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Payne v. New Mexico, 255 U.S. 367 (1921)
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Payne v. New Mexico, 255 U.S. 367 (1921)
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Payne v. New Mexico No. 128 Argued October 6, 1920 Decided March 7, 1921 255 U.S. 367
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Syllabus
1. Under the acts of Congress entitling the State of New Mexico to waive its rights to any place section which has passed to it as school land and subsequently has been included within a public reservation of the United States, and to select other public land of equal acreage in lieu, the state, having made such waiver and selection in due form, complying with all conditions precedent, acquires a vested right to the selected land which cannot lawfully be cancelled or disregarded by the Land Department upon the ground that the base land has since been eliminated from the reservation. P. 370.
2. The provision making such a selection "subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior" does not postpone the vesting of the right of the state until the Secretary approves, but empowers and requires him to determine judicially the lawfulness of the selection as of the time when it was made. P. 371.
3. Where the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office refused approval of such a lieu selection because, after it was made, the base tract was eliminated from the reservation, held that the proper injunctive relief, in the courts of the District of Columbia, was to direct that the selection be disposed of in due course without regard to such elimination, rather than to forbid its cancellation or annulment. P. 373.
49 App.D.C. 80, 258 F. 80, affirmed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Payne v. New Mexico, 255 U.S. 367 (1921) in 255 U.S. 367 255 U.S. 368. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LII51Y2A4V1QFMP.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Payne v. New Mexico, 255 U.S. 367 (1921), in 255 U.S. 367, page 255 U.S. 368. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LII51Y2A4V1QFMP.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Payne v. New Mexico, 255 U.S. 367 (1921). cited in 1921, 255 U.S. 367, pp.255 U.S. 368. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LII51Y2A4V1QFMP.
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