Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-11
New Mexico Statehood Bill.
(Conclusion.)

Iishment and maintenance of an asy- !
establishment and maintenance Of a
school of mines, so, 900 acres; for the es-
adjustment and maintenance of an asy- |
lum for the leaf and dumb, so, 900 acres:
for the establishment and maintenance
Of "a reform school, 10000 acres; for the
establishment and maintenance Of state
schools, 100, 900 acres; for the
and maintenance OF an
institution for the blind, SO, 900 acres; for
a miners hospital for disabled miners,
90, 900; for the enlargement and main
tenance of the state pe%nitentiary, $4,000
acres.
Sec. 10. That all lands granted in
quantity or as indemnity by this act
be selected under the direction of
the secretary Of the interior from the
unappropriated public lands of the
States within the limits of the
said state of New Mexico by a commits
sion composed of the governor, survey
or general and solicitor general of New
Mexico; and no fees shall be charged for
passing the title to the same, or for the
preliminary proceedings thereof.
Sec. IA. That the said state Of New
Mexico shall constitute n judicial dis
trict, which shall be called the district
of New Mexico, and the circuit and dis
trict courts thereof shall be held at the
capital of said state for the time being.
The judge of said district shall receive
a yearly salary of $4,000, payable month
ly, and shall reside in his district. There
shall be appointed clerks of said courts,
who shall keep their offices at the cap
ital of said state. There shall be APP
pointed for said district one district
Judge, one United States attorney, and
one United States marshal. The regular
terms of said courts shall be held at the
place aforesaid on the first Monday in
April and the first Monday in October
Of each year. Fol judicial purposes the
district of New Mexico shall be attached
to the eighth judicial circuit, and only
II grand jury and one petit jury shall
be summoned in both of said courts.
Sec. Is. That the circuit and district
courts for the district of New Mexico
and the judges thereof respectively
shall possess the same power and juris-
diction and perform the same duties
possessed and required to be performed
by the other circuit and district courts
and judges of the United States, and
shall be governed by the same laws and
regulations.
Sec. Is. That the marshal, district
attorney and clerks of the circuit and
district courts of the said district of
New Mexico, and all other officers and
other persons performing duty in the
administration of. justice therein, shall
s~everally possess the powers and per-
form the duties lawfully possessed and
required to be performed by similar Off
GERS in other districts of the United
States, and shall, for the services they
nay perform, receive the same fees and
compensation allowed by law to other
similar officers and persons performing
similar duties.
Sec. II. That the convention herein
provided for shall have the same power
to provide, by ordinance, for the trans
fer of actions, cases, proceedings and
matters pending in the supreme OF dis
trict courts of the territory of New
Mexico, at the time of the admission Of
he said state into the Union, to such
courts as shall De established under the
circuit or district courts of the United
States for the district of New Mexico:
and no indictment, action, or proceed
ing shall abate by reason of any change
in the courts, but shall be proceeded
with in the state or United States courts
according to the laws thereof respect
lively. That all cases of appeal or writs
of error heretofore prosecuted and now
pending i'm the supreme court of the
United States or in the United States
circuit u of appeals upon any record
from the supreme court Of said terri
tory, or that may hereafter lawfully be
prosecuted upon any record from said
court, may be heard and determined by
said supreme court of the United States
or by said circuit court of appeals; and
the mandate of execution or Of further
proceedings shall be directed by either
Of said courts last named to the circuit
or district courts hereby established
within the said stats or to the supreme
court of said state, as the nature of the
case may require. And the circuit, dis.
trtct, and state courts herein named
shall respectively be the successors of
the supreme courts of the territory as
to all such cases arising Within the linn
It's embraced within the jurisdiction of
such courts respectively, with full pow
er to proceed with the same and award
mesne or final process therein; and that
from all judgments and DEGREES of the
supreme court of the territory men
toned in this act, in any case arising
within the limits of the proposed state
prior to admission, the parties to such
Judgment shall have the same right to
prosecute appeals and writs of error to
the supreme court of the United States
or to the circuit court of appeals as they
shall have had by law prior to the ad-
mission of said state into the Union.
Sec. IS. That the sum of $50, 900, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, Is
appropriated, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, to said territory for defraying the
expenses Of said convention and for the
payment Of the members thereof, under
same rules and regulations and at
same rates al are now provided by |
law for the payment Of the territorial |
legislature and the expenses thereof.
Sec. 10. That the constitutional con-
may by ordinance provide for