Chapter X. to authorize the Legislative Assemblies of the Territories of Oregon and Minnesota to take Charge of the School Lands in said Territories, and for other Purposes
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Chap. X.— An Act to authorize the Legislative Assemblies of the Territories of Oregon and Minnesota to take Charge of the School Lands in said Territories, and for other Purposes.Feb. 19, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Governments of Oregon and Minnesota authorized to take charge of the school lands therein. United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the governors and legislative assemblies of the Territories of Oregon and Minnesota be, and they are hereby, authorized to make such laws and needful regulations as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and waste sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in said Territories, reserved in each township for the support of schools therein.(*a*)(*a*) The reservation for Minnesota is in Stat. 1849, ch. 121, § 18, and for Oregon in Stat. 1848, ch. 177, § 20, and Stat. 1850, ch. 76, § 9.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior Grant of land for a university in Minnesota. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territory of Minnesota to which the Indian title has been or may be extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of a university in said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever, to be located by legal subdivisions of not less than one entire section.
Approved, February 19, 1851.