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 PRIVATE LAW 97-22—JUNE 1, 1982

96 STAT. 2621

SEC. 5. The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to settle and adjust, for an amount of not more than $34.32, the claim of the News Tribune for advertisements furnished to the Civilian Personnel Office of the Ninth Infantry Division and Fort Lewis. Such amount shall be payable from the applicable appropriations of the Department of the Army. Approved June 1, 1982.

Private Law 97-22 97th Congress An Act To confirm a conveyance of certain real property by the Central Pacific Railway Company and Southern Pacific Company to A. C. Taber and his wife, Mary Taber.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subject to section 3 of this Act, the conveyance described in section 2(a) of this Act involving certain real property in Alameda County, California, is hereby confirmed in the successors in interest to A. C. Taber and his wife, Mary Taber, the grantees in such conveyance, with respect to all interests of the United States in the rights to the real property described in section 2(b) of this Act. Portions of the real property described in section 2(b) formed part of the right-of-way granted to the Union Pacific Railroad by the United States by the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 489). SEC. 2. (a) The conveyance confirmed by this Act was made by a deed dated October 29, 1942, by the Central Pacific Railway Company and Southern Pacific Company to A. C. Taber and his wife, Mary Taber, and recorded on November 5, 1942, book 4297, page 388, Alameda County records. (b) The real property referred to in the first section of this Act is certain real property in Alameda County, California, described as follows: All that portion of the 400-foot right-of-way of the Central Pacific Railway Company in section 7, township 4 south, range 1 east. Mount Diablo base and meridian, lying south of the southerly line of the right-of-way of the State highway and north of a line that is parallel with and 25 feet at right angles, northerly from the center line of the main track of the Western Pacific Railroad Company, as now located, excepting therefrom that portion conveyed to the Department of Public Works of the State of California by condemnation recorded November 1944, book 4625, page 186, instrument Numbered RR-69436, Alameda County records. SEC. 3. (a) Nothing in this Act shall— (1) except to the extent specified in section 2 of this Act, diminish the right-of-way referred to in the first section of this Act to a width of less than 50 feet on each side of the center of the main track or tracks established and maintained by the Central Pacific Railway Company, Southern Pacific Company, or their predecessors in interest, on the date of the enactment of this Act; or (2) validate or confirm any right or title to, or interest in, the land referred to in the first section of this Act arising out of adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not confirmed by conveyance by the Central Pacific Railway Company or Southern Pacific Company before the date of the enactment of this Act.

June 1, 1982 [H.R. 1543] A. C. Taber and Mary Taber, real property conveyance.

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