Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-26
TEXT OF NEW LAWS.
Acts Providing for the Payment of
Miners in Lawful Money. In Reia-
tiOn to Guadalupe County,
and Railroad Lines,

House bill No. 8, INTRODUCED by Mr..
j ohm Morrow, of Colfax county, is an act
to provide for the payment of wages of
workingmen employed in the mines IN
the territory of New Mexico in lawful
money of the United States, and to pro-
tect said workingmen in the management
of and control of their own earnings, and
reads:
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico
Section lit shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, company or corporation,
owning or operating coal or other mines
or transacting any kind of general mer-
camille business in the territory of New
Mexico to sell, give, deliver, or in any
manner issue directly or indirectly to any
person employed by him or it in any
payment for wages due for labor or as
advances on wages of labor not due any
scrip, check draft, or order or evidence
of indebtedness payable or redeemable
otherwise than in their face value in
money and such person, acting member,
or agent of any firm, acting agent or
agents or officers of any company or cor
poration firm who shall violate any of
the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by inc not exceeding five hundred dol
lars nor less than two hundred ard fifty
dollars and the amount of any scrip,
token, check, draft, order or other evil
dence of Indebtedness, sold, given, deliv-
cred or in any manner issued in violation
of the provisions of this act shall recover
in money at the suit of any holder there
of against the person, firm, company
or organization, selling, giving, deliver
ing or in any manner issuing the same.
Sec. o. Whoever compels or in any
manner seeks to compel or coerce an
employe or any person, firm, company or
corporation to purchase goods or sup
plies from any particular person, firm,
company or corporation shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or
Imprisonment in the county Jail not ex-
ceeding sixty days or both, at the discre-
ton of the court.
Sec. 3.--The district attorney of any
county in the territory of New Mexico,
upon complaint being made to him of the
violation of any Of the provisions of this
act in said county shall cause such COM
plant to be investigated before the
grand jury of the county where such
wrong has been complained of at its next
session following the time such COM
plant is made. That all of chapter 26 of
the Both legislative assembly of the terri
tory of New Mexico and all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this provis-
ions Of this act be and the are hereby re-
pealed.
House bill No. 80, introduced by Mr.. j.
P. Sandoval, of Guadalupe county, is an
act amendatory of an act entitled San
act creating the county of Guadalupe out
of portion of San Miguel county, and
defining the west boundary thereof, pre-
scented by the chief clerk of the council
as having passed, ths governors veto to
the contrary Notwithstanding, and filed
In the secretary's office February 26, 1891,
the same being chapter SO of the laws of
New Mexico of 1891, and is as follows:
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico.
Section 1.--All that part of section l of
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ty of Guadalupe out of portion of the
county of San Miguel" the same being
chapter SO of the laws of New Mexico of
1891, referring to the west boundary Of
said county of Guadalupe, be and the
same is hereby amended so as to make
the west boundary of said county read as
follows, to-wit: Commencing at the
corner of townships II and - north, be-
tween ranges Is and Is east; thence south
along the range line between said ranges
Is and l6 east, to the north boundary of
the county of Valencia; thence east along
the north boundary of the county of VAL
encia to the range line between ranges 10
and 10 east; thence south along the said
range line. between ranges Is and 10 east,
to the northeast corner of township
north, range Is east"
Sec. 2.-All laws and parts of laws in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed,
and this act shall be in full force and eff
feet from and after its passage and ap.
proval.
House bill No. SO, introduced by Mr..
Ollin E. Smith, of Union county, is An act
authorizing railroad companies to con-
struct and extend their lines of railroad
into or through other territories or states,
and to purchase and lease other railroads
and to sell and lease railroads, and makes
the following provisions
Be it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexicos,
Section THAT any railroad company,
now or hereafter existing under the laws
of this territory. may construct and ex.
tend its line of railroad into or through
any other territory or state upon such
terms and regulations as may be pre-.
scribed by the laws of such territory or
state, and any such railroad company may
purchase or lease the railroad constructed
or to be constructed, and other property
of any railroad company now or hereafter
existing under the laws Of this territory
or any other territory or state or Of the
United States, with all rights, privileges,
powers, franchises and immunities there
to in any wise appertaining or belonging,
or may buy the stock and bonds or either
of them, of any such company, and any
railroad company now or hereafter exist
ing under the laws of this territory may,
with the consent of the holders of two.