The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter.

  • Cutter, Charles, 1837-1912.
Date:
1875
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    COMMISSIONER JOS. S. WILSON TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Review of the Case by the United States Land Commissioner, giving the facts as the case stood in i860 General Land Office, April 27, i860. Hon. y^acob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior. Sir : A motion has been made before this office by John Wilson and Henry May, Esqs., as attorneys in behalf of the heirs of Ludovicus Belding, for a patent upon Land Office at Washington, Ark., for certifi- cate No. 6545, for the southwest quarter of section 33, of 2 south, range 19 west, upon which are situated the Hot Springs. I have the honor to submit said motion and the papers for your consideration and decision, with the following observations : It is hardly necessary to say that this office has no power to decide upon said motion, when it is considered that the claim of said heirs, as well as the claims of all other claimants before him, were finally adjudi- cated and rejected by Secretary Stuart, as will appear from his com- munication to this office, dated 10th of October, 1851. I propose now to lay the motion, with the papers, before the head of the department, the same power that exercised the final action in the case as already mentioned, together with a report comprising a brief history of the facts in the case, and the views of this office in reference to said motion for a patent. In this report it is not deemed necessary to go behind the action of this office in submitting the case to Secretary Stuart. On the 10th day of October, 1851, as before stated, Secretary Stuar-t decided that the heirs of Belding had no right to the land for which a patent is now asked, under the provisions of the Act of 29th May, 1830, because that Act had expired by limitation before the land was surveyed in 1838; and that they had no right under the Act of July 14th, 1832, because prior to its passage, to-wit, on the 20th April, 1832, Congress passed an Act that the Hot Springs, in the said Territory [of Arkan- sas], together with four sections of land, including said springs, as near the centre thereof as may be, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States, and shall not be entered, located or appropriated for any other purposes whatever. In deciding against the validity of the New Madrid location and Cherokee pre-emption claim, on account of said reservation, the Secre- tary said that the Act of 1832 not only reserved the Hot Springs