Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-30
REM|G|O LOPEZ
RETAINS SEAT
1t Took Less Than a Minute
For House to Pass On
Contest
MANY COMMITTEE REPORTS
Representatives Working Hard
to Dispose of Accumulated
Business.

The House set a new record in dis.
! Losing Of legislation this afternoon. II
/ decided the Martinez-Lopez contest
case in record time in favor of Lopez
1t passed one Senate Bill and several
House bills in the time that it takes
to call the roll and announce the re
suit, recommitted several measures
| set the Medical Bill on the calendar
Tor tomorrow, received large number
or committee reports, petitions and
Dllls and in committee of the whole
considered the Uniform Child Labor
Bill by Burg, a complete and lengthy
code covering the entire subject in
detail.
Salary Bill Introduced by Speaker
Baca.
Section l, of the County Salary Bill
introduced by Speaker Baca this aft.
ernoon, divides counties into four
classes: Glass 1, with assessed valu-
alton above s3,500,000; Glass .. with
assessment of $2,250,0O0 to S3,500.O00;
Glass 3, with assessment of 81. SOC. 900
to $2,25O,O00; Glass 4, with less than
$1,500,O00.
Section 2, provides that the assess
ed valuation for 1911 shall be the sal
airy basis until January |, 1914, There
after the state auditor shall classify
the counties on December l, each two
years.
Section 4, provides for the creation
or salary fund, into which all fees.
etc, and 8 per cent of all tax collec-
tions shall go.
Section 5, provides that the county
commissioners shall pay all salaries
quarterly. If the salary fund is in
sufficient, then deficiencies shall be
paid out of the general county funds.
In counties of the first class, the
salaries shall be: County commits
sioners, 5000; sheriff, $4,000; county
clerks, $4,500; school superintendent,
$4,000; probate judge, $1,000; asses
sor $3,500; treasurer, $4,500; surveyor
$3.50 per annum
The county clerk is to have $1,000
per annum for an assistant acting as
district clerk; the sheriff 81 500 for >
chief deputy; $1,000 for a second dep
uty; $500 for guard; 5000 for jaior;
S12O for assistant jailer 5000 for gen.
eral expenses fund rs cents a day for
feeding the first ten prisoners: 50
cents a day for each prisoner above
ten. The sheriff shall also be reim-
bursed for all expense incurred in
transporting prisoners or insane per-
sons
In counties of the second class, the
salaries shall be: County commission
ers $500; sheriff, $4,000; county clerk,
$4,000; and $1,000 for deputy; super
Iirtendent, $4,000; probate judge, 5000;
assessor, $4,000; treasurer, $4,000;
surveyor, $500; deputy sheriff, $1,000;
second deputy, 500; jailer, 1920; as
sistant jailer, 5000; general sheriff
expenses, 5000 and allowances the
same as in the first class.
In counties of the third class, the
salaries shall be: County commission
ers, $500; sheriff, $500; county clerk
| $500; superintendent, $500; pro-
bate judge, $500; assessor, $4,000;
treasurer, $500; surveyor, $3.50; dep
uty clerk, $1,000; chief deputy sheriff,
5000; jailer, 5000; general sheriff's ex-
pense fund, $780, and the same al
lowance for Jail prisoners and trans.
portation expenses as in other coun-
ties.
In counties of the fourth class, the
county commissioners are to receive
5000; sheriff, $2,500; county clerk,
$4,000; superintendent, $1,000; pro.
bate judge, $500; assessor, s1,5O0;
treasurer $4,000; surveyor, 5000; dep
uty clerk, $500; deputy sheriff, $500;
jailer, $500; $3.50 general expenses,
and same allowance for prisoners, and
transportation as in other counties.
|
Officers must pay fees monthly to
proper officials. A penalty of $500 to
$1,000, or by Imprisonment of one to
five years or both for failing to per-
form their duty or failing to pay over
public funds. The emergency clause
is added to the bill.
House.
Speaker Baca presided. The read
ing of the Journal was dispensed with.
Petitions in favor of prohibition from
Valencia county; petition asking
that teachers be paid full time for at
tending institutes from Valencia coun-
ty; petitions against prize fights; a
petition presented by Vargas and
Montoya from Tres Piedras, asking
for the re-establishment of the D. &
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