Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-03

sherif of Union county, for
executing death warrant.
500; for transportation OF
convicts to the penitentiary as per
approved accounts on file; to Alfredo
Gonzales, sheriff OF Lincoln county.
$S73.3S; Alexander Read, sheriff of
Rio Arriba county, $153.85; j. D.
Chandler, sheriff of Sierra county,
$16S.45; Cipriano Baca, sheriff of
Luna county, $184.50; C. F. Backing
ton, sheriff Of SOcorro county.
$29O.25; Cleofes Romero, sheriff OF
San Miguel county, 1896; Teodoro
Roybal, sheriff of Mora county, $74.70;
Salome Garcia, sheriff OF Union
county, $172.SO; Robert B. Campbell.
sheriff OF Colfax county, $155.7O; Mar
celino Garcia. sheriff of Santa Fee
county, 1925; T. S. Hubbell, sheriff
of Bernalillo county, $500; B. L. Ro-
nero, sheriff of Guadalupe county,
$115.15; Jose -R. LucerO,
$244.25; Leonardo Martinez, for court
field. salary as penitentiary commits
sioner, $1O9.7O; J. T. Mclaughlin,
salary as p~enitentiary commissioner,
Wv, VI T ol0Ch1u6tOu CAV
cutting requisition papers, $46.35: w.
e. Martin, executing requisition pa
pers. SHIPS.
For transportation of ~cOnvicts to
the ~penitentiary as per approved ac-
sheriff of Eddy county, $315.45 Fred
1891 so; Fred Hunter, sheriff of Otero
co,nfy eCCc. AJf~%@ GDrnuI1c r1n~
if of Lincoln county, 1883. James
d. Hughes, public printer, for balance
due for printing laws and journals
of the thirty-fourth legislative assem-
bly,, $685.; balance due for printing
er, sheriff of Otero county, for serv-
ing requisition papers, $122.05; Rob-
ert B. Campbell sheriff of COlfax
county, for serving requisition pa
pers, $195.
For expenses of members Of board
Of education attending meetings: To
SOTO; M. E. Hickey, $40; Maggie
Butcher, $11.55; j. Francisco Chaves.
for expense clerical service. assist
ance. expert work on annual report
and other expenses connected with Of
flee superintendent public instruction,
ST. 83 40; for wild animal bounties,
1886; ]. D. Hughes, public printer, for
tax assessment rolls and blanks, 1901
and 1902. s371.23.
Militia Fund-For the support of
the national guard. $500; for rent of
armories at Santa Fe, Las Vegas, AL
| buquerque, Las Cruces and Alamo
I gordo and other places, $1,000.
/ Sec. 9. That section 1921 Of the
Compiled Laws of 1897 be and the
same is hereby amended by striking
out the words. three and one-half" in
the fifth line of said section 1921, and
inserting the word five" in lieu
thereof. And hereafter the boards of
county commissioners of the various
counties of the Territories shall be
| authorized to levy an annual tax of
not to exceed five mills on the dollar
| upon the assessed value of all taxa
BILE property in their several counties,
for current expenses.
Sec. 10. That section 1547 of the
| Compiled Laws of 1897 be and the
same are hereby amended SO as to
read as follows:
That the Territorial auditor shall
annually, on or before the first day
of May of each year, levy a tax OF 2
mills on the dollar upon all taxable
property in the Territory, and certify
the same to the county collectors OF
the several counties, who shall o
lect the same as other taxes are col
lected. The money thus received shall
not be spent for any other purpose
than for paying the expense of col
lection, which shall not exceed 4 per
cent of the sum thus collected. and
for paying the expense OF printing
necessary forms of blank reports,
school laws, the salary of the county
superintendents of public instruc-
ton. the expense of their offices and
paving school teachers. And when
said taxes are collected. the same
S,all be paid by the county collectors
of the various counties Of this Ter
ritory into the treasures Of the coun-
ties to the credit of the general
school fund of each county.
Sec. II. Hereafter the several
boards of county commissioners are
hereby authorized to cause to be lev
led and collected annually. a special
tax of not exceeding 2 mills on the
dollar for the purpose of making
needed repairs on the county court
houses and county jails.
Sec. ~. Whenever, for n reason
any legislative assembly OF the Ter
ritory Of New Mexico shall fail to
pass a hill providing funds and max
ing appropriations for the next en-
suing two fiscal years, then and in
that event the last previous evenu
law or appropriation bill which has
become a law shall continue in full
force and effect. and the levies made
and appropriations provided shall be
the same for the successive fiscal
years thereafter, with the same force