If the owner of the mill for which the ditch is desired pays the amount assessed against him, as above required, he may construct his ditch as the same may be designated by the arbitrators and according to the record of the justice of the peace [magistrate court] of the report of the said arbitrators.
History: Laws 1899, ch. 61, § 4; Code 1915, § 5801; C.S. 1929, § 151-604; 1941 Comp., § 77-1704; 1953 Comp., § 75-16-4.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Section 35-1-38 NMSA 1978 abolished the office of justice of the peace, transferred the jurisdiction, powers and duties of said justices to the magistrate court and provided that all statutory references to "justice of the peace" shall be construed to refer to the magistrate court.