The Arizona champion., 1886-07-10
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 Int rior December nth, 1882 and sub mitted by the Secretary of the Int. rior to the President December ISth, 1882, with recommendation that the said ten sections be accepted and that patents fer lands earned by the construction thereof issue to the A. x ?. 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 of the documents together with maps and proiles were sent by the Secretary of the Interior to the Commissioner of the General Land Office on Decem- Der 10th, 1882, with a direction to take appropriate action thereon.
 The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co. has duly applied for patents for all the survey ed land within its forty mile limit which is included and de- scribed 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 we'll 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 R. K. Co. s attorney at Albuquerque for proof Of the various applications for patents and of the various payments above mentioned.
 By Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to enable the Atlantic x Pacific Railroad Company to Mortgage its Road" approved April 2oth, 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 IS7t.
 By contract of sale dated Decem- Der 27th, 1884, the land claimed by the Aztec Co. and upon which the trespasseS are being committed, was sold by the A. x P, R, R C., to E. w. Kinsley, as Trustee, for the sub scribers of the capital stock of the Aztec Co. for $500. 900 cash. and was on Dec. goth, 1884, released by the United States Trust Co. from the operation of the above mentioned mortgage in pursuance of the terms thereof and immediately upon the purchase was ratified and accepted by its stockholders.
 This contract has been cancelled by the making of new contract on Feb. 3rd, 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 of 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 Of 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, dlted Oct, 26th. 1880.
 4th: Copy Patents of the United States to the A. X P. R. R. Co. to Township 8, Range 4, and Township 8, Range ,, N. of base line and W, of New Mexico. Principal meridian Territory Of New Mexico.
 5th: Copy Act of 1871, authoriz ing the A. & P. R. R. Co. to mort gage its lands and other property.