Volume 46 · 1978
Private Law 71–105
To relinquish all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands in the State of Louisiana.
Approved February 5, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To relinquish all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands in the State of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Motor League of Louisiana.
Rights, etc., of United States to old Fort Macomb lands relinquished in favor of.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to execute in favor of the Motor League of Louisiana a quit-claim deed of all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain tract of land containing sixteen and three one-hundredths acres at Chef Menteur in the parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, upon which is situated the ruins of Fort Macomb. Such quit-claim deed
Quitclaim to be full release, against adverse claims.
shall be in full and complete accord and satisfaction of any and all matters that are or may be in dispute and shall be upon the expresscondition that neither the Motor League of Louisiana nor any of its successors or assigns in title shall make any claim against the United States for any sum or sums of money the said Motor League of Louisiana may have paid to the State of Louisiana, or to any other person or persons, corporation, or association on account of and in consideration of said lands and upon the further express condition
Surety required.
that the said Motor League of Louisiana, its successors and assigns in title shall be bound to indemnify and hold harmless the United States against any and all claims that may at any time be made against the United States by any person whatsoever or any corporation or association of persons on account of any sum or sums of money that the United States may have received from the State of Louisiana as the purchase money for said land.
Approved, February 5, 1931.