for the purpose of fishing, and any person or persons so trespassing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days.

Sec. 15. After the passage of this act, and for a period of two years thereafter, it shall be unlawful to kill or in any wise destroy or injure any elk, antelope or mountain sheep in the Territory of New Mexico, and any person violating the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a

fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment for not less than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

Sec. 16. After the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to kill, wound, or in any way destroy any deer within the Territory of New Mexico, except that such deer, the animal being with horns, may be killed with a gun during the months of November and December in each year: Provided, that no person shall kill or have in his possession more than one deer during said months of November and December in each

year.

Sec. 17. The word "game" as used in this act, to be distinguished from the words "game fish" whenever used, is hereby defined to mean elk, deer, antelope and mountain sheep.

Sec. 18. Any person violating the provisions of section 16 of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court: Provided, also, that one-half of all fines collected for violations of this act, shall be turned into the county treasurer of each county, to be distributed in the school fund of the county in which the offense was committed.

Sec. 19. Chapter 51 of the Session Laws of 1899 of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, is hereby repealed; and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3 OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE THE COUNTY OF SANDOVAL," APPROVED MARCH 10, 1903. C. B. No. 123; Approved March 12, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Section 3, chapter 27, Laws of 1903, regarding election of officers of Bernalillo county. Amended.

Sec. 2. Board of county commissioners to divide Bernalillo county into commissioner districts.

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

Section 1. That section 3 of the act to create the County

of Sandoval, approved on March 10, 1903, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. That T. C. Gutierrez, to fill the unexpired term of the second district, and Severo Sanches, be and they hereby are appointed and constituted county commissioners for the County of Bernalillo as the same is constituted after the creation of Sandoval county, and the said T. C. Gutierrez and Severo Sanches shall qualify as said county commissioners on or before the fifth day of April, A. D. 1903, and shall together with the county commissioner now in office for the said County of Bernalillo, hold a meeting not later than the tenth day of April, 1903, and said three persons as a board of county commissioners for Bernalillo county shall appoint one assessor and one probate judge for the said County of Bernalillo to serve until their successors are elected and qualified at the next general election."

Sec. 2. On or before thirty days after said board of county commissioners of Bernalillo county has duly qualified as such commissioners, they shall assemble as a board of county commissioners and shall divide said County of Bernalillo into county commissioner districts.

Sec. 3. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 2 OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE THE COUNTY OF SANDOVAL," APPROVED MARCH 10, 1903. C. B. No. 128; Approved March 12, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Section 2, chapter 27, Laws of 1903, regarding election of officers of Sandoval county. Amended.

Sec. 2. County commissioners to divide Sandoval county into commissioner districts. Sec. 3. County seat located at Sandoval.

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

Sec. 1. That section 2 of the act to create the County of Sandoval, approved March 10, 1903, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The county officers for the said County of Sandoval, and their duties, shall be the same as those prescribed by law for officers of other counties in the Territory of New Mexico; and E. A. Miera and Esquipula Baca and Ignacio Gutierrez are hereby appointed and constituted county commissioners for the said County of Sandoval, and they shall qual

ify as such county commissioners on or before the fifth day of April, A. D. 1903; and, after having so qualified, shall hold a meeting, not later than the tenth day of April, A. D. 1903, and appoint all other county officers for said County of Sandoval, who shall serve until their successors are elected at the next general election and qualified."

Sec. 2. Within thirty days after the said board of county commissioners of Sandoval county shall have duly qualified and organized, such board shall assemble at the county seat of said county and divide the said County of Sandoval into county commissioner districts.

Sec. 3. The town of Sandoval, in said Sandoval county, shall be and hereby is designated as the county seat for the said County of Sandoval.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 51

AN ACT GRANTING CERTAIN LAND IN THE CITY OF SANTA FE, TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, TO THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF TRADE AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF SAID CITY, AS A SITE FOR A FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING. A. C. B. No. 96; Approved March 12, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Tract of land granted. Description.

Sec. 2.

Tract of land to revert to territory unless library erected within four years or if not used for library purposes. Proviso.

Sec 3. All property not conducted for financial gain exempt from taxation.

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

Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Woman's Board of Trade and Library Association, a body corporate at the City of Santa Fe, Territory of New Mexico, for a site for a free public library building, that certain tract of land situate in the City of Santa Fe, Territory of New Mexico, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on Washington avenue where the wall along the south side of the United States military reservation is contiguous to said Washington avenue, and running thence along the west side of said Washington avenue one hundred feet south to a point; thence running one hundred and fifty feet in a westerly direction parallel with said wall to a point; thence in a northerly direction parallel with said Washington avenue one hundred feet to the

wall first mentioned on the south side of the United States military reservation; thence one hundred and fifty feet easterly along the south side of said wall to the point of beginning. Sec. 2. In the event that a free public library building shall not be erected on the said tract of land hereby granted within the period of four years from and after the passage of this act and in the event of the said tract of land and the building or buildings to be hereafter erected thereon ceasing at any time to be used wholly or in part for a free public library building, then the said tract of land shall revert to the Territory of New Mexico: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the erection of such building of sufficient size and dimensions as to include other rooms, or apartments, besides those required for said free public library, which other rooms or apartments may be rented for other purposes than that of a free public library so as to obtain an income, which shall be used to pay off any incumbrance on such building and to support and maintain said free public library.

Sec. 3. That all property of such library association and all other associations or corporations not conducted for financial gain, but for the education or social advancement of the members thereof, is hereby exempt from taxation.

Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 52.

AN ACT RELATING TO TRUST COMPANIES. C. S. for C. B. No. 10; Approved March 12, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Fifteen or more persons may incorporate. Contents of articles of agree.

ment.

Sec. 2. Articles of agreement. To be signed and filed in office of secretary. Certified copy to be filed with auditor and probate clerk. Purposes for which corporations may be created.

Sec. 3.

Sec. 4.

Corporations may control safety vaults. Procedure in case rent of safe or box is not paid for two years.

Sec. 5. Corporations may be appointed executor or administrator. May act as guardian, trustee, receiver, committee or act in any fiduciary capacity. Sec. 6. Corporation acting as fiduciary or surety to give bond by deposit with territorial auditor of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). Proviso. Securities so deposited to be held by territorial treasurer.

Sec. 7. Dividends. How declared.

Sec. 8.

Corporation not to make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its capital stock. Limitation to indebtedness.