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PUBLIC LAW 85-139-AUG. 14, 1957

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at the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers in southwest Georgia shall be known and designated as Lake Seminole in honor of the Seminole Indians whose ancestors, the Hichiti's and Apalachicola's, inhabited the general area in which this lake is located. Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such lake is referred to under any other name or designation, shall be held to refer to such lake as Lake Seminole. Approved August 14, 1957.

Public Law 85-139 August 14, 1957 [S. 1773]

AN ACT To validate a certain conveyance heretofore made by Central Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, to the State of Nevada, involving certain portions of right-of-way in the city of Reno, county of Washoe, State of Nevada, acquired by the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1802 (12 Stat. L. 489), as amended by the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1804 (13 Stat. L. 350).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Central Pacific United States of America in Congress assembled, That the conveyvandation of Ruce ill the form of a quitclaim deed executed by Central Pacific Railconveyance. ^y^y Company, a corporation, and its lessee. Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, as grantors, to the State of Nevada, as grantee, under date of January 12, 1953, for the use and benefit of the Nevada State Hospital for Mental Diseases, and recorded in the office of the county recorder of Washoe County, State of Nevada, on the 21st day of March 1953, in book numbered 318 of deeds, page 300, official records of said county, involving certain lands or interests therein in the city of Reno, county of Washoe, State of Nevada, and forming a part of the right-of-way of said Central Pacific Railway Company granted by the Government of the United States of America by an Act of Congress approved July 1, 1862, 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" (12 Stat. L. 489), and by said Act as amended by Act of Congress approved July 2, 1864, entitled "An Act to amend an 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 (jovernment the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,' approved July 1, 1862" (13 Stat. L. 356), is hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed with the same force and effect as if the land involved therein had been held at the time of such conveyance by the above-named grantors making the same under absolute fee-simple title: Provided, That such legislation, validation, and confirmation shall not diminish said right-of-way to a width less tlian fifty feet on either side of the center of the main track or tracks of said Central Pacific Raihvay Com{)any as now established: Provided further, That nothing herein contained is intended or shall be construed to legalize, validate, or confirm any rights, titles, or interests based upon or arising out of adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not confirmed by conveyance heretofore made by Central Pacific Railway Company further. Reservation to and its lessee. Southern Pacific Company: And provided U.S. That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other minerals in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Approved August 14, 1957.

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