Chapter 110. To supply a deficiency in the grant of public lands to the State of Mississippi for the use of the State University
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CHAP. 110.— An Act To supply a deficiency in the grant of public lands to the State of Mississippi for the use of the State University.June 20, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi.Lands donated for University purposes. That the Governor of the State of Mississippi be, and he is hereby, authorized to select out of the unoccupied and uninhabited lands of the United States within the said State twenty-three thousand and forty acres of land, in legal subdivisions, being a total equivalent to one township, and shall certify 95 the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall forthwith, on receipt of said certificate, issue to the State of Mississippi patents for said lands: *Provided*, That the proceeds of said lands, when sold*Proviso*.Proceeds. or leased, shall be and forever remain a fund for the use of the University of Mississippi.
Approved, June 20, 1894.