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PRIVATE LAW 8 5 - 5 0 - J U L Y 10, 1957

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Private Law 85-50 AN ACT To confer jurisdiction on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Jefferson Division, to hear, determine, and render judgment on certain claims of George W. Edwards, Junior, against the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repi^esentativen of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is hereby conferred notwithstanding the lapse of time, laches, statutes of limitations, or the amount in controversy, upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Jeft'erson Division, to hear, determine, and render judgment on the alleged claims of George W. P^dwards, Junior, of Marshall, Texas, against the United States relating to the title to three-fourths of the oil, gas, coal, and other mineral rights, of whatsoever nature, which a deed from the United States to Roy Snider and D. R. Snider, copartners under the trade name Snider Brothers Lumber Company, provided were reserved to the United States, upon, in, to and under the two tracts of land described as follows: Tract 1: Unit numbered 28. Situated in the Bailey Anderson survey, abstract numbered 29, Harrison County, Texas, and being a part of a tract of 1,315.343 acres conveyed by the estate of Mrs. E. G. Robertson to the United States of America; beginning at an iron pipe in the east line of the Boards Ferry Road and being 204.9 feet north 78 degrees 59 minutes east and 30.9 feet south 25 degrees Oli/^ minutes east from the south corner of a tract of 26 acres conveyed by Dora Cook to the United States of America; thence with the east line of Boards Ferry Road south 78 degrees 59 minutes west 382.8 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 18 degrees 10 minutes east 4,045.7 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 54 degrees 29 minutes east 2,418.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 45 degrees 49i^ minutes west 2,182.3 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 45 degrees 18 minutes west 1,591.4 feet to an iron pipe in the east line of Boards Ferry Road; thence with the east line ot Boards Ferry Road south 50 degrees 58 minutes west 203.0 feet to the place of beginning, containing 128.783 acres of land, more or less. Tract 2: Unit numbered 29: Situated in the Bailey Anderson survey, abstract numbered 29, Harrison County, Texas, and being a part of a tract of 1,315.343 acres conveyed by the estate of Mrs. E. G. Robertson to the United States of America; beginning at an iron pipe in the south line of Boards Ferry Road on the east bank of the Sabine River and being 31.5 feet south 25 degrees 29 minutes west from the south corner of a tract of 30.164 acres conveyed by Estella Davis to the United States of America; thence with the east bank of the Sabine River, as follows: south 25 degrees 29 minutes west 314.1 feet; south 0 degrees 09 minutes east 1,039.9 feet; south 15 degrees 06 minutes east 1,297.7 feet; south 15 degrees 30 minutes west 950.5 feet; south 85 degrees 20 minutes east 257.9 feet; south 25 degrees 47 minutes east 746.6 feet; south 16 degrees 41 minutes west 528.8 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 54 degrees 29 minutes east 1,900.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 18 degrees 10 minutes west 4,045.7 feet to an iron pipe in the south line of l^oards Ferry Road; thence with the south line of Boards Ferry Road as follows: south 78 degrees 59 minutes west 420.0 feet; south 13 degrees 04 minutes west 208.8 feet; north 82 degrees 20 minutes west 209.1 feet to the place of beginning, containing 131.736 acres of land, more or less.

July 10, 1957 TH. R. 2964]

G e o r g e W. Edwards, Jr.