Chapter LX. to authorise the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California to hear and determine upon its Merits the Claim of Pedro Chaboya to a certain Tract of Land in California, called La Posa San Juan Bautista
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Chap. LX.— An Act to authorise the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California to hear and determine upon its Merits the Claim of Pedro Chaboya to a certain Tract of Land in California, called La Posa San Juan Bautista.April 25, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the district court of theClaim of Pedro Chaboya to be heard by District Court. United States for the northern district of California be, and is hereby, authorized and required to hear and decide upon the merits the claim of Pedro Chaboya to a tract of land described in his amended petition, filed in said court on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and called “La Posa de San Juan Bautista,” in the same manner and with the same jurisdiction as if the claim to the said tract of land had been duly presented to the Board of Land Commissioners under the provisions of the act entitled “An act to ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California,” approved March third, anno1851, ch. 41.Vol. ix. p. 631.
Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and an appeal had been duly taken from their decision to the said district court by the said Chaboya. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That on the said hearing the testimonyTestimony before taken may be used. heretofore taken in said court in relation to the said claim on behalf of the said claimant, or of the United States, may be read subject to all just exceptions to its competency, and additional testimony on either part may be taken under the direction and order of said district court as to the validity of said claim or the extent thereof.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That an appeal may be taken fromAppeal to Supreme Court of the United States.Vol. ix. p. 633. the final decision and decree of said district court to the Supreme Court of the United States by either party in accordance with the provisions of the tenth section of the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Approved, April 25, 1862.