Chapter CXLIX. to Appropriate Lands for the Support of Schools in certain Townships and fractional Townships in the Territory of Minnesota, not before provided for
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Chap. CXLIX.— An Act to Appropriate Lands for the Support of Schools in certain Townships and fractional Townships in the Territory of Minnesota, not before provided for. March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, That in those townships andSchool lands in Minnesota. fractional townships in the Territory of Minnesota where sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six, or either of them, directed to be reserved for school purposes by the eighteenth section of the act approved third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled “An act1849, ch. 121. to establish the Territorial Government of Minnesota,” shall be found fractional in quantity, and in those or fractional townships where no section sixteen or thirty-six shall be found therein, there shall be reserved and appropriated other land for such school purposes, to make up, in the first case, the deficiency in the quantity of said fractional sections sixteen258THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 150, 152. 1853. and thirty-six, or either of them, and to give, in the second case, an equivalent for the loss of either or both said sections: Proviso.*Provided*, That the mode and manner of selection and approval in both cases, and the quantity selected in the second case, shall be in accordance with the principles settled by the act approved twentieth [of] May, eighteen hundred 1828, ch. 83.and twenty-six, entitled “An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not before provided for.
” Approved, March 3, 1853.