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Settler’s Resolutions.The settlers at Stonewall on the Maxwell Grant, where Russell was killed, held a meeting and passed resolutions, the first of which cites:Thai it is the sense oi this convention that the kitl-tng of our neighbor and brother, K» D. Ru^sclJ, a union soldier, is due to the fact that the United States Government permitted the United State# official*, Hon. S. 11, Elkins, Hon. T. It. Catron, and Hon. M. W. Mills, nnd a wealthy and influential foreign corporation, to xueceisfully defy and over-ride an authorative and valid executive order of 1874, requiring the so-culled Maxwell grant to be treated as public land, under which executive order, Mr. UuhscU acquired a final receipt to his Stonewall ranch, and the land department had no authority to cancel..Thk resolutions demand the enforcement of the executive order of 1874 requiring the Maxwell grant to be treated as public land; and that the act of Congress of September 9, 1850, requiring a tract of about 57,-000,000 acres of land in Colorado and New Mexico on the east side of the Rio Grande, to be treated as the Texas purchase, which has been defied and over-ridden by corrupt officials and speculators for the last thirty years, be now respected andenforced.
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Daily Herald
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Wed, Sep 05, 1888
Page 2
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