This text of Louisiana § 41:1323.1 (Sixteenth section sales made prior to 1930; Act of 1946) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Louisiana primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
A. Sales of the sixteenth section school lands in the state of Louisiana made prior to the first day of January, 1930, are hereby ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any informalities in the said sales relative to holding elections to authorize said sales, appraisements, and offering the said lands in lots of forty acres, regardless of whether any such sale was made by the treasurer of the parish in which any such sixteenth section was located or made by the treasurer of any other parish, where either of the following conditions are met:
(1)It is affirmatively shown by the records of the offices of Auditor, or superintendent of education, or Register of the State Land Office, or their successors, that such lands were offered for sale and sold, whether the execution of a deed therefor
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A. Sales of the sixteenth section school lands in the state of Louisiana made prior to the first day of January, 1930, are hereby ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any informalities in the said sales relative to holding elections to authorize said sales, appraisements, and offering the said lands in lots of forty acres, regardless of whether any such sale was made by the treasurer of the parish in which any such sixteenth section was located or made by the treasurer of any other parish, where either of the following conditions are met:
(1) It is affirmatively shown by the records of the offices of Auditor, or superintendent of education, or Register of the State Land Office, or their successors, that such lands were offered for sale and sold, whether the execution of a deed therefor can be proved or not.
(2) The conveyance and mortgage records of that parish show no evidence that the lands are claimed by the school board and that school board has filed an affidavit stating that it only claims lands shown in the affidavit and said lands not stated in the affidavit shall be declared to have been offered for sale and sold by the school board and such sale shall be ratified and confirmed, whether the execution of a deed or an actual transfer can be proved or not.
B. All defects and informalities in such sales, subject to the above conditions are hereby cured and such sales are hereby ratified as the complete divestiture of title from the state of Louisiana.