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 1984 FIKIPY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 1292, 1301, 1315. 1905. !"¢lf§¤¤£1%%1§9;l6· March 2. 1905. {{USStatPension| topchap = | side = | serial = | congress = | chapter = 1315.-An Act For the relief of H. Gibbes Morgan and other coowners lS· 43*21 of on isms, in me Gui: or Mmm. [Private, No. 1181.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rq2reaentata?ves 'oifthe United ‘,§:{g,'jl"'}g· me to States of elmerfca in CY0Ilg7‘88/I assembled, That the claim of uan Cuevas, Juan de Cuevas. otherwise called Juan de Cuevas, John Quaive, or Quaivie, under the permit from the Spanish commandant at Mobile, dated An ust tirst, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, to Cat Island, in the Gulf 0% Mexico, in its entirety, except as to the lands hereinafter described, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed in him and his legal representatives claiming the same throu h and under him, the said Cuevas, and that a patent issue accordingly in the name of said original claimant: ,{.’{g*j•$,,:hbh°m Provided, however, That nothing in this Act contained shall in any ' manner impair the right or title of the Government in or to that (portion of said Cat lslan to which the Government obtained title by eed from John and Maréy Cuevas November twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty, an on which Cat Island light—house is now situated; and this confirmation of said claim or title of said Cuevas or his legal representatives to said Cat Island is upon condition that the legal representatives of said Juan Cuevas claiming the same through or under him shall convey to the United States, by good and sufficrent deed, all . that portion of Cat Island described as an excepted art thereof in Executive order of October twenty-fifth, eighteen hundtted and ninety- five, and lying between a north and south line one thousand feet to the east of the easternmost corner of Cat Island light- house and the western put of the island. Sec. 2. That this Act take eifect and be in force from and after its passage. _
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