Chapter 31.
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CHAP. 31.— AN ACT to confirm a certain private land-claim in the Territory of New Mexico.Jan. 28, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mesita Juana Lopez private land-claim confirmed. That the private land-claim in the Territory of New Mexico known as the Mesita Juana Lopez grant, made by the Spanish Government January eighteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, examined, approved, and recommended for confirmation by the surveyor-general of New Mexico, November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, designated as private land-claim number sixty-four, and drdy surveyed by the United States, the field- FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 31, 32, 51. 1879. 593 notes of the survey and plat being approved by the surveyor-general of New Mexico on February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed : *Provided,* That the foregoing confirmationAdverse rights saved. shall only be construed as a quit claim or relinquishment of all title or claim on the part of the United States in and to said private land-claim, and shall not aflect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same ; nor shall the United States be liable to make compensation for any part of said land to which there are or may be any adverse rights or claim.
Approved, January 28, 1879.