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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · Feb. 18, 1871 · Chapter LVI

Chapter LVI. *to cede to the State of Ohio the unsold Lands in the Virginia military District in said State*

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CHAP. LVI.— An Act *to cede to the State of Ohio the unsold Lands in the Virginia military District in said State*. Feb. 18, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Unsold lands in the Virginia military district in Ohio, ceded to Ohio.Conditions. That the lands remaining unsurveyed and unsold in the Virginia military district in the State of Ohio be, and the same are hereby, ceded to the State of Ohio, upon the conditions following, to wit:
Any person who, at the time of the passage of this act, is a bona fide settler on any portion of said land may hold not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres so by him occupied by his pre-empting the same in such manner as the legislature of the State of Ohio may direct. Approved, February 18, 1871.
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