Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, submitting report of the surveyor-general of New Mexico on the private land claim of the town of Albuquerque, with various papers relating thereto

Washington DC: GPO, 1884. 24p. pamphlet, bound with thread; some splitting along spine. Includes three fold-out maps. Senate. 48th Congress, 1st session. The inhabitants of the town of Albuquerque sought claim to four square leagues of land, while De Witt Stearns and Thomas G. Douglas claimed the right of entry, under the homestead laws, on some of the property. Includes testimony by long-time inhabitants from the period of Mexican administration. The surveyor-general denied the claims of Stearns and Douglas.