Chapter 88. Granting school lands to the State of Louisiana
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CHAP. 88.— An Act Granting school lands to the State of Louisiana.April 23, 1912.[[S. 5059](/us/bill/62/s/5059).][[Public, No. 130](/us/pl/62/130).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.School sections of unsurveyed swamp lands granted to Louisiana. That all the unsurveyed lands in the State of Louisiana which are shown by official protraction of the Government surveys heretofore made to be embraced within sections numbered sixteen and which lie in the same township as lands Vol. 9, p. 352.which have been certified or patented in that State under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled “An Act to aid the State of Louisiana in draining swamp lands therein,” Vol. 9, p. 519.and the Act approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled “An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim swamp lands within their limits,” be, and the same are hereby, fixed, reserved, and confirmed to that State for the benefit of public schools as though the official surveys had been regularly extended over such townships.
Approved, April 23, 1912.