Chapter V. to relinquish to the State of Wisconsin the Lands reserved for Salt Springs therein. Dec. 15, 1854. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the “twelve salt springs, with six sections of land adjoining to eac

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Chap. V.— An Act *to relinquish to the State of Wisconsin the Lands reserved for Salt Springs therein.* Dec. 15, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in lieu of the “twelve salt springs, with six sections of land adjoining to each,” heretofore granted 598 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6, 7. 1854.Seventy-two sections may be selected in lieu of those granted by act of 1846, ch. 89, § 7.to the State of Wisconsin for its use by the fourth clause of the seventh section of the act entitled “An act to enable the people of Wisconsin Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union,” approved the sixth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, there be and hereby is granted to the said State of Wisconsin, to be selected by the legislature of said State out of any public land subject to private entry, and to be sold in such manner as the legislature may direct, for the benefit and in aid of the university of said State, and for no other purpose whatever, seventy-two sections of land: *Provided,* That any selections of land heretofore made under the act entitled “An act to extend the time for selecting land granted to the State of Wisconsin, for saline purposes,” approved the 1852, ch. 24.fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and which shall not have been sold by the United States, and is not legally claimed by preemption, or otherwise, shall be, and hereby are granted and confirmed to said State for the use of the university of said State, as a part of the seventy-two sections hereby granted.

Approved, December 15, 1854.