Volume 50
Public Law 75–654
To quiet title and possession with respect to certain lands in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Approved August 16, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To quiet title and possession with respect to certain lands in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all the right,
Tuscumbia, Ala.
Certain land relinquished to city or owners of equitable titles thereto.
title, and interest of the United States in and to all the unsubdivided hind in and the strip of land known as the Commons surrounding the city of Tuscumbia, formerly Cold Water Spring, Alabama, as shown by plat made by John Coffee, surveyor, which plat shows the town as embracing the south half section 4, the southeast quarter section 5, the northeast quarter section 8, and the north half section 9, township 4 south, range 11 west, Huntsville meridian, which said town was established under sections 3 and 5 of the Act of March 3, 1817 (3 Stat. 375), and section 2 of the Act of April 20, 1818 (3 Stat. 467),
3 Stat. 375, 467.
be, and the same is hereby, released, relinquished, and confirmed by the United States to the city of Tuscumbia, Alabama, or to the owners of the equitable titles thereto, as fully and completely, in every respect whatever, as could be done by patents issued according to law: Provided, That this Act shall amount only to a relinquishment
Provisos.
United States title only relinquished.
of any title the United States has or is supposed to have, in and to any of said lands, and shall not be construed to abridge, impair, injure, prejudice, or divest in any manner any valid right, title, or interest of any person or body corporate whatever, the true intent of this Act being to concede and abandon all right, title, and interest of the United States to the city of Tuscumbia or to those persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the equitable owners of said lands under the laws of the State of Alabama in the absence of the said interest, title, and estate of the United States: Provided further, That the title and rights hereby released and quitclaimed
Rights reserved.
shall be subject to the right of the United States or any agency thereof to overflow the lands described herein as the result of projects for the improvement of navigation upon the Tennessee River.
Approved, August 16, 1937.