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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · June 12, 1866 · Chapter CXIX

Chapter CXIX. *to confirm the Grant of certain Lands to José Domingues, in California*

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CHAP. CXIX.— An Act *to confirm the Grant of certain Lands to José Domingues, in California*. June 12, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Land grant to José Domingues confirmed. That the grant to José Domingues of the land known as Los Prietos y Najalayegua, in the county of Santa Barbara, granted to him at Los Angelos, September twenty-four, eighteen bundled and forty-five, by Governor Pio Pico, and approved by the departmental assembly of Alta California, June third, eighteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby confirmed.
And the surveyor-general of California is hereby directed to proceed and survey said lands in accordanceSurvey. with the original title papers on file in his office, and when said survey shall have been approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued for said lands to said Domingues or partiesPatent. holding under him by inheritance or otherwise. This confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment on the part of the United States,Claim of the United States only released. and shall not affect the adverse right of any person whomsoever.
Approved, June 12, 1866.
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