History and government of New Mexico . Governor James S. Calhoun BEGINNINGS OF THE TERRITORY 157 districts; passed a general election law under which allmale citizens twenty-one years of age, except Negroesand soldiers, could vote ; and provided for the continuanceof all local laws that were in harmony with the FederalConstitution and the Organic Act, except the hated land-registry law of the Kearny Code (sec. 164). At its second session, beginning in the following Decem-ber, it divided the Territory into nine counties — Taos,. First Division of the Territory of New Mexico intoCounties, 1851-1
History and government of New Mexico . Governor James S. Calhoun BEGINNINGS OF THE TERRITORY 157 districts; passed a general election law under which allmale citizens twenty-one years of age, except Negroesand soldiers, could vote ; and provided for the continuanceof all local laws that were in harmony with the FederalConstitution and the Organic Act, except the hated land-registry law of the Kearny Code (sec. 164). At its second session, beginning in the following Decem-ber, it divided the Territory into nine counties — Taos,. First Division of the Territory of New Mexico intoCounties, 1851-1852 Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Santa Ana, Bernalillo,Valencia, Socorro, and Dona Ana — and apportionedmembers of the Council and House of Representativesamong them. Justice of the peace courts were then estab-lished; but singularly enough, both sessions of this firstlegislature came and went without the passage of anytax law. 188. Financial Troubles. — Yet there was a deficit of 158 THE HISTORY OE NEW MEXICO $31,562 left by the old military government, and everycreditor of the Territory was receiving a warrant on anempty treasury. Nor was there any regular source ofpublic revenue. General Kearny in 1846 had abolished theold abuse of having every kind of legal document written onstamped paper sold by the government at eight dollars asheet. Then the ratification of the treaty of peace, May30, 1848, stopping the collection of tariff duties on goodscoming from the States, cut the last financial prop from KALEVIMA
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