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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · July 3, 1916 · Chapter 223

Chapter 223. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to that portion of land, being a fractional block, bounded on the north and east by Bayou Cadet, on the west by Cevallos Street, and on the south by Intendencia Street, in the old city of Pensacola, in the State of Florida

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CHAP. 223.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to that portion of land, being a fractional block, bounded on the north and east by Bayou Cadet, on the west by Cevallos Street, and on the south by Intendencia Street, in the old city of Pensacola, in the State of Florida. July 3, 1916.[[S. 3581](/us/bill/64/s/3581).][[Private, No. 55](/us/pvtl/64/55).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pensacola, Fla.Release of title to private owner of land in.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent, remising, releasing, and quitclaiming forever all right, title, claim, and interest of the United States of America in and to that portion of land, being a fractional block, bounded on the north and east by Bayou Cadet, on the west by Cevallos Street, and on the south by Intendencia Street, in the old city of Pensacola, in the county of Escambia and the State of Florida, to such person or persons, firms, or corporations as shall make proof that he himself, or he and his grantor or grantors, has had continuous possession thereof under claim of ownership during the last twenty years next before the passage of this Act.
Such patent, however, shall be subject to any public easement or other adverse right suffered or granted by the patentee or his grantors. Approved, July 3, 1916.
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