Chapter 6.
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CHAP. 6.— An act to establish a land Office at Folsom, in the Territory of New Mexico.December 18, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. Colfax land district, New Mex. established. Boundaries. That all that portion of the Territory of New Mexico bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the northeastern corner of said Territory and running thence west on the northern boundary line of said Territory to the line dividing ranges numbered twenty-four and twenty-live, thence south on said range line to the principal baseline running east and west through said Territory, thence east on said baseline to 638 the eastern boundary line of said Territory, thence north on said eastern boundary line to the place of beginning, be, and is hereby, constituted a new and separate land district, to be called the Colfax Folsom to be land cilice.land district, the land office for which shall be located in the town of Folsom, County of Colfax, in the said Territory of New Mexico.
Sec. 2. Register and receiver to be appointed. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a register and a receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and shall discharge similar duties and receive the same fees and emoluments as officers discharging like duties in the other land offices of the Territory of New Mexico. Approved, December 18, 1888.