H. R. 1183
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
An Act
To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of California that form part
of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway
Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Railroad Right-of-Way Convey-
ance Validation Act’’.
SEC. 2. VALIDATION OF CONVEYANCES.
Except as provided in section 5, the conveyances described
in section 3 (involving certain lands in Nevada County, State of
California) and section 4 (involving certain lands in San Joaquin
County, State of California) 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 Construc-
tion of a Railroad and Telegraph 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 NEVADA COUNTY, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
The conveyances of land in Nevada County, State of California,
referred to in section 2 are as follows:
(1) The conveyances entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and David G. ‘‘Otis’’
Kantz and Virginia Thomas Bills Kantz, husband and wife,
as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as
instrument number 87–15995 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(2) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Antone Silva
and Martha E. Silva, his wife, grantees, recorded June 10,
1987, as instrument number 87–15996 in the official records
of the county of Nevada.
(3) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Charlie D.
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Roeschen and Renee Roeschen, husband and wife as joint ten-
ants, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87–15997 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(4) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Manuel F.
Nevarez and Margarita Nevarez, his wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
15998 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(5) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Susan P. Sum-
mers, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87–15999 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(6) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and James L. Porter,
a single man, as his sole and separate property, grantee,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16000 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(7) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Robert L. Helin,
a single man, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–16001 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(8) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas S.
Archer and Laura J. Archer, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16002 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(9) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Wallace L. Ste-
vens, a single man, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as
instrument number 87–16003 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(10) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Sierra Pacific
Power Company, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as
instrument number 87–16004 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(11) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Truckee Public
Utility District, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–16005 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(12) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Dwayne W. Had-
dock and Bertha M. Haddock, his wife as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16006 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(13) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and William C.
Thorn, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87–16007 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(14) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Jose Guadelupe
Lopez, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87–16008 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(15) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Harold O. Dixon,
an unmarried man, as to an undivided half interest, and Pedro
Lopez, a married man, as to an undivided half interest, as
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joint tenants, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–16009 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(16) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Robert E. Sutton
and Patricia S. Sutton, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16010 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(17) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Angelo C. Besio
and Eva G. Besio, his wife, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987,
as instrument number 87–16011 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(18) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Lawrence P.
Young and Mary K. Young, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16012 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(19) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and the estate of
Charles Clyde Cozzaglio, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as
instrument number 87–16013 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(20) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Noel T. Har-
greaves, an unmarried woman, as her sole and separate prop-
erty, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87–16014 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(21) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Athleisure Enter-
prises, Incorporated, a Nevada corporation, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01803 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(22) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Richard Bwarie,
a single man as to an undivided one-half interest, and Roger
S. Gannam and Lucille Gannam, husband and wife, as joint
tenants, as to an undivided one-half interest, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01804 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(23) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and William Camp-
bell and Juanita R. Campbell, his wife as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number
89–01805 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(24) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and William E. Can-
non and Lynn M. Cannon, husband and wife, as joint tenants
as to an undivided one-half interest, and Brent Collinson and
Dianne Collinson, husband and wife, as joint tenants, as to
an undivided one-half interest, grantees, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89–01806 in the official records
of the county of Nevada.
(25) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Christopher G.
Eaton and Bernadette M. Eaton, husband and wife as commu-
nity property, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as
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instrument number 89–01807 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(26) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Christopher G.
Eaton, grantee, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument num-
ber 89–01808 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(27) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Valeria M. Kelly,
an unmarried woman, grantee, recorded January 24, 1989,
as instrument number 89–01809 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(28) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and William J. Kuttel
and Delia Rey Kuttel, husband and wife, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01810 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(29) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas A.
Lippert and Laurel A. Lippert, husband and wife, grantees,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01811
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(30) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Fred J. Mahler,
a single man, grantee, recorded January 24, 1989, as
instrument number 89–01812 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(31) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Francis Doyle
McGwinn also known as Doyle F. McGwinn, a widower, grantee,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01813
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(32) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and James D. Ritchie
and Susan Ritchie, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01814
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(33) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and William R. Smith
and Joan M. Smith, his wife, as joint tenants, grantees,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01815
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(34) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Anthony J. Stile
and Laura A. Stile, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number
89–01816 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(35) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas R.
Stokes, a single man, and Carla J. Stewart, a single woman,
as joint tenants, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as
instrument number 89–01817 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(36) The conveyance entered into between the Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Tom’s Television
System, Incorporated, a California Corporation, grantees,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01818
in the official records of the county of Nevada.