Sales of certain Louisiana sixteenth section lands made before January 1, 1860 are ratified and confirmed if the specified records show the sale, payment to the state treasury, and tax payment.
§1323.5. Sales of irregular and fractional sixteenth section lands made prior to 1860 A. Sales of irregular and fractional sixteenth section lands in the state of Louisiana made prior to the first day of January, 1860, are hereby ratified and confirmed. Notwithstanding any informalities in these sales relating to the holding of elections to authorize said sales, appraisements, and offering the said lands in lots of forty acres, whether or not the sales were made by the treasurer of the parish in which any such sixteenth section was located, or made by the treasurer of any other parish, or whether selected under a warrant sold by the register of the land office and/or treasurer and receiver of the land office of the state of Louisiana, where the following conditions are met: (1) It is affirmatively shown by the records of the offices of legislative auditor, superintendent of education, register of the state land office, or state treasurer, or their predecessors or successors, that such lands were sold whether or not the execution of a deed therefor can be proved. (2) It is affirmatively shown by the records of the state land office, auditor, superintendent of education or state treasurer that the purchase price of the lands has actually been paid into the State Treasury of Louisiana. (3) The records reflect that the purchasers of such lands or their successors in title, have paid the taxes assessed against the property. B. All defects and informalities in such sales are hereby ratified as the complete divestiture of title from the state of Louisiana, or of the school board of the parish in which the land is located. Added by Acts 1978, No. 463, §1.