0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO WATER; AMENDING SECTION 73-2-41 NMSA 1978 (BEING LAWS
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0003| 1860-1861, P. 24, SECTION 2, AS AMENDED).
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0006|      Section 1.  Section 73-2-41 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1860-1861, p.
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0007| 24, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:
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0008|      "73-2-41.  INDIANS--RIGHTS AND DUTIES.--The different
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0009| Indians residing within the state shall be subject to render the
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0010| same services as non-Indians in working the acequias, within the
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0011| limits of their respective reservations in which they may have a
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0012| common interest with the non-Indians who live outside their
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0013| respective reservations, and they shall enjoy at the same time the
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0014| same benefit and rights of commercial traffic; provided that the
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0015| Indians shall have no right to participate in the nominations and
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0016| election of acequia mayordomos or superintendents or acequia or
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0017| water commissioners in any ditch, whether within or without their
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0018| reservations, except in acequias constructed entirely by
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0019| themselves, unless they have paid their proportionate share of the
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0020| whole cost of the construction of such acequia and unless the
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0021| lands sought to be voted by the Indians have been duly returned
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0022| for taxation in accordance with law and state and county taxes
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0023| paid thereon.  In all cases in which non-Indians living outside
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0024| the reservation have acquired water rights by purchase of land
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0025| from the Indians, the distribution of the water between the
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0001| Indians and the non-Indians shall be agreed upon, based upon the
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0002| customs heretofore practiced and recognized between the Indians
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0003| and the non-Indians, by and between the governor of the Indian
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0004| community or pueblo and the commissioners of such acequias in
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0005| which the non-Indians may have acquired any such rights and, the
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0006| governors of such Indians and the acequia commissioners shall also
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0007| regulate the amount and manner of work to be done by the Indians
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0008| and non-Indians in all such acequias in which all have water
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0009| rights in accordance with such customs."                           
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