Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-06
CHAPTER LXIlI.

Chapter LAlAl
An ordinance regulating the irrigation
of lands and the distribution of water.
Be it ordained by the city council of
| the city of Santa Fe.
Section There shall be appointed by
| the mayor, with the consent of the coun-
Gil, superintendent of bitches or ace
| auias who shall have the management
and control of all bitches or acequias
within the limits of the city and the en-
tire charge of the distribution of the
water through such bitches or acequias
for irrigation or other purposes; he
shall be entitled to the same fees and
perform the same duties as precinct over
seers of bitches or aceq uias, but said fees
shall be collected from those who use the
water or are entitled to use the same
for the irrigation of their lands.
Sec. at shall be the duty of such
superintendent to look after the repairs
and excavations of all bitches or acequias
within the city limits, to apportion the
persons or number of laborers furnished
by the proprietors of irr1gable lands and
to regulate them according to the quanti-
ty of their land to be irrigated; to distri-
butte and apportion the water in the pro-
portion to which each one is entitled ac-
cording to the land cultivated by him; to
conduct and carry on the said distribu-
ton of water with justice and impartial
ity and without prejudice to the existing
rights of those living beyond the limits
of the city who may be entitled to the use
of water for irrigation purposes; to see
that the water currents run SO as no in
jury may result to the owners or lessees
of lands or tenements or to the public
highways, streets and avenues of the city,
and to perform all other duties which
may from time to time be imposed upon
him by the city council or required of
him by the mayor.
Sec. 3.-The pay and other per-
quisites of the said superintendent
shall be determined and adjusted by
majority of the owners of the land irri-
gated and shall in no case exceed what
may have been heretofore paid precinct
overseers of bitches or aceqnias for SINH
lar services, and such pay and perquisites
shall be collected as is provided by law
or customary in the collection of the fees
of said overseers.
Sec. ALI persons interested in a
common ditch or acequia, whether they
cultivate their land or not, shall perform
labor thereon in proportion to the land
each shall own; such labor may be per-
formed in person or by substitute, and
shall be furnished at the time ana place
and for the number of days required by
the superintendent.
Sec. off any owner, lessee or pro-
prietor of land bject to irrigation by
any ditch or acequia shall neglect or re-
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in person or by substitute, for the period
required by the superintendent, after
having been duly notified by such super
intendent, or if any person shall in any
manner obstruct, interfere with or dis
turb any of the bitches or acequ1as OF
use the waters from the same during the
time of cultivation without the consent
Of the said superintendent he shall, upon
Npnviotion, be punished by fine of not
less than five nor more than twenty dol
lars or by imprisonment in the city
prison for period of not exceeding
thirty days.
Sec. 6.-All bitches or acequias here
after constructed or run across any high
way or street of the city shall be erected
under the supervision and direction of
the city engineer or the committee on
streets and bridges, and in such manner
and of such material as said city engineer
or the committee on streets and bridges
may deem suitable and proper.
Sec. z. - If the superintendent shall
willfully neglect or refuse to fulfill the
duties required of him by this ordinance
or conduct himself with impropriety or
injustice in his official acts or take any
brlbe in money, property or thing what
soever as an inducement to act partially
OF improperly or in any manner will
fully fail to perform the duties of his
office he shall, upon conviction, be pun
lshed by a fine of not less than ten nor
more than fifty dollars or by imprison-
ment in the city prison for a period not
exceeding sixty days, and shall also be
subject to suspension by the mayor.
Sec. Sail territorial laws relative to
bitches and acequias and not inconsistent
with this ordinance are hereby made ap-
plicable to all bitches and acequias with
in the city limits.
| PEDRO DELaADo,
FRANK ANDREWS, Acting Mayor.
| Clerk.
Passed August s, 1895.