Chapter 32.
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CHAP. 32.— AN ACT for the adjudication of title to lands claimed by Jose Apis and Pablo Apis in the State of California.Jan. 28, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jose Apis.Pablo Apis.Claim to La lolla Rancho referred to courts. That the legal representatives, successors, or assignees of Jose Apis and Pablo Apis, or either of them, be, and they are hereby, permitted to file their claim and title to a certain tract of land in California known as La lolla Pancho, in and before the United States district court of California ; and that said court shall have the same jurisdiction in all things, to be exercised originally to hear and determine upon the said claim and title, and to confirm or reject the same, as the several district courts had under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and acts amenda-tory thereunto.
And the Supreme Court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine said cause, upon appeal, as decided in said acts: *Provided,* That no lands shall be confirmed to said claimantsAdverse rights saved. by said decree to which there are valid claims existing under the preemption, homestead or other laws of the United States at the date of the passage of this act; nor shall any decree of confirmation aflect any valid adverse right of any other person or persons, or give to the confirmees, or any of them, any claim upon the United States for compensation for any land such confirmees may lose by reason of preemption or homestead claims or adverse rights as aforesaid ; and that no decree shall be rendered for more than two square leagues : *Provided further,*Releases to adverse claimants. that said claimants before filing their claim and title shall execute releases to any persons who may be in possession of any portion of said lands under valid claims under the preemption, homestead or other laws of the United States at the date of the passage of this act, to the portions of said lauds so held respectively, and before rendering a decree in confirmation the said court shall ascertain that said releases have been duly executed.
Approved, January 28, 1879.