Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-14
$4,000
Disposition Of the Refunded Direct
Tax.
The Columbian Exposition and Per-
manent Territorial Institutions
Receive Portions.

An act and resolution authorizing the
governor to receive certain moneys from
the United States, accepting the terms Of
the act of congress appropriating the
same, and providing for the disposition
thereof:
Be it resolved and enacted by the legis.
lative assembly of the territory of New
Mexico
Section l. The governor of the terri
tory of Flew Mexico is hereby authorized
and empowered to receive from the secre.
tary of the treasury Of the United States
any and all moneys coming to the terri.
tory of New Mexico, under, and in pur-
suance of the act of congress hereinbefore
referred to, and that the same shall be
received and accepted by the territory of
New Mexico in full satisfaction of all
claims against the United States on ac-
count of the levy and collection of the
direct tax levied by the act of congress
approved August s, 1861.
Section 2. Said money when collected
to the amount of $4,000, is hereby set
aside and appropriated for the use OF the
| school of mines at Socorro, the insane
asylum at Las Vegas, for New Mexico s
exhibit at the Worlds Columbian exposi-
tion of 1898, the agricultural Experimental
station to be located in the county of San
Juan, and for the asylum for the deaf,
dumb and blind at Santa Fe, in the fol-
lowing proportions: TO the school of
mines, $l7,500; to the insane asylum,
$l7,500; to the Worlds Columbian ex-
position, $4,000; to the agricultural
experimental station in San J Juan county
$4,000; and to the asylum for the deaf,
dumb and blind $4,000: Provided, how
ever, that the amount hereby appropriated
for the school of mines, shall only be
used for the purpose of paying the in
debtedness already incurred by the ter
ritory in the erection Of the building of
said school of mines and provided fur
ther that the amounts hereby appro-
prated for the agricultural experimental
station, and the asylum for the deaf,
dumb and blind shall be expended in
manner hereinafter to be provided by
law, and any sum received by the gov
ernor in excess of $4,000, shall be paid
into the treasury of the territory, and
credited to the miscellaneous fund. .s
Sec. 3. The governor is hereby author
lied to apply the $l7,5o0 appropriated to
the New Mexico school of mines to the
payment and satisfaction of the existing
indebtedness of said school of mines, as
far as the same will go: Provided, That
he shall not take up or pay any of the
outstanding obligations unless the same
shall be first surrendered up for cancella-
tion at cost not to exceed the face value,
and accrued interest thereof at the time
of said payment and it is hereby made
the duty of the governor so soon as he
shall have received said money to notify
the holders of all Indebtedness against |
said school of mines of his willingness to
pay off and discharge the same, which |
notice shall BIZ either personal, by letter
or by publication in some newspaper
published in the territory, for period of
thirty days, and after the giving of said |
notice all such indebtedness shall cease to
bear INTEREST," and it is hereby made the
duty of the governor and the territorial
auditor to cancel and destroy all evidence
of indebtedness of the said school of
mines SO fast as the same shall be paid
off, and discharged, memorandum of
which shall be made in the books of the
such cancellation and description of the
obligation cancelled.
Sec. 4. The governor is hereby author
lied to pay to the treasury of the terri
tory the sum hereinafter appropriated
for the use of said New Mexico insane
asylum, to be by the territorial treasurer
credited to the fund for the support and
maintenance of said institution and by
him paid out as other moneys belonging
TO such fund.
Sec. 5. The money hereinbefore ap-
propriated for the use of the Worlds
Columbian exposition shall be turned
into the territorial treasury by the gov
ernor and credited to the account of the
Columbian exposition fund to be paid
out and disbursed for the use of the
Worlds Columbian exposition of 1898. in
the same manner as is now provided by
law for the disbursement of said exposl-
tion fund by an act of the legislative as
sembly of the territory of New Mexico,
entitled, ian act providing funds and
AldhluH ioi 1-o anu Ace
fiscal years, and for other purposes, az
proved Feb. 26, 1891"
Sec. 6. The territorial board of Worlds
Columbian exposition managers of New
Mexico shall expend the monies herein
set aside to the use of said exposition, in
collecting, transporting and exhi-
biting, at said exposition the
material wealth and resources
of said territory with special view
of displaying the great natural and un-
developed wealth thereof; said board shall
take charge of all material collected for
such exposition from the territory of New
Mexico, transport the same to the city of
Chicago, care for, manage and control the
same during the exposition, and at the
end thereof dispose of any material on
hand as to such board will appear to the
best interest of the territory, and shall
turn into the territorial treasury the pro-
ceeds arising from the sale of the material
sold, after first paying any indebtedness