Chapter LIX. to protect the Land Fund for School Purposes in Sarpy County, Nebraska Territory
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Chap. LIX.— An Act to protect the Land Fund for School Purposes in Sarpy County, Nebraska Territory.Feb. 26, 1859. Whereas by the treaty between the United States and the Omaha tribePreamble. of Indians, by which said Indian tribe ceded their lands in the Territory of Nebraska to the United States, a reservation was made of a part of section thirty-six, in town[ship] fourteen north, range thirteen east, for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; and whereas, by virtue of a joint resolution of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, a large portion of the remainder of said section thirty-six has been preempted, leaving but a fraction for the use of schools:
Therefore,— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedSuperintendent of schools for Sarpy county, Nebraska territory, may select public lands in lieu of lands preempted and reserved.Proviso. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the superintendent of common schools of the county of Sarpy, in which said land is, shall be, and [he] hereby is, authorized to select six hundred and forty acres of any unoccupied public lands in said county in subdivisions of not less than one quarter section, in lieu of the aforesaid section thirty-six: *Provided,* That as soon as such selection shall be made it shall be the duty of such superintendent to file a notice thereof, with a description of the land selected, in the office of the register of the land-office in the Omaha district, who shall thereupon withdraw such land so selected from the list of lands subject to preemption, or public or private sale in said land district, and shall report the fact to the United States Commissioner of Public Lands, and the land so selected shall, after such filing with the register, belong to the school fund of said county in all respects the same as other school lands; and the fraction of said section thirty-six remaining after satisfying the terms of said treaty, and after said preemptions as mentioned in the foregoing preamble, shall be subject to preemption, public sale, or private entry, the same as other public lands.
Approved, February 26, 1859.