New Mexico Statutes Chapter 19. Public Lands § 19-1-14. Separate accounts; payment of deficiencies; exception

The commissioner shall keep separate accounts of filing fees which Section 11 of the Enabling Act requires to be paid to the register and receiver for each final location or selection of one hundred and sixty acres; also of the costs of all advertisements required by law or departmental regulations to be made in connection therewith; also, wherever practicable, of all necessary costs and expenses which may be incurred in the management, protection and sale or lease of all state lands; and shall charge all such expenditures and costs to the particular fund for the benefit of which the respective selections or locations are made.

Whenever there is not sufficient money in any such fund for the purposes above mentioned, the deficiency shall be paid out of any funds of the state, except interest on the public debt, and shall be repaid out of the proceeds subsequently derived from such lands; provided, this section shall not apply to lands granted for the payment of the bonds of Santa Fe and Grant counties, and the interest thereon, the expenses incident to the selection or location, management, protection and sale of which shall be defrayed in the manner prescribed by law; and provided further, that no portion of the expenses last mentioned shall be paid out of any monies derived from any other lands granted or belonging to the state.