Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-14

the powers of a 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. 10. That all the foregoing proceed
ings and rights shall be conducted and de-
cided su bieCt to the following provisions as
well as to the other provisions of this act,
namely:
First-No claim shall be allowed that shall
not appear to be upon title lawfully ana
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
If not then complete and perfect at the date
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
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 to
any land or place.
IAUd-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
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.
Fourth-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.
Fith-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.
Sirth-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 it 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.
SeUenth-No confirmation In respect of any
claims or lands, mentioned in section q 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 oy the respective laws of Spain or Mex
leo applicable to the claim.
Eighth-No concession grant, or other
authoritV n arunira land made
condition or requirements, either anteCed-
ent or subsequent shall be admitted or con
frmed 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 if in any case 1t snail appear
that the land, or any part thereof, deCreed
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 bettcrments,
not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre for such lands; and such
Judgment when found shall be charge on
party deeming himself aggrieved by such
Judgment, may appeal in the same manner as
provided herein in cases or 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. 15 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. 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 it shall
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-
Ceeding one hundred and sixty acres, in such |
townships for twenty years next preceding |
the time of making such survey, the deputy |
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
he boundaries and area of the tract as a
separate, legal subdivision. The deputy
shall return with his survey the
name or names of all persons so found to be
n possession, with proper description of
he tract in the possession of each, as shown
1y the survey, and the proof furnished to
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Upon receipt OF such survey and proofs,
he Commissioner of the General Land
)fce shall cause careful investigation to be
made in such manner as he shall deem neCes-
;ary 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
% the parties so found to be in possession
Tor the tracts respectively claimed by them;
Pr0Uided however, That no person shall be
entitled to confirmation of, or to patent for,
more than one hundred and sixty acres in
lis own right by virtue of this section; And
1ro0ided FURTHER, That this section shall not
apply to any city lot town lot, village lot,
arm lot, or pasture lot held under grant
rom any corporation or town, the claim to
which may fall within the provisions of sec.
ion i of this act.
SEC. II. That in the case of townships here
ofore surveyed in the Territories of New
Mexico, Arizona and Utah. and the States of
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who, or whose ancestors, grantors, or their
awful successors In title of possession, be-
;ame citizens of the United States by reason
If the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and who
lave been in the actual, continuous. adverse
possession and residence thereof of tracts
lot to exceed one hundred and sixty acres
ZACH, for twenty years next proceeding such
urvey, shall be entitled, upon making proof
If such fact to the satisfaction of the regis
er and receiver of the proper land district
md 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. hoDeoer, That no person shall be en-
tiled to enter more than one such tracts, in
IFS own right, under the provisions of this
ection.
SEC. IS. That all claims arising under
ither of the two next preceding sections of
his act shall be filed with a Surveyor-Gen-
raj of the proper State or Territory within
wo years next after the passage of this act,
nd no claim not so filed shall be valid. And
he class of cases provided for in said two
ext preceding sections shall not be consid-