Chapter 158. For the benefit of sundry persons residing in the vicinity of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
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CHAP. 158.— An Act For the benefit of sundry persons residing in the vicinity of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.July 23, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John B. Martigny.United States title to certain land near Jefferson Barracks, Mo., released to legal representatives. That the United States hereby release whatever title they may have in that part of the United States survey thirty-one hundred and nineteen lying and being within the boundary lines described in the deed of the town of Carondelet to the United States, dated October twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and now claimed as a portion of Jefferson Barracks military reservation, situated in the county of Saint Louis and State of Missouri, unto the legal representatives and assigns of John B.
Martigny, to whom said survey was confirmed by Act of Congress approved JulyVol. 5, p. 126. fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Sec. 2. That the United States hereby release whatever title theyWilliam H. Jansen.United States title to certain land near Jefferson Barracks, Mo., released to legal representatives. may have in so much of the land covered by the patent issued by the United States to William H. Jansen November first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, under preemption certificate numbered twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, as lies within the boundary lines described in the deed of the town of Carondelet to the United States, dated October twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and now claimed as a portion of said Jefferson Barracks military reservation, unto the legal representatives and assigns of said William H.
Jansen. Sec. 3. That this Act shall not affect or impair the title which anyOnly United States title affected. person other than the United States may have acquired in any of the lands described herein, adverse to the title of either the aforesaid John B. Martigny or William H. Jansen, or of those claiming under either of them. Approved, July 23, 1894.