advertising purposes by painting, printing, stamping or otherwise placing thereon or affixing thereto any name or object not connected with the patriotic history of the nation or the territory shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction by any justice of the peace or district court shall be fined any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec. 2. The use of any cut, engraving, or print of such flag as an advertisement of any vocation or business or upon any particular article to be sold is also prohibited under the same penalty as provided in section 1 of this act: Provided, that this act shall not be construed to prevent the use of an imprint of the flag as an emblem or device upon ballots to be voted at any election. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force thirty days from and after its approval. CHAPTER 64. AN ACT TO AMEND THE ELECTION LAW OF THE TERRITORY CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 1701, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding registration for voting. Sec. 2. Section 1705, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding registered persons only being Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Section 1. That section 1701 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, is hereby amended, by adding thereto the following words: "Unless he shall tender to the judges of election an affidavit, signed and sworn to by himself, and by two qualified voters of the precinct in which he offers to vote, showing him to be a qualified voter of such precinct at such election; but his vote may be challenged and he may be examined by such judges touching his qualifications as a voter, notwithstanding such affidavit, and in the event that such judges should determine that he is not a qualified voter at such election, they shall reject his vote, and enter his name, and the names of the persons he offers to vote for, in the manner provided in section 1668 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, for entering rejected votes." Sec. 2. That section 1706 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: 1 "Provided, that it shall be lawful for any qualified voter, whose name has been omitted from the registration list, to vote upon presenting to the election judges his affidavit supported by the affidavit of two voters, as provided in section 1701 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by this act." Sec. 3. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 65. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE ADMISSION OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR CORPORATIONS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW. A. C. B. No. 52; Approved March 14, 1903. Sec. 1. CONTENTS. Section 445, Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding the admission of foreign corporations and limitation of powers. Amended. Sec. 2. Section 446. Compiled Laws of 1897, regarding liability of foreign corporations on contracts and penalty. Amended. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That section 445 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 be amended to read as follows: "Every company or corporation incorporated under the laws of any foreign state or kingdom, or of any state or territory of the United States, beyond the limits of this territory, and now or hereafter doing business in this territory, shall file in the office of the secretary of this territory a copy of its charter of incorporation, or of its articles of incorporation, together with the law or laws under which it is incorporated, each duly certified and authenticated by the proper authority of such foreign state, kingdom or territory. Such company shall, also, before it is authorized or permitted to do business in this territory, make and file with the secretary of the territory a certificate signed by the president and secretary of such company, duly acknowledged, designating the principal place where the business of such company shall be carried on in this territory, and an authorized agent or agents residing at such principal place of business upon whom process may be served. A copy of such charter or articles of incorporation and certificate of place of business and agent, duly certified by the secretary of this territory, shall be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds in the county in which the principal place of business of such corporation shall be. Such corporations shall have the same powers and shall be subject to all the liabilities and duties as corporations of a like character organized under the general laws of this territory. But they shall have no other or greater powers, and no foreign or domestic corporation established or maintained in any way for pecuniary profit of its stockholders or members, shall purchase or hold real estate in this territory except as provided for in this act and the laws of the territory now existing, and no corporation doing business in this territory, incorporated under the laws of any other state, shall be permitted to mortgage, pledge or otherwise encumber its real or personal property, situated in this territory, to the injury or exclusion of any citizen, citizens or corporations of this territory who are creditors of such foreign corporation, and no mortgage by any foreign corporation except railroad and telegraph companies, given to secure any debt created in any other state, shall take effect as against any citizen or corporation of this territory until all its liabilities due to any person or corporation in this territory at the time of recording such mortgage have been paid and extinguished." Sec. 2. That section 446 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "And in addition such company or corporation shall be liable to forfeit and pay to the Territory of New Mexico, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each and every day in which it may carry on business or assume and hold itself out to carry on business in such territory without fully complying with all the provisions hereinbefore provided, such sum to be collected by the solicitor general; and until payment is made such company shall not be allowed to carry on business. Such money, when collected, shall be turned over to the treasurer of the territory, for the benefit of the general school fund." Sec. 3. 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 66. AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTY JAILS. C. B. No. 129; Approved March 14, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. County commissioners may make special tax levy to provide additional jail quarters. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. Whenever any county jail within the Territory of New Mexico shall contain more than thirty prisoners and in the judgment of the board of county commissioners additional quarters are required for the safekeeping of such prisoners, then such county commissioners shall be authorized to make a special levy upon the taxable property of such county, not exceeding three (3) mills on the dollar, the proceeds of which shall be used for the purpose of constructing such additional quarters for jail purposes so required. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 67. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 11 OF CHAPTER 90, LAWS OF 1901, RELATING TO TERRITORIAL BONDED INDEBTEDNESS, AND THE REDEMPTION THEREOF. A. C. B. No. 23; Approved March 14, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 11, chapter 90, Laws of 1901, regarding redeeming of outstanding indebtedness. Amended. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That section 11 of chapter 90, Session Laws of 1901, approved March 21, 1901, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 11. That at any time within three months prior to the time when any outstanding bond, bonds, or any portion thereof of this territory may become redeemable at the option of the territory by the terms of such bonds, it shall be lawful for the territory to issue refunding bonds to an amount equal to the bonds so becoming optionally due in the form and manner prescribed by chapter 58, sections 1 to 12, of the Session Laws of 1899, bearing four per cent. interest payable semi-annually, and the treasurer with the approval of the governor of the territory shall have authority to sell the same for cash at not less than par to the highest bidder after advertisement for a period of two months in some recognized financial publication in New York City or Chicago, and with the proceeds take up and pay off any outstanding bonds becoming optionally due, or any portion thereof that may bear more than four per cent. interest, which bonds so taken up shall be destroyed and a certificate of such destruction be made and recorded in the manner provided in section 5 of chapter 58, Session Laws of 1899. Such refunding bonds hereby authorized to be issued shall not in any event be con sidered as creating any new or additional indebtedness, And when any outstanding bond or bonds or any portion thereof of this territory are about to become absolutely due and payable, and there shall not be funds available in the treasury to redeem and take up the same at their maturity, then it shall in like manner be lawful for the territory to issue its bonds in an equal amount, and for the treasurer with the approval of the governor of the territory to sell and dispose of such refunding bonds to the highest bidder after advertisement for a period of two months in some recognized financial publication in New York City or Chicago, for cash at not less than par at any time within one year prior to the time of maturity of such outstanding bonds and with the proceeds of such sale to take up any such outstanding bonds, or any portion thereof at their maturity in the same manner and under the same regulations as hereinbefore provided for taking up bonds at their optional maturity; or the treasurer may purchase said outstanding bonds about to become due at a rate that will net the territory not less than three per cent. per annum, as he may deem most advantageous to the interests of the territory." Sec. 2. As there is an urgent necessity for this act, the same shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 68. AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 67 OF THE LAWS MENT AND TAXATION OF BUILDING AND SAVINGS AND LOAN CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 67, Laws of 1901, regarding manner of listing and assessing building and savings and loan associations, Amended. Sec. 2. Assessments or taxes levied since passage of chapter 67, Laws of 1901, declared abated. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. That section 1 of chapter 67 of the laws of the 34th Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, entitled "An Act regulating the assessment and taxation of building and savings and loan associations," approved March 20, 1901, be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the words "and neither the association or the shareholders |