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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 514, 515-JUNE 16, 1938 Proviso. Title of United States only, relin- quished. patents issued according to law: Provided,That this Act shall amount to a relinquishment of any title the United States has or is supposed to have in and to any of the 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 what- ever, the true intent of this Act being to concede and abandon all right, title, and interest of the United States to the lands described herein to those persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the equitable owners of said lands under the laws of the State of Alabama in the absence of the said interest, title, and estate of the United States. Approved, June 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 515] June 16, 1938 [H. R. 8134] [Public, No. 669] Colbert and Lauder- dale Counties, Ala. Release of U. S. title to designated tracts to owners of equitable titles. Description. AN ACT To quiet title and possession to certain lands in the Tennessee River in the counties of Colbert and Lauderdale, Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right, title, and interest of the United States, except such right, title, and interest as has been acquired by the United States through purchase or condemnation, in and to all of the following-described property, to wit: A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in township 3 south, range 11 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows: An island named "Garner Towhead", lying in the Tennessee River, the upstream tip of which is approximately nine hundred and seventy feet south of and approximately two thousand seven hundred feet east of the northwest corner of section 31. Said island has an approximate maximum length of three thousand and forty feet and an approximate maximum width of four hundred and thirty feet. The above-described island contains twenty-three and four-tenths acres, more or less; and A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama in the Tennessee River, in township 3 south, range 11 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows: An unnamed island lying in the Tennessee River, the down- stream tip of which is approximately one thousand five hundred and seventy feet south of and approximately two thousand six hundred and sixty feet east of the northwest corner of section 31. Said island has an approximate maximum length of one thou- sand two hundred and twenty feet and an approximate maxi- mum width of two hundred and ninety feet. The above-described island contains five and two-tenths acres, more or less; and A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in townships 3 and 4 south, range 12 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows: An unnamed island lying in the Tennessee River, the down- stream tip of which is approximately five thousand three hun- dred and forty feet south of and approximately two thousand two hundred and twenty feet east of the northwest corner of section 36. Said island has an approximate maximum length of five hundred and fifty feet and an approximate maximum width of ninety feet. The above-described island contains eight-tenths acre, more or less; and 772 [52 STAT.

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