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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Dec. 22, 1854 · Chapter X

Chapter X. *to authorise the issue of Patents to Lands in any State or Territory, in certain Cases.* Dec. 22, 1854. 1854, ch. 201. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in case of any claim to land in any State or Territory which

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Chap. X.— An Act *to authorise the issue of Patents to Lands in any State or Territory, in certain Cases.* Dec. 22, 1854. 1854, ch. 201. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in case of any claim to land in any State or Territory which has heretofore been confirmed by law, and in which no provision is made by the confirmatory statute for Patents to issue for all lands heretofore granted.the issue of patents, it shall and may be lawful, where surveys for the land have been or may hereafter be made, to issue patents for the claims to confirmed, upon the presentation to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office of plats of survey thereof, duly approved by the surveyor-general of any State or Territory, if the same be found correct by the said commissioner: *Provided,* That such patents shall only operate as a Effect of the patent.relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall in no manner interfere with any valid adverse right, if such exist, to the same land, nor be construed to preclude a legal investigation and decision by the proper judicial tribunal between adverse claimants to the same land.
Approved, December 22, 1854.
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