Chapter 757. Granting certain land to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Chap. 757: Granting certain land to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Chapter 757 45 Stat. 751 1928-05-26 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 1 public Chapter 757.— An Act Granting certain land to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
May 26, 1928.[[S. 3620](/us/bill/70/s/3620).][[Public, No. 521](/us/pl/70/521).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there is hereby Baton Rouge, La.Patent to Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church for tract of land in Garrison Grounds at.*Ante,* p 595.granted to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, all the proprietary right, title, and interest of the United States to and in that certain tract of land in the United States Reservation or Garrison Grounds in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, formerly used as a grave yard or burial ground by the congregation of St.
Joseph’s Church of said city in the parish of East Baton Rouge, which is not Description.included in any or the lots or streets of said city, but lies on North Street and between Uncle Sam Street and the lot of the private property of H. E. Hausey, measuring two hundred and fourteen and five-tenths American measure, on line of said Hausey, running north by a depth of four hundred and ninety-seven feet, more or less, running east to the west line of Uncle Sam Street between parallel lines, and containing approximately two and forty-five one-hundredths acres, as described in the Act entitled “An Act to provide Vol. 26, p. 503.for the disposal of a portion of the United States Military Reservation at Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” approved September 30, 1890; and the Secretary of the Interior, after such survey as he may deem necessary, shall, as a further evidence of title, direct the issuance of a patent in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 2. That the provisions “unless hereafter required by the Secretary Former reservation for military purposes repealed.Vol. 26, p. 503, repealed.of War for the use of the United States for military purposes” be, and it is hereby, stricken from the Act of September 30, 1890 (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page 503), and any implied conditions of reversion of title to the Government of the United States contained in said Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed, it being the purpose and intent of this Act to grant to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Complete title to the church.Roman Catholic Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, free from restriction, reservation, or condition, full and complete title in and to the lands described in section 1 hereof.
Approved, May 26, 1928.
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