The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-15

post and reservation which had been occupied by Spain and by the United States for military purposes. Here accompanying extracts are given from Pickett's History of Alabama. It was understood that the settlement then made was acquisced in by the claim ant and his heirs until a comparatively recent date. and 1t has been treated as final as far as the executive depart ment is concerned.
 In 1S96 1t was found that two of the monuments established in 1S44 to mark the eastern boundary had been re- moved entirely, and the third monu- ment was found at a distance of only 2,2g5 feet from the east glacis of Fort Morgan instead of $500 feet as called for in the survey and order of reserva- ton. and since then the limit is un- darstood to have been re-established upon the location called for by tho \ executive order.
 within the limits of the suarez claim is located the claim of A. P. K. Jones, confirmed by act of Congress March 3, 1919, "entered as number l65 of the report numbered 13 of Commits sioner Crawford" This claim was also surveyed and designated as section .. township g south. rango east. St. Stephens land district. As surveyed and patented. the land included In this claim lies along Mobile Bay adjoining the reservation on the east. A copy of the certified copy on file in this of- ice of the map. description. and pat ent is submitted herewith and marked Exhibit B." It contains a description of the east boundary of the reserva- tion.
 also inclose a copy of correspond ence on file in this office regarding the SuareZ claim, containing field notes and plat of the first survey of that claim in the year 1888 by John James United States deputy surveyor, show ing that a patent was refused on that survey because the claim included property of the United States. to wlt- Fort Morgan and the light house. and that a new survey WSIs ordered SO as 60 exclude the light house and the reseF- vation, as described above. This cor respondence also includes the deserip- tion and plat of the military reserva- ton. and Is marked Exhibit c"
 While the correspondence shows clearly that an executive order was is- sued declaring the reservation, as spec ifled above the papers on file in this office do not contain copy of such order.
 The latter part of the Senate resolu- tion calls for
 ''rhe character of any proceedings now pending in any court to condemn any other lands on Mobile Point for the use of the United States, and the size and location of the parcels of lands so sought to be condemned.
 It appears from the records or thls office that upon request of the Act ing Secretary of War, dated May 3, 1904, the Attorney General has caused to be instituted in the United States district court for the Southern Dis trict of Alabama, proceedings for the appropriation or condemnation of an area of about 200 acres. adjoining the reservation on the east, bounded by the reservation, Mobile Bay, the Gulf of Mexico. and north and south line about 3.3lS feet east of the reservation. Under date of December 2I, 1904 the Secretary of War requested the At torney-General to have steps taken "to except from the land to be condemned a strip of land on the northerly side along Mobile Bay, approximately 4SO feet wide, including the parcel claimed by the quarantine board, State of Ala