New Mexico § 49-9-4 - Notice of application; publication; protest; time limit on application

§ 49-9-4. Notice of application; publication; protest; time limit on application

When application shall be made, as herein provided, for a deed to any portion of the

lands within the limits of such grant, the clerk of said city is hereby required,

within ten (10) days after the receipt of such application, to publish a notice of

the same in a newspaper published and of general circulation in said city in one issue

of said newspaper, giving in said notice the name of the applicant and a description

of the lands for which a deed is asked. Any person, or persons, either on behalf of themselves or on behalf of said city

who claims an adverse interest in any part or portion of land or lands for which application

for a deed, or deeds, is so made, shall have the right to file, at any time within

thirty (30) days after the publication of such notice, a protest against the execution

of a deed, or deeds, to the applicant or applicants for the land applied for, or such

portion thereof in which he or they may claim an interest, which protest shall be

in writing, setting forth the ground of his, or their, objection and a description

of that portion of the land in which he, or they, for themselves, or for said city,

claim an adverse interest, and shall be sworn to by at least one protestant and filed

with the city clerk of said city: provided, that if said protest is filed on behalf

of said city the same shall be signed and sworn to by at least ten (10) citizens of

the said city who are the owners of real estate within said grant. And provided, further, that no deed shall be executed by either said city or said

cotrustee under any such application, unless said application is filed with the said

city clerk within five years from the 18th day of March, A.D. 1909, and all lands

within the limits of said grant for which a deed has not been executed by said city,

or for which application has not been made within said five years, shall be the property

of said city of Socorro.