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Volume 50 · 135

Public Law 75–164

To authorize the Attorney General to settle outstanding claims against Chapman Field, Florida, and for other purposes.

Approved May 6, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Attorney General to settle outstanding claims against Chapman Field, Florida, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Attorney

Chapman Field, Fla.

Settlement of outstanding claims against, authorized.

General is hereby authorized to settle, adjust, and compromise any and all outstanding claims, including that of the Royal Citrus Groves Company, adverse to the Government’s title to Chapman Field, Florida, including all accretions, relictions, shoals, islands, tidelands, and underwater lands lying seaward of the fastlands included in the United States Public Land Survey of 1847, and to take such steps as he may deem necessary to remove all clouds upon the Government’s title thereto, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated

Appropriation authorized

the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for such purpose.

Approved, May 6, 1937.

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