Chapter 35.
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CHAP. 35.— AN ACT To quiet title to certain land in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. February 3, 1911. [[H.R. 20109](/us/bill/36/hr/20109).] [[Public, No. 341](/us/bill/36/pl/341).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in all cases where persons have made a claim or claims to land in Dona Ana County, New MexicoDona Ann County, N. Mex., by virtue or under color or bona fide claim of right or title derived from the Mexican land grant, known as the Refugio Colony grantSettlers on lands excluded from Refugio Colony grant., in said county, and which grant was confirmed by the final decree of the Court of Private Land ClaimsAllowed homestead patents., rendered in nineteen hundred and two, and where such person or persons in good faith and for a valuable consideration have purchased such lands and occupied and improved the same prior to the rendition of said decree, in the bona fide belief that said lands were embraced in and a part of said grant and which lands were excluded therefrom by the final survey of said grant ordered by said court, and where said persons, their assigns, and successors in interest have used, improved, and continued in the actual possession of the same as according to the lines of the original purchase, and where no valid adverse light or title (except of the United States) exists, such occupants, claimants, or purchasers may make entry and the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall cause patents to issue for the same, after having such lands surveyed under existing laws, on payment of the fees and commissions required on original homestead entries, upon first making proof of the facts as required in this section, under regulations to be provided by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, joint entries being admissible by coterminous proprietors to such an extent as will enable them to adjust their respective boundaries: *Provided,* That the right to make entry herein given shall not extend to lands containing deposits of gold, silver, copper, oil, coal, or other valuable minerals: *And, provided,* Provisos.That whenever it shall be made to appear by petition from the occupants of such land that injury to permanent improvements would result from running the lines of the public survey Mineral, etc., lands excluded.through such permanent improvements, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may recognize existing lines of subdivisions.Existing subdivision lines recognized.
Sec.2.That the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to render to the claimantsAssistance to claimants.under this Act such assistance as he may deem necessary in the matter of the preparation and submission of proofs hereunder, and all actual expensesExpenses.incurred by clerks of the General Land Office or others detailed by the commissioner in rendering the necessary assistance to such claimants, including per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, may be paid from the appropriation for expenses of inspectors, General Land Office.
Approved, February 3, 1911.