Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-21
county treasurer at the expiration of
each month, as salary fund for county

county treasurer at the expiration @
each month, as salary fund for count
! officers.
Section 10 requires the sheriff of eac
county to render quarterly account t
| the county commissioners of all service
rendered and fees collected, upon whic
the pensation of said sheriff shall b
based.
Section II provides that no other fee
or compensation shall be allowed an
sheriff than those provided for in thi
act and that his duties shall remain a
heretofore; section IL allows each sheri
to charge 80 cents per day for feedin
prisoners, aud no more, except in trans
porting prisoners to and from the count
! jail, when he may be allowed actual ex
J penses; section l3 provides that no com
pensation shall be allowed for guards il
transporting prisoners except npon tn
certificate of the district judge that sucl
guard was necessary.
Section IA provides that e1-officio col
lectors of counties of the second elias
shall receive $500 per year in lieu of al
fees, and sectlon Is allows collectors o
counties of the frat class compensation
at the rate of $1,000 per year in lien of al
fees.
Section 1G makes the territorial part o
all taxes delinquent on July l, 1895. tn,
property of the county in which same
were assessed, and provides that same
may be paid dollar for dollar, at the op
tion of the debtor, with approved ac
counts or other evidences of indebtedness
of said county, existing at the time of the
passage of this act.
Section II fixes the compensation oI
assessors in counties of the first class at
$1,000 per year, and in counties of the
second class at $500 per year, in lieu OF
all fees.
Section ID fixes the salaries of probats
clerks at $3.50 per year for services as
probate clerks and clerks of the county
commissioners.
Section 10 provides that the superin-
tendents of county schools shall receive
salaries in full for all services as follows
Bernalillo county, $3.50; San Miguel
county, $3.50; Chaves county, $50;
Eddy county, $50; Colfax county, $75;
Dona Ana county, $75; Grant county,
$75; Socorro county, SIS; Lincoln
county, $75; Rio Arriba, Sierra and
Guadalupe counties each $50; Taos
county, $75; San Juan, Mora, Valencia
and Union counties, $50 each; Santa Fe
county, $75.
Section 20 fixes the annual salaries of
probate judges as follows: In Bernalillo
and San Miguel counties each $500; in
Grant, Dona Ana, Socorro, Colfax and
Lincoln, each $500; in Mora, Rio Arriba
Sierra and Valencia counties, $3.50; Santa
Fe, $500; Taos, San Juan, Chaves, Eddy.
Guadalupe ana Union counties, $3.50.
Section 2l allows county commits
sioners salaries of 800 per annun
and cents mile for necessary travelling
expenses to and from the county seat,
and no mileage or compensation shall be
allowed for extra sessions.
Section % provides that within the
period of three weeks after any tax shall
become delinquent the collector shall
certify the same as delinquent to the clerk
of the proper district court, who shall
without charge Issue to the sheriff execu-
tion for amount of snch tax, together
with per cent penalty thereon, and the
sheriff shall at once levy execution there
for.
Section 23 requires all officers, except
probate clerks, to pay each month to the
county treasurer all fees and other public
collected by them.
Section "a allows county treasurers of
counties of the first GLASS $3.50 per annum
and in counties of the second class $3.50
per annum. Section 25 makes provision
for. the giving of good and sufficient
bonds by treasurers.
Section 26 provides that from and af-
ter January /, 1899, the Offices of county
collectors in counties of both classes
shall be merged in the Office of county
treasurer, and the Office of school super
shall be merged in the office of
probate Judge, and the county treasurer
and probate Judge shall, from said date,
receive only the salaries herein provided
for said collector and probate judge, al
though performing respectively the duties
of ex -officlo collector and superintendent
of schools.
Section ~ requires the county COM
to levy tax for county cur
rent expenses, including salary fund Of
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the event the sum 30 raised is not sufli
cient to pay all such expenses, then the
salaries of county officers shall be scaled
down in equal proportions 30 that the
amount of the total expenditures shall
not exceed the total income from snch
tax levy.
Section 28 provides that the bonds of
sheriffs and other county officers, and
their duties and liabilities shall remain
as now provided by law. except as spe-
officially provided otherwise in ttis act;
provided, that the treasurer and ex-otficlo
collector shall only be required to give
one bond in the sum of not to exceed $780,
600.
Section 20 provides that violations of
this act by any officer render the officer
violating same subject to removal by the
governor after ten days, if found guilty
of the charge, and section 20 repeals all
acts and parts of acts in conflict here
with and makes this act effective from
and after it's passage.
Public Printer.
Council joint resolution No. 2, provid-
ing for the appointment of public
printer, at a joint session of the two
houses on Monday afternoon at o'clock