Chapter LVIII. *to authorize Settlers upon sixteenth and thirty-six*[*th*] *Sections, who settled before the Surveys of the Public Lands, to preëmpt their Settlements.*Feb. 26, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That where settlem
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Chap. LVIII.— An Act *to authorize Settlers upon sixteenth and thirty-six*[*th*] *Sections, who settled before the Surveys of the Public Lands, to preëmpt their Settlements.*Feb. 26, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That where settlements, with aSettlers upon sections 16 and 36 may preëmpt their settlements when made, before survey and with a view to preëmption; and other lands may be appropriated in lieu thereof and for deficiencies in fractional sections. view to preëmption, have been made before the survey of the lands in the field which shall be found to have been made on sections sixteen or thirty-six, said sections shall be subject to the preëmption claim of such settler; and if they, or either of them, shall have been or shall be reserved or pledged for the use of schools or colleges in the State or Territory in which the lands lie, other lands of like quantity are hereby appropriated in lieu of such as may be patented by preëmptors; and other lands are also hereby appropriated to compensate deficiencies for school purposes, where said sections sixteen or thirty-six are fractional in quantity, or where one or both are wanting by reason of the township being fractional, or from any natural cause whatever: *Provided,* That theProviso.
Mode of selection and appropriation. lands by this section appropriated, shall be selected and appropriated in accordance with the principles of adjustment and the provisions of the act of Congress of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled1826, ch. 83.vol. iv. p. 179. “An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not before provided for.” Approved, February 26, 1859.