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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · July 8, 1916 · Chapter 239

Chapter 239. To quiet title in certain citizens to certain lands lying within the meander line on the Saint Francis River, and being parts of lots and tracts of land lying in Craighead County, Arkansas

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CHAP. 239.— An Act To quiet title in certain citizens to certain lands lying within the meander line on the Saint Francis River, and being parts of lots and tracts of land lying in Craighead County, Arkansas. July 8, 1916.[[H. R. 14630](/us/bill/64/hr/14630).][[Private, No. 59](/us/pvtl/64/59).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theCraighead County, Ark.Patents to designated tracts in.
Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent to each of the following lots and parcels of land lying and being in the county of Craighead and State of Arkansas to the party or parties whose 1336name or names appear opposite the parcel or parcels of land, respectively; that is, tract numbered one in J. H. Carter, tract numbered two in G. W. Spencer, tract numbered three in Annie B. Robertson, tract numbered four in Robert C. Born, tracts numbered five and eight in C.
L. Davis, tracts numbered six and seven in J. T. Williams, tract numbered nine in William Craddock and J. W. Purcell, tract numbered ten in William Craddock, tract numbered eleven in Alonzo Durham and Oney Durham, tract numbered twelve in J. T. Williams, tract numbered thirteen in C. L. Davis and A. E. McAlister, tract numbered fourteen in Samuel Bedwell, tract numbered fifteen in John Pace, tracts numbered twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three in Joseph Davis. All lands herein mentioned are situated in the county of Craighead, State of Arkansas, and are comprised in and form a part of lot two of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-seven, township fourteen north, range six east, containing eleven and thirty-eight one-hundredths acres.
Sec. 2. Lake City, Ark.Patent to lot in. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent to the incorporated town of Lake City, in Craighead County, Arkansas, to all that part of lot two of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-seven, township fourteen north, range six east, which heretofore by said town had been dedicated to the public use for the purpose of public streets and alleys. Sec. 3. Condition. That no patent shall issue to either of the parties mentioned in section one of this Act until it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that there is no adverse claimant to that part of said lands for which said patent is to issue.
Approved, July 8, 1916.
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