Volume 19
Public Law 44–116
Granting to the State of Missouri all lands therein selected as swamp and overflowed lands.
Approved March 3, 1877
Statutory text
An act
Granting to the State of Missouri all lands therein selected as swamp and overflowed lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all lands in the State of
Swamp and overflowed lands to Missouri.
Missouri selected as swamp and overflowed lands, and regularly reported as such to the General Land Office, and now withheld from market as such, so far as the same remain vacant and unappropriated and not interfered with by any preemption, homestead, or other claim under any law of the United States, and the claim whereto has not been heretofore rejected by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or other competent authority, be, and the same are. hereby, confirmed to said State, and all title thereto vested in said State; and it is hereby
Patents to issue.
made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause patents to issue for the same.
Approved, March 3, 1877.