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Volume 21

Public Law 46–68

donating certain lands in Lake County, State of Colorado, to the Veteran Union Association of Leadville, for hospital and burial purposes.

Approved February 23, 1881

Statutory text

An Act

donating certain lands in Lake County, State of Colorado, to the Veteran Union Association of Leadville, for hospital and burial purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the following-described tract of land, situated in Lake County and State of Colorado, be donated to the Veteran Union Association of Leadville, its successors and assigns, in said State, for the use and purpose of locating thereon a hospital and cemetery, to wit: the north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three, township number nine south, of range eighty west, excepting, however, from said tract that part included in the United States survey number two hundred and seventy-one; and also donating for the said uses and purposes to said association the south half of the northwest quarter in the section, township, and range aforesaid. Said land is hereby donated upon-the express condition that it shall be used exclusively for such hospital and burial purposes; and should there be a failure to comply with the conditions herein

Forfeiture.

expressed for two years from the passage of this act, or should said lands ever cease to be used for said purposes, then said land shall revert to the Government of the United States.

Approved, February 23, 1881.

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