of all permanent public improvements, the property of the county, within the limits of said Sandoval county, and the sum thus obtained shall constitute the amount of such indebtedness to be assumed and paid by Sandoval county; and any money, bonds, securities or promises to pay issued by Sandoval county, for the payment of said portion of said indebtedness, shall be applied solely to the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the County of Bernalillo. The said commission shall keep a record of its proceedings, and shall furnish a certified copy thereof to each of said counties, and the award of said commission shall be final and conclusive on both counties.

For the purpose of enabling Sandoval county to pay to Bernalillo county the amount of its obligation and debt as found and ascertained by the commission provided for in section 11 of this act, the board of county commissioners of Sandoval county is hereby authorized and directed to issue its coupon bonds of that county, which shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, evidenced by coupon bonds, payable semi-annually; such bonds shall be payable absolutely twenty years from their date, and at the option of said county after ten years from their date. They shall be in sums of one hundred dollars ($100.00), or some multiple thereof; they shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the clerk of said board, attested by its seal and endorsed by the treasurer of the county, and shall be in form to be approved by the district attorney of the second judicial district.

Sec. 13. Such bonds may be sold for cash, at not less than par and the proceeds turned over to the said County of Bernalillo in full settlement of said debt; and if such sale cannot be made by the first day of January, 1904, then and in that case the said bonds and coupons attached shall be turned over to Bernalillo county in full settlement of said debt, but in no case shall said bonds and coupons ever be sold for less than par. And it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of Sandoval county to annually levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest coupons coming due semi-annually upon said bonds, and in addition a sufficient amount to create a sinking fund to pay said bonds when they become due. Said bonds shall be the first issued by said Sandoval county, and the levy for the payment of interest and to create a sinking fund shall be the first made, and such bonds shall be known and desig. nated as "Sandoval County Establishment Bonds." Such bonds shall be dated the first day of July, 1903, and the coupons due and payable semi-annually thereafter.

The debt ascertained to be due from Sandoval to Berna

lillo county on the fourteenth day of April, 1903, shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum from date until the payment of the same in cash or the taking of the bonds above provided for and this amount of interest shall be added to the debt evidenced by the issuance of said bonds, and be included therein from April fourteenth, 1903, and the five per cent. additional interest due to January first, 1904, shall be considered and treated as a current expense of Sandoval county and paid as such.

Sec. 14. Sandoval county shall be entitled to have and receive from the County of Bernalillo all unpaid taxes due after June first, 1903, which taxes have been levied upon or against property within the former limits of Bernalillo county and which by this act is cut off from Bernalillo county and becomes a portion of Sandoval county; and the treasurer and collector of said Sandoval county shall collect and receipt for the same to the same extent as the treasurer of Bernalillo county might have done had said property remained within the limits of said county. And Sandoval county shall be entitled to and shall receive from Bernalillo county, such portion of the moneys received from licenses issued by Bernalillo county, in force in Sandoval county during any part of the year 1903 as such unexpired term of each such license may bear to the whole term for which such license was issued. And all taxes already collected and paid into Bernalillo county for the year 1903, upon the persons and property situated within the limits and boundaries of Sandoval county, shall be credited upon the proportion of Bernalillo county debt accrued and to be paid by Sandoval county; and all penalties or interest accrued upon taxes due upon such property within the limits and boundaries of Sandoval county for the year 1903, are hereby transferred to that county, and its treasurer shall collect and receipt for the same as if they had originally accrued to said Sandoval county.

Sec. 15. For the purpose of enabling said County of Sandoval to provide for its current expenses until taxes may be levied and collected therein, said county is hereby authorized and directed to issue its current expense bonds to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), and for the purpose of erecting a suitable court house, bonds to the amount of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), to be known as court house bonds, and for the purpose of erecting a suitable jail, bonds to the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), to be known as jail bonds. All such bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not to exceed six per cent. per annum, to be evidenced by interest coupons, and all such bonds shall be in the form and for the time

issued and sold and the proceeds disposed of in the manner provided in section 12 of chapter 38 of the Session Laws of 1901, being an act to create the County of Luna.

Sec. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after the fourteenth day of April, 1903, at which date or as soon thereafter as qualified the first officers of said county elected at the special election of 1903 shall assume their respective duties and the said county shall be fully established as a county of the Territory of New Mexico, and the provisions herein contained providing for a returning board and its action in calling the election and canvassing the votes, and the method of ascertaining the debt of Sandoval county to Bernalillo county, shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMPILATION, PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOOL LAWS. S. for H. B. No. 83; Approved March 10, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Superintendent of public instruction authorized to compile and have printed all school laws.

Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.

Appropriation for compilation and printing. Proviso.

Copies of printed school laws to be furnished to county school superintend ents and chairmen of school directors

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

Section 1. That the superintendent of public instruction shall cause to have compiled, and biennially, shall cause to have printed two thousand copies in English and two thousand in Spanish, in pamphlet form, of all existing school laws of the Territory of New Mexico, and such school laws as may be enacted by the 35th Legislative Assembly, and after each future Legislative Assembly, if any laws shall have been enacted pertaining to schools he shall, in the first issue of said pamphlets, thereafter, include any school laws that may have been enacted by any such future legislative assembly. In the meaning of this act such pamphlets shall embrace all such school laws in one copy. The first issue of pamphlets shall be compiled and printed, ready for distribution before the first day of July of the year 1903.

Sec. 2. The compilation and printing of the pamphlets herein referred to, shall be paid for from any funds in the hands of the territorial treasurer arising from the rental or leasing of the common school lands, and for this purpose the

territorial auditor is hereby directed and required to draw an order on the territorial treasurer in favor of the superintendent of public instruction for a sum not exceeding twelve hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250.00): Provided, that the printing and binding authorized by this act shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction of the territory, before the first day of August of each year, to forward a sufficient number of such pamphlets of compiled schools laws to the superintendent of schools of the several counties of the Territory of New Mexico. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to place a copy of said pamphlets in the hands of the chairman of the directors of public schools in each and every district of said county.

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

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT RELATING TO POWERS OF PROBATE COURTS. H. B. No. 137; Approved March 11, 1903.

Sec. 1.

CONTENTS.

Administrators required to turn over to beneficial owner, all interest held by him, which was held by intestate.

Sec. 2. All assignments validated as of date of action by probate court.

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

Section 1. Where it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the probate courts that administrators of estates have in their power, custody or control personal property, chooses in action, notes, bills, judgments, or other evidences of indebtedness, the actual title and ownership of which was not in the intestate at the time of his demise but was held by him for the beneficial interest of some third person at such time, it is hereby made the duty of the probate courts to require the administrator to assign, set over and deliver the same to the beneficial owner.

Sec. 2. All assignments, settings over and deliveries of the properties mentioned in the first paragraph of this act heretofore required to be made by the probate courts, and all ratifications of such transfers heretofore made by said courts are hereby validated as of the date of the action of said probate courts.

Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 30.

H. B. No. 29; Ap

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 1271, COMPILED LAWS OF NEW MEXICO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. proved March 11, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Section 1271, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding sale of liquor to Indians, Repealed.

Sec. 2. Sale of liquor to Indians. Penalty.

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

Mexico:

Section 1.

Section 1271 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 is

hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. Every person or persons who sells, exchanges, gives, barters or disposes of any spirituous or fermented liquors or wines to any Indian under the charge of any superintendent or Indian agent shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 31.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3850, COMPILED LAWS OF NEW MEXICO, 1897, RELATING TO PROCEEDINGS FOR CONDEMNATION. H. B. No. 3; Approved March 11, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Sec. i. Sub-division second, Section 3850, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding service of notice in condemnation proceedings, Amended.

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

Section 1. That the second sub-division of section 3850 of the Compiled Laws of New Mexico of 1897, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Second. If the person on whom such service is to be made