Chapter 3525. Confirming to certain claimants thereto portions of lands known as “Fort Clinch Reservation,” in the State of Florida
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CHAP. 3525.— An Act Confirming to certain claimants thereto portions of lands known as “Fort Clinch Reservation,” in the State of Florida. June 25, 1906. [[S. 1697](/us/bill/59/s/1697).] [[Public, No. 277](/us/pl/59/277).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Clinch Reservation, Fla.Title to certain land. Fernandina, released to claimants. That all of the right, title, claim, and interest of the United States in and to the several lots of land in the old town of Fernandina.
Nassau County, Florida, located on lot two of section fourteen, in township three north of range twenty-eight east of Tallahassee principal meridian, which were granted by Spain to certain persons prior to the cession of Florida to the United States, and afterwards continued by the United States to such persons, their heirs, representatives, and assigns, prior to the 455issuance of the order creating the Fort Clinch Military Reservation, shall he, and the same are hereby, confirmed, granted, released, and relinquished to the said several persons to whom said lots were so granted by Spain and confirmed by the United States, respectively, and their respective heirs, representatives, and assigns; and that all the right, title, claim, and interest of the United States at the date of the patent to Yulee and of the swamp-land selection by Florida hereinafter referred to in and to lots one and two of section fourteen, in township three north of range twenty-eight east of said meridian, except the said lots granted by Spain to certain persons and confirmed by the United States as above mentioned, and except the block of the old town of Fernandina known as the Plaza, bounded by Estrada, White.
Marine, and Somuerelos streets, and except also the Military Road from said town to Fort Clinch, be. and the same are hereby, released and relinquished to the several persons and corporations, respectively, now claiming or holding the same under a patent issued by the United States to David L. Yulee, dated the fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to said lot two. and under an approval and certification by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States to the State of Florida of said lot one, as swamp and overflowed lands, under an Act of Congress dated the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty: *Provided, however*, That titles to*Provisos*.Town lands. that portion of said lands which are now held by said town of Fernandina for public purposes, whether claimed under the Act of CongressVol. 5, p. 667. of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four (Fifth Statute, page six hundred and sixty-seven), or otherwise, shall be, and hereby are, confirmed, granted, released, and relinquished to said town of Fernandina: *And provided further*, That the said town of Fernandina shallMilitary road. hold the lands hereby confirmed and relinquished to it only on condition that the said town shall keep open and maintain the said Military Road from said town to Fort Clinch without expense to the United States.
Approved, June 25, 1906.