Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-19
LAND COURT RULES.
Notifications in Them Which are of
Note to Lawyers and
IIitigants.

At the request of number of attor-
neys the New MEXICAN herewith prints
the rules of practice as recently amended
| by the U. s. court of private land claims
1t is ordered that in all cases pending
| before this court, the plaintiffs therein
shall file with the clerks at Santa Fe and
Tucson all documentary evidence of title
If the same be in their possession OF con-
troll, together with translations thereof
upon which they expect to rely upon the
title. If any such documentary evidence
be not in the custody, or under the control
of the plaintiffs, copies and TRANSACTIONS
thereof shall be filed together with state
ments as to where the originals can be
found, and they shall furnish the United
States attorney with an abstract of all such
documentary evidence.
The plaintiffs are also required to serve
The United States attorney with an alb
stract of mesne conveyances and other
evidence relied upon to connect them
selves with the original grantee, and they
shall at least five days before the case
comes on for trial file with the clerk for
inspection all original documents that are
to be used for that purpose.
The following additional rules defining
the duties of the stenographer and the
clerk of this court are hereby adopted:
1. Immediately after the completion of
the trial of each cause the stenographer
shall extend his notes of the oral evil
dence given by witnesses on the trial OF
the cause and shall make two copies
thereof which he shall deliver to the
clerk properly certified by himself; he
shall also properly identify, by numbers
or letters. all dispositions, documents and
exhibits introduced and read upon the
trial, and shall make such reference there
to in his notes as shall clearly identify
the same and shall return the same with
the extended copies of his notes to the
clerk. 70
II. Upon receiving the extended copies
of the notes of the stenographer as con-
templated in the foregoing rule, the clerk
shallfil one copy thereof together with all
dispositions and documentary evidence
introduced in the trial with the papers in
the cause, and the same shall constitute
part of~the record in the cause. The
other copy of such extended notes shall
be for the use of the court and counsel,
until the decision of the case when the
same shall be deposited in the Office of
the attorney of the United States.
III. In every case in which an appeal
shall have been prayed and asked by the
court it shall be the duty of the clerk,
upon the application of counsel for the
party 80 appealing, at once and without
fee or charge to make out and forward to
the clerk of the supreme court a tran
script of the record in the cause, unless
otherwise ordered by the court or a
justice thereof in vacation. The tran
script shall include copies of all plead.
ings in the case, the evidence both oral
and documentary introduced on the trial,
and the decree, order or judgment ap-
pealed from, and the clerk shall CERTIFY
to the correctness of the same under the
seal Of the court.
It ia ordered that RUE ii, heretofore
ado pied, be amended by striking out the
word duplicate in the third line, page
seven, printed rules, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word triplicate, and also by
striking out the word one in tho same
line, and inserting in lieu thereof the
word two. It is also ordered that in case
of appeal the clerk may use one Of the
two copies so filed with him in making
out transcript. This order in so far as
it requires tho filing of papers in tripli-
cate shall be applicable in all pending
cases. No.