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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. Suss. I. CHs. 879-881 . 1928 . 973 in and to any of said lands, and shall not be construed to abridge, impair, injure, prejudice, or divest in any manner any valid right, title, or interest of any person or body corporate whatever, the true intent of this Act being to concede and abandon all right, title, and intere st of t he Uni ted Sta tes to those persons, estat es, fi rms, or cor- porations who would be the equitable owners of said lands by o e sts equ ita ble not reason of long continuous possession under color of title with claim of ownership, or otherwise, under the laws of the State of Alabama, including the laws of prescription and limitation, in the absence of the said interest, title, and estate of the United States. Approved, May 29, 1928. CHAP. 880 .-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of two bridges on the San Car los Indian Res erv ati on, in Arizona, and for other purposes. May 29, 1928. [S. 4321 .] [Public, No. 590.1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled That the Secre- San carlos Apache Reservation, Ariz. tary of the Interior be, and he is her eby, authorize d under su ch Dis pos al of two bridges across Gila, terms and conditions as he may deem proper, to dispose of two and San Carlos Rivers bridges, one across the Gila River on the San Carlos Apache Indian on, authorized. Reservation, Arizona, and the other across the San Carlos River on that reservation, constructed in pursuance to a provision in an Act approved July 15, 1913 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 85), that w ill no longer be ser viceabl e afte r the c ompleti on of the Coo lidge Dam now being constructed across the Gila River, in Arizona, the proceeds from such sale to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit Proc eeds to c redit of of the San Carlos Indians and draw interest at 4 per centum per San Carlos Indians. annum. Approved, May 29, 1928. CHAP. 881 .-An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to sell May 29, 5 .] th ree thousand three hundred and four and eight-tenths square feet of the Fort fi4 Brown Military Reservation, Brownsville, Texas, totheGatewayBridgeCom-pany . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativ es o f th e United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ti nortBrownReserva- of War be, and he is he reby, authori zed and direc ted to sell, o r Secretary of war cause to be sold, to the Gateway Bridge Company, a corporation authorized to sell to Gate way Bridg e Co rn- organized under the laws of Delaware, at the appraised value pany portion of land of. as determined by the Secretary of War, approximately three Description. thousand three hundred and four and eight-tenths square feet of ground of the Fort Brown Military Reservation, Brownsville, Texas, parti cularly descr ibed as follow s, to wit : B egi nni ng at an un mar ked point in the north line of the Fort Brown Military Reservation, said point bearing south sixty-six degrees twelve minutes west twenty-two and two-tens feet from a ten inch by ten inch concrete Government monument set at intersection of north line of Levee Street with north reservation line ; thence north sixty-six degrees twelve minutes east one h undred and f orty- nine a nd nin ety-fo ur on e-hund redths feet along the sa id nor th rese rvation line to its point o f inte rsectio n with the south line of a twenty-foot alley between Levee and Elizabeth St re ets ; t hence south f orty-three de grees fifty-one minutes east twenty-one and three-tenths feet along the south line of said alley produc ed to i ts poi nt of i ntersec tion w ith a l ine ten feet distant from and parallel to the quartermaster's brick wall ; thence south sixty-six

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