Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-10

H. B. No. "a, of interest to mining
men, provides that the surface bounda-
res of mining claims hereafter located,
shall be marked by four substantial
posts or monuments of stone, II set at
each corner of said claim. Such posts
or monuments shall be plainly marked
so as to indicate the direction of such
claim from each post or monument. The
bill further provides that sections 1900,
2310, 1912, 2314 and 2315 of the Compiled
Laws of 1897 be repealed.
A bill was introduced in the house
yesterday to amend sections 1898 and
1895, chapter l, of the Compiled Laws OF
1897, relating to public school books.
1t provides that the territorial board of
education shall provide a system OF
books, which shall be presented to the
governor and he must pass upon them.
After their approval they shall stand for
a period of four years.
II. b. No. 63 provides that all corpora.
tons hereafter organized in the terri
tory shall be compelled to publish their
articles of incorporation in a paper pub
lished in Santa Fe and in one located in
the county where the resident agent OF
the company makes his office. Said
publication shall be continued for a
period of four weeks.
Hon. I. B. Catron is the %introducer of
c. b. No. SO, which provides that the
Compiled Laws of 1897 shall be amended
so that all appeals from the District
court shall have effect from the date OF
appeal until decision is rendered by the
Supreme court. Sections 1920 and $40!
were recommended repealed.
A council joint resolution, introduced
by Hon. G, A. Richardson, has passed
which provides that the bill now pend
ing in the lower house of congress il
Washington, relative to the creation o.
a 9th judicial district, be indorsed by the
New Mexico legislature.
Hon. T. b. Catron has introduced G
B. No. "a, which provides for facilitat
ing the work of holding the supreme
court by allowing associate justices the
use of a st%enographer and typewriter.
1t is unnecessary to state that the let
tiers received from the secretary OF thu
territory that members will receive thei1
pay again on Sunday, were not laid oil
the table.
Now that the cattle and sheep of thu
territory have been protected agains'
disease. Hon. James s. Duncan thinks
it is time to look to the human race.
Members of the legislature are in re
ceipt of invitations to attend the ami
versary ball of the lodge of Elks in Sill
yer City February %.
S. c. B. No. IA, to facilitate the worl
of taking testimony fer the grand jury
has been re-committed to the committed
on judiciary In the house.
The bill to attach Lincoln county tt
the district attorneys district of Socorrt
county, has passed the council.
Mrs. II. 0. Bursum, Mrs. R. P. Barnes
and Mrs. Eastman, were visitors in the
council yesterday.
c. b. No. SO, to prevent the larceny o
calves and provide a punishment for OF
Tenders, has passed the council.
Considerable committee work wa
done by the members of both houses
yesterday.
I The militia bill is now reposing will
the council committee on militia.
Hon. G.. A. Richardson states that HI
would have been glad to support the bill
relative to increasing the salaries o
county officials, so far as third ant
fourth class counties are concerned, bu
the bill carried it's terms for an increase
in the salaries of officers in counties o
the first and second class, and hi
thought that they were paid enough
previously.
The bill introduced by Hon. Malaquia'
Martinez to create two new counties GU
of Colfax county, was %unfavorably re
ported upon this forenoon by the com
mittee on counties and county lines, anc
was killed in the council by a vote of 6 tt
5. The bill was also introduced in the
house this morning.
Council till No. 43, the Duncan re-
venue bill, was considered in the council
this afternoon.