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For salary, territorial engineer.
For fish and game warden ...

$ 2,000 00 1,800 00

MISCELLANEOUS FUND.

Sec. 7. For printing briefs and the expenses in cases brought and defended by the Territory and actual expenses incurred by the attorney general when required to attend and defend cases brought by or against the Territory in any of the district courts of the Territory and for stationery for his office... For printing dockets and calendars of the supreme court, and for stationery....

500 00

200 00

Sec. 8. Hereafter the sheriffs of the various counties of this Territory shall only be entitled to draw mileage for one person in charge of prisoners transported to the penitentiary, and they shall only be entitled to charge the actual expenses for the prisoners so conveyed, and shall be entitled to charge per diem at the rate of five ($5.00) dollars per day for each guard and the actual cost of transportation. vided, That sheriffs shall not be entitled to more than one guard for two prisoners, and one guard for every three additional prisoners, and such sheriffs are hereby required to convey at one time all prisoners sentenced during any one term of court.

Sec. 9. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the different boards of election canvassers to cause the election returns to be sent to the seat of government to be forwarded by some express company, and upon delivery of said returns to said express company they shall take a receipt therefor, and immediately forward said receipts by registered mail to the Secretary of the Territory. Provided, further, That when the county seat of any county from which the returns are to be forwarded has no express company, then and in no other case, said board of election canvassers shall designate one of their number a special messenger to convey said returns to the nearest express office to be forwarded as above provided, and take a receipt therefor, and the said messenger shall be allowed for his services twelve and one-half (12-4) cents per mile for conveying said returns for each and every mile actually and necessarily traveled from the county seat to such express office.

Sec. 10. Rent of armories..

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2,162 00

Pay for men and officers National Guard of New
Mexico during encampment....

2,700 00

Traveling expenses of adjutant general..

500 00

Freight, maintenance of militia, postage and contingent expenses......

2,138 00

Provided, That only so much of the foregoing
amounts as may be necessary shall be used
for the respective purposes mentioned.
Sec. 11. For the printing, binding and deli
very of three hundred copies each of Vol.
umes 14 and 15, New Mexico Supreme Court
Reports...
To A. J. Abbott for compiling and editing vol-
umes of New Mexico Supreme Court Re-
ports for the years 1905 and 1906......
For territorial library for purchase of books...
For territorial library, for freight, express, post-
age, insurance, stationery, printing, labels
for books, and other necessary incidental
expenses, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.....

$ 1,800 00

500 00 1,000 00

800 00

All appropriations for the territorial library shall hereafter be expended and disbursed under the management and direction of the board of trustees of the territorial library. Sec. 12. For contingent expenses governor's office, payable upon order of the governor..

Por postage, printing, express, blanks, and incidentals, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the auditor is hereby allowed for the auditor's office.

3,000 00

1,200 00

For services rendered the house of representatives there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the territorial treasury, except the interest fund, the following:

300 00

150 00

150 00

To Telesforo Mirabal

To Juan Santistevan
To Fred Baca....

For postage, express, printing, blanks, publica-
tion of quarterly reports, incidental ex-
penses for commissions and exchange, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, the treas-
urer is hereby allowed for the treasurer's
office....

For contingent expenses, fish and game warden.
For expenses of New Mexico Historical Society.
For purchase of relics, documents and other

historical objects

For printing and contingent expenses, office of
superintendent of public instruction, or so
much thereof as may be necessary...
Office incidentals, superintendent of public ins-
truction...

1,000 00

500 00

500 00,

500 00

700 00

400 00

Publishing annual report, superintendent of pub-
lic instruction.
Publishing Flag Day program, superintendent
of public instruction.
Stenographer office of superintendent of public
instruction...

For salary of stenographer superintendent of
public instruction, during remainder of 58th
fiscal year, payable out of salary fund of
the Territory for said last named year....
For traveling expenses during the remainder of
the 58th fiscal year there is hereby allowed to
the superintendent of public instruction,
payable out of any funds in hands of the
territorial treasurer, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, the sum of........
For traveling expenses and office contingent
expenses, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, the traveling auditor is hereby
allowed..

For traveling expenses of the territorial engi-
neer or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary...

For contingent expenses and additional clerk hire necessary, the Secretary of the Terri tory is hereby allowed.....

For printing tax book and schedules and books of account, records and blanks furnished county treasurers under the provisions of Section 2, Chapter 54, Laws of 1903.......

For printing, postage, and incidental expenses for the Bureau of Immigration.

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Provided, That the Bureau of Immigration may appoint one

or more agents outside of the Territory to promote and encourage immigration into New Mexico.

For per diem and expenses of sheriffs in conveying prisoners to the penitentiary, or so much thereof as may be necessary.....

For printing poll books, registration books and other necessary blanks for the election of 1908, and conveying and forwarding election returns to the seat of government, freight and express...

For printing in Spanish, the laws and journals of the 37th Legislative Assembly, the same to be delivered to and distributed by, the Secretary of the Territory, and to be paid for

5,500 00

600 00

upon completion and delivery to the Secretary.... For printing in the Spanish langage the bills of the 37th Legislative Assembly, to be paid out of any funds in the territorial treasury except interest fund, or so much thereof as may be necessary..

$ 1,500 00

2,000 00 Section 203 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 is hereby amended as follows:

"Hereafter, each year, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of each county in the Territory, at their first meeting after the return of the assessment of the property for taxation by the county assessors respectively, to levy a special tax of three and one half mills on each dollar of the appraised value of all cattle in the county, to be known as the Cattle Indemnity Fund."

"Such special tax shall be collected in the several counties and paid to the territorial treasurer in the manner provided by law for the collection and payment to such treasurer of other territorial taxes. Such fund shall be kept separately by such treasurer, and shall be used exclusively for the payment of indemnity claims for cattle that shall be slaughtered, and for fees, salaries, wages, costs and expenses provided under the provisions of this act, and shall be paid out by such treasurer on the order of said board. All moneys shall be assessed, levied and collected at the expense of the several counties, and where the commissioners of any county shall neglect or fail to make said levy, they shall become personally responsible to the Cattle Indemnity Fund in an amount equal to twenty-five per cent. of the levy." For translation of the laws and journals of the

37th Legislative Assembly, the same to be
done under the direction and control of the
Secretary of the Territory, who shall con-
tract therefor in the name of the Territory,
to be paid for upon the certificate of the sec-
retary certifying that the said translations
have been made and completed, and payment
for which shall be made out of any funds in
the territorial treasury, except the interest
fund; Provided, That such translations shall
be completed within ninety days after the
adjournment of the 37th Legislative Assem-
bly, and; Provided, further, That the Secre
tary of the Territory is hereby required to
furnish copies commencing within ten days
after the adjournment of said Legislative

Assembly of the laws and journals, and from day to day thereafter as the same may be required for use, for the purpose of making such translations, until such translations shall have been completed, or so much thereof as may be necessary.. .... $ 1,200 00 Provided, All appropriations for the traveling auditor for contingent expenses and traveling expenses, shall be paid out of the Salary Fund monthly, and all appropriations made for such officer shall in like proportion apply to the balance of the 58th fiscal year.

Sec. 13. The Treasurer of the Territory of New Mexico is hereby authorized and directed to loan to the County of Quay, in the Territory of New Mexico, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the period of five years, which loan shall be evidenced by a note payable to the order of said treasurer, executed by the board of county commissioners of said county, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, interest to be payable semi-annually, and the Attorney General of said Territory is hereby directed to prepare the form of said note. The amount of said loan shall be paid to J. A. Street, of said County of Quay, or order, to re-imburse him for wages of guard and jailor at the county jail of said County of Quay for the years of 1903 and 1904, upon presentation by him of itemized and verified account therefor. The county commissioners of said County of Quay are hereby directed and required to assess, levy and collect in the same manner as the general taxes in said county are assessed, levied and collected, a sufficient amount of taxes each year after this date to raise one-fifth of the said sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), which said amounts as collected shall be retained in a special fund to be designated as the "Territorial Loan Fund," and shall be used exclusively for the purpose of paying the interest upon said loan and the principal thereof, and the same when collected and so placed in said fund, shall be turned over to the territorial treasurer at the end of each fiscal year hereafter to be credited by him upon the obligation of the said County of Quay.

Sec. 14. There is hereby appropriated to meet and pay the wages of the president of the council and chief clerk thereof, and additional clerks to be selected by the president of the council, at five dollars ($5.00) each, for ten days after the adjournment of the Legislature $500.00; and the further sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00), of which amount fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be to meet and pay the wages of an additional clerk in the house of representatives for the last ten days of the session, and one hundred and

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