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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 36 STAT. · February 20, 1911 · Chapter 129

Chapter 129.

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CHAP. 129.— AN ACT To relinquish the title of the United States in New Madrid location and survey numbered twenty-eight hundred and eighty. February 20, 1911.[[H.R. 27069](/us/bill/36/hr/27069).][[Public, No. 399](/us/bill/36/pl/399).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Am erica in Congress assembled*, That all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the unpatented landsMissouri.situated within the limits of the location of New Madrid claim numbered seventy-two of Daniel Hazel, embracing portions of sectionsTitle of United States relinquished to certain lands in.thirty-four and thirty-five, township forty-nine north, range seventeen west, fifth principal meridian, south of the Missouri River in the State of Missouri, be, and the same are hereby, granted, released, and relinquished by the United States to the respective owners of the equitable titles thereto and to their respective heirs and assigns forever, as fully and completely, in every respect whatever, as could be done by patents issued therefor according to law: *Provided,* *Proviso.*That the confirmations granted hereby shall amount only to a relinquishment of any title that the United StatesTitle, etc., of others not affected.has or is supposed to have in and to any of said lands, and shall not be construed to abridge, impair, injure, prejudice, or divest in any manner any valid right, title, or interest of any person or body corporate whatever, the true intent of this Act being to concede and abandon all right, title, and interest of the United States to those persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the true and lawful owners of said lands under the laws of Missouri, including the laws of prescription, in the absence of the said interest, title, and estate of the Unitea States.
Approved, February 20, 1911.
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