A bill to confirm a conveyance of certain real property by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to Ernest Pritchett and his wife, Dianna Pritchett.
PL 99-614 (S.386), enacted 11/06/1986

PUBLIC LAW 99-614—NOV. 6, 1986 
100 STAT. 3481 
Public Law 99-614 
99th Congress 
An Act 
To confirm a conveyance of certain real property by the Southern Pacific Transporta- 
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tion Company to Ernest Pritchett and his wife, Dianna Pritchett, and for other 
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purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to 
Oregon, 
section 3, the conveyance described in section 2(a) of this Act 
involving certain real property in Jackson County, Oregon, forming 
a part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the 
California and Oregon Railroad Company under the Act entitled 
"An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and 
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telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to 
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Portland, in Oregon", approved July 25, 1866 (14 Stat. 239), is 
confirmed in Ernest Pritchett and his wife, Dianna Pritchett, the 
grantees in such conveyance, and their successors in interest, with 
respect to all interests of the United States in the rights to the real 
property described in section 2(b) of this Act. 
SEC. 2. (a) The conveyance confirmed by this Act was made by a 
deed dated July 23, 1982, by the Southern Pacific Transportation 
Company to Ernest Pritchett and his wife, Dianna Pritchett, and 
recorded on October 20, 1982, in the official records of Jackson 
County, Document Numbered 82-15174. 
(b) The real property referred to in the first section of this Act is a 
parcel of land in the northwest quarter of section 26, township 36 
south, range 4 west, Willamette meridian, county of Jackson, State 
of Oregon, more particularly described as follows: 
Commencing at the west quarter corner of such section 26; 
thence south 89 degrees 46 minutes 45 seconds east along the 
southerly line of such northwest quarter of section 26 a distance 
of 1082.50 feet to a point in a line parallel with and distant 100 
feet northeasterly, measured at right angles, from the original 
located center line of Southern Pacific Transportation Compa-
ny's main track (Siskiyou branch), and also the true point of 
beginning of the parcel to be described; 
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thence north 65 degrees 2 minutes 35 seconds west along such 
parallel line 1191.92 feet to the westerly line of such section 26; 
thence south zero degrees 12 minutes 52 seconds west along 
such westerly line 55.05 feet to a point in a line parallel with 
and distant 50 feet northeasterly, measured at right angles, 
from such center line; 
thence south 65 degrees 2 minutes 35 seconds east along last 
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such parallel line, as last such parallel line being also the 
northeasterly line of that certain parcel of land described in 
deed dated June 23, 1883, from Frederick G. Birdsey to Oregon 
and California Railroad Company, recorded July 28, 1883, in 
deed book 10, page 463, records of such county, a distance of 
1060.35 feet to such southerly line; 
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Minerals and 
mining. 
thence south 89 degrees 46 minutes 45 seconds east along such 
southerly line 119.49 feet to the true point of beginning, contain-
ing an area of 1.293 acres, more or less. 
SEC. 3. (a) Nothing in this Act shall— 
(1) diminish the right-of-way referred to in the first section of 
this Act to a width of less than 50 feet on each side of the center 
of the main track or tracks established and maintained by the 
Southern Pacific Transportation Company on the date of enact-
ment of this Act; or 
(2) validate or confirm any right or title to, or interest in, the 
land referred to in the first section of this Act arising out of 
adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not con-
firmed by conveyance by the Southern Pacific Transportation 
Company before the date of enactment of this Act. 
Qo) There is reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other 
minerals in the land referred to in the first section of this Act, 
together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such oil, 
coal, or other minerals under such rules and regulations as the 
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. 
FINDINGS 
SEC. 4. The Congress finds that— 
(1) the Southern Pacific Transportation Company is the 
successor grantee of the real property described in section 6; 
(2) pursuant to a petition of the Southern Pacific Transpor-
tation Company, the Interstate Commerce Commission has 
exempted the abandonment of the real property described in 
section 6 from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10903 (relating to 
abandonment and discontinuance of railroad lines and rail 
transportation); 
(3) the Southern Pacific Transportation Company has aban-
doned all right, title, and interest in and to the real property 
described in section 6. 
DECLARATION OF ABANDONMENT 
SEC. 5. For the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for 
the disposition of abandoned portions of rights of way granted to 
railroad companies", approved March 8, 1922 (43 U.S.C. 912), the 
Congress hereby declares that the Southern Pacific Transportation 
Company has abandoned the real property described in section 6. 
LAND DESCRIPTION 
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California. 
SEC. 6. The real property referred to in sections 4 and 5 is certain 
real property situated in the City of Coalinga, California, which 
forms part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the 
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company by the Act entitled "An Act 
granting Lands to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Tele-
graph Line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific 
Coast", approved July 27, 1866 (16 Stat. 292), and more particularly 
described as that portion of the right-of-way extending from the 
section line of sections 33 and 34 of township 20 south, range 15 east. 
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Mount Diablo Base & Meridian to the south city limits of the City of 
Coalinga. 
Approved November 6, 1986. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 386: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 132 (1986): 
Feb. 4, considered and passed Senate. 
Oct. 15, considered and passed House, amended. 
Oct. 18, Senate concurred in House amendments.