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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 15, 1870 · Chapter CCCI

Chapter CCCI. to confirm Title to certain Lands in Illinois

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CHAP. CCCI.— An Act to confirm Title to certain Lands in Illinois.July 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the title of the UnitedTitle of the United States to certain lots, &c. in St. Clair county, Illinois, confirmed to said county. States to all lots, out-lots, tracts, pieces, parcels, and strips of land in St. Clair county, State of Illinois, lying and situate outside of the United States surveys as noted in the field-notes of the United States surveyors, and on the Mississippi river near surveys seven hundred and sixty-six, six hundred and twenty-four, and five hundred and seventy-nine, and near and adjacent to fractional sections one, two, eleven, and twelve,365FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 301, 302, 303, 304. 1870. town[ship] one north, range ten west, third principal meridian, be, and[Amended, 1871, ch. 58. *Post*, p. 416.]Proviso. the same is hereby, confirmed and granted to said St. Clair county, in said State: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall apply to the ancient French commons in said county. Approved, July 15, 1870.
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