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 PRIVATE LAW 103-2 —JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 5057 Private Law 103-2 103d Congress 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 Construction 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. Roeschen and Kenee Roeschen, husband and wife as joint tenants, 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. July 5, 1994 [H.R. 1183] Railroad Right-of-Way Conveyance Validation Act.

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