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

the hands of the treasurer of said
county when such treasurer ol
said county shall have been elected at said
| special election, to be held on the first
Tuesday of December, 1898, and shall
have qualified as prescribed by law for
county treasurers, and to be by him paid
out only upon the warrant or order of the
board of county commissioners of said
county, or in such manner as is provided
by the laws of this territory for the pay
ment of money by county treasurers from
public funds. And all said county officers
elected at said special election to be held
on the first Tuesday in December, 1898,
before entering upon the discharge of
their duties of their respective offices,
shall take the oath required by law and
enter into bond for the faithful dis
charge of their duties, as is required by
law of other like officers.
Sec. THE county commissioners of
said county Of Union, after they shall
nave been duly elected and qualified as
hereinbefore provided, for the purpose of
raising funds for the erection of suit
able court house and Jail buildings for
said county are hereby authorized and
empowered to issue bonds of said county,
not to exceed twenty thc1co id dollars
(S20,000), said bonds to run for the period
of and become due and payabl in twenty
years, from TIE date IT their issue, bus
payable at the option of said county at
any time after the expiration of ten years,
said bonds to be in the usual form, and
in sums of one thousand dollars each, or
any multiple thereof; and said bonds to
bear interest at the rate Of six per cent
per annum until paid, interest payable
semi-annually. And the board of county
commissioners of said county of Union
are required annually, when other taxes
are levied and collected, to levy and cause
to be collected upon all taxable property
of said county sum sufficient to pay said
interest and such portion of the principal
as shall be necessary to pay such bonds
at maturity, or sooner if it be elected SO
to do, as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. S-The county commissioners of
the counties from which the said county
of Union has been segregated and
organized on the first day of January
1891, shall ascertain the total indebted
ness of each of their said counties at that
date, less cash on hand to pay such in
debtedness and shall ascertain, as near as
may be done from the assessment rolls of
the year 1898, the value of all taxable
property embraced in the territory of
each of said counties before the organiza-
tion and formation of the said county of
Union. And ON the first day of January
1894, or as soon thereafter as practicable,
the said county commissioners of said
counties from which the said county of
Union has been segregated and organ
ized, together with the returning board
of the said county of Union hereinbefore
provided to be appointed, shall meet and
ascertain the proportion of the taxable
property of each Of said counties from
which the said county of Union has been
organized that has been taken from such
counties into the county of Union by the
organization of the said county of Union,
and the said county of Union shall pay
to each of said counties from which the
said county of Union has been organized
their proportion or pro rata share of the
Indebtedness of said counties on the first
day of January 1894, proportionate to
the amount of taxable property taken
from any or either of said counties as
aforesaid by the organization of the said
county of Union, less the value of any
moneys on hand in either of said coun- !
ties, to pay Indebtedness or the value OF
any permanent public improvement in
said counties oyer and above such per-
manent public Improvements taken into
the said county of Union, and for this
purpose the said county of Union may
issue bonds of the same character, inter-
est and denomination as provided in the |
preceding section of this act, for the pur-
pose of paying its share of the
foregoing pro rata Indebtedness.
The bonds authorized in this act
shall specify for what purpose or what
account they are issued, and shall only be
issued by the duly elected and duly quail
fed board of county commissioners of
said county of Union after they shall
have entered upon the discharge of their
duties of said office; provided, however,
that the county of Union shall not be re-
quired to pay to any or either of the
counties from which the said county of
Union has been segregated or organized,
any portion of any Indebtedness in
Cured by either of said counties for any
public Improvements which shall be
made in any or either of said counties,
after the passage of this act.
Sec. 9-Until the first day of June,
1894, the officers of the several counties
from which the county of Union has been
segregated and organized, Ehall exercise
the functions of their several offices over
such portion of the said county OF Union
heretofore composing part of their
roc ,aotiva pOnntias and rpcoivn tho m =,
and emoluments therefor, and until such
time be in no wise affected by this act
unless such duties and powers conflict
with the duties and powers by this act
expressly conferred upon the returning |
board of said county of Union herein
before provided, and all taxes, licenses,
fines, penalties and forfeitures, assessed |
or collected in said county of Union up
to and until the first day of January,
1894, shall be paid and belong to such |
county from which said county of Union |
has heen organized, the same as if said
county of Union had never been organ
lied.
Sec. 1O-For representation in the leg
isature of the territory of New Mexico,
the county of Union is hereby attached to
the counties of Colfax and Mora, and
with the said counties of Colfax and Mora
shall Jointly elect one member of the
territorial council, and each of the said
counties of Colfax, Mora and Union shall
elect one member of the territorial house
of representatives. ff7
Sec. 11-For judicial purposes the
county of Union shall hereafter be at !