Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-03
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
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THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
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trict attorneys $500; salary Of So
licitor general $4,000 salary Of terri
torial auditor and clerk So, 000; salary
of territorial treasurer n clerk,
s 1900; salary of territorial librarian,
5000; salary of secretary and clerk
bureau Of immigration, $1,000; salary
and expense pe%nitentiary board, ST.
500; salary OF adjutant general,
81, 200; salary clerks and deputies
district courts, $4,000; salary and
mileage territorial board of equaliza-
ton, $3.50; salary of clerk of supreme
court, $1,000; salary of private secre-
tary to the governor s ,500.
Provided, hat each clerk of the
district court shall be entitled to re-
ceive out of the sum appropriated
pay at the rate of $4,000 per calendar
year, as full compensation for him
self and deputy or deputies. Provid-
ed, further, that clerks of the district
courts shall demand and collect in adj
vance all fees payable as clerks fees
in any court. and shall promptly turn
the same over quarterly to the ter
ritorial treasurer. Provided, that the
defendants in criminal cases shall not
be required to pay advance fees. Pro
vided, further, that clerks of the dis
trict cOurt shall hereafter require
and collect in advance a fee of five
dollars before docketing any case
filed originally in their Offices, $3.50
for docketing any case appealed from
the justice of the peace court, pro-
bate court or board of county commits
s~ioners, and collect such fee from the
plaintiff or appellant, as the case may
be, when he enters his appearance in
the case, and whenever such fee shall
have been consumed such clerks shall
require an additional fee of IS in
original cases. and $3.50 in appeal
cases, and shall demand n receive
no further fees from either party un
til all such advance fees have been
used and consumed. Such clerks
shall be accountable to the party maxi
ing such advance fees, for any un-
consumed fee, and shall turn over all
fees for which services have been
rendered, to the territorial treasurer,
as above provided. Provided, rurth-
err, that no order, decree or judgment
shall be entered of record until paid
for, unless by direction of the court.
Provided, further, that such clerks
shall be entitled to retain all fees col
lected for transcripts, seals, certifi-
Gates and acknowledgements.
Supreme Court Fund.
For printing briefs and expenses
in cases brought and defended by the
territory, 5000 for printing dockets
and calendars. supreme court, 5000.
Miscellaneous fund. For postage,
express, printing, blanks, publication
of quarterly reports. and incidental
expenses, auditors Office, 800; same
for treausrer's Office. $1,000; for the
territorial library; for the purchase OF
books, $500; territorial library, Incl
dental expenses, 800; New Mexico
historical society $500; purchase II
relics. New Mexico historical society,
$500; printing, postage, freight and
contingent expenses, superintendent
of public instruction, 81, 500, 81 200 of
which shall be paid from school land
funds: printing tax books. schedules,
ETC., $1,000; printing poll books, reg
~istration books and other necessary
blanks for the election of 1904, and
conveying and forwarding election re-
turns to the seat Of the government.
$1,000; per diem and expenses of
sheriffs in conveying prisoners to the
p~eIlteutl8Ty SO,UVU.
Harry G. Cakes
For printing in Spanish the laws
and journals of the thirty-ifth legis-
lative assembly, 5 $500.
For t~ranslating the laws and jour-
nails of the thirty-fifth legislative as
sembly, $1,000.
For the capitol custodian fund,
employees. etc., $1,000.
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ated for necessary repairs and I'M
be paid at once. out of any available
not to apply to the f1fty-sixth year.
For printing reports and other per-
tinent matters and contingent expen-
SEES Of the office of the secretry of the
Territory, including the secretaary's
report and printing of abstracts of
corporation and similar laws: also
session laws of 1899. 1901, bound in
one volume, $500.
For A. b. Baca. for the capture Of
Jose Telles. $500.
For Fred Higgins, sheriff Of Chaves
county, to reimburse him for expen- /
ses in the extradition Of Frank
Vaughn and Mott Hendricks as per
approved account, 1896.
For the contingent expenses of the
office of the superintendent of public
instruction, $500.
For the relief of the citizens of
Grant county. living on the Mimbres 1
river. on account of the damage caus-
ed by recent floods as mentioned In |
the governors message, $4,000.
For the relief Of the citizens OF Sill !
yer City. In improving streets and
buildings, dams or bridges, where the
same is necessary for the prevention |
OF future damage by floods. $4,000.
For the purpose Of defraying the /
expenses of the statehood committee
sen to Washington, D. c., by the
Republican and Democratic central
OF the Territory OF New
Mexico. $3.682.25.
Defciencies-For the purpose of
paying the following deficiencies in
the appropriations for the ffty-second
and fifty-third fiscal years. the follow
ing appropriations are hereby made.
For deaf and dumb asylum. $500: |
for Jose r. Lucero. sheriff OF Dpna
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