Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-16

the territory to be embraced in the pro-
posed incorporated town or village, to the
board OF commissioners of the proper
county, which petition shall describe the
territory proposed to be embraced in such
incorporated town or village, and have
annexed thereto an accurate map or plat
thereof. l..
Sec. 2. The territory embraced in said
proposed incorporated town or village
shall not be less than one mile square nor
more than two miles square: Provided,
also, the population embraced in such
territory shall not be less than 500 people.
Sec. 3. When any such petition as
herein provided shall be presented to the
board OF commissioners, which must be
at regular meeting, the same shall be
filed in their office until the next regular
meeting, and then after due considera-
ton, if the commissioners are satisfied
with the validity of good faith OF said pc
tition and the signatures thereto, and
upon the deposit of 500 for incidental
expenses they shall cause the center of
said proposed territory to be located by
permanent stone monument and the
outer lines thereof by like stone monu-
ments, so as to be easily determined by
any one as to the limits Of said incorpor-
ated town or village, and they shall forth.
with issue an order, to be entered upon
their records, declaring said town or vii
lage to be an incorporated town or village
from that date, for purposes provided in
this act only.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be their duty forthwith to
call an election within said town or village
so incorporated, to be held not less than
thirty days from that date nor more than
sixty. The election proclamation of said
commissioners shall state the time, the
voting place, and the officers to be voted
for at said election.
Sec. s. The qualifications for electors
at said election shall he the same as those
provided in this territory for electors at
the general elections held in this terri
tory, and no registration shall be re-
quired; but judges of election, to be ap-
pointed by commissioners, may require
the sworn affidavit OF any one applying
to vote as to his qualification, and any
person swearing falsely shall be liable to
all the penalties under the statute of this
territory for perjury.
Sec. 6. At the election herein pro-
vided there shall be elected town mar
shal and board of trustees composed of
five members, which board shall be
known as the board of town or village
trustees.
Sec. 7. All towns and villages incor-
porated and organized under this act
shall have the general powers and privi-
leges and be subject to the rules and
restrictions granted and prescribed in the
succeeding sections of this act, and the
powers and authority here provided
shall be vested in, exercised and put in
force by the board of trustees herein
provided.
Sec. 8. They shall have power by or
dinance to prevent the injury or annoy
ance, within the limits of the incorpora-
ton, from anything dangerous, offensive,
or unhealthful or indecent, and cause any
nuisance to be abated; to regulate the
transportation and keeping of gun-powder
and other combustibles aud explosives,
and to provide for license magazines for
the same to prevent and punish fast or
immoderate riding or driving Of horses
through the streets; to establish and regu-
late markets; to provide for the measur-
ing or weighing of hay, coal, or any other
article; to prevent any riots, noise, or
disturbance, or disorderly assemblages,
to suppress and restrain disorderly houses
or houses Of i'll fame, and to protect gen
orally property of the corporation and
it's inhabitants and preserve peace and
order therein.
Sec. 9. They shall have power by or.
dinance to make regulations for the pur-
pose of guarding against danger from
accidents by fire, and on petition of the
owners of two thirds Of the grounds in
cluded within any square or block to
prohibit the erection thereon of any build
ing or any addition to any building unless
the outer walls thereof be made of brick
or other less combustible material, and
providing for the removal of any building
or buildings or additions erected contrary
to such provision.
Sec. 10. They have the power by Or
dinance to provide a supply of water by
the construction and regulation of wells,
pumps, reservoirs, bitches, and to pre-
vent the unnecessary waste and spread
ing or pollution of water within the cor.
porate limits, and by ordinance may
compel bitches to be so constructed and
cared for as to prevent the streets or high
ways from being flooded or injured there
by, and they may go beyond their cor
porate limits and prevent or punish any
pollution or fouling or injury to the stream
or source of water which is supplied to
said town.
Sec. II. They shall have power by
ordinance to restrict and regulate the run
ming at large of cattle, horses, swine,
sheep, burros, or other animals within
the limits of the town, and to authorize
the restraining, care, impounding and sale
of the same for the penalty incurred and
cost of proceeding, to prevent the run
ming at large of dogs and to authorize the
destruction of the same when at large
contrary to the provisions to that effect.
Sec. IL. They shall have power to
regulate or prohibit the sale of horses or
other domestic animals at auction in the
streets, alleys or highways, to regulate, all
carts, wagons, drays, coaches, omnibuses
and other description of carriages that
may be kept, and all houses of public en-
tertainment, and to regulate by additional
license the sale of intoxicating liquors,
subject to the provisions of the law re-
lating thereto.
Sec. 49, They shall have power to lay
off, open, widen, straighten, vacate, ex-
tend, establish, improve, keep in order,
renair and tn light streets, alloys, public