Chapter C. to confirm the Title of William M
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CHAP. C.— An Act to confirm the Title of William M. Garvey to a certain Tract of Land.May 11, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the title of William M.Land title of William M. Garvey confirmed. Garvey to the east half of the northeast quarter of section eighteen, township sixty-nine north, range twenty-six west, in the district of lands subject to sale at Des Moines, in the State of Iowa, containing eighty acres, be, and is hereby, confirmed, and that the State of Iowa is hereby authorized to select in lieu of said tract an equal amount of land from the unsold public lands within the limits of said State, subject to sale at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: *Provided,* that the State ofProviso.1857, ch. 117.Vol. xi. p. 251.
Iowa, through her constituted authorities, shall first relinquish to the United States all right, title, or interest acquired by said State by virtue of the act of Congress of March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,1850, ch. 84.Vol. ix. p. 519.1849, ch. 87.Vol. ix. p. 352. entitled “An act to confirm to the several States the swamp and overflowed lands selected under the act of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the act of the second March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.
” Approved, May 11, 1870.