Chapter CLXI. confirming a Land Claim in the State of Iowa, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CLXI.— An Act confirming a Land Claim in the State of Iowa, and for other Purposes. July 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the grant of lands to theFormer grant of lands to Iowa extended.1846, ch. 103.Vol. ix. p. 77. then Territory of Iowa for the improvement of the Des Moines River, made by the act of August eight, eighteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby extended so as to include the alternate sections (designated by odd numbers) lying within five miles of said river, between the Raccoon fork and the northern boundary of said State; such lands are to be held andLands how to be held. applied in accordance with the provisions of the original grant, except that the consent of Congress is hereby given to the application of a portion thereof to aid in the construction of the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines, and Minnesota railroad, in accordance with the provisions of the act of the general assembly of the State of Iowa, approved March twenty-two, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
And if any of said lands shall haveIf any lands have been disposed of, equivalent lands to be given. been sold or otherwise disposed of by the United States before the passage of this act, excepting those released by the United States to the grantees of the State of Iowa under the joint resolution of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to set apart an equal amount of lands within said State to be certified in lieu thereof: *Provided,* That if the said State shall have sold and conveyedProviso. any portion of the lands lying within the limits of this grant the title of which has proved invalid, any lands which shall be certified to said State in lieu thereof by virtue of the provisions of this act shall inure to, and be held as a trust fund for the benefit of, the person or persons respectively whose titles shall have failed as aforesaid.
Approved, July 12, 1862.