Chapter 1.
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CHAP. 1.— An act to rectify and establish the title of the United States to the site of the military post at El Paso, Texas. Dec. 13, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order fully and accuratelySite of military post, El Paso, Texas. to carry out an agreement heretofore made between the United States and the heirs of Simeon Hart, deceased, by which the latter, for the consideration of one hundred dollars, agreed to convey to the United States a tract of land containing one hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, situated at El Paso, Texas, as a site for the military post authorized to be established by an act of Congress approved FebruaryTitle established. fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for the purpose of correcting and rectifying the grant intended to be made of such land in and by certain deeds executed and delivered to the United States on September twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, by Antonio Hart, and Juan Hart, by his attorney, Leonardo Hart, which said deeds contained erroneous descriptions of said premises, by reason of which certain land intended to be conveyed was not included in the grant, and certain land not intended to be conveyed was in fact embraced therein, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to receive from said heirs or other proper persons holding or representing legal title, a new, accurate, and complete conveyance to the United States of the premises originally agreed and intended to be conveyed to and vested in the same for the purpose aforesaid; and for and in the name of the United States, to reconvey to the said heirs, or other proper parties, such portion of the land as has heretofore been erroneously conveyed to the United States by reason of the incorrect descriptions contained in the said deeds aforesaid.
Approved, December 13, 1882.