Opinion No. 22-3521
July 12, 1922
TO: Mr. Oscar B. Wood, County Treasurer, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
County Treasurers Not Entitled to Additional Pay for Services as Treasurers Irrigation Districts.
OPINION
{*168} In reply to your letter of the 11th instant asking if Section 24, Chapter 20, Laws of 1919, a section of the Irrigation District Act, and Sections 236 and 403, Chapter 133, Laws of 1921, repeal Section 6, Chapter 12, Laws of 1912, the section providing that county officials shall receive no salaries or emoluments of office other than those prescribed by that Act, I wish to say:
In my opinion the repealing sections of the 1919 and 1921 Laws do not repeal Section 6, Chapter 12, Laws of 1915. Section 24 of Chapter 20, Laws of 1919, amends Section 6, Chapter 12, Laws of 1915, so as to permit the County Treasurer, when acting as Treasurer of the Irrigation District, to receive $ 10.00 per month for additional clerical assistance for each 25,000 acres of land, or fraction thereof, subject to the tax provided for in the Act. This Act provides for additional assistants for the State Treasurer, and for payment for such assistants, but does not repeal the 1915 law.
Sections 236 and 403 of Chapter 133, Laws of 1921, provide for additional assistants for the Assessor, and in this respect amend Section 6 of Chapter 12 of the 1915 Law. None of the subsequent acts, however, indicate that there was any intent to repeal the provisions of the 1915 law under consideration.