C. 138, L. 89. § 63: Board may ploy architects. § 3640. The several boards provided for in this act, shall have power in their discretion to employ skilled architects Feb. 28. and superintendent to prepare plans and supervise the construction of any of the buildings provided for in this act, and to fix his compensation subject to the provisions and restric tions of this act. § 3641. The regular meeting of all boards provided for in this act, shall be held quarterly: Provided, That they hold as many special sessions as they shall deem necessary. em Meetings of boards. Salaries of secretary and treasurer. §3642. The several boards provided for in this act shall have power in their discretion to provide that their several secretaries and treasurers shall receive a salary not to exceed fifty dollars per month: Provided, That the secretary and treasurer of the board of regents of the agricultural college Feb. 21. shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month. C. 42, L. 91, § 1: Residence of mem § 3643. At least one member of the several boards pro- Res vided for in this act shall be a resident of the town or city at or near which the institution is located. § 3644. The records of the several boards provided for in this act shall be open at all reasonable times for the inspection of any citizen. C. 138. L. 89, § 66; Feb. 28. Records open for inspection. Id. § 67. Members and employes not to be in tracts. Id. § 68. Oaths required. § 3645. No employe or member of any of the boards created by this act shall be interested pecuniarily, either di- terested in conrectly or indirectly, in any contract for building or improving any of said institutions or for the furnishing of supplies to any of such institutions. § 3646. Each and every member of the several boards created by this act shall, before entering upon their respective duties, take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge their duties in the premises, and strictly and impartially perform the same to the best of their several abilities. Said oath shall be filed with the secretary of the territory. Id. § 69. To receive benefits from congress § 3647. All of the institutions established by this act shall be entitled to receive all the benefits and donations made and or individuals. given to similar institutions of learning and charity in other states and territories of the United States, by the legislation of the congress of the United States, or from private individuals or corporations, and for the benefit of said institutions they shall have power to buy and sell or lease or mortgage realty, and do all things that, in the opinion of the several boards, will be for the best interests of said institutions, and are in the line of its object. § 3648. All the institutions provided for in this act shall forever remain strictly non-sectarian in character, and no creed or system of religion shall be taught in any of them. Id. § 70. To be strictly nonsectarian. Id. § 71. Products of conviet labor, sold for § 3649. All the products of convict labor shall be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, after twenty days' notice by ad- cash. vertisement in three daily newspapers, not more than one of which shall be published in the same county: Provided, further, That the board of penitentiary commissioners are hereby authorized and required to construct, of brick or such other material as they shall deem best, with convict. labor, a Feb. 26, good and substantial wall around the penitentiary grounds. C. 91. L. 91. § 1: C. 19. L. 93. § 1; Feb. 11. Normal schools established. Location of. Amended, L. 95. C. 40, $2. Control in five regents. Id. § 3. Organization and qualification of regents. NORMAL SCHOOLS. $3650. There is hereby created and established at Silver City, in Grant county, and in Las Vegas, in San Miguel county, in the Territory of New Mexico, institutions of learning to be known as the Normal Schools of New Mexico. § 3651. Such schools shall be located upon a tract of land suitably and pleasantly located, containing not less than twenty acres, and situate not more than one and a half miles from said Silver City and Las Vegas, respectively, the location of such land to be approved by the respective boards of regents created by this act, and the same shall be conveyed to such boards by a good and indefeasible title, in fee simple, within six months after the passage of this act, free of any cost to the territory or said boards; and no expenditure of money shall be made, under this act, upon such land until such conveyance is made and accepted by such boards. That the location of said normal school at Las Vegas is hereby fixed, and said normal school at Las Vegas shall be located upon that certain triangular tract or parcel of land at the intersection of National and Main streets, in the incorporated Town of East Las Vegas, and being the tract or parcel of land known and called the Desiderio Romero property, and containing not less than two acres. § 3652. The control of such normal sehools shall be each under a board of five regents, to be appointed by the governor of the territory. In making such appointments for the first time, one shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and thereafter appointments shall be made for the term of five years, and at the expiration of the terms of the several members, or when vacancies may otherwise arise. The members of each such board shall be voters of the territory and the owners of real estate therein, and no more than three of the members of each said board shall be of the same political party. Each such board shall constitute a body politic and corporate, and shall have power to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with, and the title to all property belonging to each such normal school shall be vested in the respective corporate bodies and their successors. § 3653. Within thirty days after the appointment of each such board, the members thereof shall meet at Silver City and Las Vegas, respectively, at a time to be designated by the governor of the territory, and each shall organize by the election of one member thereof as president and another member as secretary and treasurer, and annually thereafter a meeting of such boards shall be held for the same purpose, but such officers shall hold their offices until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The person who may be elected as secretary and treasurer of each such board shall execute his bond, payable to the Territory of New Mexico, for not less than twenty thousand dollars, with at least two freehold sureties, residents of the territory, which shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such secretary and treasurer, and shall be approved by the governor and filed with the secretary of the territory. 3654. Each of said boards of regents shall hold at least four meetings during each year at their respective normal schools for the purpose of discharging their duties under this act, the time of such meetings to be fixed by such board, and the president of such board may call special meetings thereof when in his judgment the business of such schools demands the same. Three members of such boards shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. § 3655. Said boards of regents shall have full and complete power and control over their respective normal schools. Each board shall employ a superintendent or principal for such school who shall have the supervision and control of the school under such rules and regulations as may be provided by such board. Such board shall determine and provide as to what branches of learning shall be taught in such school and the classification and order of the same, and shall also direct the number of teachers that shall be employed, and shall determine the compensation to be paid to the superintendent and teachers. Such board shall also prescribe upon what terms and conditions pupils shall be admitted to such school, but no pupils shall be admitted who are not residents of this territory. In Duties of president, secretary and § 3656. The president of each board shall preside at all meetings thereof and shall sign the proceedings of the same, treasurer. and shall sign all orders directed by the board to be drawn upon the treasurer thereof for the payment of money. the absence of the president at any meeting of the board, the members present shall elect a president pro tem. The secretary of the board shall have charge of the records, books, and papers belonging to such board, and shall keep a record of the proceedings of such board, and shall issue and attest all orders directed by the board to be drawn upon the treasurer of the same for the payment of money. Such seeretary, as treasurer, shall have the care and custody of all moneys belonging to such school, and he shall pay out the same only upon orders drawn upon him by direction of the board of regents and signed by the president thereof; and at each regular meeting of such board such treasurer shall submit to the same a statement showing a full account of the condition of financial affairs of such school. $3657. The members of the respective boards of regents shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars per day during the time they shall be employed in the actual discharge of their duties, and five cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from their places of residence to the place of meeting of such board; but the person who is elected as secretary and treasurer of such board shall be entitled to receive three dollars per day during the sessions of such board, and mileage as above provided. § 3658. For the purpose of erecting buildings for such schools, furnishing the same, improving the grounds and maintaining such schools, the auditor of the territory shall cause to be levied upon all taxable property in the territory Id. § 7. Compensation of regents. Id. § 8. Auditor to levy tax. Feb. 11. C. 19, L. 93, § 9; during the year commencing on the 4th day of March, 1893, and ending on the 3rd day of March, 1894, a tax of two-fifths of one mill, which levy shall be collected during the same year and applied to the above appropriation. Five thousand dollars of said sum shall be available for each of said schools for the purposes specified herein, on the 1st day of January, 1894, and the balance of said levy so collected, on the 4th day of March, 1894, and shall be paid upon presentation to the treasurer of the auditor's warrant, which shall be issued upon an order from the respective boards of regents of such normal schools: Provided, however, That no indebtedness, binding in any manner upon the territory, shall be incurred by the boards of regents or any other person or persons on behalf of said schools over and above the amount derived from the collection of said two-fifths mill levy. Diplomas. considered teachers' certificates. § 3659. Diplomas issued to graduates of the foregoing normal schools of New Mexico, also diplomas issued to graduates from the territorial university at Albuquerque, the territorial school of mines at Socorro and the territorial agricul tural college at Las Cruces, shall be and the same are hereby considered as first class teachers' certificates in any of the counties in the Territory of New Mexico. NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE. § 3660. That the Goss Military Institute, located at Roswell, Chaves county, New Mexico, be and the same shall hereafter constitute one of the educational institutions of this territory, to be known as the, New Mexico Military Institute. § 3661. That said institute shall be under the supervision and control of a board of seven regents, to serve without compensation, consisting of the governor and superintendent of public education, ex-officio, and five citizens to be appointed by the governor; the term of office of the appointed to be so arranged that one shall retire each year, and after the selection of the first board the term of office of each appointed member shall be five years. $ 3662. Upon the appointment of the members of the board, as hereinbefore provided, they shall organize and elect from their number, a president and secretary and treasurer. who shall do and perform all the duties that shall be incumbent upon them as such officers. § 3663. It shall be the duty of the board of regents to establish, maintain and control, at Roswell, a military institute for the education and training of the youth of this country, of as high a standard as like institutions in other states and territories. § 3664. The said board shall have full power and authority to make such rules and regulations concerning the government and course of said institute as they may deem proper: to make contracts with teachers; to erect buildings and make such other improvements as the institute may require. § 3665. The said board of regents shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of, as to them may seem best for the benefit of the institute, the lands and property heretofore donated by the citizens of Chaves county to said institute, or that may hereafter be donated, except forty acres surrounding the proposed site of the institute, which shall be forever set apart for the use of the institute. § 3666. That all deeds for the sale of lands and all contracts made by the said board shall be signed by the president. C. 41. L. 93. § 0; Feb 23. Deeds to be signed by president. Id. § 7. Fifteen thousand dollars, in bonds, au § 3667. An issue of the bonds of the Territory of New Mexico is hereby authorized and directed to be made, in the thorized. sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be known as the, New Mexico Military Institute Bonds; such bonds shall be issued in the denominations of one thousand dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, the interest payable semi-annually, on the first days of January and July, and principal and interest payable at the Western National Bank, at the City of New York, in the State of New York; 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, which shall be July Feb. 13. 1st, 1895. §3668. The auditor of public accounts, is hereby directed to levy annually, 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 duties 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; 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 issuance of said bonds, an annual tax sufficient to provide for the payment of such bonds by or before the maturity thereof. § 3669. Said bonds when so issued shall be delivered to the board of regents of the New Mexico Military Institute and negotiated to the best advantage possible, and the proceeds thereof shall be used by said board of regents in the erection of suitable buildings, and for other improvements that may be made under the direction of said board of regents for the benefit of the institute; and the surplus, if any, may be devoted by said board of regents to the use of said institute in any manner that it may seem best: Provided, however, Said bonds shall not be sold under ninety-five cents, but the necessary expense of the negotiation may be deducted: And provided, further, That within six months from the date of the passage of this act, a tract of land of not less than forty acres, suitable for the purpose of such institution, shall be donated and conveyed by a good and sufficient deed to the Territory of New Mexico, free of any cost or expense to said territory; and no bonds as herein provided shall be delivered for the benefit of such institution, until said deed of conveyance is executed, and together with other evidence of perfect title to said property in said territory shall have been approved by the solicitor general of said Territory of New Mexico, and filed in the office of the secretary of said Territory of New Mexico. C. 42, L. 95, § 1; Auditor to levy tax for payment. Id. § 2. Proceeds of bonds; how to be used. Id. § 3. |