Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-14
OFFICIAL GRIST.
land Court Records Feature of the
New Law Volume-0ificial
Notes of the Day.

The following information of interest
to attorneys and litigants before the y. s.
court of private lands claims, is taken
from the report of o. s. Attorney Matt.
G. Reynolds to the department Of Justice:
Two hundred and sixty-nine cases have
been filed with the court in New Mexico
and nine cases in Arizona, making total
of 27S. OF these there have been tried,
Nos. /, 4, s, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10, II, -, 10, IA, l5,
16, IS, 81, 20, 26, 81, %, 81, At, 40; total
of 2S; of which 10 have been finally de-
ciGed; of them, Nos 4, II, Is and % have
been reported to the attorney general but
not acted on; and appeals were taken by
the claimants in Nos. II, rs and ~, and
by the United States in Nos. and AZ,
being in all. The surveyor general has
been ordered to survey the following;
Nos. 5, 7, 8, 8, 10, ID, Il, 10, Fl and %;
and others, Nos. 6, l6, 81 and 40, have
been tried and not yet decided.
The surveyor general has heretofore
acted on ninety-four OF the grants filed;
and fifty grants of the entire number fail
to give an estimate of the number OF
is situated in Colorado.
The New MEXICAN from day to day,
until completed, will publish docket Of
the cases on file beginning with No. l,
and it would be we'll for lawyers and
claimants to save the copies, as they are
likely to comprise the only docket OF land
court business.
NEW FEATURE.
The edition of the new laws of the ter
ritory contains register OF all the terri
torial officers with their titles and places
of residence, together with the names and
addresses of all the members of the last
legislature, and OF the members of the
various official boards and commissions
and faculties of educational institutions.
This will be of the greatest value to per-
sons having business with the territory
as at a glance the proper officer can be
ascertained to address on any business.
This is an addition to the book
prompted by the business sagacIty of
Sec. Alexander.
GOES TO THE COURTS.
The board of county commissioners OF
Grant county have ordered suit to be ON
menced against j. A. Lockhart, ex-sheriff,
and his bondsmen for a large amount OF
money which Lockhart collected, but re-
fused to turn over to the county treas
urer. The money collected was on ac-
count of taxes and it Is claimed that
part of the levy is illegal. Col. Lock
hart says he will hold the money until
the question is decided in the courts as to
whether he shall pay the money over to
the treasurer or return it to the tax pay
ers who paid it to him. The commits
sioners say that he has no right to hold
the money in either event.
San M1GUEL's sHR1EvALTY.
Mr.. A. B. Renehan returned this morn
ing from Las Vegas, where he has been
acting as official reporterin the contested
election case of Eugenio Romero and Lo-
renzo Lopez involving the sherlff's Office
of San Miguel county. Mr.. Renehan re-
ports that he has taken 2,l00 pages of
testimony, and that on the face of the
evidence Mr.. Romero claims to be 1000
votes ahead of his competitor.
OFFICIAL BITS.
The territorial supreme court opens
here in July.
The settlers along the Rayado are de-
handing better mail facilities between
Springer and other points.
The New MEXICAN Office can do work
rapidly. Sec. Alexander is distributing
the Session Laws of the last legislature
Albuquerque Citizen.
Supt. T. B. Mills telegraphs Governor
Prince to-day that it has been decided to
hold meeting of the Worlds fair COM
missioners in Santa Fe on Monday next.
The solicitor general, at the request of.
the governor, and in order to establish Il
principle relative to the duties of the
auditor IN certain cases, is preparing to
appeal the injunction case of p. j.
Barber against Auditor Perez to the ter
ritorial supreme court.
The board of regents of the agricultural
college and agricultural experiment
station is booked to meet at Las Cruces
tomorrow and determine upon the loca-
tion of the new experiment station to be
established somewhere on the line of the
A., L. d S. F. between Las Vegas and
Ration. Maxwell City will probably be
the point selected.
Prof. Hiram Hadley, chairman of the
New Mexican educational exhibit, writes
to the board of education of Albuquerq ne,
asking for 1000 words write-up of the
city schools and a donation of $50 to pay
for printing 10000 copies OF pamphlet
concerning the schools of the territory
for dist ributiun at the Wsrld's fair