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 SHEEMAN V. SAVERY. 50& �amount upon any of the public lands subject to entry, at one dollar and a quarter per acre or less, and patents shall issue therefor, upon the terms and conditions enumerated in the act aforesaid of March 2, 1855, provided that the said decis- ions of the commissioner of the general land office shall be approved by the secretary of the interior ; �"And, whereas, a special certificate, dated March 1, 1867, ■was issued by the commissioner of the general land office, authorizing the state of lowa to locate the quantity of 30,- 057.54 acres as indemnity contemplated by the second section of the aforesaid act of the second of March, 1855, for swamp and overflowed lands in Cerro Gordo county, entered of the United States by location of military bounty land warrants, and the said certificate having been returned to the general land office, accompanied by a list showing the selections in satisfaction thereof of the lands hereinafter described, situ- ated in the Sioux City land district ; �"And, whereas, the said land hereinafter described bas been approved and patented by the United States, in pursu- ance of the acts of congress aforesaid, to the state of lowa, to-wit : [Here foUows description of the land in controversy] according to the officiai plats of the survey of said lands : �"Now, therefore, know ye that the state of lowa, in con- sideration of the premises, and in conformity with the act of the general assembly aforesaid, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant, unto the said county of Cerro Gordo, in fee-simple, to be disposed of according to the several acts of the general assembly relating thereto, the tracts of land above described. �"To have and to hold the same, together with ail the rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances thereunto belong- ing, unto the said county of Cerro Gordo, in fee-simple, and to its assigns forever. �"In testimony whereof, I, Samuel Merrill, governor of the state of lowa, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the great seal of the state of lowa to be hereunto affixed. �"Given under my hand at Des Moines, the thirteenth day of March, in the year of onr Lord one thousand eight huu- ����