Chapter 70.
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CHAP. 70.— An act authorizing the partition of certain land in Louisville, Kentucky, belonging jointly to John Echols and the Government of the United States.May 1, 1886. Whereas a tract of ground situated in Louisville, Kentucky, adjoiningPartition of land owned by John Echols and the United States, in Louisville, Ky. Preamble. the Louisville and Portland Canal, and known as “Rowan’s Basin,” is owned by the United States of America and by John Echols in the following proportion and under the following conveyances, to wit:
The United States, as the proprietor of the Louisville and Portland Canal and the owner of all the stock of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, owns an undivided three-eighths of said real estate, by virtue of the following deeds: One from R. U. Campbell and others to the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, recorded in deed-book numbered one hundred and thirty-five, page four hundred and twenty-three, and one from George H. Douglas to said canal company, recorded in deed-book numbered one hundred and thirty-seven, page four hundred and two, both in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk’s office; and said John Echols owns an undivided five-eighths of said real estate, under and by virtue of the following deeds to him, to wit:
One from Eliza 11. Boone and others, recorded in deed-book numbered two hundred and fifty-five, page one hundred and thirty-four; one from Rebecca B. Rowan, trustee, and others, recorded in deed-book numbered two hundred and fifty-four, page three hundred and eighty-two; one from Rowan Buchanan and others, recorded in deed-book numbered two hundred and fifty-four, page three hundred and sixty two; and one from Samuel J. Broadwell and others, recorded in deed-book numbered two hundred and fifty-four, page six hundred and two, all in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk’s office; and it is to the interest of both parties that partition shall be made of said real estate:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Secretary of War to agree with Echols as to partition. That the Secretary of War of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to agree with said Echols, his heirs or his assigns, upon such partition of said real estate as may seem to the Secretary of War to be just and proper, and may, in the name of and on behalf of the United States of America, make, execute, and deliver to said Echols, his heirs or his assigns, and receive from him or them, such deed of conveyance as may effectuate the partition herein provided for.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, May 1, 1886.