Chapter CXCVII. *to relinquish the Interest of the United States in certain Lands to the City and County of San Francisco*
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CHAP. CXCVII.— An Act *to relinquish the Interest of the United States in certain Lands to the City and County of San Francisco*. July 1, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The interest of the United States in the Point San José military reservation relinquished to the city and county of San Francisco.Purpose of release.Streets.Remainder to actual settlers, &c. That all the right and title of the United States to the military reservation in the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, known as the Point San Jose military reservation, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and granted to the said city and county, and its successors, for the uses and purposes as follows:
First. To maintain all streets and alleys as now laid out upon the official map of the city of San Francisco. Second. And then, in trust, to grant and convey the remainder of said lands to the parties severally who are at the date of the passage of this act in the actual bona fide possession thereof, by themselves or their tenants, and in such parcels as the same are so held and possessed by them; or who, if they have not such possession, were deprived thereof by the United States military authorities when they went into the occupancy of said military reservation, or were deprived thereof by intruders of trespassers, against whom possession Residue for city, except, &c.may be recovered by legal process.
Third. To have and to hold all the residue, if any, of said lands, for the use and benefit of said city, there being excepted from this relinquishment and grant all that certain piece or parcel of land, portion of said reservation, and which is bounded and Boundaries of reservation.described as follows, viz.: commencing at a point in the mean low-water shore-line of the bay or entrance to the bay of San Francisco, east of the promontory of Point San Jose, where the same is intersected by the westerly line of Van Ness Avenue; running thence southerly along the said westerly line of Van Ness Avenue to its intersection with the northern line of Bay Street; thence westerly along the north side of Bay Street to its intersection with the eastern line of Laguna Street; thence northernly along the said eastern line of Laguna Street to the westerly shore ; thence in a northeasterly, easterly, southeasterly, and southerly direction, following the said shore-line, and including the entire water-front between Laguna Street and Van Ness Avenue, to the point or place of beginning.
Sec. 2. Valid adverse rights not prejudiced.*And be it further enacted*, That nothing in this act contained shall interfere with or prejudice any valid adverse right or claim, if such exist, to said land or any part thereof, whether derived from Spain, Mexico, or the United States, or preclude an examination and adjustment thereof by the courts. FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 197, 198, 199. 1870. 187 Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That all laws and parts of laws inInconsistent laws declared inapplicable. conflict with the provisions of this act he, and the same are hereby, declared inapplicable to the lands herein above relinquished and granted.
Approved, July 1, 1870.