Chapter 241. To enable certain persons in the State of Mississippi to procure title to public lands
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CHAP. 241.— An Act To enable certain persons in the State of Mississippi to procure title to public lands. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi.Purchasers of swamp lands on grant to Mobile and Ohio Railroad given preference to enter same.That all persons who, prior to January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety five, purchased in good faith from the State of Mississippi any lands within the six miles or granted limits of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and which lands were included in approved swamp land list numbered seven, Augusta series, their heirs or assigns, shall have the preference right for one year from the passage of this Act to enter under the homestead laws of the United States not. exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of the lands so purchased by them from the State of Mississippi and to purchase not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres additional of such lands at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or, if they elect not to avail themselves of the homestead law, to purchase three hundred *Proviso*.Rights of homestead claimants.and twenty acres of such land: *Provided, however*, That this Act shall not affect the rights of homestead claimants who, between the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the twentyseventh day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, made settlements and entries or filed with the local land officers applications to enter in good faith, under the homestead laws, any of the lands included in the provisions of this Act not occupied or actually and substantially improved by such purchasers from the State.
Sec. 2. Purchasers at tax sales.That all persons who have legally purchased any of the lands aforesaid at tax sales shall be considered assigns within the meaning of this Act. Approved, February 17, 1897.