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Show Atlantic & Pacific Forfeited Land. Washington, March 24. The Seoretary of the Interior has rendered a decision in the case of the Atlantic & Pacifie in which he holds that it has no legal claim to land along the line of the road from San Buena Ventura on the Pacifio Ocean, California, and directs the Commissioner-General of the Land Office to restore the same to the publio domain. The fact that this line has been mortgaged and the money raised on its credit is, the Secretary adds, a misfortune to the mortgagees in that they took a mortgage to which mortgagers had no legal right. . The deoision restores to the publio domain 2,451,200 acres. |