Chapter 337. For the relief of H
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CHAP. 337.— An Act For the relief of H. C. Hodges, H. A. Powell, John Smith, and Joseph Ridley. October 22, 1914.[[H. R. 888](/us/bill/63/hr/888).][[Private, No. 153](/us/pvtl/63/153).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, H. W. Harrell.Titles quitclaimed to lands bought under forfeited bond of. That the United States of America hereby forever relinquish, release, remise, and quitclaim all right, title, and interest in and to the southwest quarter section five and the southwest quarter northwest quarter section five, township one, range twenty-seven, in Houston County (formerly Henry County), Alabama, now held severally, in separate parcels and by independent titles, by H.
C. Hodges, H. A. Powell, John Smith, and Joseph Ridley, under claim or color of title derived, directly in the case of said H. C. Hodges, and indirectly in the cases of the said H. A. Powell, John Smith, and Joseph Ridley, from one F. H. Hodges, deceased; said lands having been the property of the said F. H. Hodges, deceased, and having been, on May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, bought in by the United States under a fieri facias issued May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, from the United States Circuit Court for the Middle District of Alabama for the sale of the said lands to satisfy a judgment rendered by said court on December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and made final on December eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under scire facias issued on December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for $300 principal and $16.25 costs against one H.
W. Harrell, principal, and the said F. H. Hodges, deceased, as surety, upon forfeited*Proviso*.Payment of costs. recognizance or bail bond: *Provided*, That the costs incurred by the United States in securing the judgment and incident to the sale of the said lands, being in the aggregate $53.40, be paid by the said H. C. Hodges, H. A. Powell, John Smith, and Joseph Ridley, or their heirs or assigns. Approved, October 22, 1914.