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Act No. 2777 Section 1

Act No. 2777 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. In order to give an opportunity to persons or corporations claiming rights of ownership to parcels of land included within town site reservations, who have for any reason been unable to file such claims in the proper court within the time limit fixed by law, with the result that, on account of the non-presentation of such claims, such parcels have been declared, or are about to be declared, or may be declared, to be public land, by virtue of judicial proceedings instituted during the ten years last preceding the approval of this Act, the said judicial proceedings instituted with regard to such reservations under the provisions of section sixty-two of Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six are hereby declared reopened only in so far as the parcel or parcels of land not alienated or otherwise disposed of by the Government are concerned, so that beginning with the date of the approval of this Act, the proper Court of First Instance shall begin said judicial proceedings de novo as if no action had been taken with regard to the said parcels.

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CitationAct No. 2777 Section 1 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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