Sec. 2. That in performing their duties said commissioners shall bring together all statutes and parts of statutes which from similarity of subject ought to be brought together, omitting redundant or obsolete enactments, and making such alterations as may be necessary to reconcile the contradictions, supply the omissions and amend the imperfections of the original text, and may add such new provisions as may be necessary to make the laws effective and operative, as well as harmonious, but they shall not make radical or revolutionary changes in the existing system. They shall arrange the same under titles, chapters and sections, or other suitable divisions and subdivisions, with head notes briefly expressive of the matter contained in such division; also with notes following each section containing references to the original text from which each section is compiled and to the decisions of the courts explaining or expounding the same, and if such section or any portion thereof is within the knowledge of any of such commissioners, taken from the laws of any other State or Territory, reference to such laws shall be made. The number given such section in the Compiled Laws of 1884 and 1897 shall be inserted in such notes, together with the date of enactment of same. Each section shall be preceded by a note so drawn as to point to the contents of the text; and such commissioners shall provide by index for an easy reference, by section, to every portion of their report.

Sec. 3. That when the commissioners have completed the revision and consolidation of the statutes as aforesaid they shall cause five type-written copies of the same to be submitted to the 38th Legislative Assembly, that the statutes so revised and consolidated may be re-enacted in such manner as the 38th Legislative Assembly shall determine; and at the same time they shall also suggest to the 38th Legislative Assembly such contradictions, omissions and imperfections as may appear in the original text, with the mode in which they have reconciled, supplied and amended the same; and they may also designate such statutes or parts of statutes as in their judgment ought to be repealed, with their reasons for such repeal.

Sec. 4. There shall also be compiled into the report herein provided for, and properly indexed, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Kearney Code, the Organic Act, establishing the Territory of New Mexico, and all Laws of Congress especially applicable to New Mexico, the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Mexico, of February 2, 1848, and the Gadsden

Treaty between the United States and Mexico of December 30, 1853.

Sec. 5. The said commissioners shall employ an expert assistant in the arranging, compilation, annotating and indexing of their report, and the report shall be so arranged and indexed that it may be used as copy by the printer, if same shall be finally adopted as the laws of New Mexico.

Sec. 6. Malaquias Martinez, Esquire, of the County of Taos, is hereby designated as the official translator of said commission and for all services which he shall render said commission as such translator during the life of said commission, he shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars. His duties shall be such as shall be prescribed by the commission.

Sec. 7. The Governor of the Territory is hereby authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur by reason of death or resignation of any member of the above commission.

Sec. 8. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury, except the interest fund, for the compensation of said commissioners, and other expenses as provided for in this act, the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, one half of which shall be available during the present 58th fiscal year and the remainder during the 59th fiscal year. Of the above sum twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars shall be paid to said commissioners for their personal compensation, and eight thousand ($8,000) dollars for all other expenses in connection with said work, including translator, expert and clerical assistants. All payments shall be by warrants drawn by the territorial auditor on the territorial treasurer upon itemized and verified accounts to be presented by the chairman and secretary of said commission, but no warrants shall be drawn except upon accounts approved by the Governor and Secretary of the Territory.

Sec. 9. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 96.

AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT, TO FACILITATE THE COLLECTION OF POLL AND ROAD TAXES, BY REQUIRING THE EMPLOYER OF PERSONS LIABLE THEREFOR TO PAY SUCH TAXES, AND DEDUCT THE AMOUNT THEREOF FROM THE WAGES, OF SUCH EMPLOYES. C. B. No. 113; Approved March 21, 1907.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. That any person, firm or corporation, having in his, theirs, or its, employ any male person or persons required by law, to pay a poll tax, or to do public road work, shall on demand of the clerk of the school board of any school district, wherein such employes may reside and are required by law to pay a poll tax, furnish to him a list of the names of all employes residing in such school district, liable by law to pay a poll tax; and on the demand of the road overseer of any precinct, shall likewise furnish to him a list of all employes residing in such precinct who are required by law to work on the public roads therein; and if the clerk of any school district or road overseer, shall find on such list so furnished to him as by this act provided, the name or names of any person or persons who have not paid his poll tax or work on the public roads or paid a road tax in lieu of such work as required by law, such clerk and road overseer respectively shall give to such employer the names of all employes found by him on the list furnished as herein provided, together with the statement of the amount of poll tax or road tax, as the case may be, each employe is due and owing and thereupon, every such employer shall pay to such clerk or road overseer as the case may be, the amount due and payable from each employe, taking from the officer collecting the said poll tax or road tax, a separate receipt for the tax of each employe so paid, which receipts shall be and become a complete and counter claim and set off to the amount of their full face value in discharge of any obligation or any manner of indebtedness existing at the time, or which may at any time thereafter exist and be owing to any such employe by the employer paying the same.

Sec. 2. Any employer who shall refuse to furnish the lists of employes or pay the poll or road tax as provided in the preceding Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and the costs of the prosecution, which fines when collected shall be turned into the school fund of the school district the clerk of which made the demand for the lists and payment of poll tax in poll tax cases, and into the road fund of the proper precinct where the demand for the lists and payment on road tax is made by the road overseer and refused by the defendant being prosecuted under the provision of this act.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after May 1, 1907; Provided, however, Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to repeal or change any of the Laws of this Territory now in force with reference to the collection of poll tax or public road tax or work.

CHAPTER 97.

AN ACT TO REVISE AND TO SYSTEMATIZE THE SCHOOL LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO AND FOR OTHER

PURPOSES. H. S. H. B. No. 107; Approved March 21, 1907.

Sec. 18.

County superintendents, election, qualifications.

Sec. 19. Oath and Bond.

Sec. 27.

Sec. 28.

Sec. 29.

Teachers wages.

Property presented to educational institutions or common schools.
School lands to be leased.

Tuition.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Section 1. Organization and Compensation.-There shall be a territorial board of education which shall consist of seven members: The governor, the superintendent of public instruction, and five members to be appointed by the governor: The heads of the territorial educational institutions, the president of St. Michael's College, Santa Fe, and the superintendents of the schools in the four cities of the Territory ranking highest in population at the time the appointment is made, shall constitute those persons eligible to appointment on said board. At the expiration of the term of office of a member as this board is now organized under existing laws, the governor shall appoint his successor for a term of five years, and from among those persons who are made eligible by this act. The board shall meet at the office of the superintendent of public instruction four times a year, at such times as it may elect, and such other times upon the call of the governor or a majority of its members, as the public business may require. The governor shall be president of said board, but in his absence the board may elect a presiding officer pro tempore.

The members of the board of education shall receive ten (10c) cents per mile for attending each meeting of the said board, counting one way for their place of residence to its place of meeting, and two and one-half ($2.50) dollars a day for each session thereof. This mileage and per diem shall be paid to the members of said board of education by the territorial treasurer upon the order of the territorial auditor out of the funds arising from the rental of the common school lands of the Territory.

Sec. 2. General Powers.-The territorial board of education shall have power to grant, renew and revoke teachers' certificates, to adopt a series of text books and a uniform course of study for the various public schools of the Terri