Chapter CXLVIII. to provide for Additional Clerks, and extend the Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico
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Chap. CXLVIII.— An Act to provide for Additional Clerks, and extend the Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico. March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Strifes of America in Congress assembled*, Legislative Assembly in New Mexico to have a translator and interpreter, and additional clerks. That the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico shall hereafter have authority to employ one person as a translator and interpreter, and two clerks in addition to the number they are now authorized to employ for each House during their session; and that the accounts and charges for said translator and interpreter and clerks shall1 be audited and settled in the same manner and upon the same principle as is provided by law for auditing and settling the accounts and charges of other and similar officers and attendants of said Assembly.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That of the four clerks to be employedQualifications. in each House of said Assembly, two shall be qualified to write in the Spanish and two in the English language. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the accounts and charges ofExpenses of the last session to be paid. the translator and interpreter, and the extra clerks which were employed in each House during the last session of said Assembly, shall be audited and allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and paid in the same manner and upon the same principle as is provided by law for the auditing and paying of the accounts of other and similar officers and attendants of said Assembly.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the said Legislative AssemblySession may be extended to 60 days.1850, ch. 49, § 5. shall hereafter be authorized to continue their sessions for a term not exceeding sixty instead of forty days, as heretofore provided. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, And that said Legislature of NewPay of commissioners on code of laws. Mexico shall cause to be allowed the Commissioners heretofore appointed to draft a code of laws such compensation as may be just and reasonable, and which, when so allowed, shall be paid out of the funds appropriated to defray the expenses of said Territory.
Approved, March 3, 1853.