Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-02
LEGISLATIVE AFTERMATH,
The Work Done by the 31st Legisla
tive AsSembly-A Large Number
Of Bills and Resolutions
We're introduced.
But Two thirds Of Them Failed to Get
Through-Liberal Appropriations
Election Laws-Some Gen
eral Legislation.

The legislative assembly which hal
jast adjourned had before it for consider
alton $50 house bills, 118 council bills
sixteen joint resolutions, about twenty
resolutions in each house, half dozer
memorials - and speeches innumerable
OF these measures, about sixty bills
passed the two hous es, although quite {
number of them failed to reach the gov
ernor in time, while perhaps score Of
joint resolutions and memo rails ran the
gauntlet of the two branches of the as
sembly. Very few general laws have beer
enacted and outside of the appropriation
bills and one or two other measures the
session was from the standpoint of law
making quite unproductive.
THE COUNTY OFFICERS
came IN for good big slice of attention
from the law makers, the territorial lnsti
tutions were literally provided for and
the governors appointments were almost
all confirmed. Beyond the foregoing the
amount of result from the work of the as
sembly is not calculated to fill volumes.
Among what may be called genera
laws are the following:
An act providing that ATTORNEYS may
be admitted to practice without having
attained citizenship, provided only that
they shall have resided in the territory
for two years, during which time they
shall have declared their intention OF
citizenship.
An act relating to the introduction Of
diseased cattle into New Mexico SO as tc
give
THE CATTLE SANITARY BOARD
jurisdiction over cattle afflicted with
tuberculosis and other diseases.
An act establishing wenther and crop
service for the collection and dissemina.
ton of crop statistics and chronological
data.
This bill carries an annual appropria-
tion of $500 and the bureau by it estab-
lished is to be under the charge of the
United States weather bureau director at
Santa Fe.
An act prohibiting the sale or giving
to minors under Is years, by any dealer
in liquor, tobacco or merchandise or any
barkeeper, bartender or any owner OF
any saloon, of cigars, cigarettes, cheroots
or tobacco in any other form.
A bill changing the tests and fees for
OIL INSPECTION.
A bill repeating certain sections of the
Compiled Laws SO that a married woman
is not now compelled to live with her
husband irrespective of his treatment OF
her.
bill making the bond required of tax
collectors and ex-officio collectors only
100 per cent of amounts of collections
instead of twice the amount of collections
as heretofore.
An act repeating the law giving JUS
tices of the peace jurisdiction in
HABEAs CORPUS CASES.
An act allowing sheriffs for the feed Of
prisoners 60 cents per day each for the
first ten and so cents per day each there.
after.
A bill for the protection of game, in.
PRODUCED by Mr. GALES. That gentleman
introduced more stringent bill on the
subject to supplement the one which had
passed but it failed to pull through.
A bill regulating cattle brands and
preventing conflict in the same. A full
outline of this measure appeared in the
NEW MEXICAN day or two ago.
An act allowing the funding of
aCuOor WA IN ANra
This law allows parties who have OBJ
tanned decree on warrants to receive at
their option per cent bonds running
ten years, in satisfaction of their judg-
ments. Appropriate provision is made
for the levy of tax sufficient to meet
principal and interest on such bonds.
A bill providing for the calling to-
gether of the supreme court to consider
questions of law raised by joint lagisla-
tive resolution. This bill while osten-
sibly general law was passed to meet
the emergency raised by the Inability to
the legislature.
bill regulating the practice of medi-
cine, establishing board of health and
making much more stringent the law
governing the medical profession.
bill providing for the appointment
of sheep inspectors and the prevention
of scab and other diseases in sheep. Rep
resentative Clancy, one of the leading
sheep men of the territory, has been
quoted as saying that this law will en-
nance 25 per cent the value of the sheep
in New Mexico.
An act for the publication of reports
of decisions of the New Mexico supreme
court.
An act
REGULATING THE PAY
of tax assessors and collectors and allow.
ing each per cent of all taxes and Ii
censes collected.
An act regulating community bitches
and acequas. "A full outline of this very
law will appear in Monday
New MEXICAN.
An act fixing in detail the fees to be
by sheriffs.
An act for the repayment of the several
sheriffs and ex-officio collectors of the
several counties of New Mexico of money
by them paid into the territorial treas
ury. This, while general law, was
passed solely for the relief Of ex-Sherift
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