Charles City intelligencer., 1865-01-05

the said city and its SUCCESSORS for the tscs
and purposes specified In the ordinances of said
city, ratified by an act of the Legislature of
the said State, approved on the eleventh Of
March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. enti-
tied = An act concerning the city of San Franz
cisco, and to ratify and confirm certain ordi-
nances Of the common council Of said city,
there being excepted from this rclnquishment
and grant all sites or other parcels Of lands
which have been now are occupied by the
United States for military, naval, or other
public uses, or such other sites or parcels az
may hereafter be designated by the President
of the United States, within one year after
the rendition to the General Land Office, by
the surveyor general. of an approved plat Of
the exterior limits of San Francisco, as recog-
nized in this section, i'm connexion with the
lines of the public surveys; -4nd pro,4ded,
That the REIMBURSEMENT and grant by this act
shall i'll no manner interfere with or prejudice
any bona fide claims of others, whether asser
ted adversely under rights derived from Spain,
Mexico. or the laws of the United States. nor
preclude judicial examination and adjust
ment thereof.
Sec. 6. And be il frthcr enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the surveyor general of
California to cause all the private land claims
finally confirmed to he accurately surveyed
and plats thereof to be made, whenever re-
quested by the claimants propiied, That
each claimant requesting a survey and plat
shall first deposit in the district court of the
district within which the land Is situated a
sufficient sum of money to pay the expenses of
such survey and plat and of the publication
required by the first section of this act. When
ever the survey and plat requested shall have
been completed and forwarded to the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office, as required
by this act, the district court may direct the
application of the money deposited, or SD
much thereof Us may be necessary, to the pay
ment of the expenses of said survey and pub
lication.
Sec. 7. And be IL further enacted, That il
shall be the duty of the surveyor general Of
California, in making surveys of the private
land claims finally confirmed, to follow the de-
cree of confirmation as closely as practicable
whenever such decree designstes the specific
boundaries of the claim. But when such de-
cree designatcs only the out-boundaries within
which the quantity confirmed is to be taken,
the location of such quantity shall be made,
as near as practicable. in one tract and in a
compact form. And if the character of the
land, or intervening grants, be such as to rem
der the location impracticable in one tract
then each separate location shall he made, as
near as practicable, in Il compact form. And
it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
the General Land Office to require a substan-
tial compliance with the directions of this Sec
tion before approving any survey and plat for
warded to him.
Sec. s. 4hd be IL further enacted. That the
act entitled An act to amend an act entitled
An act TO define and regulate the jurisdiction
of the district courts of the United States i'm
California in regard to the survey and loca-
tion of confirmed private land claims,' APP
proved June fourteen, eighteen hundred and
sixty, and all provisions of law inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, July l, 1854.