New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS KEARNY CODE TREAS DEPT § 15

It shall be the duty of the clerk of the prefect to keep regular accounts between the treasurer and the county, to keep just accounts between the county and all persons chargeable with money payable into the county treasury, or who may become entitled to receive pay therefrom. To file and preserve in his office all accounts, vouchers, and other papers pertaining to the settlement of any account to which the county shall be a party, to issue warrants on the treasury for all moneys ordered to be paid by the perfect, keep an abstract thereof, present the same to the court of the prefect at every regular term thereof, balance and exhibit the accounts kept by him, so often as required by the prefect, and keep his books and papers ready at all times to be inspected by the prefect.