Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-30
COUNTY BOARD
FIXES LEViES
Taxes for Various Territorial, County
and City Purposes--county Levy
1884 Mills.


Tax levies for the present fiscal
year were made at yesterdays meet.
ing Of the Board of County Comnis-
sioners. The total regular county
levy will be 19 3-4 mills on the dollar
of all taxable property, and in addi.
tion to this amount there will be a
special levy of mills In each school
district for school purposes, and a
special levy of mills on horses, cat
tie, etc, for the wild animal bounty
fund.
The various general and special tax
levies embraced in the county as
sessment are as follows for the year
1907.
General county fund $.00500; gen.
eral court fund $.O0450; court house
and Jail repair fund, 100000; road
fund $00075 interest on bonds, 1884
to 1897, $.00200; deficiency Jail build
ing fund, s.00100; judgment fund of
1907, $.00100; sinking fund to pay
principal and interest on bonds of 1882
and judgments thereon, $.00200; def.
cheney bridge fund, $.00150; wild ami
NAL county fund. 100000; district
school fund, 100000.
AS already stated the last two levies
are specials. The former applies on
ly on horses, burros, mules. bovine,
cattle, sheep and goats. The latter
applies on all taxable property within
the respective school districts of
which there are thirty in Santa Fe
County.
The Territorial levy for the year is
IA mills for general purposes, mills
for school purposes, 5 mills on sheep
for the sheep indemnity fund, 1-2
mills on cattle, for the cattle indem-
nifty fund The city levy is 10 mills
fer general purposes, Z IL mills for
support and maintenance of the pub
lie schools, IL mills for interest on
city bonds, and IL mills for interest
on city school building bonds.
1t was ordered that the various
levies be properly recorded on the tax
rolls in pursuance of the usual Gus
tom. Several other matters came up
for consideration in addition to the
levying of the taxes. Petitions were
presented for division of precinct
Is and precinct 20 but action was de-
ferred until the next meeting Of the
board
Two vacancies In the Office OF JUS
tice Of the peace caps I'd by the resig-
nations of the former officers were
filled by appointment of the board.
Cornelio Montoya was appointed as
justice of the peace Of precinct IL to
serve out the unexpired term of ALI
gustin Gallegos, and Daniel Jones was
appointed as justice Of the peace of
precinct 20, vice James Carruthers.
Tax exemptions as heads of fami-
lies We're allowed to the following per-
sons for the year 1907:
Ramon Ortiz, of precinct g. Mata
L. de Ortiz, precinct 8; Jose A. Ortiz,
precinct 3; Maxine Roibal, precinct
9. Manuel Sails y Crespin of precinct
8, was allowed exemption from the
year 1899 to 1905, and Juan Martinez
y Garcia of precinct IL, was granted
the exemption for 1906.
Commissioner Madril was author
lied to investigate a complaint made
to the board by Marcelino Garcia rela-
tive to the alleged closing of public
highway in Canon Los Alamos by one
Antonio Ortiz y Pacheco. He was
instructed to inspect the road in COM
pany with the road commissioner and
report his findings at the next meet
ing.
Complaint was also made to the
board about the public road at Kenne-
dy being obstructed part of the time
by freight cars left on a siding of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
way. The clerk was instructed to
notify the agent at Kennedy to see
to it that the roadway was not block
ed hereafter.
The board held another short ses-
sion today at which miscellaneous
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