Chapter 88. To relinquish the claim of the United States against the grantees, their legal representatives and assigns, for timber cut on Petaca land grant
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CHAP. 88.— An Act To relinquish the claim of the United States against the grantees, their legal representatives and assigns, for timber cut on Petaca land grant.February 28, 1913.[[S. 7385](/us/bill/62/s/7385).][[Public, No. 396](/us/pl/62/396).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Petaca land grant, N. Mex. That the United States of America hereby forever relinquish, release, satisfy, and discharge allClaim of United States to certain timber cut from, relinquished. right, claim, and demand which they have or may have against the original grantees, their heirs and assigns, of the tract of land which is known as the Petaca grant, being private land claim numbered seventy-two, situate in the county of Rio Arriba, in the State of New Mexico, for timber and lumber cut and removed therefrom by said grantees, their legal representatives or assigns, prior to December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, being the same tract of land which was recommended to be confirmed by Congress to Jose Julian Martinez and others and their legal representatives or assigns by James K.
Proud fits, surveyor general of the Territory of New Mexico, on February twentieth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five, which said tract of land was thereafter officially sur698 veyed and platted in the said surveyor general’s office and found to contain one hundred and eighty-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven and eleven one-hundredths acres, and the whole thereof, as so surveyed, having been held and claimed in good faith as their property from eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by said Jose Julian Martinez, his associates and their heirs, legal representatives and assigns, until December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, when on an appeal from a decision of the Court of Private Land Claims, which had confirmed said grant in favor of said Jose Julian Martinez and his associates, their heirs and assigns and legal representatives, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed said decision and limited said grant to a less amount of said land, said timber and lumber having been cut and removed therefrom while they so held and claimed said land in good faith, and from the portions thereof adjacent to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
Approved, February 28, 1913.