Chapter 1792. To provide for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico
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CHAP. 1792.— An Act To provide for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 1953](/us/bill/33/hr/1953).][[Public, No. 224](/us/pl/33/224).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New Mexico.Additional associate justice supreme court of. That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico shall consist of a chief justice and five associate justices, any four of whom shall constitute a quorum: *Proviso. *Restriction.*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. Appointment.Term of office.That it shall be the duty of the President to appoint one additional associate justice of said supreme court in manner now provided by law. who shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. 543 Sec. 3. That the said Territory shall be divided into six judicialSix judicial 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 may 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 bis associates are herebyDivision and assignment. vested with power and authority, and they are hereby directed, to divide said Territory into six 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: *Provided,* That one of said*Proviso*.District court at Roswell.Jurisdiction. judges shall reside and hold a district court in the city of Roswell.
Sec. 5. That the said district court shall have jurisdiction, and the 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 heldTwo terms annually. annually at such places within said district as may be designated by the chief justice and his associates, or a majority of them; and grand 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 ActPending cases. 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, April 28, 1904.