Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-10-03

the powers of a Circuit Court of the Unite
States in preserving order, compelling tn
production of books papers and documents
the attendance of witnesses and in punish
ing Contempts.
SEC. -. That all the foregoing proceed
ings and rights shall be conducted and de
cided subject to the following provisions a
well as to the other provisions of this ac1
namely:
Eirst-No claim shall be allowed that shall
not appear to be upon title lawfully an
regularly derived from the Government o
Spain or Mexico, nor from any of the State
of the Republic of Mexico having lawful at
thority to make grants of land, and one tina
If not then complete and perfect at the dat
of acquisition of the territory by the Unite
States, the claimant would have had a law
full right to make perfect had the ter ritor
not been acquired by the United States, an
the United States are bound, upon tn
principles of the public law, or by the pre-
visions of the treaty of cession, to. respec
and permit to become complete and perfeC
If the same was not at said date alread
complete and perfect.
SeCond-No claim shall be allowed tina
Shall interfere with or overthrow any JUS
and uneXtinguished Indian title or right +
any land or place.
1hrd-No allowance or confirmation o
any claims shall confer any right or title t.
any gold, silver, or quicksilver mines o
minerals of the same, unless the gran
claim effected the donation or sale of sucl
mines or minerals to the grantee, unles
such grantee has become otherwise entitlc
thereto in law or in equity: but all sucl
mines and minerals shall remain the pror
erty of the United States, with the right o
working the same, which fact shall be state
in all patents issued under this act. But NJ
such mine shall be worked on any propert.
confirmed under this act without the consen
of the owner of such property until special.
authorized thereto by an act of Congress
hereafter passed.
F0mth-No claim shall be allowed for an,
land, the right to which has hitherto
been lawfully acted upon and decided b.
Congress- or under its authority.
FVh-No proceeding, decree, or act undeI
this act shall conclude or affect the privat
rights of persons as between each other al
of which rights shall be reserved and savet
to the same effect as If this act had not beel
passed. but the proceedings, DEGREES, ant
acts herein provided for shall be conclusive
of all rights as between the United States
and all persons claiming any interest OF
right in such lands.
Sirth-No confirmation or decree concern
ing any claim under this act shall in AM
manner operate or have effect against tn,
United States otherwise than as release
by the United States of its right and title t.
the land confirmed, nor shall 1t operate t
liable in respect of any such grants, claims
or lands or their disposition otherwise thar
as is in this act provided.
SeUenth-No confirmation in respect of any
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 lane
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 a greater quantity than was author
lied by the respective laws of Spain or Mex
leo applicable to the claim.
Efghtb-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
hrmed 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.
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 80 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 decming 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 U
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 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. 16. 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 f1de
possession, residing thereon as his home,
of any tracts of land, OF or in connection
Herewith of other lands altogether not ex-
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
surveyor shall return with his survey the
name or names of all persons 30 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
Office 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
Provided, howeger, That no person shall be
entitled to confirmation of, or to patent for,
more than one hundred and sixty acres In
mis- own right by virtue of this section; And
0rogided 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.
lion IL OF this act.
SEQ IT, That in the case of townships here,
.ofore surveyed in the Territories of New
Mexico, Arizona and Utah. and the States of
Nevada and Wyoming, all persons
who, or whose ancestors, grantors. or their
awful successors in title of possession, be-
came citizens of the United States by reason
Of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and who
nave been in the actual continuous. adverse
possession and 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
If such fact to the satisfaction of the regis
er and receiver of the proper land district
Ind of the Commissioner of the General
Land ONCE upon such investigation as is
provided for in section 10 of this act, to en-
er without payment of purchase money,
'ees or commissions, such legal subdivisions,
lot exceeding one hundred and sixty acres,
Is shall include their said possession; Pro-
,ided, hoUeUer, That no person shall be en-
titled to enter more than one such tracts, in
lis own right under the provisions of this
ection.
SEC. 10. That all claims arising under
either of the two next preceding sections of
his act shall be filed with Surveyor-Gen-
,ral of the proper State or Territory within
wo years next after the passage of this act,
Ind no claim not so filed shall be valid. And
he class of cases provided for in said two
lext preceding sections shall not be consid-
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