Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-18

| the powers Oh OlICull SOuIl VI lHC OllltCu
States in preserving order, compelling the
production of books, papers and documents
the attendance of witnesses and in punish
| ing COntempts.
| ings and rights shall be conducted and de
cided subject to the following provisions as
well as to the other provisions OF this act
namely:
not appear to be upon title lawfully anG
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 thai
If not then complete and perfect at the date
of acquisition of the territory by the United
| States, the claimant would have had law
| full right to make perfect had the ter r1tory
not been acquired by the United States, anG
| the United States are bound, upon the
principles of the public law, or by the pro
visions of the treaty of cession, to respect
and permit to become complete and perfect
If the same was not at said date already
| complete and perfect
SecOnd-No claim shall be allowed that
shall interfere with or overthrow any just
and uneXtinguiShed Indian title or right tC
any land or place.
| Ihird-No allowance or confirmation Of
any claims shall confer any right or title tc
| any gold, silver, or quicksilver mines OF
minerals of the same, unless the grant
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 nc
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.
F0uth-No claim shall be allowed for any
land, the right to which has hitherto
lawfully acted and decided Inv
Congress, or under its authority.
Fifth-No proceeding, decree, or act under
this act shall conclude or affect the private
rights of persons as between each other. ali
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
SGCh-No confirmation or decree concern
ing any claim under this act shall in any
manner operate or have effect against the
| by the United States of its right and title tc
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, Otherwise than
as is in this act provided.
iSeUenth-No confirmation in respect of any
claims or lands, mentioned in section OF
this act or in respect of any claim or title
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.
Eighfh-No concession, grant, or other
authority to acquire land made upon any
condition or requirements, either anteCcd-
eut or subsequent shall be admitted or con
frmcd 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 author
ity to acquire land.
SEC a. 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 betterments,
not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre for such lands; and such
Judgment when found shall be charge on
the treasury of the United States Either
party deenling 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 ascertaning the value and amount
of such land, surveys may be ordered by the
court, and proof taken before the court, or
by a commissioner appointed for that pur-
pose by the court.
SEC. IS. That section of the act of Con
gress approved July 22nd, 1894, entitled
u Ann Of 10 tn office nt
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 or
this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. IS. 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, If It shall!
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 fde
possession, residing thereon as his home,
of any tracts of land, OF or in connection
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
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
surveyor shall return with his survey the
name or names of all persons so found to be
in possession, with a 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 sui Fey 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 1nvest1gation that me
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;
Provided hoWeger, That no person shall be
entitled to confirmation of, or to patent for,
more than one hundred and sixty acres in
his own right by virtue of this section; And
prOUided further, That this section shall not
apply to any city lot, town lot, village lot,
from any corporation or town, the claim to
which may fall within the provisions of sec
ton / 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 the actual, 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.
gided 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. 10. 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
,t1I r. a.