The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-11-15

An Act to authorize the Secretary
OF the Interior to adjust disputes or
claims by entrymen, selectors, gran
tees, and patentees of the United
States against the United States and
Dewteen each other, arising from faul
ty surveys in townships twenty-nine
south, range twenty-eight east; also
IN townships thirty-six, thirty-seven,
and thirty-eight, ranges twenty-nine
and thirty east, Tallahassee meridian,
IN the State of Florida, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the Secretary of the
Interior be, and he is hereby, author
lied to equitably adjust disputes and
claims by entrymen, solicitors, gran
tees, and patentees of the United
States, their heirs or assigns, against
the United States and between each
other, arising from fculty surveys IN
township twenty-nine south, range
twerty-eight east also in townships
thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty
eight, south, ranges twenty nine and
thirty east, Tallahassee meridian, in
the State of Florida, the said surveys
having been shown to have been faul-
ty by the resurvey of certain lands in
said townships, and for this purpose
the said Secretary is authorized to
Except conveyances from and grant
patents to any such entrymen, selec-
tors, grantees, patentes, their heirs or
assigns, of Gny of the lands of the
United States in the said townships
open to entry or settlement which, in
the Judgment or discretion of said
Secretary, it shall be just and equit-
able to grant or convey to such par
ties or any of them, to make up any
deficiency or loss sustained by any
such parties by reason of such faulty
surveys, or by the meander lines, To-
cation, or existence of lakes or other
bodies of water, not shown or incor-
rectly shown by such original faulty
surveys of the United States in said
townships to the end that such entry
men, solicitors, grantees, patentees,
their heirs or assigns, may be duly
vested with the title to such part OF
lands of the United States as shall be
necessary or proper to make up any
deficiency in acreage or loss, as far as
possible, due to such faulty survey,
as shown by the resurvey of the said
townships, preserving to the owners
\ who have lands shown by the former
faulty surveys to be actually bounded
by lakes or other bodies of wcter, as
far as practicable, the right to have
patented to them the lands shown by
7 such new resurveys to lie between
their holdings and such lakes or bod
!! les of water: Provided, That In the
{ said adjustment no greater area
; shall be patented to any claimant
I than that which is surrendered by
{ him or of which he is deprived by the
I fact that, under the corrected survey
!; the area to which title, derived from
Z the United States, Is now asserted by
{ the entryman, selector, grantee, pat
! entee, his heirs or assigns is fount
! to have no existence in fact, or to bt
( covered by water and to have beer
I so covered at the time of the fault,
/ survey: Provided further, That moth
! ing herein shall be construed as au
( thorizing the Secretary OF the inter
i ior in the said settlement to patent t.
I any entryman, selector grantee, 0
! patentee, or his heirs or assigns al
Z area which, when added to the are
i; retained by the said entryman, selet
! tor, grantee, patentee, or his heirs .
I assigns, shall give larger acreag
! than that originally entered q
II thought to be acquired from the Un
? ted States or any grantee of the I'm
| ted States.
| Sec. Q. That the said Secretary
| the Interior be, and is hereby autho
| lied to cause to be made such su
| yeys or resurveys in said township
/ as may in his judgment be necessal
| in order to carry out the provisions
| this Act.
/ Received by the President, Octob
/ 20, 1919.
4 Note by the Department of State.
4 The foregoing act having been pr
/ sented to the President Of the Unit
4 States for his approval and not ha
| ing been returned by him to Il
1 house of Congress in which it orie
1 mated within the time prescribed
l the Constitution of the United State
/ has become a law without his 9