Chapter CCXI. granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton Rouge, on certain conditions
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Chap. CCXI.— An Act granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton Rouge, on certain conditions. May 26, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the right of the United States to a tract of land, of about eight arpens front, on the Mississippi river, be, and theThe right of the U. S. to a tract of land granted to the Parish of West Baton Rouge on condition, &c. same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the parish of West Baton Rouge, within which said land is situated, on condition that said parish shall, at all times, keep, or cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee on said land, in front on the river Mississippi; and if they should at any time hereafter cease to keep, or cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States.
Approved, May 26, 1824. 18 2 1824 1825 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,* 1824, *and ended on the third day of March,* 1825. James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; John Gaillard, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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