Chapter LXV. giving the Assent of Congress to a Law of the Missouri Legislature for the Application of the reserved two per cent
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Chap. LXV.— An Act giving the Assent of Congress to a Law of the Missouri Legislature for the Application of the reserved two per cent. Land Fund of said State.Feb. 28, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the assent of Congress be,Assent of Congress given to an act of the legislature of Missouri. and the same is hereby, given to the act of the legislature of the State of Missouri, entitled “An act supplemental to an act to amend ‘An act to secure the completion of certain railroads in this State, and for other purposes,’” approved on the nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, appropriating the two per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands in said State, reserved by existing laws to be expended under the direction of Congress, but hereby relinquished to that State; and that the proper accounting officers of the government areAccounts to be audited, &c. hereby authorized and required to audit and pay the accounts for the same, as in the case of the three per centum land fund of said State.
Approved, February 28, 1859.