Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-26
RECORD OF BRANDS.
Notices of Deep Interest to Owners of
Stock in New Mexico Recently Is
sued by Territorial Cattle
Sanitary Board.

Messrs. W. J. Jack, president, and J. A.
La Rue, secretary of the territorial cattle
sanitary board, are zealously striving to
enforce the provisions of the brand law
passed by the last legislature in such a
way as to accomplish the wise and bene-
ficient ends aimed at by the trainers of
the act. But they are confronted with a
good many difficulties, and, in their
earnest efforts to overcome them, they
should not only have the active co-opera-
ton of their associates on the board, but
of every owner of stock in New Mexico.
For example, personal examination has
disclosed that very many of the brands
sent in from the different counties for
record in the territorial brand book, as
required by law, are not correctly repre-
scented, being shown on the transcripts
as placed on sides and parts of animals
different from those on which they are
placed as in actual use on the range, in
accuracies which are liable to cause need
less loss and litigation to owners OF range
cattle.
For sthe purpose of remedying this
trouble, growing out of the botched or
careless manner in which many county
clerks transmitted brands for transfer
from their records to the territorial rec
ords, by direction of the sanitary board,
Secretary La Rue has issued notice to all
cattle owners in the territory promptly to
| forward to him full and complete fac sim
lies of all their marks and brandsin actual
use, distinctly showing the side and part
where such marks and brands are placed
on the animal, that they may be easily
and clearly identified and reported to the
proper owners when found as strays or
being unlawfully handled.
Stock owners will consult their own in
terests by giving this circular their inn
mediate attention. Trouble of this nature
in the future is carefully guarded against
BY the law, which provides that "from and
after the lst day of August after the pas
sage of this act, it shall be unlawful for
any probate clerk and ex-officio recorder
in this territory to record any brand I'M
less the application to record the same is
accompanied with certificate from the
secretary of the cattle sanitary board to
the effect that said brand has been record
ed in the territorial brand book"
Secretary La Rue has also issued the
following important circular to all in
spectors:
Your attention is particularly called tc
sections 2, 16, II, 20. 81 and 20 of the act
approved February 81, 1895, relating tc
strays, mavericks and unrecordeo
brands.
The stealing of stock has grown to
such proportions in this territory that
either the thieves or the cattlemen must
20 out of business, and, in order that hon
est cattlemen may live, the law to which
your attention is called was passed and
its administration placed in the hands OF
the cattle sanitary board.
You are therefore first of all directed te
make known to the cattlemen of your
district that their brands must be record
ed in the territorial brand book; other
wise, under the law, their cattle are strayf
and must be treated as such.
At any public roundup you are to
take possession of all cattle found in
what are known as maverick or unclaimed
brands, and, if after thorough investi
cation they are found to be such and &C
branded for the purpose of fraud, you arr
directed to sell them to the highest bid
der, giving bill of sale for them as nov
provided for by law in the name of thu
cattle sanitary board, and seeing that the,