Chapter 3. January 25, 1890
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CHAP. 3.— An Act January 25, 1890. Preamble.Vol. 17, p. 140,Whereas, at the second session of the Forty-second Congress an act approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (seventeenth Statutes at large, page one hundred and forty), entitled “An act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain lands in Colorado for a cemetery,” erroneously describes a tract of land as the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one, and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section two. township four south, range sixty-eight west, sixth principal meridian; and Whereas the said city of Denver has paid for and received a patent for the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two, township four south, range sixty-eight west, sixth principal meridian, which latter description is correct, and in accordance with the land actually occupied by the said city of Denver for a cemetery:
Now therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Denver, Colo., That an act Description of lands ceded to, for cemetery. corrected.entitled “An act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain lands in Colorado for a cemetery.” approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be. and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Strike out the words “the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter” and insert in lieu thereof the words “the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter,” so that the description of the said land in the said act shall read:
" “The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two, township four south, range sixty-eight west, of the sixth principal meridian.” " Section 2. Patent legalized. That the United States patent issued November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, conveying the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section one and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section two and the north half of the southeast quarter of section two in township numbered four south, of range sixty-eight west, of the sixth principal meridian, in the Teritory of Colorado, to Joseph E.
Bates, mayor of the city of Denver, and to his successors and assigns forever, be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed. That the said city of Denver be. and it is hereby, authorized to vacate the use of the said land, or any portion thereof, as a cemetery, and to appropriate and use the Park authorized.same or any part thereof for a public park or grounds. Approved, January 25, 1890.