Chapter 91. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust disputes or claims by entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States against the United States and between each other, arising from faulty surveys in townships twenty-nine south, range twenty-eight east; also in townships thirty
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CHAP. 91.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust disputes or claims by entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States against the United States and between each other, arising from faulty surveys in townships twenty-nine south, range twenty-eight east; also in townships thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight south, ranges twenty-nine and thirty east, Tallahassee meridian, in the State of Florida, and for other purposes. October 31, 1919. [[S. 55](/us/bill/66/s/55).] [[Public, No. 71](/us/pl/66/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Public lands.Adjustment of faulty surveys in designated townships in Florida.Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to equitably adjust disputes and claims by entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States, their heirs or assigns, against the United States and between each other, arising from faulty surveys in township twenty- nine south, range twenty-eight east; also in townships thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight south, ranges twenty-nine and thirty east, Tallahassee meridian, in the State of Florida, the said surveys having been shown to have been faulty by the resurvey of certain lands Conveyances and patents authorized to correct errors.in said townships, and for this purpose the said Secretary is authorized 326to accept conveyances from and grant patents to any such entrymen, selectors, grantees, patentees, their heirs or assigns, of any of the lands of the United States in the said townships open to entry or settlement which, in the judgment or discretion of said Secretary, it shall be just and equitable to grant or convey to such parties or any of them, to make up any deficiency or loss sustained by any such parties by reason of such faulty surveys, or by the meander lines, ocation, or existence of lakes or other bodies of water, not shown or incorrectly shown by such original faulty surveys of the United States in said townships, to the end that such entrymen, selectors, grantees, patentees, their heirs or assigns, may be duly vested with the title to such part of the lands of the United States as shall be necessary or proper to make up any deficiency in acreage or loss, as Boundaries on lakes, etc., preserved.far as possible, due to such faulty survey, as shown by the resurvey of the said townships, preserving to the owners who have lands shown by the former faulty surveys to be actually bounded by lakes or other bodies of water, as far as practicable, the right to have patented to them the lands shown by such new resurveys to lie between their *Provisos.*Patents limited to areas conveyed, etc.holdings and such lakes or bodies of water: *Provided,* That in the said adjustment no greater area shall be patented to any claimant than that which is surrendered by him or of which he is deprived by the fact that, under the corrected survey, the area to which title, derived from the United States, is now asserted by the entryman, selector, grantee, patentee, his heirs or assigns, is found to have no existence in fact, or to be covered by water and to have been so covered Maximum allowed.at the time of the faulty survey: *Provided further,* That nothing herein shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary of the Interior in the said settlement to patent to any entryman, selector, grantee, or patentee, or his heirs or assigns an area which, when added to the area retained by the said entryman, selector, grantee, patentee, or his heirs or assigns, shall give a larger acreage than that originally entered or thought to be acquired from the United States, or any grantee of the United States.
Surveys ordered. Sec. 2. That the said Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby authorized, to cause to be made such surveys or resurveys in said townships as may in his judgment be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act. Received by the President, October 20, 1919. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]