Fair Deal for Northern New Mexico of 1998

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Fair Deal for Northern New Mexico of 1998 - Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to establish a Settlement Committee to develop comprehensive settlements for land grant claims arising out of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848. Requires submission of land grant claims by eligible Mexican descendants to the appropriate New Mexico county settlement committee to be reviewed for their validity and settlement. Directs the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Settlement Committee to establish a Spanish Land Grant Study program, with a research archive at the Onate Center in Alcalde, New Mexico, in order to assist the Settlement Committee and to archive and interpret the history of land distribution in the southwestern United States under Spanish and Mexican law, including the changes to such distribution system following the transfer of territory from Mexico to the United States under the terms of the Treaty. Authorizes appropriations.

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 10 June 1998

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