ness, such pro rata to be based upon the same ratio as was adopted in establishing the ratio of indebtedness between the Counties of Hidalgo and Grant. As moneys may be received by the County of Grant from the County of Luna in liquidation of either the principal or interest of said indebtedness from the County of Luna to the County of Grant, the pro rata due hereunder to the County of Hidalgo shall be by the Treasurer of the County of Grant forthwith paid over to the Treasurer of the County of Hidalgo and by the Treasurer of the County of Hidalgo covered into the sinking fund provided for the payment of said Hidalgo County Establishment Bonds. In event said County of Luna should issue its bonds to the County of Grant in payment of the said indebtedness of the County of Luna to the County of Grant, the pro rata portion of said bonds as hereinbefore in this section fixed to belong to the County of Hidalgo, shall be by the County of Grant forthwith transferred and delivered to the County of Hidalgo.

SEC. 12. In event the. County of Grant shall at any time after this act goes into effect receive from congressional grant or donation, or otherwise, moneys, grants of land, bonds or other things of value, in payment of the interest charges which have accrued and been paid by the County of Grant upon a series of bonds which were validated, approved and confirmed by act of Congress of January 16, 1897, or any re-issue or renewal bonds or refunding bonds issued in lieu of said bonds, the County of Hidalgo shall be entitled to a pro rata of the net amount after the adjustment and satisfaction of the claims of Luna County thereon, of said moneys, grants of land, bonds or other things of value, based upon the rule hereinbefore established for determining the ratio of indebtedness between the Counties of Hidalgo and Grant, and the County of Grant shall forthwith upon receiving or becoming entitled to such moneys, lands, bonds or other things of value, convey to the said County of Hidalgo its pro rata.

SEC. 13. The Treasurer of the County of Grant shall pay over all moneys belonging to the said village of Lordsburg, whether in his hands at the date this act shall take effect or thereafter collected, to the Treasurer of said village.

SEC. 14. The officers of said County of Grant shall exercise the functions of their offices over the area set aside to Hidalgo County until the officers of said County of Hidalgo. shall take office, as herein before in this act provided.

SEC. 15. The County of Hidalgo for legislative purposes shall be attached to the Thirteenth Senatorial District and to the Twenty-second Representative District until otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 16. The County of Hidalgo for judicial purposes shall be attached to and form a part of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of New Mexico. Two terms each year of said court shall be held at the county seat of said Hidalgo County at the time appointed by the Judge of said Court, in the manner provided by law for the holding of special terms of said court until otherwise provided by law. The District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District shall act as such within and for the County of Hidalgo. The salary of the District Attorney of said Sixth Judicial District is hereby fixed, to commence upon the date when this act goes into effect, at $3,000.00 per annum, of which there shall be contributed by the Counties of the District as follows:

Grant County

Luna County

Hidalgo County

...

$1,200.00

500.00

300.00

and the remainder thereof to be paid by the State, as now provided by law.

SEC. 17. After this act goes into effect Civil and Criminal cases now pending in Grant County and which by reason of residence of parties, or other reasons fixing venue under the laws of the State of New Mexico, properly have their venue in Hidalgo County, shall be by the courts transferred to the proper courts of Hidalgo County, and shall be tried therein as if the same had been filed, begun or instituted in said Hidalgo County, and all pleadings, papers, documents, files and records in such cases so transferred shall be delivered to the proper courts of said Hidalgo County, excepting that when records are a part of the minutes or journals of courts, the same shall be transferred by means of copies certified to be true copies over the hand of the clerk and the seal of the Court certifying the same and shall thereupon have the same force and effect as the originals from which they were taken. All writs and processes in such transferred causes, issued out of the District Court for Grant County, which shall not have been returned at the date this act goes into effect, shall be returnable and returned to the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District for the County of Hidalgo. All bonds and recognizances taken by or given to the District Court for Grant County in such transferred causes shall be held and construed to have been given to secure appearances before the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District for the County of Hidalgo and may in cases of default be sued upon in said court for Hidalgo County.

SEC. 18. For the purpose of meeting expenses payable out of the court fund, salary fund and the current expense fund of the County of Hidalgo, contracted and payable for the year

1920, and not otherwise, said County of Hidalgo may issue not to exceed $20,000.00 of certificates of indebtedness of the County. Said certificates of indebtedness shall bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum, be payable not more than five (5) years after date, and the Board of County Commissioners of said county is hereby authorized and directed to levy a special tax on all taxable property of the county, sufficient to pay the interest on and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said certificates.

SEC. 19. The County of Hidalgo for the purpose of classifi cation and fixing salaries of county officers, shall be a second class county, until such time as its assessed valuation shall fix a different classification.

SEC. 20. This act shall take effect on the first day of January, 1920, and be of full force and effect from and after that date.

CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT DECLARING THE ROAD FROM THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, AT COSTILLA, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, WHICH RUNS VIA QUESTA, ARROYO HONDO, TAOS, TALPA, PENASCO, TRAMPAS, TRUCHAS, CHIMAYO, NAMBE, TESUQUE, BISHOP'S RANCH, TO SANTA FE, TO BE A STATE HIGHWAY.

H. B. No. 6 (as amended); Approved March 4, 1919. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico:

SECTION 1. That certain public road commencing at Costilla, on the boundary line between the State of New Mexico and the State of Colorado, in the County of Taos, thence to Questa, in Taos County, thence to Arroyo Hondo, in Taos County, thence to Taos, thence to Talpa, thence to Penasco, thence to Trampas, thence to Truchas in the County of Rio Arriba, thence to Chimayo in Santa Fe County, thence to Nambe, thence to the town of Tesuque, thence to Bishop's Ranch, and thence to the eity of Santa Fe, is hereby designated and declared to be a State Highway.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF PRINTING THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSES AND LEGISLATIVE MESSAGES OF THE GOVERNOR.

House Bill No. 25; Approved March 4, 1919.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico:

SECTION 1. To defray the expenses incurred in printing the inaugural addresses and messages of the Governor of the State of New Mexico, lately made, there is hereby appropriated from moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be drawn by the Governor by his voucher and the warrant of the State Auditor.

SEC. 2. That it is necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety of the inhabitants of the State of New Mexico that the provisions of this act shall become effective at the earliest possible date, and therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

CHAPTER 14.

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CONSOLIDATION OF RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANAGEMENT THEREOF.

House Hill No. 61; Approved March 4, 1919.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico:

SECTION 1. Upon the joint action of two or more county boards of education, having jurisdiction, contiguous rural territory, situate and lying in a compact body in two or more counties, may be consolidated into a school district by a vote of a majority of each of the said boards at a joint meeting thereof. The said vote shall thereupon be certified to the respective county clerks of said counties and to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The said vote, favorable to consolidation, shall constitute the act of consolidation. The county which, at the time of the consolidation, has the larger or largest number of school children residing within the consolidated school district, as shown by the last official school enumeration preceding such consolidation, shall be known for the purposes of this act, as the dominant county, and the others, the servient county or coun-

ties. The board of education of the dominant county shall constitute the governing body of said consolidated district, with the same control over the finances thereof as it now has over the other rural school districts of the county.

SEC. 2. All school funds of each county contributing territory to said consolidated school district shall be apportioned to the fraction of said consolidated school district, that lies in such county, in the same proportion per capita of school children. therein as would be required by section 11 of Chapter 105 of the Laws of 1917, were such fraction a separate school district of such county. Immediately after every apportionment, the treasurer of each servient county shall transfer the amount due said consolidated school district from his county, to the treasurer of the dominant county who shall credit the same to said consolidated school district.

SEC. 3. Upon consolidation, under the provisions of this act, the school directors of the former school district of the dominant county shall become the directors of the consolidated school district until the next regular election of school directors, and shall have all rights, powers and duties specified by law for other school directors.

SEC. 4. School districts or parts of school districts consolidated under the provisions of this act, except as herein otherwise provided, shall become, to all intents and purposes, a school district of the dominant county. Elections in school matters being held, and conducted, and bonds issued for school purposes in the same manner as are held or done in other rural school districts. Special taxes for local school district purposes and for the payment of the bonds of said consolidated school district shall be collected with other taxes by the different counties on the property in the fractions of said consolidated school districts therein situated, and the treasurer of each of the servient county or counties, shall pay such taxes to the treasurer of the dominant county to be used for the purposes for which they were levied.

SEC. 5. It is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the inhabitants of the State of New Mexico, that the provisions of this act shall become effective at the earliest possible time, therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.