Chapter 210. Granting title to a parcel of land in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, to the archbishop of Dubuque and his successors in office, and Confirmingand establishing title thereto accordingly
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CHAP. 210.— An Act Granting title to a parcel of land in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, to the archbishop of Dubuque and his successors in office, and Confirmingand establishing title thereto accordingly. May 28, 1908.[[S, 6363.]](/us/bill/70/s/6363)[[Public, No. 150.]](/us/pl/70/150) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United* *States of America in Congress assembled*, That all that tract or parcelDubuque, Iowa.Title to Saint Raphael’s Cemetery in granted to archbishop of.Description.*Post*, p. 469. of land in the city of Dubuque heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, and described as follows:
“A tract of land three hundred and eighty-two feet in width and four hundred and five feet in length, bounded on the north by Third street, on the south by outlots six hundred and ninety-eight and six hundred and ninety-three A, on the east by outlot six hundred and ninety-three, and on the west by out-lot seven hundred and twenty-three,” the same being the identical property which was in use as a Catholic cemetery in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and having been in the open, continuous, and uninterrupted possession of the Catholic Church of Dubuque from said date until the present time, the title of the church to the same having never been contested nor questioned, and the boundaries of the property to day being identical with those described in the original plat of Dubuque, is hereby granted to the Most Reverend John J.
Keane as archbishop of Dubuque, and to his successors in office, and the title thereto is confirmed and established accordingly. Approved, May 28, 1908.