Chapter 540. Ratifying and confirming the title of the State of Minnesota and its grantees to certain lands patented to it by the United States of America
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CHAP. 540.— An Act Ratifying and confirming the title of the State of Minnesota and its grantees to certain lands patented to it by the United States of America. June 19, 1930.[[S. 4283](/us/bill/71/s/4283).][[Public, No. 393](/us/pl/71/393).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the title of Minnesota.Patents of, to certain lands, confirmed.the State of Minnesota and its grantees and assigns be, and the same hereby is, ratified and confirmed in respect of all lands included within the following-described patents issued by the United States of America to the State of Minnesota, to wit:
Patent numbered 1, 786dated May 14, 1877; patent numbered 3, dated August 5, 1880; patent numbered 4, dated November 20, 1880; patent numbered 5, dated April 13, 1881; patent numbered 6, dated March 27, 1885; patent numbered 7, dated March 10, 1888; patent numbered 28, dated September 20, 1893; patent numbered 41, dated March 15, 1895; patent numbered 59, dated April 30 1896; patent numbered 65, dated September 15, 1896; patent numbered 72, dated January 18, 1897; patent numbered 73, dated February 11, 1807; patent. numbered 77, dated May 6, 1897; patent numbered 82, dated October 20, 1897; patent numbered 84, dated January 15, 1898; patent numbered 92, dated February 21, 1899; patent numbered 95, dated March 15, 1899; patent numbered 106, dated October 23, 1899; patent numbered 110, dated April 20, 1900; patent numbered 126, dated August 26, 1901; patent numbered 127, dated August 28, 1901; patent numbered 139, dated August 17, 1903; patent numbered 163, dated October 14, 1904; patent numbered 167, dated January 12, 1905; patent numbered 169, dated March 27, 1905; patent numbered 170, dated April 8, 1905; patent numbered 174, dated October 17, 1905; patent numbered 176, dated November 23, 1905.
Sec. 2. Waiver of claim by Minnesota to lands, etc., in White Earth Indian Reservation, required. This Act shall take effect and be of force only when and after the State of Minnesota shall by legislative act have waived and relinquished any and all right and claim that it may by virtue of the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 12, 1860 (12 Stat. L. 3), have in or to swamp and overflowed lands lying within the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota which have heretofore been conveyed by the United States by patent in trust or in fee to any Indian whether of full blood or of mixed blood.
Approved, June 19, 1930.