Chapter LXVIII. confirming certain Land Claims in Louisiana, in the Bastrop Grant
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Chap. LXVIII.— An Act confirming certain Land Claims in Louisiana, in the Bastrop Grant. June 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The confirmation of such land claims as in the opinion of the register and receiver at Monroe ought to be confirmed.Act of March 3, 1841, ch. 26. That such of the claims entered in the report dated thirtieth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, of the register and receiver at Monroe, Louisiana, as in their opinion ought to be confirmed, according to the principles recognized in the act of Congress of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, pursuant to which the said report was made, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed for the extent and under the limitations referred to in the opinions of the said officers.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the confirmation by this act300THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Sess. I. Ch. 69, 70. 1854. How far the confirmation extends.shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the right of adverse claimants to the same lands, nor prevent a judicial decision in regard to the same; and upon the rendition to the General Land-Office of a proper plat of survey, duly approved by the Surveyor-General, for any confirmation by this act, the Commissioner When patent to be issued.Proviso.shall cause a patent to be issued, if satisfied that the same is confirmed and surveyed according to the true intent of this act: *Provided*, That if in any case a claim confirmed by this act was not actually located prior to the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, no location of the same shall be made to the prejudice of any actual settler, but such floating claim may be located on any public lands in the Ouachita District, to which there may be no existing preemption or other valid claim, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Approved, June 29, 1854.