Chapter CLII. to confirm certain private Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico
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CHAP. CLII.— An Act to confirm certain private Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That private land claims num- FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 152, 153, 154. 1869. 455 bered forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-six, and forty-seven, TerritoryCertain private land claims in New Mexico, confirmed. of New Mexico, as known and designated by the numbers aforesaid in the reports of the surveyor-general of the said Territory and on the books of the commissioner of the general land office, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed : *Provided,* That such confirmation shall only be construedCertain rights not affected. as a quit-claim *on* [or] relinquishment of all title or claim on the part of the United States to any of the lands not improved by or on behalf of the United States, and not including any military or other reservation embraced in either of the said claims, and shall not affect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same, or any part or parcel thereof.
Sec. 2. *And be it farther enacted, *That the commissioner of the generalClaims to be surveyed and platted, and patents to issue. land office shall, without unreasonable delay, cause the lands embraced in said several claims to be surveyed and platted, at the proper expense of the claimants thereof, and upon the filing of said surveys and plats in his office he shall issue patents for said lands in said Territory which have heretofore been confirmed by acts of Congress and surveyed, and plats of such survey filed in his office as aforesaid, but for which no patents have heretofore been issued.
Sec. 3. *And be it farther enacted, *That all surveys authorized by thisSurveys to conform to public surveys. act shall conform to and be connected with the public surveys of the United States in said Territories, so far as the same can be done consistently with the landmarks and boundaries specified in the several grants upon which said claims are founded : *Provided, however,* That when saidProviso. lands are so confirmed, surveyed, and patented, they shall in each case be held and taken to be in full satisfaction of all further claims or demands against the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1869.