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H.R.1183
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-
four
An Act
To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of California
that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the
Central Pacific Railway Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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This Act may be cited as the ``Railroad Right-of-Way Conveyance
Validation Act''.

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Except as provided in section 5, the conveyances described in
section 3 (involving certain lands in Nevada County, State of
California) and section 4 (involving certain lands in San Joaquin
County, State of California) concerning lands that form parts of the
right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific
Railway Company in the Act entitled ``An Act to aid in the Construction
of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific
Ocean, and to secure to the Government the Use of the same for Postal,
Military, and Other Purposes'', approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. 489),
hereby are legalized, validated, and confirmed, as far as any interest
of the United States in such lands is concerned, with the same force
and effect as if the land involved in each such conveyance had been
held, on the date of such conveyance, under absolute fee simple title
by the grantor of such land.

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The conveyances of land in Nevada County, State of California,
referred to in section 2 are as follows:
(1) The conveyances entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and David G. ``Otis'' Kantz and
Virginia Thomas Bills Kantz, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-15995 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(2) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Antone Silva and Martha E.
Silva, his wife, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87-15996 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(3) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Charlie D. Roeschen and Renee
Roeschen, husband and wife as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-15997 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(4) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Manuel F. Nevarez and
Margarita Nevarez, his wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-15998 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(5) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Susan P. Summers, grantee,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-15999 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(6) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and James L. Porter, a single man,
as his sole and separate property, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987,
as instrument number 87-16000 in the official records of the county
of Nevada.
(7) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Robert L. Helin, a single man,
grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16001 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(8) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas S. Archer and Laura J.
Archer, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June
10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16002 in the official records of
the county of Nevada.
(9) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Wallace L. Stevens, a single
man, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16003
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(10) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Sierra Pacific Power Company,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16004 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(11) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Truckee Public Utility
District, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87-16005 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(12) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Dwayne W. Haddock and Bertha
M. Haddock, his wife as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June 10,
1987, as instrument number 87-16006 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(13) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and William C. Thorn, grantee,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16007 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(14) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Jose Guadelupe Lopez,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16008 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(15) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Harold O. Dixon, an unmarried
man, as to an undivided half interest, and Pedro Lopez, a married
man, as to an undivided half interest, as joint tenants, grantees,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16009 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(16) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Robert E. Sutton and Patricia
S. Sutton, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16010 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(17) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Angelo C. Besio and Eva G.
Besio, his wife, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87-16011 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(18) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Lawrence P. Young and Mary K.
Young, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June
10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16012 in the official records of
the county of Nevada.
(19) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and the estate of Charles Clyde
Cozzaglio, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number
87-16013 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(20) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Noel T. Hargreaves, an
unmarried woman, as her sole and separate property, grantee,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87-16014 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(21) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Athleisure Enterprises,
Incorporated, a Nevada corporation, grantees, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89-01803 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(22) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Richard Bwarie, a single man
as to an undivided one-half interest, and Roger S. Gannam and
Lucille Gannam, husband and wife, as joint tenants, as to an
undivided one-half interest, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989,
as instrument number 89-01804 in the official records of the county
of Nevada.
(23) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and William Campbell and Juanita
R. Campbell, his wife as joint tenants, grantees, recorded January
24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01805 in the official records of
the county of Nevada.
(24) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and William E. Cannon and Lynn M.
Cannon, husband and wife, as joint tenants as to an undivided one-
half interest, and Brent Collinson and Dianne Collinson, husband
and wife, as joint tenants, as to an undivided one-half interest,
grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01806
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(25) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Christopher G. Eaton and
Bernadette M. Eaton, husband and wife as community property,
grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01807
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(26) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Christopher G. Eaton, grantee,
recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01808 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(27) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Valeria M. Kelly, an unmarried
woman, grantee, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-
01809 in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(28) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and William J. Kuttel and Delia
Rey Kuttel, husband and wife, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989,
as instrument number 89-01810 in the official records of the county
of Nevada.
(29) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas A. Lippert and Laurel
A. Lippert, husband and wife, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989,
as instrument number 89-01811 in the official records of the county
of Nevada.
(30) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Fred J. Mahler, a single man,
grantee, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01812
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(31) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Francis Doyle McGwinn also
known as Doyle F. McGwinn, a widower, grantee, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89-01813 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(32) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and James D. Ritchie and Susan
Ritchie, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01814 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(33) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and William R. Smith and Joan M.
Smith, his wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89-01815 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(34) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Anthony J. Stile and Laura A.
Stile, husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01816 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(35) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Thomas R. Stokes, a single
man, and Carla J. Stewart, a single woman, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01817
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(36) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Tom's Television System,
Incorporated, a California Corporation, grantees, recorded January
24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01818 in the official records of
the county of Nevada.
(37) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Tom's Television System,
Incorporated, a California corporation, grantees, recorded January
24, 1989, as instrument number 89-01819 in the official records of
the county of Nevada.
(38) The conveyances entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Harry M. Welch and Betty R.
Welch, his wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89-01820 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(39) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Harry Fariel and Joan Fariel,
husband and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded February 2,
1989, as instrument number 89-02748 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(40) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Edward Candler and May
Candler, husband and wife as community property, as to an undivided
two-thirds interest; and Harry Fariel and Joan Fariel, husband and
wife, as joint tenants, as to an undivided one-third interest,
grantees, recorded February 2, 1989, as instrument number 89-02749
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(41) The conveyance entered into between the Central Pacific
Railroad, grantor, and E.W. Hopkins and J.O.B. Gann, grantees,
recorded April 7, 1894, in Book 79 of Deeds at page 679, official
records of the county of Nevada.
(42) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and John David Gay and Elizabeth
Jean Gay, as Trustees of the David and Elizabeth Gay Trust,
grantees, recorded October 3, 1991, as instrument number 91-30654
of the official records of the county of Nevada.

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The conveyances of land in San Joaquin County, State of California,
referred to in section 2 are as follows:
(1) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Ronald M. Lauchland and
Lillian R. Lauchland, grantees, recorded October 1, 1985, as
instrument number 85066621 in the official records of the county of
San Joaquin.
(2) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Bradford A. Lange and Susan J.
Lange, his wife, as to an undivided one-half, and Randall W. Lange
and Charlene J. Lange, his wife, as to an undivided one-half
interest, grantees, recorded October 1, 1985, as instrument number
85066623 in the official records of the county of San Joaquin.
(3) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Leo G. Lewis and Vasiliki L.
Lewis, and Billy G. Lewis and Dimetria Lewis, grantees, recorded
October 1, 1985, as instrument number 85066625 in the official
records of the county of San Joaquin.
(4) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Louis J. Bennett, grantees,
recorded October 1, 1985, as instrument number 85066627 in the
official records of the county of San Joaquin.
(5) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Joe Alves Correia and Leontina
Correia, his wife, grantees, recorded September 1, 1970, instrument
number 33915, in book 3428, page 461, of the official records of
the county of San Joaquin.
(6) The conveyance entered into between the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, grantor, and Willard H. Fike, Jr., and
Dorla E. Fike, his wife, grantees, recorded January 7, 1988,
instrument number 88001473 of the official records of the county of
San Joaquin.
(7) The conveyance entered into between Central Pacific
Railway, Grantor, and Nettie M. Murray and Marie M. Hallinan,
Grantees, dated May 31, 1949, recorded June 14, 1949, in volume
1179 at page 394 of the official records of the county of San
Joaquin.
(8) The conveyance entered into between the Central Pacific
Railway Company, a corporation, and its Lessee, Southern Pacific
Company, a corporation, Grantor, and Lodi Winery, Incorporated,
Grantee, dated August 2, 1938, recorded May 23, 1940, in volume
692, page 249, of the official records of the county of San
Joaquin.

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(a) Scope.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed to--
(1) diminish the right-of-way referred to in section 2 to a
width of less than fifty feet on each side of the center of the
main track or tracks maintained by the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company on the date of enactment of this Act; or
(2) legalize, validate, or confirm, with respect to any land
that is the subject of a conveyance referred to in section 3 or 4,
any right or title to, or interest in, such land arising out of
adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not confirmed
by such conveyance.
(b) Minerals.--(1) The United States hereby reserves any federally-
owned minerals that may exist in land that is conveyed pursuant to
section 2 of this Act, including the right of the United States, its
assignees or lessees, to enter upon and utilize as much of the surface
of said land as is necessary to remove minerals under the laws of the
United States.
(2) Any and all minerals reserved by paragraph (1) are hereby
withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, and patent under the
mining, mineral leasing, and geothermal leasing laws of the United
States.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

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To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company.

To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company.

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