Chapter XCVII. concerning the location of land reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, in the stale of Louisiana
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act concerning the location of land reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, in the stale of Louisiana. March 3, 1827. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Secretary of the Treasury to locate a certain quantity of l and, for a seminary of learning.Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39, sec. 11.Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46, sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, reserved by the eleventh section of the act of the twenty-first April, eighteen hundred and six, and by the seventh section of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and eleven, for the use of a seminary of learning in the state of Louisiana, on any of the public lands in said state, in sections corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.
Sec. 2. When the location is made, the title is to be invested in said state. *And be it further enacted, *That, so soon as the location of said lands shall be made as aforesaid, the title thereto shall be, and is hereby, vested in the state of Louisiana, for the use of a seminary or seminaries of learning therein, as the legislature of said state may direct. Approved, March 3, 1827. NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Resolution. 1827. 245 RESOLUTION. Resolution: directing the Secretary of the Navy to apply to the government of Pennsylvania for jurisdiction over certain lands at the navy yard, Philadelphia.
Resolution 4 Stat. 145 1827-01-24 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 19 2 public Resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to apply to the government of Pennsylvania for jurisdiction over certain lands at the navy yard, Philadelphia. Jan. 24, 1827. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * State of Pennsylvania to cede to the United States certain lands.
That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to request the government of the state of Pennsylvania to cede to the United States jurisdiction over such lands as are owned by the United States, and improved for public purposes, at the navy yard near Philadelphia. Approved, January 24, 1827. 20 20 1 1828 ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December,* 1827, *and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May,* 1828.
John Quincy Adams, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; Nathaniel Macon, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.
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