such license shall be for the period of one year, unless sooner revoked by said Commission. Whenever said Commission is satisfied that such corporation, partnership or person has entered into any combination to purchase such commodities from any corporation, partnership or person not authorized to do business in said Territory, for the purpose of bringing them into the Territory and disposing of them in violation of section 1293 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, and is thereby monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the trade or commerce of any part of the Territory in said commodities, it shall forthwith revoke the license of any such licensee.

SEC. 4. No corporation co-partnership or person shall sell or dispose of, or offer to sell or dispose of, any of said commodities mentioned in section two of this act, produced or refined in this Territory or elsewhere, until a license has been procured in the manner provided for in the preceding sections, and it shall be the duty of the said Commission, whenever it is satisfied that the licensee to whom such license has been granted has entered into any combination with the producer, refiner or dealer from whom such commodity has been purchased, in violation of Section 1293 to forthwith revoke such license.

SEC. 5. All corporations co-partnerships or persons who purchase and sell more than three thousand dollars in value of such commodites per annum, estimated at the market price therefor, shall be deemed wholesale dealers, and all others shall be deemed retail dealers. Said Commission shall charge for a wholesale license the sum of twenty-five dollars, and for retail license the sum of one dollar. The corporations mentioned in sections two and three of this act shall be deemed producers and refiners, and any corporation whether actually engaged in producing and refining said commodities or engaged in the distribution of said commodities as the agent under any contract or arrangement with the actual producer and refiner thereof, shall nevertheless be deemed such producer or refiner.

SEC. 6. Any corporation, co-partnership or person engaged in the business of buying and selling any of said commodities, either as wholesale or retail dealers, as defined in the preceding section, who shall sell or offer to sell any of said commodities without having first obtained the license authorizing such sale, or who shall sell or offer to sell the same after such license authorizing such sale has been revoked, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of not less than one hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, and in the case of a natural person, by such fine or not more than one year's imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 7. Every person, corporation or firm entering into any contract or agreement to purchase, sell or dispose of any of said

products from any corporation whose license has been revoked, or to whom license has not been issued, shall be considered the agent of such corporation from whom such products are purchased or agreed to be purchased, and for whom the same are to be sold, and shall, upon conviction of purchasing, selling or disposing of the same, when such corporation is not authorized to do business in the Territory of New Mexico, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as provided for in section two of this act.

SEC. 8. The said Commission shall have power to inquire into. the cost of production and transportation of the products above mentioned, and from time to time shall fix the minimum and maximum prices at which the same may be sold in the Territory; and whenever it shall appear that any corporation, its agents or employes are selling such products at less than the minimum price fixed therefor, or for more than the maximum price fixed therefor, such fact shall be deemed evidence of the violation of section 1293 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, for the purpose of the revocation of any license which may have been granted, and it shall be the duty of the said Commission, upon ascertaining such fact, to revoke the license of said corporation.

SEC. 9. It shall [be] the duty of the Solicitor General of the Territory upon the request of said Commission, whenever, any corporation co-partnership or person persists in doing business in said Territory in violation of this act, to proceed by injunction to prevent them from so doing, and it shall be the duty of the Court to whom such application is made, having jurisdiction thereof, whenever it appears that business is so being unlawfully done, to grant such injunction.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER LI.

"AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME AND FISH IN THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO." S. C. B. 2; Approved March 15, 1899.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Limits the killing of certain game in the northern conuties, and in the southern counties, with proviso.

Sec. 2. Prohibition, upon petition of fifty voters, enforced by the county commissioners.

Sec. 3.

An owner or lessee of lands enclosed, upon giving notice it shall be unlawful to trespass upon said premises. Violation a misdemeanor.

Sec. 4. Violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed misdemeanor.

Penalty.

Sec. 5. This act shall apply to Indians on or off the reservation.

Sec. 6. Upon petition of twenty-five voters county commissioners may suspend the restriction as to killing quail.

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

SECTION 1. That after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to kill, wound, snare or trap any quail, grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, partridge or wild turkey, or to kill, wound or in any way destroy any antelope, dear [deer], elk or mountain sheep, except that said birds or animals, the animals being with horns, may be killed with a gun during the months of September, October and November of each year in the Counties of Rio Arriba, San Juan, Taos, Colfax, Union, San Miguel, Guadalupe and Santa Fe, and during the months of October, November and December in all the other counties of the Territory; and, Provided, that no person shall kill or have in his possession more than one antelope, elk, mountain sheep or deer at any one time.

SEC. 2: Whenever in any county of this territory a petition shall be signed by fifty qualified voters thereof and presented to the board of county commissioners of such counties praying for the prohibition of the killing, destroying or snaring of any deer, antelope, turkey or other wild game or game birds in said county or any part thereof, when such petitioners reside particularly described in said petition, or for the prohibition of the catching of fish by line or in any other manner in said county, or in any particular stream, pond, lake or reservoir or portion thereof particularly described in such petition, in the neighborhood where such petitioners reside it shall be the duty of such board of county commissioners to publish notice of the prohibition under this act against the killing, destroying or snaring of such birds or game described in such petition in said county or portion thereof, particularly described in such petition, or the catching or killing of any fish in said county or in any particular stream, pond lake or reservoir or portion thereof described in said petition, which said notice in both Spanish and English shall be published in four consecutive publications in some weekly newspaper in general circulation published in said county, and from the date of the completion of such publication and for a period of two years thereafter, it shall be unlawful in said counties to kill any game or game birds mentioned in said petition in said county or in any part thereof described in said publication, or to catch or kill any fish so described in said county or such stream, pond lake or reservoir thereof so particularly described in said petition and publication.

SEC. 3: Whenever the owner or lessee of lands within any enclosure or pasture in this territory shall desire to protect or propagate any game birds or animals or any fish in any stream in said

enclosure, he may publish notices of such fact in both English and Spanish warning all persons not to hunt or fish in such enclosure or pasture, or water described which notice shall be by handbills posted in at least three conspicuous places on said premises, and by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in said county, which notices so posted and published shall be for the period of three weeks or three consecutive publications of the paper in which the same may be published. After the publication of such notice, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to trespass on said premises for the purpose of hunting or fishing, "and any violation of the provisions of this section shall be and constitute a misdemeanor [misdemeanor]." (And the presence of any person on such premises with dogs or guns, or line or either, or other implements of hunting or fishing, shall be presumptive evidence for the purpose of trespassing.)

ter.

Memorandum.-For the above inserted in parenthesis see note at end of this chapSEC. 4: The violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and any person convicted thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than $25.00 or more than $100.00 for such offense and upon default in payment thereof shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than ten days or more than sixty days.

SEC. 5: The provisions of this act shall apply to all indians on or off the reservations or coming to this territory from adjoining states or territories, and it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Territory to make certified copies of this act within ten davs after the passage thereof and send the same by registered mail to each and every indian agent in the Territory of New Mexico.

SEC. 6: Upon the presentation to the board of county commissioners of any county of the petition of twenty-five resident householders of any precinct in such county praying for the suspension of the restrictions of Section 1, of this act as to the killing of quail in said precinct, it shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners before which such petition is presented, to make and enter in the official record of the proceedings of such board of county commissioners an order extending the time within which quail may be killed, snared or trapped, in said precinct for a period of two months from and after the time limited in the exception created in said Section 1.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

NOTE. The erasure of lines (two and a half) at end of section 3, was made by J. A. Ancheta, chairman enrolled and engrossed bill before approval, in my presence (Signed) MIGUEL A. OTERO, Governor of New Mexico.

CHAPTER LII.

AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT TAXES. C. B. 128; Approved March 16, 1899.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Accrued penalties and interest "upon taxes delinquent," shall be remitted when paid on or before July 1st, 1899.

Sec. 2. Delinquent taxes 1896 and 1897 distributed as follows: One half to general county fund and one half to general school fund.

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

SECTION 1. That all accrued penalties and interest upon taxes now or heretofore in this year delinquent, shall be remitted upon all such taxes which have been or shall be paid on or before the first day of July, A. D. 1899. Provided, however, that in all cases where taxes are now the subject of litigation the time for such payment as aforesaid is extended only to the first day of July, 1899, and if not paid on or before such first day of July no abatement of interest or penalties shall thereafter be made.

SEC. 2. That all delinquent taxes for the years 1896, and 1897 be distributed as follows: One-half thereof to be paid into the General County Fund, and one-half thereof to be paid into the General School Fund of the respective counties in which they are collected.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict h[e] rewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER LIII.

AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE SHIPMENT OF CATTLE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE INSPECTION OF THE SAME, AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 211 AND 221 OF THE COMPILED LAWS OF NEW MEXICO OF 1897. C. S. H. S. C. B. 45; Approved March 16, 1899.

Sec. 1.

CONTENTS.

Uulawful to ship cattle to points within or without the territory unless first inspected and a certificate thereof issued and delivered to carrier.

Sec. 2. Fee for inspection a lien. Inspector shall keep a record and file copy thereof with Cattle Sanitary Board.

Sec. 3. Violation of the provisions of this act shall be a misdemeanor. Penalty.

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

SECTION 1: That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to offer, and for any railroad company or other