Chapter CLII. *to authorize the State of Alabama to apply certain Lands heretofore granted to that State for internal Improvements, for the Use of Schools in the valueless sixteenth Sections in said State.* Aug. 11, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
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Chap. CLII.— An Act *to authorize the State of Alabama to apply certain Lands heretofore granted to that State for internal Improvements, for the Use of Schools in the valueless sixteenth Sections in said State.* Aug. 11, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the lands Certain lands granted to State of Alabama for internal improvements may be applied by said State for the use of schools. 1841, ch. 16.granted to the State of Alabama for purposes of internal improvement, by the eighth section of the act entitled “An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights,” approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, may be, and the same are hereby, placed at the disposal of the legislature of said State, at such price as said legislature may direct, to be 282 THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 153, 154, 155. 1848.applied fur the use of schools in such townships of said State as in which the sixteenth or school sections are comparatively valueless, and the legislature may locate said lands in any legal subdivisions, not less than forty acres, within the limits of said State. Approved, August 11, 1848.