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Private Law 83–958
To validate a conveyance of certain lands by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, to Morgan Hopkins, Incorporated.
Approved August 31, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To validate a conveyance of certain lands by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, to Morgan Hopkins, Incorporated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the conveyance
Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
Conveyance validation.
hereinafter particularly described and heretofore executed by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, involving certain lands or interests therein, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, and forming a part of the right-of-way of said Southern Pacific Railroad Company, granted by the Government of the United States of America by section 23 of the Act of March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. 573), is
hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed, as far as the interest of the United States is concerned, with the same force and effect as if the land involved therein had been held at the time of such conveyance by the corporations making the same under absolute fee simple title.
The conveyance, recorded in the office of the county recorder of Los Angeles County, California, in book of official records, which is hereby legalized, validated and confirmed, is as follows: Dated May 13, 1953; recorded June 14, 1953; volume 41897, page 48, to Morgan Hopkins, Incorporated: Provided, That such legalization, validation, and confirmation shall not in any instance 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 Southern Pacific Railroad Company as now established and maintained: Provided, further, That nothing herein contained is intended 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 Southern Pacific Railroad Company and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company: And provided further, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or
Reservation of minerals to U. S.
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 August 31, 1954.