Chapter LXVII. *to amend the Act entitled “An Act to appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the Public Lands, and to grant Preemption Rights,” &c., approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.* June 16, 1848. 1841, ch. 16. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stat
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Chap. LXVII.— An Act *to amend the Act entitled “An Act to appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the Public Lands, and to grant Preemption Rights,” &c., approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.* June 16, 1848. 1841, ch. 16. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sixteenth Assent of Congress given to the application of the two per cent, fund granted to the State of Mississippi to the construction of a railroad from Jackson to the eastern boundary of said State.section of said act be so amended as to give the consent of Congress, and the same is hereby given, to the application of the two per cent, fund heretofore relinquished by said act to the State of Mississippi, to be faithfully applied to the construction of a railroad leading from Brandon, in the State of Mississippi, to the eastern boundary of said State, in such manner as to authorize the construction of a railroad, commencing at Jackson, in said State, and extending to the eastern boundary of said State of Mississippi, via Brandon, in the direction, as near as may be, of the towns of Selma, Cahawba, and Montgomery, in the State of Alabama.
Approved, June 16, 1848.