Chapter LXVIII. *giving the Assent of Congress to a Change of the Compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas, on her Admission into the Union.* July 29, 1846
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Chap. LXVIII.— An Act *giving the Assent of Congress to a Change of the Compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas, on her Admission into the Union.* July 29, 1846. Preamble.1836, ch. 120.Whereas the Congress of the United States, by an act supplementary to an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the fifth proposition made to the State of Arkansas, and which was subsequently accepted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, provided that the two entire townships of land located by virtue of an act of Congress 1827, ch. 53.entitled “An act concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas,” approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, which, by the first-recited act of Congress, were vested in and confirmed to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of a university in said State;
And whereas the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas have, by their resolution, approved December eighteen, eighteen hundred and forty-four, asked for a modification of said compact, to authorize said General Assembly to appropriate said seventy-two sections of land to common school purposes: Therefore— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Assent of Congress given to a change of the compact, so as to authorize the appropriation of 72 sections of land for school purposes, &c.That the assent of Congress be, and is hereby, given to the change in said compact asked for by the said General Assembly, so as to authorize and em-power the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to appropriate said seventy-two sections of land for the use and benefit of common schools in said State, or in any other mode the said General Assembly may deem proper, for the promotion of education in said State.
Approved, July 29, 1846.