The Arizona champion., 1886-07-17
Kinsley and Dwight K. Tripp, Com.

the Secretary of the Interior reCom- mending the acceptance of the sec tions examined by them, which was filed in the Department of the lnte- rior December nth, 1882 and sub mitted by the Secretary of the Inte- rior to the President December I3th, ISSs, with accommodation that the said ten sections be accepted and that patents fer lands earned by the construction theseof issue to the A. & P. R. R. Co.,, on their compliance with the law and regulations in such cases made and provided. This re- ceived the Presidents approval De- cember I4th, 1882, and copies ot the documents together with maps and profleS were sent by the Secretary of the Interior to the CommissioneI of the General Land Office on Decem- Der 10th, 1882, with direction to take appropriate action thereon.
 The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co. has duly applied for patents for all the surve, ed land within its forty mile limit which is included and de- scrihed in the contract of sale be- tween it and the Aztec Co. dated Feb. srd, 1886, and has paid all the fees of the various land offices as wei! as its share of the cost of survey, thus complying with all he requirements of the law and the regulations of the Department of the Interior. How ever, we must refer you to General Sedgwick, the K. k. Co. 5 attorney at Albuquerque for prooi of the various applications for patents and of the various payments above mentioned.
 By Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to enable the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company to Mortgage its Road" approved April goth, 1871 the Railroad was authorized to issue bonds and secure them by mortgage of its lands and other property and franchises, and in pursuance Of said Act, the R R. Co. did, on July Ist, 1880, mortgage to the United States Trust Co.,, Of New York, as Trustee, all its lands and other property and franchises, reserving the power to sell the lands subject to certain conditions contained in the mortgage, which Is filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, as required by said Act of IS5l.
 By a contract of sale dated Decsm- Der 27th, 1884, the land claimed by the Aztec Co. and upon which the trespasses are being committed, was sold by the A, & P. R. k C.. to E. w. Kinsley, as Trustee, for the sub scribers of the capital stock of the Aztec Go. for $500, 900 cash. and was on Dec. goth, 1884, released by the United States Trust Go. from the operation of the above mentioned mortgage in pursuance of the terms thereof and immediately upon the purchase was ~atified and accepted by its stockholders.
 This contract has been cancelled by the making of a new contract on Feb. Srd, 1886, between the R. R Co. and the Aztec Co. which em- braces nearly the same land as in the former contract but defines It more accurately. Neither contract has yet been recorded.
 Having thus given you the chain oi title by which the Aztec Co. lays claims to its land, We refer you to the following facts and documents, copies of which are enclosed. to prove the validity of the Railroad Company's 5 claim to the land sold by it to the Aztec Co.,;
 Ist; The Act Of 1866 granting lands to aid the construction of the A. x P. R R.
 and. Copy of the Commissioners reports concerning the acceptance oi 10 sections of the road and of the action of the Secretary of the Interior thereupon.
 3rd: Copy of opinion of Attorney General Devens to Carl Schurz, Sec retary of the Interior, dIted Oct. 26th. 1886.
 4th: Copy Patents of the United States to the A. x P. K. R. Co. to Township 8, Range 4. and Township 8, Range 5, N. of base line and w. of New Mexico. Principal meridian Territory oi New M-xico.
 5th: Copy Act of 1871, authoriz ing the A. & P. R. R. O. to mort. gage its lands and other property.