Chapter 4. to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands to the city and county of San Francisco and their grantees
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CHAP. 4.— An Act to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands to the city and county of San Francisco and their grantees.Dec. 20, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,San Francisco, Cal. That the right, title, and ownership of the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, to the body of land hereinafter described are hereby confirmed, and all the right and title of the.
United States to said land are hereby grantedRight of the United States in certain land relinquished to. and relinquished to said city and county, and to those persons, and their successors in interest, to whom portions of said land have been heretofore granted and conveyed by or on behalf of said city and county,
(351)352 to the extent of their interest in said land. Said land hereby granted Description.is described as follows: Situated within the corporate limits of said city and county; bounded on the north by the southern boundary-line of the land granted by the United States to said city and county by patent dated June twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; on the west by the Pacific Ocean; on the south by the line surveyed by Deputy United States Surveyor James T. Stratton, in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as the southern line of the land granted to said city and county by act of Congress . approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and also bounded on the south by the northern boundary of the Rancho Laguna de la Merced, granted by the United States to J. de Haro and others, September tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, wherever said northern boundary of said rancho is north of said line surveyed by said Stratton; on the east by the western boundary of the Rancho San Miguel, granted by the United States to J. de J. Noe, March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. Sec. 2. That upon the approval of this act the Commissioner of the Patent to issue.General Land Office shall issue a patent for said land to said city and county, and said patent shall inure to said city and county, and the grantees of the same, and their said successors in interest, as a confirmation of said city and county’s grants of said land. Sec. 3. That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act areConflicting laws inapplicable. hereby declared inapplicable to the lands hereby granted and relinquished. Approved, December 20, 1886.