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Public Law 480 | Chapter 183
April 6, 1956 | [H. R. 6625] 70 Stat. 103

AN ACT
To provide for the transfer of title to certain land and the improvements thereon to the Pueblo of San Lorenzo (Pueblo of Picuris), in New Mexico, and for other purposes.
Section 2

Margin Notes
Chap. 183 Pueblo of San Lorenzo. Transfer of land title.
Chap. 183 104

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to transfer by deed to the Pueblo of San Lorenzo (Pueblo of Picuris), in New Mexico, title to certain tracts of land, together with the improvements thereon, situate, lying, and being within the Pueblo of Picuris Grant heretofore confirmed to the said Pueblo of Picuris by the Act of December 22, 1858 (11 Stat. 374), and situate in section 30, township 23 north, range 12 east, New Mexico principal meridian, within the county of Taos and State of New Mexico, and more particularly described as follows:

PARCEL NUMBERED 1

Beginning at the northwest corner of parcel numbered 4, hereinbelow described, which point is located north 23 degrees 30 minutes east, 119.8 feet from a United States Land Office stake marked No. 8, and north 51 degrees 7 minutes east, 1,733.7 feet from the west quarter corner of section 30, township 23 north, range 12 east, New Mexico principal meridian; thence north 22 degrees 00 minutes east 32 feet to a stake; thence south 75 degrees 00 minutes east 186 feet to a stake; thence south 65 degrees 00 minutes east 42 feet; thence south 29 degrees 00 minutes west 44 feet; thence north 67 degrees 00 minutes west 218 feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.19 acre more or less.

PARCEL NUMBERED 2

Beginning at a point in the north line of parcel numbered 1 which also marks the southeast corner of parcel numbered 3 and is located north 55 degrees 15 minutes east, 1,876.5 feet from the west quarter corner of section 30, township 23 north, range 12 east, New Mexico principal meridian; thence north 24 degrees 00 minutes east 62 feet to a stake; thence north 77 degrees 00 minutes east 63 feet to a stake; thence south 29 degrees 00 minutes west 99.5 feet; thence north 65 degrees 00 minutes west 42 feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.08 acre more or less.

PARCEL NUMBERED 3

Beginning at the northwest corner of parcel numbered 1 which point is located north 22 degrees 00 minutes east 32 feet from the northwest corner of parcel numbered 4 and north 50 degrees 38 minutes east 1,762.1 feet from the west quarter corner of section 30, township 23 north, range 12 east, New Mexico principal meridian; thence north 22 degrees 00 minutes east 157.8 feet; thence south 78 degrees 00 minutes east 255.5 feet; thence south 20 degrees 30 minutes west 91.8 feet; thence south 77 degrees 00 minutes west 63 feet to a stake; thence south 24 degrees 00 minutes west 62 feet to a stake; thence north 75 degrees 00 minutes west 186 feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.87 acre more or less.

PARCEL NUMBERED 4

Beginning at the southwest corner whence the northwest corner of section 30, township 23 north, range 12 east, New Mexico principal meridian, bears north 40 degrees 11 minutes west 2,012 feet; thence south 69 degrees 45 minutes east 228 feet to corner No. 2, which is the southeast corner; thence north 23 degrees 32 minutes east 120 feet to corner No. 3, which is the northeast corner; thence south 69 degrees 45

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minutes west 228 feet to corner No. 4; thence south 23 degrees 32 minutes west 120 feet to corner No. 1, the place of beginning, containing 0.63 acre.

SEC. 2.

Such deed shall vest in the said pueblo a title of the same nature and character as that which the said pueblo had before the United States acquired title to the premises and said land shall thereafter be subject to all the laws of the United States applicable to the lands of the said pueblo.

Approved, April 6, 1956.


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