Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-22


doses, upon the prescriptions Of prac.
titioners of medicine.
Council bill No. 70, which was en-.
acted into law at Santa Fe, provides
for appeals from the supreme court by
the Territory, or any county; also, for
the expenses thereof.
Whenever any county shall be in
terested in prosecuting any suit or
proceeding at law, or in equity, for the
collection Of taxes, levied and assessed
by it or the Territory. it shall be law
full for the county commissioners of
such county 10 employ special attorneys
and counsel for the prosecution of SAID
suit at a compensation, not in. any
event to exceed 20 per cent. of the
amount of sach tax recovered and col
lected, which employment shall include
all proceedings in said cause in the dis
trict and supreme courts Of the Ter
rltory, and on appeal or error from the
supreme court Of the Territory to the
United States court of appeals or the
supreme court Of the United States;
such fee and compensation to be divid-
ed and proportioned against the
amount collected for the Territory, and
the amount collected for such county
pro rata, go that the Territory shall
pay its fair proportion of such fee from
the amount collected for 1t.
The new bridge and ditch law pro.
vides that mayordomcs of public and
community bitches shall construct to
the cast of the M of said ditch,
good and substantial bridges made OF
lumber, across all bitches that shall be
under their charge as said mayor
domos, in all the crossings of public
road or roads.
For the purpose of constructing such
bridges, the respective mayordomos Of
acequias shall collect from the owners
OF said bitches the amount required for
the construction Of the same, after the
same have been constructed, which
amount SO taxed against the owners Of
said bitches shall be in proportion Of
their interests IN the same; provided,
that neither the county, nor the owners
of other acequias, shall pay anything
for the construction of said bridges,
but the owners Of each ditch respect
lively shall suffer the necessary expense
in the construction of said bridges that
be necessary TO construct bridges
over said bitches.
Section 2 of house bill No. 149, sets
that the terms OF the district court
Ia the fourth judicial district shall be
follows: In the county Of Union,
on the third Monday Of
February o third Monday Of Septem-
Der; in the county Of Colfax. commence
On the first Monday OF March and
first Monday Of October In tAe county
San Miguel, commencing on the first
Monday Of April and second Monday
II November; in the county Of Guada
I
upe, commencing the first Monday Of
June and first Monday Of September,
ind 10 The county Of Mora, commence
the fourth Monday in June and the
bird Monday In January.
The new act OF the Territorial legis-
for the creation Of school
districts provides that hereafter no
chool district shall be created or
Iiyided unless It is done by a petition
igned py twenty-five heads Of families
Vho are the parents OF children Of ,
chooI age; that no school district shall
o hereafter created or divided unless j
here shall be fifty children at least of |
chool age in the new district, and '
ct least fifty children OF school .
re In the district or districts from !
'hich such now district ID taken. \