C. 13. L. 87, § 1: place of beginning; also to include all the settlements on the San Juan river, below the mouth of the Los Pinos river. Feb. 24. Shall pay propor tion of present indebtedness. Id. § 2. Shall constitute representative dis trict. Id. § 3. Shall constitute part of the first judicial district. id. § 4. § 570. Be it further enacted that said County of San Juan shall pay to the County of Rio Arriba its just proportion of the now outstanding indebtedness of said Rio Arriba county, said apportionment to be ascertained upon the basis of the last assessment of said Rio Arriba county. § 571. Be it further enacted that said County of San Juan shall constitute a representative district, and be entitled to one representative in the house of representatives of the Territory of New Mexico, and shall be attached to the council district of Rio Arriba county. § 572. And be it further enacted that said County of San Juan shall constitute a portion of the first judicial district of New Mexico, and that the district courts shall commence in said county on the fourth Monday of May and October, of each year. ACT APPROVED BY CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, FIFTIETH CON- § 573. That all that portion of the territory included within township eighteen south of ranges three and four west, according to the United States survey, shall hereafter be attached to, and constitute a part of the County of Dona Ana in said territory, and, until further provisions be made as to township lines, shall be a part of that precinct in said county, in which C. 14. L. 87. $ the Town of Colorado is situated. Feb. 24. Id. § 2. Id. § 3. Dividing line between Mora and San Miguel counties. § 574. That all that portion of the Territory of New Mexico included within the following described boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at the northermost point of the eastern boundary line of the County of Dona Ana, and running thence due north to the second parallel south, in said territory according to the United States survey; thence due west along said parallel to the eastern boundary line of the County of Socorro in said territory; thence due south along said eastern boundary line of Socorro county to the northern boundary line of said County of Dona Ana, and thence due east to place of beginning, shall hereafter be attached to, and constitute and form a part of the said County of Dona Ana. § 575. That until proper and regular provisions are made for the establishment of a precinct within the boundaries described in section five hundred and seventy-four, said area so attached to, and forming and constituting a part of the County of Dona Ana, shall constitute and form a portion of the precinct of Tularosa. MORA AND SAN MIGUEL, DIVIDING LINE. $576. The dividing line to be known as the dividing line of the Counties of Mora and San Miguel, shall be as follows: Taking as a fixed point five hundred yards north of the house of Leandro Sanchez, at Pena Blanca, in the County of San Miguel; thence running a line directly to the west to the eastern boundary line of the County of Santa Fe; thence running from said point five hundred yards north of the house of Leandro Sanchez on a line directly east to the fall and source of the Arroyo de la Jara; thence following the current of the Arroyo de la Jara to its junction with the Sapello river; thence following down the Sapello river to the old government bridge or crossing over the El Sapellocito; thence running on a direct line east, or as nearly as may be, to the Pinos Altos, leaving all settlements on both sides of the Mora river, and within the valley of said river, in the County of Mora; thence from Pinos Altos in a direct line to the east to the limits of the Territory of New Mexico. DONA ANA AND LINCOLN, DIVIDING LINE. C. 37. L. 89. § 1: Feb, 12. Dividing line between Dona Ana ties. $ 577. That the line dividing the Counties of Dona Ana and Lincoln shall be as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the and Lincoln coun point where the range line of the public survey of the United States between ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) east of the New Mexico principal meridan crosses the second standard parallel south; thence south to the township line between townships twelve (12) and thirteen (13) south of the base line; thence east upon said line between said townships twelve and thirteen to a point due north of a point where range line between ranges twelve (12) and thirteen (13) south of the fourth standard parallel, south, intersects the fifth standard parallel line between townships twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26); thence due south to the intersection of said range line and along said line south to the southern boundary of the territory. Said line shall be the eastern boundary of Dona Ana county and Feb. 12. the western boundary of Lincoln county. C. 41, L. 89, § 1; Duty to establish monuments at cost $578. Upon the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the Counties of Dona Ana and of counties. Lincoln to employ a competent surveyor to survey said line and establish permanent monuments (not more than five) on said line, one to be at the starting point described in section five hundred and seventy-seven, and one at each corner or angle on said line, and the others, if necessary, at most suitable points on said boundary; the cost of which shall be borne equally by the said counties, and provided the cost of such survey and monuments shall not exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars. CHAVES AND EDDY, ORGANIZATION OF. $579. That the Counties of Chaves and Eddy are hereby created out of all that portion of Lincoln county, lying eastward of a line drawn through said county as follows, to wit: Commencing at the northern boundary line of the County of Lincoln on the line between ranges nineteen and twenty east; thence south on said line to the base line; thence south along the range line between ranges nineteen and twenty east to the first standard parallel south; thence east to the point where the range line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east, south of said first standard parallel intersects said parallel; thence south on the line between said ranges twenty and twenty-one to the second standard parallel south; thence south to the southeast corner of township eleven, south of range twenty east; thence west to the line between ranges Id. §2. Created Feb. 25. C. 87. L. 87, § 1: twenty and twenty-one south of the second standard parallel, south; thence south to the third standard parallel south along the range line between ranges twenty and twenty-one to intersect the third standard parallel, south; thence east along said parallel to where the line from the south side of same between ranges twenty-one and twenty-two intersects said parallel; thence along said range line between ranges twenty-one and twenty-two to the fourth standard parallel, south; thence west along said parallel to the point where the line between ranges twenty-one and twenty-two south of said parallel intersects said parallel, and thence south on said line to the north boundary of the State of Texas. § 580. That all that part of Lincoln county on the west side of the line described in the preceding section shall be and remain in the County of Lincoln. § 581. All that part of the territory of Lincoln county east of said line and north of the third standard parallel south shall be and constitute the County of Chaves, and the remaining territory east of said line and south of said third standard parallel south, shall be and constitute the County of Eddy. 582. The county seat of the County of Chaves shall be in the Town of Roswell in said county and the county seat of Eddy shall be in the Town of Eddy in said county: Provided, That, if at the election for officers at the general election to be held in the year 1890 as in this act provided, a majority of the voters of the County of Eddy shall elect some other place than the Town of Eddy for the county seat of said county, then such other place so receiving a majority of the votes cast in said County of Eddy, shall be the county seat of said county. $ 583. The county officers of the said Counties of Chaves and Eddy shall be elected at the general election to be held in the year 1890 for the purpose of electing officers in the several counties of the territory, and the several officers elected shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties on the 1st day of January, 1891, and until that date the territory embraced in the Counties of Chaves and Eddy shall be and remain in the County of Lincoln. § 584. The governor of the territory during the month of August, 1890, shall appoint three capable and qualified persons, voters within the County of Eddy, as a returning board, whose duties shall be the same as county commissioners in regard to appointment of boards of registration and election. in the several precincts of the said County of Eddy, and the receiving, canvassing and certifying of the returns of the election in said county for delegate to congress, councilman and representative to the territorial legislature, and all county and township officers of said County of Eddy, and the said members of said returning board, before entering upon the discharge of the duties imposed on them shall take the oath of office before some officer qualified to administer oaths as provided for other county officers, and shall be subject to the same penalties for neglect or failure to discharge their several duties as is provided by law in the case of county commissioners when acting in the same capacity, and shall receive like compensation for their services. § 585. W. S. Prager, W. H. H. Miller and Henry Milne are hereby appointed a commission to act as a returning board for the County of Chaves to perform like duties in and for the said County of Chaves, and under the penalties and compensation as provided in the next preceding section for the returning board therein provided. A majority of said boards provided in this and the preceding section shall be a quorum to transact any business. § 586. In case of a vacancy in the commission herein provided from any cause, the same shall be filled by appointment of the governor of the territory upon notice given him by any remaining member thereof, of such vacancy. § 587. The commissioners appointed herein, in section five hundred and eighty-five in addition to the duties therein provided, shall.as soon after the passage of this act as practicable meet and choose one of their members as president and another as secretary of said commission, and the said commission shall thereafter publish a notice for not less than one month, asking for plans and specifications and proposals for the erection of a county court house and jail buildings, and thereafter shall adopt plans and specifications for such county buildings and contract with the lowest and best bidder for the erection of said buildings at a cost not to exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars. The said buildings to be received from the contractor and paid for in county bonds of Chaves county provided for in this act, in the month of January, 1891, or as soon thereafter as the said board of commissioners shall be satisfied of full compliance of contract by the contractor. The said commission by its president and secretary shall keep a complete record of all their proceedings in pursuance of this section and shall at the first meeting of the county commissioners at the County of Chaves in the year 1891 deliver the said record to the board of county commissioners which shall be filed and kept among the records of said county as a part of the records thereof. § 588. The county commissioners of each of the Counties of Chaves and Eddy, for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of suitable court house and jail buildings for their respective counties are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of their respective counties, not to exceed thirty thousand dollars in each county, to run for the period of twenty years, but payable at the option of [their] respective counties after the expiration of ten years from date of issue of said bonds, said bonds to be in the usual form and in sums of one thousand dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum until paid, interest payable semi-annually. The said boards are required, annually, when other taxes are levied and collected, to levy and have collected a tax upon the assessed property of [their] respective counties sufficient to pay said interest and such portion of the principal as shall be necessary to pay such bonds at maturity, or sooner, if it be elected so to do, as hereinafter provided, interest coupons to be attached to said bonds. § 589. The county commissioners of Lincoln county, in the month of December, 1890, shall ascertain the total indebted Feb. 25. C. 87, L. 87, § 11: ness of the said Lincoln county at that date, less cash on hand to pay the same, and shall ascertain, as near as may be done from the assessment roll of the year 1890, the value of all taxable property embraced in the territory of the several Counties of Lincoln, Chaves and Eddy, and the said Counties of Chaves and Eddy shall pay to the said County of Lincoln, respectively, their pro rata share of such indebtedness, and for this purpose may each issue bonds of the same character, interest and denomination as provided in section five hundred and eighty-eight, for the purpose of paying their respective shares of pro rata indebtedness. The bonds authorized in this act shall specify for what purpose or on what account they are issued: Provided, however, That the Counties of Chaves and Eddy shall not be required to pay to the County of Lincoln their pro rata of any indebtedness incurred by the County of Lincoln for any public improvements which shall be made in the said County of Lincoln after the passage of this act. § 590. Until the first day of January, 1891, the County of Lincoln shall remain as now constituted, and the present officers of that county shall exercise the functions of their several offices, receive the pay and emoluments therefor, and in nowise be affected by this act, and all taxes shall be collected, paid and belong to said County of Lincoln as by law provided: Provided, however, That full effect shall be given to provisions of sections preceding in this act. Apportionment of taxes. Id. § 12. Attached to Lincoln for legislative purposes. $591. For representation in the legislature of New Mex(Appor ico the Counties of Chaves and Eddy are hereby attached to the County of Lincoln, and with the said County of Lincoln shall jointly elect one councilman and one representative to the territorial legislature. tionment changed by governor's proclamation. 1891.) Id. § 13. Part of third judicial district. Id. § 14. Terms of court. Id. § 15. Eddy attached to Chaves for judical purposes. Id. $ 16. Precincts remain in both counties. Id. § 17. § 592. For judicial purposes the Counties of Lincoln, Chaves and Eddy shall hereafter be attached to and form a part· of the third judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico. § 593. District court after the first day of January, 1891, shall commence and be held at the county seat of Chaves county at such times as the presiding judge of the third judicial district shall determine, until terms of court shall otherwise be fixed by law. § 594. Until otherwise fixed by law the County of Eddy shall be attached to the County of Chaves for judicial purposes, and all suits brought in the County of Eddy shall be brought to the district court held in and for the County of Chaves, and all writs, recognizances and processes shall be returned accordingly to that county. The county commissioners of the County of Eddy shall have authority to contract for the erection of county buildings whenever it shall be deemed expedient. $595. The several precincts, as they may exist in the County of Lincoln within the territory embraced in the Counties of Chaves and Eddy in the year 1890, shall remain and be precincts in the respective Counties of Chaves and Eddy for the election in that year for all officers then to be voted for in said counties, and thereafter until changed by lawful authority. |