Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-15
THE NEW LAWS.
Limitation as to City Franchises TO
Regulate the Taxation of Sleep
ing Car Companies.

Among the new laws are the following;
CHAPTER XLVI1.
An act entitled an act to amend section
1865 of title 3s, chapter 2, of the Compiled
Laws of New Mexico, 1884.
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico.
Sec. BE it enacted that section 1865
of title 33, chapter 2, of the Laws of New
Mexico, 1884, be amended by adding
thereto the following words: "And no
action or suit shall be brought to call in
question any privilege or franchise
granted by any municipal corporation,
unless the same shall be brought within
six years after the same shall have been
granted or claimed to have been granted,
and any such privilege OF franchise here
tofore granted by any municipal corpor-
alton shall after six years from the date
of the granting of the same, or within six
years after the same shall have been
claimed to have been granted, shall be
deemed valid in all respects: Provided
however, that suits may be brought to
vacate or annul any such privilege or
franchise within six months after the
passage of this act"
Sec. 2-This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
Approved Feb. 23, 1898.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
An act to regulate the manner of taxing
sleeping car and other companies.
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico.
Section THAT no owner whether cor
porate or otherwise of palace cars, draw
ing room cars, or sleeping cars, except
ing railroad companies operating rail-
roads in this territory, shall have the right
to use or charge or collect fare or Com
pensation for the use of any car within
this territory after the first day of April,
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, until
such owner shall have paid to the terri-
torial treasury the tax and made the re-
port hereinafter required, and any viola
ton of this section shall constitute mis-
demeanor and be punished by fine of
one hundred dollars for each offense upon
conviction thereof.
Section 2.-Every such owner OF the
cars mentioned in section l, except such
companies as aforesaid, shall
make and return during the month of
March in each year to the territorial audi
tor true statement of the whole number
of cars operating in this territory, of the
counties through which such cars run,
and the number and kind of cars, and the
number of miles operated in each of said
counties, and of the gross earnings made
by the use Of such cars between points in
and upon business done, local to this ter
ritory, during the preceding year ending
on the first day of the said month of
March, which statement shall be verified
by such owner or by some officer or agent
having official knowledge of the facts, and
at the time of returning such statement
shall pay into the territorial treasury the
annual tax hereinafter prescribed.
Section 3.--Such owner shall pay two
dollars and fifty cents upon each one
hundred dollars of gross earnings report
ed as required by section 2 of this act, to
the territorial treasurer, on or before the
first day of April in each year, oue-half
of which shall be for the benefit of the
territorial treasury, to be apportioned
among the several funds thereof
and the other one-half shall be for the
benefit of the several counties through
which such cars may run and shall be dis
tributed among them and paid over to
the several county collectors thereof by
the territorial treasurer in the ratio which
the number of miles in any county over
which such cars may run shall bear to the
whole number of miles in this territory
over which such cars may run.
Section 4.-The report required by sec-
tion of this act shall be in such form
and shall embrace each detail as shall be
prescribed by the territoria! auditor.
Section 5.-This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pass
age.
Approved Feb. 20, 1898. a