§ 41:96 — Withdrawal from sale or entry of certain lands

The governor shall withdraw from sale or entry any of the vacant and unappropriated public lands belonging to the State of Louisiana, now existing or hereafter acquired by accretion or otherwise, located south of the following lines and described and bounded as follows:
All of that area bounded on the east by the axis of the Mississippi River to the head of the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River bounded on the northwest by a line, commencing at Cubits Gap Lighthouse and running south thirty-five degrees (35°) west (true bearing) through Cubits Gap Lighthouse, latitude 29°11'36.70" north, longitude 89°15'53.75" west; bounded on the northeast by a line beginning on and at the axis of the Mississippi River at a point, north of the head of the passes of the Mississippi River, and at the juncture of the channels of the Mississippi River and Pass A L'Outre, and running along and through the channel of Pass A L'Outre, along and through the channel of the North Pass, north of Pass A L'Outre Lighthouse to deep water in the Gulf of Mexico; and bounded on the south by deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, all as described on the copy of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Chart No. 194, to be identified with this Chapter by the signatures to be thereto affixed, of and by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the president of the Senate and the Governor of the State of Louisiana, and to be filed for future reference in the office of and by the Secretary of State.