C. 42, L. 95. § 4: Feb 13.

send one student

annually.

§ 3670. Before the delivery of the bonds herein provided for, the board of regents of said New Mexico Military InstiEach county may tute shall agree that each county in the territory may, through its county commissioners, by competitive examination, or in some other manner to be determined by such commissioners, appoint one student annually who shall, without any charge or matriculation or tuition, receive during the year for which such student shall have been so appointed, instruction in the regular courses taught in said institute; and the auditor of public accounts shall be authorized to deliver said bonds only after said board of regents shall have presented to him a resolution or duly attested copy thereof, embodying the afore said agreement.

Regents may increase tuition fee.

§ 3671. The regents of the New Mexico Military Institute may charge a larger tuition fee if it is deemed necessary to C. 72. L. 95, § 6: do so to maintain said institute.

Feb. 27.

Establishing

school.

DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL.

§ 3672. A school for the education of the deaf and dumb C. 31, L. 87, § 1: children resident in this territory, is hereby established.

Feb. 24.

Management.

Id. $2.

Committee shall provide suitable buildings.

Id. § 3.

Salaries, rents..

etc.

Id. § 4.

Territorial school.

Id. § 5.

To be territorial school.

Id. § 6.

§ 3673. The school provided for in the next preceding section of this act, is hereby placed under management and control of a committee consisting of the attorney general, auditor and treasurer of the territory, who shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the government of the same, and shall have power to employ teachers and fix the salary or compensation therefor, and shall fix and regulate the amount to be paid by each pupil: but they may admit indigent pupils to said school, free of charge, in which event the territory shall pay therefor whatever said committee may allow: Provided, That the total sum to be paid by the territory shall at no time exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per month, and only indigent children between the ages of eight and seventeen years shall be admitted free to said school.

§ 3674. On a proper showing of facts, said committee shall have power to make a reduction in the amount required to be paid by any pupil, not indigent, where it may appear that said pupil, or its parents, cannot pay the full amount so required.

§ 3675. The committee provided for in this act shall provide, at the expense of the territory, suitable buildings and property, either by renting the same or by purchase, and shall locate said school.

§ 3676. All payments required to be made under the provisions of this act, for salary, for tuition fees, and support of indigent pupils, and for rents and property, or for anything else to properly carry into effect this act, shall be made out of the territorial treasury, on the warrant of the auditor, who is hereby authorized to draw the same on the order of said committee, or a majority of its members.

§ 3677. The school herein provided for shall be a territorial school and shall in no manner be considered a private institution.

HOSPITALS.

§ 3678. A sum not exceeding five hundred and sixty dollars per month is hereby appropriated out of any money in the territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, to aid the Sisters of Charity of Santa Fe in taking care of and providing for the indigent sick and invalid persons of the territory, to be paid as hereinafter provided in this act.

$3679. The archbishop of the territory, the governor and attorney general of the territory, the chief justice of the supreme court of the territory, and the physician of the hospital, shall constitute a board of visitors of the said hospital of the Sisters of Charity at Santa Fe, and the sum of five dollars and twenty-five cents per week shall be allowed and paid to said sisters for each person admitted into the hospital on the certificate, or on the approval of said board of visitors, or by a majority of the persons constituting said board, for the time such person shall remain in said hospital, with the approval of said board.

§ 3680. The account of the said sisters under the foregoing section, shall be presented monthly to the auditor of public accounts, and he shall draw his warrant on the territorial treasurer in favor of said sisters for the sum of such account, on the approval of the same by said board of visitors, or a majority of the members of the same: Provided, That no more than five hundred and sixty dollars shall be paid for any one month.

§ 3681. No money shall be allowed and paid by the territorial treasurer to the said sisters, or on account of said hospital, except the sums provided in this act, and in the manner provided for by this act.

3682. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month is hereby appropriated to the Grant County Charity Hos pital Society, to be audited monthly by the territorial auditor, on a requisition signed by the president of said society, attested by the secretary of said society, and countersigned by the chairman of the board of county commissioners.

See section four thousand one hundred and seventy-seven.

Annual report to be made.

§ 3683. Annual reports shall be made by these charitable institutions to the governor of New Mexico, itemizing accounts of all expenditures, number of days each party has been confined in said institution, and that all sums paid out for said institutions shall be audited monthly and paid by the auditor by his warrant on the treasurer, upon a requisition from the proper authority of each institution, and that no part of any hospital or relief society fund shall be used for salaries of officials, nurses or other employes, but shall be used exclusively for the relief and care of poor and indigent persons. March 18.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

§ 3684. For protecting and maintaining property of the Historical Society of New Mexico, and for the purchase of historical objects, documents and books, six hundred dollars. 72 The rooms of the said society shall be kept open to the publie, free of any charge, at suitable hours, every day. Said society

C. 72. L. 97. § 2.

Appropriation.

Amended, L. 97. Č.

C. 48, L. 87, shall make a report of its operations, at each session of the legislature.

Feb. 12.

WEATHER BUREAU.

§ 3685. That there be and hereby is established, in the Territory of New Mexico, a weather and crop service, co-operating with the weather bureau of the United States department of agriculture, for the purpose of collecting and preserving meteorological data and crop statistics, and to promote and disseminate a general knowledge of the climatology of the territory and its productive resources.

§ 3686. That the said weather and crop service shall be under the supervision and management of a director, who shall be an official of the weather bureau of the United States department of agriculture, and shall be designated for that purpose by the chief of the weather bureau at Washington, D. C., and said director shall receive no pay from the territory for his services.

§ 3687. That the said director shall establish voluntary stations of observation throughout the territory, to the number of one or more in each county, which shall be equipped with instruments furnished by the United States weather bureau, and shall appoint observers thereat, who are willing to perform the necessary duties without expense to the territory; and the said director shall supervise said voluntary stations, receive reports for same of meteorological events and crop conditions, and tabulate the same for permanent record, and shall edit and cause to be printed for free distribution, in such numbers as he may deem necessary to best serve the interests of the territory, weekly weather crop bul letins during the season from April first to October first, in each year, and a monthly report throughout the entire year, containing climatological and agricultural matter of public interest and educational value.

§ 3688. That the said director shall compile an annual report, addressed to the governor of the territory, and cause the same to be printed, in such numbers as he may deem best, for free distribution, and said report shall contain a complete review and summary of the year's labors and observations.

§ 3689. That all moneys appropriated under this act shall be expended upon the order of the director of the weather and crop service, subject to the approval of the governor of the Territory of New Mexico.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

§ 3690. An issue of the bonds of the Territory of New Mexico is hereby authorized and directed to be made in the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, to be known as, Territorial Institutions Bonds. Such bonds shall be issued in the denomination of one thousand dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, interest payable semi-annually, on the first days of January and July of each and every year until maturity, and principal and interest payable at such place as may be agreed upon by the purchaser of said

bonds, in the City of New York, State of New York, or in the City of Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico, but to be designated and mentioned on the face of said bonds; said bonds shall be signed by the governor and treasurer of the territory and countersigned by the auditor of public accounts, and shall be made payable in thirty years from July 1st, 1895, but redeemable at the pleasure of the territory at any time after ten years from their date. The same shall be dated July 1st, 1895.

§ 3691. The auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds, and to give notice of such assessment to the several officers who are charged with the duty of assessment of taxes in the several counties of the territory, who shall assess the same in the same manner that other taxes are required to be assessed for territorial purposes; and for the final redemption of the principal of said bonds there shall, in the same manner,' be annually levied, after the expiration of ten years from the date of the issue of said bonds, an annual tax sufficient to provide for the payment of such bonds by or before the maturity thereof.

§ 3692. Said bonds, when so issued, shall be delivered, ten thousand dollars of the face value thereof to the board of regents of the normal school at Las Vegas, ten thousand dollars to the board of regents of the normal school at Silver City, and fifteen thousand dollars to the board of regents of the New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts, at Las Cruces, and negotiated by the board of regents of each of said territorial institutions to the best advantage possible, and the proceeds thereof shall be used by the board of regents of each of said territorial institutions, from the amount of said bonds so delivered to them, in the erection, completion and furnishing of suitable buildings and other improvements that may be made under the direction of said board of regents, for the benefit of their respective institutions and for the providing for the needed and necessary furniture and furnishings of their respective institutions, in such manner as to the board of regents may seem best: Provided, however, Said bonds shall not be sold under par, but the necessary expense of their negotiation may be deducted or paid from the amount realized from the sale of said bonds or any of them.

§ 3693. Hereafter, whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the board of regents of the University of New Mexico, and of the Agricultural College and Agricultural Station of New Mexico, the board of trustees of the School of Mines, the board of directors of the New Mexico Insane Asylum and the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners to acquire title to any lands for the use of any such institution and the owner or owners of such lands are unable or unwilling to accept a fair and reasonable price for such lands, then, and in that event, each of the said several boards may acquire, in the name of the Territory of New Mexico, title to so much of said land or lands as shall be deemed necessary by any such board for the use of any such institution, in the same manner as now provided by law for the condemnation of land for railroad pur

C. 68, L. 93, § 1; poses, and such land so taken shall be deemed to be taken for public use.

Feb. 23.

Unlawful for offcers of, to contract debts

Penalty.

Officers, includes members of boards.

C. 58. L. 93. § 1. 2 and 3: Feb. 23.

§ 3693a. That it shall be unlawful for any officer of any territorial institution of this territory to incur or contract any indebtedness for or on behalf of, or in the name of such territorial institution, or in the name of the territory, in excess of the sum appropriated by the general assembly for the use or support of such institution for the fiscal year. Nor shall any officer of any territorial institution draw any money from the territorial treasury unless the same shall be absolutely needed and required by such institution at the time, and then only upon the warrant of the territorial auditor.

Any person offending against the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and dismissal, in the discretion of the court.

The term, Officer, as used in this act shall be taken to include members of the various boards created by the law to govern or supervise the respective institutions.