The Arizona champion., 1886-06-26
Kinsley and Dwight K. TriPY, Com

| N'IN ONNiNNasI VI ''I@ ihNN''''i iN'-C'h mending the acceptance of the sec tions examined by them, which was fled in the Department of the Int. rior December nth, 1882 and sub. nilted by tlIe Secretary of the lnte. | rior to the President December I7'h. 1882, with al arecommendiuon that the said ten sections be accepted and that patents fer land, earned by the construction thereof issue to the A. & r. K. K. Co.,, on their compliance with the law and regulations IF such cases made and provided. hi, re- Celved the Presidents approval D. cember I4th, 1882, and copies ot the documents together wlth maps anj proiies we're sent by the Secretary of the Interior to the Commls,lunef Ot the General Land Oiicc on D-cem- Der 10th, 1882, wltn q direulion to take appropriate action thereon.
 The Allantic aAd Pacific Railroad Co, has duly applied for patents Tor all the surveyed land within its forty mile limit winch Is included and de. scrlbed In tha contrlCt of sale be- tween it and the Aztec Co. d.:cd Feb. 3rd, 1885, and has pail all the fees of the various land offices d, wei! as It's 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. R. C.. 5 attorney at Albuquerque for proof 0! the various applications for patents and of the various payments above mentioned.
 By Act of Congress, entitled "A1 Act to enable the Atlantic X Pacific Railroad Company to Mortgage It's Road" approved April aoth, 1871 the Railroad was authorized .o is,u. bonds and secure them by mortgage of it's lands and other property and franchises, and in pursui Ice of said Act, the R R. C.. did, on JHly I,t; 1850, mortgage to the United States Trust O., of New York, as TttlStee. all Us lands and other property and franchises, reservlng the power to sell the lands subject 10 certain conditi InS contained !n the mortgage, which k, filed and recorded in the otfi:e of the Secretary of the Interior, as reqllreI by said Act of 1871,
 By a contract of sale dated Decem- Der 27th, 1884, the land cllimrd Ey the Az,ec C.. and upon which the treSpasses are being committed, was sold by ;he A. x P. R. k C.. to F.. w. klnsley, a, Trustee, tor the sub scrlbers of the capital stock of the Aztec Co for $500 GOO cash. and was on Dec. goth, 1884, released by the United States Trust Co. from the operation Of the aD0vc mentioned mortgage Tn pursuance of the terms thereof and immediately up,n the purchase WIS ~alilie l aal accepted by It's stockholders.
 This contract has been cancelled by ;he making of new contract on Feb, 3rd, 1886, between the R. R Co, and ,h- Aztec C.. whjc h em- braces nearly the same land as in the former contract but defines It more accurately. Ne.tner contact has yet been recorded
 Having thus siV4h you the chain of titIe by which the Aztec Co. lays claims to it's land, We refer you to the following facts and documents. copies of which are enclosed. to prove tAa validity of the RnIroad Companv's clam to the lard sold by 1t to the Aztec Co.,;
 Ist: The Act of 1866 granting lands to aid the construction ot the A. x P. R. R.
 and. Copy of the Commissioner, reports concerning the acceptance ot 10 sections of the road and of th. action ot lAe Secretary of the Ilterior therupon.
 3rd: Ccpy of opinion of Attorney General Devens to Carl Schurz, Sec. retary of the Interior, dlted Oct, 26th. 1886.
 4lh: Copy Patents Of the United States to the A. x P R. R. Co. to Township 8, Range 4, and Township 8, Range 5, N. Of base line and ". of New Mexico. Principal meridian Territory or New Mexico.
 F. sth: Copy Act of 1871, authoriz- ing the A. x P. R. K. Co. to mort.