Chapter 679. to ratify an act entitled “An act creating the county of San Juan,” in the Territory of New Mexico
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CHAP. 679.— An Act to ratify an act entitled “An act creating the county of San Juan,” in the Territory of New Mexico.July 19, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Act of New Mexico legislature creating San Juan County ratified. That the act of the legislative assemble of the Territory of New Mexico, passed February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven entitled “An act creating the county of San Juan,” be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed.
Sec. 2. That nothing in the act approved July thirtieth, eighteenTerritorial legislatures may create counties.Vol. 21, p. 170. hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act “to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories of the United States, to limit Territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes.” shall be construed to prohibit the creation by Territorial legislatures of new counties and the location of the county seats thereof. Approved, July 19, 1888.