Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-29
CHAR. CLXVTI.-An Act to confirm certain Private n,
Claims in the Territory of New Mexico.

CHAF CLANEI.-An Act to confirm certain Private anf
Claims in the Territory Of New Mexico.
Be d enacted By the Senate and House of
Of the United States Of america in Caa0res asss,o5ted F
the private land claims in the Territory of New Mexic
commended for continuation by the surveyorgeneri OF tb
Territory, and in his TO the Commissioner N he
Land Office, Of the twelfth of January eiph;eep bnndJ -
cesgnateG as numbers one three four, six, eight
nne ten, twelve fourteen ffteeD sixteen seventeen apt
eg een and the claim Of E. w. Eaton not entered on The r
sI o. numoets' put standing on the original docket and
returns OF the number sixteen be
and they hereby confirmed rOVded That the claim %
Der nne In the name OF John Scoey and Others shall not Be
hed o more than hve sq11re leagusI and that
Der seventeen, in the Of Conso Vigil and Cera M Vu
sha not be confirmed for than eleven square leagues
SEC .. And De U further enacted Tat in surveying the
claim Of said JohI scoy it shall be lawful locate the
he square leagues confirmed to him square body in part
of the ast Of twenty five square leagues claimed By him. and
that in surveying the claims Of said COrneO Vigil and Cean 81
Vain the location shall be made as follows, namely e
shall first be made Of all tracts occupied by actual settlers o
ing possession under titles promises to settle Hhieh nsv
toto been given by said Vigil and st srn, nj 1cb rae,s
claimed by tem and after deductng the area Of an @ ~ -
from the embraced in twenty-five square s % so
mainder shall be located IN two equal tracts T and 81 Yran
in any part of the tract claimed by the SAID ~
selected by them and it shall be the aa make the SURVEYS
Of New Mexico Immediately to prooea. 10. 70 @ ~ bi, ~.
and locations authorized and requrea "' ~
ton. - That the priv.te land
ii inns In the TERRITORY OF Mexico as Vl CON
rnston bs sad to Congress y the Secretary
N he Interior in letter dated the Ta o
10th inclus We be- the are hereby confirmed with the
exception the claim ~ ~ n ne ae o. Suan
B. zd Be- IL 1Asr enacted. That the foregoing eonar
shan only be 7uitcams relinqushments
on he part Of the Un ted states and shall not Affect the adverse
s-btS - # anv other person pfrsoDs whou1s7ever.
So d Be q further enacted. That It shall OF may he
,sT1i for the said JuaR Vigil any person aIaiming
tte under him. institute suit against the United States for
te lands and embraced in said claim number twenysx
not confirmed under the provisions Of the third
act said be instituted in the supreme Terri
tory Mecr to he defended by the district attorney
the United sats for said Territory under the direction the
Attorney General Of the United States with the right Of appeal
party from the decision Of said supreme
Court Of the United States If such appeal be
within from the rendition OF the Judgment In said
pree Of the Territory OF New Mexico and thereaer
PrOUded, That the suit authorized by this section be in
situd within two from the passage Of this act the said
claimants shall be presumed to have abandoned all right title
to the lands embraced in said claim number tEsnys and said
lands sa hencerth be held and deemed TO be public lands
belonging TO the United States And pr0gfded further, That in
the determination Of the suit authorized to Be instituted the
terms OF this section, the cos shall be governed By the treaty
Of Guadalupe Hsgo, the Law o. nations the laws and
customs OF the government from which the claim derived the
principles Of equity and the decisions Of he Supreme Court Of
the Tinted States, so far As they applicable.
SIC And bet further enacted That shall be lawful for
the heirs Of L-is Maria Baea who make claim the sad tract Of
land Is claimed by the town Of Las Begs to select instead Of
the land claimed BY them equal quantity Of vacant land