Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-07-05
THE FINAL
REPORT
A Synopsis Of the Work Of the
Court of Private Land
Claims.
2,05I-526 ACRES
CONFIRMED
The Area Rejected Would Make a Good
Sized State...Not One Record
Lost or MisIaid.

Hon. Matthew G. Reynolds, of st.
Louis, Mo-, United States Attorney of
the Court of Private Land Claims,
| which passed out of existence by limit
alton on June 80, 1904 has submitted
his final report to the Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States, as follows:
Santa Fe, N. NJ, June 30, 1904.
The Honorable
The Attorney General,
Washington, D. c.
Sir:
Court of Private Land Claims, created
under and by virtue of an act of Con-
gress entitled, can act to establish
Court of Private Land Claims in GER
tain states and territories" approved
March g. 1891, and various acts amend
atory and in extension thereof, has
concluded and finally disposed of all
the litigation and business that has
been before it.
On the 18th instant the United
States Attorney advised the Court
that, satisfaction of all DEGREES, judg-
ments and orders of the Court had
been entered of record as required by
law and announced that he had moth.
ing further to suggest on behalf of the
United States, and the Court was ad-
journed without day
The official existence of this trib-
unal was begun by it's formal organi-
cation at Denver, Colorado, on July /,
1891, and ceases by operation of law
today, after thirteen years of continu-
GUS labor in judicially determining
and adjusting under the provisions of
the act of March 3, 1891, claims for
lands within the limits of the territor-
les derived by the United States from
the Republic of Mexico and embraced
within the Territories of New Mexico,
Arizona or Utah, or within the States
of Colorado, Nevada or Wyoming, by
virtue of Spanish or Mexican grant,
concession, warrant or survey, as the
United States were bound to recognize
and confirm by the treaties of cession
of said country by Mexico to the Unit
ed States. viz: the Treaty of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, concluded on February
2, 1S4S, and the Gadsden Purchase
(Treaty of Mesilla), concluded De-
cember 80, 1853.
The Court upon its organization on
the 1st day of July, 1891, ordered that
session be held at Denver, Colorado,
and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Court
ordered the transfer of
all records and files at Denver, Colo
RADIO, to Santa Fe. New Mexico, as the
general official headquarters of the
Court, and abolished the Denver office.
On the 9Th day of December, 1892,
Court was established at Tucson, Ari-
iona, for the adjudication of claims to
ands situate within the Territory of
Arizona and all cases affecting lands
n Arizona were transferred to that
district.
During the existence Of the Court of
Private Land Claims the total area of
and for which suits were brought and
service had on the United States,
to 35,491, ,020 acres of land.
The claims confirmed by DEGREES of
the Court, which have been satisfied by
the approval of the surveys made in
execution of said DEGREES. amounts to
2,051, ,526 acres of land and the amount
rejected by the Court is 33,439,4 493
acres of land
You are advised that but one judg-
ment was finally sustained against the
United States under the provisions OF
section thirteen of the act of March 5,
1891, for lands patented by the United
States and situate within the bound
aries of lands confirmed by the Court
Of Private Land Claims, to-wit, for
$685. for 4109O acres of land; which
Judgment l am advised by letter from
he Auditor for the Interior Depart.
nent, dated May 81, 1904, will be paid
under appropriation made by Congress
therefor upon application of the parties
entitled thereto. This fact was made
known to the Court of Private Land
Claims and the letter of the Auditor
was, by order of the Court, spread up
On the records. and counsel for claim
ants notified by me-
1t is with pleasure and pride l am
able to state that on this date June
30, 1904), all of the business hereto
fore pending before the Court of Priv
ate Land Claims has been concluded
and approved, as required by the act of
March 3, 1891.
Embraced in the schedules hereto
attached and made part of this re-
port, numbered respectively A, B, G.
D and E. is an itemized statement of
al the claims presented to the Court
If Private Land Claims f.
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