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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · March 1, 1879 · Chapter 121

Chapter 121.

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CHAP. 121.— An act releasing title to a certain cemetery lot to the city of Montgomery, Alabama. March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Montgomery, Ala.Quit-claim of U. S. to land in. That whereas by deed dated July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the city of Montgomery, Alabama, voluntarily granted to the United States a certain lot of land in the cemetery of the said city of Montgomery, to be used for the burial of United States soldiers, and for no other’ purpose; and whereas the United States, having removed the bodies of soldiers buried therein to Atlanta, have no longer need of the same; and whereas the said lot of land is now needed by the city of Montgomery, Alabama, for burial purposes;
Now, therefore, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to said cemetery lot is hereby released and forever Quitclaimed to the said city of Montgomery. Approved, March 1, 1879.
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