Sec. 5. That on or before the first Monday of May, A. D. 1903, the governor of the Territory of New Mexico shall appoint all of the county officers of the said county of Leonard Wood, and the said officers by him so appointed shall immediately qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties and shall serve until the election and qualification of their successors, who shall be elected at the next general election for such officers, and the governor shall appoint officers to fill any vacancies that may arise by reason of the failure of any of said officers to qualify within thirty days after their appointment, as aforesaid. Sec. 6. All obligations of indebtedness of the County of Guadalupe are hereby and shall be assumed by the County of Leonard Wood, and all public improvements and county property, including all moneys, bonds, credits, evidences of indebtedness, records, etc., belonging to said County of Guadalupe, shall be and by this act are made the property of the County of Leonard Wood, and the officers of the County of Guadalupe shall turn over and deliver to the County of Leonard Wood, all such public improvements, county property, including moneys, bonds, credits, evidences of indebtedness, records, etc., on or before the tenth day of May, A. D. 1903; and the officers of the County of Guadalupe shall, on or before the tenth day of May, A. D. 1903, transfer the records of their offices to the corresponding officers of Leonard Wood county, who have succeeded to the offices of Leonard Wood county, formerly held by the officers of Guadalupe county, and failure on the part of any of the officers of the County of Guadalupe to perform their duties, as herein provided, shall render them liable on their official bonds. All obligations due the County of Guadalupe, at this time, or that may become hereafter due, shall be payable to and belong to the County of Leonard Wood, and wherever, in the acts creating the Counties of Quay and Roosevelt, it is directed that the Counties of Quay and Roosevelt pay over and deliver to the County of Guadalupe any moneys or bonds in settlement of their proportion of the indebtedness of Guadalupe county, as may be hereafter determined, the Counties of Quay and Roosevelt shall pay said moneys and deliver said bonds to the County of Leonard Wood. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the board of county comissioners of the County of Leonard Wood, on or before the first day of July, A. D. 1903, to issue coupon bonds in the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), of said Leonard Wood county, which shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which said bonds shall be payable absolutely twenty years from date, and at the option of said county, five years from date, and be in amounts of one hundred dollars ($100.00) each, or multiples thereof, which shall be signed by said board of county commissioners, countersigned by the clerk of said board, attested by its seal and endorsed by the treasurer of the county, and shall be in form approved by the district attorney of the district attorney district of which San Miguel county is a part, and when such bonds are so issued, the same shall be delivered to the board of county commissioners of Valencia county, in final settlement and in full payment of any and all claims said County of Valencia may have or become entitled to by reason of the creation of said Leonard Wood county. Sec. 8. The County of Leonard Wood may issue bonds, to be known as "Leonard Wood County Court House and Building Bonds," for court house purposes to any amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00), and for jail purposes to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), and for current expenses not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). Sec. 9. Leonard Wood county shall be entitled to have and receive from the Counties of Guadalupe and Valencia all unpaid taxes for the year A. D. 1902, and in the case of Guadalupe county, to all the unpaid taxes whatsoever, not heretofore set aside and turned over to the Counties of Quay and Roosevelt, by the acts creating the counties of Quay and Roosevelt, which taxes have been levied or assessed upon or against property within the former limits of Guadalupe and Valencia counties and which by this act are set off from said Counties of Guadalupe and Valencia and has become Leonard Wood county; and the treasurer and collector of Leonard Wood county shall collect and receipt for the same as the treasurers and collectors of Guadalupe and Valencia counties might have done had said property remained within the limits of the Counties of Guadalupe and Valencia, and Leonard Wood county shall be entitled to and shall receive from Guadalupe and Valencia counties such proportion of the moneys received from licenses, issued by Guadalupe and Valencia counties, in force in Leonard Wood county during any part of the year A. D. 1903, as such unexpired term of each license shall bear to the whole term for which such license was issued; and all taxes already paid into the treasury of Valencia county upon property located within the limits of Leonard Wood county shall be credited upon the proportion of the debt of Valencia county and to be paid by Leonard Wood county. Sec. 10. On or before the first day of June, A. D. 1903, the collector of the County of Valencia shall deliver to the county commissioners of Leonard Wood county a list of all delinquent taxes and unpaid licenses and also a list of all taxes which will become due on July first, A. D. 1903, upon property within the limits and upon personal property belonging to persons resident within the limits of Leonard Wood county, who were formerly within the limits of Valencia county, and the county collector of Leonard Wood county shall proceed and collect said taxes and licenses as required by law and they shall become and be the funds of Leonard Wood county. Sec. 11. Said Leonard Wood county is hereby attached to the fourth judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico for judicial purposes, and district court for the trial of causes arising under the laws of the Territory of New Mexico shall be held at the county seat of said county by the judge of said court, beginning on the second Monday of April and the second Monday of October of each year, there being a sufficient amount in the court fund of said county therefor, and special terms of said court may be held when convened in accordance with law. Causes, civil and criminal, now pending in the Counties of Guadalupe and Valencia, which arose within the limits of Leonard Wood county, shall proceed to indictment and trial in the County of Leonard Wood. The district attorney for the district attorney district of which the County of San Miguel is a part, shall be the district attorney for Leonard Wood county, and shall be entitled to a salary from said Leonard Wood county of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum, payable quarterly. Sec. 12. The County of Leonard Wood, for legislative purposes shall be attached to the-council and the house districts, until otherwise provided by law. Sec. 13. Until the appointment and qualification of the peace officers of Leonard Wood county, the peace officers of the Counties of Guadalupe and Valencia shall continue to exercise authority as before this act, and shall have jurisdiction as heretofore. Sec. 14. That the Counties of Quay, Roosevelt and Leonard Wood, are hereby declared to be counties of the fourth class. Sec. 15. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 70. AN ACT TO CREATE THE COUNTY OF TORRANCE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THEREOF. C. B. No. 122; Approved March 16, 1903. Sec. 9. Sec. 10. Bond issue to pay indebtedness due County of Valencia. Form. Maturity. Indebtedness due other counties to be adjusted. Sec. 11. Bond issue for court house and jail purposes, and current expenses. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Section 1. 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 United States surveys, to wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of township one north, range six east of the New Mexico Principal Base Line, and running thence north on the range line, between ranges five and six east, to the northwest corner of township seven north, range six 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, thence west along the Second Standard Parallel North to the southwest corner of township nine north, range seven east; thence along 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 eleven east; thence south on the range line between ranges eleven and twelve east, to the corner of sections thirteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-four; thence east, through the middle of township nine north ranges twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen east, to corner of sections thirteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-four on the range line between ranges fifteen and sixteen, township nine north; thence south on the range line between ranges fifteen and sixteen east to the corner of township one north, between ranges fifteen and sixteen east on the New Mexico Principal Base Line; and thence west along said New Mexico Principal Base Line to the southwest corner of township one north of range six east, the place of beginning. Sec. 2. The county seat of the County of Torrance shall be and the same is hereby located at Progreso in said county. Sec. 3. On the first day of August, 1904, the governor of the Territory of New Mexico shall appoint three qualified persons, legal voters within the County of Torrance as a returning board, whose duties shall be the same as county commissioners in regard to the appointment of boards of registration and judges of election in the said County of Torrance and whose duty it shall be to call and give notice of the holding of a general election, at the time and in the manner now prescribed by law. The members of the said returning board before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take the oath of office before some officer qualified to administer oaths, as provided for county commissioners, and the said returning board when so appointed and qualified as herein provided, shall have the same power and authority as to receiving, canvassing and certifying the returns of the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1904, for county officers of said county as is now conferred by law upon county commissioners of the several counties of this territory, and the said returning board shall serve in such capacity without compensation for their services. Sec. 4. That said County of Torrance so established shall, with reference to the salaries of officers be a county of the fourth class as defined in and provided for by the act entitled "An Act to provide for the compensation of county officers, and for other purposes, approved March 18th, 1897," and the salaries and emoluments of the officers of said county shall be such as are in said act provided for officers of counties of the fourth class. Sec. 5. The precincts and school districts now existing in the territory included in such county, and the officials thereof shall remain the same as they now are until changed by law. Sec. 6. For legislative purposes, the said County of Torrance is hereby attached to and made a part of the sixth council and the tenth legislative districts, and jointly with the County of Valencia shall elect one councilman and two representatives to the territorial legislature. Sec. 7. The said County of Torrance is hereby attached |