Volume 47 · 448
Public Law 72–322
To validate a certain conveyance heretofore made by Central Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, to Pacific States Box and Basket Company, a corporation, involving certain portions of right of way in the vicinity of the town of Florin, county of Sacramento, State of California, acquired by the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. L. 489), as amended by the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. L. 356).
Approved June 30, 1932
Statutory text
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 Pacific States Box and Basket Company, a corporation, involving certain portions of right of way in the vicinity of the town of Florin, county of Sacramento, State of California, acquired by the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. L. 489), as amended by the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. L. 356).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the conveyance
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Conveyance to Pacific States Box and Basket Company, legalized.
in the form of a quitclaim deed executed by Central Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, as grantors, to the Pacific States Box and Basket Company, a corporation, as grantee, under date of October 20, 1930, and recorded in the office of the county recorder of Sacramento County, California, on the 3d day of November, 1930, in book numbered 321, page 380, official records of said county, involving certain lands or interests therein in the vicinity of the town of Florin, county of Sacramento, State of California, 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
Vol. 12, p. 489.
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 Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other
Vol. 13, p. 356.
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
Provisos.
Right of way width.
fee-simple title: Provided, That such legalization, validation, and confirmation shall not diminish said right of way to a width less than fifty feet on either side of the center of the main track or tracks of said Central Pacific Railway Company as now established : Provided further, That nothing herein contained is intended
Rights through adverse possession, prescription, etc.
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 and its lessee,
Mineral rights reserved.
Southern Pacific Company: And provided further, 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, June 30, 1932.