New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-10
IMroRTANr LAND DECISION,
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/ Secretary of the Interior to the effect that Lot
No.16, surveyed in accordance with the I'd section
: Of the Act Of Congress Of March Sd, 1871 are moi
i school lands unless they have been selected ant
Y approved as part of the indemnity granted by the
i Act of May 10th, 1926.
i As the Secretary's ruling affects landed interests
4 of great value, and overturns the practice of the
General Land Office for more than thry years, the
decision must excite the attention Of all interested
in Louisiana lands. 1t will be perceived that the
: Secretary goes to the bottom of the subject, and
: treats il with his usual ability:
S z.4= 5r-- Washington July 23 1850. !
/; Su-The appeal of Noel Haydell from your de-
! cision cancelng his preempton entry, has been
/, considered. Itappears that Haydel was permitted
to enter Lot 16 in town Is S. R. 49, e. in the New
/ Orleans District, La on the 4th June, 1886, per
Certificate No. 721, under the act supplementary
to /" An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the
! State of Louisiana to enter the back lands.
On the I'd February, 1858, your office cancelled
the entry, for the that the tract was school
land
: The preemptor has never applied for the repay
ment of the purchase money, and he now claims
that the cancellation OF his entry be rescinded and
the entry carried into patent
The only question involved in the case is this /:
Do the acts of Congress reserving sections mum
bered sixteen, in the State of Louisiana for the
of schools, embrace lots numbered sixteen in those
townships in which that system Of peculiar sur
veys, prescribed by the second section Of the act
of Congress of the Sd March, 1911, has been ap-
piled.
In order to arrive at just conclusion it is neces.
sary to refer to those acts they stand connected
with each other and with other laws in relation to
school lands. 5.a@~M @.o. ~.
By the seventh section of the act of Congress of
f.. March 3D. 1906, it was made the duty of the Sur
veyor of lands, south Of Tennessee, to cause such
lands in the Territory Of Orleans to be surveyed
and divided as the President should direct, in the
same manner, and under the same regulations as
is provided inrelation to lands of the United States
n Northwest of the river 0ho,, etc. 1
By the 1lth section Of the act of April 81, 1906.
the President was authorized to cause the public
lands in the Western district of the territory Of
Orleans to be sold, with the exception of the section
number SIXTEEN which shall be reserved in each
township for the support of schools therein;'' and
by the 4h section Of the act Of March 8, 1871 the
provisions of the 1lth section of the act of 1906
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