TENURE AND USE OP ARID GRAZING LANDS. 



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B.— Principal United States statutes relating to Atlantic-Pacific Railroad Company's 



land grant. 



Act. 



Designation. 



Date. 



Principal provisions. 





14 Stat., 292... 

 24 Stat., 123... 



July 27,1866 

 July 6, 1886 



Alternate sections over a strip on either side of 





the railroad to be constructed, 40 miles wide 

 through territories and 20 miles wide through 

 States, lieu selections in a strip not more 

 than 10 miles beyond the limits of the original 

 grant. (The 40-mile strip on either side 

 applied tolandsin Arizonaand New Mexico.) 

 Grant of lands except right of way forfeited 





adjacent to uncompleted portion of the road. 

 (This forfeiture applied in New Mexico to 

 the lands east of Albuquerque. The grant 

 remained valid west of Albuquerque in New 

 Mexico and across Arizona.) 



C. — Principal United States statutes relating to lieu selections of lands in the Southwest. 



Act. 



Forest lieu selections . 



Relief of Indians on rail- 

 road lands. 



Designation. 



30 Stat., 36... 



33 Stat., 1264. 

 37 Stat., 1007. 



Date. 



June 4, 1897 



Mar. 3, 1905 

 Mar. 4, 1913 



Principal provisions. 



Private claims or patented lands within a 

 National Forest may be relinquished and 

 corresponding area selected in exchange. 



Repealed above act in so far as it applied to 

 lands within National Forests. 



Secretary of Interior may request of present 

 claimant under any railroad land grant a 

 relinquishment of any lands hi Arizona or 

 New Mexico passing under the grant, shown 

 to have been occupied for five years or more 

 by an Indian entitled to receive the tract in 

 allotment except for the grant to the railroad 

 company. Upon such relinquishment the 

 claimant may select lieu lands and the origi- 

 nal tract shall become available for allotment. 



I>, Principal United States statutes relating to Indian homesteads, allotments, and 



reservations as applicable to the Southwest. 



Act. 



Designation. 



Date. 



Principal provisions. 





18 Stat., 420... 



23 Stat., 9698.. 



24 Stat., 388... 



Mar. 3, 1875 

 July 4, 1884 

 Feb. 8, 1887 



Any Indian born in United States, who has 

 arrived at 21 years, and has abandoned his 

 tribal relations, is entitled to the benefits of 

 the homestead acts. 



All patents for Indian homesteads shall be held 

 in trust by the United States for a period of 

 25 years and then shall be conveyed in fee, 

 free of all incumbrance. 



President authorized to allot land to Indians 





on reservations as follows: 







Agricul- 

 tural 

 land. 



Grazing 

 land. 





To each head of family . . . 



To each singleperson over 



18 years of age 



160 

 80 

 80 



320 

 160 





To each orphan child un- 



160 



