Chapter CXXIX. *confirming the Title to certain Lands*
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CHAP. CXXIX.— An Act *confirming the Title to certain Lands*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*, Title to certain lands certified to Iowa confirmed. That the title to the land certified to the State of Iowa by the commissioner of the general land office of the United States, under an act of Congress entitled “An act confirming a land claim in the State of Iowa, and for other purposes,” approved 1862, ch. 161.
Vol. xii. p. 643.July twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in accordance with the adjustment made by the authorized agent of the State of Iowa and the commissioner of the general land office, on the twenty-first day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on the twenty-second day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which adjustment was ratified and confirmed by act of the general assembly of the State of Iowa, approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed to the State Iowa and its grantees in accordance with said adjustment and said act of the general assembly Existing legal rights, &c. not affected.of the State of Iowa: *Provided*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect adversely any existing legal rights or the rights ofFORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 129–132. 1871.583 any party claiming title or the right to acquire title to any part of said lands under the provisions of the so-called homestead or pre-empted laws of the United States, or claiming any part thereof as swamp lands. Approved, March 3, 1871.