Chapter 36. Granting to certain claimants the preferential right to purchase certain alleged public lands in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 36.— An Act Granting to certain claimants the preferential right to purchase certain alleged public lands in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes. January 28, 1922. [[H. R. 1318](/us/bill/67/hr/1318).] [[Private, No. 20](/us/pvtl/67/20).] Whereas certain lands in Poinsett County and Mississippi County, inPoinsett and Mississippi Counties, Ark.Preamble. the State of Arkansas, namely, those portions of sections one, two, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, township ten north, range seven east, in Poinsett County, and sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, township ten north, range eight east, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, shown in the official surveys as Tyronza River, Dead Timber Lake, and lake on the official plats of these townships, have been, by Executive order, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry in order to adjust claims of patentees against the United States and among themselves arising from alleged incomplete or erroneous surveys; and Whereas the land office, upon investigation, has found that the greater part of these lands in question have been put in cultivation down to the water’s edge by parties who thought they had title to them and have been paying taxes on many of these lands, and the land office is now making a resurvey, and will replat these areas at the request of said adjacent landowners:
Therefore 1576 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, M. M. Want.Granted preferential right as trustee of owners, etc., to purchase lands. Description. That M. M. Want, as trustee for the owners, their heirs, administrators, or assigns, of lands adjacent to those portions of sections one, two, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, township ten north, range seven east, in Poinsett County and sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, township ten north, range eight east, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, shown in the official surveys as Tyronza River, Dead Timber Lake, and lake on the official plats of these townships, which have been, by Executive order numbered thirty-one hundred and twenty-three issued on July 19, 1919, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry in order to adjust claims of patentees against the United States and among themselves arising from alleged incomplete or erroneous surveys, is hereby granted preferential right at any time within ninety days after the passage of this Act and the filing of the plats of a corrected survey of said lands in the United States land office at Little Rock, Arkansas, to purchase said lands of the United States of America and to pay for the same at the rate of Conveyance to adjacent landowners.$1.25 per acre, and said purchase shall be in trust for said adjacent landowners, and, that upon the issuance of said patents to said trustee, he shall forthwith convey to each of the said adjacent landowners that portion of said lands which may lie adjacent to his lands upon the payment by said party of his proportionate part of said purchase price and entry fees for the same, and in case either of said lakes or said river may be the boundary line between two adjacent owners, then, if they have not otherwise agreed upon a line of division, the center of said lake or river shall be the boundary between said adjacent *Proviso.*Legal rights not affected.landowners: *Provided,* That if any person, in good faith, may have located and settled upon any portion of these lands prior to the Executive order withdrawing said lands from such location and settlement, then nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive said party of any rights he may have gained by said location and settlement.
Approved, January 28, 1922.