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Show - The I.ns Yetrns ;rant. decision. AVa;:;ixcton-, Dec :,. Secretary Noble to-day to-day decided the 'long i ontested case of the Las Vegas grant in New Mexico. The secretary sec-retary tlecid -s the grant not an absolute grant to tnc parties originally named therein, there-in, hut that it was for the "benefit of onlv those to whom the laud was allotted there"-i there"-i v.nder; tli.it the grant was coniirined by co-n-! gross to the town of has Yrgr..s, aiu that no i question would be corsidered as to the ca- j'gcity of the town to lake it tinder the con-J con-J tirniaiory act; that only such land parsed und r the grant as having been r.Uoite'd, was in ilri -o a es.-ion of the occupants at the time'! lie United States acquired New Mexico, and Uu't survey shaii be made of .-'.o h tracts j and patent therefor is.-ue to I. as Vegas for I the benelH of those who may be entitled j to them. All lands that have u;,t passed this i !iiianT of time acquisition in New Mexico j thereby !iec,,n,v yuit'lie lands, subject to tn-J tn-J try and se!tlemon under the general laws, i His deei.sii n. it is tho-v-adu, will open to set-I set-I tlenient ;70,U00 acres. |