Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-21

this act to grant in vacation all orders for
| taking testimony, and otherwise to hear
and dispose of interloCutory motions not
affecting the substantial merits of a case.
| And said court shall have and possess all
| the powers of Circuit Court of the United
| States in preserving order, compelling the
| production of books papers and documents,
| the attendance of witnesses and in punish
| ing ContemptS.
SEC. IL. That all the foregoing proceed
| ngs and fights shall be conducted and de-
| Cided subject to the following provisions as
well as to the other provisions of this act,
namely:
| FTr8t-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, and one that
| 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 ritory
not been acquired by the United States, and
| 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.
| SeG0nd-No claim shall be allowed that
shall interfere with or overthrow any. just
and uneXtinguished Indian title or right to
any land or place.
Third-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
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authorized thereto by an act of Congress
hereafter passed.
FOuWh-No claim shall be allowed for any
land, the. right to, which has hitherto
been lawfully acted upon and decided by
Congress, or under its authority.
FJth-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
right in such lands.
SiCth-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 release
by the United States of it's 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, otherwise than
as is in this act provided.
SeUehth-No confirmation In respect of any
claims or lands, mentioned in section 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.
Eighfh-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
tirmed 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. IA, That in any case 1t snail appear
that the land, or any part Thereon, decreed
to any claimant under the provisions of this
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
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not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre for such lands; and such
Judgment when found shall be a 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.
SEQ. Is. That section of the act of Con
eress 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 actnal s snd a
acts amendatory or in extension thereof, or
supplementary thereto, aud 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, If 1t shall
be made to appear to the r satlst tS rve OF
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
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 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 1ufnlshed 10
him of such possession.
Upon receipt OF such SUI ~ey and proofs,
the Commissioner OF. the General Land
ONCE shall cause careful investigation to be
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;
ProUided, hoWeoer, 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 sections; And
proUided farther, 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 IL 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 and residence thereof of tracts
not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres
each, for twenty years next proceeding 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 10 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-
Uided. 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.