Chapter CLXXII. authorizing the Inhabitants of Township one, of Range thirteen east, Seneca County, Ohio, to relinquish certain Lands selected for Schools, and to obtain others in Lieu of them
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Chap. CLXXII.— An Act authorizing the Inhabitants of Township one, of Range thirteen east, Seneca County, Ohio, to relinquish certain Lands selected for Schools, and to obtain others in Lieu of them. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, School trustees of township 1, range 13 east, Seneca Co., Ohio, authorized, on relinquishing certain lands, to select others in lieu thereof. That, on the relinquishment to the United States by the proper school trustees of township one, of range thirteen east, in Seneca county, Ohio, of all the right, title, and interest, of the inhabitants of said township to the east half and north-west quarter of section eight, in township ten south, of range nine east, containing four hundred and eighty acres, and Cedar Point, on Cedar Island, in Lake Erie, containing thirty-four acres and eighty-nine hundredths of an acre, heretofore selected for them as school lands, under the provisions of the act of twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An Act to appropriate 1826, ch. 83.Lands for the support of Schools in certain Townships and fractional Townships, not heretofore provided for,” the said school trusteesTWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 173, 174. 1846.675 be, and they are hereby, authorized to select and enter, free of cost, a quantity not exceeding five hundred and fourteen acres of the lands belonging to the United States, within the limits of the late Wyandott cession, or of any of the land districts in the State of Ohio, in tracts conforming to the subdivisions into which the lands shall be represented on the plats of survey; *Provided*, That the selections herebyProviso. authorized to be made shall not embrace lands upon which the assessed improvements of Indians have been made.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That, when the lands here authorizedSaid lands to be held for schools. to be selected or entered shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, they shall be held by the inhabitants of the township herein first designated, by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools in said township, as if they had been selected under the provisions of the before-recited act of1826, ch. 83. twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six.
Approved, August 8, 1846.