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| Chap. 886 | Pueblo of Zia. Trust title. |
| Chap. 886 | 942 |
| Sec. 2 | Pueblo of Jemez. Trust title. |
| Sec. 3 | Livestock grazing. |
| Sec. 3 | 3 CFR 1941 supp. 181. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title to the following land and the improvements thereon owned by the United States of America, situated within Sandoval County in the State of New Mexico, is hereby declared to be in the United States of America in trust for the Pueblo of Zia, subject to valid existing rights: Beginning at the southeast corner of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of said grant approved by Clarence Pullin, surveyor general of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885, said corner being in section 8, township 15 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian; thence west along the south boundary of said grant approximately 5 miles, 42 chains; thence north approximately 1 mile, 20 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence north 3 miles; thence east 40 chains; thence north 7 miles to the northeast corner of unsurveyed section 17, township 17 north, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian; thence east approximately 5 miles, 68 chains to the east boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of township 17 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian,
approved in the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, Washington, District of Columbia, August 18, 1930, which point is common to the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego Grant as described on the plat approved August 18, 1930; thence south approximately 5.25 chains along the common boundary of said two grants; thence continuing south along the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego Grant approximately 3 miles, 74.75 chains to a point which is north 18.61 chains from the southwest corner of the Canon de San Diego Grant; thence west 37.01 chains to the east boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of said grant approved by Clarence Pullin, surveyor general of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885; thence south along the east boundary of said grant a distance of approximately 7 miles, 20.38 chains to the point of beginning, containing approximately 41,856 acres, excepting therefrom approximately 640 acres of land and the improvements thereon used by the United States of America for administrative purposes, which exception, when surveyed, will probably be described as west half section 15 and east half section 16, township 17 north, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian.
That title to the following-described land and the improvements thereon owned by the United States of America, situated within Sandoval County in the State of New Mexico is hereby declared to be in the United States of America in trust for the Pueblo of Jemez, subject to valid existing rights: Beginning at the northwest corner of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of said grant approved by Clarence Pullin, surveyor general of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885, said point being in section 6, township 18 north, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian; thence east along the north boundary of said grant approximately 6 miles, 9.49 chains to the east line of section 6, township 18 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, which point is 7.51 chains west of the northeast corner of said grant as described on the plat of township 18 north, range 1 east, of the New Mexico principal meridian by the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, Washington, D.C., August 18, 1930; thence north 39.70 chains; thence east 44.13 chains to the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego Grant as described on the plat approved August 18, 1930; thence south along the west boundary of said grant approximately 7 miles, 76.02 chains; thence west approximately 7 miles, 68 chains to the northeast corner of unsurveyed section 13, township 17 north, range 2 west, New Mexico principal meridian; thence north 1 mile; thence west approximately 40 chains to the west boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the official survey plat of said grant; thence following the west boundary of said grant a distance of approximately 6 miles to the point of beginning (the northwest corner of said grant), containing approximately 36,515.76 acres, excepting therefrom lots 2, 5, south half southwest quarter of section 5 and lot 9 of section 6, township 18 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, containing 163.76 acres, more or less, as shown on the plat of township 18 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, approved in the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, August 18, 1930.
In the administration of the lands to be held in trust by the United States pursuant to this Act, together with any remaining lands comprising the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant, the Secretary of Agriculture, or any officer or agency of the United States hereafter administering such lands, shall make the livestock grazing capacity of the lands held in trust under sections 1 and 2 hereof available to the Zia and Jemez Indians to the extent of four hundred cattle units yearlong, and the remaining lands available to the non-Indians included in the provisions of the Executive Order (Number 8697) signed by the President on February 28, 1941.
Approved, August 2, 1956.
