Chapter 201.
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CHAP. 201.— An act granting the title of the United States in certain lands to the county of Randolph and State of Illinois, on certain conditions.February 23, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Randolph County. Ill. Public lands granted to. That all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all lands in the Mississippi bottom, between the line of bluffs and the Mississippi River, in the county of Randolph and State of Illinois, be, and the same are *Provisos*.hereby, granted to the said county of Randolph: *Provided*, That the legal authorities of said county, on the discovery of any such Survey.lands within said boundaries, shall have the same surveyed at the expense of said county, and file plats of said surveys with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, at Washington, District of Columbia.
If, upon examination by said Commissioner, it shall appear that the title of the United States has not heretofore been alienated in any tract shown on said plat or plats, he shall so notify Purchase.the authorities of said county; and upon payment by the authorities of said county into the Treasury of the United States of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents for every acre shown on said plat or plats, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner of the General Patents.Land Office to prepare and have executed patents for every tract so paid for, and to deliver the same on application to the legal Private rights not affected.authorities of said county: *Provided further*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to include any accretions formed to lands bordering on the Mississippi River and owned by private individuals.
Approved, February 23, 1889.