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Public Law 46–105
to construe and define “An act to cede to the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the Virginia military district in said State”, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes.
Approved May 27, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to construe and define “An act to cede to the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the Virginia military district in said State”, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled,
That the act ceding’ to the State of Ohio the lands remaining “unsurveyed and unsold” in the Virginia military district, in tin' State of Ohio, had no reference to lands which were included in any survey or entry within said district founded upon military warrant or warrants upon Continental establishment; and the FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105, 106, 107. 1880. true intent and meaning of said act was to cede to the State of Ohio only such lands as were unappropriated, and not included in any survey or entry within said district, which survey or entry was founded upon military warrant or warrants upon Continental establishment.
Sec. 2.
That all legal surveys returned to the land office on or before
Legal surveys to March 3, 1857, valid.
March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on entries made on or before January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and founded on unsatisfied Virginia military Continental warrants, are hereby declared valid.
Sec. 3.
That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental
Three years to perfect land title allowed.
establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty-lands, which have, on or before January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, been entered within the tract reserved by Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota Rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her officers and soldiers upon Continental establishment, shall be allowed three years from and after the passage of this act to make and return their surveys for record to the office of the principal surveyor of said district, and may file their plats and certificates, warrants,
Patents to he issued.
Exemptions.
or certified copies of warrants, at the General Land Office, and receive patents for the same.
Sec. 4.
This act shall not in any way affect or interfere with the title to any lands sold for a valuable consideration by the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, grantee, under the act of February eighteenth, eighteen
1871, ch. 56,
Stat., 16, 415.
hundred and seventy-one.
Approved, May 27, 1880.