voting against the same shall do so by placing a cross in the square opposite the words, "Against State Highway Bond Act." SEC. 10. The votes cast for and against said bond act shall be counted, returned, canvassed and the result declared and certified in the same manner as votes cast for state officers, and if it appears that this act shall have received a majority of all the votes cast thereon at such election, the Governor shall make proclamation thereof and thereupon this act shall immediately take effect and shall be irrepealable until the principal and interest of all bonds issued and sold hereunder shall be paid and satisfied. But if a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election shall be against this act, the same shall not take effect. The cost of publication of the notice herein provided for shall be paid out of funds available in the State Road Fund. SEC. 11. 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 time, and 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. CHAPTER 173. AN ACT PROVIDING NOMINATION AND APPOINTMENT OF STUDENT TEACHERS. Senate Bill No. 98; Approved March 17, 1919. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico: SECTION 1. There shall be appointed annually, on or before July 1st, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, two resident persons of the state from each county between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five years as student teachers who shall possess a diploma from the eighth grade of a public school of the state, and be entitled to special training in the schools mentioned herein. SEC. 2. Annually, on or before July 1st, each County School Superintendent, shall nominate and certify to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, two persons of his county possessing the foregoing qualifications, as student teachers, who shall be appointed as student teachers by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and assigned to either the Normal School or the Normal University as in the judgment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall best subserve the interest of the state and persons so appointed. Where nominations are not made as heretofore provided, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint as student teachers from the state at large persons possessing said qualifications sufficient in number to equal with those appointed under nominations regularly made by County School Superintendents a total of fifty-eight students for the scholastic year, the teachers so appointed at large to be assigned to either of said schools as in the judgment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall seem best. SEC. 3. The schools wherein such student teachers are in attendance shall outline special courses of instruction for student teachers for the purpose of better fitting them as teachers in the rural schools of the state, the said courses to be completed in not less than ten nor more than twelve months. Student teachers successfully completing said courses shall receive from the State Board of Education a second grade teacher's certificate, which shall continue effective for two years from date of issue. SEC. 4. That Sections one, two and three, Chapter eightynine, Laws of 1915, be and the same are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 174. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A STATE BUDGET. Senate Bill No. 101 (as amended); Approved March 17, 1919. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico: SECTION 1. On or before the 15th day of December in each year next preceding the regular biennial session of the Legislature, the Governor shall require from the head of each and every department, institution and agency of the state government through which any of the state funds are disbursed, except the Legislature and Judicial Department, and the head of each and every department, institution and agency of the state except the Legislature and the Judicial Department, shall prepare and submit to the Governor estimates of appropriations required to meet the ordinary financial needs of such department, institution or agency, itemized as the Governor may require, and a statement in detail of all moneys for which any extraordinary appropriation will be desired, during the ensuing biennium; which estimates shall be classified and grouped according to the relative importance, and in such form and detail as the Governor may require. The Governor will consider such estimates and may hold public hearings thereon, at which hearings he may require the attendance of any officer or employee of any department, institution or agency; and the Governor shall thereupon revise such estimates according to his judgment. Itemized estimates of the financial needs of the Legislature, certified by the presiding officer of each House, and of the Judicial Department certified by the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the state, shall be transmitted to the Governor within five days after the convening of each regular session of the Legislature, for inclusion in the budget by this act provided for, without revision; but the Governor may make such recommendations with reference to such estimates as he may think proper. SEC. 2. On or before the 15th day of each regular session of the Legislature the Governor shall prepare, and shall submit to the Legislature, a budget containing a detailed statement and estimate of all anticipated revenues of the state, and a complete plan of proposed expenditures for the state government during the ensuing biennium. Such budget shall contain all of the estimates furnished by the several departments, institutions and agencies of the state government, as revised and certified as aforesaid. The budget shall be accompanied by such recommendations with reference to appropriations as the Governor may deem advisable to make. It shall also set forth measures of taxation, if any, which the Governor may propose for the increase of state revenues. It shall be accompanied by statements of assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus or deficit, in sufficient detail and in such form as to show the then financial condition of the state, together with a comparison of such financial condition with that existing during the previous two fiscal years; also statements showing actual revenues and expenditures in detail for the preceding two fiscal years, and such other state ments or information as may be necessary for an intelligent consideration and determination of and concerning the executive proposals, by the Legislature and other persons concerned. Prior to final action thereon the budget may be amended or supplemented. The budget shall be in such form as to be readily analyzed and understood; it shall be a public document and shall be printed as soon as prepared, and a copy thereof shall be furnished to each member of the Legislature and to the State Auditor, and it shall be given such other publicity as the Governor may deem proper. SEC. 3. Immediately upon the submission of the budget, presiding officer of each house shall refer the same to the appropriate committee for its consideration in drawing the necessary appropriation bill or bills. During the consideration of any appropriation bill the Governor and the heads of all departments, institutions and agencies of the state concerned may be heard by the Legislature, or either house thereof, in connection therewith. The Legislature shall not consider any appropriation until the budget shall have been submitted by the Gov ernor. SEC. 4. In the preparation of the budget it shall be the duty of the Traveling Auditor to prepare the necessary forms and collect all the data that may be required by the Governor, and the State Auditor. The State Treasurer or any other officer is hereby required to furnish such information and assistance as the Governor shall require. SEC. 5. Chapters 81 and 114 of the Session Laws of the State of New Mexico of 1917, regular session, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 175. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT FROM MONEY COLLECTED FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES OF PORTIONS THEREOF TO THE ORGANIZED FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF INCORPORATED CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Senate Substitute For House Bill No. 187 (as amended); Approved March 17, 1919. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico: SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the State of New Mexico shall annually, on the first day of August of each year, pay to the treasurer of the fire department of the incorporated cities, towns and villages in this state hereafter named, the sums of money as set forth opposite the name of each certain places, such sums of money to be used for the sole benefit of said association within the objects of their organization, such payment to be made from the money collected from the fire insurance companies: Carlsbad..... Santa Fe.. Las Vegas. East Las Vegas.. Silver City.. Alamogordo.. .Six Hundred Dollars Eight Hundred Dollars Six Hundred Dollars Albuquerque, Twenty-Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars. Deming.... Seven Hundred Dollars Socorro.. Las Cruces.. ..Five Hundred Dollars .Seven Hundred Dollars SEC. 2. All fire departments receiving any money under the provisions of this act shall use the same under the direction of the governing body of cities, towns and villages for maintenance and equipment and shall make annual report to the State Auditor, showing amounts of money received and the disbursement thereof. SEC. 3. Chapter 96, Laws of 1915, is hereby repealed and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. JOINT RESOLUTION No. 1. JOINT RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. House Joint Resolution No. 1; Approved January 22, 1919. Whereas, The Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States of America, at the second session, begun and held at the city of Washington, on Monday, the third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, did on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, A. D., adopt a joint resolution proposing the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, a copy of which, signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Vice-President of the United States and duly certified. to the Governor of this state, and which is in words and figures as follows, to-wit: "Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States: |