Chapter 182. To settle the title to real estate in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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CHAP. 182.— An Act To settle the title to real estate in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. April 9, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Santa Fe, N. Mex. Release to, of certain lands. That the United States of America hereby releases and quitclaims unto the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and its successors, all right, claim, or interest which the United States may have in or to any and all of the lands embraced within the present survey of the Santa Fe grant as the same appears on file in the General Land Office in Washington and in the office of the surveyor-general for the district of New Mexico, and approved by H.
M. Atkinson, surveyor-general, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, being a tract containing four square Spanish leagues, having for the center thereof the soldiers’ monument in the center of the plaza of said city, and extending one Spanish league therefrom to each of the cardinal points of the compass, and patent from the United States shall issue therefor; this said grant and quitclaim to the city of Santa Fe being to it as a municipal corporation for all parks, streets, alleys, vacant unoccupied lands, or other public places now existing within said limits, and to the said city in trust for the benefit of all persons claiming title to their individual holdings of real estate within such limits by actual possession or under color of title for the period of ten *Proviso*. —reserved from grant. years prior to the passage of this Act: *Provided*, That there is expressly reserved from this grant and quitclaim all lands and buildings now occupied or claimed by the United States for its Federal building, 73 national cemetery, the Fort Marcy Reservation, and Indian schools; and also reserving therefrom any private land grants that may have been, or may hereafter be confirmed by the Court of Private Land Claims or other authority of the United States.
Sec. 2. That it is hereby made the duty of the mayor and clerk of Deeds of quitclaim, etc. said city, and of their successors in office, to execute proper deeds of quitclaim to the persons entitled thereto under this Act for their respective holdings of real estate upon such claimants applying therefor and presenting proper deeds for the signatures of such officers, without any expense to the said applicants, and such deeds when executed shall be taken in all courts and places as a relinquishment of any claim or title to the lands therein described on the part of the United States.
Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after Effect. its passage. Approved, April 9, 1900.