No. 2152.-JOINT RESOLUTION to construe an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico."" April 28, 1870. Vol. 16, p. 373. Be it resolved, &c., That so much of an act approved February twenty- Time extended fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and entitled "An act to amend for presenting an act entitled 'An act to confirm certain private land claims in the certain claims. Territory of New Mexico,"" as requires that derivative claimants under Vigil and St. Vrain shall establish their claims to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the proper land district within one year from the passage of said act, shall be so construed as to authorize the presentation of such derivative claims within one year from the completion and approval of the subdivisional surveys contemplated by said act of twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (a) SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That all settlers entitled by said act For filing deto the rights of pre-emption or homestead shall have the further time claratory stateof thirty days, after notice in their favor of their respective claims, to ments or making file their declaratory statements as pre-emptors or to make entry under the homestead laws, as they may select. (a) See Nos. 2136, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2144, 2147, 2149, 2150, 2151, 2163. No. 2153.-AN ACT to incorporate the United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company, and to confirm certain legislation in Colorado Territory. [See COLORADO, No. 2176.] No. 2154.-AN ACT to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations. [Provision for the sale of Fort Sumner military reservation. See WASHINGTON TERRITORY, No. 2305.] No. 2155.-AN ACT to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes. [See CALIFORNIA, No. 2391.] No. 2156.-AN ACT to reduce the limits of the military reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. entry. July 8, 1870. Feb. 24, 1871. March 3, 1871. May 21, 1872. Limits of mili Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to reduce the limits of the military reserva- tary reservation tion at Fort Stanton, in New Mexico, to a tract not exceeding sixteen at Fort Stanton, square miles. The new limits of said reservation shall embrace a strip New Mexico, to of land eight miles in length, and shall extend one mile from each bank be reduced. Boundaries. of the Rio Bonito; the boundaries thereof to be determined by the Secretary of War, and the balance of the reservation to be thrown open to entry and settlement under the laws of the United States. (a) (a) See Nos. 2136, 2154. No. 2157.—AN ACT granting the right of way through the public lands to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. [See COLORADO, No. 2181. No. 2158.-AN ACT to authorize the building of the New Mexico and Gulf Railway, and for other purposes. June 8, 1872. June 8, 1872. Be it enacted, &c., That the New Mexico and Gulf Railway Company Right of way, have, and there is hereby granted to them, their successors and assigns, &c, through a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of the centre line of public lands granted to the a railway route extending from the northwestern boundary of New New Mexico and Mexico, as near as practicable to the junction of the San Juan with the Gulf Railway Rio Mancos, through Santa Fé County, and down the Pecos River Valley Company. to the passage of said Pecos River into the State of Texas, at or near the thirty-second parallel, upon a route to be surveyed and designated by a competent engineer, as a right of way, together with the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and a telegraph line, not exceeding twenty acres at any one place: Provided, That the location for depots, stations and sidetracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one Limit to grant. right of way. location of twenty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to Government surveys. Plat of any sec- SEC. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the location tion to be located of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same within, &c., with be upon surveyed land, and if upon unsurveyed land, then within register, &c. six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with a register of the land office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the Lands after township plats in said office, and thereafter all lands over which the wards to be sold said line of road shall pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the subject to such United States, subject to such right of way so located as aforesaid: ProLine, when to vided, That the line of said road shall be located within one year after be located, and the passage of this act: And provided further, That said road shall road completed. be completed within ten years thereafter: And provided also, That Right of way when the route of said road shall pass through lands other than those through other lands than those of the United States, or when it may be necessary for said railroad of the United company to take any lands other than those of the United States for any of the purposes herein mentioned, necessary to said right of way, such right of way through or title to such lands shall be secured in accordance with the laws of the State or Territory in which they may be situated: Provided also, That the rights herein granted shall not preOther roads clude the construction of other roads through any cañon, defile, or pass through detiles, on said route. &c. States. Power of Ter SEC. 3. That nothing herein shall be construed as affirming or denying ritory to incorpo- the power of a Territory to incorporate a railroad company. rate, &c. Act may be altered, &c. March 3, 1874. La Messilla SEC. 4. That Congress reserves to itself the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, whenever in its judgment the interest of the people shall require it. (a) (a) See Nos. 1121, 2148, 2155, 2158, 2160, 2161. No. 2159.-AN ACT creating an additional land district in the Territory of New Be it enacted, &c., That all that portion of the Territory of New Mexico land district in lying south of the principal base line of said Territory shall constitute a New Mexico es- separate land district, to be called the La Messilla land district, the office of which shall be located at such place in said district as the PresiLocation of land dent of the United States may direct, which may be changed from time office. to time as the public interest may require. tablished. Register and receiver. March 3, 1875. March 3, 1877. June 6, 1878. SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of public moneys for said district, and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same emoluments as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in other Territories. (a) (a) See No. 2139. No. 2160.-AN ACT to correct a clerical error in the act granting the right of way through the public lands to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, approved June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. [See COLORADO, No. 2189.] No. 2161.-AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act granting the right of way No. 2162.-AN ACT to confirm the title of Benjamin E. Edwards, his heirs, assigns or legal representatives, to a certain tract of land in the Territory of New Mexico. Be it enacted, &c., That Benjamin E. Edwards, his heirs, assigns, or legal Benjamin E. Edwards. representatives, be, and are hereby, confirmed in the title to six hundred Title to land in and forty acres of land, situate in the Territory of New Mexico, being the New Mexico con- tract of land located by virtue of a certificate numbered four hundred and forty-four, of the second class, issued by the board of land commissioners for the county of Bexar and State of Texas, to one Andrew Flores, and dated the sixteenth day of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the same tract of land for which a patent was authorized to be issued by the act of the legislature of the State of firmed. Texas, entitled "An act to require the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents for lands therein named," approved December second, eighteen hundred and fifty, and which is more particularly described in the plat and field-notes accompanying the survey thereof, executed by R. S. Howard, deputy surveyor, and approved of by the district surveyor for the district of Bexar, on the thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, which said survey is numbered thirty-eight, in section numbered fifteen, in what was then known as the Bexar land district for the State of Texas, and which is now of record in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the State of Texas. SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the Issue of patent. receipt of the proper plat and survey, shall cause a patent to be issued to said Benjamin E. Edwards, his heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, for the lands hereby confirmed: Provided, however, That such patent Proviso. No. 2163.—AN ACT to confirm a certain private land claim in the Territory of New Mexico. Jan. 28, 1879. Mesita Juan a Be it enacted, &c., That the private land claim in the Territory of New Mexico known as the Mesita Juana Lopez grant, made by the Spanish Lopez private land claim con. Government January eighteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, and d examined, approved, and recommended for confirmation by the surveyorgeneral of New Mexico, November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, designated as private land claim number sixty-four, and duly surveyed by the United States, the field-notes of the survey and plat being approved by the surveyor-general of New Mexico on February Adverse rights twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same saved. is hereby, confirmed: Provided, That the foregoing confirmation shall only be construed as a quit-claim or relinquishment of all title or claim on the part of the United States in and to said private land claim, and shall not affect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same; nor shall the United States be liable to make compensation for any part of said land to which there are or may be any adverse rights or claim. (a) (a) See Nos. 2136, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2144, 2147, 2149, 2150, 2151, 2152. COLORADO. Feb. 28, 1861. Vol. 12, p. 172. Territory Colorado lished. Boundaries. No. 2164.—AN ACT to provide a temporary government for the Territory of of Be it enacted, &c., That all that part of the territory of the United estab- States included within the following limits, viz: commencing on the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, where the twenty-fifth meridian of longitude west from Washington crosses the same; thence north on said meridian to the forty-first parallel of north latitude; thence along said parallel west to the thirty-second meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence south on said meridian to the northern line of New Mexico; thence along the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby erected into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Colorado: Indian rights Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impreserved. pair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory: but all such territory shall be exterri- cepted out of the boundaries and constitute no part of the Territory of tory excepted, Colorado until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President of until, &c. the United States to be included within the said Territory, or to affect the authority of the Government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent for the Government to make if this act had never passed: Provided Territory may further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit be divided. the Government of the United States from dividing said Territory into two or more Territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion thereof to any other Territory or State. (a) Indian School sections reserved. Constitution # SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That when the land in the said Territory shall be surveyed, under the direction of [the] Government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in the States hereafter to be erected out of the same. (b) * SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Constitution and all laws of and laws applica- the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the ble, &c. same force and effect within the said Territory of Colorado as elsewhere within the United States. Surveyor-gen SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United eral; duties, pay, States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall be and he is hereby authorized to appoint a surveyor-general for Colorado, who shall locate his office at such place as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time direct, and whose duties, powers, obligations, responsibilities, compensation, and allowances for clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses, shall be the same as those of the surveyorgeneral of New Mexico, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and such instructions as he may from time to time deem it advisable to give him. (c) (a) See Nos, 2170, 2188, 2190. (b) See Nos. 2170, 2188, 2192. (c) See Nos. 2165, 2166, 2172, 2177. No. 2165.—AN ACT making appropriations, &c. [Colorado and Utah to make one surveying district. See CALIFORNIA, No. 2346.] March 14, 1862. Vol. 12, p. 355. No. 2166.-AN ACT to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public May 30, 1862. lands in the United States. [See CALIFORNIA, No. 2348.] No. 2167.-AN ACT to establish a land office in Colorado Territory, and for other Vol. 12, p. 409. June 2, 1862. Colorado district established. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the public lands within the Territory of Colorado to which the Indian title is or shall be extinguished shall constitute a new land district, to be called the Colorado district; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of public moneys Register and for said district, who shall be required to reside at the place at which receiver. said office shall be located, and they shall have the same powers, per form the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation as are Powers, duties, or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United and salaries. States in the State of Kansas. (a) No. 2168.-AN ACT to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from No. 2169.—A RESOLUTION to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain the title to certain property in the city of Denver, Colorado Territory, for the purposes of the branch mint located in said place. July 1, 1862. March 3, 1863. Whereas, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, in order Preamble. to carry into effect an act entitled "An act to establish a branch mint at Denver, in the Territory of Colorado," approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has purchased of Messrs. Clarke, Gruber, and Company, the preëm[p]tors and occupants thereof, certain city lots in said town of Denver, together with all the valuable improvements thereon: And whereas the said Clarke, Gruber, and Company have not, and cannot at an early day, perfect their title to said lots by entry of the same at the district land office, for the sole reason that no such office is yet established in said district. And whereas it is highly important for the interest of the Government to obtain at an early day the use and possession of said property to establish and open said mint, therefore, ceive conveyance Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is here- Secretary of the by, authorized to receive and accept from said Clarke, Gruber, and Com- Treasury to repany such relinquishments and conveyances of their right or claim to of rights of grantsaid lots and property, as he, the said Secretary, shall deem sufficient ors to certain for the extinguishment of any claim, right, or title which the said lots in Denver. Clarke, Gruber, and Company may or can have thereto. And said lots Lots to be reand property shall thereafter be reserved from public sale, pre-emption, served from sale, or homestead settlement, and shall remain the property of the United States. No. 2170.-AN ACT to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. &c. March 21, 1864. Territory of Be it enacted, &c., That the inhabitants of that portion of the Territory of Colorado included in the boundaries hereinafter designated be, Colorado made a and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves, out of said Ter- State, &c. ritory, a State government, with the name aforesaid; which said State, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatsoever. |