Chapter CCV. granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions
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Chap. CCV.— An Act granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions. May 26, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the right of the United States to a tract of A tract of land on the Mississippi river granted to the inhabitants of the Parish of Point Coupee.land, forty arpens front, upon the Mississippi river, and running back the depth of forty arpens, at a remarkable bend on said river, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, within which said land is situated, on condition that said parish shall, at all times, hereafter, keep a good and sufficient levee in front of said land, upon the river Mississippi; and, if they should, at any time hereafter, cease to keep up such good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States.
Approved, May 26, 1824.