Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-10
SHERIFFS--- ---COLLECTORS,
Timely Extracts from the New Law
Under Which These Offices
Are to be Separated,

AT the approaching election the new
law respecting the separation of the of
fees of sheriffs and collectors will go into
effect ir certain counties. The law on
this subject as passed by the last legisIa,
tive session reads as follows:
! SEC. For the purpose of regulating
the fees of the sheriffs' and collectors of.
fees and the pay of said officers, the
counties of this territory shall be divid-
ed into two classes; each county contain
ing by the census of 1890 seven thousand
or more inhabitants shall be county OF
the first class, and each county containing
less than seven thousand inhabitants shall
be county of the second class: Pro
vided, That from time to time when the
necessary they shall have census taken
of their respective counties for the pur-
pose of classifying the same under the
provisions of this act, and as new counties
are formed the provisions hereof shall
apply to each as if now in existence.
Sec. SIN counties Of the first class
the offices Of the sheriff and collector
shall be separate, and the same person
shall not hold both said offices at the
same time, and iL such counties col
lector shall be elected at the regular cleo
tion in November, 1894, or at the first
general election held after the passage of
this act, and biennially thereafter, as
other county officers are elected; and the
duties of said collector shall be as now
provided by law for the sheriff as ex-
oflicio collector, with the same penalties
for misfeasance or performance of
the same, and whose compensation and
pay shall be as hereinafter provided.
SEQ. 9.-In counties of the second class
the sheriff shall be ex of1iclo tax collector
his duties remaining as now provided by
law and his compensation and pay being
as hereinafter fixed.
SEC. 10.-The bonds of the sheriffs and
ex-of1icio collectors and collectors, shall
be in the sums and condition s as now
provided by law for ex-ot1icio collectors
and sheriffs.
SEC. 1.-THE collector in each county
property and poll-taxes (if any collected
by him two per centum, and upon all
license taxes SO collected three per centum,
and for all other collections the fees and
compensations now established by law
for such collections by the ex-officio col
lector; and the sheriff as ex-officio col
lector in each comfy of the second class
shall receive the same fees as allowed col
lectors herein for similar services.
SEQ. 12.-In counties of each class the
sheriffs shall receive, for taking and re-
turning every bond required by law, one
dollar; for committing any person to Jail,
in any case required by law, fifty cents;
for commissions for receiving and paying
moneys on executions when lands or
goods or chattels have been levied upon,
advertised and sold, three per cent, upon
the first five hundred dollars, and one and
a half per cent, upon all sums above five
hundred dollars, and one-half said com
mission when money has been paid with
out making Il levy or sale; mileage at the
rate of 8 cents per mile for each mile
actually and necessarily Travelled in serv-
ing every process or order or summons
beyond the county seat of his county,
and the same amount of mileage for
himself and each guard (actually neces-
sary) for each mile actually and neces-
sarily travelled in conducting a prisoner
or prisoners to the territorial peniten-
tiary, and one dollar per day for feeding
each of such prisoners while in transit.
For all other services and expenses, ex-
cept those mentioned herein, the sheriffs
shall receive the fees and compensations
now fixed by law for such services and
expenses.