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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · October 1, 1890 · Chapter 1254

Chapter 1254.

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CHAP. 1254.— An act relative to the Rancho Punta de la Laguna.October 1, 1890. Whereas it is alleged that five thousand and ninety-nine and ninety-threePreamble. one-hundredths acres of land embraced in the Rancho Punta de la Laguna, in the counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, State of California, granted and confirmed to Luis Arellanes and Emidio Miguel Ortega, have been appropriated to the use and disposed of by the United States, and that the said confirmees, claimants, and owners have been deprived of the use of the same:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Rancho Punta de la Laguna, Cal.Secretary of Interior to issue patents in lieu of lands in, erroneously disposed of. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to carefully investigate the said allegation in the preamble of this act mentioned, and if he shall find that said allegation is true he is hereby FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 1254–1356. 1890.645 authorized and directed to make good any such deficiency so found to exist to the persons justly entitled thereto, by issuing to them patents for an equal quantity of the unoccupied, unappropriated, and unreserved public lands of the United States in the State of California, not mineral, to be selected by them, respectively, within one year next after the passage of this act, and not afterward, and in tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, and, if not surveyed when taken, to conform, when surveyed, to the general system of the United States land surveys; and the issuance and acceptance of patents under this act shall be deemedAcceptance to release claims on United States. and taken as a release to the United States of all claims of all persons so found to be entitled as aforesaid to any and all lands not embraced in the survey made under the confirmation of the said grant in the preamble of this act mentioned.
Approved, October 1, 1890. Chapter 1255: making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for compensation of members in the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories. Chapter 1255 26 Stat. 645 1890-10-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-21 51 1 public FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 1254–1356. 1890.
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