Chapter XLVI. *authorizing Floats to issue in Satisfaction of Claims against the United States for Lands sold by them within the Las Ormigas and La Nana Grants, in the State of Louisiana.* March 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act *authorizing Floats to issue in Satisfaction of Claims against the United States for Lands sold by them within the Las Ormigas and La Nana Grants, in the State of Louisiana.* March 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it shall be the duty ofCertificates may be issued to owners of the Las Ormigas and La Nana tracts of land. the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue and deliver to the respective owner or owners of the Las Ormigas and La Nana tracts of land, formerly situate in the parish of Natchitoches, now parishes of Sabine and De Soto, in the State of Louisiana, or to his or their assigns or other legal representatives, certificates or floats, in the usual form, for so much land as may have been at any time heretofore sold, lonated, granted, or reserved by the United States within said tracts of land or either of them; and which certificates or floats may be locatedHow located. by the owner or holder thereof on any lands belonging to the United States, and subject to private entry at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and which certificates or floats shall be in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for lands so sold, donated, granted, or reserved: *Provided*, That as a conditionTitle to be first shown. precedent to the issuing of the floats hereinbefore authorized, the claimant, or claimants, shall present to the Commissioner of the General Land Office satisfactory evidence of title thereto, and that such claimants have been and continue to be loyal to the Government of the United States: *And provided further*, That such certificates and floatsCertificates not to exceed a certain amount. shall not exceed in gross seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven and sixty-two hundredths acres.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That this act shall take effect immediately.When act to take effect. Approved, March 17, 1862.