dred and thirty-four ($4,534.00) dollars for the salary of the clerk of the district court of the sixth judicial district of the territory of New Mexico from July first, A. D., 1904, to the first day of December, A. D., 1905; the same to be paid as follows: The accrued salary from July first, 1904, to January first, 1905, to be paid immediately upon the passage and approval of this act, and the auditor of the territory is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer of the territory in favor of the clerk of the said sixth judicial district for the amount so accrued; the remainder to be paid as is now provided by law for the payment of the salaries of the clerks of the district courts of the other judicial districts of New Mexico. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and. after its passage. CHAPTER 2. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE THE COUNTY OF TORRANCE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THEREOF," APPROVED MARCH 16, 1903. C. B. No. 30; Approved February 2, 1905. CONTENTS. Sec. I. Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, creating County of Torrance amended. 2. Section 1, Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, fixing boundaries of Torrance county, amended. New boundaries. Section 2, Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, fixing county seat at Progreso, amended. Estancia made county seat. Proviso. Section 7, Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, attaching Torrance county to second judicial district, re-enacted. Transfer of causes from Valencia county to Torrance county. Section 9, Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, providing bond issue to pay indebtedness due County of Valencia, amended. New Bonds. Form. Maturity. Rate of interest. Sinking fund. Sec. 6. Act not to affect any section of Chapter 70, Laws of 1903, unless ex Sec. 7. Sec. 8. Transfer from Valencia county to Torrance county of records relating to Treasurer of Valencia county to turn over moneys belonging to Tor Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section I. That the act of the Legislative Assembly entitled "An Act to create the County of Torrance and to provide for the government thereof," approved March 16th, 1903, being Chapter 70 of the Acts of 1903 be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Sec. 2. That Section 1 of said Act is hereby amended to read: "That a county which shall be known as Torrance county is hereby created out of that portion of the Territory of New Mexico included within the following boundaries, as indicated by the United States surveys, to-wit: "Commencing at the standard corner to sections No. 33 and No. 34, township one north, range five east of the New Mexico principal base line, and running thence north through the center of townships one, two and three north to the line between townships three and four north; thence west on the said township line to the southwest corner of township four north, range five east; thence north on the range line between ranges four and five east, to the southwest corner of township eight north, range five east; thence east on the township line between townships seven and eight north, to the southeast corner of township eight north, range seven east; thence north on the range line between ranges seven and eight east, to the northwest corner of township eight north, range eight east, on the second standard parallel north; thence west on the second standard parallel north to the southwest corner of township nine north, range seven east; thence north on the range line between ranges six and seven east to the northwest corner of township nine north, range seven east; thence east on the township line between townships nine and ten north, to the northeast corner of township nine north, range fifteen east; thence south on the range line between ranges fifteen and sixteen east, to the New Mexico principal base line; and thence west on said New Mexico principal base line, to the place of beginning." Sec. 3. That Section 2 of said Act is amended to read: "The county seat of the said County of Torrance shall be, and the same is hereby located at the town of Estancia, in said county," upon the condition that the necessary land and site for a court house and jail at said town of Estancia shall be donated to said county by the owner or owners of the town site at said town. Sec. 4. And, whereas, the said County of Torrance has been included in the sixth judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico, to the great inconvenience of the people of said county, therefore, be it further enacted that Section 7 of the said Act be re-enacted in the same words as are used in the original act, that is to say: "The said County of Torrance is hereby attached to the second judicial district for judicial purposes, and the district court for the trial of causes arising under the laws of the territory shall be held therein by the judge of said court at such times as may be provided by law," and all indictments and civil causes now pending in the County of Valencia, originating within the County of Torrance as bounded and defined in this Act, shall be tried in said County of Torrance, and the clerk of the district court of the said second judicial district shall transfer said causes on the docket from said County of Valencia to said County of Torrance, and the said causes shall be tried, and the venue of said court shall be held to have attached, as if the said County of Torrance had been created and in existence when said indictments were found and said civil suits brought. Sec. 5. That Section 9 of said Act shall be and the same is hereby amended to read: "That the said County of Torrance shall assume and pay to the County of Valencia, from which the said County of Torrance has been partly segregated and organized, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars on account of the outstanding legal and valid indebtedness of the said County of Valencia, and for this purpose the said County of Torrance shall issue bonds, in the said sum of twetny-five thousand dollars, payable thirty years after date and bearing date the first day of January, A. D., 1905, and shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed five per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. Said bonds to be in the usual form, and in the sum of one hundred dollars or any multiple thereof, and the county commissioners of the said County of Torrance are required annually, when other taxes are levied and collected, to levy and cause to be collected upon all taxable property of said county, a sum sufficient to pay said interest. And said county commissioners are hereby required and it shall be their duty, from and after ten years from the date of said bonds, to levy and collect a sufficient tax to create a sinking fund to pay off, take up, and discharge, said bonds at maturity. Said tax shall be levied and collected each year thereafter, beginning with the year A. D., 1915. Said bonds when issued, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the said County of Valencia, to be held by said county, or to be used by said county, in the payment and redemption of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of said county. Sec. 6. That this act shall not be so construed as to affect any section of the original act not herein expressly referred to, and all the officers of said County of Torrance chosen at the last general election, shall hold their offices as if this act had not been passed. Sec. 7. The board of county commissioners of the County of Torrance are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be copied all deeds, conveyances and records on file in the old County of Valencia, and have the same re-recorded in Torrance county, relating to any lands, real estate or tenements in said County of Torrance, and said board is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such agents as they may see fit, and when said records have been recorded in said County of Torrance they shall convey the same notice, as would have been conveyed had said county always existed, and said record had been therein recorded in the first place. Sec. 8. That within thirty days after the passage and approval of this act, or as soon thereafter as can conveniently be done, the treasurer and collector of Valencia county, shall turn over and pay, taking his receipt therefor, to the treasurer and collector of the said County of Torrance, any and all school moneys, apportioned, in his possession on the first day of January, A. D., 1905, and properly belonging to said County of Torrance: Provided, However, That, before such delivery is made, the said treasurer and collector of Valencia county must be furnished with a certificate from the superintendent of public instruction of the territory, showing that the said treasurer of Torrance county has been duly qualified as ex-officio treasurer of the school funds of his county. Sec. 9. That 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 the date of its passage. CHAPTER 3. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES C. B. CONTENTS. Certificates of indebtedness to be issued. Form. Maturity. Rate of Interest. Signatures of territorial auditor and treasurer. Levy for payment of interest and principal. Manner of redemption of certificates. Order of redemption to be determined by lot. Certificates of indebtedness and coupons to be numbered. Proviso. Sec. 5. Appropriation out of "Flood Sufferers' Relief Fund." Counties benefited. County commissioners to receive sums appropriated as trustees. Sec. 6. County commissioners to pro rate proceeds among sufferers. Commis sioners to ascertain names of persons suffering total loss. Persons able to provide necessities not entitled to benefits. Proviso. Sec. 7. Sec. 8. 9. Sec. 10. Moneys received to be deposited with county treasurer. Warrants. Vouchers. Necessary expenses. Proviso. Appropriation for construction of dyke at Albuquerque. Mayor and city council to supervise. Report to governor. Appropriation for construction of dyke at City of Socorro. Mayor and city council to supervise. Report to governor. Sec. 11. Appropriation for construction of dyke at San Marcial. Commission appointed by governor to supervise. Duties of commission. Sec. 12. Appropriation for construction of dyke at Hillsboro. Commission ap pointed by governor to supervise. Duties of commission. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: Section I. That to provide for the payment of the appropriations hereinafter specified there shall be an issue of certificates of indebtedness of the Territory of New Mexico, the form for which certificates shall be prescribed by the solicitor general of the territory; such certificates shall be dated March 1, 1905, they shall be payable five years from their date with the right of the territory to pay them at any time after the expiration of one year from their date; they shall be issued in sums of one hundred dollars or multiples thereof. They shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of March and September; principal and interest payable at the office of the territorial treasThe certificates shall be signed by the auditor of public accounts and by the territorial treasurer and the coupons attached thereto for the semi-annual interest shall have the engraved or lithographed fac-simile signature of the treasurer thereon. urer. The certificates herein authorized shall be sold by the territorial treasurer at not less than par and the proceeds placed by the said territorial treasurer in the territorial treasury to the credit of a special fund to be known as the "Flood Sufferers' Relief Fund.” Sec. 2. To provide for the payment of the interest and principal of the certificates authorized by Section 1 of this Act, it shall be the duty of the auditor to levy annually, beginning with the year 1905, a tax on all taxable property in the territory sufficient to pay into the territorial treasury a sum sufficient to pay the interest and twenty per cent. of the principal of said certificates for each and every year for the term of five years, and the auditor shall certify to the respective boards of |