Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-09
THREE IMPORTANT MEASURES
A Bill introduced to Amend the
Community bitches and Ace
quias Law"
PROPOSED CHANGE In LIQUOR LICENSES
The Creation of School Districts Pro
vided For-Licenses.

Representative Ollin X. Smith, OF Union
county, has introduced O bill in the house,
known as house bill No. 5b, governing
the issuance of license for the sale Of IN
toxicants il incorporated cities, towns or
villages in the territory.
Section of the bill provides that here
after it shall be unlawful for the munich
pal authorities of any city, town or viii
lage to issue any license for the sale of
Intoxicating liquors to any person, firm
or society, whose establishment is or may
be located within distance of seventy
FIVE feet of any church or other place of
public worship, public or private school,
or any room that is now or may be used
as United States postoffice. This Sec
tion also provides that the issuing of a
license contrary to these limitations is an
offense.
Section provides that any municipal
authorities of an incorporated city, town
or village in the territory issuing any
license for the sale of intoxicants, or
under which license an establishment may
be maintained wherein the same may be
sold or offered for sale, in conflict with
the provisions of section l, such munich
pal authorities as bodies, not as indivi-
duals, shall be fined in sum of not less
than the annual amount of suoh license,
nor more than 500 for each and every
offense so committed, upon trial and con-
viction before the nearest Justice of the
peace. The fines 30 collected are to be
paid into the publ, school fund of the
school district wherein such license is
issued; such fines are made collectable
by process of law the same as other delin.
qnent fines.
DIToHEs AND AoEQUIAs.
House bill No. Sc, introduced by Rep.
resentatives Castillo, Malaqulas Martinez
and Sena, is an act to repeal an act en-
titled "An act in regard to community
bitches and acequias," approved Feb. 2S
1896. The bill reads as follows
Re it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of New Mexico:
Section 1.-Chapter of the laws OF
1895, entitled San act in regard to COM
munity bitches and acequias," approved
EeDTudTy 90, lOUO, 10 AoICUy IcpUuicu IL
all its parts and provisions.
Sec. 2.-Title l, "Acequias," being eco
tions to So inclusive of the Compiled
Laws of the territory of New Mexico, is
hereby re.established and re-enacted in
all parts and provisions, except as here.
in otherwise expressly repealed OF
amended.
Sec. 3.-All mayordomos provided for
in this title shall be elected as follows:
That In all counties south of and includ-
ing Bernalillo county which take their
waters from the Rio Grande and other
rivers, the election for mayordomos shall
be held on the first Monday in October.
and in all counties north of Berralillo
taking their waters from the Rio Grande
and other rivers, shall hold their election
for mayordomos on the first Monday in
March. And that only such persons as
are actually owners of property within
the limits of any acequia shall be con-
! sidered qualified voters on elections Of
mayordomos; provided, that for the pres
ent year no elections for mayordomos
shall be held except in such precincts as
SC ordered by the board of county com
mlssioners.
Sec. ALI mayordomos of acequias
so elected shall, before they enter upon
the discharge of their duties, qualify by
giving bonds to the territory of New
Mexico for the faithful performance and
discharge of their duties within ten days
after they shall receive their certificates
of election, to the Justice of the peace Of
the precinct, in sum to be fixed by the
Justice of the peace, in no cage to be less
than $25, nor more than 5000, with two
sufficient sureties, who shall justify in
double the amount of the penalty named
in the bond.
CREATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
| Councilman Francisco Miera has in.
PRODUCED council bill No. Sc, an act to
provide for the creation of school dis
tricts in the territory of New Mexico
The full text of the bill is as follows:
Section THAT hereafter no school
district shall be created or divided unless
it is done by petition signed by twenty.
five heads of families who are the parents
of children of school age.
Sec. 2.-That no school district
shall be hereafter created or divided un.
less there shall be fifty children at least
of school age in the new district, and
leave at least fifty children of school age
in the district or districts from which
such new district is taken.