The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-30
CHAPTER l6S.
AN ACT in relation to Land Grant
Lands and to provide for record

AN ACT in relation to Land Grant
Lands and to provide for record
title thereto.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Iowa,
That in cases where lands have been
granted to the State of Iowa by act of
Congress, and certified lists of the lands
inuring under the grant have been
made to the State by the Commissioner
the General Land Office, as required
by act of Congress, and such lands have
been granted by act of the General
Assembly to any person or company,
and such person or company shall
have complied with and fulfilled the
conditions of the grant, the Register
of the State Land Office is hereby
authorized to prepare, on the applica-
tionsof the grantee, list or lists of
lands situated in each county inuring
10 such grantee, from the lists certified
by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, as aforesaid, which shall
be signed by the Governor of this State
and attcsted by the Secretary of State,
with the State seal, and then be certi-
fed to by the Register to be true and
correct copies of the lists made to this
State, and deliver them to such grantee,
who is hereby authorized to have them
recorded in the proper county, and
when so recorded they shall be notice
TO all persons the same as deeds now
are, and when so recorded shall vest in
such grantee the right of the State to
the lands therein described, under the
grant of Congress by which the lands
were certified to the State, so far as
the certified lists made BY the Com
missioner aforesaid conferred title to
tale State.
Proridcd, That when the Register
includes lands in the list which were
not intended to be included in the
grant, or the grantee shall not in equity
be cRtitled to the lands or any part
thereof, then no title shall pass by said
list, and the same as to those lands
shall be null and void.
Nor shall any title pass to lands
which have been selected, set apart, or
claimed by the State, or any individual
under the swamp land or any other
grant of Congress, which may be certi-
| fed or adjndged to the State under
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claimed under any homestead or pre-
cmption settlement or other entry Oh
purchase, neither shall the right of the
State to control the lands according te
the terms Of the grants, at any future
time be affected by anything dont
under this act.
| Procidcti, further, That in preparing
the list or lists OF lands under this act
IL shall be the duty Of the Register O
the State Land Office to exclude al
lands selected by the State or All,
county under the swamp land grant
and also excluding all lands claimcs
under tic homestead or prccmptioI
laws of the United States, or whicl
have been sold or disposed or and Iii,
cntr, or prc-cmption cancelled.
II SEC. 3. This act being doomed o
Immediate Importance, by the Genera
i Assembly, shall take effect from On,
after its publication in the Iowa Stat
Register and Leader, papers pnblishe'
at Des Moines, Iowa.
Approved, April 22d, 1872.
hereby certify that the forcgoin
acts was published in the Daily low
& State Leader, April -, and in tn
: Daily Iowa State Register April 9
! 1872.
I'll ED. WRIGHT,
IS Secretary Of State.