Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-06-30
FIRE COMPANY
DEMANDS $500
Asks for Alternative Writ
of Mandamus on Terrific
rial Treasurer
BIG FALLING Off IN FEES
Supreme Court Meets July 10
With Sixty Cases on
Docket.

There was another conference or
governors in the executive chambers
today, but of non-political significance.
Ex-Governor w. T. Thornton called
while Ex-Governor Curry was present
and discussed mining matters with
the executive.
Quarterly Revenue Returns.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero to-
day received from Territorial Secre-
tary Nathan Jaffa today the sum of
S1,875, which represents fees paid for
incorporation filings. This is much
less than the income from that source
has been for many a quarter. Insur-
ance Commissioner Jacobo Chaves
turned oyer $352.50 for the past
quarter.
Supreme Court.
The territorial supreme court will
convene on July 19 at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. About sixty cases are
docketed. The court is still crippled
on account Of the vacancies that re-
main untitled and unless they are
filed, it is doubted whether the court
will be in session long, although it has
work to keep it in session for two
months.
Territorial Treasurer Sued.
In the district court for Santa Fe
county, application was made today
for an alternative writ of mandamus
by the territory of New Mexico ON the
relation of the fire company Of the
American Lumber Company at Albu-
querque and of Bernard Jacobson, as
treasurer of said company VS.. M. A.
Otero, as territorial treasurer. The
company demands that it be paid $500
as provided under the old law giving
fire companies two per cent of the
fire insurance premiums collected in
the territory served by such company.
The old law, it is claimed by the ter
ritorial treasurer, was superseded by
the law passed by the last legislature
which gives a definite sum to certain
designated fire companies. The out
come of this suit will be of much in
of the territory.
Suit was filed in the district court
for Santa Fe county by Thomas G..
Plant and Company VS.. Thomas de
Lallo for $37S.20 on account for a bill
of shoes alleged to have been furnish
ed the defendant.
Pay Day at Capitol.
Today was pay day at the capitol,
being the last day Of the quarter. The
federal officials also had pay day
which put good many thousand dol
lars in circulation.
Wife Beating Had Become Habit.
In district court for Rio Arriba
county, Francisco B. Gallegos, who
had been sentenced to a year in the
penitentiary for wife beating at the
last term and whose sentence had
been commuted pending good beha-
yiour was called before the court and
commitment issued for him as wife
beating seemed to have become a
habit with him from which he could
not refrain, despite the penitentiary
sentence that hung over him.
Opinion by Attorney General.
Robert H. Taylor, Esq,
Chairman, Board of County Com
missioners of Lincoln county,
Carrizozo, New Mexico
Dear Sir: have received your let,
ter of the goth inst, in which you
ask whether or not the treasurer ano
eX-officio tax collector in your county
is entitled to charge or deduct pei
cent of poll taxes and road taxes as
his fees or commission. Chapter ia
of the Laws of 1909 provides thai
county treasurers shall be entitled tt
"4 per cent upon all taxes and Ii
censes collected or received by them.
1t was undoubtedly the intention O.
the legislature by this act to give the
treasurers 4 per cent upon all public
moneys coming to their hands, wheth
er originally collected by them or not
The courts had held under a previous
act which did not haye the word "re
ceived" in 1t, that the treasurers wer'
entitled to the commission only upol
those taxes and licenses collected dl
rectly by them; and in view of tha
fact it is clear that the legislature in
tended the new act to operate a
above stated.
Yours truly,
FRANK w. CLANCY,
Attorney General
Census Office Closed.
The New Mexico census office a
Santa Fe was closed today. A fey
ends will have to be gathered up ye
during the next few days, as ther
are seven districts from which a fey
details are lacking but the return
from the other 303 districts are