Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-05-19

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for the collection, arrangement ant
display Of the products of the Territor,
of New Mexico at the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition or ST. Louis World
Fair of 1904, and to make an appro
priation therefor
Be it enacted by the Legislative AS.
sembly of the Territory of New Mexi.
co:
! Section 1. That for the purpose o
exhibiting the resources, products ant
general development of the Territory
chase Exposition or st. Louis Worlds
Fair to take place within Or near the
City of st. Louis, in the State Of Mis-
souri, in 1904, a commission is hereby
created to be called the Territorial
Board of the Louisiana Purchase Ex.
| position Managers of New Mexico to be
organized and continue it's duties as
hereinafter provided said commission
to consist of seven members residents
of said Territory of New Mexico. The
members of said territorial board shall
be appointed by the governor Of New
Mexico within 60 days after the passage
of this act.
Sec. 2. Said members shall meet with
in 80 days after their appointment, and
organize by the election of president,
a vice president a secretary and a
treasurer, who shall act as aforesaid
and in the absence of the president the
vice president of said board shall be
the presiding officer thereof. Five
members of said board constitute a
quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness. The said board shall have power
to make rules and regulations for its
own government, and to do such othe,
things as may be necessary and prope,
for carrying out the provisions OF
this act. Any member of said board
may be removed, at any time, by the
governor for cause, and any vacancy
which may occur in the membership OF
the board shall be filled by appoint
ment by the governor.
Sec 8. The members of the board
created by virtue of this act shall be
entitled to their actual expenses for
transportation, and the sum of three
dollars per day for subsistence for each
day necessarily absent from their
homes on business of said board but
no member of said board shall receive
any further compensation from said
territory; provided, that no member of
said board shall receive any compensa-
tion for any time that he is not actual-
ly engaged in attending to the meetings
or the work as prescribed in this act
as being the duty Of said board.
Sec. 4. The said board shall have
charge of the collection and prepara-
tion of the exhibits of New Mexico for
said exposition or st. Louis Worlds
Fair and it shall communicate with
the officers thereof and obtain and dis
seminate through New Mexico all nec-
essary information regarding said ex-
position in due and ample time for the
proper exhibit Of said resources and
products of New Mexico at said expo
sition.
Sec. S. The members of said board
shall have and exercise full authority
in relation to the participation, the
displaying and the arrangement of the
exhibits of New Mexico. and the re-
ception of it's citizens, at the said
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Of 1904.
but shall incur no expense to the Terri
tory of New Mexico in said reception Of
its citizens.
Sec. 6. The said board shall make a
report of it's proceedings and expendi-
lures from time to time to the govern
or and at any time upon written re-
quest: and such reports shall be trans
mitted by him to the legislative assem-
bly, of the Territory of New Mexico of
1905, together with such suggestions as
he may deem important for future like
exhibitions.
Sec. Z. To carry out the provisions Of
this act the sum of thirty thousand
dollars ($30, 100000 or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appro-
priated. from taxes to be levied and
collected for said purpose, as hereinaf-
ter provided, and the territorial treas
urer is hereby directed to pay the
same, from the fund to be created out
of said taxes to be levied and collected
as aforesaid, on requisition of said
board, signed by the president and Sec
retary thereof, and approved by the
governor, and accompanied by estf-
mates of the expenses for the payment
of which the money so drawn is to be
applied.
Sec. s. Said fund shall be called the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Fund
and for the purpose of creating and es-
tablishng said fund as specified in Sec
ton of this act, the auditor OF the
territory shall cause to be levied upon
all taxable property in the territory
during the 55th and 56th fiscal years.
the tax of three-fifths of one mill to be
certified by him each of said fiscal
years to the various county commis-
sioners as all of the territorial taxes
are levied and certified, and to be col
lected in the same manner as other ter
ritorial taxes, the territorial treasurer
is hereby authorized to make loans as
now prescribed by law for other loans
to the amount as authorized herein for