The advocate., 1895-09-18
MEXICAN GRANT PATENTS.
The United States Engaged in Very Dis
reputable Land-Patent Business.

VS. Norris, Q03, U. S. 59S) has occasion
to speak of two kinds OF United States
land patents.
First-A Patent That Passes the Title
of the United States.
A patent that confers title from the
United States according to Justice Mil
ler, is a patent to public land-land
that belongs to the United States.
Second-A Patent That Does Not Pass
the Title of the United States.
A patent that confers no title from
the United States is a patent to a
Mexican grant, because valid Mexi-
can grant is private land-land that
does not belong to the United States.
FALSE PRETENsE PATENT
The President of the United States,
in the course ora Mexican grant pat
ent, pretends to pass the title of the
United States. Take, for instance,
the case of the so-called Beaubien and
Miranda or Maxwell grant. In this
case the President says: Therefore, I,
Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the
United States, do give and grant to
Charles Beaubien and Guadalupe Mir
anda, their heirs and assigns, etc" "
Now, the patent itself admits that
the land therein described has already
been granted to Beaubien and Miranda
by Mexico; that it is, therefore, private
Iand-land that does not belong to the
United States and for this reason can
rot be regranted by the United States.
hou In ho
of this admission of the patent that
the land had been already granted pro-
ceeds to regrant it, and having in apt
words regranted it, he says the patent
must be construed as quit claim,
which means that the President has
made no grant at all; that he has only
been pretending to grant the grant over
again $50 as to make the old ching
look like a patent, anyhow"
sCARECROW PATENT.
The Mexican grant patent issued by
the United States is misleading. The
people Of this country are used to only
one definition of land patent, to wit:
An instrument that confers title from
the United States. When, therefore,
it went before the country that patent
had been issued to the alleged Max
we'll grant the people naturally said:
chat settles it," thinking, of course,
that the United States had, by that
instrument, passed its title when, as
a matter of fact, the United States
had only admitted, by IT'S quit claim
proviso, that title had already passed
from Mexico. But that patent" to the
alleged Maxwell grant was especially
used to mislead the settlers. We've
got you now," said the company; "here's
our patent from the United States.
They we'll knew the only idea the set
tiers had of such an instrument was
that it conferred title from the United
States and they thought of course to
frighten the settlers from the premises
with that patent" which they well
knew did not confer title from this
government. Hence, in issuing Mexi-
can grant patent" the United States
has gone into the scarecrow business
1t has dressed UP a stick of thing in
the store clothes of patent and
made it look awfully like a patent, and
given it to the claimants Of bogus Mexi-
can grants to frighten settlers with.
JANUs-FACED PATENTS.
The cd Janus is represented as hav-
ing two faces looking in opposite direc.
tions. and the Mexican grant patent ap.
pears to have also two faces-one look.
ing to Mexico for title and the other
looking to the United States for title
For his reason call the Mexican grant
patent pagan monstrosity; and If II
was simply a work of art, indicative Of
Uncle Sans artistic cunning, would
smile at it and let it pass. But it /:
not that alone; it is an instrument