Section 5421j - Grant of Filled In Land to City of Corpus ChristiSec. 1. All right, title and interest of the State of Texas in and to all land within the area hereinafter mentioned, hitherto lying and situated under the waters of Corpus Christi Bay for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) cash, is hereby relinquished, confirmed and granted unto the said City of Corpus Christi, its successors and assigns, for public purposes, to-wit: Being all of that filled-in land lying and being situated in Nueces County, Texas, landward behind the seawall and easterly of the shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay as shown in Survey No. 803 and in the patent from the State of Texas to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, said patent being dated January 4, 1924, and being Patent No. 86, Volume 21-A.
Sec. 2. All exchanges, sales and conveyances hitherto made by the City of Corpus Christi of property within the area described in Section 1 are hereby ratified; and such property is confirmed, relinquished and granted unto the respective assignees of the City of Corpus Christi, and to their heirs, successors, and assigns, without limitation as to the use thereof to be made by them.Sec. 3. All exchanges of property, sales of property and conveyances thereof that may be made in the future by the City of Corpus Christi of property, within the area described in Section 1, that has been laid out and platted into lots, blocks or tracts for uses of private ownership as shown on a plat of the Bay Front Plan of said City of Corpus Christi, on file in the General Land Office of Texas and that may be necessary to adjust the titles and boundaries between the City and other owners are hereby authorized and said City of Corpus Christi is hereby empowered to make such exchanges, sales and conveyances; and all such property as may be so exchanged, sold and conveyed, is hereby confirmed, relinquished and granted unto the respective assigns of the City of Corpus Christi, and to their heirs, successors and assigns forever, without limitation as to use thereof to be made by them.Sec. 4. The consideration for this land shall be paid to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas for the benefit of the Permanent Public Free School Fund; and a patent to said lands shall be issued to the City of Corpus Christi by the Governor and the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas. Upon the payment of the said consideration and the issuance of said patent, the title of the City of Corpus Christi to the said lands shall become absolute, subject to the reservations herein made.Sec. 5. All mines and minerals, and the mineral rights including oil and gas are hereby specially reserved to the State under that part of said area described in Section 1, which has been filled, laid out and constructed for use by the City of Corpus Christi as streets, public drives, parks, boulevards, and seawall, and all minerals and mineral rights under the remainder of said land are hereby relinquished and released unto the City of Corpus Christi and its assigns.Sec. 6. This Act shall be and is cumulative of all former grants and authorities from the State of Texas to the City of Corpus Christi.Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. art. 5421j
Acts 1945, 49th Leg., p. 391, ch. 253.