Said board may, by order, resolution or ordinance, appoint a commission [commissioner] to sell and convey any such real estate, and to affix to any conveyance thereof the seal of such town, and have control of such seal for such purpose, and such conveyance, executed in accordance with such order, shall have the effect to transfer, to the grantee named a title in fee simple to any such real estate so conveyed. Said commissioner may be removed at the will of the board, as often as it may seem fit, by an order entered to that effect, and a new commissioner appointed with like powers. Said commissioner shall be a freeholder in such town, and not a member of the board, and have no personal interest in the land so to be sold. Said commissioner shall, during his term of office, keep open an office in some public and well-known place in such town, from ten o'clock a.m. until noon of each day, Sundays and holidays excepted, for the purpose of receiving payments from and executing deeds to persons who are entitled to deeds by reason of purchase, and who have made improvements upon such land, as hereinafter stated in this chapter. No claimant shall be allowed to suffer on account of the misconduct of such commissioner in the discharge of his duties. Such commissioner shall receive such reasonable fees for his services as said board may prescribe. Before entering upon his duties, such commissioner shall enter into a bond, with good and sufficient securities, to be approved by the board, executed in behalf of the town, with obligations to faithfully account to the board for all money received, and to pay the same over to the town treasury.

History: Laws 1882, ch. 70, § 22; C.L. 1884, § 2796; C.L. 1897, § 4000; Code 1915, § 5541; C.S. 1929, § 144-129; 1941 Comp., § 8-529; 1953 Comp., § 7-5-29.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — The words "this chapter" were inserted by the 1915 Code compilers, and referred to Chapter 108 of that code, which is identical to this article.

Cross references. — For provisions relating to bonds for public officers, see 10-2-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.

For Surety Bond Act, see 10-2-13 NMSA 1978 et seq.