19-4-26. [Reports of expenses.]
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Within ninety days from the first publication of the notice mentioned in Section 19-4- 9 NMSA 1978, the corporate authorities or probate judge holding the title to the lands described in such notice, shall make a true, full and complete statement in writing, containing a true account of all moneys paid by him or them, expended in the acquisition of the title and execution of the trust to that time, including all moneys paid by him or them for the purchase of said lands, necessary traveling expenses, moneys paid for all other necessary and proper expenses incident to such trust and a true account of his or their reasonable charges for time and services employed in the business of such trust to that time, and all moneys by him or them expended, and reasonable charges for compensation, as aforesaid, which shall be and remain a first charge upon said lands in favor of the trustee, and paid by the several claimants entitled to such lands, in proportion to the several quantities thereof to which they may be respectively entitled.
History: Laws 1882, ch. 70, § 20; C.L. 1884, § 2794; C.L. 1897, § 3998; Code 1915, § 5539; C.S. 1929, § 144-127; 1941 Comp., § 8-527; 1953 Comp., § 7-5-27.