Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Findings and Possible Options Regarding Longstanding Community Land Grant Claims in New Mexico

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U.S. General Accounting Office, 2004 - 221 páginas
 

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Página 175 - 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...
Página 137 - An Act to ascertain and settle the Private Land Claims in the State of California...
Página 191 - That it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary on the Interior, to ascertain the origin, nature, character, and extent of all claims to lands under the laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico...
Página 175 - ... 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 to become citizens of the United States. In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guaranties equally...
Página 19 - And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us....
Página 175 - 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...
Página 191 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Página 182 - ... by a final decree, to settle and determine the question of the validity of the title, according to the law of nations ; the stipulations of any treaty, and proceedings under the same ; the several acts of congress in relation thereto ; and the laws and ordinances of the government from which it is alleged to have been derived...
Página 182 - The board shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all questions within its jurisdiction, and its decision thereon shall be final.
Página 181 - He shall make a full report on all such claims as originated before the cession of the territory to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, denoting the various grades of title, with his decision as to the validity or invalidity of each of the same under the laws, usages and customs of the country before its cession to the United States...

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