Chapter 1519. For the relief of Claude B
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CHAP. 1519.— An Act For the relief of Claude B. Alverson. March 3, 1905.[[H. R. 3628](/us/bill/58/hr/3628).][[Private, No. 1281](/us/pvtl/58/1281).] Whereas on the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Claude B. Alverson, of Saint Clair County, Alabama, Preamble.did pay to the receiver of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama, the sum of six dollars, amount of fee and compensation of register and receiver for the entry of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twelve, in township sixteen south, range three east, [R.
S., sec. 2290, p. 420](/us/rs/s2290/p420).under section twenty-two hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes of the United States, and received a receiver’s receipt for the same; and Whereas said land had been reported to the land office as valuable for coal, and therefore not subject to entry; and Whereas said Claude B. Alverson had, prior to notice of the fact that he could not enter said lands, made valuable improvements on said lands at considerable cost and expense: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Claude B.
Alverson.Entry permitted.That the said Claude B. Alverson be, and he is hereby, authorized to perfect said entry just as if said lands had not been reported as coal lands. Approved, March 3, 1905.