Chapter 383. To authorize the assessment of levee, road, drainage, and other improvement-district benefits against certain lands, and for other purposes
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Chap. 383: To authorize the assessment of levee, road, drainage, and other improvement-district benefits against certain lands, and for other purposes. Chapter 383 45 Stat. 1410 1929-02-28 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 383.— An Act To authorize the assessment of levee, road, drainage, and other improvement-district benefits against certain lands, and for other purposes.
February 28, 1929.[[H. R. 10657](/us/bill/70/hr/10657).][[Public, No. 860](/us/pl/70/860).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the consent Saint Francis Levee district, Ark.Consent given to assessments of benefits to local districts.of the Government of the United States to the levy of special assessments, based upon benefits estimated to be derived from local levee and drainage districts within the boundaries of the Saint Francis 1411Levee district of Arkansas, within the State of Arkansas, is hereby expressed and given.
The laws of the State of Arkansas levying State laws applicable.said special assessments and providing for the enforcement of such levy and the establishment of a lien and of all remedies pertaining thereto are expressly made applicable to the lands described in this Act: *Provided,* That no levy, assessment, or collection of any special *Proviso.*Not applicable to Government lands, etc.assessment shall attach or be applicable to any lands of the United States, nor permit the collection of any special assessment for such tax from the United States Government, nor from any entryman or person as to any such lands until the date when the entryman or purchaser shall become entitled to a patent from the United States for such land.
Such levy, special assessment, or tax shall not operate against the Government of the United States, and shall only operate arid take effect and be in force when and if the equitable title to any particular tract of land involved shall have passed from the United States to such entryman or purchaser, and such entryman or purchaser shall have become entitled to patent therefor. Sec. 2. That all the Acts, levies, assessments, and proceedings in Acts, etc., in accordance with Arkansas laws, confirmed, etc.substantial accordance with the laws of Arkansas, and all levies and assessments of benefits against lands, the equitable title to which had passed as provided in section 1 of this Act, are hereby cured and confirmed, and the same shall not be set aside, vacated, or annulled by any court for want of jurisdiction or any irregularity in the proceedings based upon the want of authority now conferred by this Act.
Sec. 3. That this Act shall be available to the Saint Francis Levee Consent of the Government to the special assessments fixed by State laws and this Act.district of Arkansas, and to any drainage district within the boundaries of the Saint Francis Levee district heretofore or hereafter created, as expressing the consent of the Government to the special assessments fixed substantially in accordance with the laws of Arkansas and this Act. Sec. 4. That in all cases where there has been a foreclosure of the Lands purchased by districts under foreclosure of liens, to be patented thereto on payment for, etc.liens of any improvement district and said lands have been purchased by the said districts, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon proof of such sale and purchase and upon the payment of the sum of $5 per acre, together with the usual fees and commissions charged entry of lands under the homestead laws, where such payment has not heretofore been made, to execute to said district or districts a patent to said lands; and in all cases of future foreclosures and purchases by said districts it shall be the Similar action for lands in Mississippi and Poinsett Counties on exemption of redemption periods.duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the payment of a like sum and proof of the foreclosure and purchase by the said districts, to execute to them patents for the lands so purchased upon the expiration of the period of redemption in the areas Vol. 41, p. 392.in Mississippi and Poinsett Counties described in the Act of January 17, 1920.
Sec. 5. If any portion of this Act be held unconstitutional, such Invalidity of any portion not to affect remainder of Act.Effective forthwith and conflicting laws repealed.decision shall not affect the remaining provisions of the Act. Sec. 6. This Act shall repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith and shall take effect forthwith. Approved, February 28, 1929.
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