TENURE AND USE OF ARID GRAZING LANDS. 
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B. — Principal United States statutes relating to Atlaniic-Pacific Railroad Company's 
land grant. 
Act. 
Designation. 
Date. 
Principal provisions. 
Grant 
14 Stat. ,292... 
24 Stat. ,123... 
July 27,1866 
July 6, 1886 
Alternate sections over a strip on either side of 
Forfeiture 
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 to lands in Arizona and 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. 
Designation. 
Date. 
Principal provisions. 
Forest lie u selections . 
Relief of Indians on rail- 
road lands. 
30 Stat. ,36... 
33 Stat., 1264. 
37 Stat., 1007. 
June 4, 1897 
Mar. 3, 1905 
Mar. 4,1913 
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Repealed above act in so far as it applied to 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 in 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. 
D. — Principal United States statutes relating to Indian homesteads, allotments, and 
reservations as applicable to the Southwest. 
Act. 
Designation. 
Date. 
Principal provisions. 
Indian homesteads 
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- 
der 18 years of age 
160 
