Mexican Land Grant Frauds. Hearings ... on S. Res. 333 ... Feb. 17 and 26, 19271927 - 173 pages |
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11 square leagues acres act of juridical action alleged grant Angeles appeal applications approved authority of law bill Board of Land boundaries Calif California CHAIRMAN claimant commission committee conclusion Congress conveyed December December 11 decision decree of confirmation Department of Justice dismissed district court fact filed FINNEY Flint fraud fraudulent hearing hereby homesteaders indictment interests Interior Department Irvine Ranch James Irvine juridical possession jurisdiction Land Commissioners Land Department Land Office leagues of land litigation Lomas de Santiago MASON matter McLendon ment Mexican Government Mexican grant Mexico November 11 Orange County PARMENTER parties patent issued petition petitioners plat private land claims proceedings public domain public lands question Rancho Lomas record referred res judicata San Joaquin Santiago grant Secretary Senator ASHURST Senator DILL Senator KENDRICK Senator NYE Southern Pacific Railroad statute of limitations submitted suit SUMMERS Supreme Court surveyor Teodocio Yorba tract of land treaty United States attorney
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Page 19 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 82 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title, and rights of Mexican citizens or acquire those of citizens of the United States; but they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans shall be considered to have elected...
Page 86 - Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Page 71 - I have seen in the State in the Union foremost in power and wealth four judges of her courts impeached for corruption, and the political administration of her chief city become a disgrace and a by-word throughout the world. I have seen the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the House...
Page 151 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 115 - That the final decrees rendered by the said commissioners, or by the District or Supreme Court of the United States, or any patent to be issued under this act, shall be conclusive between the United States and the said claimants only, and shall not affect the interests of third persons.
Page 149 - An Act to ascertain and settle the Private Land Claims in the State of California...
Page 82 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as denned by the present treaty, shall be free to continue Where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without...
Page 71 - My own public life has been a very brief and insignificant one, extending little beyond the duration of a single term of senatorial office ; but in that brief period I have seen five judges of a high court of the United States driven from office by threats of impeachment for corruption or maladministration. I have heard the taunt, from friendliest lips, that when the United States presented herself in the East to take part with the civilized world in generous competition in the arts of life, the...
Page 110 - ... out a patent for the same, until the title thereto shall have been finally decided, a copy of which order shall be transmitted to the commissioner of the general...