§991 Title of Purchasers of Unconfirmed Lands in Arkansas Confirmed

Summary

Confirms that anyone who, on April 29, 1898, had bought unconfirmed swamp land from the State of Arkansas and held deeds has a valid title that cannot be challenged by the United States, and those buyers or their heirs or assigns do not have to pay any money to the United States or to Arkansas for that land. Arkansas gives up to the United States any rights it had in lands confirmed, certified, or patented to the State before April 29, 1898, and also gives up its rights under the Acts of September 28, 1850; March 2, 1855; and March 3, 1857, in lands previously granted or patented by the United States. The people who received those lands, and their heirs or assigns, keep their confirmed titles. The law only took effect after Arkansas approved it in writing or by its legislature and filed that approval with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior within one year of April 29, 1898; because the Arkansas legislature accepted it on March 10, 1897, the law was effective from April 29, 1898.