Chapter 444. in relation to land-patents in the Virginia military district of Ohio
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CHAP. 444.— An Act in relation to land-patents in the Virginia military district of Ohio.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Title to lands i: Virginia military district of Ohio.What shall constitute legal ownership in lands, etc. That any person in the actual open possession of any tract of land in the Virginia military district of the State of Ohio, under claim and color of title made in good faith based upon or deducible from entry of any tract of land within said district founded upon military warrant upon Continental establishment, and a record of which entry was duly made in the office of the principal surveyor of the Virginia military district, either before or since its removal to Chillicothe, Ohio, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, such possession having continued for twenty years last past, under a claim of title on the part of said party either as entryman, or of his or her grantors, or of parties by or under whom such party claims by purchase or inheritance, and they by title based upon or deducible from such entry by tax-sale or otherwise, shall be deemed and held to be the legal owner of such land so included in said entry, to the extent and according to the purport of said entry or of his or her paper titles based thereon or deducible therefrom.
Sec. 2. —That so much of the act approved February eighteenth,16 Stat., 418. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act to cede to the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the Virginia military district in said State,” and of an act approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and 21 Stat., 142.eighty, construing said act of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as conflicts with this act, be, and the same is hereby, Repeal, etc.repealed. Approved, August 7, 1882.