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54Tu CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Session. J No. 2774.
PATENTS TO CERTAIN LANDS.
FEBRUARY 3, 1897.-Comuintted to the Committeo of the Whole Roe on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. KLEBERG, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted
the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 824.]
The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill
(S. 824) to require patents to be issued to land actually settled under
the act entitled An act to provide for the armed occupation and set-
tlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of Florida, approved
August 4, 1842, have carefully examined, the same and -recommend its
passage with the following amendment:
Suc. 5. That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with
any valid adverse right. asserted under any law of the United States to any of the
lands settled upon under the armed-occupation acts.
The committee adopt part of the Senate report made to the Fifty-
first Congress and afterwards to the Fifty-second Congress, which is as
follows:
The Committee on Public.Lands, to whom was referred the bill (8.'2420) to require
patents to be issued to land actually settled under the act entitled An act to provide
for the airmed occupation-and- settJement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of
Florida, approved August 4, 1842, have carefully considered the same and submit
the following report thereon:
This bill has been referred to the Department of the Interior for examination and
report, and communications have been received from the Acting 'Secretary and the
Commissioner of th.e General Land Office in which certain amendnients and changes
in the bill are suggested. The letters are as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF-TTIE INTERIOR,
Wa8hingion, May 10, 1892.
Sih: I herewith transmit copy of the report of the Cbmmissioner of the General
Land Office on Senate bill No. 2420, To re4uire patents to be issued to land actually
settled under the act entitled 'An act to provide for the armed occupation and settle-
ment of the unsettled part of the peninsula of Florida,' approved August fourth,
eighteen hundred and forty-two.
The first section provides:
1 That patents shall be, and are hereby, granted to the persons in possession and
occupation of all land settled upon under the act entitled 'An act to provide for the
armed occupation, and settlement, of the unsettled part of the peninsula of east
Florida,' approved on the fourth of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-
two, where the land ha% been in-the occupation and possession of the same person
or his predecessoks, from whom a right of possession to said land is claimed, for the
period of twenty years next preceding the approval of this act.
Under this section persons in possession of lands claiming throiugh a sale from the
original claimarit would be entitled to patent.
The fourth section qf the act 'of August 4, 1842 (5 Stat. L., 502), prpvides:
That all.,sale% gifts, devises, agreements, bonds, or powers to sell, transfers, or
liens, whatsoever,' rivate or judicial, of the lands, or any portion thereof, acquired
by this act, niadb at any time before patents shall have issued for the same, shall bo
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