Chapter 149.
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CHAP. 149.— AN ACT To validate a patent to certain lands heretofore issued to the State of Florida, to allow the said State to claim certain other lands, and for other purposes. March 2, 1917.[[S. 6654](/us/bill/64/s/6654).][[Public, No. 372](/us/pl/64/372).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That as to all lands on Key Florida. Title to abandoned reservations vested in State.Biscayne in townships fifty-four and fifty-five south, range forty-two east, in the State of Florida which were embraced in the military and lighthouse reservations established on said Key Biscayne by Executive orders dated August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, but now abandoned and relinquished; that certain patent, dated May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-live, and designated as Tampa patent numbered thirty-five, be, and the same is hereby, declared valid and effective to vest the title to the said lands in the State of Florida and any such persons as have, since the issuance of said patent, acquired the right, title, and interest of the State of Florida in and to the said lands or any portion thereof.
Sec. 2. That as to all lands embraced in said abandoned reservations, Swamp land patents. Vol. 9, p. 519.which were properly to be classified as swamp and overflowed lands, in accordance with the terms of the swamp and overflowed land Act of eighteen hundred and fifty, the State of Florida shall now have the right to claim said lands as swamp and overflowed lands and to have the same allowed, set apart, and patented as swamp and overflowed lands to the same extent as if the said lighthouse and military reservations had never existed.
Sec. 3. That the descriptions contained in said patent and in the Lands included.selection list aforesaid shall be construed as having reference to the plat of lands of Key Biscayne in townships fifty-four and fifty-five south, range forty-two east, prepared in December, eighteen hundred and seventy, by J. E. Hilgarde, without regard to the acreage named in said patent or said selection list: *Provided,* That this Act shall not *Proviso.* Claim excepted.be construed as affecting the title to any lands on Key Biscayne embraced within the Mary Anne Davis claim.
Approved, March 2, 1917.