Chapter XL. *to amend an act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations.”* June 13, 1842
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Chap. XL.— An Act *to amend an act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations.”* June 13, 1842. Act of July 4, 1830, ch. 355. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That so much of the second The 2d section of the act amended.section of the act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States in regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations,” as requires the land therein designated as reserved to the State of Mississippi for the use of schools to be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, “out of any public lands, remaining unsold, that shall TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 47, 50. 1842.491have been offered at public sale within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi, contiguous to said lands, within said State,” ceded by the Chickasaws, be so amended that the said lands may be selected, under the direction of the Governor of said State of Mississippi, out of any public lands remaining unsold within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi, contiguous to the lands in said State, ceded by the Chickasaw Indians.
Approved, June 13, 1842.