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PUBLIC LAW 95-586—NOV. 3, 1978

Public Law 95-586 95th Congress An Act Nov. 3, 1978 [H.R. 7971]

To validate certain land conveyances, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United, States of America in Congress assembled,

of the

TITLE I—TO V A L I D A T E THE CONVEYANCE O F CERTAIN LAND IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

Land conveyances^ validation.

SEC. 101. Subject to section 103, the conveyances executed by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company and described in section 102, involving certain land in San J o a q u i n County, California, forming a part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act entitled " A n 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), as amended, are hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed, as far as any interest of the United States in such land is concerned, and shall have the same force and effect as if the land involved in each conveyance h a d been held, on the date of conveyance, under absolute free simple title by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, subject to a reservation to the United States of the minerals therein. SEC. 102. The conveyances referred to in the first section of this Act Description, are as follows: (1) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Stokely-Van Camp, an Indiana corporation, as grantee, on March 2, 1973, and recorded as instrument numbered 55797 on December 3, 1973, book 3822, page 586, of the Official Records of San Joaquin County, California, describing the following lands: That certain parcel of land situate in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, being a portion of the west half of section 12, township 3 north, range 6 east. Mount Diablo base and meridian, described as follows: The easterly 125 feet of the westerly 150 feet of lots 66,67,68,69, the westerly 150 feet of lot 70 and the easterly 100 feet of the westerly 150 feet of lot 71, as said lots are shown on the m a p of the L o d i - B a r n h a r t Tract, recorded November 5, 1906, in volume 3 of Maps and P l a t s, page 48, records of said county. Excepting therefrom that portion of said lot 68 lying easterly of the easterly boundary of the land described in the deed dated August 27, 1962, to Stokely-Van Camp, Incorporated, recorded September 5, 1962, in book 2592, page 385, of Official Records, records of said county, and southerly of the easterly prolongation of the northerly boundary thereof. (2) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor, and Bernardino Barengo, a married man, as grantee, on June 27, 1973, and recorded as instrument

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