Chapter CCLXVI. to declare forfeited to the United States certain Lands granted to the State of Louisiana to aid in constructing a Railroad therein
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CHAP. CCLXVI.— An Act to declare forfeited to the United States certain Lands granted to the State of Louisiana to aid in constructing a Railroad therein.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all the lands which wereCertain lands granted to Louisiana in aid, &c. declared forfeited to the United States.1856, ch. 42.Vol. xi. p. 18. granted by Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to the State of Louisiana, to aid in the construction of the New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad, and which have not been lawfully disposed of by the said State under said grant, which has expired by limitation, or by act of Congress since the original grant, are hereby declared forfeited to the United States, and these lands shall hereafter be disposed of as other public lands of the United States.
Approved, July 14, 1870.