Chapter 1485. To quiet certain land titles in the State of Mississippi
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CHAP. 1485.— An Act To quiet certain land titles in the State of Mississippi. March 3, 1905. [[S. 1344](/us/bill/58/s/1344).] [[Public, No. 218](/us/pl/58/218).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi.Sales of public lands under swamp-land act validated. That in all cases in which lands in the State of Mississippi have heretofore been sold by authority of the State of Mississippi, or by claim of authority of the State Vol. 9, p. 520.of Mississippi, and the right to make such sales was claimed to be by virtue of an Act of Congress approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled “An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the ‘swamp lands’ within their limits,” the said lands so sold as aforesaid shall be held to be of the class and kind mentioned in said Act of Congress, and said sales are hereby ratified and confirmed, and the titles to said lands are hereby validated and vested in the purchasers, respectively, thereof, as of the date of said sales in all respects as if title of the United States had *Proviso*.Titles not affected.passed by such sales: *Provided,* That no valid title or valid claim under the public land laws of the United States heretofore acquired and now existing to any of said lands shall be affected by this Act.
Sec. 2. Descent of title. That where any of said purchasers has conveyed any of the land as purchased by him or her, his or her vendee or subvendee shall be vested with title as if the title of such purchaser had been perfect by such original purchase. Sec. 3. Counties excepted. That shall not apply to the counties now composing the Third Congressional district, to wit: Tunica, Quitman, Coahoma Bolivar, Sunflower, Leflore, Holmes, Washington, Sharkey and Issaquena. 1259 Sec. 4.
That this Act take effect and be in force from and after theEffect. date of its approval. Approved, March 3, 1905.