Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-06
THE NEW LAWS.
The Act Which Provides for the Es.
tablishment Of County Courts.
Among the new laws are the following
CHAPTER Xxx.

CHAPTER Xxx.
Section THAT in each county in
the territory Of New Mexico, hav-
ing a county seat containing a
population of 1000 or more, there
shall be and is hereby created a
county court. the Judge of which shall be
person learned in the law.
Sec. 2-That said court shall have
seal and shall be court of record, and
may, in the discretion of the Judge, have
a clerk whose compensation shall be
paid by the judge.
Sec. 3-Said court shall have exclusive
jurisdiction in all civil causes in the
county, except in cases of chancery,
where the matter in dispute, exclusive of
costs, exceeds the sum of one hundred
dollars and does not exceed the sum of
five hundred dollars.
Sec. 4. Said court shall have concur
rent jurisdiction with all justices of the
peace in said county in all civil suits
which are within the jurisdiction of such
justices as now established by law, and
within the limits of the precinct, town or
city where SAID court is located, shall also
have concurrent jurisdiction with JUS
tices of the peace in criminal cases.
Sec. S. Any party to any cause within
the jurisdiction of said county court, which
may be on the docket of the district court
in sail county at the time this act
goes into effect, upon application to said
district court may have SAID cause trans
ferred to said county court, upon pay
ment to the clerk of the district court of
e. Enl int ,f fho
record entries in such cause, and it shall
be the duty of the district clerk to transmit
fcrthwith tn said county court the said
trrnsci ut and all papers pertaining to
the casa. together with statement of all
costs which have accrued therein.
Sec. 6-The judge OF said county court
shall receive as his compensation the
same fees now allowed by law for the SER
vices of clerks of the district courts,
provided, however, that he shall receive
no compensation from the territorial
treasury or from any county except for
fees earned in civil cases to which the ter
ritory or county IS party. and for fees
earned in criminal cases in which the
same fees shall be allowed and paid as
are or may be allowed and paid to JUS
Sec. 7-Should either party to suit in
said court demand that the evidence be
preserved, stenographer may be en-
ployed by the court at the expense of
SAID party, who shall forthwith deposit
with the court sum of money sufficient
to pay the stenographer for his services
at the rate of five dollars per diem, and
such com pensation shall be taxed as costs
in the case. Such stenographer shall
take an oath faithfully and truly to record
and transcribe such evidence and the pro-
ceedings on the trial of the case; ana the
notes taken by him shall be filed
with the papers in the case.
transcripts of the notes SO
taken shall be furnished by the steno-
grapher to any party at charge not ex-
ceeding fifteen cents per folio of one hun
dred words.
Sec. SIN any case triable by jury,
upon the demand of any party, jury
may be summoned to try the case. The
qualifications of jurors shall be the same
as of jurors in the district courts, and
they shall be paid one dollar per day in
advance by the party demanding jury,
and shall be taxed as costs in the case.
They shall be summoned upon venires
issued by the court to the sheriff, ana
shall be examined and sworn in the case
as jurors are examined and sworn in the
district courts, and each side may have
three peremptory challenges. Only those
Jurors actually sworn to try the case shall
receive compensation unless they are
moned from a distance of more than
three miles from the court house.
q Sec. 9-Appeals may be taken to said
court from the judgments of justices Of
the peace in the county, in the same man
ner,s under the same rules and with the
same effect as such appeals are now taken
to the district courts, but any such appeal
shall be returnable twenty days after the
day upon which it Is taken. All statutes and
rules of practices relating to such ap-
peals to the district courts, are made ap-
plicable to appeals to the county court.
The appellate jurisdiction of the district
courts over courts of justices of the
peace is hereby abolished in each county
where q county court 10 established.