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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 31, 32, 51. 1879. 593 notes of the survey and plat being approved by the surveyor-general of New Mexico on February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed: 1’roz·ided, That the tbrc- Advsm rights going confirmation shall only be construed as a quit claim or relinquish- Saved. ment of all title or claim on the part of the United States in and to said private land-claim, and shall not affect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same; nor shall the United States be liable to make compensation for any part of said land to which there are or may be any adverse rights or claim. Approved, January 28, 1879. CHAP. 32.-An act for the a¢lju_dica.tion of title to lands claimed by Jose Apis and .131],28, 1879_ Pablo Apis in the State of California. é·— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal representatives, Jose Apis. successors, or assignees of Jose Apis and Pablo Apis, or either of them, PWIO APE- be, and they are hereby, permitted to nle their claim and title to a cer- R,gg;Z‘;§f;‘;gg1t: tain tract of la11d in Calitbrnia known as La Iolla Rancho, i11 and before com-tS_ the United States district coiut of California; and that said court shall have the same jurisdiction in all things, to be exercised originally to hear and determine upon the said claim and title, and to confirm or reject the same, as the several district courts had under the act of Cougress of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and acts amendatory thereunto. And the Supreme Court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine said cause, upon appeal, as decided in said acts: Provided, That no lands shall be confirmed to said claim- Adverse rights ants by said decree to which there are valid claims existing under the Savedpre-emption, homestead or other laws of the United States at the date of the passage of this act; nor shall any decree of confirmation aiiect any valid adverse right of any other person or persons, or give to the coniirmees, or any of them, any claim upon the U11ItCLl States for compensation for any land such eonfirmees may lose by reason of pre-emption or homestead claims or adverse rights as aforesaid; and that no decree shall be rendered for more than two square leagues: Proeided Releases to edfurther, that said claimants before filing their claim and title shall exe- V°”° °1¤~lm¤¤*¤· cute releases to any persons who may be in possession of any portion of said lands under valid claims under the pre-emption, homestead or other laws of the United States at the date of the passage of this act, to the portions of said lands so held respectively, and before rendering a decree in confirmation the said court. shall ascertain that said releases have been duly executed. Approved, January 28, 1879. CHAP. 51.-An act for the relief of Jesse Turner and others, sureties upon the officia Feb. 7, 1879. bond of George W. Clarke, formerly Indian agent. ji Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Jesse Turner, James M. G- W- Clarke Brown, Charles F. Brown, and the estates of S. M. Hays, Hiram Brodie, t,£°1°“° °f ""' S. F. Cottrell, P. H. White, and Joseph J. Green, deceased, be, and they ' and each of them are hereby, released from any and all liability as the sureties upon the official bond of George W. Clarke, formerly Indian agent; the said release to take eifect upon the payment of the legal costs heretofore accrued in the prosecution of said claim by the United States: Provided That all the rights and remidies of the government on said Promo. bond as against said George W. Clarke shall in no manner be eaeetea hereby, but remain in full force and effect in law. Approved, Feb1··:.ary 7, 1879. xx-——-38