Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-11-04
The JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
The supreme Court justices in Confer
enCe and the Result-Lucky
SOcorrO.

Judge Z. 7. Seeds returned from Las
Vegas last night, bringing a copy OF an
order made in conference yesterday with
his associates on the bench. This order
is self-explanatory and is as follows:
In accordance with an act OF congress
entitled ian act to provide for an ad-
ditional associate justice of the supreme
court OF the territory of New Mexico"
passed at the first session of the 5lst con-
gress directing the undersigned chief JUS
tice and associate justices of the supreme
court to redistrict said territory into five
judicial districts and to make such assign
ments of the judges provided for in the
first section of said act as shall in their
judgment be meet and proper; we, the
chief justice and associates of the supreme
court, assembled at the chambers of the
chief Justice in the court house, at the
county of San Miguel, in said territory,
do hereby order that said territory be di-
vided into FIVE judicial districts as follows
First-The counties Of Santa Fe, San
Juan, Rio Arriba and Taos shall const-
tute the first judicial district.
Second-The counties OF Valencia and
Bernalillo shall constitute the second ju-
dicial district.
Third-The counties of Grant. Sierra
and Dona Ana shall constitute the third
judicial district.
Fourth-The counties of San Miguel,
Mora and Colfax shall constitute the
fourth judicial district.
Fifth-The counties of SoCorro, Lin
coin, Chaves and Eddy, when organized,
shall constitute the fifth judicial district.
1t is further ordered that the chief JUS
tice and associate justices are assigned to
the judicial districts as follows:
To the first judicial district, Mr.. Asso-
ciate Justice Seeds.
To the second judicial district, Mr.. AS
sociate Justice Lee.
To the third judicial district, Mr.. Asso-
ciate Justice McFie.
To the fourth judicial district, Mr.. Chief
Justice O'Brien.
To the fifth judicial district, Mr.. Asso-
ciate Justice Freeman.
That the times and places of holding
courts IN the first, second, third and
fourth judicial districts shall remain as
now established.
1t is further ordered that the town OF
Socorro, in said county of Socorro, be and
the same is hereby established as the
| judicial seat Of said 9Th judicial district
and that term of the district court for
said 9TH district be held at said town Of
Socorro on the second Monday of October
of each year.
1t is further ordered that the respective
clerks of the district courts for the I'd and
| 81 Judicial districts transfer and deliver
| to the clerk of the district court for said
5th district all records, papers, books and
other things in their official custody be-
longing or appertaining to each and all Of
| said counties comprising said 9th judicial
district on his giving proper receipt
therefor.
The foregoing orders shall take effect
and be in force from and after the 10th
day of November, 1890.
1t is further ordered that the clerk OF
the supreme court of said territory enter
the foregoing on the records OF his court
and transmit certified copy thereof to
the clerk of each Of said five judicial dis
tricts.
Witness our hands this Sd day OF No
vember, A. D. 1890.
Signed JAMES O'BRIEN,
Chief Justice.
w. D. LEE,
JOHN r. McFIE,
A. A. FREEMAN,
EDWARD p. SEEDS,
Associate Justices.