Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-26
rMENrY-FiFrN DAY, wEDNEs
DAY, FEBRUARY 2S, 1908.
The Council.

utohog EAiA~l mum otooICEsD
The council was not called to order
until after o'clock.
House bill No. &c and council bill
No. Sc, both relating to irrigation, were
reported and made special order for
Wednesday morning. Immediately af
ter the reading of the journal
House joint resolution No. Z, relating
to the pay of employees, was handed
down and referred to the finance COM
mittee.
The council then adjourned until 10
o'clock Wednesday morning.
tMorning SESSION.
The council met this morning with
all members present
Prayer was offered by Rev. w. A.
Cooper.
A message from the house announc-
ed the passage of the following bills:
Council joint memorial No. 3; council
bill No. 45. an act for taxation for
water and light purposes; council bill
No. 8, an act giving to mayors the veto
power; house bill No. Is. an act relat
ing to appeals from the court of JUS
tice of the peace; house bill No. %, an
act relating to notes; house bill No. SO,
an act relating to enumerators OF
school census; house bill No. A. an
act regarding the registration of party
emblems: house bill No. "a, an act re-
lating to bounties for the killing of
wild animals; house bill No. 81, an act
relating to the building of school
houses; house joint memorial No. 2, in
relation to drift fences.
The special order of the morning,
the irrigation bills, were taken up, and
house bill No. 26 and council bill No.
Sc were handed down. 1t was recon-
mended that both bills be recommitted
to the council in the committee Of the
whole and the report was concurred in.
The council then resolved itself into
.he committee Of the whole. House bill
No. 26, an act relative to community
bitches or acequias and to amend OIL
repeal certain sections of the compiled
laws Of New Mexico Of 1897, with ref
erence thereto, was then Irced: Ict,di:: The Oil
contains the famous lame of his left
arm" clause. Mr.. Fall gave notice that
he would offer an amendment to make
the bill not apply to any county in the
Ninth council district. He then pre-
sented half dozen petitions from the
Mesilla valley farmers protesting
against the passage of the bill. The
petitions were generally and numer-
ously signed. The bill was laid aside
and council bill No 56 was taken up,
This bill is by Mr.. Fall and is to amend
section 13 of the compiled laws of
1897. relating TO acequias or bitches,
read. section by section, and was
amended in minor particulars. The
committee then decided to recommend
the Fall bill for passage and that house
bill No. 26 be recommitted to the judi
ciary committee for the consideration
of certain legal and constitutional
questions. This was so done and the
committee arose and so reported. The
report was adopted and the bill was
passed as amended. House bill No. 20
was recommitted. Under introduction
of bills council bill No. SO was intro
duced by Mr.. Duncan. 1t is an act to
give cities authority to provide for the
collection of garbage. Referred to the
committee on municipal and private
corporations.
Council bill No. S4 was introduced
by Mr.. Hawkins. 1t is an act for the
grouping of the several counties in the
territory into districts for district at
torney purposes. The bill provides for
districts as follows: First district
Santa Fe, Taos, Rio Arriba and San
Juan counties; second district, San
Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe counties;
third district, Colfax and Union coun-
ties; fourth district. Bernalillo, Valen-
cia and Mckinley counties; fifth dis
trict, Socorro county; sixth district.
Luna. Dona Ana. Otero and Lincoln
counties; seventh district, Grant and