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Public Law 50–816
to cancel certain reservations of lands, on account of live-oak, in the southwestern land-district of the State of Louisiana.
Approved August 9, 1888
Statutory text
An act
to cancel certain reservations of lands, on account of live-oak, in the southwestern land-district of the State of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the reservation set apart by order of the President, October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-five, in the southwestern land-district of the State of Louisiana, known as Pecan Island, within the following townships to wit: Number fifteen south, range one west; number fifteen south, range two west; number sixteen south, range one west: number fifteen south, range one east; number sixteen south, range one east, on account of the live-oak supposed to grow
Proviso.
Bona fide settlers.
thereon, be, and are hereby, canceled and annulled: Provided, That all persons who have in good faith settled upon and made improvements upon Pecan Island, within FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 816–818. 1888. the limits of the said townships, at the time of the passage of this act, and who occupy the same, shall he entitled to enter the same, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres each, under the provisions of the homestead laws, except section twenty-three hundred and one
R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421.
of the Revised Statutes, and be admitted to make their proofs and complete their titles in the same manner as if the said reservations for live-oak had not been made.
Approved, August 9, 1888.