Chapter VI. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon,” approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight
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Chap. VI.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon,” approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Jan. 7, 1853.1848, ch. 177. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Legislative Assembly Selection in Oregon of other sections in lieu of 16th, and 36th, when those are located upon, authorized.of the Territory of Oregon be, and hereby are authorized, in all cases where the sixteen or thirty-six sections, or any part thereof, shall be taken and occupied under the law making donations of land to actual settlers, or otherwise to cause the county commissioners of the several counties in said Territory, or such other officer or officers as they shall direct, to select, in lieu thereof, an equal quantity of any unoccupied laud in sections, or fractional sections, as the case may be.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when selections are made in The lands so selected set apart for Common Schools.pursuance of the provisions of the first section of this act, said lands so selected, and their proceeds, shall be forever inviolably set apart for the benefit of common schools. Approved, January 7, 1853.