Chapter CDXXI. to extend the Provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the final Adjustment of private Land-claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other Purposes.”June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble
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CHAP. CDXXI.— An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the final Adjustment of private Land-claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other Purposes.”June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of the actProvisions of act for adjusting private land-claims in Florida, &c., extended for three years. entitled “An act for the final adjustment of private land-claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, be, and the same are hereby, extended, and the same shall continue in force for a period of three years from and after the passage of this act. 379 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 421, 422. 1872. Sec. 2. That all persons claiming land as specified in the first sectionClaimants, if possession has been continuous since, &c., to have their claims confirmed. of said act may have their claims confirmed, in accordance with the forms and in the manner prescribed in said act, in all cases where it shall be satisfactorily proved that the claimants, and those from whom they derive title, have held continuous possession of the land claimed, from the date of the cession to the United States of the territory out of which the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri were formed.
Approved, June 10, 1872.