Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-11


ceased to be reservations as here
inbefore provided, or which shall
have been legally sold or disposed
Of by any Of said p"enlos or any
Indian or Indians thereof, as now
or hereafter provided by law.
Sec. 4. That all suits brought un-
der the provisions Of this act shall
be brought by or against the pueblo
or the individual pueblo Indian.
and in all actions brought under
the provisions hereof involving any
pueblo or the rights thereof, said
pueblo shall be designated and styl-
ed as THE pueblo OF" in
serting the name of said pueblo,
and any individual pueblo Indian
shall be designated and styled
-, a pueblo Indian of the
pueblo oG -" inserting the
name of said pueblo Iadian. IL
known, and the name Of said pue-
bio.
Sec, 6. That in all civil cases
brought under the provisions of
this act service Of process shall be
had and made upon the pueblo or
upon any Indian inhabitant of such
pueblo, commonly known and ac-
cepted by said pueblo as pueblo
Indian, by serving the Same upon
the governor OF said pueblo, or in
his absence, or in case of any va
cancy in said governorship, by serv-
ing the same upon any officer Of
said pueblo then acting in his place
and stead, and, in the case OF any
individual Indian inhabitant of any
pueblo. upon both the governor or
other officer acting in his place
and stead and the individual In
dian.
Sec. 6. That pleading, practice,
procedure, ana rules OF evidence
shall be the same in all causes aris-
ing under this act as in other civil
and criminal causes in the federal
courts, unless hereinafter other
wise set forth and declared.
Sec. T. That all persons or cor
porations who, prior to and since
the date Of the ratification and
proclamation OF the treaty OF
Guadalupe Hidalgo, July 4. 1S4S,
either in person or through their
predecessors, in claim of interest,
grantors, privies, or agents, have
had actual, open, notorious, ex-
elusive, and continuous possession,
under color of title. of, in or to any
| lands included within the exterior
| boundaries of any grant Of land
confirmed or patented to any of the
puebIos hereinbeftre named by the
United States of America, shall be
entitled to q decree in their re-
spective favor for all of the lands
so possessed, and the district court
/ shall, by its decree, segregate the
said land from the said pueblo
! grant, and shall ascertain and adj
| judicate the true boundaries and
| extent thereof, in the proof OF
| which character of possession and
| of the boundaries and extent there
! OF secondary evidence shall be nd-
! missible and competent. Upon the
| entry OF any decree segregating any
! of the lands of any pueblo grant
! pursuant to the provisions and re-
quirements of this paragraph. the
! clerk of the said court shall forth
| with send to the secretary of the
interior of the United States a GER
titled copy of said decree, and the
said tract of land so segregated
having been surveyed by or under
| his direction, according to the
| boundaries and extent as set forth
/ In said decree, said secretary OF
/ the interior shall cause patent
| thereof to be issued to said person,
| his heirs or assigns, or to such cor
poration or its successors in inter-
est. In all cases arising under the
provisions Of this act wherein the
original title and the adverse pos
session hereunder antedates the
dates Of ratification and proclana-
tion Of the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, the remedy, relief, and
procedure in this paragraph pro-
vided shall. be exclusive and either
! party to any suit brought pursuant
to the provisions of this act may
! make proof of date and source of
title and the possession hereunder.
Sec. s. That all persons who, or
corporations which, for more than
ten years prior to June 20, 1910,
either in person or through their
respective predecessors in claim OF
Interest, grantors, privies, or
agents, have had actual, open, no
torious, exclusive and continuous
possession, with or without color
of title, of any lands falling or in
cluded within the exterior bound
aries OF any grant confirmed or
patented TO any of the pueblos in
this act specified, and all persons
who or corporations which IN per-
son or through their respective
predecessors in claim of interest or
grantors claim of any such lands "
ing within the exterior boundaries
of any of said pueblo grants, under
valid grant from the governments
of Spain or Mexico, or under any
grant, act or confirmation or pat
ent of the United States of Amer
lea, shall be entitled to a decree
in their favor respectively FOL tho
whole of the lands so claimed, and
1.-THE district court shall in its decree
segregate the said land from the
said pueblo grant and shall ascer-
tain and adjudicate the area and
extent thereof and the value of the
said lands without improvement, il
amy there shall be thereon, as OF
the date of the decree, and upon
the entry of any decree provided
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