The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-07-05

CoIFAx GRANT PARISH La, SATURDAY, JULY 1919 kt1

E. s. Murrell Obtains Instructions for
Land Claimants. Il
Baton Rouge, La, June rs, 1919. Ii
Editor Colfar Chronicle:
After being duly informed
that l had been selected as a
member of the committee to as
/ sist land claimants in Grant par
Iish, l at once called at the U. S.
Land Office for the purpose OF
getting instructions as to the
manner of procedure.
The letters follow. and are self
, explanatory.
Baton Rouge, La, June "a, 1919. 1
i, Mr.. E. S. Murrell, care of State Board
of Affairs, Baton Rouge, La:
Sir-Complying with your request, we
} hand you herewith copy of G. L. 0.
. letter &c" dated April Ia, 1919. rela-
o | tive to settlers claims to N. o. Pacific
Ry. Lands.
From this letter you will see that the
\ proper step for a settler who has filed
: homestead application which has
: been finally rejected. is to file peti-
l. ton to reopen his case.
= The proper step for settler at the
date of the definete location of the
d road, who has not yet filed a homestead
q application, is to now file homestead
r application, with corroborated affida-
70 Wait showing his claim to the land.
All applications and petitions must
be filed in this Office. They will then
n be referred to the General Land Office,
n where they will be considered to see II
err they come within the decision of the
IN supreme court of January q, 1919
10 Respectfully,
az VIM. w. VENTREss.
Register and Receiver.
a Department of the Interior,
~ General Land Office,
- Washington, d. c., April IA, 1919.
no Register and Receiver, Baton Rouge
a
10 louisiana.
DIS Sirs-Your attentions called to tn
dr. decision of the Supreme Court of Janu
I'll ary u, 1919, in the case OF Unite
." States, Josephine Brown ct al ". Ne
use Orleans Pacific Railway Company
res al, involving lands within the limits
yer the New Orleans Pacific Railway graz
in the State of Louisiana.
By the act of February 8. 1887 q
III Stat. 3s1) there was confirmed to II
ma New Orleans Pacific Railway CompaI
to that portion of the grant made by Il
i'm Act of March 3, 1871 nc Stat, 67S
pht as related to the lands opposite the co
structed road between White Cast
and Shreveport. Section 2 of the
by contains q proviso as follows:
loes "Provided that all said lands oce
lest MED by actual settlers at the date
Iex- The definite location of said road q
der still remaining in their possession or
!. possession of the heirs or assigns sn
he held and deemed excepted from s.
YET grant and shall be subject to en-
ness under the public land laws OF
!. in United States. -
ute In said decision of January II, IL
,,ro. Il was held by the Supreme Coz
among other things, that the act
February 8. 1887. as accepted bv
ma company, operated to exclude from
0ng- Grant and to subject to settlem
nder claims the lands there in controver
ord +nat in so far as these lands
patented, it became the duty OF
railway company to surrender u
W NC that in 80 far as they were un
n OF ented. the law forbade the issuanc
their patents to the company for them;
ction intending purchasers were boune
take notice of the occupancy OF
tiers: that this. with the act OF
nable which was q public law, rendered
tights tenable the claim that those who
~ If title under the patents have the ST
If bona fide purchasers and that u
:. those circumstances the settlers, W
ltiohs claims come within the provlso 10
ercial ton and the latter part of Sect
from of said act. are entitled to nave 2
ctions in their favor declared anu
alton. As, under said decision, further
rye to lslat'on iol ."s ON Feb,
d and pear, 1917, % . ~ order of March 10,
ION IN suspending action upon certain
kind. involving lands within the limits Of
ch as grant in order to an0lu 81 .ss bpm hsns
con- to enact ,ss s. evoked and dire