A. All apportionments or partitions of land on the grant of Chilili made by Inez Armenta as trustee or by his successors as trustees of the grant to the bona fide residents on the grant are hereby confirmed.
B. The government and control of the common lands of the Chilili land grant-merced, also known as la merced del pueblo de Chilili, is vested in five trustees, to be known officially as "the board of trustees of the Chilili land grant-merced", who shall manage and control the land grant-merced in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49, Article 4 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 1876, ch. 51, § 1; Code 1915, § 839; C.S. 1929, § 29-501; 1941 Comp., § 9-401; 1953 Comp., § 8-4-1; 2007, ch. 145, § 1.
Compiler's notes. — This article, identical with Article 4 of Chapter 22 of the 1915 Code, was not reenacted by its inclusion in that codification, but was compiled therein for convenience only.
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, added Subsection B.
General community land grant provisions inapplicable. — The general statutes enacted in 1907 for management of community land grants, which provided for the sale of community lands, did not apply to the Chilili land grant, because of prior legislative provisions for management thereof contained in this article. Merrifield v. Buckner, 1937-NMSC-045, 41 N.M. 442, 70 P.2d 896.
No property interests in common lands conveyed. — Absolutely no property interests in the common lands were conveyed to the individual residents of the Chilili Land Grant of 1841 by the 1909 patent from the United States. Moya v. Chilili Coop. Ass'n, 1974-NMSC-100, 87 N.M. 99, 529 P.2d 1220, cert. denied, 421 U.S. 965, 95 S. Ct. 1954, 44 L. Ed. 2d 452 (1975).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 73B C.J.S. Public Lands § 205.
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