New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS KEARNY CODE CT & J POWERS § 24

Every alcalde shall have jurisdiction over the following actions:

A. all actions founded upon bonds or other contracts, when the balance due or damages claimed, exclusive of interest, shall not exceed ninety dollars;

B. all actions of trespass and of trespasses on the case for injuries to persons, or real or personal property, when the damages claimed shall not exceed fifty dollars;

C. to take auditor judgment or confession, where the amount confessed shall not exceed one hundred dollars, but no alcalde shall have jurisdiction of any action against an executor or administrator, of any action of slander, malicious prosecution or false imprisonment nor of any action in which the title to lands or tenements shall come in question.