Chapter 179. to authorize the Roman Catholic bishops in California to sell certain church lands
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CHAP. 179.— An Act to authorize the Roman Catholic bishops in California to sell certain church lands.June 9, 1880. Whereas certain lands known as the Canada de los Pinos or CollegePreamble. Ranch, situate in Santa Barbara County, State of California, pursuant to the decree of the board of land commissioners appointed under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act to ascertain and settle the private land-claims in the State of California”, were granted by patent of the United States dated February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Roman Catholic bishop of Monterey, in the State of California, and his successors, “in trust for the religious purposes and uses to which the said lands have been respectively appropriated”; the said patent being recorded in the proper office at Washington City, in volume three, pages two hundred and twenty-eight to two hundred and thirty-five, inclusive; and Whereas it is found that said lands are not suitably located for said purposes and uses:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Roman Catholic bishop in California.Authorized to sell trust lands., That the said lands or any part or parts thereof may be sold and conveyed by said grantee or his successors in such trust, discharged of said trust, and that said grantee or his successors shall be bound to apply the proceeds of said college ranch, and of all such sales in such other places as they may deem more suitable for the purposes and uses of said trust, discharged from the obligation, if any, of keeping the seminary college on said ranch, but not from that of keeping one or more seminary colleges in accordance with the object FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. H. On. 170-184. 1880. 553 of the trust: *Provided, however,* That the purchaser or purchasers shall not be responsible for rhe proper application of the purchase-money. Approved, June 9, 1880.