Chapter CXCIV. *to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians.*(*a*)(*a*) Acts relating to Iowa, July 12, 1638, ch. 96
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Chap. CXCIV.— An Act *to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians.*(*a*)(*a*) Acts relating to Iowa, July 12, 1638, ch. 96.Aug. 23, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the county commissioners County commissioners of Lee county authorized to make the selection.of the county of Lee, in the Territory of Iowa, be, and they are hereby, authorized to select, of any of the public lands of the United States subject to private entry within the Iowa Territory, one section for each entire township of land in the “half-breed tract,” in said county, and a proportional quantity for each fractional township in said tract, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary Lands selected subject to the same rules as 16th sections.of the Treasury; which land when selected, shall be subject to the same rules and regulations, respecting school lands, as the sixteenth sections in all the townships of the public lands are subject.
Approved, August 23, 1842.