Chapter CXCIII. granting to the Corporation of Tuskaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town
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Chap. CXCIII.— An Act granting to the Corporation of Tuskaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town. May 26, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the right and title of the United States toThe right and title of the U. S. to the public streets, &c., in the town of Tuskaloosa, vested in the corporation of said town forever.The right, &c. to another tract vested in said corporation on certain conditions. the public streets, and to certain lots in the town of Tuskaloosa, set apart for public uses, and designated in the plan of said town, by the names of the “Court Square,” the “ Market Square,” the “ Jail Lot,” the “ Spring,” the “ Church,” and the “ Burial Ground,” be, and the same is hereby, vested in the corporation of said town forever:
And, also, all the right of the United States to that tract, between the lots and the river Tuskaloosa, called the “ River Margin,” and of that called the “Pond;” and, also, of that called “the Common;” on condition, however, that the corporation shall not lease or sell any portion of the last-mentioned tracts; but, that the same shall be appropriated to the purposes for which they were designated and set apart, as well for the benefit of the inhabitants of said town, as for that of those resorting to, or visiting the same; and in case the same, or any part thereof, be applied to any other purpose, that it revert to the United States.
Approved, May 26, 1824.