Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-02-21
TO REPEAL ACT
FOR FEEDING
PRISONERS
COUNCIL PASSES MEASURE
INTRODUCED BY SULZER
Bill to Exempt Beet Sugar Fac
tories and Other Industries
From Taxation for Period of
Six Years Goes Through,
The Morning Journal Bureau.I

Inc MOIHllS journal Bureau,I
Santa Fe. n. NJ, Feb. 20.
The council this morning passed
Councilman Suffers bill. council bill
No l6, repeating chapter of the laws
of 1905, providing for a special levy
of mills in first class counties to pay
for the feeding of prisoners and Civ
ing sheriffs preferred claim on such
fund.
This is the law passed at the behest
of Tom S. Hubbell, late sheriff of Ber-
nalillo county, in order that his unpaid
bills for feeding prisoners might be
paid. This bill was passed by unani-
nous vote.
The council also passed. Mr.. Sar-
gent voting no, Councilman Dales'
bill council bill No. u. an act to en-
courage the construction of beet sugar
/ factories and other industries and eX-
empting such industries from taxation
under certain conditions, for term
of six years. This bill is an important
one, the text being as follows:
To Encourage the Erection of Sugar
Beet Factories and Other Pur-
poses.
BE it enacted by the Legislative as
sembly of the territory of New Mex
leo.
Section THAT for the purpose of
/ tion of sugar beet factories, wooden
mills, smelters, refining and reduction
works, water ways, pipelines, bitches.
canals fumes. or other means of con-
Veying water for the purpose of sup
plying water for sugar beet factories,
woolen mills, smelters, refining or re-
duction works, irrigation plants, here
after erected or constructed for the
purpose of treating beets, wool. or
ores, or supplying water for placer
mining, or smelter purposes, or irriga-
ton purposes, in the territory of New
Mexico together with all fixtures and
machinery affixed thereto and used
therein, including real estate, not eX-
ceeding one hundred G00) acres for
each factory or mill, and upon which
such factor or mil! is constructed,
shall be exempt from taxation as fol-
lows, towit:
Those factories, mills, smeIters, re-
ductiOn works, water ways, pipelines,
bitches, canals, fumes, or irrigation
plants, which shall be erected and
operated in good faith and in a sub
stantial manner on or before the first
day of April A. d. 1908, shall be ex-
empt from taxation for period of six
years from and after the completion
thereof.
Sec. ALI acts or parts Of acts in
conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed. and this act shall be in force
from and after the date of its pas
sage.
The council passed house bill No.
49, an act amending the law relating
to territorial repositories, and allow
ing banks with $4,000 capital to
become such repositories instead of
limiting it to banks having $50,OOO
capital as at present. The house
amendment extending the privileges
of the law to trust companies was
stricken out by the council
Council bill No. SO was passed, an
act by Mr.. Sargent making minor
amendment to the phraseology of the
form for paying money out of the ter
ritorial treasury.
House bill No. "a, an act relating to
the crime of larceny by embezzlement,
and clearing up an obscurity in the
existing law, was passed without OBJ
lection, as was council bill No. 23,
and act for the taking of depositions
of witnesses in New Mexico for use
outside of this territory.
House bill No. 25 the bill defining
the venerable statute known as 'as-
sault with words" and limiting the
| fine for such offense to $15 was
passed after Mr.. Spiess announced
that he had been trying for ten years
to get it repealed. Messrs. Spiess,
Martinez and Miera voted against the
bill.
! The council upon motion of Mr..
| Murray suspended the rules for the
passage of house bill No. 1902, an act
| giving the board of regents of the ag-
ricutural college at Mesilla Park per-
mission to lease an acre of ground
] 4. -. 80. Hn fnn a nH
| of ninety years. to the interna-
/ tlonal committee of the Y. NJ. G. A.,
on which to build a Y M. c. A. build
ing for the college. The bill was
! passed under suspension of the rules
| by unanimous vote.
! A number of bills passed by the
house were brought in and referred.
The council also passed house bill
! No. 81, an act for the protection OF
public bridges and providing fine
! of $5 for fast driving over such
bridges.
Mr.. Murray introduced council bills
SO and SO, the first granting and SELL
| ing to the town of Demlng certain
lands for cemetery purposes; referred
! to the committee on public lands, ana
I the second bill extending to cities IN
I corporated under special charters. the
provisions of sections 1884 and 1888
of the compiled laws relating to the
powers Of municipal government. This
/ bill went to the judiciary committee.
! President Spiess this morning an
nounced the addition of two members
to the judiciary committee. He stated
J that the committee was Hooded with
work, that there was necessity to
subdiVide the. committee and that
i more members were needed. He there
fore appointed Messrs. Martinez and
and Miera to the committee.
The council then adjourned until
! III ttrgdaN rnurninp at u O'clock