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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 30, 1890 · Chapter 1124

Chapter 1124.

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CHAP. 1124.— An act to provide for the disposal of a portion of the United States military reservation at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.September 30, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Baton Rouge, La.Part of reservation in, granted to Saint Joseph’s Church. That whatever title may remain in the United States to a parcel of ground in the United States reservation or garrison grounds in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and heretofore used as a graveyard or burial ground by the Roman Catholic congregation of Saint Joseph’s Church of said city, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, which is not included in any ofDescription. the lots or streets of said city, but lying on North street and between Uncle Sam street and the lot or private property of H.
E. Hansey, measuring two hundred and fourteen and five-tenths feet American measure, on line of said Hansey, running north, by a depth of four hundred and ninety-seven feet, more or less, running east to west line of Uncle Sam street, between parallel lines, and containing about two and forty-five one hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished and granted unto the Roman Catholic congregationGrant. of Saint Joseph’s Church of the city of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the aforesaid congregation, so long as the same shall beLimitations. used for cemetery, purposes, unless hereafter required by the Secretary of War for the use of the United States for military purposes.
Sec. 2. That all laws or part of laws in conflict with the provisionRepeal of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, September 30, 1890. Chapter 1125: to amend chapter sixty-seven, volume twenty-third, of the Statutes at Large of the United States. Chapter 1125 26 Stat. 504 1890-09-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-21 51 1 public 504FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 1125, 1126. 1890.
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