for the period of twenty years; such taxes shall be kept separate from the taxes levied for other county purposes, and shall be payable in money and shall be devoted exclusively to the payment of such interest. Sec. 7. After the expiration of twenty years from the date of the issuance of said bonds and in the first fiscal year thereafter, and annually thereafter until paid, the county commissioners of said county shall provide a sinking fund by taxation and shall levy a tax equal to at least ten per cent. and not more than twenty per cent. of said bonds in addition to such amount of levy as may be necessary to pay the current interest on said bonds during the remaining ten years and until the said bonds shall mature. And whenever the sum of one thousand dollars or more shall have accumulated in said sinking fund, it shall be the duty of the treasurer and ex-officio collector of said County of Luna to call in at once, one or more of such bonds to be drawn by lot, for payment and cancellation, and when paid it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to cause said bonds to be cancelled and an entry of such cancellation to be made upon the book in which registry of said bonds is by this act required and kept. Sec. 8. The said county commissioners are also hereby authorized and empowered to deliver said bonds or so many of them as may be necessary to the county commissioners of the said Counties of Dona Ana and Grant, if the said counties are willing to accept said bonds in discharge of any or all of the said indebtedness hereby assumed and made binding upon the said County of Luna. Said bonds shall only be so delivered in discharge of said indebtedness to said counties at par; or upon the sale of said bonds, the said County of Luna is authorized and empowered, through its board. of county commissioners, to pay the proceeds of the said bonds in discharge of so much of the said indebtedness due to the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana, and if said indebtedness is not settled before the maturity of the outstanding bonds of the said Counties. of Grant and Dona Ana, which were part of the indebtedness taken into account at the time that the said adjustment of the said indebtedness between the said counties and the said County of Luna was made, the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana shall accept the cash proceeds of said bonds and use the same in taking up any bonds so outstanding and maturing. Sec. 9. The said County of Luna is hereby authorized and empowered through its board of county commissioners, to purchase any of the outstanding bonds of the Counties of Grant and Dona Ana at not more than par value thereof, and in case of such purchase, the bonds so purchased shall be delivered to the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana and accepted by them and credited upon the said indebtedness assumed and to be paid by the said County of Luna, as aforesaid: Provided, However, This provision shall only apply to bonds of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana that were outstanding and taken into consideration in adjusting the said indebtedness between the said Counties of Luna, Grant and Dona Ana, and for the purpose of acquiring bonds of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana, as herein last before provided for, the said board of county commissioners of the said County of Luna is hereby authorized to exchange the said bonds or any of them by this act authorized to be issued for the outstanding bonds of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana: Provided, That no less than the par value of the bonds hereby authorized to be issued by the County of Luna shall be received in making such exchange in the bonds of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana. Sec. 10. Until the said indebtedness shall be adjusted by the sale of said bonds, or as otherwise hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the said County of Luna to levy each year, at the time of making the levy of other taxes, a tax sufficient in amount and not more than is sufficient to pay six per cent. interest upon the said indebtedness adjusted between the said County of Luna and the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana and by this act validated and assumed by the said County of Luna; and such taxes shall be kept separate from the taxes levied for other county purposes and the said interest to be paid from said levy of said per cent. upon said indebtedness shall be paid to the treasurers, respectively, of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana until the said indebtedness shall be discharged in one or more of the ways herein provided. Sec. 11. Upon the final discharge and payment of the said indebtedness as fixed by sections 1 and 2 of this act, and in the manner provided for in this act, the said County of Luna shall not be liable for any further or other claim or indebtedness of any kind or description on the part of the said Counties of Grant and Dona Ana: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall in no manner invalidate any claims or judgments against the County of Luna on account of floating indebtedness, existing in the Counties of Grant and Dona Ana at the time of the creation of said County of Luna, and of which said County of Luna has now settled or is liable for its proportionate part of such floating indebtedness. Sec. 12. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after the date of its passage. CHAPTER 88. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS, THE BUILDING OF DYKES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; C. B. NO. 40; APPROVED FEBRUARY 4, 1905." C. B. No. 139; Approved March 15, 1905. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 1, Chapter 3, Laws of 1905, regarding the issuance of certificates of indebtedness account of flood sufferers, amended. Proviso Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 3 of the Laws of 1905 be amended by adding thereto the following: "Provided. That in the event that the territorial treasurer be unable to market the certificates of indebtedness as herein provided, he is hereby authorized to make loans as now prescribed by law for other loans to the amount as authorized herein for the purpose of making this fund at once available: Provided, Further, That in the contingency aforesaid it shall be lawful for the territorial treasurer, in his discretion, to transfer to the Flood Sufferers' Relief Fund' hereby created, from any sinking funds or any other available funds in the territorial treasury, an amount sufficient to fulfill the requirements of this act; it being hereby expressly understood and provided that the sum equivalent to the amount so transferred shall be reimbursed to the treasury of the territory and to the proper funds therein from the amounts produced by the levies authorized by this act as hereinafter provided." Sec. 2. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 89. AN ACT FIXING THE TIME FOR HOLDING THE TERMS OF THE DISTRICT COURT IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. C. S. for CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Sec. 2. Sec. 3. Sec. 4. Term of court in third judicial district, Grant, Dona Ana, Sierra and Socorro counties. Term of court in sixth judicial district, Lincoln, Otero, Guadalupe and Quay counties. All writs issued by district court returnable at the times and places designated in section 1. Act not to affect sixth judicial district until July 1, 1905. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. The regular terms of the district court in the third judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico shall hereafter be . commenced and held as follows: In the County of Grant at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of March and September in each year; In the County of Dona Ana at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of April and October of each year; In the County of Sierra at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of May and November of each year; In the County of Luna at the county seat of said county, commencing on the third Mondays of May and November of each year; and In the County of Socorro at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of June and December of each year. Sec. 2. The time for holding the terms of the district court in and for the sixth judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico, shall be as follows: The next regular term of the sixth judicial district court within and for the County of Lincoln, shall be commenced and held at the county seat of said county on the second Monday in April, 1905, and thereafter the regular terms of said court for said county, shall be commenced and held on the second Mondays of May and November of each year: The regular terms of said district court shall hereafter be commenced and held as follows: In the County of Otero at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of March and September of each year; In the County of Guadalupe at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Mondays of April and October of each year; In the County of Quay at the county seat of said county, commencing on the fourth Mondays of April and October of each year. Sec. 3. Every writ, summons, recognizances, venire, subpoena or other process whatever which has been issued or taken out or which may be hereafter issued or taken out from the district court of any county in said district, shall be returnable at the times and places designated in section 1 of this act, and shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been made returnable at the time and place designated in said section. Sec. 4. 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: Provided, That this act, in so far as same applies to the time for holding terms of court in the sixth judicial district, shall not take effect until the first day of July, A. D., 1905. CHAPTER 90. AN ACT TO DEFINE THE PREFERENCE RIGHTS OF EX UNITED STATES SOLDIERS, THEIR WIDOWS OR HEIRS, WITH REFERENCE TO LEASING SECTIONS 16 AND 36, LANDS OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. C. B. No. 94; Approved March 16, 1905. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 30, Chapter 74, Laws of 1899, regarding the occupation and improvement of school sections, amended. Preference rights of occupants of school sections. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That Section 30 of an act of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico entitled "An Act establishing a board of public lands, assigning their duties and for leas |