The Secretary of the Interior said. in his annual report of 1880: Its operation has been a failure. amounting to denial of justie3 both to the claimants end to the United States. The Commissioner of the General Land Office. in his report for the year 1886. said: A speedy and effective plan for the disposal of land claims in New Mexico and Arizona is demanded by the exigencies of the case. The Commissioner of the Land Office. in his report for 1876. said: While these private land claims remain in their present unsettled condition it will continue to retard emigration to and settlement in said Territories. and until the titles thereto are ascertained and the land segregated from the public domain itwill be impossible to determne which ispublic laud. subject to appropriation and settlement under the publicland laws and which is not. And the surveyorgeneral of New Mexico. in his last annual report. declares: What is wanted before all things is a speedy settlement of the titles so long left in painful tncertainty. The faith of our Government is solemnly pledged by treaty stipulations to the ascertainment and settlement of these claims.
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