Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-02-26
THE NEW BRAND LAW.


sanitary board bill "relative to brands
and for other purposes" 1t provides
that "every person, company or corpora
tion owning horses, mules, asses or neat
cattle which are allowed to range at large
in this territory without an enclosure and
to mingle with other stock of the same
kind, shall have and adopt a mark and
brand for such animals by which they
shall be marked and branded after such
brand shall have been recorded as re-
quired hereinafter" Under the pro-
visions of the act the cattle sanitary
board of New Mexico shall be and consti-
tute board for the registration of brands
on horses, mules, asses and neat cattle in
this territory. The cattle sanitary board
shall Immediately procure and open
suitable book, to be known as the terri
torlal brand book, in which shall be re-
corded the brands used for the branding
OF the animals above named. Brands
recorded in accordance with the require
ments of the act shall be considered as
the property of the person causing such
record to be made and shall be subject to
sale, assignment, transfer, devise and
descent the same as other personal prop
erty. 1t is, under the act, made the duty
of the county commissioners of the sew
eral counties, on or before July l, 1895,
to require the probate clerk and ex-officio
| recorder of their respective counties to
transcribe list of all recorded marks
and brands IN their respective counties,
setting opposite to each brand the marks
corresponding thereto, the name of the
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dence, the date of registration and If the
brand be sold the name of the party to
whom sold. The clerk shall be allowed
not exceeding $50 for making this tran
script, which when completed shall, on or
before July /, 1895, be transmitted to the
secretary of the cattle sanitary board, by
whom it shall be entered upon the terri
torial brand book, on or before August l,
1895. Any person, association or cor
poration desiring, after that date, to
adopt a brand for the animals above
named shall, before using the same, for
i ward to the secretary of the cattle sani
tary board facsimile of such brand,
together with fee of so cents. Such
facsimile shall be Immediately recorded,
unless it conflicts with some brand al
ready recorded, in which case the fac
smile and the fee shall be returned to the
party by whom forwarded.
/ 1t is made unlawful for probate clerks
in the future to record brands unless the
same shall first have been recorded in the
territorial brand book. The cattle sani-
tary board is required to publish not
later than Linety days after August !,
1895, the territorial brand book, copy
of which shall be sent to the probate
clerk of each county in whose Office it
shall be kept for public inspection. Ad-
ditions to this book shall be made every
three months by the probate clerk upon
statements furnished him by the score
tary of the cattle board. The board may
publish limited number of such books
for sale. No person, owning or claiming
shall, in originally marking or branding
horses, mules, asses or neat cattle, use or
keep up more than one brand, provided
that where animals are acquired by pur-
chase, the brands therefor may be &C.
quired with the animal, although the in
crease of such animals must bear the
original brand of the purchaser. Ample
provisions are made in the bill for the
disposition to be made of estrays and for
the transfer of brands. Persons who un-
lawfully mark or brand any unmarked
or unbranded horse, mule, ASS or neat
cattle shall be deemed guilty of larceny.
Persons engaged in the slaughter of cat
tie, who shall purchase and kill such ami
mails without taking bill of sale shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
shall upon conviction be fined between
$50 and 5000, one-half of the fine to 20
to the territorial cattle indemnity fund
and the rest to the county in which the
| conviction ia had