Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-03

The approval of said contract involved
the approval of the survey of said allot-
ments according to the field notes as re-
turned by said Surveyor General Hobart
on June 2, 1898. The present commits
sioner Of the general land office
NOT BEING SATISFIED
with the survey of the allotments, and a
number of protests having been filed in
the land department against the approval
Of the survey of said allotments, the mat
ter was taken up and thoroughly inyesti-
gated, and finally submitted to the secre-
tary of the interior for his consideration
and action.
AS before stated, the present surveyor
general has just been instructed to pro-
coed with the resurvey of said grant, and
for the information of the citizens of Las
Vegas and settlers upon this grant, the
New MEXICAN here quotes the letter of in
structions from the commissioner of the
general land Office, in relation to the re-
survey, as follows:
THE LETTER.
The U. S. Surveyor General, Santa Fe, New
| Mexico
Washington, D. c., Feb. "a, 1894.--Sir:
Referring to the matter of the resurvey of
the Las Vegas grant you are informed
that under date of the 18th instant, the
secretary of the interior, concurring in
the recommendations of this Office, re-
iected said survey, and directed that a final
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ance with the rules laid down in the de-
partmental decision of December 8, 1891
(1S L. D., 646,657). A copy of the letter
of the secretary is herewith inclosed.
1t will be seen that the secretary further
concurs in my recommendation, that it
would be promotive of the public inter-
ests if the services of Mr.. R. B. Rice
could be secured to make the final survey.
You will therefore communicate with
Mr.. Rice as soon as practicable, with that
end in view and upon receiving his
reply you will report to this Office with
your recommendations as to the manner
of making complete and final survey of
the grant, whether by contract or APP
pointment, with an estimate of the cost
thereof.
departmental decision above referred to,
and particularly to the statement therein
that resurvey should be made so as to
include only the lands which had been
allotted or assigned to settlers, under the
terms of the original concession at the
time that the territory of New Mexico
became subject to the laws of the United
States.
Your special instructions governing
the resurvey, which will be submitted to
this office for approval, should be so full
and clear that there can be no misunder-
standing as to the methods to be pursued,
and the manner of making and marking
the survey, which should include all of
the lands allotted and assigned, but no
more. The surveyor should return a
complete list, to be incorporated in his
field notes, of all the parcels of land in
cluded in the survey, giving name of the
claimant, and area embraced in each, and
his reason for accepting the same as a
part of the Las Vegas grant. Testimony
will be taken by him to determine that
each allotment is valid claim; and be-
fore taking the field notice to the par
ties in interest should be printed in
proper legal form in accordance with the
laws of New Mexico, in cases of similar
character, in the principal Las Vegas
newspaper. Said notice to be in both the
English and Spanish languages, and set
ting forth the fact that final survey is
about to be made of the town of Las
Vegas grant, and notifying all claimants
! of the allotted lands under the terms OF
the original concession that they will be
required to submit sworn statement Of
their claims to the surveyor, that the
rights of all concerned may be protected
The department letter above referred
to, further sets forth that it will not be
proper to include the Sanguijuela, or any
other private grant, within the survey Of
the Las Vegas; the resurvey therefore will
have nothing to do with the tract known
as the SanguijueIa.
return by this mail two packages con-
tanning the plat and field notes of the re-
survey of the Las Vegas grant, submitted
with letter of your predecessor, dated
June 2, 1898, and five books of original
notes made by r. b. Rice, and transmitted
with your letter of Dec. IA. 1898. Very re-
spectfuly,
| (Signed) S. W. LAMoREUx,
Commissioner
For the information of the parties in
interest, the New MEXICAN also quotes
an extract from the decision of the secre.
tary of the interior in relation to said re-
survey, as handed down to the general
land Office, as follows:
REMARKABLE PIECE OF BUSINESS.
"It appears that the so-called resurvey
was made between March Is, 1889, and
October IA, 1889, in pursuance of a rec.
ommendation of the then surveyor gen
eral of New Mexico; and as that rec
ommendation was not adopted in it's
| entiretv. when the matter was here be-