Chapter 165. Authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury to quitclaim and release certain title and interest of the United States to Mrs
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CHAP. 165.— An Act Authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury to quitclaim and release certain title and interest of the United States to Mrs. Lutie M. Nowlin. January 24, 1901. Whereas, pursuant to a judgment for one thousand dollars debt andMrs. Lutie M. Nowlin.Quitclaim to, of certain lot levied on for judgment. forty-one dollars and ten cents costs, recovered by the United States in the United States district court for the northern district of Texas on the forfeited bail bond of John Pitts and others, there was levied on. sold, and conveyed to the United States as the property of A.
W. Nowlin, one of the defendants, a certain lot or parcel of land situate, lying, and being on the northwest corner of Ross avenue and Leonard street, in the city and county of Dallas, State of Texas, fronting sixty-eight feet on said Ross avenue and running back with said Leonard street two hundred and eighteen feet, together with all and singular the appurtenances and improvements thereunto belonging; and Whereas it appears that the land and premises so levied on, sold, and conveyed to the United States was at date of the levy and sale aforesaid the separate property of Mrs.
Lutie M. Nowlin, the wife of the said A. W. Nowlin, and therefore exempt from levy and sale in satisfaction of the aforesaid judgment recovered against her husband, A. W. Nowlin; and Whereas the deed to the United States of said property constitutes a cloud of record upon the title of Mrs. Lutie M. Nowlin to said propertv: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and. in his discretion if he thinks tit, to quitclaim and release to the said Mrs.
Lutie M. Nowlin all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the aforesaid lot and premises and the appurtenances and improvements there-unto belonging: *Provided*, That the aforesaid levy and sale shall not be*Proviso.*Levy not to operate as satisfaction of judgment. taken or held to have operated as a satisfaction, in whole or in part, of said judgment, but said judgment shall stand as if the aforesaid levy and sale had not been made. Approved, January 24, 1901.