New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS KEARNY CODE CT & J POWERS § 26

In all cases not otherwise specially provided for, the process shall be a summons, and shall be directed to some constable of the county in which the alcalde who granted the same resides, except where it is specially otherwise provided, and it shall command the defendant to appear before the alcalde who issued the same, at the time and place to be named in the summons, not less than five, nor more than thirty days from the date of the summons, to answer the complaint of the plaintiff; all processes issued by alcaldes shall run in the name of the territory of New Mexico, be dated on the day it is issued and shall be signed by the alcalde granting the same.