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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Aug. 8, 1846 · Chapter CLXXI

Chapter CLXXI. to authorize the constituted Authorities of the County of Polk, in the Territory of Iowa, to enter a Quarter Section of Land for a Seal of Justice

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Chap. CLXXI.— An Act to authorize the constituted Authorities of the County of Polk, in the Territory of Iowa, to enter a Quarter Section of Land for a Seal of Justice. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Authorities of the county of Polk authorized to enter quarter section of land upon which fort Des Moines is situated for a seat of justice. That the constituted authorities of the county of Polk, in the Territory of Iowa, be, and are hereby, authorized to enter, by legal subdivisions, the quarter section of land upon which Fort Des Moines, in the Territory of Iowa, is situated, upon paying to the proper register and receiver therefor one dollar and a quarter per acre: *Provided*, That the seat of justice of said county is located on said tract of land.
Approved, August 8, 1846.
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