Chapter 403. To grant and confirm to the State of Florida title in and to sections sixteen within the exterior limits of the area patented to the State of Florida April 23, 1903, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 403.— An Act To grant and confirm to the State of Florida title in and to sections sixteen within the exterior limits of the area patented to the State of Florida April 23, 1903, and for other purposes. September 22, 1922.[[S. 3641](/us/bill/67/s/3641).][[Public, No. 338](/us/67/pl/338).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the unsurveyedFlorida.Unsurveyed public lands in school sections of swamp lands conveyed to, for public schools. sections sixteen within the exterior limits of the area patented to the State of Florida April 23, 1903, under the provisions of the Act of September 28, 1850, Ninth Statutes at Large, page 519, embracing the so-called Everglades, not mineral in character, and not occupied on May 27, 1922, by bona fide settlers under the homestead law, be, and the same are hereby, reserved, granted, and confirmed to the State of Florida for the benefit of public schools as though the official surveys had been extended over such lands.
Approved, September 22, 1922.