Chapter CXXIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to confirm certain private Land Claims in the territory of Hew Mexico.”* June 11, 1864.1860, ch. 167
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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to confirm certain private Land Claims in the territory of Hew Mexico.”* June 11, 1864.1860, ch. 167.Vol. xii. p. 71. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sixth section of theHeirs of Luis Maria Baca may relocate certain land in New Mexico. act entitled “An act to confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico,” approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to enable the heirs of Luis Maria Paca to raise and withdraw the selection and location of one of the square bodies of land confirmed to them by said act, heretofore located by said heirs on the Pecos River, adjoining the Fort Sumner res-126THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 123, 124. 1864.ervation, and to select and re-locate the same, in the manner provided by said act, at any time before the twenty-first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-live, upon any of the public lands, unoccupied and not mineral, within the limits of the Territory of New Mexico, as said limits were known and defined by law on the twenty-first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty; and upon such selection Effect of relocation.and re-location, the title to said square body of land, the same being the one fifth part of the private claim confirmed to said heirs as aforesaid, so selected and re-located, shall be, and is hereby, confirmed to the said heirs of the said Luis Maria Baca as fully and perfectly as if the same had been selected and located within three years from and after the approval of the act aforesaid.
Sec. 2. Their right to former location to be void.*And be it further enacted*, That upon such selection and relocation all right, title, and interest of the said heirs of Luis Maria Baca, of, in, and to the square body of land heretofore selected and located by them on the Pecos River, adjoining the Fort Sumner reservation in New Mexico, is hereby divested and declared null and void, and the same shall revest in the government of the United States. Approved, June 11, 1864.