Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-08-30
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
IN SPECIAL SESSION
District Attorney Directed to Appeal
Mandamus Cases to Supreme
Court.-DeIegates to Good
Roads Convention
Named.

The board of county commissioners
met in special session at it's room in
the court house yesterday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. There were present
Chairman Arthur Seligman, first dis
trict, Santa Fe; Commissioner A. L.
Kendall, second district, Cerrillos:
Commissioner Jose Inez Roybal, third
district, Nambe; District Attorney e.
c. Abbott and Clerk Marcos Castillo.
This special session was called in
accordance with the order of the
Court to discuss and act upon cases
4,746 and 4,747, being the cases of the
Territory of New Mexico, ex rel, Bird
s. Coler and Ellerton S. Chapman VS..
the Board Of County Commissioners
of Santa Fe County. The board was
of the opinion that the peremptory
writs of mandamus in the above cases
were allowed by the Court without no
tice or hearing of the defendants
side of the cases, and believing that
there are existing defenses, the Dis
trict Attorney was therefore ordered
to file petition and motion, praying
for "a suspension of the peremptory
writs until the said defense should
have been heard. In case the motion
and petition are not granted by the
court, the district attorney is author
lied to take an appeal from the dis
trict court to the supreme court Of
the Territory.
In the case of the Territory ex REL.
S. S. Beatty VS.. the Board of County
Commissioners of Santa Fe County, 1t
appeared to the board that the alter
native writ had already been answer
ed and the issues heard by the court,
decision therefore having been taken
under advisement by the court. The
board having examined the defenses
set up in the suit and being of the
opinion that the said coupons are IL
legal and void, the original indebted
ness having been incurred by the
county in excess of the amount OF 4
per cent of the assessed valuation OF
the county decided that should the
judgment of the court be adverse to
the respondents and in favor OF the
validity of the said bonds and coupons
attached, the district attorney was or
dered to appeal from the district
court to the supreme court of the
Territory
The district attorney was requested
to investigate and determine whether
a levy of two mills for interest on the
bonded Indebtedness of Santa Fe
County was made by the county com
missioners of Rio Arriba County
against that portion of Santa F'e Coun'
tv annexed to Rio Arriba County, Tor
the wears 1904 and 1905, and in case
said levy was not made for either or
both of said years, to institute man
damus proceedings to enforce ieVy
and the collection of same without de-
lay.
The following delegates were ap-
no;nted bv Chairman Arthur Sel1gman
70 represent the County OF SANTA re
at the Territorial Good Roads Conven-
t,on to be held at Las vegas, Sepbelii'
her 26 and 27, 1905, as per the procla-
nation of Governor Otero: Evaristo
Lucero, Higinio Martinez, E. c. Ab'
bott w. Reynolds, DR.. J. M. Diaz'
s O. Cartwright A. R. Gibson, b. M
Read. G. F. Easley, Santa Fe; Benito
Luian. Pojoaque; Julian Ortiz, Nam
he: John Pflueger, Lamy; Nicolas
Martinez, Chimayo; James T. Will
Jams. T. J. Jones, F. A. Yoakum, Ger
rillos: F. C. Buell., J. G. Carrutners
San Pedro; John d. Hart Golden
Carlos Ortiz. Aqua Fria.
The clerk was ordered to notify the
delegates appointed and also the pres
ident of the Northern New Mexico
Fair Association of said appointments
The board then adjourned until TINS
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.