Chapter XVII. *to quiet the Title to certain Lands in the State of Missouri*
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CHAP. XVII.— An Act *to quiet the Title to certain Lands in the State of Missouri*. Dec. 27, 1872. Preamble.1850, ch. 84.Vol. ix. p. 519.Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States, approved on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, the State of Missouri, with other States, acquired title to all swamp and overflowed lands within their limits; that the State of Missouri, by an act of its general assembly, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, passed the title thus acquired to the several counties in which said lands were situated, for the purchase and to the end that the same should be drained and reclaimed as provided by said act of Congress; and that after the donation as aforesaid a commissioner was appointed, charged with the duty to select and locate such swamp-lands, who did make such selections and locations in said county of Scott, and State of Missouri, making due report of the same, which report was, by proper authority, approved, and the lands so located patented by the government of the United States to the State of Missouri, and, on the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, by said State to said county of Scott: and whereas said commissioner, in his report,FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 18. 1873.405 described other lands situated in said county as unsurveyed swamp-lands, and that in the year eighteen hundred and sixty said lands were ordered to be surveyed by the general government, which survey was approved by the surveyor general of Missouri on the second day of July, eighteen bundled and sixty-one, and that by act of Congress approved March the1860, ch. 5, § 2.Vol. xii. p. 3. twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty, said county was given two years in which to present its claim and make proof to its title to said lands, which could not be done, owing to the existence of civil war then afflicting the people of said county: and whereas said county, believing further time would be given to make said claim and proof, did sell to actual settlers the greater portion of said lands, which purchasers, relying on said title, have made, in many instances, permanent and valuable improvements:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain swamp, &c. lands granted to Scott county, Missouri. That the lands above referred to be, and the same are hereby, granted to the county of Scott, in the State of Missouri, which lands, in the aggregate, amount to four thousand four hundred and ten and seventy-one hundredths acres, and described as follows: Parts of sections one, two, three, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, and twenty-five, all in township number twenty-seven, range twelve: *Provided*, That nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any homesteadExisting rights not affected. or other entry made, by any person whatsoever, under the laws of the United States on said lands.
Approved, December 27, 1872.