Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term adjudication process — means the processes required by treaty by which the United States recognized land claims between 1854 and 1904 in the territories ceded under— the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; and the Gadsden Purchase; and includes the processes provided for in the 1854 Act establishing the Office of Surveyor-General of New Mexico (10 Stat. 308) and the 1891 Act establishing the Court of Private Land Claims (26 Stat. 854). The term claim means the declaration of property rights protected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo vested in a land grant-merced, including— land, land title, mineral, and natural resource claims; and water rights.
The term claimant means a land grant-merced as represented by its Governing body or an agent thereof. The terms Federal land or Federal lands means any land— located in the State of New Mexico; and administered by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service or the Secretary of the Interior through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. The term Gadsden Purchase means the Treaty of Boundary, Cession of Territory, Transit of Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The term Governing body means the governing body, as recognized by State law, of a land grant-merced. The term land grant-merced means— a community land grant identified in tables 1 and 2 of the General Accounting Office Report #GAO–01–951; or a community, village, town, or settlement, the land of which was granted by the Government of Spain or by the Government of Mexico, in accordance with the laws, usages, and customs of Spain or Mexico between 1689 and 1854, and is within the boundaries of the State of New Mexico, to— the community, village, town, or pueblo; or a person for the purpose of founding or establishing a community, village, town, or settlement.
The term qualifying petition means a petition submitted under section 5. The term Secretary concerned means the Secretary that administers the relevant Federal land. The term Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo means the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, effective February 2, 1848.
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