New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS ENABLING ACT § 11

All lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act shall be selected, under the direction and subject to the approval of the secretary of the interior, from the surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated and nonmineral public lands of the United States within the limits of said state, by a commission composed of the governor, surveyor general or other officer exercising the functions of a surveyor general, and the attorney general of the said state; and after its admission into the union said state may procure public lands of the United States within its boundaries to be surveyed with a view to satisfying any public land grants made to said state in the same manner prescribed for the procurement of such surveys by Washington, Idaho and other states by the act of congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Twenty-Eighth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and ninety-four), and the provisions of said act, insofar as they relate to such surveys and the preference right of selection, are hereby extended to the said state of New Mexico. The fees to be paid to the register and receiver for each final location or selection of one hundred and sixty acres made hereunder shall be one dollar.