Chapter 54. Giving the assent of Congress to a change of the compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas on her admission into the Union
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CHAP. 54.— An Act Giving the assent of Congress to a change of the compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas on her admission into the Union. March 8, 1898. Preamble.Whereas the Congress of the United States, by an Act supplementary to an Act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United Vol. 5, p. 58.States within the same, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the first proposition made to the State of Arkansas, and which was subsequently accepted by the general assembly of the State of Arkansas, provided that the proceeds arising from the sale of section numbered sixteen in every township, or other land equivalent thereto, shall be for the use of the inhabitants of such township for school purposes; and Whereas the general assembly of the State of Arkansas have, by their resolution approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, asked for a modification of said compact, so that the said lands, or any funds now on hand derived from the sale or lease of said section numbered sixteen in every township, or other lands equivalent thereto, may be apportioned by the State to common-school purposes for the promotion of education in said State:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Arkansas.Sixteenth section school fund to be apportioned in proportion to number of persons of school age. That the assent of Congress be, and is hereby, given to the change in said compact asked for by the general assembly, so as to allow the State of Arkansas to apportion the funds derived from the sale of said lands to common-school purposes for the promotion of education in said State in proportion to the number of persons therein between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
Approved, March 8, 1898.