Whenever any land or lands of any person or persons are to be appraised, as in the cases above mentioned, the experts who shall make such appraisement, shall make a report which shall be filed in the office of the justice of the peace [magistrate] who appointed them, setting forth therein the name of the person whose land was appraised, and the sum to be paid him by the parties interested in the public ditch for which the opening on the land is solicited; they shall also state in said report, in the most distinct manner possible, the direction and the place and point where the opening for such ditch shall be made upon said land.
History: Laws 1919, ch. 39, § 5; C.S. 1929, § 151-461; 1941 Comp., § 77-1456; 1953 Comp., § 75-14-57.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Section 35-1-38 NMSA 1978 abolished the office of justice of the peace, transferred the jurisdiction, powers and duties of said justices to the magistrate court and provided that all statutory references to "justice of the peace" shall be construed to refer to the magistrate court.
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