Chapter 73. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida
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CHAP. 73.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida. January 12, 1925.[[S. 807](/us/bill/68/s/807).][[Public, No. 318](/us/pl/68/318).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Pensacola, Fla.Quitclaim deed to holders of certain lots in. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the titles to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida, to those persons, firms, or corporations submitting satisfactory evidence of being in possession, and of a chain of title, legal or equitable, beginning more than twenty years prior to the passage of this Act, or to those claiming by virtue of improvements and continuous adverse possession for more than Basis of claims.twenty years prior to the passage of this Act.
Such claims to lots are to be based on the approved survey made in 1827 by James W. Exum, deputy United States surveyor, or upon a supplemental plat *Proviso*.Claims to be brought in three years.of survey where same is found to be necessary: *Provided*, That parties having claims to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida, and failing to present same within three years after the passage of this Act, will be held to have waived their rights so to do, and such unclaimed lots will thereafter be subject to disposition solely under Vol. 4, p. 550.the Act of June 28, 1832 (Fourth Statutes at Large, page 550).
Approved, January 12, 1925.