Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-05-05
OF Keeping Cash Accounts and
Records in Fifth Judicial
District BY Clerk
Martin,
GREAT CHANGE
FOR BETTER
Each County's Business and Funds
Kept Separately .. Declared By
Auditor Stafford and Other Ex.
perts to Be Excellent.

William E. Martin, of Socorro, tn,
efficient and courteous clerk of thu
Fifth Judicial District Court, has beer
in the capital for two days attendins
to Official business and settling up some
private affairs. Since his appointment
by Judge Pope, few months ago. he
has been very busy, as the judge has
been holding court necessarily in the
counties OF his district, has nearly
cleared the dockets and done tre
mendous amount of work.
Although extremely occupied during
that time, Mr.. Martin studied the ne
cessities of the bookkeeping of his Of
flee and found time to think out and
prepare new and modern system of
bookkeeping in the district and espe-
cially in cash accounts. This he has
arranged 10 introduce at once. The
fees and other public monies received
by him IN his official capacity are not
deposited 70 his private credit, but are
deposited TO the credit of w. E. Martin,
District Court clerk, in each of the
counties where collected. In Socorro,
this account is kept with Price Broth
ers, bankers; in Lincoln with Jaffa
Brothers bankers; in Roswell, with
the First National Bank; in Carlsbad
also with the First National Bank, and
in Portales with the First National
Bank. Within ten days after each term
of court held in any of the counties, all
fines collected within that term are
turned over to the respective county
treasurer as required by law. No
checks are drawn against these ac
counts excepting for transmittal of
fees to the territorial treasury, to re-
fund fees to litigants or to settle with
county treasurers for amounts of fines
collected. In each county, separate
cash book is kept for that purpose. He
has also established in his office uni
form system of books and blanks,
which by Travelling Auditor Stafford
a: other experts who have examined
it, has been declared first class, up-to-
date and calculated in every way to
save expense time and work, as we'll as
to insure correctness and record of all
proper and necessary data in criminal
and civil cases. Mr.. Martin is known |
as a fine penman, accountant and book
keeper, has had much experience in
that line and has brought it into use in
his new Office. His new system, indeed |
is admirable.
The chambers of the judge and the
clerks office in the court house in So
corro have been very handsomely fit
ted up, renovated and refurnished un-
der the direction of John Greenwald,
chairman of the board of county COM
missioners of Socorro County, so that
they now compare favorably with
those at other headquarters of District
Courts in the Territory. For several
years these chambers and offices were
in dilapidated and unwholesome con-
dition, but owing to Mr.. Greenwald's
good work, a complete change for the
better in this respect has been brought
about.
The United States pays the county
of Socorro annually $3.50 rent for the
use of the court room and Offices for
the holding of the United States court
for the Fifth Judicial District and for
the keeping of records.
The United States court will convene
in Secorro, May 18th in regular session.
There will be no term of the District
Court for the county as the court funds
contain no monies for the payment of
mileage and per diem of jurors and
o+a.r nocacSary aYDonSeS
Mr.. Martin considers that he has
very efficient and competent deputy
clerks. They are: E. L. Hubert, Lin
coin County, Lincoln; Carl M. Bird,
Chayes County, Roswell; S. l. Roberts,
Eddy County, Carlsbad; P. w. Price,
Roosevelt County, Portales, and Miss
T. N. Terry, Socorro County, Socorro.