Chapter 79.
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CHAP. 79.— An act to amend an act passed February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter thirty-three, to authorize the legislatures of certain States to sell certain lands appropriated for school purposes.June 12, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,School hinds in Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee; sale, etc., of, authorized. That the second section of the act of Congress passed February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter thirty-three, be amended so as to read as follows, to wit:
" “That the legislatures of the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee be, and they are hereby, authorized to make such laws and needful regulations as may be deemed expedient to secure and protect from injury or waste the sections reserved by the laws of Congress for the use of schools to each township, and to provide by law, if not deemed expedient to sell, for leasing the same for any term of years they may think proper, in such manner as to render them productive and most conducive to the object for which they are designed” " Approved, June 12, 1884.