Section 73-4-3 - Arbitrators; assessment of damages; payment. - New Mexico Statutes

73-4-3. [Arbitrators; assessment of damages; payment.]

The justice of the  peace [magistrate court] shall make a record of the fact that the arbitrators or assessors were appointed and shall  swear them to act faithfully and impartially, as such arbitrators and to report to the said justice of the peace [magistrate] the amount  by them assessed in order that the same may be turned over to the justice of the peace [magistrate] and by him turned over to the owner or owners of the land over which said ditch passes, and the said amount shall be paid in cash.