Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-06
THE NEW SIX
DISTRICTS
Official Order of the Territorial
Supreme Court Establishing
the Same.
CHANGE in
HEADQUARTERS
Terms CT Court in AIamogordo and Ros-
we'll Fixed. Order Takes Effect
July |, 1904.

In accordance with an act of Con
gress entitled ''An Act to provide al
additional associate Justice of the Su
4reme Court of the Territory of New
Mexico" passed at the first session Of
the Fiftyeighth Congress of the Uni
ted States, directing the chief justice
and associate justices of the Supreme
Court Ct the Territory of New Mexico
to redistrict the said Territory into
six judicial districts, and to make
such assignments of the judges provid-
ed for in the first section of said act
as shall in their judgment be meet and
proper therefore, we, the undersigned,
chief Justice and associate justices of
said Supreme Court of the Territory OF
New Mexico, assembled at the SUI
preme Court room, in the territorial
capitol in, the city of Santa Fe, in the
said Territory of New Mexico, do here
by order, that the said Territory be di-
vided into six judicial districts as fol-
lows;
First The counties of Santa F'e,
Rio Ar,ioa, Taos and San Juan, shiel
constitute the First Judicial District
Second. The counties of Bernalillo
Mckinley, Sandoval and Valencia shall
trin 10
Third. The counties of ,Socorro,
Grant, Sierra, Dona Ana and Luna
shall constitute the Third Judicial Dis
Grict
Fourth. The counties of San Mi
guel, Mora, ColfaX and Union, shall
constitute the Fourth Judicial District.
Fifth. The counties of Chaves, Ed
dy and Roosevelt shall constitute the
Fifth Judicial District.
Sixth. The counties of Otero, Lin
coin, Torrance, Leonard Wood and
Quay, shall constitute the Sixth Judi
cial District.
1t is further ordered, that the chief
Justice and associate justices are here
by assigned to the judicial districts as
the judges thereof, as follows:s
To the First Judicial District, Asso-
ciate Justice John r. McFie, with
headquarters at Santa Fe.
To the Second Judicial District, AS
sociate Justice Benjamin S. Baker.
with headquarters at Albuquerque.
To the Third Judicial District, Asso-
ciate Justice Frank w. Parker, with
headquarters at Las Cruces.
To the Fourth Judicial District,
Chief Justice William J. Mills, with
headquarters at Las Vegas.
To the Fifth Judicial District, Asso-
ciate Justice William H. Pope, with
headquarters at Roswell.
To the Sixth Judicial District, Asso-
ciate Justice Edward A. Mann, with
Headquarters at Alamogordo
That the times and places of holding
United States District Court in the
First, Second, Third and Fourth Judi
cial Districts shall. remain as now es-
rablished.
of Roswell in the county of Chaves,
be and the same hereby is established
as the judicial seat of the Fifth Judi
cial District, and that the time OF
holding District Court in the said Fifth
Judicial District, shall be at the town
of Roswell, on the third Mondays OF
April and October of each year.
It is further ordered that the town of
Alamogordo in the county of Otero, be
and the same hereby is established as
the judicial seat of the Sixth Judicial
District and that the time of holding
District Court in the said Sixth Judi
cial District, shall be at the town of AL
amogordo, on the fourth Mondays in
May and November of each year.
It is further ordered that the re-
spective clerks of the District Courts
of the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Judicial Districts. transfer to the Dis
trict Clerk of the proper district all
records, papers, books and other
things and paraphernalia in their Off
cial custody belonging or appertainine
to each and all of the said counties
comprising each respective district
and that they shall take a receipt from
the said various clerks thereof.
The foregoing order shall take effec,
and be in force from and after the
first day of July, A. D. 1904.
It is further ordered that the clerl
of the Supreme Court of the said Terri
tory of New Mexico, enter the forego
ing order on the records Of this court
and that he transmit certified cop!
thereof to the clerk of each judicia
district of the Territory of New Mexic,
to the United States attorney and t.