19-4-11: [Notice of meeting to elect trustees; qualifications; duties.]

Within ten days after the time, as prescribed in the preceding section [19-4-10 NMSA 1978], the corporate authorities, or, if there be no corporate authorities, the probate judge holding the land in trust, shall give ten days' notice of the time and place wherein a public meeting of the inhabitants of such town will be held, at which public meeting a board of five trustees shall be elected by a majority of the votes of the legally qualified voters residing within said town, present at said meeting. Said board of five trustees shall consist of legally qualified voters, being owners of real estate in said town: provided, further, that after said election has been duly certified to by the chairman and secretary of the public meeting so held, they are, and are hereby authorized to dispose of all said lots, blocks or parcels, of said land, as described in the preceding section, as may seem best for the use of the school funds of said inhabitants of such town, as hereinafter provided in this chapter.