Public Law 75–454

That all right, title,

Houston County, Ala.

Release of title and interest in certain lands in.

and interest which may have been acquired by the United States under a marshal’s deed dated February 12, 1894, recorded in the. office of the judge of probate court, Dale County, Alabama, February 17, 1894, Book G of Deeds, pages 328, 329, in and to certain lands situated in

Description.

Houston (formerly Dale) County, Alabama, and described as follows: The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 18, township 3, range 26, east, of the Saint Stephen’s meridian, be, and the same are hereby, released and relinquished by the United States.

Sec. 2.

Nothing in this Act shall in any manner abridge, divest, impair, injure, or prejudice any valid right, title, or interest of any person or persons in or to any portion or part of the lands described in section 1 of this Act, the true intent of this Act being to relinquish and abandon, grant, give, and concede any and all right, interest, and estate, in law or equity, which the United States is or is supposed to be entitled to by virtue of said marshal’s deed, in said lands, in favor of all persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the true and lawful owners of same under the laws of the State of Alabama, including the law of prescription, in the absence of the interest and estate of the United States therein.