Arizona citizen., 1875-02-06
TUCSON LAND BILL LAW.

| TUCSON LAND BILL A LAW. | January 29, Delegate Mccormick tele- graphed Governor Stafford that the follow ing bill had passed the Senate without amendments - it having passed the l House June II, 1874. It is therefore a law now, and those inteles can govern themselves by its provisions:
 An act to grant title to certain lands in 1 the Territory of Arizona.
 1 Whereas certain lands in Santa Cruz valley, county of Pima and Territory of l AiizOna, have for many years been occu- pied and possessed by persons of Mexican | birth, who became citizens of the United States under the treaty of Guadalupe Hi dalgo and the GadSden treaty !; and where | as the said persons desire to secure patents for said lands in the small and irregular | tracts In which they were originally taken up under Mexican authority, and have been held and cultivated to the present time, and they cannot do so under the ex- lsting land laws of the United States l therefore
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress mbled, That all the right and title of the United States to the land embraced in sections 7, II and l4, and the east half of sections three, ten and fifteen, of township fouIteen south; range thirteen east, Gila and Salt river mel idian, in the county of Pima and Territory of
 
 linquished and granted to the person or persons who have been in the actual bona hde occupancy or possession of said land, by themselves or their ancestors or grant, ors Tor twenty years next preceding the date of the passage of this act and it shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of the United States land-office for the district in which said land lies, to hear anu determine, subject tO the ap- prov3l of the missioner of the Gen. lJlnu-Ofllcn. claiming under this act and for that pur- pose the said register and the said receiver shall have the power to summon wit. nesses, administer paths, and take testi- mony relative to such occupancy or pos session: Provided, That no claim as aforesaid shall be of any validity under this act unless it shall have been duly filed with the said register and the said re- ceiver within one year after the passage of this act: And provided further, That this grant shall not extend to any reserva- tion of the United States, nor prejudice any valid adverse right or claim, if such preclude judicial examination thereof.
 Sec. 2 That whenever it shall have l been determined by the said register and the said receiver, or on appeal by the Com 1 missioner of the General Land-Office or [ Secretary of the Interior, that any tract | has been occupied as aforesaid, it shall be l the duty of the SurveyOr-general for said 1 Territory to cause the said claims to be | SuTFeyeU III dccOTUance WlCn the lines or | such occupancy, and to furnish approved | platS Of the same, upon the receipt and | approval of which said plats and the field l notes thereof by the Commissioner of the | General Land-otfce, patents shall issue as in other cases,
 Sec. 3. That any part or parts Of said l designated lands that are not shown to the | satisfaction of the Commissioner of the l General Land-Office to have been so occu- pied for twenty years, shall be held by 1 him as open to settlement under the pro- visions Of the pre-emptiOn or homestead | laws of the United States, and patents may be issued therefor for any mum Der of acres not exceeding one hundred and six ty that parties complying With said legal | provisions may desire to hold: Provided, That all existing occupants who have set | tied on said lands within period of less than twenty years shall have the prior right to acquire the same under the home stead laws of the United States.
 CoNDENsED. from The Sentinel of last {:
 Col. Dave Buell. a noted miner all over the Pacific coast, arrived at Yuma on the 18th, and spoke highly of his prospects in Mohave county and the mining interests generally.
 Rain began to fall slowly on the 18th and continued until the 27th in the even- Ing. It was regarded as the heaviest rain known here by "the oldest inhabitant."
 The steamer Cocopah arrived on the 26th with the Montana'S freight,
 The next Newborn is expected to bring the machinery to complete the mill and reduction works of the PicachO mining com pany-the location 9 miles north of Yuma on the bank of the Colorado. The last steamer brought steam engine and other machinery for working hemp at the colony down the River.
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