At any time after the expiration of ninety days from the time of first publication of the notice mentioned in Section 19-4-9 NMSA 1978, the corporate authorities or probate judge shall, upon demand or request and payment as required by Section 19-4-26 NMSA 1978, execute and deliver to each and every claimant, or association, or company of claimants to such lands or any parcel thereof, a deed of conveyance therefor, according to the statement made and deposited by him or them, pursuant to Section 19-4-10 NMSA 1978: provided, however, that no such deed of conveyance shall be executed or delivered for any part, portion or share of such lands, to which there shall be adverse contesting claimants, until the controversy thereon has been settled and determined in the manner described in this chapter.
History: Laws 1882, ch. 70, § 25; C.L. 1884, § 2799; C.L. 1897, § 4003; Code 1915, § 5544; C.S. 1929, § 144-132; 1941 Comp., § 8-532; 1953 Comp., § 7-5-32.
ANNOTATIONS
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler’s notes. — The words “this chapter” were inserted by the 1915 Code compilers, and referred to Chapter 108 of that code, which is identical to this article.