Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 41, § 463. Contestant's rights where entries are declared invalid

For a period of sixty days after an entry has been declared invalid and cancelled, the contestant shall have the sole right, exclusive of all other persons, to enter any or all of the lands under any of the laws then in force, in accordance with all the limitations, conditions and requirements of the laws as to quantity, price or acts of settlement and cultivation; provided that none of the provisions of this Part shall apply to any land for which the state has issued or may at the time of filing contest have issued a patent. The practice, forms and modes of proceeding under this Part shall conform so far as consistent herewith, and so far as locally applicable to the established practice, forms and modes of proceeding in like cases now in force in the General Land Office of the United States.