county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of March and September in each year; in San Juan county at the county seat of said county commencing on the third Monday in April and October in each year; in the County of Rio Arriba, at the county seat of said county commencing on the second Monday of May and November, in each year; in the County of Taos at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of June and December of each year.

In the second judicial district and in the County of Bernalillo at the county seat of said county, commencing on the third Monday of March and September of each year; in the County of Valencia at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of March and September in each year.

In the third judicial district and in the County of Dona Ana, at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of April and October in each year; in the County of Grant, at the county seat of said county, commencing on the first Monday of March and September in each year; in the County of Otero at the county seat of said county commencing on the first Monday of May and November in each year; in the County of Sierra at the county seat of said county commencing on the fourth Monday of May and November in each year.

In the fourth judicial district and in the County of San Miguel, at the county seat of said county commencing on the second Monday of May and November in each year, [;] in the County of Union at the county seat of said county commencing on the first Monday of March and September in each year; in the County of Colfax at the county seat of said county commencing on the third Monday of March and September in each year; in the County of Mora at the county seat of said county commencing on the third Monday of April and October in each year; in the County of Guadalupe at the county seat of said county commencing on the fourth Monday of June and December in each year.

In the fifth judicial district and in the County of Socorro, at the county seat of said county commencing on the fourth Monday of April and second Monday of November in each year; in the County of Eddy at the county seat of said county commencing on the fourth Monday of February and second Monday of September in each year; in the County of Chavez [Chaves] at the county seat of said county commencing on the second Monday in March and fourth Monday of September in each year; and in the County of Lincoln at the county seat of said county commencing on the first Monday of April and third Monday of October in each year.

SEC. 3. Every writ, summons, bond, recognizance, subpoena or other process whatever which has been issued or taken out from any district court for any district or county shall be returnable at the

times and places designated in section 2 of this act and shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been made returnable at the times and places mentioned in said section 2 of this act.

SEC. 4. Should any other counties be hereafter created and organized in this territory and no time fixed for holding terms of a district court therein, the judge of the district court of the district to which such county may be annexed shall fix the time of the commencement of a district court therein, which shall be held by him at the county seat thereof.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER V.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 11, OF CHAPTER LX OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1897 PASSED BY THE 32D LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. C. B. 38; Approved Februuary 4, 1899.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Mileage of sheriffs, service of papers. Proviso. Board of prisioners.

Be it enacted by the Thirty-third Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.

SECTION 1. That section 11 [10] of chapter LX of the laws of the Territory of New Mexico passed by the 32d Legislative Assembly, same bieng [being] an act entitled; "An Act to provide for the compensation of county officers and for other purposes;"

Approved March 13, 1897, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 11 (10). The sheriffs of the several counties of this territory shall be paid mileage at the rate of twelve and one-half (124) cents a mile, for the distance actually and necessarily traveled in serving any warrants, process, order, citation, summons, jury venire, or decree of any courts now provided by law; Provided, that in serving any jury venire mileage shall only be charged once to the farthest point actually traveled in serving such venire. For boarding prisoners confined in the county jail each sheriff shall be paid at the rate of fifty cents per day each.

SEC. 2. 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 VI.

AN ACT TO KEEP PUBLIC FUNDS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE TERRITORY. H. B. 22; Approved February 8, 1899.

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

SECTION 1. That any person holding an office under the laws of this territory, to whom is entrusted, by virtue of such office, the collection, safe keeping, receipt, disbursement, or transfer of any tax, revenue, fine, or other public money derived from any source whatsoever, who shall keep the same deposited outside of the boundaries of this territory, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50., nor more than $200., or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term of not less than one month, nor more than four months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying the cause. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

CHAPTER VII.

AN ACT IN REFERENCE TO OFFICES FOR TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. S. H. B. 11; Approved February 8, 1899.

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

SECTION 1. That as soon as the territorial capitol building is finished, and ready for occupation, the territorial officials who shall be provided with offices therein shall inmediately [immediately] occupy the same, and no rent shall be paid out of any fund of the territory for any office in use thereafter by such officers.

SEC. 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict or inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER VIII.

AN ACT TO PROTECT PERSONAL PROPERTY FROM LOSS BY ABANDONMENT. S. H. B. 29; Approved February 8, 1899.

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

SECTION 1. Any person or persons to whom live stock of another is entrusted by the owner or his agent for the herding, care, or

safe keeping of same, upon contract for a valuable consideration, shall neither leave or abandon the same without giving reasonable notice to the owner or his agent to enable him to supply the place of such person or persons, to whom any such property may have been entrusted, from which injury or damage may result to the owner by loss or impairment of the value of such property, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or inprisonment [imprisonment] not exceeding ninety days in the county jail, or by both such fine and inprisonment [imprisonment].

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER IX.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY FUNDS TO COMPLETE AND FURNISH THE TERRITORIAL CAPITOL AT SANTA FE, AND TO LAY OUT THE GROUNDS THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. C. B. 36; Approved February 8, 1899.

CONTENTS.

Sec. 1.
Sec. 2.

Bonds to rebuild capitol. Second series. Terms. Form. Expense.
Provides for interest.

Sec. 3. Must be approved by congress.

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

SECTION 1. That for the purpose of providing the funds to complete the territorial capitol now in course of erection at Santa Fe, to furnish the same and to lay out the grounds thereof, an issue of coupon bonds of the Territory of New Mexico is hereby authorized, to the amount of sixty thousand dollars, to be known as the "Capitol Rebuilding Bonds of the Territory of New Mexico, Second Series." Such bonds shall be in the usual form of coupon bonds, payable to bearer, and in the denomination of one thousand dollars each; shall be dated May 1st, 1899; shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually; [,] on the first days of May and November; principal and interest shall be payable at the National Bank of Commerce in the City of New York; such bonds shall be payable in thirty years from their date, with the right to the territory, to pay them at any time after twenty years from their date. Such bonds shall be signed by the governor and the territorial treasurer and countersigned by the auditor of public accounts, and the coupons may have the lithographed or engraved fac simile signature of the territorial treasurer, and the secretary of the territory

shall affix the great seal of the territory to the bonds, and the bonds shall be dully [duly] registered in the territorial bond registers in the offices of the auditor and treasurer by those officers. The bonds shall be dully [duly] advertised, and sold by the territorial treasurer to the highest and best bidder, for not less than thier [their] par value and the proceeds of such sale shall be turned in to the territorial treasury, and disbursed on the order of the capital rebuilding board, under such regulations as they may establish, which board is hereby, continued with all the powers and duties conferred upon it by sections 3473 to 3478 both inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1897. The neccessary [necessary] expenses of the printing, advertising and selling the bonds shall be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds.

SEC. 2. To provide for the semi-annual interest of the bonds authorized in section one, the auditor shall levy annually, at the time of levying other territorial taxes, beginnig with the year 1899, such tax on all the taxable property in the Territory of New Mexico, as may be neccessary [necessary to produce the amount of such interest; and for the payment of the interest accruing November 1st, 1899, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, payable out of the interest fund of the fiftieth fiscal year. To provide for the payment of the bonds, the auditor shall levy annually, beginning with the year 1918, such tax on all the taxable property in the Territory of New Mexico, as will be sufficient to pay all the bonds at or before their maturity, such levy to be made at the same time and in the same manner, as other territorial tax levies are made, and to be duly certified to the proper authorities charged with the levy of taxes in the several counties of the Territory of New Mexico, whose duty it shall be to see that levies are duly made, assessed and collected, "Provided, that upon default in payment of terrtorial taxes upon being tendered by any person holding such defaulted coupons to any county or territorial officer whose duty it shall be to receive and collect territorial taxes."

SEC. 3. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, but no action for the sale of the bonds authorized in section one, shall be taken, until this act has been duly authorized or approved by the Congress of the United States of America.