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 i THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1860. 71 { which lands thus reserved as stations shall be held as permanent mail » service reservations, not subject to the operation of any existing pre- cmpticm or other general land laws. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever, from any cause, Reservationsm 3 any of the reservations made under the second section of this act, shall be gg gggé&;;°w¤¤¤ ·’ no longer needed for the purposes originally intended, or the convenience abaudgngm of the service shall require a change of location, the reservation thus abandoned by the Postmaster-General shall be laid off into suitable lots or parcels, and sold at public sale to the highest bidder after at least three m0¤ths’ public notice, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and patents therefor shall issue as in the casa of the sale of other public lands, and all laws, or parts of laws, heretofore passed, granting the prc— Laws granting emption privilege to mail contractors be, and the same arc bc1·0by,rc-Egfgpttfnxgau pcaled, but this repeal is not to affect any rights which may have actually contractors rovested under those laws before the passage of this act. P°“1°d· Armovnn, June 21, 1860. Crux. CLXVII.——An Act to confirm certain Private Land Claims in ilu: Terrilmy of JUN 21, 1860· Néw Mexico. '__;""- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico, as recommended for confirmation by the C¤¥‘*¤{¤ P¤‘EV¤t¤ surveyor-general of that Territory, and in his letter to the Commissioner l?;; glzglgoxgom of the General L:-md Office, of the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred tirmed. and flfty eight, designated as numbers one, three, four, six, eight, nine, — ten, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, and the claim of E. W. Eaton, not entered on the corrected list of numbers, but E· W· E”°”· standing on the original docket and abstract returns of the surveyor- L general as number sixteen, be, and they are hereby, confirmed : Provided, That the claim number nine, in the name of John Scolley and others, J°h” S°°u"’·Y‘ shall not be coutirmed for more than five square leagues; and that the claim number seventeen, in the name of Cornelia Vigil and Cavan St. g°m°l§*t Vi8“· Vrain, shall not be cohrmed for more than eleven square leagues to each v,.,Q-fu of said claimants. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in surveying the claim of said cagggvgfggggg John Scolly it shall be lawful for him to locate the five square leagues (,5 Scolley, vggu, confirmed to him in 2. square body in any part of the tract of twenty-five wd S5- hmmsquare leagues claimed by him; aud that in surveying the claims of said Comelio Vigil and Cerau St. Vmin, the location shall be made as follows, namely: the survey shall first be made of all tracts occupied by actual settlers holding possession under titles or promises to settle, which have heretofore been given by said Vigil and St. Vrain, in the tracts claimed by them, and after deducting the area of all such tracts from the area. embraced in twenty-two square leagues, the remainder shall be located in two equal tracts, each of square form, in any part of the tract claimed by the said Vigil and St. Vrain selected by them; and it shall be the duty 0f the surveyor-general of New Mexico immediately to proceed to make the surveys and loéatious authorized and required by the terms of this section. Sm. 3. And be it further enacted, That the private land claims in the 9*;***} *;;*1** Territory of New Mexico, as recommended for confirmation by said sur- ggygseinagkw vcyor-general in his reports and abstract marked exhibit A, as communi- Mexico, concated to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior in his letter dated the mw? third of February eighteen hundred and sixty, and numbered from twenty to tl1i1·Ly·eight, both inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, · with the exception of the claim numbered t,wenty-six, in the name of J °K<§P$F;{2*°f Juan B. Vigil, which claim, numbered twenty-six, is not coniirmed. mul°l S20. 4. And be itfurlfwr enacted, That the foregoing confirmation shall