The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-10-11

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at a rate exceeding six per centum per annum.
/ SEC. z. And beat further enacted, That the
president and directors are hereby empowered anC
fully authorized, ON behalf of said company to lease
demise, bargain, sell and convey any lands and rea
estate which may be owned r held by said company
and to execute and deliver to purchasers good and
sufficient deeds therefor.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
stock of said company shall be transferred the
books of the Company in such manner only as the
bylaws of the company shall direct.
SEC. g. And bet further enacted, That moth
ing in this act shall be so construed as making 1t
Il perpetual, but Congress may at any time alter,
| amend, or repeal the same.
i Approved July D. 1866.
i TPUBLIC-No. 1925.
AN ACT to quiet land claims in California.
/ Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Itepre-
sentdtives Ofthe United States Of Anae1icG in Con-
greSS assembled, That in all cases where the
State of California has heretofore made selec-
tions of any portion of the public domain IN
| part satisfaction of any grant made to SAID
! State by any act of Congress, and has disposed
| OF the same to purchasers in good faith under
her laws, the lands so selected shall be, and
hereby are, confirmed to said State: PrOVsded,
That no selection made by said State contrary
| to existing laws shall be confirmed by this act
] for lands to which any adverse pre-emptlon,
| homestead, or other act has, at the date OF the
passage of this act, been acquired by any set
| tier under the laws of the United States, or to
any lands which have been reserved for naval,
States, or to any mineral land, or to any land
| held or claimed under any valid Mexican OF
| Spanish grant, or to any land when, at the
| time of the passage Of this act, was lncluued
within the limits of any CITY, town or village
| or within the county Of San Francisco: And
| provided further, That the State OF CALIFORNIA
shall not receive under this act "a greater guam
| tity of land for school or improvement purpos-
es than she is entitled to by law.
| SEC. 3 And be 1t further enacted, That where
| ho no m p6 N section
have been made upon land which has been sur
veyed by authority of the United States, 1t
| shall be the duty of the proper authorities OF
| the State where the same has not already
been done to notify the register of the United
States land office for the district in which the
| land is located of such selection which notice
| shall be regarded as the date ofthe State Sc
lection, and the Commissioner of the General
Land Office shall, Immediately after the pas
sage of this act instruct the several local reg
listers to forward to the General Land Office,
after investigation and decision, all such Sc
| lections, which, if found to be in accordance
with section one of this act, the Commissioner
shall certify over to the State in the usual
manner.
Il Sec. 3. And belt further enacted, That where
the selections named in section one of this act
have been made from lands which have not
been surveyed by authority of the United
States, but which selections have been survey
u ed by authority of and under the laws OF said
State, and the land sold to purchasers in good
faith under the laws of the State, such selec-
tions SHALL from the date of the passage OF
this act, when marked off and designated IL
the field, have the same force and effect as the
pre-emptiOn rights of a settler upon unsur
veyed public land; and if upon survey Of sucl
lands by the United States, the lines of the
+ two surveys shall be found not to agree, tho
selection shall be so changed as to include
those legal subdivisions which nearest con
form to the identical land inclnded in the
tot
with the register of the proper United States
: land Office of the township plat in which any
such selection of unsuryeyed land is located,
r the holder of the State title shall be allowed
: the same time to present and prove up his
g purchase and claim under this act as is al
lowed per-emptors under existing laws; and /
found in accordance with section one OF this
act, the land embraced therein shall be certi
fled over to the State, by the Commissioner o.
the General Land Office.
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That
f in all cases where township surveys have beer
| or shall hereafter be made under authority o.
: the United States, and the plats thereof ap
= proved, it shall be the duty the Commission
er of the General Land Office to certify over tC
the State of CALIFORNIA, as swamp and over
flowed all the lands represented as such, up
on such approved plats, within one year from
the passage of this act, or within one yeal
from the return and approval of such town
ship plats. The Commissioner shall direct
the United States surveyor general for the
State of California to examine the segregation
maps and surveys of the swamp and overiloweC
lands made by said State; and where he shall
find them to conform to the system of surveys
accepted by the United States, he shall con
struct and approve township plats accordingly
and forward to the General Land Office for APP
. prevail: Provided, That in segregating larg,
bodies of land, VIGOROUSLY and obviousl,
swamp and overlooked, it shall not be neces
: sary to subdivide the same, but to run the ex
terror lines of such body ofland. In case sucl
: State surveys are found not to be in accordance
with the system of United States surveys, an(
: in such other townships as no survey has beel
: made by the United States, the COMMISSIONS
shall direct the surveyor general to make seq
| regatlon surveys, upon Applicant ton to sai(
| surveyor general by the governor of said State
within one year OF such application, of all tn,
swamp and overf1owed land in such townships
d and to report the same to the General Lane
1 Office, representing and describing what lane
was swamp and oyertlOwed under the grant
, according to the best evidence he can obtain
! If the authorities of said State shall claim a
t swamp and overfowed any land not represen
a ted as such upon the maps or in the returns o
y the surveyors, the character of such land a
i the date of the grant, September twenty eight
eighteen hundred and fifty, and the right t.
. the same, shall be determined by testimony
: to be taken before the surveyor general, whc
q shall decide the same, subject to the approva
e ofthe Commissioner of the General Land OF
flee.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That i
shall be the duty Of the Commissioner of tn
General Land Office to instruct the officers o
/ the local land offices and the surveyor general
immediately after the passage of this act, t.
: forward lists of all selections made by tn
/ State referred to in section one ofthis act, an(
lists and maps of all swamp and overfowet
. lands claimed by said State, or surveyed q
a provided in this act, for final disposition ant
# determination, which final disposition shall
: be made by the Commissioner of the Genera
a Land Office without delay
\ SEC. 6. A1d be it further enacted, That al
e act entitled IAN act to provide for the surve,
e of the public land in CALIFORNIA the grantin!
e of presumption rights therein, and for othe
f purposes" Improved March third, one thou
Y sand eight hundred and ffty-three, shall b.
construed as giving the State of California tn
. right to select for school purposes other land
: in lieu ofsuch sixteenth and thirty-sixth sec
/ lions as were settled upon prior to survey, re
4 served for public uses, covered by grants mad
/ under Spanish or Mexican authority, or b,
: other private claims, or where such section
would be so covered if the lines of the publ
surveys were extended over such lands, whicl
shall be determined whenever township line
shall have been extended over such land, ant
r in case of Spanish or Mexican giants, when tn
< final survey of such grants shall have beef
: made. The surveyor general for the State o
: California shall furnish the State authorize
with lists of all such sections so covered as
! basis OF selection, such selections to be mad
from surveyed lands, and within the SAM
' land district as the section for which the Sc
! lection is made.
f Sec. z. Aq5d 6eI. further enacted, That wher
; persons in good faith, and for a valuable con
sideration, have purchased lands of Mexican
grantees or assigns, which grants have subse
quently been rejected or where the lands S,
/ purchased have been excluded from the fina
t survey OF any Mexican grant, and have used
improved, and continued in the actual posses
sion OF the same as according to the lines O
their original purchase, and where no valid ad
verse right or title Except ofthe United States
exists, sucn purchasers may purchase tn
same, after having such lands surveyed unde
existing laws, at the minimum price estab
lished by law, upon first making proof of th
facts as required in this section, under reguia
lions to be provided by the Commissioner Q
the General Land Office, joint entries bein,
admissible by coterminous pronrietors To snci