Chapter LXXVIII. *declaratory of the Act for die Admission of the State of Iowa into the Union.* March 2, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That by the act Support of common schools in Iowa. 1846, ch. 1.entitled “An Act for the adm
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Chap. LXXVIII.— An Act *declaratory of the Act for die Admission of the State of Iowa into the Union.* March 2, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That by the act Support of common schools in Iowa. 1846, ch. 1.entitled “An Act for the admission of the State of Iowa into the Union,” approved December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, the United States assented to the application for the support of common schools, as made in the second section of the tenth article of the constitution of said State, of the five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands within the State of Iowa, and of the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to said State by the act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one; said land to be selected in legal subdivisions of not less than three hundred and twenty acres.
Approved, March 2, 1849.