Chapter CXLIV. *concerning Lands in the State of California.* June 20, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, under the patent of theThe land in Santa Barbara County, California, known as College Rancho, &c., may be sold, and pr
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act *concerning Lands in the State of California.* June 20, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, under the patent of theThe land in Santa Barbara County, California, known as College Rancho, &c., may be sold, and proceeds applied in what manner. United States, issued on the 28th day of February, 1861, to Joseph S. Alemany, as the bishop of Monterey, and his successors, for the tract of land or rancho known as Canada de los Pinos, or College Rancho, situate in the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, as described in such patent, to have and to hold the same to him and them “in trust for the religious purposes and uses” therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the said Joseph S.
Alemany and his successors, as the grantees of said patent, to sell the said tract or rancho, or any part thereof, and all proper convey-144THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 144, 145. 1864.ances in that behalf to make and deliver, and the proceeds thereof to apply, under the direction of the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, in the State of California, and his successors in office, or other proper authority of the Roman Catholic church in said state, for the purposes of education anywhere within said state, not inconsistent with the laws thereof; anything in such patent, or in the original grant or concession of said tract or rancho, or other title whereby the same was acquired from and under the authorities of Spain or Mexico, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all trusts, conditions, provisions, orcovenants, precedent or subsequent, expressed or implied, in said patent, grant, concession, Breaches of conditions, &c., waived by the United States.or title, to the contrary hereof, and all breaches of the same, are hereby wholly waived, abrogated, discharged, dispensed with, and released on the part of the United States, for the purposes of this act; and any conveyance or disposition made in pursuance thereof shall operate to pass all the right and interest of the United States in said lands to the grantee.
Approved, June 20, 1864.