Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-29

| throughout the territory for the next
| year and shall likewise meet on the first
Monday in August of each year to ex-
anime into the assessments made by the
various county assessors of property for
the current year and determine all APP
peals from the county assessors and COM
missioners.
| Sec. BIN fixing the value of live
stock the board of equalization shall take
:nto consideration the location of such
live stock and tho grade, and value it ac-
cording to the value, distance from the
market, freight rate and shipping faclli-
| ties.
Sec. 1.-The compensation for such
board of equalization shall be S. per day
! for actual time not to exceed eight days
in each year.
| Sec. 5--Tbis' act shall be in force from
and after its passage, and all acts in con-
flict with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved Feb. %, 1898.
CHAPTER XLVI.
An act to establish the Office of oil in
spector and to require safety test for
Illuminating oil.
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico:
Sec. Amy person or persons, firm,
company or corporation or any agent of
any person or persons, firm, company or
corporation who shall from and after
sixty days after the passage of this act
transport or bring into this territory for
sale and use or who shall keep for sale
and use, or who shall sell or offer for
sale any Illuminating oil, such as com
ID only known as coal or kerosene oil and
used by the public generally for the pur-
pose of illumination either at Wholesale
or retail, that is less than what is known
as one hundred and fifty degrees fire test,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof in any court of
competent jurisdiction in this territory
shall be fined in any sum not less than
fifty dollars or more than two hundred
dollars, or imprisonment in tho county
jail for not less than thirty days or more
than ninety days or both such fine and
imprisonment at the discretion OF the
court trying said cause.
Sec. 2---Aly person or persons, firm,
company or corporation, or any agent of
any person or persons, firm, company or
corporation, who shall sell or offer for
sale at retail any Illuminating oil COM
monty known as coal or kerosene oil, to
be used for Illuminating pur-
poses, in any public building or
place of business, or by any
.nri-ate family that shall be below one
Ns,Nred aud fifty degrees fire test, shall
upon conviction thereof, in any court Gf-
competent jurisdiction in this territory
be subject to the fines and penalties i'm
posed by section l, of this act.
Sec. 3-There shall be appointed by the
governor of this territory, by and with
the advice and consent of the council of
the legislature, competent person to the
Office of oil inspector for the territory of
New Mexico, who shall hold his office for
the term of two years from the first day
of May, 1898, and until his successor shall
duty it shall be to inspect all oils COM
menly known as coal and kerosene oil
that may be kept for sale or offered for
sale and used for the purpose of illumi
nation, by any person or persons, firm,
firms, company or corporation, and to
plainly and distinctly mark, stamp or
brand upon the package or PACKAGES in
which said oil may be contained, for sale
or offered for sale, the degrees of fire test
of the oil therein contained, SO offered for
sale: Provided, that any retail dealer may
be allowed to draw off from said original
package or packages, for the purpose of
convenience in retailing the same and
place said oil in tank, to be kept for
the purpose of retailing therefrom any
oil aforesaid, upon which the inspection
mark, brand or stamp may have been at
tached.
Sec. 4-The oil inspector shall give
bond to the territory of New Mexico in
the penal sum of ten thousand dollars con-
ditioned for the faithful performance of
his duties. He shall have power tn ap-
point one or more deputy inspectors for
whose conduct and efficiency he shall be
held responsible upon his official bond
for any failure or neglect in the perform
ance of their duties as such deputy in
spector
Sec. 5-The inspector or deputy in
spector is entitled to demand and receive
from the owner of any oils inspected,
forty (40) cents for single barrel, thirty
(3O) cents per barrel for lots of from 2 to
barrels, twenty (2O) cents per barrel for
lots of from to 25 barrels; fifteen (15)
cents per barrel for lots of from 26 to so
barrels, and ten (lO) cents per barrel for
lots of over fifty barrelsj and when such
oil is contained in storage tanks or pack
ages, other than barrels, IS gallons shall
be considered and counted as one barrel
in the settlement of the inspectors
fee..
1t shall be the duty Of the inspector and
each deputy inspector to keep an accurate
record of all oils tested and branded by
him, which record shall state the date of
inspection, the number of packages,