Chapter 665. to provide for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico
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CHAP. 665.— An Act to provide for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico.July 10, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,New Mexico.Supreme court.[R. S., sec. 1864, p. 330; vol. 24. p. 428](/us/rs/t/s1864/p330/p428).Quorum.*Proviso*.Limitation. That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico shall consist of a chief justice and four associate justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum: *Provided*, That the judge who presided at the trial of a cause in the court below shall not sit at the hearing of the same case on appeal, or writ of error, in the supreme court of the Territory.
Sec. 2. Additional associate justice. That it shall be the duty of the President to appoint one additional associate justice of said supreme court in manner now FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 665, 666. 1890.227 provided by law, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Sec. 3. That the said Territory shall be divided into five judicialTerritory divided into five districts. districts, and a district court shall be held in each district by one of the justices of the supreme court, at such time and place as is or mayTerms, etc. be prescribed by law.
Each judge, after assignment, shall reside in the district to which he is assigned. Sec. 4. That the present chief-justice and his associates are herebySupreme court to make division, etc. vested with power and authority, and they are hereby directed, to divide said Territory into five judicial districts, and make such assignments of the judges provided for in the first section of this act as shall in their judgment be meet and proper. Sec. 5. That the said district court shall have jurisdiction, and theJurisdiction. same is hereby vested, to hear, try, and determine all matters and causes that the courts of the other districts of the Territory now possess; and for such purposes two terms of said court shall be held annually, at such places within said district as may be designated by the chief-justice and his associates, or a majority of them; and grandJuries. and petit jurors shall be summoned therein in the manner now required by law.
Sec. 6. That all offenses committed before the passage of this actOffenses. shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect (except as to the number of judges), as if this act had not passed. Approved, July 10, 1890.