Chapter 361. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust disputes or claims by settlers, entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States against the United States and between each other, arising from incomplete or faulty surveys in township 28 south, ranges 26 and 27 east, Tallahassee
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CHAP. 361.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust disputes or claims by settlers, entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States against the United States and between each other, arising from incomplete or faulty surveys in township 28 south, ranges 26 and 27 east, Tallahassee meridian, Polk County, in the State of Florida, and for other purposes. February 27, 1925.[[H. R. 5204](/us/bill/68/hr/5204).][[Public, No. 499](/us/pl/68/499).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Polk County, Fla.Adjustment of disputed claims arising from faulty surveys in.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to equitably adjust disputes and claims of settlers, entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States, their heirs or assigns, against the United States and between each other, arising from incomplete or faulty surveys in section 31, township 28 south, range 26 east, and in sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21, township 28 south, range 27 east, Tallahassee meridian, Polk County, in the State of Florida, and to issue directly or in trust as may be found necessary Issue of patents.or advisable, patent to such settlers, entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees, their heirs or assigns, for land claimed through settlement, occupation, purchase, or otherwise in said described area, preserving, as far as he may deem equitable, to those claimants now in possession of public land the right to have patented to them the *Provisos*.Payment required.areas so occupied: *Provided*, That a charge of $1.25 is to be made for each acre or fraction thereof of Government land patented under Rights not recognized.this Act: *Provided further*, That rights acquired subsequent to the withdrawal of July 5, 1921, shall not be recognized or be subject to adjustment hereunder.
Sec. 2. Acceptance of conveyances for adjustments, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any and all conveyances of land for purposes of adjustment and to make all necessary rules and regulations in order to. carry this Act into effect. Approved, February 27, 1925.