CHAPTER 114. AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN, PRESCRIBING FEES TO BE PAID FOR FILING THEIR ARTI CLES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. H. B. No. 170; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. Sec. Sec. 2. I. Corporations to file certificate of incorporation. Fees per classified list. Incorporation papers to be filed with county recorder. Misdemeanor for any recorder to file incorporation papers not certified by secretary of territory. 3. Application of fees collected by secretary of territory. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section 1. Every corporation, joint-stock company or association incorporated or consolidated by or under any general or special law of this territory, or by or under any general or special law of any foreign state or kingdom, or of any state or territory of the United States beyond the limits of this territory, shall, before doing business in this territory, file in the office of the secretary of this territory the certificate of incorporation, articles of association or charter as required by law and at the time of such filing shall pay to the secretary of the territory the following fees: For railroad or other corporations formed for pecuniary profit, ten cents for each and every thousand dollars of capitalization, and a like fee upon each subsequent increase of capital, but in no case less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00); For filing any certificate of amendment to articles of incorporation other than one increasing capital stock. or any translated copy of articles or amendments, ten dollars ($10.00); For filing any certificate of business and agent, when required by law, five dollars ($5.00); For corporations organized for benevolent, charitable, educational, religious and scientific purposes, having no capital stock, one dollar ($1.00); For filing any certificate of amendment to such articles of incorporation, one dollar ($1.00); For filing any certificate, instrument or document other than those specified above, one dollar ($1.00); Sec. 2. Every corporation, domestic or foreign, shall file with the recorder of deeds of the county in which its principal place of business in this territory is located, a copy of its articles of incorporation, of every amendment thereto and likewise any certificate designating agent and place of business in this territory, certified from the office of the secretary of the territory; and it shall be a misdemeanor for any recorder to file or record in his office any incorporation. papers or copies thereof not previously certified by the secretary of the territory. Sec. 3. Whenever the fees collected under the provisions of this act shall be in excess of the sum of five dollars ($5.00) for each separate filing, such excess shall be held by the secretary of the territory for the use of the territory, and shall be paid over to the territorial treasurer at the end of each quarter, beginning June 30, 1903. Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force and effect from and after April 1, 1903. CHAPTER 115. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT RELATING TO TRUST COMPANIES. C. B. No. 131; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Section 17, chapter 52, Laws of 1903, regarding term of office of boards of directors of trust companies. Amended. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico : Section I. Section 17 of an act entitled "An Act relating to trust companies," approved on the 12th day of March, A. D. 1903, be and the same is hereby amended by the enactment of the following: The directors of such corporation shall be elected for one year, unless the number thereof exceeds five, and in that case the articles of incorporation may divide them into classes as now provided by said section 17 of said act. But if the articles of incorporation do not so provide, all directors shall be elected for one year. Sec. 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 116. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR SPRINKLING OF STREETS IN CITIES CONTENTS. C. Sec. 1. City councils may assess cost of sprinkling streets against abutting prop erty. Sec. 2. Amount assessed to be a lien on property. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section I. That whenever the city council of any city in the Territory of New Mexico shall determine that the streets within its limits, or certain streets, or parts of streets, shall be watered in whole or in part at the expense of the owners of property abutting on such streets or parts thereof, such city council shall estimate and determine the expense of watering such streets or portions of streets, and the proportion of such expense to be borne by such owners of abutting property, and the rate to be assessed against each lineal foot of frontage of such abutting property, and thereupon shall proceed to assess, and shall assess, against each lot or parcel of land so abutting upon such street or portion thereof its proportionate share of such expense according to its frontage. Sec. 2. That the amount so assessed against each of such lots and parcels of land so abutting upon such street or part thereof, shall constitute and be a lien upon the same, and such amount shall be collected and such lien enforced in the same manner and by the same proceeding as provided by law for the enforcement of liens issued for other classes of street improvement. Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 117. AN ACT TO PREVENT INDECENT EXPOSURE. C. B. No. 135; Approved March 19, 1903. CONTENTS. Sec. I. Indecent exposure of person. Penalty. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section I. That any person who shall hereafter indecently expose his person in or upon the streets or other public places in any unincorporated village, town or city in this territory shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion. of the court trying the same. Sec. 2. passage. This act shall be in effect from and after its CHAPTER 118. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION, ARRANGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION OR ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR OF 1904, AND TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR. H. B. No. 192; Approved March 19, 1903. Sec. 1. Sec. 2. Sec. 3. CONTENTS. Territorial Board of Lousiana Purchase Exposition Managers of New Compensation of members of board. Proviso. Secs. 4, 5, 6, and 9. Duties of board. Sec. 8. Tax levy to be made by auditor. Treasurer authorized to make loan. Sub-commission. County commissioners may make appropriation. Pro Sec. 10. Sec. 11. viso. Chapter 100, Laws of 1901, regarding Lousiana Purchase Exposition. Repealed. Funds raised under provisions of chapter 100, Laws of 1901, made available. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section I. That for the purpose of exhibiting the resources, products and general development of the Territory of New Mexico at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition or St. Louis World's Fair to take place within or near the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, in 1904, a commission is hereby created to be called the Territorial Board of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Managers of New Mexico to be organized and continue its duties as hereinafter provided, said commission to consist of seven members residents of said Territory of New Mexico. The members of said territorial board shall be appointed by the governor of New Mexico within sixty days after the passage of this act. Sec. 2. Said members shall meet within thirty days after their appointment, and organize by the election of a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall act as aforesaid and in the absence of the president the vice-president of said board shall be the presiding officer thereof. Five members of said board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The said board shall have power to make rules, and regulations for its own government, and to do such other things as may be necessary and proper for carrying out these provisions of this act. Any member of said board may be removed, at any time, by the governor, for cause, and any vacancy which may occur in the membership of the board shall be filled by appointment by the governor. Sec. 3. The members of the board created by virtue of this act shall be entitled to their actual expenses for transportation, and the sum of three dollars ($3.00) per day for subsistence for each day necessarily absent from their homes on business of said board, but no member of said board shall receive any further compensation from said territory: Provided, that no member of said board shall receive any compensation for any time that he is not actually engaged in attending to the meetings or the work as prescribed in this act as being the duty of said board. Sec. 4. The said board shall have charge of the collection and preparation of the exhibits of New Mexico for said exposition or St. Louis World's Fair and it shall communicate with the officers thereof and obtain and disseminate through New Mexico all necessary information regarding said exposition in due and ample time for the proper exhibit of said resources and products of New Mexico at said exposition. Sec. 5. The members of said board shall have and exercise full authority in relation to the participation, the displaying and the arrangement of the exhibits of New Mexico, and the reception of its citizens, at the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, but shall incur no expense to the Territory of New Mexico in said reception of its citizens. Sec. 6. The said board shall make a report of its proceedings and expenditures from time to time to the governor and at any time upon written request; and such reports shall be transmitted by him to the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico of 1905, together with such suggestions as he may deem important for future like exhibitions. Sec. 7. To carry out the provisions of this act the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from taxes to be levied and collected for said purpose, as hereinafter provided, and the territorial treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same, from the fund to be created out of said taxes to be levied and |