Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-03-01
MER|T0R|0US
MEASURE
1t Will Relieve Small Holding
Claimants on Grant Of Atlantic
Pacific Railroad.
REPORTED FAV0RABLY
Ii Was introduced by Delegate B. S.
Rodey-..Congress Passes q New
Land Regulation.

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Washington. Feb. 27-The following
bill for the relief of small holding set
tiers within the limits of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railway Company's land
grant in Valencia, Mckinley and Ber-
nalillo Counties, has been introduced
by Delegate B. S. Rodey and has been
reported favorably by the committee
on public lands, Mr. Rodey himself be-
ing authorized to make the report. 1t
will relieve many people around Los
Lunas and number of people living
around Cubero, by giving to them their
homes and lands which they had lost
to the Atlantic & Pacific Railway Com
pany, owing to the operation of the
law and the failure of the court of pri-
vate land claims to approve the land
grants which those people thought
they were living upon.
The bill reads as follows:
A bill for the relief of small holding
settlers within the limits of the grant
of land to the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
way Company in the Territory of New
Mexico
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the Atlantic & Pacific
Railway Company, it's successors in
interest and it's or their assigns may,
when requested by the secretary of the
interior so to do, relinquish or deed,
AS may be proper, to the United States
any section or sections of it's or their
lands in the Territory of New Mexico
the title to which was derived by said
railroad company through the act of
Congress of July 27, 1896, in aid of
the construction of said railroad, any
portion of which section is and has
been occupied by any settler or set
tiers as home or homestead by
themselves or their predecessors in
interest for a period of not less than
twenty-five years next before the pas
sage of this act, and shall then be en-
titled to select in lieu thereof. and to
have patented other sections of va
cant public land of equal quality in
said Territory, as may be agreed up
on with the secretary of the interior
Section g. That the secretary of the
interior shall, as soon as may be after
the passage of this act, cause inquiry
to be made of all lands so held by set
tiers, and shall cause the holdings of
such settlers to be surveyed and on
receiving such relinquishments or
deeds shall at once, without cost to
the settlers, cause patents to issue to
each such settler for his or her such
holdings: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed 100 acres shall be patented to
any one person, and such recipient
must possess the qualifications neces-
sary to entitle him or her to enter
such land under the homestead laws.
Sec. g. That any factions of any
such sections Of land remaining after
the issuance of patents to the settlers
as aforesaid shall be subject to entry
by citizens the same as other public
lands of the United States.
The following is the list OF small
holding claimants, part of whose
claims are in conflict with the Atlantic
& Pacific Railway Company's lands in
township 10 north, range Z west:
No. Name. Part in conflict
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