Chapter XLVII. to authorize the School Commissioners of fractional Township Number One, of range Number Ten East, in Alabama, to locate One half Section of Land for School Purposes
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Chap. XLVII.— An Act to authorize the School Commissioners of fractional Township Number One, of range Number Ten East, in Alabama, to locate One half Section of Land for School Purposes. April 20, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Authorized to enter certain land. That the school commissioners of fractional township number one, of range number ten east, situated in the district of land subject to sale at Lebanon, Alabama, be, and is hereby authorized to enter, free of charge, in lieu of the lands to which they are entitled by any existing law, one half section of land in legal subdivision, anywhere in said township, with a view to the ultimate convenienceWhere located. of the citizens of said township, and the quality of soil for school purposes, and said lands thus located shall be governed by the same laws,How governed.1819, ch. 47. rules, and regulations, as is the school sixteenth section in said State of Alabama.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of saidTo be located and report made within two years. school commissioners to locate and report, within two years, what lands they have entered, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington, and it shall be his duty, upon the receipt of such report of locution, to withdraw from sale the said lands, and the title thereto shallWithdrawn from sale of public lands. be valid as in sixteenth sections heretofore granted in the new States.
Approved, April 20, 1854.