New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS KEARNY CODE CRIMES & PUNISHMENTS Art. III, § 3

Every person who shall be convicted of having directly or indirectly given any sum of money, or any other bribe, present or reward, or any promise, contracts, obligation or security, for the payment or delivery of any money, present or reward, or any other thing, to obtain or procure the opinion, judgment or decree of any judge, prefect or alcalde, acting within this territory in any suit, controversy, matter or cause, depending before him, and any judge, prefect or alcalde who shall be convicted of having in anywise accepted, or received the same, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars nor less than five hundred dollars, and shall receive not less than twenty, nor more than one hundred lashes on the bare back well laid on.