Chapter III. to preserve from injury and waste the school lands in the territory of Arkansas
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Chap. III.— An Act to preserve from injury and waste the school lands in the territory of Arkansas. Jan. 6, 1829. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Governor and general assembly of Arkansas, autho- That the governor and general assembly of the territory of Arkansas be, and they are hereby, 330 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 4, 5, 7. 1829. rized to protect the lands, &c.authorized to make, and carry into effect, such laws and needful regulations as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and waste the sixteenth section in all townships of land in said territory, where surveys have been, or may hereafter be, made, which sections are reserved for the support of schools in each township, and to provide by law for leasing or renting the same, for any term not exceeding five years, in such manner as to render said school lands most valuable and productive, Rents to be applied to the support of common schools.and shall apply the rents derived therefrom to the support of common schools, in the respective townships, according to the design of the donation, and to no other purpose whatever.
Approved, January 6, 1829.