Chapter 536. To quitclaim certain lands in Santa Fe County, New Mexico
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CHAP. 536.— An Act To quitclaim certain lands in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. June 19, 1930.[[S. 1469](/us/bill/71/s/1469).][[Public, No. 389](/us/pl/71/389).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New Mexico.Land in, conveyed to Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian church. That all right, title, and/or interest of the United States in and to the following-described piece or parcel of land, lying and being situated in the city and county of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, bounded and Description.described as follows:
On the north by a sandy “Arroyo,” on the south by an old street and the public grounds known as the Muralla, on the east by lands of said corporations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, aforesaid, which lands are at this time occupied as a cemetery by said orders, and on the west by lands of Francisco Baca Ortiz, said piece or parcel of land being in dimensions as follows: Measuring from the southwest corner of the said cemetery grounds westwardly on the north side of the old street aforesaid two hundred and forty feet to the lands of Francisco Baca Ortiz; thence northwardly at right angles with the last-mentioned line two hundred and eighty-six feet unto the said sandy “Arroyo” ; thence eastwardly three hundred and forty feet to the northwest corner of said cemetery grounds; and thence southwardly along the western wall of said cemetery two hundred and eighty-six feet to the place of beginning; the same being a part of the piece or parcel of land sold and conveyed by Jose de Jesus Ribera to Gasper Ortiz by deed bearing date of February 2, 1852, and by said Gasper Ortiz and Magdalena Lucero, his wife, by deed bearing date the 25th day of April, 1853, conveyed to said Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in fee, which said last-mentioned deed is recorded in the office of the clerk of probate court within and for the county of Santa Fe in book for the registry of deeds, pages 178 and 179, to which deed reference is hereby had for a more particular description of the said piece or parcel of land of which the premises herein conveyed are a part, be, and the same is hereby, quitclaimed, released, and relinquished to the Woman’s Board of lome.
Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, a New York corporation. Sec. 2. Prior rights not prejudiced, etc. Nothing in this Act shall in any manner abridge, divest, impair, injure, or prejudice any valid right, title or interest of any 785person or persons in or to any portion or part of the lands mentioned in the first section hereof, the true intent of this Act being to relinquish, abandon, grant, give, and concede any and all right, interest, and/or estate, in law or equity, which the United States may have or be entitled to in said lands.
Approved, June 19, 1930.