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Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected filed notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board; providing that said resurveys shall not shift the lines of any survey where the lines of said surveys have been fixed by a court decree or by contract in writing between the parties; providing that deeds of acquittance so issued shall inure to the benefit of all holders of a portion of a survey, and that said deeds of acquittance shall not disturb the divisional or partitioning lines of surveys where said surveys are divided into smaller tracts.