Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-16

by the legal and qualified voters c
said county, and that thereafter the sal
county officers of the said county of Unio
shall be voted for and elected by the Il
gal and qualified voters of said county a
the general elections held in this terri
tory for the election Of county off
GERS, and the several officers fo
the said county of Union electe
at the special election to be hel
on the first Monday IN December 1S9;
shall qnalify before, and enter upon tn
discharge of their duties on the first da
of January, A. D. 1891, and until that da
the territory embraced in the said count
| of Union shall be and remain in the re
Spective counties of said territory from
| which the same has been taken to Great
the said county of Union.
Sec. 1.-The governor of the territor,
of New Mexico SHALL within six month
! after the passage of this act, appoin
three capable and qualified persons, le
| gal voters within the county of Union, a
a returning board, whose duty shall b
| the same as county commissioners il
regard to appointment of boards of reg
istration and election in the several pre-
cincts of the said count y, Union, m,
whose duty it shall be to call and Civ
notice OF & holdag of tho said specia
election to 'fpe held in the said county o
Union on the first Tuesday in Decembe
1898. and which said notice shall be givel
! in the same manner and for the sam,
period of time prior to holding the sale
| special election as now provided by Law
to be given by county commissioners o
the several counties of this territory fol
the holding of general elections, ano the
said members Of the said returning boar(
before entering upon the discharge O
the duties imposed upon them, shall take
| the oath of office before some Officer
, qualified to administer 0aths, as provided
| tor county commissioners, and shall be
subject to the same penalties for neglect
or failure to discharge their several du
ties as is provided by law in the case OF
| county commissioners when acting in the
same capacity, and SAID returning board
when so appointed and qualified as here
| in provided, shall have the same power
and authority as to the receiving, canvas
sing and certifying of the returns of said
special election to be held on the first
county officers of said county as is now
! conferred upon county commissioners OF
the several counties of this territory by
law, and the members of said returning
board shall serve in such capacity with
out compensation for their services.
Sec. 5--The returning board for the
said county of Union herein provided for
To tba
duties therein provided, shall as soon
after their said appointment and
qualifications as practicable, meet and
choose one Of their members as president
and another as secretary OF said board,
and after said board shall have SO duly
organized, they are hereby empowered
and authorized in the name of the said
county of Union to procure proper and
suitable books of records for the said
county oi Unlon and to employ compe-
tent and suitable person, or to contract
with some suitable or competent person
to transcribe in said books of record any
and all necessary conyeyances, mortgages,
liens, membranes or contracts affecting
the title to any real or personal property,
within the said county of Union, from the
records of the county recorders of the
counties from which the said county of
Union has been segregated or organized,
and such transcript or such records shall
be certified to under oath of the party
transcribing the same, and such records
when so transcribed and certified to shall
become aud be the records of the sad
county of Union affecting said property,
and shall have the same force and effect
and be as binding and receivable as evid-
ence in the courts of this territory, the
same as if the said certified copies OF rec
ords were original records; Provided,
however, That in transfers pertaining
to real estate, none but the last
transfer or record shall be copied
or transcribed in said books, and no
mortgage, lien, or other incumbrance or
writing IN the records of any OF the coun-
ties from which the said county of Union
is organized, which shall have become
satisfied, paid Off, discharged or released,
either by payment of limitation, shall be
copied or transcribed in such record books
of the said county of Union; and any con-
tract or agreement made and entered into
by said board in the name of said county
of Union for the purchase Of said record
books, and making the transcripts there
in. shall be legal and binding obligation
against the said county Of Union and to
be allowed and paid by the board of coun-
ty commissioners OF said county of Union
which said commissioners shall have
been elected and qualified in the same
manner as other claims and demands
against the said county OF Union shall be
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