Chapter XXVI. to confirm the Title to certain Land to the Pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico
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CHAP. XXVI.— An Act to confirm the Title to certain Land to the Pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico. Feb. 9, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Title to certain lands in New Mexico, confirmed to the pueblo of Santa Ana. That the lands claimed by and belonging to the pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico, lying upon the Jernez or Santa Ana river, and not exceeding four square leagues in extent, as reported by the surveyor-general of said Territory in his report to the Secretary of the Interior, of January fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and the commissioner of the general land office shall issue the necessary instructions for the survey of said claim, and upon the return and filing in his office of such survey and plot, said commissioner shall issue a Proviso.patent therefor: *Provided, however,* That the confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not affect any adverse valid right, should any such exist.
Approved, February 9, 1869.