Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-12

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SEC 13 That all the foregoing proceed
ings and rights shall be conducted and de-
cidcd subject to the following provisions as
well as to the other provisions of this act,
/ namely:
FHst-No claim shall be allowed that shall
not appear to be upon title lawfully and
regularly derived from the Government of
Spain or Mexico nor from any of the States
of the Republic of Mexico having lawful au-
thOrity to make grants Of land, ana one that
of acquisition of the territory by the United
States, the claimant would have had a law
full right to make perfect had the territory
not been acquired by the United States, and
principles of the public law, or by the pro-
visions of the treaty of cession, to respect
and permit to become complete and perfect
! II the same was not at said date already
| complete and perfect
Sec0nd-No claim shall be allowed that
shall interfere with or overthrow any just
and uneXtinguished Indian title or right to
any land or place.
1AUd-No allowance or confirmation of
any claims shall confer any right or title to
any gold, silver, or quicksilver mines or
| minerals of the same, unless the grant
claim effected the donation or sale of such
mines or minerals to the grantee, unless
| such grantee has become otherwise entitled
thereto in law or in equity; but all such
mines and minerals shall remain the prop
erty of the United States, with the right of
| working the same, which fact shall be stated
in all patents issued under, this act. But no
such mine shall be worked on any property
confirmed under this act without the consent
of the owner of such property until specially
| authorized thereto by an act OF Congress
| hereafter passed.
land, the, right to, which has hitherto
been lawfully acted upon and decided by
Congress, or under its authority.
! FIJib-No proceeding, decree, or act under
this act shall conclude or affect the private
! rights of persons as between each other. all
of which rights shall be reserved and saved
to the same effect as if this act had not been
passed; but the proceedings, DEGREES, and
/ acts herein provided for shall be conclusive
Of all rights as between the United States
and all persons claiming any interest or
! right in such lands.
Sirih-No confirmation or decree concern
/ ing any claim under this act shall in any
manner operate or have effect against the
| United States otherwise than as a release
| by the United States of its right and title to
! the land confirmed, nor shall 1t operate to
make the United States in any manner
| liable In respect of any such grants, claims
! or lands or their disposition s,tnerW1se than
| as IS in this act provided.
| SeUenth-No confirmation In respect of any
claims or lands, mentioned in section 9 OF
! this act or in respect of any claim or title
| that is not complete and perfect at the time
of the transfer of sovereignty to the United
| States as referred to in this act, shall In any
case be made or patent issued for greater
| quantity than eleven square leagues of land
to or IN the right of any one original grantee
or claimant, or in the right of any one origi-
nal grant, to two or more persons jointly,
nor for greater quantity than was author
| lied by the respective laws OF Spain or Mex
leo applicable to the claim.
Eiqhth-NO concession, grant or other
authority to acquire land made upon any
condition or requirements, either anteced-
ent or subsequent, shall be admitted or con
frmtd unless it shall appear that every such
condition and requirement was performed
within the time and In the manner stated in
any such concession, grant, or other autnOr-
lily to acquire land.
SEC. IA. That if in any case 1t snail appear
that the land, or any part thereof, decreed
to any claimant under the provisions OF this
act shall have been sold or granted by the
United States to any other person, such title
from the United States to such other person
shall remain valid, Notwithstanding such
decree, and upon proof being made to the
satisfaction of such court of such sale or
grant and the value of the land so sold or
granted, such court shall render Judgment
in favor of such claimant, against the united
States for the reasonable value OF said land
so sold or granted, exclusive of betternents,
not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre for such lands; ana Such
Judgment when found snail be charge on
the treasury of the United States. Either
party deeming himself aggrieved by such
judgment, may appeal in the same manner as
provided herein in cases of confirmation OF
a Spanish or Mexican grant. For the pur-
pose of ascertaining the value and amount
of such land, surveys may be ordered by the
court, and proof taken before the court, or
by commissioner appointed for that pur-
pose by the court.
SEC. Is. That section 8 of the act of Con
gress approved July 22nd, 1854, entitled
IAN act to establish the office of Surveyors
General of New Mexico, Kansas and Ne
braska, to grant donation to actual settlers
therein, and for other purposes" and all
acts amendatory or in extension thereof, or
supplementary thereto, and all acts or parts
of acts inconsistent with the provisions OF
this act are hereby repealed.
SEC 10. That in township surveys here
after to be made in the Territories of New
Mexico Arizona and Utah, and in the States
of Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming; II 1t snail
be made to appear to the satisfaction OF
the deputy surveyor making such survey
that any person has, through himself.
his ancestors, grantors, or their lawful
successors In title or possession, been IN
the continuous adverse, actual, bona tide
possession, residing thereon as his home,
herewith of other lands altogether not ex-
ceeding one hundred and sixty acres in such
townships for twenty years next preceding
the time of making such survey, the deputy
surveyor shall recognize and establish the
lines of such possession and make the sub
division of adjoining land in accordance
Herewith. Such possession shall be aCCu-
rately defined in the field notes of the survey
and delineated on the township plat, with
the boundaries and area of the tract as a
separate, legal subdivision. The deputy
name or names of all persons so found to be
in possession, with proper description OF
the tract in the possession of each, as shown
by the survey, and the proof furnished TO
him of such possession.
Upon receipt of such survey and proofs,
the Commissioner of the General Land
once shall cause careful investigation to be
made In such manner as he shall deem neces-
sary for the ascertainment of the truth in
respect of such claim and occupation, and if
satisfied upon such investigation that the
claimant comes within the provisions OF this
section, he shall cause patents to be issued
to the parties so found to be In possession
for the tracts respectively claimed by them
Pr0Uided, h0We0er, That no person shall be
entitled to confirmation of, or to patent tor,
more than one hundred and sixty acres. in
his own right by virtue of this sections; And
pr0gided FURTHER, That this section shall not
apply to any city lot. town lot, village lot,
farm lot, or pasture lot held under a grant
from any corporation or town, the claim to
which may fall within the provisions OF sec
ton i of this act.
SEC II. That in the case of townships here.
tofore surveyed in the Territories of New
Mexico Arizona and Utah. and the States of
Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, all persons
who, or whose ancestors, grantors, or their
lawful successors in title of possession be-
came citizens of the United States by reason
of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and who
have been in theActual, continuous adverse
possession aud residence thereof of tracts
not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres
each, for twenty years next preceding such
survey, shall be entitled, upon making proof
of such fact to the satisfaction of the regis
ter and receiver of the proper land district
and of the Commissioner of the General
Land ONCE upon such investigation as Is
provided for in section 16 of this act, to en-
ter without payment of purchase money,
fees or commissions, such legal subdivisions,
not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres,
as shall include their said possession; Pro-
0ided, however, That no person shall be en-
titled to enter more than one such tracts. in
his own right under the provisions of this
section.
SEC 49, That all claims arising under
either of the two next preceding sections of
this act shall be filed with Surveyor-Gen-
eral of the proper State or Territory within
two years next after the passage of this act,
and no claim not so filed shall be valid. And
the class of cases provided for in said two
next preceding sections shall not be consid-
cred adiudicated by the court created by this