The Arizona champion., 1886-07-03
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THE AZTEC" COIPANI'S TITLE,

tHS ielteT or Se!lSman ana Sengtnah, attorneys for the Aztec Land and Cattle Company, Limited, New York, to C. L. Gut;erson, Esq, attorney and counsellor at law, St. Johns, Ari. zona, the public is furnished the following documentary evidence as additional proof ot the Aztec com pany's right and site to the land pur- chased from the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company.
 The first ar;icle quoted is a true extract from the Act of incorporation ot the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company.
 The second article so quoted is a copy of the bill forfeIting the land grant, exactly as it passed the Senate and the House, alter full debate.
 The bill as passed virtually con- firms all the land grant between AL bdquerque, on the Rio Grande. and The Needles on ihe Great Colorado. It Is so intended and Tn strict accor. dance with the intention of the Act of Congress making the grant.
 Extract from art of Congress- incor.
 porating the Atlantic and Paci. hc Railroad company. Thirty
 ninth Congress, Session I, Chap
 ter 27S, Section 4, 1860.
 And be It further enacted, That whenever sad AtIaniic and Pacific Railroad company shall have. twenty five consecutive miles of any b0rHOA of sad railroad and telegraph hre ready for the service contemplated the President ol the United States shall appoint three commissioners 10 examine 'he same, who shall be paid reasonable compensation for lnelr services by the company, to be de- termined by the Secretary 0t the It. terior; and if it shaIl ap pear that twenty-five consecutive miles of said road and telegraph llne have been completed in a good, substantial and workmlnlIke manner, as in all othl r respects required by this act, the commissioners shall so report unGer oath, 10 the President of the Unlteu States, and patents qf Me Mal5, as aforesaid, SHIH 6t tsS8s$ 70 s2!t c0w- paRy, confirming 10 sad company q t risit md title to said lands situate q opposite to and cOtermlnous witd sad Completed scctlon of s4id road. And from lime to time, whenever twenty i've additional consecutive miles sh al have been constructed, completed and in readiness as ato,esani, ano verified by said commiss .one,, tu tke President ot the U nLted States. then patents shall be Issued 10 sad com pany conveying the additional sec. tiOus oi land as aforesaid. and 50 on Ls last as every twenty-five mlIrs "f sali road Is completed as aforesaid.
 AN ACT.
 To forfeit the lands granted to the
 Atlantic X Pacific Railroad Com
 pany to ald in tie construction
 Of railroad and telegraph line
 from the States of Missouri and
 Arkansas to the Pacific Coast,
 and 10 restore me same 10 settle
 ment, and for other purposes.
 Be # e4aeted by Me Senate and House of Representations ef Me Uaiied .Shatcs Qf Ameylea " CoAsress assem bled, That all the lands, excepting the right of way, aaaM Ms right ef p0soe, aaI ankiorHg7yta G said corporation to' lake from Ac bn6Ht kaRis a'yateht t0 Me Hae 1 saiQ r0ai materiW Gt earht, stone, hm6cy, anu 50 fyM, 4, he eOASfratiioA Hiere4f, MfLatkiay saIl neeessa,y .sro2aas fqr StanoA bmkang5, feorkSh9bs, dPots, maehins-sh4ps, aae- t,aeks, saoit6hes, MyH-tabfes, aal v4- fer Sfatioas, heretofore granted to the Atlantic X PIcliic Railroad Company by an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast, approved July twenty. seventh, eighteen aui.dred and sixty six, and subsequent acts and joint le' solutions of Congress, which are ad- jacent to and cotermnous with the nncompleleI portions of the main line of sad road, embraced within both the granted and indemnity limits as contemplated to be constructed un, der and by the provisions ot the said act of July twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and acts and joint resolu,ions subsequent thereto and relating to the construction oi said road and tese ,raph, be, and the same are he.eby, declared forfeited and restored to the public domain.
 Pissed the House of Representa- lives Febsuary as, 1886.
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