Mexican Land Grants in California. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... on S. Res. 291 ... April, December, May, 19301930 - 528 pages |
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... Summers in regard to Spanish land grants_ . 291 Rufus D. Morris , Los Angeles , Calif . , testimony of . 294 Letter to Hon . Gerald P. Nye , chairman Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys , from Ray Lyman Wilbur , Secretary of ...
... Summers in regard to Spanish land grants_ . 291 Rufus D. Morris , Los Angeles , Calif . , testimony of . 294 Letter to Hon . Gerald P. Nye , chairman Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys , from Ray Lyman Wilbur , Secretary of ...
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... Summers , Los Angeles , Calif . , statement of THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 6 , 1930 418 Mexican land grant acts : Williamson S. Summers , Los Angeles , Calif . , further statement of ------ 423 Act of March 3 , 1851 ( 9 Stat . 631 ) . 493 496 ...
... Summers , Los Angeles , Calif . , statement of THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 6 , 1930 418 Mexican land grant acts : Williamson S. Summers , Los Angeles , Calif . , further statement of ------ 423 Act of March 3 , 1851 ( 9 Stat . 631 ) . 493 496 ...
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... Summers , the attorney in this fight , is from fees from the homesteaders , except that Mr. Summers has donated , in addition to what he has acquired from the homesteaders , several thousand dollars of his personal money to help out the ...
... Summers , the attorney in this fight , is from fees from the homesteaders , except that Mr. Summers has donated , in addition to what he has acquired from the homesteaders , several thousand dollars of his personal money to help out the ...
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... Summers said that Summers was the attorney for the homesteaders . That was all a lie ; all of it was just a big swindle . " The Government is getting tired of this . So much work it causes the Land Office . We want to stop this locating ...
... Summers said that Summers was the attorney for the homesteaders . That was all a lie ; all of it was just a big swindle . " The Government is getting tired of this . So much work it causes the Land Office . We want to stop this locating ...
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... Summers ? I want to know . We want to get him . We want him indicted . McLendon was a wild - eyed old man but this man Summers is not square . He just says things are so , but they are not so . Who has talked to him 66 ' The Doheny ...
... Summers ? I want to know . We want to get him . We want him indicted . McLendon was a wild - eyed old man but this man Summers is not square . He just says things are so , but they are not so . Who has talked to him 66 ' The Doheny ...
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Page 14 - 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...
Page 14 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States,. as defined 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 their being subjected, on this, account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever....
Page 14 - The river Gila, and the part of the Rio Bravo del Norte lying below the southern boundary of New Mexico, being, agreeably to the fifth Article, divided in the middle between the two Republics, the navigation of the Gila and of the Bravo below said boundary shall be free and common to the vessels and citizens of both countries; and neither shall, without the consent of the other, construct any work that may impede or interrupt, in whole or in part, the exercise of this right: not even for the purpose...
Page 13 - ... termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same); thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific...
Page 14 - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 18 - ... employments and shall not be molested in their persons nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force...
Page 13 - And, in order to preclude all difficulty in tracing upon the ground the limit separating Upper from Lower California, it is agreed that the said limit shall consist of a straight line drawn from the middle of the Rio Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego...
Page 18 - ... ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and by the President of the Mexican Republic, with the previous approbation of its General Congress; and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the city of "Washington, or at the seat of government of Mexico, in four months from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if practicable.
Page 13 - Ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan Pantoja...
Page 17 - And. if, by these means, they should not be enabled to come to an agreement, a resort shall not, on this account, be had to reprisals, aggression, or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, until the Government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and good neighbourship, whether it would not be better that such difference should be settled by the arbitration of commissioners appointed on each side, or by that of a friendly...