Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-11
MONDAYS ELECTIONS.
Water Masters Must Have their Name
on Separate Tickets Import
ant Legal Opinion.
Size of the Ticket and How It may be
"Scratched'- Penalty for In.
fuencing Voters.


If the voters are not very careful there'll
be trouble growing out of next Mondays
election OF precinct Officers and mayor
domos or water masters.
The law stipulates that the tickets shall
be printed" not written or stamped. No
pastors or stickers can be used. In order
to scratch ticket the name shall be in
dictated by drawing line through it and
the name Of the preferred candidate writ
ten plainly on the margin. The tick
cts shall be of white paper only, and their
size shall be three inches wide and eight
inches in length.
Mayordomos or water masters whose
names appear on the ticket with precinct
officers can not be counted. They must
be voted for separately, only parties own
ing or renting irrigated lands voting, and
the justices of the peace will canvass the
vote for mayordomos as provided under
the old law. The tickets for mayordomos
can not be written, as formerly, but must
comply with the new law, being printed
on white paper" three inches wide and
eight inches in length.
OPINION BY THE SOLICITOR GENERAL.
In response to all inquiry by the gov
ernor with reference to the effect which
chapter l13, laws of 1889, has upon the
old law, relating to the mayordomos of
bitches, Solicitor General Bartlett to-day
rendered the following opinion.
First-The law of 1889 does not in any
manner affect the existing laws in regard
to acequias, or their management, or the
qualifications of electors, as provided in
sections "a and %, Compiled Laws OF
| 'S4. 1t only changes the time of the
election of these officers from the first
Monday in January OF each year, as pro-
vided in section "a, Compiled Laws, to
the second Monday in January.
Second - The only persons entitled
| to vote are "the owners or renters of
lands irrigated by said citches or ace
quias." Compiled Laws, section %.
Third-If any acequia lies in two or
more precincts the manner of election is
to be arranged by the justice of the peace
| for such precincts.
Fourth-If there are several separate
acequias in single precinct the justice OF
the peace of that precinct has the pow er
to regulate the number of mayordomos,
and also it is the duty of justices to can
vass the vote for mayordomos and issue
certificates of election to them. The
el hn I'D rn bx,co
rate ballots, not upon any ticket contain
ing any other candidates for any other
office. As the qualifications OF the elector
in this case are different from those vot'
ing for justices or constables, the manner
of canvassing and issuing certificates is
different. The mayordomo is not a
county or precinct officer, strictly speak
ing, but is sui generis. Chapter 1l3,
laws of 80, does not repeal any existing
laws IN regard to the qualifications of
voters, but on the contrary expressly
provides that the qualification of voters at
such elections shall be las provided by
law"
SOLICITING VOTERS.
Under the new law governing Monday
election it shall be unlawful for any per-
son, at or prior to any elections authori
by the laws of this territory, to influence
or attempt to influence any voter to vote
for or against any candidate for Office by
the offer of property, money or anything
of value. or by the offer of employment,
or Ivy any menace or threat to discharge
from employment, or by any threat of
violence to any such voter, or menace to
sue any such voter or any other person,
or any promise to refrain or abstain from
sueing such voter or any other person, or
to influence or attempt to influence any
voter to cast his vote in any particular
way by means of any bribe, reward or
promise of reward, or for any voter to
take or receive any bribe, compensation,
article or money, article or thing, as an in
ducement to vote for any person or to re-
frain from voting for any person, or to OBJ.
struct or interfere with or impede any
qualified voter from voting at any such
election, or to abruptly or violently or
any ballot or ticket for the purpose Of
changing the same or to examine the same,
or to interfere with the easy access of any
voter to the polls for the purpose of voting
at any such election, or TO mslead or de-
ceive any such voter by furnishing him
with a ticket or ballot under the pretense
that such ticket or ballot contains names
other than those printed or written there
on, or to deceive or defraud any voters by
falsely causing such voters to vote for q
person, thing or question other than such
voter desired or intended to vote.
Amy person violating any OF the provi-
sions of this section, shall, upon convic-
ton thereof, bt fore any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not
less than 500 nor more than 500, and
be imprisoned in the county jail not less
than three months nor more than six
months, at the discretion of the court
trying the same.
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