...which reads as follows: "Be it enacted," etc., "that, to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of thoseswamp lands and overflowed lands, mnde> unfit thereby for cultivation, which...

...enable the several States (but not including the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada) to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein — the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, and remaining...

...the United States of America in Congress assembled, that to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall...

...March, 1855; the confirmatory and indemnity act of 3d March, 1857, and the act of 12th March, I860, restricting swamp selections to lands not sold or...cultivation. It contemplates a careful examination of such lauds to determine their true character, and provides for the certification of those lauds by lists...

...ceded to the state of Florida and to other states the bulk of the swamp lands with a view to the states constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands within their borders. Among other things, the act provided that the fee-simple title to said lands...

...act of March 2, 1849 (9 Stat. 352), provides in part as follows: "That to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, which may be or are found unflt for cultivation,...

...original Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act was passed in 1849 specifically "to aid the state of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands..." (Wright 1907:5). Similarly, throughout the later 1800's Florida contracted with numerous companies...

...Granting Drainage Lands to the State of Louisiana," which provided as follows:"6 "To aid [Louisiana] in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, which may be or are found unfit for cultivation,...

...Louisiana most "swamp and overflowed lands . . . unfit for cultivation" within its borders, in order "to aid the State ... in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim" them.59 Whig President Millard Fillmore did the same for other states in 1 85060 — the same year...

...up to 30th September, 1861, under Mexican bounty land act of 1847, and the other acts of 1850, 1852, 1855 51,138,970 " Total 64,262,452 SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED...character, and provides for the certification of those lands by lists approved by the Secretar}-. Such lists convey the title and become equivalent to a patent,...