REINSTATEMENT OF PURCHASES IN HUTCHINSON COUNTY

Sec. 1. In cases where lands belonging to the Public Free School Funds located in Hutchinson County, Texas, stand forfeited on the records of the General Land Office, and where said forfeitures have been made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office after September 1, 1942, and prior to February 1, 1943, and where such lands have been used or occupied by the original purchaser of said lands from the State of Texas for a continuous period of twenty-seven years or more, the said forfeitures may be set aside and the original purchases re-instated by the said Commissioner upon the payment of all moneys due and owing on such land, including interest and principal; providing that such re-instatement shall not be effective as to any intervening rights of third parties. Sec. 2. In cases where lands belonging to the Public Free School Fund located in Hardeman County stand forfeited on the records of the General Land Office and said forfeitures having been made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office prior to September 25, 1943, and after January 1, 1943, and where the lands have been improved by the present occupant or user to the extent of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars or more, the said forfeitures may be set aside and the original purchases re-instated by the said Commissioner upon payment of all moneys due and owing on such land, including interest and principal; providing that such reinstatement shall not be effective as to any intervening rights of third parties. Sec. 3. If any section, sub-section, clause, sentence, or provision of this Act, for any reason, be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, it shall not affect in any wise the remaining provisions of this Act not so held, and all that portion not so held invalid shall remain in full force and effect; it being the express intention of the Legislature to enact such Act without respect to such section, sub-section, clause, sentence, or provision, or a part thereof, so held to be invalid or unconstitutional.