Chapter 171.
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CHAP. 171.— An act granting lands to the State of Minnesota in lieu of certain lands heretofore granted to said State. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Minnesota. That there be, and hereby are, granted to the State of Minnesota, to be selected by the governor of Grant of lands in lieu of former grant.said State, twenty-four sections of laud, out of any public lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in lieu and in stead of twenty-four sections of the land granted to said State of Minnesota by the fourth subdivision of section five of an act entitled “An act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and 1857, ch. 60,[11 Stat., 166](/us/stat/20/166).State government preparatory to their admission in the Union on an equal footing with the original States”, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and selected by said State, but which were subsequently otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which the United States cannot make title to the said State of Minnesota:*Proviso*. *Provided,* That the lands herein granted shall be selected within three years, and from unoccupied lands of the United States lying within the State of Minnesota.
Approved, March 3, 1879.