I
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1918
To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of Nevada that form
part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central
Pacific Railway Company.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 17, 1997
Mr. GIBBONS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
A BILL
To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of
Nevada that form part of the right-of-way granted by
the United States to the Central Pacific Railway Com-
pany.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reno, Nevada, Rail-
road Right-of-Way Conveyance Validation Act’’.
SEC. 2. VALIDATION OF CONVEYANCES.
Except as provided in section 4, the conveyances de-
scribed in section 3 (involving certain lands in Washoe
County, State of Nevada) concerning lands that form
parts of the right-of-way granted by the United States to
the Central Pacific Railway Company in the Act entitled
‘‘An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Tele-
graph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean,
and to secure to the Government the Use of the same for
Postal, Military, and Other Purposes’’, approved July 1,
1862 (12 Stat. 489), hereby are legalized, validated, and
confirmed, as far as any interest of the United States in
such lands is concerned, with the same force and effect
as if the land involved in each such conveyance had been
held, on the date of such conveyance, under absolute fee
simple title by the grantor of such land.
SEC. 3. CONVEYANCES OF LANDS IN WASHOE COUNTY,
STATE OF NEVADA.
The conveyances of land in Washoe County, State of
Nevada, referred to in section 2 are as follows:
(1) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and A. Montminy, grant-
ee, recorded June 10, 1868, in book 2, at page 417,
in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(2) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and U. Harris, grantee,
recorded June 22, 1868, in book 2, at page 430, in
the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(3) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and Mark Lovely, grantee,
recorded July 16, 1868, in book 2, at page 569, in
the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(4) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and Marco Medin and
Paul Mavrich, grantees, recorded July 20, 1868, in
book 2, at page 462, in the deed records of the
county of Washoe.
(5) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and S. Barclay, grantee,
recorded September 21, 1868, in book 2, at page
513, in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(6) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and John Piper, grantee,
recorded December 18, 1868, in book 2, at page
613, in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(7) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and William H. Potter,
grantee, recorded June 28, 1869, in book 3, at page
15, in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(8) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and O.C. Madden, re-
corded November 16, 1870, in book 3, at page 299,
in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(9) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and Peter Zenovich and
George Zenovich, grantees, recorded August 12,
1871, in book 3, at page 519, in the deed records
of the county of Washoe.
(10) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and Mrs. M.A. Pine,
grantee, recorded August 21, 1871, in book 3, at
page 527, in the deed records of the county of
Washoe.
(11) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and T.R. Hughes, grantee,
recorded October 11, 1871, in book 3, at page 552,
in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(12) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and Joseph Leonard,
grantee, recorded December 10, 1873, in book 4, at
page 568, in the deed records of the county of
Washoe.
(13) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and S.M. Jamison, grant-
ee, recorded August 17, 1875, in book 5, at page
606, in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(14) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and W.R. Chamberlain
and W.S. Bender, grantees, recorded April 6, 1876,
in book 6, at page 77, in the deed records of the
county of Washoe.
(15) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and C.S. Martin, grantee,
recorded September 29, 1880, in book 8, at page
628, in the deed records of the county of Washoe.
(16) The conveyance entered into between
Charles Crocker, grantor, and E.C. McKenney,
grantee, recorded October 7, 1881, in book 9, at
page 296, in the deed records of the county of
Washoe.
(17) The conveyance entered into between
Charles 
Crocker, 
grantor, 
and 
Josephine 
E.
McCutchen, recorded May 2, 1891, in book 15, at
page 401, in the deed records of the county of
Washoe.
(18) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Lincoln Management Company, Inc., a Nevada
corporation, as to an undivided 50 percent interest,
Donald L. Carano, a married man, as to an undi-
vided 33 percent interest, and Raymond J. Poncia,
Jr., an unmarried man, as to an undivided 17 per-
cent interest as tenants in common, grantees, re-