Chapter CXCI. *to confirm Entries of public Land in certain Cases in the State of Alabama*
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CHAP. CXCI.— An Act *to confirm Entries of public Land in certain Cases in the State of Alabama*. July 1, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain entries of public lands in Alabama confirmed.1854, ch. 244.Vol. x. p. 574. That in cases where entries were made in the State of Alabama under the act of Congress approved the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators,” and the parties in good faith went upon the land embraced in their entries, and became actual settlers and cultivators thereof, according to the requirements of the law, but were afterward forced to abandon their homes on the land, in consequence of the disturbed condition of the country during the late war, their entries shall be confirmed and patented to them, their heirs or assigns, respectively, notwithstanding such abandonment, on satisfactory proof of the facts being produced to the commission-FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 191, 192, 193, 194. 1870.183er of the general land office, within twelve months from the approval of this act: *Provided*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to,Provisos. confirm any entries which have heretofore been annulled and vacated by said commissioner, on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause: *And provided further*, That this act shall not affect the rights of Subsequent purchasers in good faith. Approved, July 1, 1870.