Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-03-16

The ordinance regulating the irrigation
OF lands and the distribution of water
within the city limits, adopted by the
council last night, provides that there
shall be appointed by the mayor, the
council conserving, superintendent of
bitches or acequias who shall have the
management and control of all bitches or
acequlas within the limits of the city, and
the entire charge CT the distribution Of
water through such bitches or aceuuias
Tor irrigation or other purposes; he shall
be entitled to the same fees and perform
the same duties as precinct overseer of
bitches or aceQuias, but said fees shall be
collected from those who use the water or
are entitled to use the same for irrigation
of their lands.
IL shall be the duty OF such superintend-
ent to look after the repairs and excava-
lions OF all bitches or aceqnias within the
city limits, to apportion the persons or
number of laborers furnished by the pro-
prietors of irrigable lands and to regulate
them according to the quantity of their
land to be irrigated; to distribute and
apportion the water in the proportion TO
which each one is entitled according to
the land cultivated by him; to conduct
and carry on the said distribution of water
with justice and impartiahty and without
prejudice to the existing rights of those
living beyond the limits OF the city who
may be entitled to the use of water for
irrigation purposes to see that the water
currents run so as no injury may result to
the owners or lessees OF lands or tene-
ments or to the public highways, streets
and avenues of the city, and to perform
all other duties as may, from time to time,
be imposed upon him by the city council
or required of him by the mayor.
The pay and other perquisites of the
sald superintendent shall be adjusted and
determined by majority of the land
owners of the land irrigated, and shall in
no case exceed what may have been here
toloie paid precinct overseers of bitches
or acequias for similar services, and such
pay and peiqusites shall be collected as is
provided for by law or customary in the
collection of the fees of said overseers.
All persons interested in common
ditch or aceqnia whether they cultivate or
not, shall perform labor thereon in pro-
portion to the amount of land each shall
own; such labor may be performed in
person or by substitute, and shall be
furnished at the time and place and for
the number of days required by the su-
perintendent.
If any owner, leasers or proprietor of
land subject to irrigation by any ditch or
acequla shall neglect or refuse to labor
upon such ditch or acequa in person or
by substitute for the period required by
the superintendent after having been
duly notified by such superintendent, or
II any person shall in any manner OBJ
struct, interfere with or disturb any of
the bitches or acequias or use the water
from the same during the time OF cultiva-
ton without the consent of the said super
intendent, he shall upon conviction be
punished by fine of not LEES than s.
nor more than 500, or by imprisonment
IN the city prison for a period not exceed
ing thirty days. All bitches or acequlas
hereafter constructed or run across
any highway or street of the
city shall be erected under the
supervision and direction of the
city engineer and in such manner and of
such material as said city engineer may
deem suitable and proper. If the super
ntendent shall wifully neglect or refuse
to fulfill the duties required OF him by
this ordinance, or conduct himself with
improperly or injustice in his official
acts, or take any bride, money, property
or thing whatsoever as an inducement to
act partially or improperly, or in any other
manner sifully fail to perform the duties
of his office, he shall upon conviction, be
punished by fine of not less than $40
nor more than 500 or by Imprisonment in
the city prison for period not exceeding
sixty days, and be subject to suspension
by the mayor.
All territorial laws relative to bitches
and acequlas and not inconsistent with
this ordinance are hereby made applicable
to all bitches and acequias within the city
limits.